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THE INDIA RUBBER ^VORLD 



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of the rubber manufacturers to the government, asking for an 

 increase of duty on rubbers. A resolution was carried asking 

 that the government take no action until it had been waited on 

 by a deputation from the association. It was asserted at the 

 meeting that rubber shoe manufacturers allow a special discount 

 to department stores, which gives the latter an advantage over 

 other retailers, and that if one price was charged to all, suffi- 

 cient profits could be made all around to render any increase 

 in duty unnecessary. 



CANADIAN WATERPROOF CLOTHING TRADE. 

 Writing on the situation of the waterproof clothing indus- 

 try in Canada and the desire expressed for a higher duty on 

 imported goods, in Tlie Clothier and Haberdasher, E. L. Rosen- 

 thal, manager of The Strathi ona Rubber Co. (Montreal), es- 

 timates that the proofed cloth imported, valued at $70,993 for 

 the last fiscal year, amounted to about 170,000 yards. This, he 

 figures, would allow for 45,000 coats. At an average of $3 50, 

 these should sell for §157,000 — the total probable production 

 of rubber waterproofed coats made in Canada by eight manu- 

 facturers. Against these figures, he contrasts the imports of 

 such clothing: $177,362 in value from Great Britam and $59,- 

 948 from the United States, or a total of $237,310. With a 

 higher import duty, he believes that the home industry would 

 become able to supply the whole demand, and he pledges his 

 firm not to raise the price of their coats, even if the duty should 

 be advanced to 100 per cent. Of the imports of waterproofed 

 cloth, the United States supplied $57. 7^5 worth and Great 

 Britain $13,228. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



The Siemon Hard Rubber Co. (Bridgeport), January 24, 

 under Connecticut laws ; capital, $5000. Incorporators : Carl F. 

 Siemon, L. F. Eaton, John Taylor, Herbert L. Smith, and 

 Waldo C. Bryant — all of Bridgeport, Connecticut. 



= The Lilly Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Barberton, Ohio), 

 February 13, under Ohio laws ;capital, $10,000. Further details 

 are given on another page, in the news from Akron. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Every employe of the New York Rubber Co.'s factory at 

 Matteawan, N. Y., on the last weekly pay day for January, re- 

 ceived an envelope containing twice the usual sum, with the 

 best wishes of the company, and as a token that the business 

 year just closed had been a prosperous one. 



= The Hartford Rubber Works Co. (Hartford, Connecticut) 

 have located their Pacific Coast branch at No. 641 Mission 

 street, San Francisco, to cover all their trade west of Utah. A 

 new equipment for putting on solid tires has been installed 

 and three traveling men are employed. A good order is re- 

 ported for jinriksha tires, for Japan. 



= The Victor Rubber Tire Co. (Springfield, Ohio) have con- 

 solidated their Eastern agencies with their branch at No. 1769 

 Broadway, New York, in charge of James S. Webb, manager, 

 assisted by H. C. Comstock as traveling man. 



=John J. Joyce, Jr., has resigned as general manager of the 

 International Automobile and Vehicle Tire Co. (Milltown, 

 New Jersey), to date from March i. 



= T. E. Eustis, for the past ten years treasurer of the Norfolk 

 Rubber Co. (Boston) has sold his interest and retired from the 

 company, being succeeded by William H. Wilder, Jr. Mr. 

 Eustis finds it necessary to devote his entire time to the inter- 

 ests of the Pneumatic Elevator Safely Co., No. 53 State street, 

 Boston, a business established by him about a year ago. 



= William F. Stevens, formerly selling agent of the Byfield 

 Rubber Co., is now an assistant to Charles A. Coe, selling 

 agent for the " Wales-Goodyear " brands of footwear at the 

 Boston office of the U ited States Rubber Co. 



= The factory employes of The I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co., at 

 College Point, Long Island, having organized the I. B. Kleinert 

 Employes Benevolent Association, the president of the com- 

 pany, Mr. Kleinert, recently wrote a letter to be read at one of 

 their meetings, commending the objects of the association, and 

 enclosing a contribution ol $250 to their funds. 



= The Hodgman Rubber Co. (New York) issue a circular illus- 

 trating some extremely new styles in the "Alexombric" line 

 ot rain coats, which goods, by the way, are coming into increas- 

 ing demand. 



= The Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co., whose business 

 embraces a rubber factory at Akron, have filed a certificate with 

 the secretary of state of Ohio, reducing the capital stock of 

 the corporation from $5,000,000 to $2,362,500. On account of 

 the corporationtax, the figure has been reduced to the amount 

 of stock actually issued. 



= It is mentioned as a singular fact that no store in Woon- 

 socket, Rhode Island, carries a line of the rubber boots and 

 shoes manufactured there. The emplojes of the Woonsocket 

 Rubber Co. are allowed to buy such articles for their own use 

 at the factory, but otherwise Woonsocketers wear rubber 

 footwear made elsewhere. 



= The American Insulated Wire and Cable Co. (Chicago) 

 closed their first year with a banquet to their emplojes on the 

 evening of January 10. They are stated to have a capacity of 

 500,000 pounds of weatherproof wire per month. 



= W. B. Smith Whaley & Co., mechanical and electrical en- 

 gineers and mill architects (Boston, Mass., and Columbi-a, S. C), 

 announce that Mr. John O. De Wolf has become associated 

 with them as a partner. 



=At the annual meeting of the Warren Rubber Co., a job- 

 bing house at Warren, Ohio, on January 26, the board was re- 

 elected. A dividend of 6 per cent, was paid and an addition 

 made to the surplus. 



=The firm name The National Rubber Shoe Co. has been 

 adopted by what has been known hitherto as The National 

 Shoe Co., of Montreal — composed of A. S. Lavallee and J. I. 

 Chouinard. They handle rubber footwear exclusively. 



= Mr. J. E. Spencer, who has been in the employ of the Me- 

 chanical Rubber Co., of Cleveland, in various capacities, for a 

 number of years, has resigned to accept a position in the pur- 

 chasing department of the National Cash Register Co. (Day- 

 ton, Ohio). 



= The Monarch Rubber Co. (St. Louis) will not sell their 

 " Sunset " and " Prairie " rubbers direct to the retail trade here- 

 after, but only through their distributing agents, the Giesecke 

 D'Oench-Hays Shoe Co., of St. Louis. The Monarch company 

 still solicit orders for their " Buckskin " boots. 



= Selz-Schwab & Co., Chicago jobbers, are offering a line of 

 rubber footwear manufactured for them under their own brands 

 — " Royal Blue " in first quality and " Western Rubber Co." in 

 second quality goods. Exclusive sale of these brands is offered 

 to retailers. 



=The Dunlop Tire Co., Limited (Toronto, Ontario), advise 

 The India Rubber World that they have made arrange- 

 ments to supply their tires to fit the new Standard steel chan- 

 nel described and illustrated in our issue of September i, 1902 

 (page 377). 



= The Montreal Waterproof Clothing Co.— H. Wener, man- 

 ager — the oldest established house in the waterproof clothing 

 business in Canada, have decided to open a branch at Winni- 

 peg, for the more prompt delivery of goods to their customers 

 in the West. 



= The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) are reported 

 to be contemplating an increase of capital stock. 



