June i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER ^VORL^ 



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=James H. Mayell, doing business as Henry Mayell & Son, 

 dealer in rubber goods at Nos. 34-36 State street and No. 430 

 Broadway, Albany, New York — a long established house — 

 made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors on May 2 

 to William L. Widdemer. 



=:The E. B. Davidson Rubber Co., an incorporated jobbing 

 house at Cleveland, Ohio, was placed in the hands of a receiver 

 on May 2, the court appointing William Creech under a bond 

 for $20,000. It is stated that the assets are larger than the 

 liabilities, but that, on account of carrying too large a stock 

 for the amount of capital invested, and particularly on account 

 of the slow sale of their stock of mackintoshes, the company 

 was unable to meet its obligations. Some creditors began to 

 press their claims, and the appointment of a receiver was asked 

 for. The receiver is continuing the business, and it is hoped 

 that the company will be able to resume. 



=The Vulcanized Rubber Co. have been running their fac- 

 tory at Morrisville, Pa., three nights a week. 



= As a result of the " belated rubber shoe weather," men- 

 tioned in the last Indl-^ Rubber World, the shoe dealers of 

 Canton, Ohio — one of the towns visited by the snowstorm 

 late in April — did an unprecedented business for one day. 

 Some stores sold more rubber boots on April 20 than during 

 the whole of the season before. 



= W. C. John has resigned the positions of secretary and 

 treasurer of the New Jersey Rubber Co. (Lambertville, N. J.), 

 and been succeeded by Charles M. Dilts. 



= A movement is on foot to organize a company, with $250,- 

 000 capital, to exploit, for use on automobiles, the " Dread- 

 nought " puncture proof tire, an illustrated description of 

 which, as designed for bicycles, appeared in The India Rubber 

 World, December 10, 1897 [page 79.] Inducements are of- 

 fered for joining the preliminary organization of the company, 

 the matter being in the hands of John Acken, Nos. u-13 Wil- 

 liam street. New York. 



= The Thorndike Manufacturing Co. (Lowell, Mass.), elas- 

 tic web makers, has been acquired by Josiah Harriman, who 

 founded the business in 1870, after which it passed into the 

 hands of a corporation. Mr. Harriman is now sole owner of 

 four elastic web factories in Lowell. 



= An attempt is being made in New York to form a new com- 

 pany to exploit the "United States " pneumatic horse collar. 

 Two years ago the United States Pneumatic Horse Collar Co. 

 was organized for this purpose, with $1,000,000 capital, and favor- 

 able results were reported from the use of the collars by fire 

 departments, express companies, and other concerns using 

 many horses in heavy work, but the company disappeared from 

 public notice after a judgment for $5000 was issued against the 

 company last January, in favor of a Brooklyn creditor. The 

 collar is patented, and there are people who believe that it has 

 enough merit to justify the further investment of capital in it. 



= The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. have declared a 

 semi-annual dividend of $3 per share, payable June 15 to stock 

 of record June lo. Books will be closed from June 10 to 15, 

 inclusive. 



=:William Morse & Co., rubber jobbers, No. 72 Reade street. 

 New York, who were driven recently to seek new temporary 

 quarters by a fire at that location, which was reported in The 

 India Rubber World, have resumed business at the old 

 stand, which has been renovated so thoroughly as not only to 

 leave no trace of the fire, but the premises present a more at- 

 tractive appearance than before. Messrs. Morse & Co. are do- 

 ing an unusually large business in rubber footwear, besides fill- 

 ing large orders for the new weatherproof clothing made by 

 the American Rubber Co. 



=The American Tool and Machine Co. (Boston) have re- 

 moved their New York office from No. 41 Park row to the St. 

 Paul building. No. 220 Broadway. Mr. G. F. Kenney is in 

 charge, as heretofore. 



= Liberal subscriptions were made by New York business 

 men for the relief of sufferers from the disastrous fire at Jack- 

 sonville, Florida, early in the month. The published list of 

 subscribers included the names of the American Hard Rubber 

 Co., The Gutta-Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co., the 

 Vulcanized Rubber Co., and Charles R. Flint. 



= The establishment of a mechanical rubber goods factory 

 at La Crosse, Wisconsin, has been postponed for the present. 



= H. E. Fine, of Trenton, N. J., has been doing a very suc- 

 cessful business in connection with the rubber trade in the 

 manufacture of metal plates for hose and belting markers. 



= Mr. W. H. Adams, of Boston, for many years connected 

 with fire hose interests, has associated himself with the New 

 England agent of The Isthmus Rubber Co., and is doing excel- 

 lent work in marketing their stock. 



= C. M. Ammerman, who for some time past has been asso- 

 ciated with the crude rubber house of William Wright & Co. 

 (New York), takes charge of their New England interest, and 

 has opened an office at No. 620 Atlantic avenue, Boston. 



= A meeting of the jobbers of rubber boots and shoes in New 

 Brunswick was called for May 20, to consider matters con- 

 nected with the Rubber Boot and Shoe Jobbers' Association 

 of Canada, in connection with the association and to take up 

 the jobbers' interests generally. The question of sales of 

 American rubbers will be considered particularly. 



= According to John J. Kearns, of Akron, Ohio (interviewed 

 in the Akron Journa/), who is going to Australia for the Dun- 

 lop company, the latter will manufacture the Kelly-Springfield 

 carriage tire, having secured the rights for Australia. 



= In order to provide facilities for conducting its rapidly in- 

 creasing local businesss the B. F. Sturtevant Co. (Boston) has 

 just removed its Chicago office to much larger quarters at Nos. 

 281 289 South Clinton street. 



= Superintendent Palmer of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. 

 (Erie, Pa.) is making a marvelous record both as an organizer 

 and factory manager. The factory is turning out excellent 

 work, and is exceedingly busy. 



= An exceedingly neat bit of advertising is a paper weight 

 in the form of a diminutive horseshoe, nicely nickeled, but with 

 a rubber tread of the type that Whitman & Barnes Manufac- 

 turing Co. (Akron, Ohio) have made famous. It is a bit of 

 advertising that does not wear out, and which no one would 

 think of throwing away. 



= R. H. Greene has resigned his position as vice president 

 and managing director of The Maple Leaf Rubber Co., Limited 

 (Port Dalhousie, Ont.), to accept an important position with 

 the Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Toronto, 

 Limited, the change taking place June 1. 



= A four pair telephone cable manufactured by W. R. Brixey 

 (New York) was laid from Governor's Island to the New. York 

 barge office, on April 25. It was laid by the cable boat West- 

 ern Union 3.nA is owned by the government. 



=The New Century Rubber Co. (Philadelphia), first men- 

 tioned in the February issue of this paper, have nearly com- 

 pleted their factory at Burlington, New Jersey. They have 

 been installing machinery during the past month, and are now 

 about ready to begin the devulcanization of rubber. 



= The stockholders of the Narragansett Web Co. (Newport, 

 R. I.) have authorized the directors to consolidate with some 

 other concern, as it is felt that the small size of the plant 

 places it at a disadvantage in quoting prices for products. 



