August i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER "WORLD 



339 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



CONSOLIDATED RUBBER TIRE CO. 



THE stockholders have voted to decrease the capital stock 

 from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, first by cancelling the 

 stock now held in the treasury — $1,000,000 each in pre- 

 ferred and common shares — and by substituting for 

 30,000 outstanding shares of preferred stock 4 per cent, fifty 

 year debentures. This will leave the capital stock consisting 

 of $1,000,000 preferred and $4,000,000 common. This action 

 was taken early in the past month, and notices sent out that 

 the preferred stock might be exchanged for the 4 per cent, in- 

 come bonds at the Manhattan Trust Co. (New York) on or be- 

 fore July 18. 



LATIMER TIRE AND RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 



This is a new corporation, under the laws of Illinois, with 

 change of name, to absorb the entire business and good will of 

 the Latimer Rubber Tire Co. (Chicago), which change went 

 into efTect on July i,the idea being to increase the scope of the 

 business and make a general line of rubber goods. The new 

 company has the same stockholders, board of directors and 

 officers as the old company. The company's works are at 

 Huntley, Illinois, near Chicago. 



MORE " KERITE " CABLE FOR THE PHILIPPINES. 



There has lately been shipped from New York for use in the 

 Phihppines, 300 miles of " Kerite " submarine cable, manufac- 

 tured for the United States government by W. R. Brixey, 

 (Seymour, Connecticut). The last shipment went forward 

 from New York on June 23, by the government transport Sa/- 

 suma, consisting of one length of 174 miles. The core of this 

 cable was the same as that of the Skagway-Juneau cable men- 

 tioned in The India Rubber World of July i, differing only 

 in the size of the armor wire, which in the latter case embraced 

 16 No. II B. & S. galvanized steel wires, over which there were 

 two reversed layers of saturated jute. The outside diameter of 

 the cable was '/a inch, whereas the outside diameter of the 

 Skagway cable is \l inch, the difference, as before stated, being 

 in the size of the steel armor. 



OILCLOTH FIRMS CONSOLIDATED. 



The Standard Table Oilcloth Co. was incorporated July 12, 

 under New Jersey laws, with $10,000,000 capital, divided 

 equally into preferred and common stock. Of the stock, 

 $4,000,000 of each class is issued to acquire plants and provide 

 working capital. Seven concerns have been acquired : 



The Western Linoleum Co Akron, Ohio. 



Ohio Oilcloth Co Voungstown, Ohio. 



Keystone Oilcloth Co Norristown, Pennsylvania. 



Atha & Hughes Newark, New Jersey. 



Goodlatte Oilcloth Co Passaic, New Jersey. 



Joseph Wild c& Co Astoria, Long Island, N. V. 



A. F. Buchanan & Sons Buchanan, New York. 



The organization consists of — 



Ptesident — H. M. Garlick. 



Vice Presidents — G. M. McKelvey, George H. Hughes. 



Sectetary — Alvin Hunsicker. 



Trcasiiret — V. H. .Schmidt. 



Directors — [The above andj John H. Berresford, Dr. A. M. Cole, 

 George Allen, George Buchanan, Andrew Buchanan, C. H. liooth, 

 Charles Templeton, A. Bowers Smith, T. N. Goodlatte, A. F. Adams, 

 B. H. Atha, E. A. Owlatt, John Stambaugh. 



These concerns are said to control 95 per cent, of the pro- 

 duction of light weight oilcloth in the United States. Concerns 

 manufacturing both heavy and light weight goods have not 

 been taken in. The combination is said to have been financed 

 by Youngstown capitalists. The headquarters will be in New 



York. T. N. Goodlatte has been elected purchasing agent and 

 Andrew Buchanan sales agent. 



LATTA AND MULCONROY CO. (PHILADELPHIA.) 

 The firm above mentioned are sending to their customers an 

 invitation to call at their pavilion in the Manufacturers' annex 

 at the Pan-American Exposition, to make that section their 

 headquarters while visiting the exposition, and to have mail 

 addressed there. The goods exhibited include a complete line 

 of Roberts's water filters for every purpose. 



"NUBIAN" PACKING IN THE NAVY. 



When Uncle Sam adopts an article to be used in his navy, 

 it may be depended upon that the article has merit. The Voor- 

 hees Manufacturing Co. (Jersey City) received lately an order 

 for sufficient Nubian packing to equip the cvmstr Monigo>nery, 

 which was lying in the Brooklyn navy yard. Then the Brazil- 

 ia.i cruiser Benjamin Constant, which was in New York har- 

 bor, put into the yard for repairs and the Voorhees company 

 received an order for Nubian packing to refit the trans- 

 equatorial ship. It now looks very much as though this will lead 

 to a wide adoption of " Nubian " in future naval work. 



THE machinists" STRIKES IN CONNECTICUT. 

 The machine shops in the Naugatuck valley, in Connecti- 

 cut, have not escaped demands from their employes such as 

 machinists all over the country have been making of late. But 

 the strikes which resulted have been dealt with more sum- 

 marily than in some other places. One of the establishments 

 affected was that of the Parrel Foundry and Machine Co. (An- 

 sonia). The company speedily resumed work, through the 

 employment of non-union help. The strikers attempted to 

 prevent their working, becoming so aggressive that the men 

 employed had to be housed and fed in the shops. Early on 

 the morning of July 4 the strikers bombarded the Parrel , 

 works with sky rockets and Roman candles, demolishing the 

 windows and setting fire to the interiors of the buildings, 

 making it necessary for all hands inside to work at the foundry 

 fire appiratus for hours, to protect the property. Judge E. B. 

 Gager then granted an injunction against the striking ma- 

 chinists, their unions, and their sympathizers, restraining them 

 from further interference with the Parrel employes. This in- 

 junction not only prohibits such demonstrations, but upsets the 

 scheme on foot to boycott merchants who sell to the company, 

 and if any merchant refuses to sell to the foundry or its em- 

 ployes, he becomes a party to the illegal conspiracy and sub- 

 ject to a penalty. The situation has become quiet, and the 

 Parrel's have gradually increased their working force. ==The 

 Birmingham Iron Poundry (Derby), which was also affected by 

 the strike, has resumed work, with new men. 



RUBBER MEN PLAY BALL. 



The second annual baseball contest between the Married Men 

 and the Single Men of the New York office of the United States 

 Rubber Co. occurred on June 29, at " The Cove," on Staten 

 Island. The game was played, and at the end of the eighth 

 inning the score stood 11 to ii. The Married Men were more 

 successful in the ninth inning, however, winning the game by 

 a score of 17 to 1 1. The day closed with a dinner at the hotel 

 at "The Cove," at which the players were joined by about 

 thirty of their friends who had witnessed the game. The game 

 last year, at the same place, also resulted in a victory for the 

 Married Men. 



