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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I I >m i vi n -v i, 1909. 



Size. 1907. 1909. 



26x254 inches $15.60 $13.80 



32x3 inches _>6.io 20.35 



30x3^ inches 31.55 28.10 



28x3 inches 22 17.75 



34 x 4 inches 45.25 43.65 



36x5 inches 74.45 72.05 



This comparison is especially significant, in view of the fact 

 that the highest price for crude rubber when the 1907 prices 

 went into effect was $1.13. The low prices of tires to-day are 

 accounted for in part by the big cut made in September, 1908, 

 at the time rubber went to less than a dollar a pound. 



THE PRICE OF TIRES. 



Mr. A. J. Wills, assistant sales manager of The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co., informs your correspondent that no increase in the 

 price of automobile tires has been decided upon, but that if the 

 price of rubber stays up, the increase will undoubtedly come. 

 He looks for no substantial relief in the rubber market. Mr. 

 \V. B. Miller, secretary of The Diamond Rubber Co., says no 

 increase is contemplated, and Mr. H. S. Firestone, president of 

 the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., says he knows of no inten- 

 tion to raise prices within the next two months. 



A FEW NOTES. 



Natural gas, which is used by Akron manufacturers for fuel, 

 was secured for another ten years by a contract entered into 

 by the city and the East Ohio Gas Co. November 15. Thirty 

 cents a thousand feet is to be paid for five years and 35 cents 

 for the succeeding five years. The gas is piped from West 

 Virginia. 



Mr. S. E. Connor has been succeeded by Mr. M. S. Long as 

 secretary of the United Rubber Co., which absorbed the Aladdin 

 Rubber Co., of Barberton a few months ago. 



Mr. Joseph W. Kelley, a shareholder in The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., who retired as a department manager in that company two 

 years ago, moved with his family to Boston on November 23, 

 to make his home there. A large summer home, which he had 

 just completed at Framingham, Massachusetts, was destroyed 

 by fire early in November. Boston was Mr. Kelley's home when, 

 as a young man, some years ago, he entered the employ of the 

 Goodrich company. 



A verdict of $12,000 was returned in the present term of com- 

 mon pleas court here against the American Hard Rubber Co., as 

 a result of a damage suit brought by Lola Pierce, a shop em- 

 ploye for the company, who was struck in the eye with a flying 

 ball of polishing material in the Akron factory of the company 

 two years ago. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT TRENTON. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



'"THERE have been important developments in connection with 

 * the United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos. since 

 the election of Welling G. Sickel, former mayor of Trenton, as 

 president, and the retirement from the concern of Watson H. 

 Linburg and John S. Broughton. As related in the last number 

 of The India Rubber World, Mr. Sickel was elected president at 

 the meeting of the shareholders on October 11, succeeding Mr. 

 Linburg. At the same time Aubrey Love was chosen secretary 

 and treasurer, succeeding Mr. Broughton. Stephen B. Elkins, 

 United States senator from Virginia, and Martin Maloney, of 

 Philadelphia, were elected to the board of directors. 



On November 8 Messrs. Linburg and Broughton completed 

 negotiations which again placed them in control of the company. 

 With the aid of other Trenton capitalists they acquired the stock 

 held by Messrs. Sickel. Elkins, and Maloney. The consideration 

 has not been named, but it is said to have been $400 a share, 

 making the transaction, approximately, involve $500,000. Fol- 

 lowing the formal transfer of the stock Welling G. Sickel and 



Watson H. Linburg. 



[President United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos.] 



Senator Elkins presented their resignations as directors and as 

 president and vice president, respectively. The other Sickel di- 

 rectors also resigned. They were : Mrs. Welling G. Sickel, Mar- 

 tin Maloney, J. Harrington Sickel, and Welling Sickel Katzen- 

 bach. As soon as the resignations had been accepted Messrs. 

 Linburg and Broughton; William H. Brokaw, of the cracker firm 

 of Exton & Co. ; Karl G. Roebling, of the John A. Roebling's 

 Sons Co.; and Wilbur F. Sadler, Jr., adjutant general of the state 

 of New Jersey and president of the Broad Street National Bank, 

 were elected directors. The new board immediately organized 

 and elected Mr. Linburg president and Mr. Broughton secretary 

 and treasurer. The new board at once assumed control of the 

 plant. Karl G. Roebling is one of the heads of the Woven Steel 

 Hose and Rubber Co., with which Mr. Broughton is also con- 

 nected. It is worthy of note, also, that this is the second time an 

 adjutant general of New Jersey has been identified actively with 

 the United and Globe company, the first one having been the 

 late General Alexander C. Oliphant, of Trenton. 



John S. Broughton. 



[Secretary and Treasurer United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos.] 



