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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 



1 90 1. 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



GLENDALE ELASTIC FABRICS CO. 



AT the annual meeting, at Easthampton, Massachusetts, 

 on March 29, the election resulted as follows: Treas- 

 urer, Joseph W. Green, Jr. Directors : William G. Bas- 

 sett, John Mayher, William Rapp, S. T. Seelye, George 

 A. Alden, Harry E. Converse, J. W. Green, Jr. The directors 

 then chose W. G. Bassett president. A quarterly dividend of 

 2 per cent, was declared. 



THE GOODYEAR VULCANITE CO. MAKE A CHANGE. 

 A CIRCULAR issued April i announces the transfer of the 

 business and good will of this company to The Vulcanized Rub- 

 ber Co., a New Jersey corporation, the formation of which was 

 mentioned in the last India Rubber World. The ofTiceis of 

 the new company are : Myer Ditlenhoefer, president; George 

 Pellinger, vice president ; Theodore E. Studley, treasurer and 

 secretary. All orders for goods, however, will be filled by The 

 Vulcanized Rubber Co. of New York, recently incorporated at 

 Albany, with the same officers as above, and with headquarters 

 at No. 568 Broadway, New York. 



MAHONING RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 



The plant of this new company, at Youngstown, Ohio, will 

 be located on land donated by Robert McCurdy, president of 

 the First National Bank of Youngstown, in a portion of the 

 city to which, by reason of the new enterprise, the electric 

 railway will at once be extended. John Tod, who had been 

 elected secretary and treasurer of the rubber company, in con- 

 sequence resigned March 31 as executive head of the Falcon 

 Bronze Co., of Youngstown. The rubber company will main- 

 tain offices in the Park building until an office structure can 

 be erected on the factory site. 



The new company are making rapid progress in the way of 

 getting ready for business. In the line of the most up-to-date 

 and eflfective plant, they have already placed their orders for 

 the very best of machinery, and in the line of management have 

 greatly increased their strength by securing Mr. J. Edwin Da- 

 vies, formerly of The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. 

 Mr. Davis has severed his connection with the latter company, 

 and earlv in May will move to Youngstown, which is to be his 

 future home. It is gossiped that he takes quite a block of stock 

 in the new corporation. 



NEW ENGLAND RUBBER CLUB. 

 The annual meeting and dinner will be held at the Exchange 

 Club, No. 118 Milk street, Boston, on the evening of Friday, 

 May 3, at 6 o'clock. Immediately following the adjournment 

 of the business meeting, dinner will be served. Among the 

 speakers announced are Colonel Curtis Guild, Jr. — " The Future 

 of the Industrial Development in the United States"; Lafay- 

 ette G. Blair, Esq. — " Lawyers Fifty Years Hence"; Professor 

 Stephen P. Sharpies — "The Chemist's Opportunity in the Rub- 

 ber Industry"; Dr. Joseph Stedman— " India-rubber from 

 the Physician's Standpoint"; T. E. Stutson — "American Hu- 

 mor of the Present Century." The invitations sent out are 

 headed "Twentieth Century Dinner." 



RUBBER MANUFACTURERS' MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. 

 Benjamin Taft, son of the late Benjamin F. Taft. and Mrs. 

 Carrie W. Fletcher, his daughter, both of whom long have been 

 identified with their father's interests in the above and other 

 insurance companies will, it is reported, continue to care for 

 them. 



A RUBBER STORE HANDLES FILTERS. 

 Latta it MuLCONROV Co., Inc., rubber goods jobbers of 

 Philadelphia, under an arrangement dating from April i, 

 handle the entire output of the Roberts Manufacturing Co., of 

 the same city — the Roberts natural stone germ proof filter. 

 Five years ago Charles V'. Roberts was making 5000 filters a 

 year for John Wanamaker, the Shannon hardware store, and a 

 few other dealers in Philadelphia. Two years ago Mr. Roberts 

 and James J. Mulconroy incorporated the Roberts Manufac- 

 turing Co., with increased facilities, since which 100,000 filters 

 have been sold. Each filter requires rubber rings, washers, 

 springs, etc., and the renewals have developed into a desirable 

 business for the dealer handling the Roberts filter. Latta & 

 Mulconroy Co. have enlarged their office and increased their 

 force, and with this organization an increase of business of the 

 Roberts company seems very promising. 



CHANGES AT TRENTON. 

 G. L. Walungton, secretary of the Crescent Belting and 

 Packing Co., has resigned his position and gone into the drug 

 business in Trenton, N. J., with his brother. His place in the 

 Crescent company is filled by Mr. Samuel Cadwallader, who 

 for many years was manager of the works of the Globe Rubber 

 Co., when they were owned by the late Samuel K. Wilson. 

 Edward Openshaw, a well-known and successful rubber man 

 of Trenton, has accepted the position of superintendent for 

 the Crescent company. 



NEW BRUNSWICK TIRE CO. 



Our latest advices were that no one had been appointed to 

 take the place of the late president of the company, James P. 

 Langdon, who died in February. William A. Towner, vice 

 president, has been acting as president. The company have 

 issued no catalogue this season, as the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co. are marketing their pneumatic bicycle tires. 



CONSOLIDATED RUBBER TIRE CO. 

 The reorganization of this company, for which several spe- 

 cial meetings have been called, only to be adjourned without 

 any action being taken, is still pending. Last month was men- 

 tioned [page 213] such a meeting, called for April 12. On that 

 date a further adjournment was announced, to May 6, the date 

 of the annual meeting. 



RUBBER GOODS MANUFACTURING CO. 

 Trading in the shares of this company was a conspicuous 

 feature of the New York curb market on April 10, recovering 

 sharply from its break of the previous day. Sales were made 

 from 25;)^ to 27, and at the close 27 was bid. About 2500 shares 

 were dealt in, the largest day's business in a long time. The 

 preferred was also active and strong, about 1000 shares selling 

 from 77 to 7T/i, closing at the best. 



EXCELSIOR MACHINE CO. (aKRON, OHIO.) 

 A NOTICE dated April ri, 1901, reads: "Notice is hereby 

 given that the firm known as Excelsior Machine Co., composed 

 of R. H. Probert and Edw. Nail, is this day dissolved by mu- 

 tual consent. All debts due to said firm and those due by it 

 will be settled with R. H. Probert, who will continue the busi- 

 ness under the same firm name and at the same address." 



Mr. Probert is preparing to extend the business by putting in 

 additional facilities for making all kinds of small special rubber 

 molds — in which line the firm have for some time past enjoyed 

 a good trade. 



