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THE INDIA RUBBER \A^ORI-D 



[June i, 1902. 



firms, under the name of the National Hardware and Metal 

 Co. The news has come from several cities of dissatisfaction, 

 on the part of leading houses which had been named in con- 

 nection with the movement, with the terms offered, and it is 

 definitely announced that these firms will not be included. 

 The effect of their action has been to delay the organization of 

 the new company, and doubts are expressed whether any com- 

 bination will take place. 



CONSOLIDATED RUBBER TIRE CO. 

 At the annual meeting of the shareholders, at the office of 

 the corporation in New Jersey, on May 5, the number of direc- 

 tors was reduced from eleven to seven. The following board 

 was elected : Isaac L. Rice, Emerson McMillin, Martin Ma- 

 loney, Samuel W. Ehrich, Stephen Peabody, Alfred R. Pick, 

 and Frederick A. Seaman. Later the following officers were 

 elected : 



President— \SKKC L. RiCE. 



Vice President — SAMUEL W. Ehrich. 



Second Vice President— Vkk H. Cartmell. 



Secretary and Treasurer — FREDERICK A. SEAMAN. 



Edwin S. Kelly, a former member of the board and general 

 manager of the company, had previously retired.^ -=^On May 

 5 the company's 4 per cent, debentures were quoted at 27. On 

 May 7, on sales aggregating $30,000, the price on the " curb 

 market " fell to 16. The decline was attributed to reports of 

 an unfavorable court decision respecting the principal patent 

 held by the company. 



OTTO G. MAYER & CO. (NEW YORK) — IN LiaUIDATION. 



A MEETING of the creditors of Otto G. Mayer & Co., shipping 

 and commission merchants. No. 44 Cedar street. New York, 

 was held May 14 at the office of Macgrane Coxe, referee in 

 bankruptcy, at No. 63 Wall street, and W. A. De Long, deputy 

 water commissioner, was elected trustee. Mr. De Long has 

 been liquidating the business for some time past, and has about 

 $148,000 in his hands which has been realized from the assets. 

 The schedules show liabilities $643,021 and nominal assets 

 $439,915- 



REMOVAL OF THE TRENTON COMPANY'S CHICAGO BRANCH. 

 The large and increasing business of the Trenton Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. at Chicago, has made it necessary for them 

 to seek larger quarters in that city. They have just leased the 

 large store and basement at No. 20 South Canal street, oppo- 

 site their old location. Their new store is 150X30 feet, and is 

 being fitted up equal to any rubber warehouse in the West. 

 F. B. Mcllroy is the western manager, and has been very suc- 

 cessful in marketing Trenton goods throughout the West and 

 in Mexico. 



A RUBBER SHOE DECISION IN CANADA. 



An important and sweeping decision was handed down at 

 Ottawa on May 15, by the supreme court of Canada in the case 

 of The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. v. The Boston Rubber Co. of 

 Montreal, Limited. It will be remembered that in 1896 Charles 

 L. Higgins, of Montreal, purchased the engraved rolls, calen- 

 ders, etc., formerly used at Franklin, Massachusetts, by the 

 Boston Rubber Co. He and others, after that purchase, be- 

 came incorporated under the laws of the Dominion under the 

 name of the Boston Rubber Co. of Montreal, Limited, erected 

 a factory at St. Jerome and began to market footwear stamped 

 with their name. The Boston Rubber Shoe Co., through their 

 counsel, Henry W. Williams, Esq., of Boston, and R. V. Sin- 

 clair, Esq., of Ottawa, entered a suit in the exchequer court, 

 the opposing counsel being McGoun & England, of Montreal. 

 In this suit they were defeated, but on appealing to the su- 

 preme court they scored a most complete victory. The de- 



fendants are now forever enjoined from the use of the word 

 " Boston " on rubber footwear of any description, and are as- 

 sessed the costs of the suit. No damages were granted, because 

 the plaintiffs acknowledged that their Canadian business was 

 not very large. The specific reason was, indeed, not for the 

 collection of damages, but to guard against the future use of 

 the name, in the event that tariff revision should make it pos- 

 sible for Canadian manufacturers to market rubber footwear in 

 the United States. 



VISIT TO A RUBBER SHOE FACTORY. 



The a. H. Berry Shoe Co. (Portland, Maine) made up a 

 party of sixteen and visited Factory No. 2 of the Boston Rub- 

 ber Shoe Co., on May 23. They were met at Boston by Messrs. 

 F. T. Ryder, A. F. Solberry, W. J. Wilson, and William Palmer, 

 who escorted them to the " Fells," where they were taken in 

 charge by Col. Frank Locke and Mr. William E. Piper, the 

 superintendent and assistant superintendent, respectively, and 

 shown all over the great factory. A lunch was then served in 

 the Converse " Bungalow," and later Mr. E. S. Converse drove 

 up, took Mr. Berry into his carriage, and treated him to a drive 

 through the parks. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Q.U0TAT10NS. 

 United States Rubber Co. : 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 



MORGAN & WRIGHT (CHICAGO) . 

 The rubber factory of Morgan & Wright opened on May 5 

 as a thorough " union " shop in all departments, after confer- 

 ences between representatives of the Federation of Labor and 

 the management of the company. A number of the employes 

 had gone out on strike, owing to questions relating to wages, 

 and 300 men had formed a rubber workers' union. After the 

 decision mentioned above, steps were taken to organize the 

 women employed in the factory into a separate union. == 

 Later there was further trouble, growing out of the employ- 

 ment of a number of hands over time. As a result, a new scale 

 of wages has been adopted, providing for an increase of about 

 7 per cent., a day's work to consist of 10 hours, time and a half 

 to be paid for over time after 6 o'clock, and double time for 

 Sundays and legal holidays. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Keystone Pneumatic Horse Collar Co. (Philadelphia), 

 April 30, under New Jersey laws ; capital, $200,000. Incorpor- 

 ators : F. R. Hansen, W. L. Wier, William F. Eidell. Office in 

 New Jersey : No. 419 Market street, Camden. The horse col- 

 lar in which this company is interested is attached to a rigid 

 rim, which keeps it in shape, and is composed of a leather cas- 

 ng and an inner rubber air chamber. It was first exploited in 

 1899 by the Llnited States Horse Collar Co. (New York), which 

 went into liquidation on the death of F. R. Brooke, its presi- 

 dent and manager. Later the American Pneumatic Horse 



