December t, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



89 



=The Hood Rubber Co. (East Watertown, Mass.) are re- 

 ported to have made 26,400 pairs of rubber shoes during one 

 day in November. 



= The output of rubber boots at the Millville factory of the 

 Woonsocket Rubber Co., about the middle of the month, was 

 increased to 7000 pairs per day. 



= Whitall, Tatum & Co. (New York), long established in 

 the druggists' sundries trade, in connection with which they 

 have been large handlers of rubber goods, in the home market 

 and for export, have become incorporated as the Whitall-Ta- 

 tum Co. The business of the house will be continued on the 

 same lines as iti the past. 



THE MARKET FOR RUBBER SECURITIES. 

 The transactions in shares of the United States Rubber Co. 

 on the New York Stock Exchange since our last report have 

 been : 



DATES. 



Week ending Oct. 26 

 Week ending Nov. 2 

 Week ending Nov. g 

 Weekending Nov. 16 

 Week ending Nov. 23 



Common. 



Sales, High. Low. 



210 



800 



1,000 



1,685 



|ioo 



15^ 



15 

 15)4: 



iSVz 



15 

 15 



Preferred. 



RUBBER GOODS MANUFACTURING CO. 



WOONSOCKET RUBBER CO. 

 The South Main street property, including the original plant 

 operated by the Woonsocket company, has been offered for 

 sale by the United States Rubber Co. It is taxed as real estate 

 on an assessment of $118,700, and the knit boot plant now on 

 the property is assessed at $40,000 as personal property. The 

 knit boot plant, as already reported in this journal, is to be 

 removed to Millville, Massachusetts, and combined with the 

 Lawrence Felting Works, under the superintendence of Robert 

 J. Bowes, son of the late William J. Bowes, who had charge 

 of the Lawrence mill. George C. Wetmore, general manager, 

 and Thomas Skipper, superintendent of the knit boot factory 

 at Woonsocket, retire from the service of the United States 

 Rubber Co. with the closing of that mill. 



CONSOLIDATION AT MILFORD. 

 The Union Rubber Co. (Boston), manufacturers of mackin- 

 toshes, will remove about January i to Milford, Massachu- 

 setts, where they have purchased for cash factory No. i of the 

 Milford Shoe Co., known also as the Shippee factory. The 

 Milford Rubber Co., proofers of cloth, will be consolidated 

 with the Union Rubber Co., and extensive improvements will 

 be made in the building just bought, to accommodate the con- 

 solidated businesses. = =Manager C. B. Archer, of the Milfoid 

 Rubber Co. had previously advised The India Rubber 

 World : " As our business has outgrown our present quarters, 

 we are contemplating a change. We expect to more than 

 double our present capacity of 10,000 yards a day, with the very 

 latest type of machinery to be had. Our present equipment is 

 of the very best, but we must have more of it."= = The Union 

 Rubber Co. is a comparatively new concern, composed of Leon 



Aronson (president), Joseph Aronson, and a Mr. Goddard, and 

 they have been notably successful thus far. 



GOLD MEDAL FOR INTERLOCKING TILING. 

 Those of our readers who visited the Pan American Exposi- 

 tion can hardly have failed to see the exceptionally attractive 

 display made by The New York Belting and Packing Co., Limi- 

 ted, a prominent feature of which was the interlocking rubber 

 floor tiling made by this firm. A gold medal has been awarded 

 by the judges of the exposition, for the display of tiling, which 

 is thus shown to have been superior to any other article in this 

 class exhibited at Buffalo. In addition the company received 

 another gold medal and a silver medal for their exhibit at Buf- 

 falo. 



THE Mahoning's change of name. 



The Mahoning Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Youngstown, 

 Ohio) have changed their name, and will be known as the 

 Union Rubber Co. The former name was considered too long, 

 besides which " Mahoning " was too local, having no signifi- 

 cance outside of Youngstown and its vicinity. 



north-western rubber CO. 



The newspapers of the Akron, Ohio, district are beginning 

 to discuss the North- Western Rubber Co., Limited, the incor- 

 poration of which, under West Virginia laws, was reported in 

 The India Rubber World of June i, 1901, as an enterprise 

 in which Akron capital is interested. The factory of this com- 

 pany, as already stated, is being erected near Liverpool. When 

 Mr. O. C. Barber, of Akron — one of the largest stockholders of 

 the Diamond Rubber Co. — sailed recently for an absence of 

 several weeks in Europe, he declined to be interviewed by his 

 home newspapers with regard to a report that he was going 

 abroad on business connected with the new factory. 

 MR. JENKINS MAKES A CHANGE. 



Silas H.Jenkins, who is one of the best known salesmen 

 of mackintosh goods in the United States, left for England on 

 November 30 on the Campania, to buy goods for Rosenwald 

 & Weil, of Chicago, as he has taken charge of their rain coat 

 department. Mr. Jenkins will visit London, Paris and Berlin 

 in the search for new and beautiful styles of spring goods. It 

 is interesting to note in this connection how long Mr. Jenkins 

 has been in the rubber business. In 1885 he connected him- 

 self with the Hodgman Rubber Co., travelling in the south and 

 west from Chicago. During the last five years he has been 

 resident manager of the New York department of the Stough- 

 ton Rubber Co. In writing The India Rubber World, Mr. 

 Jenkins expresses his regret at leaving the rubber business 

 after seventeen years of service. As the rain coat is considered 

 really a mackintosh today, however, he can hardly be said to 

 be out of the business, and he certainly will carry with him the 

 good wishes of his large acquaintance. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The retirement of Mr. H. C. Corson as vice president of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), announced several 

 months ago in The India Rubber World, will take effect on 

 January i next. There is reported to be much speculation in 

 Akron as to who will be his successor. Mr, Corson will retire 

 from active business in the belief that he has made a sufficient 

 fortune, and that he has earned a rest. The newspapers of his 

 section have commented on the unusual fact — in America — of 

 a man retiring voluntarily from business while still at the 

 height of success. 



= The Hon. E, S. Converse, president of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co., has contributed $5000 toward a fund which is being 

 raised to cancel the debt on the Young Men's Christian Asso- 

 ciation at Maiden, Mass. 



