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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1903. 



= The Hartford Rubber Works Co. of late have added to 

 their production several lines of goods other than tires, and it 

 is now reported that they will place upon the market a new 

 rubber heel. 



=:The Goodyear Rubber Co.'s factory at Middletown, Con- 

 necticut, began working on a five day schedule on January 19. 



= The Linthicum Rubber Co. (Baltimore, Maryland) handlers 

 of the " Banigan " and " Woonasquatusket " footwear, have re- 

 moved to larger quarters, at No. 25 Hanover street, where they 

 occupy six floors, 30 ;< 165 feet. 



= The Chicago branch of Edward R. Rice, which has the sell- 

 ing agency for the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., will continue 

 . to be operated under the old name, lor the reason that the pro- 

 posed change of name to the Banner Rubber Co. would con- 

 flict with another concern in the same territory. 



= The ninth annual banquet of the Mishawaka Woolen 

 Manufacturing Co. (Mishawaka, Indiana), on the evening of 

 January 7, was attended by the officers and directors of the 

 company, nearly 100 salesmen, and a number of invited guests. 

 Among the speakers was Mr. E. A. Saunders, manager of the 

 rubber department, who outlined the policy of the company 

 and its plans for the future. 



= William F. Mayo & Co. (Boston, Massachusetts) are con- 

 gratulating themselves over the fact that their business for 1902 

 was the largest done by any concern in the United States, job- 

 bing rubber boots and shoes, and this too whether exclusive 

 handlers of rubber goods or part leather and part rubber. 

 Their net sales lor the year amounted to $1,234,000. 



= A newspaper at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, referring to 

 the busy times in the Woonsocket Rubber Co.'s factories, men- 

 tions a report that an order for 30,000 pairs of rubber boots had 

 been received at the company's Millville factory, though the 

 newspaper could not verify it. 



= The Stoughton Rubber Co. (Stoughton, Massachusetts) 

 have discontinued the sale of rubber boots and shoes. They 

 have carried hitherto the " Boston " lines. 



=:William H. Holmes, who for thirteen years has been con- 

 nected with Morgan & Wright (Chicago), and who is an expert 

 on molds, dies, and rubber machinery, has started an up-to- 

 date plant for the manufacture of machines, molds, presses, 

 etc., at No. 218 East Washington street, Chicago. Mr. Holmes 

 has associated his brother with him, the firm name being 

 Holmes Brothers. 



= A strike occurred early in January in the pressroom of the 

 Dickinson Hard Rubber Co. (Springfield, Massachusetts), the 

 strikers objecting to a new order placing all the men in the 

 room on day wages, instead of giving some of them piece work. 

 On January 10 it was announced that the places of the strikers 

 had been filled. The company declined a proposition to arbi- 

 trate. 



= The Knickerbocker Trust Co. (New York) will pay inter- 

 est on the first mortgage 6 per cent, bonds of the Safety Insu- 

 lated Wire and Cable Co., on and after February 2. 



= The Phillips Insulated Wire Co. (Pawtucket, Rhode 

 Island) are reported to be contemplating the erection of a man- 

 ufacturing building, of brick, one story, 175 X 50 feet, to cost 

 $50,000. 



= William H. Cummings & Sons (New York), dealers in rub- 

 ber waste, have removed from No. 48 to Nos. 54-56 Harrison 

 street. Their correspondence should be addressed, as before, 

 to Postoffice box 732. 



= An official of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. informs 

 the Akron (Ohio) Times-Democrat that the number of orders 

 placed for bicycle tires indicates that as many wheels as last 

 year will be placed on the market this spring. 



=S. F. Denny recently resigned the position of manager of 

 the Quaker City Rubber Co.'s store at Chicago, which he had 

 held for nearly seven years, and with G. A. CofTey, of Grand 

 Rapids, Michigan, a rubber salesman of long experience, has 

 purchased the rubber store of E. B. Silliman, No. 204 Wood- 

 ward avenue, Detroit, Michigan. The business will be con- 

 ducted under the name of Goodyear's Rubber Store, doing a 

 wholesale and retail business in rubber goods and mill and en- 

 gineers' supplies. Mr. Denny will look after the management 

 of the store, while Mr. Coffey will represent it in western 

 Michigan. 



= As justifying the new policy of concentration of manage- 

 ment of the various plants controlled by the Rubber Goods 

 Manufacturing Co., the Hartford (Connecticut) 7"/>«<'i says that 

 at one time, under the old regime, a certain company was on 

 the point of securing a very large contract for rubber tires, 

 when another company, in the same combination, but not un- 

 derstanding the situation, bid for the contract and obtained it, 

 at a figure amounting to $100,000 less than had been named by 

 the first company referred to. It was not long alter the facts 

 became known that a policy was adopted which took the con- 

 stituent companies out of the position of working against each 

 other. 



= The Kelley-How Hardware Co. and the Thomson-Glaskin 

 Co., of Duluth, Minnesota, have been consolidated, as the 

 Kelley-How-Thomson Co. Two strong jobbing houses, hand- 

 ling distinct lines of goods, have united to form a stronger 

 house, the idea having been suggested by their former frequent 

 exchange of goods in filling orders. The Thomson Glaskin 

 Co. was incorporated in January, 1901, to wholesale mill and 

 mining supplies and mechanical goods, which lines will be car- 

 ried by the consolidated firm, in connection with hardware. 



= A very practical object lesson in air drill and pneumatic 

 hose is issued by the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co. 

 (Akron, Ohio). There are displayed on a card a section of hoie 

 itself, together with the duck cover, the rubber cover, the inter- 

 ior plies of duck, and the tube ; showing at a glance the con- 

 struction of the hose and giving the purchaser a chance to test 

 the quality of stock, friction, etc. 



= ln the Trenton Times' s twentieth anniversary souvenir 

 there are three pictures showing the yards of the prosperous 

 lumber company of Wilson & Stokes, in which firm Mr. W. J. 

 B. Stokes, whose large rubber interests in Trenton are well 

 known, is a partner. 



= Mulconroy Co., Incorporated (Nos. 1213 1215 Market 

 street, Philadelphia), have added to their mechanical rubber 

 goods lines a department of leather belting, packings, and trans- 

 mission machinery, under the management of William J. M. 

 Weaver. The latter was, until January i, partner in the Phila- 

 delphia branch of I. B. Williams & Son, representing the New 

 Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Co. 



=:The annual meeting of the stockholders of the American 

 Hard Rubber Co. will be held at their office, Nos. 9-13 Mercer 

 street. New York, on Tuesday, February 10, at 3 p. m. 



= The Hanover Rubber Co., incorporated last October, are 

 now operating their factory at Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New 

 York, proofing cloth for the trade and making white sheeting. 

 The office of the company is at No. 302 Broadway, New York. 

 The organization of the company is to be completed at a meet- 

 ing of the stockholders during the early part of this month. 



= A number of rubber firms doubtless will be interested in 

 the ninth annual Sportsmen's Show, to be held at the Madison 

 Square Garden, in New York, from February 21 to March 7, 

 inclusive. The display of sportsmen's supplies at these shows 

 has increased in extent every year. 



