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stricted contract now in force be continued during 1903, with a 

 heavy penalty for violation by any member. Also, that goods 

 be catalogued during 1903 at net prices, the jobbers to sell to 

 the retail trade at said net prices. Also, that at the January 

 meeting prices be considered for the season, and methods 

 adopted to protect members against any cutting on Hood rub- 

 bers. 



MR. ALLEN RETURNS TO CHICAGO. 



Charles B. Allen has returned from Boston to Chicago, 

 where, until the end of 1901, he was in charge of the sale of 

 " Woonsocket" rubber boots and shoes. He resumes his old 

 position there on this date (December i), while Mr. H. G. 

 Armstrong, who, during the year, has been in charge of the of- 

 fice, is transferred from Chicago to the New York offices of the 

 United States Rubber Co. 



BELTING AND PACKING COMPANY CHANGES. 



Alden S. Swan has been elected president of the New York 

 Belting and Packing Co., Limited -a position vacant since the 

 death of John H. Cheever, in July of last year. Mr. Swan has 

 been president since last spring of the Rubber Goods Manufac- 

 turing Co., of which the Beltingand Packing company is a con- 

 stituent part. At the same time Louis K. McClymonds has re- 

 signed from the office of vice president and general manager, 

 which office is now vacant. William T. Baird, treasurer of the 

 Belting and Packing Co. for several years past, has resigned 

 that position, to date from December i, and will be succeeded 

 by Henry A. Himely, who succeeds Mr. McClymonds as a 

 director in the company. Mr. Himely will also succeed to the 

 offices of secretary and treasurer of the Mechanical Rubber Co., 

 resigned by Mr. Baird to date from December i. Mr. McCly- 

 monds retains the presidency of the Mechanical Rubber Co. 

 These changes were made at meetings held on November 21. 



LEATHER BELTING PRICES NOT CHANGED. 



The annual meeting of the Leather Belting Manufacturers' 

 Association was held on November 19, at the Astor House, in 

 New York. The officers were reelected. No change was made 

 in the price list adopted in November, 1901, when an advance 

 was made. The Hon. Charles A. Schieren, chairman of the 

 executive committee, who had traveled in Europe recently, 

 urged the importance of repealing the duty on imported hides, 

 and on his motion a resolution passed, indorsing President 

 Roosevelt's plan for a permanent non partisan tariff commis- 

 sion. 



FAILURE IN THE BALTIMORE TRADE. 



■Receivers were appointed on November 25 for Solomon 

 Preiss and Jacob Preiss, trading as the Chesapeake Rubber Co. 

 jobbers of mackintoshes and rubber clothing, at Baltimore, 

 Maryland. The bond is for $roo,ooo. It is alleged in the 

 moving petition that the firm owes large debts which it is un- 

 able to pay. The same partners traded also as S. Preiss & Son, 

 which firm consented to the assignment. 



CABLE RUBBER CO. 'S CHANGE OF POLICY. 

 After December i the Cable Rubber Co. (Boston) will dis- 

 continue the sale of all goods except those of their own make, 

 consisting of carriage cloths, wagon aprons, horse clothing, ice 

 aprons, rubber surface clothing, bellows cloth, etc. Their 

 largely increased business in these lines and the recently com- 

 pleted addition to their factory made it imperative for the 

 management to concentrate on the production and sale of their 

 own goods. The New England agency for the Hodgman Rub- 

 ber Co. (New York), which they have held for years, is relin- 

 quished, and that line will now be handled from New York. In 

 a circular to their customers the Cable Rubber Co. add : " We 

 trust that you will extend to the Hodgman Rubber Co., of New 



York, the same courtesy which you have shown us in the past 

 when in need of goods in their line, which we have represented 

 in New England for so many years." 



MR. BAIRD MAKES A CHANGE. 



William T. Baird has retired from a connection with. the 

 rubber industry dating back thirty years, to become president 

 and treasurer of the Rubber Trading Co. (New York), organ- 

 ized in March, 1902, to carry on a business in crude rubber. An 

 increase in the amount of capital of this company will be an- 

 nounced shortly. Mr Baird is a brother of Robert B. Baird, 

 an experienced rubber broker, to whom the organization of the 

 Rubber Trading Co. was due.==»William T. Baird entered the 

 employ of the New York Belting and Packing Co. in 1872. 

 When, a few years ago, the late John H. Cheever was obliged 

 to relinquish active attention to business, he was succeeded as 

 treasurer of the company by Mr. Baird. When the Mechanical 

 Rubber Co. was organized August Belmont was elected treas- 

 urer of the latter, with Mr. Baird as assistant treasurer. Later 

 Mr. Belmont resigned, since which time Mr. Baird has filled 

 the offices of secretary and treasurer of the corporation, as well 

 as treasurer of the Beltingand Packing company. At a mepting 

 of the board of the latter company it was — 



Resolved, That while accepting the voluntary resignation ot Mr; W. 

 T. Baird, the directors of the New York Belting and Packing Co., 

 Limited, desire to express their appreciation of his unswerving loyalty 

 and valuable services in the past thirty years during which he has been 

 connected with the company. 



The board of the Mechanical Rubber Co. adopted a similar 

 resolution, relating to Mr. Baird's "connection with the com- 

 pany which dates back from its organization." 

 NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



New York Wheel and Tire Co. (New York), October 29, 

 under New York laws ; capital, $150,000. Incorporators:. Gen- 

 eral C. E. Compton, U. S. army, retired, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Colonel F. B.Jones, U. S. army, retired, New York city; Ira 

 Harris, U. S. navy, retired, Bogota, New Jersey. The officers 

 are : C. E. Compton, president ; Ira Harris, vice president ; F. B. 

 Jones, treasurer; Harry R. Danner (lawyer. No. 141 Broadway, 

 New York), secretary ; George S. Lee (Hawthorne, N. J.), gen- 

 eral superintendent. The object of the company is the manu- 

 facture of automobile wheels and rubber tires under certain 

 patents, granted and in prospect, on inventions of Mr. Lee. 



= Safety Sectional Pneumatic Tire Co. (Binghampton, N.Y.), 

 October 14, 1902, under New York laws; capital, $500,000. Or- 

 ganized to acquire the assets, good will, and business of the 

 Sectional Pneumatic Tire Co. [see The India Rubber 

 World, April i, 1901 — page 206; July i, 1901 — page 297], in- 

 cluding United States and foreign patents granted to Charles 

 Miller for a pneumatic vehicle tire having an air section in 

 short lengths, inflated from a continuous metal tube passing 

 around the wheel. The company are endeavoring to raise 

 capital to organize a factory to make the tire and all acces- 

 sories. Officers: E. C. Inderlied, president ; Charles Miller [the 

 patentee], vice president; B. A. Baumann, secretary; O.S. Heller, 

 treasurer. 



= Pennsylvania Rubber Tire Manufacturing Co., November 

 7. T902, under Delaware laws ; capital, $100,000. The incorpor- 

 ators reside in Philadelphia and Wilmington. 



= The Dandy Rubber Heel Co. (Lynn, Mass.) November 11, 

 under Massachusetts laws, to manufacture and sell rubber heels ; 

 capital, $5000. Edward J. Twomey, president ; William J. Mur- 

 dock, treasurer. The company advise The India Rubber 

 World that they have several patents pending covering im- 

 provements in rubber heels, and expect to have a full line on 

 the market for the spring trade. 



