March 



1902.] 



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= The Stein Double Cushion Tire Co., whose projected fac- 

 tory at Akron. Ohio, has been referred to in these columns, are 

 understood to have be;n prevented by the severe weather from 

 pushing work on the new buildings as rapidly as was planned, 

 but they hope to be at work by May i. 



= Colton Fulton, of Trenton, New Jersey, sued the Grieb 

 Rubber Co., of that city, for $25,000 damages, for the loss of 

 both hands while at work in their factory, and on February i, 

 a jury awarded him a verdict of $6500. Fulton alleged that a 

 shock from an improperly placed electric wire caused him to 

 fall into a machine. The defense introduced electricians to 

 prove that no fault should be found with the wires. 



= The Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. of 

 Toronto, Limited, have appealed from the verdict for $2000 

 awarded to Hugh McCaughertes, for injuries received in their 

 factory, the details of which appesred in The India Rubber 

 World for December, 



= An attractive little pocket mirror with a celluloid back, on 

 which is printed in color a fine cut of a varied assortment of 

 mechanical rubber goods, is used by B. C. Tillinghast, No. 242 

 Market stieet, Philadelphia, to advertise his business. 



= Fred. J. Rowell, formerly overseer in the United States 

 Rubber Co.'s wool boot department at Woonsocket, R. I., has 

 become overseer of spinning at the Rockfall Woolen Co.'s mill, 

 Middletown, Conn. 



=The annual ladies' night of the Framingham board of 

 trade occurred on February 19, the entertainment being given 

 at the factory of the Rubber Soled Leather Shoe Co., at South 

 Framingham, Mass. The program included an examination 

 of the company's machinery and processes, informal reception, 

 addresses, lunches, and dancing. 



= A dispatch from Lima, Peru, reports the arrest there of a 

 Swiss-American accused under the name of Hermann Schnei- 

 der and other names of negotiating forged drafts in Mexico and 

 South America. His valise contained bills purporting to be 

 drawn by important New York commercial houses on the 

 Rothschilds, of London, and indorsed by the " Ne« York 

 Mahogany and Rubber Co." 



=The Cleveland Rubber Works have sent out a very neat 

 little pocket calendar, with much valuable information on it, 

 and some very modest suggestions concerning their druggists' 

 sundries business. A pretty piece of printing on the calendar 

 is a diminutive water bottle in gold that adorns the first page. 



= Robert B. Baird, dealer in crude rubber and rubber manu- 

 facturers' supplies, has removed his New York office from No. 

 253 Broadway to No. 38 Murray street, to date from March i. 



=The New York office of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 

 formerly at No. 142 Duane street, has been consolidated with 

 the general offices of the United States Rubber Co., Nos. 9-15 

 Murray street. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. W. R. Bki.xey, the insulated wire and cable manufac- 

 turer, was among those who were severely injured by the recent 

 dynamite explosion in the New York subway. He was a resi- 

 dent at the time of the Murray Hill Hotel, in front of which 

 the explosion occurred. At the latest accounts a hope was en- 

 tertained of Mr. Brixey's recovery. 



= Mr. Fred. C. Hood, treasurer of the Hood Rubber Co. 

 (Boston), has been quite ill with diphtheria, but is now wholly 

 recovered and back at his desk. 



= Mr. Raymond B. Price, factory manager of the Calumet 

 Tire Rubber Co. (Chicago), is taking a mid-winter vacation in 

 Mexico. 



=Mr. H. C. Burton, of Parker, Stearns & Sutton (New York), 

 after some weeks of rest, during which he made a visit to Eu- 



rope, is back at his office very much improved in health, a fact 

 that greatly rejoices his friends in the rubber trade. 



»Mr. Edward IL Garcin, vice president of the Trenton Rub- 

 ber Manufacturing Co., was married on February 4 to Miss 

 Elizabeth Bratton, at Edgewater Park, New Jersey. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Garcin will make their home at " Shorelands," their beau- 

 tiful country place in Edgewater Park, on their return from the 

 bridal trip. 



•cOn leaving Akron, Mr. H. C. Corson, lately vice president 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co., took with him as an evidence of the 

 regard of those associated with him in the offices of the com- 

 pany, a very handsome loving cup. It was presented on the day 

 of his formal retirement from the company. 



= Colonel George T. Perkins, president of the B. F. Good- 

 rich Co. (Akron, Ohio), has given to the Union Charity Asso- 

 ciation of Akron $7500, toward the erection of a home in 

 which children of the poor will be taught sewing, cooking and 

 the simpler branches of household work, such as boys and 

 girls can do. There will be reading rooms, gymnasium, swim- 

 ming pool, etc., for the hours of recreation. The building 

 will be named Grace Charities, in memory of Colonel Perkins' 

 daughter. The Union Charity Association has been carrying 

 on this work for two years, but has had no home for it. 



= Mr. Charles R. Flmt has resigned the presidency of the 

 American Ordnance Co., the controlling interest in which has 

 been purchased by what is known as the Hoadley-Cramp syn- 

 dicate. Joseph H. Hoadley has been elected president, and 

 plans are said to be forming for a consolidation of interests in 

 ordnance manufacture, with $15,000,000 capital. 



= Mr. Edward H. Gorse, treasurer of the Monarch Rubber Co. 

 (St. Louis), was a recent visitor at the offices of The India 

 Rubber World. 



= Mrs. Helen Allen Wright, widow of the late Rufus Wright, 

 of Morgan & Wright (Chicago), whose death occurred a year 

 and a half ago, died in Chicago on February 16 She had been 

 an invalid for many years. Funeral services were held at her 

 early home in Akron, Ohio, February 19, and the remains were 

 nterred in Glendale cemetery there beside those of her hus- 

 band. A large party of Chicago friends attended the funeral 

 ervices in Akron. Mrs. Wright was a daughter of the late 

 Jacob Allen, a wealthy pioneer manufacturer of Akron. 



RUBBER GOODS MANUFACTURING CO. 

 The annual meeting this year, instead of being held in Feb- 

 ruary as formerly, will be held on the second Thursday in 

 April.==The following is a record of trading in the company's 

 shares on the New York Stock Exchange : 



THE GLUCOSE STARCH TRUST. 

 The new company which is to take over the controlling in- 

 terest in the Glucose Sugar Refining Co., the National Starch 

 Co., the Charles Pope Glucose Manufacturing Co. and the Illi- 

 nois Sugar Refining Co., as well as a little less than a majority 

 of the stock of the New York Glucose Co., will be known as the 

 Corn Products Co. Arrangements have been made to have 

 the new company incorporated at Trenton, with an authorized 

 capitalization of $50,000,000 common stock and $30,000,000 7 

 per cent, cumulative preferred stock. The underwriting is in 



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