May 'i, 1902.] 



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stories and basement. Besides rubber boots and shoes, a 

 full line of rubber goods is carried. The western division of 

 the Canadian Pacific railway is supplied with steam hose and 

 packing from this branch, and three travelers are employed. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE aUOTATIONS. 

 United States Rubber Co. : 



E. C. Benedict, broker. No. 80 Broadway, New York, was 

 elected a director on April 9. 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co.: 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Western Rubber Co. (Goshen, Indiana), April 11, ynder 

 Indiana laws, to manufacture rubber goods ; capital authorized 

 $75,000, of which $50,000 will be paid up. The company have 

 purchased an unused factory building, with steam plant, and 

 are negotiating for rubber machinery. Frank G. Hubbard is 

 president; Theodore F.Garvin secretary and treasurer; and, 

 Henry A. Middleton, an experienced rubber factory superin- 

 tendent, manager. The directors, in addition, are: James A. 

 Arthur, Lou W. Vail, George F. Alderman, and Ira Z. Mason — 

 the latter of Toledo, Ohio, representing the capital subscribed 

 in that city. 



= The Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Co., April 16, under 

 New Jersey laws; capital, $1,500,000. Incorporators: Ira W. 

 Henry, Le Roy Clarke, Jr., J. H. Lehman, S. Girard Fox, H. 

 Godet, O. H. Nott, James F. Holder, A. Hobart Walton, James 

 A. Maxwell. Additional details are given on another page. 



= Munger Automobile Tire Co. (Trenton), April 24, under 

 New Jersey laws, to manufacture tires; capital, $300,000. This 

 is a reorganization of the Munger Vehicle Tire Co., incorpo- 

 rated in New Jersey December 5, 1899. with an authorized 

 capital of $600,000, to manufacture tires under patents issued 

 to Lewis de F. Munger. It was organized by Flint interests 

 and the tires were made by the New Brunswick Tire Co. The 

 new company have equipped a factory at Trenton. J. Oliver 

 Stokes is president, R. V. Kuser vice president, and M. R. 

 Margerum secretary and treasurer. The other directors are 

 F. W. Roebling, L. de F. Munger, T. M. Hilliard, A. R. Kuser, 

 W. J. B. Stokes, Frank Hill, Fred Kuser, and J. L. Kuser. The 

 Munger non collapsible pneumatic tire for motor vehicles has 

 already been described and illustrated in The India Rubber 

 World. 



= Rubber Balloon Co. of America (Brooklyn, N. Y.), April 

 25, under New York laws ; capital, $50,000. Directors : W. W. 

 Freeman, R. G. Brown, Daniel Harris, all of Brooklyn. 



= Iroquois Rubber Co. (Buffalo, N. Y.), March, under New 

 York laws, to succeed F. C. Howlett & Co., wholesale dealers 

 in rubber boots and shoes. Diiectors: Frank C. Howlett (who 

 will continue in charge of the business, as president and treas- 

 urer), and Eben H. Paine and Homer E. Sawyer, of the United 

 States Rubber Co. There is involved no change in the manage- 



ment of Mr. Hewlett's rubber stores at Syracuse and Roches- 

 ter, N. Y. 



= The Walton Tire Manufacturing Co. (Walton, N. Y.) April 

 10, under New York laws, to manufacture rubber tires; capital^ 

 $100,000. Directors: Alonzo B. Cornell, New York city; J. 

 R. Townsend, Arlington, New Jersey ; Roscoe C. Sanford, 

 Albany. 



= American Vehicle Tire Co.. April 21, under New York 

 laws; capital, $250,000. Directors: Josiah Ouincy, of Boston; 

 G. T. Raymond and T. L. Freeman, of New York. 



INTERNATIONAL RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 



The plant operated formerly by the Straus Rubber and Tire 

 Co., at No. 351 East Sixty-first street, New York, has been ac- 

 quired by B. Loewenthal, Brothers & Co., who are planning to 

 incorporate a company under the style of the International 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., to carry on the manufacture of 

 mechanical rubber goods at that location. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Faultless Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) are about to in- 

 crease their plant by the addition of a four story brick building, 

 1 50x50 feet. This large increase is made necessary by the popu- 

 larity of many of their new specialties. 



= The subject of arranging a plan for maintaining uniform 

 retail selling prices for rubber boots and shoes in Ontario, is 

 is being considered by committees representing the Rubber 

 Boot Shoe Jobbers' Association, the Merchants' Protective 

 Association of Toronto, and the board of trade of that city. 



= The I.-B. Kleinert Rubber Co. (New York), whose purch- 

 ase of real estate at College Point, Long Island, has been 

 mentioned in these columns, have filed plans for a brick ex- 

 tension to their factory there, to be four stories high, and 

 150x86 feet. 



=The Chaplain-McLean Rubber Co. (Butler, New Jersey) 

 have filed with the secretary of state of New Jersey a certifi- 

 cate of dissolution. The company were incorporated March 28, 

 1899, with an authorized capital of $100,000. The plant has 

 been acquired by the American Hard Rubber Co., who already 

 had a factory at Butler. 



= R. H. Googins, ol Boston, told a Commercial-Gazette re- 

 porter at Pittsburgh: "In the oil districts of West Virginia 

 and Ohio the demand for rubber footwear has been unprece- 

 dented. This is an excellent market for our goods, and the 

 year's sales, I think, will equal anything in the record of Penn- 

 sylvania." 



= The Akron (Ohio) Democrat reports that Henri Anker- 

 smit, of Bremen, :Germany, visited that city lately and conclud- 

 ed to engage in the rubber industry. After buying a residence 

 he was recalled to Germany by his business interests there, but 

 he has since sent word that he hopes to return to Akron and 

 establish a new rubber plant. 



= Mr. George W. Sherman, the well known mechanical engi- 

 neer, for some time connected with the rubber business, is 

 now permanently located in Liverpool, England. 



= The report that the Haskell ball does not appeal to British 

 golfers can hardly be credited by players in America, as the 

 sale here is so large that the department in the works of The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., where they are made is constantly behind 

 orders, and is even now being enlarged to double its former 

 capacity. 



=iThe Emery Tire Co. (Providence, Rhode Island) have filed 

 a suit for $20,000 damages against Orville L. Leach, the in- 

 ventor of the cushion vehicle tire which they are exploiting, 

 on the ground that, contrary to his agreement with the com- 

 pany, he has not admitted them to an interest in a patent for 

 an improvement of the tire. 



