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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1913. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Amazon Rubber Co., July 22, 1913; under the laws of Mis- 

 souri; authorized capital, $100,000. Incorporators: W. H. 

 Schewe, Carl G. Schwarz and E. F. Schewe — all of St. Louis, 

 Missouri. To rubberize cloth, manufacture garments, rubber 

 goods and auto supplies of all kinds. 



Army Tire Co., August 8, 1913; under the laws of Delaware; 

 authorized capital, $1,000,000. Incorporators: George W. Grif- 

 fin, Frank P. Kissel and Lorenzo J. Roel — all of 25 Broad street. 

 New York. To manufacture and deal in automobiles, etc. 



Atlantic Raincoat Co., Inc., August IS, 1913: under the laws 

 of New York; authorized capital, $1,000. Incorporators: Abra- 

 ham Karpel, 351 Elton street, Brooklyn, New York ; Abraham 

 and Jennie Miller — both of 111 Sheffield avenue, Brooklyn, New 

 York. Location of principal office, Brooklyn, New York. To 

 manufacture raincoats, etc. 



.•\uto Pedal Pad Co., .August 11, 1913; under the laws of New 

 York; authorized capital, $10,000. Incorporators: Henry Reich 

 and Edgar M. Lichter — both of 316 West Forty-fourth street, 

 and G. Thomas Yoimg, 706 Amsterdam avenue — all of New 

 Y'ork. Location of principal office. New York. To manufacture 

 pedal pads and other auto accessories. 



Auto Sand Grip Co., May 24, 1913; under the laws of Michi- 

 gan ; authorized capital. $40,000. Incorporators : Phillip G. 

 Sanderson, J. F. and J. B. Williams — all of Detroit, Michigan. 

 Location of principal office, Detroit, Michigan. 



Boston Prest-0-Ceal Co., August 6. 1913: under the laws of 

 Massachusetts; authorized capital, $25,000. Incorporators: Wil- 

 liam G. Todd. Merrill F. Hubbard and Sumner ^NI. Teele — all of 

 35 Congress street, Boston. Massachusetts. To deal in automo- 

 biles and motors with their appliances and accessories. 



Chemical Rubber Co., of Western Pennsylvania, August 5, 

 1913; under the laws of Pennsylvania; authorized capital, $20,- 

 000. Incorporators : William F. Boxniyer, W. F. Vegeler — both 

 of Garrick, Pennsylvania, and Robert A. Fulton. Cheswick, Penn- 

 sylvania. Location of principal office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

 To manufacture, buy and sell articles used in the construction 

 and operation of motor vehicles and manufacturing, buying and 

 selling and leasing a chemical product known as chemical rub- 

 ber, etc. 



Chester Rubber Tire and Tube Co., .August 9. 1913 ; under the 

 laws of Delaware ; authorized capital. $250,000. Incorporators : 

 Morgan Howells, Ephraim Lyon and C. E. Jarvis — all of Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania. To manufacture and deal in rubber tires 

 for vehicles, rubber tubes, rubber hose and rubber specialties. 



Chicago Tire Goods Co., .Agust 7, 1913; under the laws of 

 Illinois; authorized capital, $10,000. Location of principal office, 

 Chicago, Illinois. 



James J. Fero, Inc., July 31, 1913; under the laws of New 

 York ; authorized capital, $20,000. Incorporators : James J. Fero, 

 172 Manhattan street. New York; George D. Brown, 108 West 

 Eighty-fourth street, and William S. Foos, Hudson Heights, 

 New Jersey. Location of principal office. New York. To carry 

 on tire business. 



El Paso Rubber Vulcanizing and .\iito Supply Co.. July 22, 

 1913; under the laws of Texas; authorized capital, $10,000. In- 

 corporators: C. W. and William Mace, and C. Fowser. To buy 

 and sell merchandise and especially automobile supplies, etc. 



The Forrest Rubber Co., July 30, 1913: under the laws of 

 Ohio; authorized capital, $10,000. Incorporators II. H. Forrest, 

 E. C. Purdy and A. D. Evans. Location of principal office. Can- 

 ton, Ohio. To manufacture and deal in all kinds of rubber 

 goods, etc. 



Granite City Rubber Co., June 30, 1913: under the laws of 

 Massachusetts ; authorized capital, $25,000. Incorporators : Wal- 

 lace A. Prince, George E. Reinhalter — both of Quincy, Massa- 



chusetts, and Irving W. Pollard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. To 

 manufacture and sell rubberized goods and fabrics and the carry- 

 ing on of a general rublier manufacturing business. 



The Greensburg Tire & Rubber Co., July 17. 1913; under the 

 laws of Pennsylvania ; authorized capital, $100,000. Incorpo- 

 rators : George S. Rombaugh, W. Dunbar and John B. Hayden — 

 all of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Location of principal office, 

 Greensburg, Pennsylvania. To manufacture and sell automobile 

 tires and tubes and other rubber goods. 



Hercules Rubber Co., Inc., August 22, 1913: under the laws of 

 New York ; authorized capital. $50,000. Incorporators : George 

 H. Duennard, Allendale, Pennsylvania; Gilbert C. Shepard, 311 

 West 118th street, and Mabel McSween, 119 West 64th street — 

 both of New York. Location of principal office. New York. 

 To manufacture rubber goods. 



Peerless Non-Puncture Co., Inc., August 7. 1913: under the 

 laws of New York ; authorized capital, $600. Incorporators : 

 Maurice Uran, 1652 Lexington avenue ; Harry Citret, 980 Tif- 

 fany street, and Frank Eber, 152 West 114th street — all of new 

 York. Location of principal office. New York. To manufacture 

 preparations for rendering tires puncture-proof. 



The Pittsburgh Tire Protector Co., July 17, 1913; under the 

 laws of Pennsylvania ; authorized capital, $5,000. Incorporators : 

 John -A. Martin, Patrick Cousins and Thomas Skarry — all of 

 Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. 



S. & K. Tire Co., Inc., .August 18, 1913; under the laws of 

 New York; authorized capital. $10,000. Incorporators: James J. 

 Coomber, 358 West Fifteenth street, New Y'ork, Herman Senner 

 and Bernard J. Kaplan — both of 115 West Thirtieth street, New 

 York. Location of principal office. New York. To manufacture 

 rublier tires, etc. 



Schick Wheel & Tire Co., July 7, 1913: under the laws of 

 West Virginia; authorized capital, $150,000. Incorporators: 

 .Adolph Schick, J. E. Morgan and D. H. Taylor — all of Wheeling, 

 West Virginia. Location of principal office. Wheeling, West 

 \"irginia. To manufacture, buy and sell rubber tires and auto- 

 mobile wheels, etc. 



The Valuable Raincoat Co., Inc., July 30. 1913; under the laws 

 of New York ; authorized capital, $2,000. Incorporators : Louis 

 Odessky, 650 East Twelfth street. New York; Louis Miller, 450 

 Powell street, Brooklyn, New York, and Abraham Reiman. 112 

 Second street, New York. Location of principal office. New 

 York. To manufacture rubberized clothing, etc. 



A PROFESSOR'S WIFE MAKING RUBBER SHOES. 



Among the women operatives making rubber shoes at the 

 Goodyear company's plant in Middletown. Connecticut, is the 

 wife of a Wesleyan professor. She goes to work at 7 o'clock in 

 the morning and continues diligently at her task until 5 o'clock 

 in the afternoon, with the usual hour for dinner ; and her com- 

 pensation — as she is a green hand — is something in the neighbor- 

 hood of $5 or $6 a week. She is the wife of Charles A. Tuttle, 

 Professor of Economics in Wesleyan, and she is engaging in this 

 arduous mill work as a preparation for a book which she plans 

 to write on conditions of wage earners in New England factories. 



ClOSING DOWN FOR SUMMER REPAIRS. 



A number of the factories belonging to the L'nited States Rub- 

 ber Co. were closed down during the greater part of August, for 

 the usual summer vacation and for the making of repairs. The 

 Candee factory at New Haven, the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. at 

 Edgewater. Massachusetts, and the factory of the .American Rub- 

 ber Co. at Cambridge, closed on July 24, re-opening on August 24. 



Some of the independent companies also closed their plants 

 temporarily. The Converse Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden, Massa- 

 chusetts, shut down for two weeks early in .August. 



