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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 



1902. 



RUBBER NOTES FROM EUROPE. 



A RUBBER PLANTING OPPORTUNITY. 



THE mackintosh manufacturing firm of J. Mandleberg & 

 Co., Limited (Manchester), have been able to pay divi- 

 dends of 7 per cent, on their preference shares and iy}4 per 

 cent, on the ordinary shares, from the profits made in 1901, and 

 to carry forward ^17,178 14.J. 4</., against ;£i9,952 9.1. 4^'. car- 

 ried forward last year. 



= The offices of the Velvril Co., Limited, have been removed 

 to 29 New Bridge street, London, E. C, and the company have 

 acquired the plant, machinery, stock, etc., of the Kingscote Co., 

 Limited. After having made considerable additions to the ma- 

 chinery and plant situated at Lonesome, Streatha.i common, 

 thev are now doing a largely increased business. 



BRITISH RECOVERED RUBBER. 



The Rubber Chemical Co., Limited (Mitcham, England) 

 send to The India Rubber World samples of two high grade 

 qualities of recovered rubber that are all that could be desired. 

 They are labelled " Special Red " and " Special Drab " and show 

 great strength, both in the crude state and alter vulcanization 

 (5 per cent, ol sulphur being added). No price is quoted, but 

 if that is right the company will have no trouble in marketing 

 all they can make. 



BRITISH RUBBER MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION. 



The officers for the current year are : 



Chairman— David Moselev, David Moseley & Sons, Manchester. 



Vict-Chairman — Philip Arthur Birley, Charles Macintosh & Co., 

 Limited, Manchester. 



Central Committee — * J. Cooper, The Dermatine Co., Limited, Lon- 

 don; H. Heaton, Jr., The Gorton Rubber Co., Limited, Manchester; 

 J. E. HoPKINSON, J. E. Hopkinson & Co., Limited, West Drayton; 

 * F. W. Ingram, J. G. Ingram & Son, London; * P. H. Lockhart, 

 W. & A. Bates, Limited, Leicester; * G. C, Mandleberg, J. Mandle- 

 berg & Co., Limited, Manchester; * H. G. Tippett, The Liverpool 

 Rubber Co., Limited; * J. TiNlo, Irwell Rubber Co., Limited, Sol- 

 ford. 



Treasurer — J. E. Ba.xter, The Leyland and Birmingham Rubber 

 Co., Limited, Leyland. 



Secretary — * F. B. Knott, accountant, 2 Cooper Street, Manchester. 

 (• Re-elecltd,] 



A PUBLIC SPIRITED RUBBER MANUFACTURER. 



Senator Carl Maret, managing director of the Vereinigte 

 Gummiwarenfabriken Harburg-Wien, recently celebrated the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of his connection with the municipal 

 council of Hamburg. Herr Maret took the freeman's oath in 

 1859 ; on March i, 1877, he was elected administrator; in 1883 

 administrator-speaker; and in 1886 to the honorary office of 

 senator. In honor of the senator and in appreciation of his 

 long and meritorious work for the welfare of the city, an offi- 

 cial banquet was held in the " rathskeller," where an address 

 was presented, in recognition of his services. Among the 

 tributes that have been paid by the citizens of Hamburg to 

 Herr Maret may be mentioned the naming of Maret street for 

 him. 



MAPONITfi, LIMITED, IN TROUBLE. 



This company, formed in London in 1898, with ^100,000 

 capital, and which acquired, at a reported price of ^75,000, a 

 patent (No. 2887 of 1898) issued to F. E. Macmahon, for a 

 new compound, which he called " maponite," appears to have 

 exhausted its funds, and there were recent directors' meetings 

 to consider whether a reorganization could be efTected. Ac- 

 cording to the original prospectus of the company : " It is esti- 

 mated that upwards of 10,000,000 golf balls are manufactured 

 each year. ' Maponite ' balls can be supplied to the public at 

 about half the cost of the b^st Gutta-percha balls." There is 

 no indication that golf has lost in popularity meanwhile, but 

 Gutta-percha balls still seem to be preferred to any substi- 

 tute. 



THE Mexican Tropical Planters Co., of Kansas City, Mis- 

 souri, which has a body of 35,000 acres of land on the 

 isthmus of Tehuantepec, adjoining its own plantations, will 

 contract with purchasers of any of its land to plant the same 

 to rubber and care for the same until the producing period. 

 They recommend this as an excellent opportunity for those 

 who are desirous of becoming interested in the cultivation of 

 rubber without being troubled with the details of management 

 until the productive period of the plantation is reached. 



A RUBBER SHOE BOYCOTT. 



THE rubber shoe industry is likely to be boycotted. The 

 rubber shoe magnates have not been mindful of the 

 power of the press, and may yet have reason to regret their 

 negligence. Somebody in the trade sold a pair of rubbers to 

 the editor of the Newburyport (Massachusetts) News, which 

 rubbers failed to protect the journalistic understanding to the 

 extent which dwellers along the Merrimac river demand — and 

 the News man howled. The rubber shoe industry is " up 

 against it" if it cannot answer the editorial conundrums from 

 the News which follow: 



" Why then do we, like dumb driven cattle, continue to fos- 

 ter such a vampire? Why can't we boycott altogether an in- 

 dustry which seeks to impoverish us, and which, by giving us 

 wet feet before we know it, invites pneumonia, lumbago, con- 

 sumption and kindred diseases, not all of which are covered by 

 a health policy ? Down with the tyrant ! OfT with the shackles 

 of the monster ! As a united and enlightened people, even if 

 we have to wear cowhide boots the year round, let us show the 

 rubber makers that we can live without them, and then see 

 how long they can live without us." 



RUBBER FACTORIES WITH MONEY TO BURN. 



THERE must be some people in the rubber industry who 

 are making a lot of money on the quiet. The facts are 

 hinted at in a prospectus lately issued by the American Rubber 

 Works Co. (New York), from which these extracts are made : 



" A certain rubber company (it would not be fair to name) 

 started three years ago with $30,000 capital. It is now rated 

 as worth from $400,000 to $500,000. During the past year it 

 has expended in improvements over $400,000 and has a surplus 

 of $200,000 after paying dividends at the rate of 50 per cent, 

 per annum. It makes practically nothing but rubber tires for 

 vehicles. 



" Another company the writer has exact knowledge of was 

 organized seven years ago; capital, $90,000. In four years 

 (even before good times arrived) it paid its stockholders $325,- 

 000 in dividends and was then sold for §1,000,000 cash ; the next 

 year it made $480,000, and last year $550,000. It makes hose, 

 packing, etc., and the product of neither of these companies is 

 protected by patents or the secret of a first class low cost com- 

 pound." 



Venezuel.* — Dr. Lucien Morisse, of Paris, who has made 

 more than one expedition to Venezuela, to study the India- 

 rubber and Balata resources of the Orinoco, and published re- 

 ports on the same, will, according to the Venezuelan Herald, re- 

 turn shortly to Ciudad Bolivar, with the capital necessary for 

 establishing a new enterprise, to be known in Paris as La 

 Caroni Agricol. 



