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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1910. 



THE B. F. SOCDRICH CD. IN BOSTON. 



i in new I le in Boston of the Goodrich company, on Boyl- 



ston street, in the heart of the automobile trade 111 that city, is 

 one of the best appointed to be found in the United States, and 

 vies in it- completeness with the New York establishment of the 

 same company. [See The India Rubber World, November 1, 

 1909— page 55.] This building was entirely remodelled for the 

 uses of the company, and although not entirely complete on Janu- 

 ary 1. Manager H. E. Limerick and his force took possession of 

 it on that date. The building is six stories in height and used 

 exclusively by the Goodrich Rubber Co.. under which name the 



dridh trade is managed in New England. The street floor 



is used as a general salesroom. The second floor is occupied by 

 the executive department. The other four floors are devoted to 

 carrying an extensive line of rubber goods, including, in addition 

 to tires and accessories, the other products of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co. (Akron, Ohio). The building is strikingly attractive from 

 the outside, while the interior is in keeping with Goodrich quality 

 and ability. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Raw Products Co. (No. 121 Front street, New York) send out 

 a comprehensive and useful chart of india-rubber stocks and 

 prices for the past year covering all the leading markets. 



A scribbling tablet, distributed by Mr. H. Weber. New York 

 representative of J. Schnurmann (London), both looks well on a 

 desk and is a convenient accessory. 



Enterprise Rubber Co. (Boston) issued under date of January 

 I a net price list of the brands of rubber footwear carried by 

 them, in convenient form for reference by retailers. 



Two arrests were made in Akron, Ohio, early in January, in 

 respect of alleged frauds in weighing waste rubber— one of a 

 dealer in such material and the other until recently an employe 

 of a reclaiming company who made purchases from this company. 

 Mr. H. T. Dunn, president of The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee 

 Falls. Massachusetts), recently returned from a business trip to 

 the west. While in San Francisco he gave a banquet to the dis- 

 tributors of Fisk tires on the Pacific coast. 



The directors of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. recently donated 

 $5,000 of the corporation's funds to the building fund of the 

 Young Men's Christian Association at Woonsocket, Rhode Island 

 The directors of the American Wringer Co. voted $2,000 for the 

 same purpose. These gifts are credited locally to the influence 

 of Mr. Walter S. Ballou, who is president of both the companies 

 named. 



The footwear factory of the Apsley Rubber Co. (Hudson, 

 Massachusetts) was closed for repairs and inventory for a fort 

 night at the end of January. The factory was closed for but one 

 day at the Christmas holidays, instead of ten days, as usual. 



George H. Rupert, doing business as George H. Rupert & Co., 

 dealers in rubber goods and clothes wringers, at Nos. 54-56 Corn 

 hill, Boston, has been declared a bankrupt upon a petition of his 

 creditors. 



The first importation of rubber by the Malaysian Rubber Co.. 

 with the exception of samples, reached New York on January 17. 

 by the steamer Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, from Bremen, at which 

 port it had been transhipped from a steamer from Singapore. 

 The shipment amounted to 15 cases, and was of the grade de 

 scribed on another page of this issue in the article "The New 

 'Dyera' Rubber." 



The United States Treasury Department has issued an order 

 relative to the classification of suspenders made of cotton or 

 other vegetable fiber and india-rubber, or of which cotton or 

 other vegetable fiber is the component of chief value, not em- 

 broidered by hand or machinery. It is advised that such sus- 

 pi nders are not dutiable at the rate of 60 per cent, ad valorem by 

 virtue of the first proviso to paragraph 349 of the Tariff act of 

 1909. but are property dutiable under paragraph 330 of this act, 

 at the rate of 45 per cent, ad valorem. 



The Goodrich Boston Store. 



[New Headquarters for Tiies in Boylston Stieet.] 



