July i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



305 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



TUSCARORA RUBBER CO. 



WORK is reported to be in progress on a three story 

 brick factory building, 4SX100 feet, at Beach City, 

 Ohio, in the central part of the state, to be operated 

 by the company above named. This company was 

 originally the Valley Rubber Co., with a factory at New Phila- 

 delphia, Ohio, which was burned down shortly after its com- 

 pletion. The company was reorganized at New Philadelphia, 

 since which time various suggestions have been made with 

 regard to removing to Akron and other points. The location 

 at Beach City has been decided upon in view of a bonus from 

 the citizens at that place. Those mentioned in connection 

 with the enterprise are Dr. L. S. Schweitzer, who was presi- 

 dent of the original company ; D. O. Webster, S. M. Anderson, 

 and William Coney. Dr. Schweitzer is to be business manager 

 and J. D. Martz traveling salesman. The capital is reported at 

 $25,000, and it is proposed to manufacture tires and specialties. 



BLACKSTONE RUBBER CO. 



Recording this new company, reported in the last India 

 Rubber World as having been incorporated by parties at 

 Providence, R. I., under Maine laws, one of the incorporators 

 writes to us : " In answer to your inquiry we would say that 

 this company has been formed to manufacture the Harris pat- 

 ent leather soled boot. The parties behind the company are 

 prominent rubber people, but do not care just at present to 

 have their identity known." 



THE NEW CENTURY RUBBER CO. 



An official of this new company, organized to reclaim rubber 

 by a new process, advises us as follows in regard to the factory 

 at Burlington, New Jersey : " Increasing the size of boiler and 

 engine, and getting some extra machinery that the superin- 

 tendent, Mr. Thomas Harmer, wanted, on account of the satis- 

 factory results of his experimenting, have delayed us in getting 

 the factory started before June 20." 



BOSTON BELTING CO. 

 The regular quarterly dividend (No. 127) of 2 per cent, is 

 payable July i, 1901, to shareholders of record at the close of 

 business on June 15. Boston newspapers state that the latest 

 quotation for this company's stock was 212^. 



FISK RUBBER CO. IN SYRACUSE. 

 The Fisk Rubber Co.'s branch at Syracuse, New York, in 

 charge of A. G. Bolster, manager, has grown, since January i, 

 1899, from desk room in a very small tire repair shop to 

 a store of three stories — No. 423 South Clinton street — 

 with capacity for storing 15,000 pairs of tires. Mr. Bolster has 

 also got up a steam vulcanizer, and, by his personal super- 

 vision, has built up the largest tire repair business in central 

 New York. The new vulcanizer, by the way, has attracted 

 favorable attention in all parts of the country, and Manager 

 Bolster has just received an order to ship one to England. 



RUBBER BELTING FOR NEW GRAIN ELEVATORS. 



The new elevator of the Great Eastern Elevator Co., at 

 Buffalo, New York, has a storage capacity of 2,201,020 bushels 

 and a handling capacity of 30,000 bushels per hour. The con- 

 tractors were the Steel Storage and Elevator Construction Co. 

 (Buffalo). The rubber belting, supplied by the Diamond Rub- 

 ber Co. (Akron, Ohio), consists of 10 conveyor belts, four ply, 

 36 and 40 inches wide, and aggregating 2851 feet; and 15 

 bucket belts, 20, 22, and 26 inches wide, 5, 6, and 7 ply, and 



having a total length of 2732 feet.==Another large new ele- 

 vator in the same city is that of the Buffalo Elevating Co., with 

 1,250,000 capacity. The rubber equipment embraces 9 bucket 

 belts, seven ply, 22 and 30 inches wide, of a total length of 

 2626 feet, and 2 conveyor belts, four ply, 40 inches wide, and 

 aggregating 1072 feet.===The operating power in both these 

 elevators will be electricity. 



NEW JOBBING HOUSE AT COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World: We will 

 open up about July i an exclusive rubber house under our 

 present name, in Columbus, Ohio, Nos. 44 46 West Naghten 

 street. This branch house is to take care of our rapidly in- 

 creasing business throughout Ohio, West Virginia, and eastern 

 Kentucky. We will carry a full line of the Hood and Old 

 Colony rubbers, and also combinations. Our firm is composed 

 of A. P., G. P., and I. W. Butterworth, and H. W. Lushey, the 

 latter two of whom will be associated with the new enterprise. 

 The fact that the state of Ohio has about 4,500,000 people and 

 not an exclusive house jobbing rubbers, has led us to believe 

 there is a big field in this section for such an establishment as 

 we have planned. marion rubber co. 



Wholesale Rubbers and Fells, Marion, Indiana, June 15, 1901. 

 THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. 



The regular quarterly dividend of ij^' per cent, was payable 

 on June 29 to shareholders of record on June 19. The shares 

 of the company were quoted recently in New York at 245. 



RUBBER GOODS MANUFACTURING CO. 



The directors, at a meeting in New York on June 3, declared 

 the regular quarterly dividend (No. 9) of l^ per cent, on the 

 preferred shares, payable June 15 to holders of record June 7. 

 The directors also declared dividend No. 5 of i per cent, on 

 C' mmon stock, payable July 15 to holders of record July 3. 

 Transfer books will be reopened July 15.^ ^;=The following 

 is a record of transactions in Rubber Goods shares on the New 

 York Stock Exchange : 



dates. 



Week ending May 4. . 

 Week ending May 10. 

 Week ending May 18. 

 Week ending May 25. 

 Week ending June I. 

 Week ending June 8. 

 Week ending June 15. 

 Weekending June 22. 



=-=It is stock market gossip that the company's surplus has 

 increased $500,000 as the result of the large business done since 

 the annual meeting in February. 



A NEW PLANT FOR THE STURTEVANT COMPANY. 

 The B. F. Siurtevant Co. (Boston) has recently completed 

 the purchase at Hyde Park, Mass., of a tract of land containing 

 15 acres or more, and is preparing plans for the erection there- 

 on of a large up-to-date plant for the manufacture of blowers, 

 engines, motors, forges, heating apparatus, etc. This purchase, 

 although hastened by the recent fire which damaged the works 

 at Jamaica Plain, and which eventually will be abandoned, is 

 the natural outcome of the rapid growth of this concern during 

 the past few years and of the congested condition of the pres- 

 ent plant in which increased facilities could not be advanta- 

 geously provided. The new site is on the same railroad line — 



