February i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER W^ORLD 



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THE ATLANTIC RUBBER SHOE CO. 



At a meeting of the incorporators held on lanuary 3 the 

 following directors were chosen : J. O. Stokes, W. J. B. Stolces, 

 F. N. White, F. C. Lowthorp, H. J. Doughty, Henry M. Rogers, 

 and Benjamin J. Hotchltiss. The directors elected officers as 

 follows ; 



/'/■«!</<•»/— Joseph Oliver Stokes. 



yietr />>««■</<■«/— Frank N. White. 



Treasurer — William J. B. Stokes. 



Secteliiry — FRANCIS C. LoWTHORP. 



Manager — Henry J. DOUGHTY. 



Joseph O. Stokes is treasurer and general manager of the 

 Home Rubber Co. and president of the Joseph Stokes Rubber 

 Co. and the Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co., all of Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey. W. I. B. Stokes, his brother, is president of 

 the Home Rubber Co. and treasurer of the other companies 

 named, in addition to being the treasurer of the city of Tren- 

 ton. Mr. Doughty has been at work for several years in the 

 development of important inventions in connection with the 

 rubber industry, and in their exploitation has had associated 

 with him Mr. White. One of these inventions is the basis of 

 the Rubber Machinery Co., Limited, which has been engaged 

 successfully in the introduction of machinery on anew princi- 

 ple in important branches of the mechanical industry. Mr. 

 Lowthorp, the other member of the official board, is an attor- 

 ney of Trenton. 



The Atlantic Rubber Shoe Co. have secured a plot of ground, 

 embracing som.e twenty-three acres in Trenton, on the main line 

 of the Pennsylvania railroad. The land is in the form of a tri- 

 angle, one side being, as before stated, on the main line of the 

 railroad, and another side being bounded by the Coldoort 

 branch of that road, and the third by the Assampink creek. 

 This arrangement will allow for two railroad sidings, one of 

 which will bring in the raw material and factory supplies, while 

 the other will take away the manufactured goods. The com- 

 pany have further rented a building in Providence, Rhode 

 Island, which is being rapidly fitted up as a machine shop for 

 the manufacture of molds. They have also given out a con- 

 tract for the building of 500 of the shoe machines. It is inter- 

 esting to note that some of these machines are to be for the 

 manufacture of lumbermen's overs and boots, and for which a 

 number of additional patents will soon be issued. 



A prospectus has been issued, inviting subscriptions to 

 $2,500,000 in 6 per cent, cumulative preferred stock, and $7,- 

 500,000 non assessable common stock, at the company's offices. 

 No. 80 Reade street. New York, and in the Broad Street Na- 

 tional Bank building, Trenton. 



The prospectus presents the following comparison of items 



bearing upon the cost to manufacture 10,000 pairs of rubber 



shoes daily, by the present processes, and with the use of the 



new machines : 



Present New 



Process. Process. 



Floor space required 130.000 sq ft. 45,000 sq. ft. 



Cost of building, Si sq ft $130,000 $45,000 



Washers, mixers, calenders $30,000 $18,000 



Engines 700H. I>. 400 11. i'. 



Wooden lasts $30,000 none. 



Cost maintaining lasts I year $10,000 none. 



Cost presses and molds none. §20,000 



Weekly pay roll $8,500 $3,200 



IMPROVEMENTS AT LA CROSSE. 



The La Crosse Rubber Mills Co. (La Crosse, Wisconsin) have 

 just added a large three roll calender of Birmingham make 

 for the manufacture of surface clothing, and indeed for a vari- 

 ety of calendered surface goods. Heretofore all of their work 

 has been done on spreaders, of which they have a large battery. 

 The capital stock of the company has also been increased from 



$50,000 to Sioo.ooo. Fuither improvements at the mills are 

 the completion of a great cistern for surplus water, with a ca- 

 pacity of 80,000 gallons. They have also erected a 65 foot 

 tower, on top of which is a tank holding 3 5,000 gallons. Added 

 to this is the installation of a fire pump which will throw 

 1000 gallons a minute. This, together with the large well and 

 with the Niagara sprinklers, gives the La Crosse factory one of 

 the best equipments for fire protection possible. As the mill 

 piping is independent of the sprinkler work, it will be seen 

 that the factory really has its own complete system of water 

 works. The general manager, George S. Andrus, who was re- 

 cently in the East, predicts that their business will be larger 

 than ever during 1902, and that the grades of mackintoshes 

 called for throughout the country will be much higher than in 

 the past. 



EMPIRE RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 



At the annual meeting, at Trenton, New Jersey, on January 15, 

 the officers of this company were reelected, as follows : William 

 H. Skirm, president; George R. Cook, treasurer; W. H. Skirm, 

 Jr., secretary. 



THE HALL SECTIONAL TIRE. 



The Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. have purchased the 

 full rights to manufacture the sectional rubber carriage tire 

 invented by Frank E. Hall, and are now equipped to make all 

 sizes from 2^ inches wide to 8 inches. Some of the larger 

 sizes of tire sections are veritable giants, weighing 12 pounds 

 apiece, and designed to go under 15 ton vehicles. It is inter- 

 esting to note that during the two years in which these tires 

 have been used, not one of them has gone out of commission. 



WILLIAM WRIGHT & CO, (LIVERPOOL AND NEW YORK.) 

 The dissolution is announced of this partnership, doing busi- 

 ness as brokers at No. 176 Broadway, New York, and No. 620 

 Atlantic avenue, Boston. Mr. Leonard Y. Croft retires, and 

 the business will be continued at the same places, under 

 the same firm style, by the remaining partners, Harry Graham 

 Wrightand William F. Methuen. The American business will 

 be carried on by Mr. A. Heathcock, who has been in the em- 

 ployment of the firm for some years past. 



RUBBER PLANTING ITEMS. 



Dr. A. L. House, for five years past a practicing physician 

 at Watetbury, Connecticut, has gone to Mexico, to engage in 

 rubber and coffee planting. He will also act as physician and 

 surgeon for the plantations of the Mexican Coffee and Rubber 

 Co., the Ubero Plantation Co. of Boston, and the Isthmus Rub- 

 ber Co. 



= Moses Thatcher, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and a party of 

 Chicago business men are visiting a plantation in the state of 

 Oaxaca, Mexico, with a view to acquiring it for the cultivation 

 of India-rubber and sugar. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



The Standard Rubber Shoe Co. (Chicago), December 23, 

 under Illinois laws, to deal in rubber goods ; capital $25,000 

 Incorporators: Walde F. Tobey, Gail Dray, George C. Mad- 

 dison. Some details regarding this company were published 

 last month [page 122.] 



=T. S. Buck Manufacturing Co., December 22, under New 

 Jersey laws, to continue the rubber stamp manufacturing busi- 

 ness of T. S. Buck, New York ; capital $100,000. Incorporators : 

 John H. Young, George W. Landon, Frank L. Buck. 



= The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), as a West Virginia 

 corporation, with $1,500,000 capital, have qualified to do busi- 

 ness in Ohio, paying to the secretary of state fees amounting to 

 $1500. 



=The Methuen Rubber Co., January 9, under Maine laws. 



