November i, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE GOODRICH NEW YORK HEADdUARTERS. 



One of the most admirably equipped buildings in existence for 

 the handling of rubber goods, and especially automobile tires, 

 has lately been completed and occupied by The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co. of New York, at Nos. 1780-1782 Broadway. The structure, 

 erected for and owned by the company, is a notable addition to 

 the business buildings of that neighborhood. The location is on 

 Broadway, near the corner of Fifty-seventh street, and includes 

 an ell of nearly equal extent at Nos. 225-227 West Fifty-seventh 

 street. The illustration here shows the Broadway front in the 

 foreground, as well as the Fifty-seventh street extension. The 

 building includes twelve floors and the basement. Provision is 



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made for the storage of tires in great number, for salesrooms, 

 for the receiving and shipping of goods, for the entertainment 

 of customers, for tire repairs, and for the Goodrich mechanical 

 rubber goods and other products of their Akron factory, and 

 of course offices for the manager and salesmen and employes 

 generally. The exterior of the building is white and green 

 marble, with bronze capitals and decorations for the first two 

 stories. Above this the material is pressed brick, with white 

 stone trimmings. Mr. W. H. Yule is the general manager, with 

 Mr. H. C. Miller in charge of the automobile tire department. 



SUIT REGARDING RUBBER HEELS. 



The Foster Rubber Co. (Boston) have filed suits against va- 

 rious parties, to test the validity of their patent No. 846.387 

 covering the manufacture of a rubber heel with a friction plug. 

 The following companies are licensed to manufacture plug heels 

 under this patent: Morgan & Wright, F. W. Whitcher Co., B. & 

 R. Rubber Co.. and Elastic Tip Co. Notice is given that any 

 other companies making similar goods will be proceeded against 

 in an action for infringement. 



RUBBER GOODS ON THE PACIFIC COAST, 



Dealers in rubber goods at Spokane. Washington, held a meet- 

 ing recently at the offices of the Washington Rubber Co.. when it 

 was agreed to charge higher prices for articles of good quality 

 rather than substitute cheaper grades at the old prices. An 

 agreement was reached as to advances to be made on automobile 

 tires, rubber footwear, surgical goods, mechanicals, and so on. 

 Mr. W. C. Smith, of the Washington Rubber Co.. who presided 

 at the meeting, made an address on the causes of the present 

 comparative scarcity of crude rubber and the consequent in- 

 crease in prices. In addition to the growing automobile tire 

 industry, Mr. Smith mentioned the large requirements of rub- 

 ber for fire department use, a demand which is constantly grow- 

 ing. He also pointed Co the increase in the export of American 



rubber goods of 38 per cent, within five years. Mr. Smith said : 

 "In the absence of a rubber combine, the situation looms as one 

 of the natural courses of events and no plausible promise of 

 relief can be given by the big buyers and manufacturers, wdio are 

 all entered independently in the fight for options on the supply 

 for years ahead." 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.'S ISSUES. 



Transai RONS on the Xew York Stock Exchange for four 

 weeks, ending October 23: 



Common Stock, $25,000,000. 



Week October 2 Sales 9,500 shares High 54% Low 53^ 



Week October 9 Sales 13,900 shares High 53 Low 49 



Week October 16 Sales 7,550 shares High 49^ Low 46 



Week October 2s Sales 2,820 shares High 49^4 Low 46 



For the year — High, 57 %, Aug. 19; Low, 27, Feb. 24. 

 Last year — High, ;rJi; Low, 17J4. 



First Preferred Stock, $36,263,000. 



Week October 2 Sales 3,100 shares High 122 Low 121 



Week October 9 Sales 1,600 shares High 121J4J Low 121 



Week October 16 Sales 1,500 shares High 121^ Low H9J4 



Week October 23 Sales 1,100 shares High II9/4 Low 118 



For the year — High, 123^, Aug. 24; Low, 98, Jan. 29. 

 Last year — High, 10S; Low, 76. 



Second Preferred Stock, $9,965,000. 



Week October 2 Sales 1,010 shares High 88^ Low 8754 



Week October 9 Sales 500 shares High 88 Low 87 



Week October 16 Sales 650 shares High 86V2 Low 84J4 



Week October 23 Sales 600 shares High 85 Low 83J4 



For the year — High, 89H. Aug. 23; Low, 67^, Feb. 25. 

 Last year — High. 75M; Low, 42. 



Six Per Cent. Certificates, $20,000,000. 



Week October 2 Sales 164 certs. High 105^ Low 104J4 



Week October 9 Sales 46 certs. High 105^ Low 105 



Week October 16 Sales 70 certs. High 10534 Low 10434. 



Week October 23 Sales 62 certs. High 105J4 Low 1045&I 



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 The directors of the United States Rubber Co., on October 7, 

 declared from net profits the regular quarterly dividends of 2- 

 per cent, on the First preferred and i l / 2 per cent, on the Second: 

 preferred shares, payable on and after October 30. The dis- 

 bursement covered $218,708.75. 



suits for personal injuries. 



In the suit for personal damages of Lola Pierce 7'. American 

 Hard Rubber Co., at Akron, Ohio, a jury awarded the plaintiff 

 $i2,oco. The injury which was the basis of the suit was alleged 

 to have been caused by a hard rubber ball which was being 

 finished in the buffing room striking her in the eye. 



In the case of Hamilton v. Boston Rubber Shoe Co., tried in 

 the superior civil court at Lowell, Massachusetts, the jury re- 

 turned a verdict of $2,100 for the plaintiff, who alleged a serious 

 injury to one hand, due to negligence on the part of his em- 

 ployers. 



EBERHARD FABER— "FAST AND PRESENT." 



The firm Eberhard Faber. in connection with the Hudson- 

 Iulton celebration, distributed to their customers compli- 

 mentary copies of ■'Palmer's Views of New York, Past and 

 Present." supplemented with views at different dates of their 

 own plant, at which are now employed 1.000 hands, making 

 lead pencils, penholders and rubber bands and erasers. The 

 pictures of the "past" go back to the time when the present 

 site of The India Rubber World — a fifteen-story building on 

 crowded Broadway — was a region of little farms, with Dutch 

 windmills. This same site, by the way, is part of a six-acre 

 tract which, when offered as a gift to Trinity Church Cor- 

 poration, about [806, was respectfully declined, as "not worth 

 enough to put a fence about." The growth of the firm of 

 Eberhard Faber. the first lead pencil makers in America, 

 doubtless was helped by the fact that it never had a fence 

 put about it. 



