February i, 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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NEW JERSEY CORPORATIONS SUSPENDED. 



The governor of New Jersey in a proclamation dated January 

 4 announced the suspension from the list of corporations formed 

 under the laws of that State, on account of the non-payment of 

 corporation taxes for 1907, of 1,272 corporations. Included are 

 the following related to the rubber interest, but the most of 

 which had not been operated to an important extent, if at all. 

 Some of the other companies named have been reorganized and 

 now operate under other titles : 



Consumers' Tire and Rubber Co. ; incorporated February 24, 

 1906 ; capital, $200,000. 



DeVoll Tire Co.; incorporated August 6, 1906; capital, $250,000. 

 Charles H. DeVoll, principal incorporator. 



East Burlington Rubber Co., East Burlington ; incorporated 

 October 17, 1903; capital, $100,000. Formed to operate the plant 

 of the New Century Rubber Co., reclaimers, then in liquidation. 

 Financial troubles began in 1905 and the company ceased 

 operations. 



Farrier Hoof Pad Co., Trenton ; organized in the fall of 1902 

 to make a hoof pad patented by Albert E. Wheatcroft. A plant 

 was established in the works of a rubber company, but financial 

 troubles brought the business to an end. 



Grieb Rubber Co., Trenton; incorporated June 11, 1899; capital, 

 $100,000. Reorganization of the Grieb Rubber Co., not incor- 

 porated, which was formerly the Mundell Rubber Co., of Trenton. 

 Merged September 11, 1906, with the Ajax-Standard Rubber Co., 

 of New York, under the name Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., incor- 

 porated with $400,000 capital, and still in operation, now with 

 $i,ooc,ooo capital. 



Metropolitan Rubber Co., Trenton; incorporated April 21, 1906; 

 capital, $2,500. 



New York Broadway Rubber Tire Co. ; incorporated November 

 7, 1901 ; capital, $10,000. To distribute in the New York district 

 the tires of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Succeeded in 

 May, 1907, by Martin-Evans Co., a New York corporation, headed 

 by Delmar D. Martin, who was manager of the company first 

 named. 



Perfection Rubber Co. ; operated at one time a plant for molded 

 goods en Paul avenue, Trenton. 



Pneumatic Tire Shield Co.; incorporated February 27, 1906; 

 capital, $200,000. To make a protective shield of steel for tires. 



Riverside Rubber Co. The company was established at Belle- 

 ville, N. J., by James Ffardman, Jr., in 1878, and incorporated 

 in 1890. The business was reorganized and passed into the hands 

 of the Hardman Rubber Co., incorporated at the beginning 

 of 1901. 



Standard Rubber Co., Trenton ; incorporated September 2, 

 .905; capital, $50,000. To manufacture mechanical goods, but 

 engaged mainly in selling. A receiver was appointed early 

 in 1907. 



Standard Rubber Manufacturing and Supply Co., Trenton; in- 

 corporated in January, 1907 ; capital, $100,000. To succeed to the 

 business of the Standard Rubber Co., in the manufacture of 

 specialties. 



Victor Auto Tire Repair Co., Passaic; incorporated October 18, 

 1906; capital, $50,000. To make an "unpuncturable" felt tread 

 inner tube. Name changed in June, 1907, to Victor Auto Tire 

 and Tube Co. 



Watkinson Rubber Shoe Co., Trenton ; incorporated June 15, 

 1904, by George Watkinson ; capital, $50,000. Manufacturing 

 arrangements were made with a mechanical rubber factory, 

 but Mr. Watkinson later entered another branch of the rubber 

 business. 



The list includes also a number of companies whose titles in- 

 dicate that they were designed to operate in the automobile 

 field, but none of them have made an impression in that trade. 



CALENDARS FOR 1910. 



The Western Rubber Co. (Goshen, Indiana), have favored 

 their patrons with an artistic calendar which carries a reproduc- 

 tion by color photography (ii"xi6") from an original painting 

 by Jean Beauduin, "At the Close of Day." It will be a fitting 

 ornament for any office. 



The Rubber Products Co. ( iJarbcrton, Ohio"), have chosen lor 

 the ornamentation of their 1910 calendar a reproduction (loyi" 

 x 16") of Philip Boileau's painting "At the Play," showing two 

 sisters seated in a theater box. 



J. H. Stedman & Co., Inc. (Boston), for the fourth year, orna- 



ment their calendar with a picture of the "old mill series," all 

 being different. For this year the picture is the "Old Grist Mill." 

 at Byfield, Massachusetts. 



The Stockton Rubber Co. (Stockton, New Jersey), send out 

 a useful calendar with a tear-off leaf for each month, the fig- 

 ures being unusually large. 



The S. P. Wetherill Co. (Philadelphia), issue a calendar and 

 memorandum pad, in which there is a leaflet for each week. 



Arkay Rubber Co. (New York), distribute a tasteful con- 

 venient size desk calendar ornamented with the face of a woman. 



The New Jersey Rubber Co. (Lambertville, New Jersey), are 

 again sending out "The Handy" memorandum desk calendar. 



John Royle & Sons (Paterson, New Jersey), are distributing 

 their vest pocket diary and memorandum book, with sectional 

 maps of the United States and Canada, Central and South 

 America, and China and Japan, with useful tables for reference. 



Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Co. (New York), distribute 

 a large and handsome calendar, with illustrations of their prod- 

 ucts and a tear-off leaf for each month. 



Boston Belting Co. (Boston), send a handsome and convenient 

 leather bound desk calendar with one card for each month, of a 

 style with which their friends have been familiar for many 

 years. 



The artistic feature of the 1910 calendar of The Adamson 

 Machine Co. (Akron, Ohio), is a reproduction (ii"xis") of 

 Thomas Moran's landscape, "The Edge of the Wood." 



Lebanon Mill Co., makers of knitted fabrics and underwear 

 (Pawtucket, Rhode Island), send out a "happiness and pros- 

 perity" calendar embellished with a pleasing feminine portrait 

 in water colors. 



The Stamford Rubber Supply Co. (Stamford, Connecticut), 

 again remember their friends with a serviceable calendar for 

 the year with a tear-off leaf for every day with unusually large 

 figures. 



The Dunlop Rubber Co., of Australia, Limited, send out from 

 Melbourne one of the most attractive calendars of the season. 

 It is on a large scale, embellished with an attractive feminine 

 face, and among other points of distinctiveness may be men- 

 tioned the dark brown paper used. 



The Indiana Rubber and Insulated Wire Co. (Jonesboro, In- 

 diana,) send out one of the largest calendars yet received. The 

 tear-off leaf for each month is 15 x 20 inches, permitting the 

 use of large figures. The illustration is a fanciful rubber forest 

 scene on the Amazon River. 



Elmer E. Bast, dealer in mechanical rubber goods. No. 161 

 East Lake street, Chicago, distributes a tasteful little calendar 

 in which is a picture entitled "In Old Kentucky." from a painting 

 by Carl Kahler, showing a Kentucky thoroughbred trotting up 

 at the call of his mistress. 



One of the handsomest calendars for the new year and one 

 appropriate particularly for an engineering office is a large one 

 issued by Hazard Manufacturing Co. (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- 

 vania), manufacturers of insulated wire and wire rope. 



"The Firestone Trio" is the title of a handsome art panel 

 calendar which is being sent to the trade by the Firestone Tire 

 and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio"). It is 16V2 x 34V2 inches in size. 

 lithographed in twelve colors and has a large calendar pad. 

 making it especially suitable for garage, sales room and office 

 use. 



TO SELL '■DIAMOND" FOOTWEAR. 



Mr. E. H. Cutler, who has been appointed selling agent for 

 the footwear production of The Diamond Rubber Co. ( Akron, 

 Ohio), is one of the most experienced and most widely known 

 salesman of rubber footwear in the country. The Diamond 

 Rubber Co. will make two grades, the first branded with the name 

 of the company, and the second "Python Rubber Co." The 

 Diamond rubber shoe factory is referred to as having a capacity 

 of 20,000 pairs daily. 



