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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[ November i, 1909. 



RUBBER FOOTWEAR TRADE IN CANADA. 



Prices of rubber footwear in the Dominion have been ad- 

 vanced a) about the same rate as in the United States. The 



dian Shoe and Leather Journal comments: "The feeling 

 prevails that with the manufacturing season at its height and the 



equent demand for supplies larger than at any other time 

 of the year, there will lie no disposition to relax, but the con- 

 trary tendency will rather prevail. In the meantime fall or. lei, 

 are being filled and dealers who failed to anticipate their full 



irements will have to pay for their shortsightedness. A good 

 snow flurry this month would pretty well clean up stocks of the 

 lighter grades and a good stiff fall would pretty well exhaust the 

 goods ordered by dealers who depend, as a rule, upon supple- 

 menting their requirements about November or December. The 

 increasi d cost of raw rubber seems to be the natural result of the 

 demand largely exceeding the supplj 



RUBBER MILLS DISMANTLED. 

 The rubber machinery in the factory of the Para Recovery 

 Co. (Bayonne, New Jersey), has been purchased and removed 

 by M. Norton & Co., dealers in second-hand machinery, at 

 Charlestown, Massachusetts. The Para Recovery Co. was in- 

 corporated .May 20, 1905; a receiver was appointed December 9, 

 1907; and the business was sold by the receiver February 11, 1908. 

 Norton & Co. have also acquired the machinery belonging to 

 tin- Lake Shore Rubber Co. (Erie, Pennsylvania), which com- 

 pany was liquidated recently through a receiver. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Bridi.e Web Tire Co., licensed to open books of subscription 

 to the capital stock August 16, 1909, under the laws of Illinois ; 

 capital proposed, $2,500. Incorporators: F. H. Drury, S. Lewis, 

 and E. II. Clegg. Location, No. 2962 Prairie avenue. Chicago. 



Commercial Rubber Co., August 31. 1009, under the laws of 

 Illinois; capital, $25,000. Incorporators: William Holmes, E. J. 

 McGinnis, and Frank H. McCoy. Principal office, No. 5614 La 

 Salle street, Chicago. 



Continental Rubber Works, licensed to open books of sub- 

 scription to the capital stock August 5, 1909, under the laws of 

 Illinois; capital proposed, $1,000. License issued to Fred A. 

 Bangs, No. 522 First National Bank building, Chicago. 



MR. WADBROOK HONORED. 



Mr. Elston E. Wadbrouk, on taking leave of Boston to assume 

 his new position with Poel & Arnold, in New York — which 

 change was mentioned in these pages last month — was the re- 

 cipient of many honors. Among them was a dinner tendered 

 h\ a Masonic lodge of which he was a member; various club 

 luncheons; and a dinner by the Victorian Club, of which he 

 was the former president, where a beautifully inscribed testi- 

 monial was presented to him. He was elected an honorary mem- 

 ber of the club. 



CANTELLA GUM. 



A new product that is now being put upon the market is known 

 as Cantella gum. It is said to be especially valuable as a sub- 

 Stitute for chicle in chewing gum, and can be used in a great 

 variety of rubber compounds where plasticity and adhesiveness 

 are required. The gum is white in color, free from moisture, 

 and thoroughly clean; indeed, it is ready for use in rubber com- 

 pounds as shipped. The new product is marketed by William II. 

 Scheel, No. 159 Maiden lane. New York. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 

 \MONG recent visitors to the United States was the head 

 of the German colonial service, Herr Bernhard Dernburg, 

 who came to study American methods of growing cotton. 

 lie was quoted as saying that the production of cotton, in 

 German West Africa, particularly in Togo, had grown from 

 165.000 bales in 1906 to 285,000 bales [ast year. Me expressed 

 the belief that cotton growing in the German colonies will 

 be developed until Germany will no longer find it necessary 

 to import cotton from the United Slates 



Mr. J. Austin Pharaoh, of Worcester, Massa< imsetts, who 



for several years, beginning in 1901, was engaged in exploit- 

 ing rubber in Peru and Bolivia, being at different times gen- 

 eral manager for the Bolivian Rubber Co. and the Inambari 

 Para-Rubber Estati Limited, is mentioned is the president 

 of the Santo Domingo Mining Co., with Boston headquar- 

 ters and silver mines in Mexico reported to be very extensive. 



Mr. James C. Harvey, one of the best known rubber planters 

 in Mexico, both as proprietor of "La Buena Ventura" planta- 

 tion, in the state of Vera Cruz, and a recognized expert on 

 Castilloa rubber, was a most welcome visitor to The India 

 Rubber World offices during the month. 



Dr. John C. Willis, f. L. s., of the royal botanic gardens in 

 Ceylon, is on a visit to the United States. 



An important social event in Trenton, New Jersey, was the 

 wedding, on October 21, of Miss Emily M. Roebling, daugh- 

 ter of Mr. Charles G. Roebling, president of the John A. 

 Roebling's Sons Co., to Richard MeCall Cadwalader, of 

 Philadelphia, in Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church. 



Miss Mabel Catherine Gertrude Watson, daughter of Mr. 

 and Mrs. John Jay Watson, of Jamestown. Rhode Island, 

 was married on the evening of October 19 to Mr. Abbott 

 Allerton Chandler, of Hartford, Connecticut. The bride is 

 a sister of Mr. John Jay Watson. Jr., treasurer of the United 

 States Rubber Co., and president of the Rubber Goods Manu- 

 facturing Co. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Ohio Rubber Co. (Cleveland and Cincinnati") have filed 

 with the secretary of state of Ohio a certificate of increase of 

 their capital stock from $225,000 to $250,000. 



The newly incorporated Rubber Novelty Manufacturing Co., 

 at Ashland, Ohio [see The India Rubber World, October 1, 1909 

 — page 27], has been formed for the purpose of making rubber 

 toys. 



The Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Co.. in order to take 

 care of a heavy increase of their business, have been obliged to 

 double their boiler capacity and to make material increases in 

 machinery equipment in several departments, and the outlook 

 for trade with them is very promising. 



The B. & R. Rubber Co. (North Brook-field. Massachusetts) 

 on one day during the past month made shipments of 20 tons of 

 rubber heels, matting, and horseshoe pads. 



KoKOMO Moioi; C\ . I E TlRE. 



[This is a new rubber studded tread lire, with considerably mere rub- 

 ber in the tread than thi regulai typi of tire. In this tire four plys of 

 woven Sea Island cotton an used, with en.- extra ply in the 

 i,, id, Made he the Kokomo Rubber Co., Kokomoi Indiana.] 



In regard to the financial situation, Albert B, Beers (broker 

 in crude rubber anil commercial paper, No 68 William street. 

 Yew York), advises as follows: "During October the demand 

 for commercial paper has fallen off. as usual, at this season, 

 and rates are firm at about 5 1 ,/, per cent, for the best rubber 

 names, and 6 per cent, fi r those not so well known. This con- 

 dition is likely to continue for the balance of the year." 



