February i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



157 



=The Kelly-Springfield Rubber Tire Co. (Davenport, Iowa), 

 formerly licensees of the Consolidated Rubber Tire Co., and 

 later operating independently and marketing tires in disregard 

 of the Grant patent, have discontinued business. 



=It is stated that at a recent meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee of the United States Rubber Co., figures were shown, 

 estimating the volume of sales for the nine months ending 

 December 31 at nearly 25 per cent, more than for the same 

 period of 1930 — the increased trading more than offsetting the 

 lower prices which had prevailed since April i last. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Colonel S.\muel P. Colt, president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., is named among the proposed directors of the 

 Trust Co. of the Republic, now being organized in New York, 

 with $1,000,000 capital and $500,000 surplus. 



= Mr. Theodore E. Siudley, of the Goodyear Vulcanite Co., 

 has been elected one of the governors of the Arkwright Club, 

 one of the leading luncheon clubs down town in New York. 



= Mr. Andrew Carnegie is likely to win the regard of many 

 rubber workers and their families, by his offer of $70,000 to the 

 rubber manufacturing town of Akron, Ohio, for a public library 

 building. The town has voted $7000 a year for library main- 

 tenance, which is one of the conditions of the gift, besides pro- 

 viding a location. 



= Prominent rubber men who are now on their way across 

 the Atlantic to take the famous Mediterranean trip are George 

 F. Hodgman of New York, and H. C. Corson of Akron. Both 

 of these gentlemen were to be accompanied by their wives, and 

 be gone some months, but Mrs. Corson was not able to go, on 

 account of her health. 



= The prudential committee of the First Baptist church of 

 Akron, Ohio, in which Mr. Corson was an active worker, gave 

 a testimonial dinner on the evening of January 14, on the occa- 

 sion of his leaving Akron. Mr. Corson spoke at the dinner on 

 the subject of success in life, saying that willingness to work 

 and to respond quickly to every call of duty was the first factor 

 in winning success. 



= Recent visitors to Boston from Canada were S. H. C. 

 Miner, of the Granby Rubber Co., and J. J. McGill, of the 

 Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal. 



=The Editor of The IiiniA Rubber World is in receipt of 

 a beautiful New Year's card from Dr. Heinrich Traun, of Ham- 

 burg, — a pleasant reminder of one of Germany's foremost rub- 

 ber manufacturers. 



= Mr. William A. De Long, after devoting most of his life to 

 the crude rubber trade, has joined the ranks of the reformers. 

 That is, he has accepted a position under the new city admin- 

 istration in New York — that of deputy commissioner of the 

 department of water supply, gas, and electricity, for the 

 borough of Manhattan — the head of which office, J. Hampden 

 Dougherty, is an old personal friend of Mr. De Long. In 1855 

 Mr. De Long's business career began, in the West Indian 

 house of Josiah Jex, then importing India-rubber in New 

 York. Later he visited the rubber regions of Central America, 

 and then formed the house of William Jex & Co. (New York), 

 which went into litigation in 1886. This was succeeded by De 

 De Long, Mayer & Co., importers. In 1889 was organized the 

 rubber brokerage house of De Long, Betts & Co., on the disso- 

 lution of whicu Mr. De Long became connected with the New 

 York Commercial Co., from which he retired in 1900. 



REPUBLIC RUBBER CO. (YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.) 

 The plant of this new company, organized last summer as 

 the Mahoning Rubber Manufacturing Co., has been put in op- 

 eration, A view of the buildings is given in the company's 



advertisement, in another part of this paper. ^= At the annual 

 meeting at Youngstown, January 21, the following directors 

 were chosen : Henry K. Wick, John C.Wick, John Tod, C. H. 

 Booth, A. E. Adams, and M. I. Arms. The directors then 

 elected H. K. .Wick, president; C. H. Booth, vice president, 

 and John Tod, secretary and treasurer; and re-appointed J. 

 Edwin Davis acting manager and John S. McClurg, superin- 

 tendent. ==-The New York branch, in charge of Willis A. Dar- 

 ling, manager, has been established at No. 47 Warren street. 



RUBBER SHOE PRICES ADVANCED. 



The United States Rubber Co. announced a revision of lists 

 and discounts on January i, and corresponding changes have 

 been made by most of the independent rubber footwear com- 

 panies. The changes amount practically to an average advance 

 of 8 per cent, over last year's schedule, or about 5 per cent, if 

 the estimated volume of business in each line be taken as a 

 basis of comparison. The new discounts to retailers are — 



First quality (except Woonsocket and Meyer) 35@io@3 



Woonsocket and Meyer 35@io@5(a3 



Second quality (except Rhode Island) 35@io@io@3 



Rhode Island 35@ic(aiio@5@3 



Colonial brand 5C@io@3 



Boots have been advanced in list price from 25 to 60 cents 

 per pair. Shoes have in some cases been advanced somewhat, 

 the smallest raise being made on lines having the largest sale. 

 The following figures show the net cost to the retailer of short 

 boots, listed at $4.20 formerly, and now at $4.50, under the var- 

 ious discounts in force since 1900: 



April I, igoo $2.gg February i, 1901 $2.46 



November I, 1900 3.15 April i, 1901 2.33 



January 3, 1901 2.99 January i, 1902 2.50 



In addition to the advance in prices — which is announced to 

 be in effect until December i, 1902 — the companies are in a 

 position to profit from the decline in crude rubber prices, 

 which are treated in detail in other pages of this issue. 



THE DEMAND LARGE FOR OILCLOTH. 



IN view of the declared intention of the new combination in 

 the oilcloth industry in the United States to go into the 

 export trade, the extent of the exports of British oilcloth and 

 linoleum trades may be of interest. In 1896 British exports of 

 such goods amounted to 23,419,000 square yards, of the value 

 of ^954,000. In 1900, they were 27,846,000 square yards of the 

 value of ^ 1,312,000. Exports'were made to France, Germany, 

 Holland, Belgium, Canada, Australasia, South Africa, Egypt, 

 Turkey, South America, and even the United States. Evi- 

 dently there is an important demand for these goods in coun- 

 tries not now manufacturing the same — a market which might 

 prove as accessible to manufacturers in the United States as to 

 those of Great Britain. 



German official statistics for the first nine months of 1901 

 give the following details regarding the trade in oil cloth : 



Imports. Exports. 



Plain oil cloth marks. 60,000 412,000 



Fancy oil cloth 650,000 i,H2,ooo 



Oil cloth fabric 56,000 5,000 



Goods of fancy oil cloth 553. 000 1,980,000 



Total marks. 1,319,000 3,509,000 



Equivalent, U. .S. money $ 313.922 I 835.142 



Imports of kamptulicon, linoleum, etc., for the same time 



amounted in value to 110,000 marks [=$26,180] and exports to 



I.S75.00O marks [=$374,850.] 



Reports from Para are that the rubber market was materi- 

 ally affected by the news of Crude Rubber Co.'s embarrassment 

 in New York. 



