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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1902. 



=The United States Waste Rubber Co. (No. 487 North War- 

 ren avenue, Brockton, Massachusetts) offer for sale pure un- 

 vulcanized rubber scrap from cement waste, and also buy rub- 

 ber scrap and waste, making a specialty of old wringer rolls. 



= The Stoughton Rubber Co. (Stoughton, Massachusetts) 

 have reduced the hours of labor from 59 to 56 per week, but 

 without any change in the scale of wages. Under this system 

 the hands will have Saturday afternoons as half holidays until 

 September 15. 



=The factory of the Cioodyear Rubber Co. (Middletown, 

 Connecticut), which had been shut down two weeks for inven- 

 tory and repairs, started May 19 with a full force. 



=-The Rubber Chemical Co., Limited, advise The India 

 Rubber World that in order to facilitate the conduct of their 

 commercial and sales business, they have decided to open 

 offices at Birmingham — in Council Chambers, Colmore Row^ 

 as being a much more convenient center than Mitcham for 

 supplying their customers throughout the United Kingdom 

 They have appointed Mr. B. ]. Ebsworth manager of the sales 

 department, at the address above given. 



= Mr. A. H. Alden, of the New York Commercial Co., sailed 

 for Europe May 24, on the Campania. During his absence Mr. 

 Arthur W. Stedman, of Boston, will be found at his office. 



= By decree of the supreme court of New York, Job E. 

 Hedges has been appointed temporary receiver of the assets of 

 the Straus Rubber and Tire Co., Nos. 351-353 East Sixty first 

 street, on the application of a judgment creditors for $1394. 

 The company was incorporated March 8, 1901, under New 

 York laws, with $25,000 capital. 



= The Philadelphia Rubber Works appealed from an assess- 

 ment for a mercantile license as a dealer in that city, on the 

 ground that they had no store or warehouse there, other than 

 their manufacturing plant, and the protest was sustained in 

 the courts. 



=The Yatman Rubber Co. have moved their factory from 

 Newark to No. 608 Passaic avenue, Harrison, N. J. The new 

 factory buildings afford them more room and better facilities 

 for the prosecution of their growing business in the manufac- 

 ture of stationers' sundries and mold work. 



= Negotiations have been in progress for the transfer of the 

 rubber shoe plant of the Meyer Rubber Co. (Milltown, New 

 (ersey) to the International Automobile and Vehicle Tire Co., 

 and it is reported that the same have about been completed. 



= Colonel John V. Furey, assistant quartermaster general. 

 United States army, at Philadelphia, will open bids on June 6 

 for a supply of rubber ponchos. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



At the annual election of officers of The L. Candee & Co. 

 (New Haven, Connecticut), on May 23, Mr. Henry L. Hotch- 

 kiss was reelected president. This will make his thirtieth year 

 of continuous service. 



= Early in the month the Hon. E. S. Converse returned to 

 his home at Maiden, Massachusetts, his health having been im- 

 proved by his stay at Lakewood, New Jersey. 



= Mr. Charles B. Allen, of the Boston office of the United 

 States Rubber Co., who recently seriously sprained an ankle in 

 Chicago, has been able to resume attention to business. 



= Mr. F. Copeman, of the firm of Maclaren & Sons, propri- 

 etors of The India-Rubber Journal, of London, was a recent 

 visitor to the United States, and favored the offices of The 

 India Rubber World with a call. 



= Messrs. Frank da Costa and N. H. Witt, of the rubber trade 

 in Pard and Manaos, respectively, were in New York during 

 the past month. Each of them proceeded from here to England. 



=Mr. Edwin S. Kelly, lately general manager of the Con- 

 solidated Rubber Tire Co., some time ago became the owner 

 of the estate known as " Whitehall," at Yellow Springs, near 

 Springfield, Ohio — which has been an ideal country gentle- 

 man's home for more than a half century. It embraces a spa- 

 cious mansion in the Colonial style of architecture, surrounded 

 by 1 100 acres of park and meadow, woods and fields. Modern 

 improvements in the way of buildings, drainage, etc., have 

 made it a model establishment for Mr. Kelly's purpose — the 

 breeding of shorthorns and thoroughbred horses, sheep and 

 hogs. On May 20 was held the first annual sale of Scotch 

 bred shorthorns from the Whitehall herd. 



OBITUARY. 



The news will be learned with much regret of the death of 

 Mrs. William H. Acken, which occurred May 3, at their resi- 

 dence. No. 29 West Eighty-second street. New York. Funeral 

 services were held at the residence on May 6, and the inter- 

 ment was at Kensico, New York. The Horal offerings were 

 many and elaborate, including a large wreath from the store 

 and offices of the New York Rubber Co., of which Mr. Acken 

 is president. Mrs. Acken was Mary S. Letson, born August 15, 

 1836, the daughter of the late Johnson Letson, of New Bruns- 

 wick, New Jersey, one of the founders and for many years pres- 

 ident of the New Brunswick Rubber Co. 



= Frank Plant died May 9, at Los Angeles, California, where 

 he had gone to recover his health. He was born in England 

 in 1840, and in 1867, after living in the United States for a year, 

 he went to Chicago with the Goodyear Rubber Co. After 

 traveling for them several years, he went to San Francisco for 

 the Boston Rubber Co. Since 1894 he had been associated 

 with his son, Frank W. Plant, in the Plant Rubber Co. of Min- 

 neapolis, Minnesota, of which company his son is now presi- 

 dent and manager. 



THE TRADE IN RUBBER SCRAP. 



W.C.Coleman, of Boston, reports [May 26]: " There has 

 been a good demand for all grades of rubber scrap during the 

 past month. Especially have the reclaimers been active, and 

 in consequence old rubber boots and shoes, both foreign and 

 domestic, have found ready sale at dealers' asking price. I re- 

 ported on April 29 that the market seemed to be gaining 

 strength. This was about the time of the beginning of the 

 present bull movement, and those who claim that the price of 

 old rubber is governed to a certain extent by the advance and 

 decline in the price of crude, have to fall back to that old say- 

 ing, ' Exception proves the rule.' I myself think that crude 

 and scrap have no bearing on each other, as they are governed 

 by entirely different conditions. It is very difficult to look a 

 great way ahead and prophesy with any degree of certainty as 

 to whether the ' bulls ' and the ' bears ' — the dealers being the 

 former and the manufacturers the latter — will be successful in 

 their game. The demand at present is caused by the lack of 

 any ready foreigns. Authentically I can state that there are in 

 the neighborhood of from 4000 to 5000 tons of old rubber boots 

 and shoes, either on the water or about to leave Europe for 

 American ports. The majority of these are due to arrive by 

 June 10, which will greatly relieve the situation ; in fact the 

 knowledge of this stock coming has had its effect, and shoes 

 are fully ' s to X of a cent per pound less than they were a week 

 ago. Unless one of the large reclaimers goes into the market 

 I think that the price will decline to the neighborhood of 7^ 

 cents or thereabouts during June. Hard rubber scrap is another 

 article that is having a very large call just at present. White 

 and solid black, free of fiber, and in fact all lines except bicycle 

 pneumatic tires are moving freely." 



