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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



lAi'Kii. 1, 1911. 



and Superintendent Charles B. Whittlesey undertook the job. A 

 , live-ton Mack truck and a big Auto-ear truck were loaded for 

 the journey and led by Mr. Whittlesey, in a pilot car, started at 

 8 p. m. on the 127-inile run to New York. All that night, all 

 ntxt day and the next night, the heavy trucks plowed and 

 wallowed through the mud, four hours being consumed in 

 negotiating the roads of one town in New York State, but at 

 three o'clock on the second morning after leaving Hartford, the 

 ponderous vehicles arrived safely at their destination, covered 

 with mud, but with their freight in good shape and on time for 

 tilling the orders. 



THEODOBE HOFELLEB & CO. 



The co-partnership between Theodore Hofellcr ami Julius 

 Hofeller, doing business under the firm name of Theodore 

 Hofeller & Co., at BufiFalo, New York, as dealers in scrap rub- 

 ber, metals, etc., has been dissolved by nuitual consent. The 

 business will be continued by ThiTodore Hofeller and his son 

 Eugene D. Hofeller, at the present address, Nos. 206-226 Scott 

 street, and will be incorporated under the name of Theodore 

 Hofeller & Co. with a capital of $200,000. Theodore Hofeller 

 will be president and Eugene D. Hofeller, secretary and treas- 

 urer of the new company. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Charles C. Measure, for three years past branch manager 

 iH New York for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., has 

 gone to the factory at Akron and is succeeded by John B. 

 Maus. 



Byron C. Dowse, for the past Syi years president of the 

 G & J Tire Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana), resigned as head of 

 that corporation on March 10. As far back as 1899, when the 

 Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. acquired the Indianapolis 

 plant and marketed tires under the G & J patents, Mr. Dowse 

 had been actively connected with the concern, and prior to this, 

 for four years, he was selling representative of the GormuUy & 

 JefFery Manufacturing Co., Chicago. He acted for a number 

 of years as general representative of the company, and in 1894, 

 when the G & J Chicago branch was opened, he became its 

 manager, taking entire charge of the sales department for the 

 Middle West. In 1907 he was called to Indianapolis to assume 

 the presidency of the company. That his administration has 

 been a successful one is proved by the fact that during the 

 three years of his presidency the Indianapolis plant has more 

 than doubled in capacity, while during the same period the 

 sales of its product have increased upwards of 300 per cent. 

 Mr. Dowse takes with him, in his retirement, the sincere good 

 wishes of his former colleagues, while his many friends in the 

 trade will be pleased to hear of his success in any undertaking 

 into which he may, in future, enter. 



Roy L. Dorr, after ten years' service with the United States 

 Rubber Co. (New York), has resigned to become New York 

 representative of Fairbanks & Dorr, woolen manufacturers, who 

 have a very large and prosperous plant in Newport, N. H. In 

 1901, Mr. Dorr joined the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., as assistant 

 to the purchasing agent. Mr. Yeomans. Two years later, Mr. 

 Yeomans, having been in the meantime transferred to the New- 

 York office of the United States Rubber Co., Mr. Dorr became 

 purchasing agent for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., and retained 

 that position until 1908, when he was likewise transferred to 

 the New York office of the United States Rubber Co., where he 

 assumed charge of the rubber supply for the company's factories, 

 filling the duties of the position very satisfactorily. Mr. Dorr, 

 who is one of the most popular of the young men of late identi- 

 fied with the rubl)er trade, takes with him, to his new field, the 

 universal good wishes of his associates. 



C. J. Bailey, of C. J. Bailey & Co. (Boston, Massachusetts), 

 manufacturers, jobbers and retailers of rubber goods generally, 

 and originators of Bailey's famous rubber brushes, is making 

 an extended trip through the West Indies and Central America, 

 which will include Jamaica. Colombia and the Canal zone. 



UNITED STATES BUBBEB CO.'S ISSUES. 



Tra.\s.\ctions on the New York Stock Exchange for five 

 weeks ending. March 25: 



Common Stock, $25,000,000. 

 [The treasury of a subsidiary company holds $1,334,000.] 

 Last Dividend, April 30. 1900 -I'/r. 

 Week February 25 Sales 16.594 shares High 46 Low 43 

 Week March 4 Sales 53,430 shares High 47^8 Low 39 

 Week March 11 Sales 1.825 shares High 42 Low 39% 

 Week March 18 Sales 13.750 shares High 43^ Low 41 

 Week March 25 Sales 13,550 shares High AA'/z Low 42 



For llje year — High. 47''^. March 1; Low, 36, Jan. 6. 

 Last year — High, 52'/^; Low, 27. 



FiKST Pkeferred Stock. $39,824,400. 

 Last Dividend. January 31. 1911— 2<;^. 

 Week I'ebruarv 25 Sales 2,540 shares High 113^ Low 112 

 Week March ' 4 Sales 1,710 shares High 114!^ Low 112 

 Week March 11 Sales 200 shares High 112 Low 112 

 Week March 18 Saks 1,100 shares High 113 Low 112 

 Week March 25 Sales 220 shares High 113 Low 112^ 



For the year—High. 114"4. March 1; Low, 109"^, Jan. 18. 



Last year— High. 116^^; Low. 99. 



Second PREraRRED Stock, $9,965,000. 

 Last Dividend. January 31, 1911 — l}49c. 

 Week February 25 Sales 2,400 shares High 78 Low 76% 

 Week March 4 Sales 1,350 shares High 79 Low 77 



Week March 11 Sales shares High .. Low .. 



Week March 18 Sales 400 shares High 77 Low 77 

 Week March 25 Sales 100 shares High . . Low 



For the year — High. 79. March !: Low, 721/3, Jan. 31. 



Last year — High, 84; Low, 59 J4. 



Six Per Cent. Trust Gold Bonds, $19,000,000. 

 Outstanding of the 1908 issue of $20,000,000. 

 Week February 25 Sales 90 bonds High 1033^ Low 103'/< 

 Week March ' 4 Sales 50 bonds High 103?., Low 103M 

 Week March 11 Sales 42 bonds High 1037s Low 103>/4 

 Week March 18 Sales 42 bonds High 10334 Low 103-5^ 

 Week March 25 Sales 52 bonds High 103fi Low 103^ 



For the year — High, 104, Feb. 11; Low, 103, Jan. 7. 



Last year — High, 104 H; Low, 101 J^. 



■ NEW DISTRIBUTING POINTS FOB riEESTONE TIEES. 



In order to make Firestone tires and demountable rims im- 

 mediately available to motorists everywhere, the Firestone Tire 

 & Rubber Co. (.Akron) has increased its number of wholesale 

 distributing stations considerably of late. A new direct factory 

 branch will be opened in Omaha, Nebraska, March 1, at No 

 2127 Farnam street in charge of George M. Martin. Following 

 are the more recently established distributing agencies : Grand 

 Rapids Vulcanizing Co., No. 165 North Division street. Grand 

 Rapids, Michigan ; Chattanooga Rubber Tire Works, No. 808 

 Broad street, Chattanooga, Tennessee ; The Rubber Shop, No. 6 

 Branford place, Newark, New Jersey. 



TEADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), have re- 

 cently coiTipleted some extensive additions to their manufacturing 

 plant. This will enable them to add 1,500 employes to their 

 working force. 



George A. .-Mden & Co. (Boston, Massachusetts), will exhibit 

 at the International Rubber Exhibition in London, in June, a 

 full line of manufactured samples to show the great worth of 

 their M R product to rubber maimfacturers. Mr. George Wat- 

 kinson, their representative on M R has already left for London 

 to arrange for the exhibit. 



President H. T. Dunn, of the Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee, 

 Massachusetts), has recently returned from a tour of inspection 

 of the company's various branches, that took him clear across to 

 the Pacific coast and as far south as .'\tlanta, Georgia, and New 

 Orleans, Louisiana, in which latter city the company lias recently 

 established a new branch. 



The employes of tlic Walpole Rubber Works. W;ilpoIc, Mass., 

 lield an assembly on March 17, at which about 200 couples were 

 present. John C. McGuane had charge of the floor, and the par- 

 ticipants were enthusiastic over tlie success of the affair. 



The Converse Rubber Shoe Co. (Maiden, Massachusetts), has 

 settled with the thirteen companies with which it had insured 

 the portion of ils factory recently destroyed by fire, for $195,000. 



