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THE INDIA RUBBER "WORLD 



[January i, 1902. 



= Morris & Co. (Yardville, New Jersey) advise The India 

 Rubber World that they have received orders from some of 

 the largest mills in the United States for their spring bottom 

 duck baskets, and for their mill trucks as well. The trucks 

 lose none of the spring features, as the wheels are attached to 

 the runners, made from >4-inch steel, thoroughly braced. 



= In the United States district couitat Cambridge, Mass., on 

 December 26, H. J. Jaquith was appointed trustee in bank- 

 ruptcy for the business of F. M. Woodward & Co., rubber man- 

 ufacturers, at Watertown, Mass. 



=The branch store of the Diamond Rubber Co. at No. 1717 

 Broadway — the headquarters of the company's tire trade in 

 New York— was burned out on December 18. Business was 

 not interrupted, however, since a surplus stock was carried at 

 the company's mechanical goods branch. No. 15 Warren street. 



= The record of exports of rubber boots and shoes from the 

 United States for 1900 [see page 105] is brought down only to 

 October 31. Returns have since been received for November, 

 amounting to 295.492 pairs, valued at $118,663. The total since 

 January i was 2,094,501 pairs, against 1,133,473 pairs for eleven 

 months in 1900, and 542,042 pairs in the same period of the 

 year 1899. 



=The Chicago Tire and Rubber Co. has been organized, 

 Thomas W. Morris, president, and Charles A. Sandberg, sec- 

 retary and treasurer. They have built and own a factory on 

 West Kinsie street, and are well equipped to take care of any- 

 thing in molded rubber goods. 



= And now there is an asbestos "combine." The H. W- 

 Johns Manufacturing Co. (New York) and the ManviUe Cover- 

 ing Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.) have been consolidated, as the H. 

 W. Johns-Manville Co., with $3,000,000 capital. T. F. Man- 

 viUe will be president, and will come to New York. C. B. 

 Manville will be president and, with C. R. ManviUe, mana- 

 ger of the Western department, will remain at Milwaukee. 

 H. E. Manville. secretary, will also come to New York. F. R. 

 Boocock, of New York, late of the Johns company, will be 

 treasurer. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENT. 



The Boston News Bureau reported, December 28 : " It is 

 understood that a prominent rubber shoe manufacturing con- 

 cern in Philadelphia will no longer be a factor in rubber shoe 

 competition, owing to unfortunate affiliations with a former of- 

 ficial of the United States Rubber Co." At the New York of- 

 fices of the latter company. The India Rubber World was 

 informed that nothing was known in regard to the affairs of 

 George Watkinson & Co.— the only rubber shoe manufacturers 

 in Philadelphia — further than had appeared in the newspapers. 

 It Was stated that Mr. Watkinson had not, at least, become 

 affiliated with the United States Rubber Co.==The New York 

 Sun on December 31 reported that George Watkinson & Co. 

 (Philadelphia) were preparing to file a petition in bankruptcy; 

 liabilities mentioned at $1,000,000 and assets approximately 

 $i,250,ooo.==Attachments have been obtained against the 

 Crude Rubber Co. (New York), in favor of banks holding 

 two notes of $5000 each, made by George Watkinson & Co., 

 and indorsed by the rubber company. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The tenth anniversary of the wedding of Colonel and Mrs. 

 Harry E. Converse, of Maiden, Massachusetts, celebrated on 

 the evening of December 2, was a most enjoyable occasion for 

 all who participated, in spite of the fact that the invitations to 

 the Converse residence for the celebration had to be followed 

 by others, to the Maiden Auditorium, on account of an out- 

 break of measles among the children of the family. Colonel 

 Converse is the son of the Hon. Elisha S. Converse, founder 



of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., and is closely associated with 

 the affairs of that company, in addition to which he is a di- 

 rector in the United States Rubber Co. Mrs. Converse was 

 Miss Mary Parker and is a very popular young matron of 

 Maiden. 



= Herr Hans T. W. Clouth, a son of the proprietor of the 

 Franz Clouth Rheinische Gummiwaaren-Fabrik (Cologne, 

 Germany), was a recent visitor to the United States, returning 

 to his home just before the holidays. 



=George S. Manning, senior member of the Manning Shoe 

 and Rubber Co., a Boston jobbing house, died at his home in 

 Newton, Massachusetts, on December 14, in his fifty-ninth 

 year. 



= Clement Studebaker, who died at his home in South 

 Bend, Indiana, on November 27, was a large stockholder and 

 a director in the Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Co., manu- 

 facturers of rubber and wool "combinations." Mr. Stude- 

 baker was born in 1831 in Pennsylvania, where his father was 

 a manufacturer of wagons in a small way. Later Clement 

 Studebaker found himself further west, at South Bend, where 

 he established the great wagon manufacturing business which, 

 in 1868, was incorporated as the Studebaker Brothers Manu- 

 facturing Co., with himself as president. A brother, J. M. 

 Studebaker, connected with the wagon manufactory, is also a 

 director in the Mishawaka factory. 



= Mr. Charles F. Hirzel, who died November 23 at his resi- 

 dence in Brooklyn, was senior member of the shipping firm 

 of Hirzel, Feltman & Co., of New York. He was a native of 

 Palermo, Italy, and was in his forty second year. Originally 

 engaged in the fruit importing business, Mr. Hirzel's connec- 

 tions increased until his firm had a large South American and 

 Central American trade. For several years they have been in- 

 cluded monthly in The India Rubber World's list of im- 

 porters of crude rubber at New York. 



AMERICAN BICYCLE CO. DIVIDED. 



In order to facilitate the division of the business of this com- 

 pany into cycle and automobile branches, two subidiary cor- 

 porations have been formed under the laws of New Jersey. 

 The papers were filed December 20. The stock of both com- 

 panies is held by the American Bicycle Co., but the latter will 

 relinquish active control of the bicycle and automobile busi- 

 nesses. The management will be in the hands of officials of 

 the new concerns, whose names will figure in the trade. The 

 new corporations are : 



American Cycle Manufacturing Co. — Capital, $8,000,000. In- 

 corporators : Joseph E. Bromley, R. Lindsay Coleman, George 

 H. Pope, Thomas E. Merseles. The following factories will be 

 acquired : Pope Manufacturing Co. (Hartford, Conn.), Lozier 

 Manufacturing Co. (Westfield, Mass.), Crawford Manufacturing 

 Co. (Hagerstown, Md.), and these four in Chicago : Ames & 

 Frost Co., A. Featherstone & Co., Gormully & Jeffery Manu- 

 facturing Co., Monarch Cycle Manufacturing Co. A deed 

 transferring the Pope works to the new corporation was filed 

 at Hartford December 26, the consideration being supposed to 

 be $300,000. Mr. Bromley is temporarily president of the new 

 company. 



International Motor Car Co. — Capital, $2,000,000. Incorpo- 

 rators ; George H. Pope, R. Lindsay Coleman, Clarence W. 

 Dickerson, Pr.'il Walton. Factories to be acquired : Lozier 

 Manufacturing C i. (Toledo, Ohio), Viking Manufacturing Co. 

 (Toledo, Ohio), Indiana Bicycle Co.— the " Waverley " plant 

 (Indianapolis, Ind.) Colonel G. H. Pope is temporarily presi- 

 dent. 



The directors of the two companies are identical : Messrs. 

 Bromley, Coleman, Pope, Merseles, and Walton. 



