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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1913. 



JCLLEK STOCK TO BE INCREASED TO $2,000,000. 



It has been decided by the stockholders of tlie Miller Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, to increase the stock from $1,000,000 to $2,000,- 

 000; $500,000 to be 7 per cent, cumulative preferred stock, which 

 is to be sold at once to raise funds to take care of the rapidly 

 increasing business, and $500,000 to be common stock which is to 

 be placed in the treasury for future disposition. 



SITPERINTENDENTS OF THE CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED. 



The picture shown below was taken at the convention of the 

 superintendents of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Lim- 

 ited, which was held recently at the factory of the Granby Rub- 

 ber Co., Limited, Granby, Quebec. From left to right they are 

 as follows: D. A. Fisher, superintendent of the Canadian Rub- 

 ber Co., Montreal ; A. D. Weber, sales department, Canadian 

 Consolidated Rubber Co., Montreal; John H. Pearce, Sr., gen- 

 eral superintendent of the same company ; Walter R. Legge, 

 secretary-treasurer of the Granby Rubber Co. ; P. Y. Smiley, 

 superintendent of the Merchants Rubber Co., P.orliii. Ontario; 



Superintendents of the C.«iN.\dian Consolid.\ted Rubber Co.. 



Limited. 



C. K. Hutchinson, Canadian Consolidated; F. W. Kramer, su- 

 perintendent of the Dominion Rubber Co., St. Jerome, Quebec ; 

 John H. Pearce, Jr., superintendent of the Granby Company; 

 L W. Kuehner, superintendent of the Maple Leaf Rubber Co,, 

 Port Dalhousie, Ontario ; F, R. Fogerty, superintendent of the 

 Granby Last Factory, and C. S. Johnson, of the Granby company. 

 These conventions are held monthly at the various mills of 

 the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co.. Limited, and are of un- 

 doubted benefit to the superintendents of the factories. 



DIVIDENDS PAID BY RUBBER COMPANIES. 



The Hood Rubber Co., Watertown. Massachusetts, has declared 

 a quarterly dividend of Ifi per cent, on its preferred stock, paya- 

 ble August 1 to stock of record on July 31. 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, paid on 

 July IS the usual quarterly dividend of lyi per cent, on its com- 

 mon and 1J4 per cent, on its preferred stock. 



The Lee Tire and Rubber Co., Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, 

 paid on July 10 its regular quarterly dividend of 1^4 per cent. 



The Batavia Rubber Co., of Batavia, New York, has declared 

 the regular quarterly dividend of IJ/2 per cent, on its preferred 

 and 1 per cent, regular on its common, with 14 per cent, addi- 

 tional on the common. 



The United States Rubber Co. paid on July 31 a quarterly divi- 

 dend of 2 per cent, on its first preferred stock and a quarterly 

 dividend of l?/2 per cent, on its common stock. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 

 In the competition between Newark, Columbus and 

 Chillicothe, Ohio, as a site for the new plant of the Pharis 

 Tire and Rubber Co., of Columbus, Ohio, the first named 

 city has been selected as offering the greatest advantages, 

 and it is soon to have a tire factory equipped at a cost 

 approximating $30,000. 



The Vulcan Rubber Co., of Erie, Pennsylvania, which has 

 been incorporated for $200,000, and which has been engaged 

 in the manufacture of rubber goods and inner tubes, is now 

 to take up on a large scale the manufacture of tires for com- 

 mercial vehicles. These tires are to follow a design made 

 by C. A. Swinehart, the new general manager, who, with 

 H. F. Burger, has recently purchased an interest in the com- 

 pany. Both Mr. Swinehart and Mr. Burger were formerly 

 connected with the Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron, 

 Ohio, the former for several years, in the capacity of sales 

 manager. 



The Goodyear Manufacturing Raincoat Co., of New York 

 City, recently incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000, 

 expects to secure a plant — probably in New Jersey — in which 

 to manufacture raincoats. The incorporators are F. D. Clay- 

 ton and David Gross, of Englishtown, New Jersey, and 

 William Schor, of New York City. 



Reid Brothers, of Seattle, Washington, have been appointed 

 Pacific Coast representatives of The Gordon Rubber Co., 

 (■f Canton, Ohio. 



Diamond and Goodrich tires are to be mutually represented 

 in Pittsburgh, at 414 North Craig street, by The Diamond- 

 Goodrich Pittsburgh branch, under the management of C. A. 

 Dunham, who has for some time been manager of the agency 

 formerly devoted exclusively to the Diamond Rubber Co.'s 

 ]irnduct. 



.\ service plant, where tire, rim and wheel changes can be 

 made on automobiles and trucks, is being erected for the 

 iMrestone Tire and Rubber Co. at Sixty-third street and West 

 End avenue. New York. 



The Monarch Rubber and Oil Cloth Co. has moved to the 

 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, a better and more suitable 

 location than that previously occupied at 41 North Seventh 

 street. 



The Motz Tire and Rubber Co., Boston, Massachusetts, 

 has moved to 669 Boylston street from its former place of 

 business at 4 Dundee street. 



1084 Boylston street is the present Boston address of the 

 .•\jax-Grieb Rubber Co., located until recently at 15 Park 

 square. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, has 

 completed arrangements by which its product is to be dis- 

 tributed throughout Northwestern Russia, Messrs. Sorge & 

 Sabeck, of Riga, having taken the agency for that city, as 

 well as the management of the St. Petersburg agency recently 

 opened by the Goodyear company. 



A rubber manufacturing plant is to be established at 

 Joplin, Missouri, by the Independent Rubber Co. lately 

 incorporated in that city by J. L. and J. H. Coesir and B. H. 

 and F. .■\. W^ilbur. The capital stock of this new company 

 is $10,000. 



The Brookville Rubber Co., of Trenton, New Jersey — incor- 

 porated on June 12, under the laws of that State, with an 

 authorized capital of $100,000, of which $35,000 has been paid 

 in — has taken over the plant formerly operated by the Elwell 

 Rubber Co., where it will manufacture, in addition to various 

 lines of mechanical rubber goods for jobbers, a line of rubber 

 soles and heels for the shoe trade. This latter will be the 

 company's specialty, and will be disposed of directly to the 

 manufacturers. The officers of the company are : Ezra Evans, 

 president ; Edward A. Fischer, secretary and treasurer, and 

 Charles .•\. Joslin, general manager. 



