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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[JANU iRY I, I9IO. 



BOSTON BELTING CO.'S ANNUAL. 



At the annual muting of Boston Belting Co., on November 29, 

 in Wesleyan Hall, Boston, the annual reports were received 

 and approved. The directors were reelected: Thomas, A. For- 

 syth. J. 11 D Smith, Lewis M. Crane, Charles H. Moseley, 

 Francis H. Stevens, William II. Furber and George A. Miner. 

 Thomas A. Forsyth was reelected president; J. H. D. Smith, 

 treasurer and clerk; and Thomas Lang, Jr., and Charles J. Up- 

 ham, auditors. ["he usually quarterly dividend — No. 161 — has 

 been declared payable January 1, to shareholders of record De- 

 cember 15, [91 g The balance sheet as of September 30, 1909, 

 is appended : 



ASSETS. 



Real estate — land and buildings $254,281.85 



Machinery 250,702.48 



I furniture, and fixtures 97,661.80 



Cash 40,065.26 



Bonds Receivable, Notes Receivable. In- 

 vestment Account, Accounts Payable. 798,420.67 



Merchandise 911,366.04 



Trade marks 100.00 



Sundries 550.00 



$2,353,148.10 



LIABILITIES. 

 Capital $1,000,000.00 



Reserve fund 800,000.00 



Profit and loss 379,148.10 



Notes payable 174,000.00 



$2,353,148.10 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Monatiquot Rubber Works Co., October 21, 1909, under the 

 laws of Massachusetts ; capital $50,000. Incorporators : Robert 

 Jackson Cram, No. 14 Mount Vernon street, Boston ; Frank M. 

 Sawtelle, Maiden; and Atherton N. Hunt, Braintree, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Interborough Rubber Co., November 24, 1909, under the laws 

 of New Jersey; capital $50,000. Incorporators: Francis C. Low- 

 throp and Elwood W. Moore, Jr., of Trenton, and William N. 

 Cooper, of Burlington, New Jersey. This is a sales company 

 and it is stated that the business office probably will be in New 

 York. 



International Rubber Co., November 23, 1909, under the laws 

 of Delaware ; capital, $1,000,000. Incorporators : David A. Sul- 

 livan, C. J. Brooks, and Fred Burkhardt, all of Brooklyn, New 

 York. 



Monroe Spring Tire Co., November 22, 1909, under the laws 

 of New Jersey; capital, $100,000. Incorporators: Edwin T. Mon- 

 roe and Frederick G. Brown, Riverton, New Jersey, and Pres- 

 ton T. Rhodes, Philadelphia. 



I In E. H. Holstein Rubber Co., November 17, 1909, under the 

 laws of Connecticut; capital, $10,000. To deal in rubber goods. 

 Incorporators : Eva H. Holstein, Joseph S. Holstein, and Abraham 

 Kusnitshy, all of Hartford, Connecticut. 



Maitland Tire and Tube Co., December 10, 1909, under the 

 laws of Delaware; capital, $500,000. Incorporators: F. M. 

 Shive, S. E. Roberson, and H. W. Davis, all of Wilmington, 

 I Vlaware. 



The Guatemala Rubber and Plantation Co., November 29, 1909, 

 under the laws of Maine; capital $500,000, of which $150,000 is 

 stated to be paid in. Incorporators: Lindley M. Webb (presi- 

 dent), Charles J. Nichols (treasurer), and George E. Height, 

 all of Portland, Maine. 



Essex Manufacturing Co., November 18, 1909, under the laws 

 of Maine; capital $100,000. To manufacture rubber heels and 

 arch supporters. Incorporators: Albert H. Peavey (president), 

 E. J. Burnham (clerk), and G. E. Burnham (treasurer, all of 

 Kittery, Maine. 



The Slip-Over Tire Co., October 11, 1909, under the laws of 

 Indiana; capital ,*3.ooo, of which $2,000 preferred. Directors: 

 John W. Fudge, Fred O. Gephart, and George M. Kocker. Place 

 of business, Marion, Indiana. 



West Borneo Rubber Co., December 2, igog, under the laws of 

 Illinois; capital $3,000. Directors: William B. Mey, William 

 Wyers, and Henry \Y. Huttmann, who also were the incorpora- 

 tors. Principal office, No. 172 Washington street, Chicago. 



Bartnett Automobile Tire Co., November 15, 1909, under the 

 laws of New York ; capital, $80,000. Incorporators : Frank A. 

 Bartnett, Patrick W. Bartnett, and Patrick J. Leahon, all of 

 New Rochelle, New York. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. announce additional dis- 

 tributing agencies for Firestone tires and demountable rims as 

 follows: Whitaker Tire and Rubber Co., Memphis, Tennessee; 

 Harris Tire Co., Savannah, Georgia, and Central Automobile Co., 

 Vancouver, British Columbia. 



So that room may be provided to build an addition to their 

 extracting plant, The Diamond Rubber Co. have petitioned the 

 council of the village of Kenmore, a suburban corporation south 

 of Akron, to vacate part of a street adjoining the plant. 



George A. Alden & Co., india-rubber merchants, who for so 

 many years maintained their offices and warehouses at No. 60 

 Chauncy street, have removed to the Merchants Building, Nos. 

 77-79 Summer street, where they have handsomely equipped 

 offices most conveniently arranged. 



The recent purchase by D. Lome McGibbon, president of the 

 Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., and his associates, of impor- 

 tant holdings in La Rose Consolidated Mines Co., in Canada, has 

 been followed by the election of Mr. McGibbon to the presidency 

 of the latter company. Among Mr. McGibbon's associates who 

 have joined the board of the mining company are several directors 

 in the rubber company. 



Mr. T. H. Peaty, of the Raw Products Co. (New York), 

 recently returned from Europe, having established new connec- 

 tions in London, Liverpool, Paris, Antwerp and Hamburg. The 

 Raw Products Co. distribute a general line of crude rubber. 



Mr. Paul Schindler, who is in charge of the Berlin, Germany, 

 office of the Hodgman Rubber Co., was in New York recently 

 and reported a steadily increasing demand in Germany for cer- 

 tain lines of rubber goods of American manufacture. 



The U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Works (New York) will be 

 represented in Boston from February 1 next by Mr. Ernest 

 Jacoby, who, for some nine years past, has been the Boston 

 representative of A. T. Morse & Co. 



The Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Co. have opened an 

 office in San Francisco, for the handling of their fire hose busi- 

 ness on the Pacific coast, under the management of Mr. W. A. 

 Daggett, with headquarters in the Postal Telegraph building. 



The Atlantic Rubber Co. (Hyde Park, Massachusetts) are 

 erecting a special fireproof building of cement stone for their 

 proofing department, which will greatly increase their present 

 capacity on this line of work. They have been greatly handi- 

 capped heretofore on account of limited space for this constantly 

 increasing business on custom proofing. 



Mr. Ephraim L. Corning, who was a recent visitor to his old 

 home in Boston, was long one of the larger shareholders in the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and a close friend of the late President 

 Converse. He was for many years a director of the Boston 

 company, and for a while a director in the United States Rubber 

 Co. Mr. Coming's father, the late H. K. Corning, was a rubber 

 importer in New York as early as 1850, and the Corning firm 

 at one time occupied a commanding position in this trade. Mr. 

 Corning for several years has resided at Geneva, Switzerland. 



The Revere Rubber Co. were incorporated under the laws of 

 Massachusetts, in 1883. The first board of directors embraced 

 the late Joseph Banigan, the founder of the Woonsocket Rubber 

 Co. ; Henry L. Hotchkiss, now president of the L. Candee & Co. ; 

 the late Hon. Elisha S. Converse, of the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co. ; the late George A. Alden, india-rubber merchant ; Franklin 

 W. Pitcher, now general manager of the Easthampton Rubber 

 Thread Co.; Henry Rogers, and Henry C. Morse. 



