January i, 1902.] 



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office of the company is that of the New Jersey Regisitration 

 and Trust Co., East Orange, New Jersey. The articles of in- 

 corporation were tiled with the county court clerk at Newark, 

 N. J., on December 18. 



= The American Vulcanized Fibre Co. (New York), Decem- 

 ber 4, under Delaware laws; capital, $3,400,000. This corpora- 

 tion IS stated to be a combination of all the hard fibre com- 

 panies in the United States with the exception of two. The 

 companies embraced are : 



The Kartavert Manufacturing Co Wilmington, Delaware. 



Tlie Vulcanized Fibre Co Wilmington. Delaware. 



The American Hard Fibre Co Newark, Delaware. 



The Latimer Fibre Co Boston, Massachusetts. 



The incorporators are Richard B. Constance, Frank L. Arn- 

 old, and C. Arthur Coon, of New York city, and Gardiner W, 

 Kimball and J. Ernest Smith, of Wilmington. The remaining 

 companies are the Delaware State Fibre Co. (Elsmere, Del.) 

 and the Delaware Hard Fibre Co. (Wilmington,) 



= The Shute's " World Renown " Felt and Rubber Footwear 

 Co., December 10, under Maine laws, to manufacture footwear I 

 capital authorized, $100,000; nothing paid in. C. S. Shute, of 

 Mattapan. Massachusetts, is president ; Horace Mitchell, of 

 Kittery, Maine, treasurer. 



= The Berry & Hardman Co. (Belleville, New Jersey), De- 

 cember 17, under New Jersey laws, to manufacture a patented 

 rubber heel and other goods ; capital, $20,000. Incorporators: 

 Charles M. Berry, of New York ; Herbert V. Hardman and J. 

 Harry Hardman, Belleville, N. J. 



= The Airless Pneumatic Tire and Rubber Co., December 10, 

 under New Jersey laws; capital authorized, $f, 000,000, of which 

 S5000 is paid in. Incorporators: George F. Maguire, Herbert 

 D. Cohen, and Nathan F. Giffin. Office in New Jersey : No. 

 765 Broad street, Newark. 



= Lincoln Rubber Co., December 14, under Maine laws, to 

 make and deal in rubber heels, lifts, and soles ; capital, $50,000. 

 Edward H. Talbot, of Boston, Mass., president ; Levi Turner, 

 of Portland, Maine, treasurer and clerk. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston) have increased their capital 

 stock to $800,000. 



= The United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos. (Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey) are erecting a three story addition, 60 x 78 

 feet, to their factory buildings. 



=The Glendale Elastic Fabrics Co. (Easthampton, Mass.) 

 have installed in their new factory extension nine carloads of 

 machinery from the elastic web factory of J. H. Buckley & Co. 

 (South Norwalk, Conn.), purchased by the Glendale company 

 at the assignee's sale several months ago. 



=The Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Jersey City, 

 N. J.) have installed recently on their premises, to add to their 

 means of protection against fire, a water tank with 50,000 gal- 

 lons capacity. 



= During the recent smallpox scare in Boston and its 

 vicinity, all the employes of the Fells factory of the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co. were required to be vaccinated. 



=The People's Hard Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), on Decem- 

 ber 10, according to a local newspaper, had 40 men at work, 

 besides those still employed on the premises by the building 

 contractors, and it was expected that by January i the factory 

 would be turning out goods. 



=The large rubber factories at Akron, Ohio, in accordance 

 with their custom, and some o( the small factories, presented 

 a Christmas turkey to each employe, except that many unmar- 

 ried persons and some others exercised their option of taking 

 cash. Still, about 2000 turkeys were distributed. 



= Work has been begun on the construction of factory build- 

 ings for the Stein Double Tire Cushion Co., at Akron, Ohio, 

 under a contract calling for their completion by March i. 



= The Maynard Rubber Corporation, reported in last India 

 Rubber World, as a new company formed under Connecticut 

 laws, have opened a store at No. 139 Bridge street, Springfield, 

 Mass., where will be carried a general line of rubber goods. 

 The company will make a specialty of the solid rubber tires 

 made by the Hartford Rubber Works Co. 



= The Akron manufacturers of rubber balls and other toys 

 say that the holiday trade this season has been the best in 

 their history. " The better known rubber toys become," said 

 one manufacturer, " the more popular they are." 



= The contract for the new buildings of the Stoughton 

 (Mass.) Rubber Co., mentioned in the last India RuBiiER 

 World, has been awarded to Hosea C. Witt, of the same town. 

 They are to be ready for occupancy by spring. 



= The suit for damages of Vincent Tobin against The India 

 Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), by whom he was employed, for the 

 loss of a hand in a calender, resulted in a verdict, on November 

 30, for $5ooo.= = Frank Hiller has begun suit for $10,000, at 

 Passaic, New Jersey, against the American Hard Rubber Co., 

 for damages sustained through the breaking of a ladder on 

 which he stood while employed at work in their factory at 

 Butler. 



= The mechanical rubber goods business conducted by Win- 

 field S. Knowles (Boston), under the style of Globe Rubber 

 Works, was removed December i from No. 72 to No. 60 Pearl 

 street. In the new store is offered a new stock, and a fuller as- 

 sortment than heretofore. This is the New England agency 

 of the Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York.) 



=J. Greenburg, representing the " Goodyear Mackintosh 

 Co.," of Chicago, landed at Joliet, Illinois, recently, rented a 

 store, and began selling at cut prices. The resident merchants 

 complained, and the council met and passed an ordinance, fix- 

 ing a license for transient merchants of $75, which Greenburg 

 paid, under protest. He expresses satisfaction, however, over 

 the amount of free advertising that he has got out of the af- 

 fair. 



= William Lapworth & Sons (Milford, Massachusetts) are re- 

 ported to have ordered $12,000 worth of new machinery in or- 

 der to provide for the increased production of elastic webbing 

 necessary to meet their orders. 



= Thomas H. Henderson, on leaving the position of foreman 

 of the calendering department of the Boston Woven Hose and 

 Rubber Co. to accept a similar position with Morgan & Wright 

 (Chicago), was presented by the help in the former place with 

 a handsome gold watch chain. 



= The rubber factory, to employ 4000 hands, that McKees- 

 port, Pennsylvania, didn't get, last summer, when last heard 

 from was expected to materialize at Arnold, in the same state. 

 It will be necessary first, however, for the citizens of that town 

 to contribute $20,000. The town of New Kensington also has 

 been threatened with it. 



= The Brockton (Mass.) Rubber Cemen' Scrap Co. advise The 

 India Rubber World that during this month they intend to 

 make a change of address, due notice of which will be given as 

 soon as they have decided upon a location. They were the 

 first to make a business of dealing in unvulcanized rubber scrap 

 from the waste of used cement. 



= Edmund M. Wood died at Natick, Massachusetts, Decem- 

 ber 12, in his sixty-fourth year. In addition to many other 

 business interests, he was treasurer of and owned two-thirds of 

 the stock in the George H. Wood Co., large manufacturers of 

 rubber cement. 



