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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1, 1913. 



Albert A. Ormsbee, 4i/< Silver street; Charles S. McCall, 19 

 Charles street ; George Greene, 42 Kilton street ; Henry G. Crapo, 

 8 Crapo street, and Frank E. Wellman, 38 East Walnut street — 

 all of Taunton, Massachusetts. Manufacturing and dealing in 

 rubber and leather heels, etc. 



Texas Guayule Co., Scpteml)er 19, 1913; under the laws of 

 New York- ; authorized capital, $10,000. Incorporators : Salvador 

 Madero, Ernest Madero — both of 115 Broadway, New York. 

 and Nathan A. Smyth, 60 Broadway, New York. 



Tire Buyers, Inc., August 9, 1913; under the laws of Maine; 

 authorized capital, $600,000. Incorporators: Henry Hudson, 

 James H. Hudson, Otis Martin, Frank Martin, A. W. Drake and 

 C. S. Bennett — all of Guilford, Maine. To buy, sell, import, 

 export, manufacture and generally deal in automobile tires, cas- 

 ings, tubes, etc. 



Unsinkable Bathing Boat Co., September 18. 1913 : under the 

 laws of New York; authorized capital, $50,000. Incorporators: 

 Margaret J. Johns, Thomas L. Zimmerman, Jr., and Arthur 

 Johns— all of 60 Wall street, New York. Manufacturers of un- 

 sinkable boats, rubber goods, etc. 



HUBBEH COMPANY DIVIDENDS. 



The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. paid on September 15 a 

 regular quarterly dividend of 1J4 per cent, on its preferred stock 

 and a 2 per cent, dividend on its common stock. Three months 

 ago its common dividend was 1 per cent, and six months ago it 

 was 6 per cent. 



The Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Ltd., has declared a 

 regular quarterly dividend of 1^ per cent, on its preferred and 

 of 1 per cent, on its common stocks, payable October 1 to stock- 

 holders of record on September 20. 



The Intercontinental Rubber Co. paid on September 30 a 

 regular quarterly dividend of l-)4 per cent, on its preferred stock 

 of September 20 record. 



The B. & R. Rubber Co. has declared a regular quarterly 

 dividend of Ij^ per cent, on its preferred stock and a dividend 

 of 2 per cent, on its common stock — payable October 1 to stock- 

 holders of record on September 22. 



CHANGE or NAME 



The corporation hitherto known as C. Roberts Rubber Co. 

 changed its name on September 20 last to Eberhard Faber Rub- 

 ber Co.. the officers of the company remaining the same as 

 heretofore. The business of the concern will continue in every 

 respect as formerly, with the one exception of the change of 

 name. 



FOREIGN TRADE OPPORTUNITIES. 



A resident of a Latin-.American country informs an American 

 consulate that he desires estimates, quoted in United States gold, 

 f. o. b. New York, covering machinery for a plant to manufacture 

 steel, aluminum and rubber horseshoes. He has a customer who 

 is prepared to pay cash as soon as the plant is in running order, 

 and will deposit the money with a bank or importing house in 

 advance, with the understanding that it is to be paid over when 

 the plant is completed. The number of the consular report 

 is 11,659. 



AMERICAN LAMPBLACK WANTED. 



An American consular report states that a well-known 

 firm abroad, dealing in crude drugs and chemicals, wishes 

 to get into connection with American producers of lamp- 

 black and gasblack, as well as of technical and pharmaceu- 

 tical specialties. Replies should be addressed to No. 11519, 

 Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



X.WIER W. Ob.vlski. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients; Rubber Country of the Amazon; 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



TWO POPULAR CRUDE RUBBER MEN. 



Mr. Xavier W. Obalski and Mr. Edward C. Sweeney, Jr., 

 whose photographs are here reproduced, represent De Lago- 

 tellerie, the French crude rubber house, in this country and 

 have offices at 24 and 26 Stone street. Mr. Xavier W. Obalski 



was born in Xan- 

 tcs, France, in 

 1880. He spent the 

 early part of his 

 life in Para and 

 -Manads, later com- 

 pleting his educa- 

 tion and military 

 service in France. 

 .After three years' 

 business training 

 in the service of 

 the De Lagotellerie 

 houses in Nantes 

 and London — his 

 father at that time 

 being one of its 

 heads — he came to 

 .America in 1906 

 and became asso- 

 ciated with Mr. C. 

 P. dos Santos, the 

 former agent for 

 Denis Crouan Fils, 

 who was the pre- 

 decessor to the present tirm of De Lagotellerie, of New York 

 and Paris. 



Mr. Edward C. Sweeney. Jr., was born in St. Pierre, Miquelon. 

 in 1883. He came to America in 1899 — after completing his 

 education in St. Pierre — and entered the service of the French 

 Telegraph & Cable 

 Co. in New York 

 — of which his 

 father is general 

 manager. In 1903 

 he entered the 

 service of the In- 

 ternational Bank- 

 ing Corporation, 

 an institution with 

 branches in the 

 Far East and Cen- 

 tral America. In 

 1910 Mr. Sweeney 

 started in the im- 

 porting and e.K- 

 porting business on 

 his own account, 

 later joining forces 

 with Mr. Obalski. 

 These gentlemen 

 are of most attrac- 

 t i V e personality 

 and very popular 

 with their asso- 

 ciates in the trade. 



A PNEUMATIC PLUG FOR PNEUMATIC TIRES. 



A great variety of repair appliances for pneumatic tire punc- 

 tures has been devised, but here is rather a new one, which comes 

 from the State of Washington. It consists of a plug with a 

 hollow base which is inserted through the puncture and then 

 inflated, so that it is bound to be an air tight fit no matter how 

 large the puncture is. 



Edw.\rd C. Swee.vev. Jr. 



