July i, igio.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.'S ISSUES. 



Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange for five 

 weeks, ending June 25 : 



Common Stock, $25,000,000. 



[The treasury of a subsidiary company holds $1,344,000.] 

 Last Dividend, April 30, 1900 — 1%. 



Week May 28 Sales 1,800 shares High 42% Low 40*4 



Week June 4 Sales 8,750 shares High 41 Low 36 



Week June 11 Sales 4,100 shares High 39 Low 37 



Week June 18 Sales 200 shares High 38^2 Low 38*4 



Week June 25 Sales 5,340 shares High 4134 Low 40 

 For the year — High, 52H> Jan. 3; Low, 35, Feb. 7. 

 Last year — High, S7H> Low, 27. 



First Preferred Stock, $39,824,400. 



Last Dividend, April 30, 1910 — 2%. 



Week May 28 Sales 540 shares High II2 I 4 Low 112 



Week June 4 Sales 2,750 shares High 112 Low 107 



Week June 11 Sales 2,910 shares High lioJ-2 Low 107^6 



Week June 18 Sales 2,000 shares High 109^ Low I08J4 



Week June 25 Sales 500 shares High uoyi Low no 



For the year — High, 1 16 V2, Jan. 19; Low, 107, June 3. 



Last year — High, 123^; Low, 98. 



Second Preferred Stock, $9,965,000. 

 Last Dividend, April 30, 1910 — 1%%. 

 Week May 28 Sales .... shares High — Low — 



Week June 4 Sales 300 shares High 77 Low 76 



Week June 1 1 Sales 300 shares High 76 Low 7554 



Week June 18 Sales .... shares High — Low — 



Week June 25 Sales 500 shares High 77 Low 76 



For the year — High, 84, Jan. 3; Low, 75 %, June 6. 

 Last year — High, 89V2; Low, dyVz. 



Six Per Cent. Trust Gold Bonds, $19,500,000. 



Week May 28 Sales 71 bonds High 103 Low 102^6 



Week June 4 Sales 18 bonds High 102^ Low I02ji 



Week June 11 Sales 34 bonds High I02J4 Low 102 



Week June 18 Sales 34 bonds High 102J/2 Low I02J4 



Week June 25 Sales 64 bonds High 10234 Low 102^ 



For the year— High, 104K, Jan. 15; Low, 102, June 11. 

 Last year — High, 106; Low, 102^4. 



DETROIT'S $1,500,000 SHOW. 



The Detroit Industrial Exposition, organized under the 

 auspices of the Detroit Board of Commerce, opened on June 

 20 and is due to close on July 6. According to all reports the 

 exposition is a most creditable representation of the industries 

 and commerce of Detroit, and has been well supported by the 

 public. The formal opening of the exposition was accompanied 

 by the starting of all the machinery and the lighting of the 

 building by means of an electric signal given by President Taft in 

 Washington. The collection of exhibits in place, it is esti- 

 mated, exceeds $1,500,000 in value. 



DERBY RUBBER CO.— INCREASED FACTORY CAPACITY. 



The Derby Rubber Co. are enlarging their rubber reclaiming 

 plant at Shelton, Connecticut, having ordered mills sufficient to 

 more than double their capacity, and they are installing an addi- 

 tional boiler plant. Among other improvements is the erection 

 of a commodious office. The factory of late has been run 24 

 hours daily. Mr. J. W. Cary has been appointed factory manager 

 and is now in charge. He has been several years in the employ 

 of the Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Co. (Bayonne, New Jer- 

 sey), and latterly as assistant superintendent. 



BOSTON WOVEN HOSE CONVENTION. 



Fifteen of the office managers and traveling representatives 

 of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. assembled at Cam- 

 bridge about the middle of June for the annual conference. The 

 results obtained during the past year and conditions in every 

 territory were fully considered, and plans made for the coming 

 season. 



STREAT'S NEW WATERPROOFING PATENT. 



A patent relating to a waterproof fabric, issued to George 

 Streat, of New York, is No. 959,178, dated May 24, 1910. The 

 claims describe the yarns and their relation to each other, and 



the filling of the interstices of the fabric with a waterproofing 

 compound. Some 28 years ago Mr. Streat obtained his first 

 patent for a waterproof fabric, which was the basis of consider- 

 able litigation with the mackintosh trade. [See The India Rub- 

 ber World, February 1, 1909 — page 167.] 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The International Rubber Co. (Barrington, Rhode Island), 

 have begun operations in the old Annawamscutt mill, in West 

 Barrington, in the manufacture of rubber sheeting, to which other 

 products will be added. 



Angie W. Pierce has resigned as superintendent of the drug- 

 gists' sundries department of the National India Rubber Co. to 

 become connected with the International Rubber Co. (Barring- 

 ton. Rhode Island.) With the exception of one interval of a 

 little more than a year Mr. Pierce has been continuously in the 

 employ of the National company since September 6, 1865. 



The directors of the Walpole Rubber Co. (Walpole, Massa- 

 chusetts), have declared quarterly dividends of iJ4 P er cent, on 

 the preferred stock and 1 per cent, on the common stock, pay- 

 able July 15 to holders of record on July 1. 



The Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey), report 

 that out of eight cars in the Atlanta-New York Good Roads Con- 

 test equipped with their tires, not one was obliged during the 

 entire trip of 1,100 miles to put on a new casing. 



The Bailey "Won't Slip" tread tire is now manufactured under 

 license by nine American tire firms, the latest additions to the 

 list being the Empire Tire Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) and the 

 Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. (New York). 



Mr. E. H. Sprague, president of the Omaha Rubber Co. 

 Omaha (Nebraska), was lately elected president of the Omaha 

 Automobile Club. 



The factory of the Archer Rubber Co. (Milford, Massachu- 

 setts) has been very busy of late, and additional machinery is 

 being installed with a view to increasing the capacity of the 

 factory. They were reported lately to have in hand orders for 

 proofing over 1,000,000 yards of cloth, in addition to the other 

 lines of work that they are turning out. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



A recent visitor to the United States was Senhor Waldemar 

 Scholz, a leading exporter of rubber from Manaos, Brazil, and 

 president of the Associagao Commercial do Amazonas. Readers 

 of The India Rubber World will remember that he was the 

 president of the recent Congresso Commercial, Industrial e Agri- 

 cola held at Manaos, and which was attended by the Editor of 

 this journal. 



Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt, president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., has issued invitations for a celebration of the one 

 hundredth anniversary of the erection of the De Wolf Home- 

 stead, to be held at the Homestead, Linden place, Bristol, Rhode 

 Island, on the afternoon of Monday, July 4. Colonel Colt, by the 

 way, has caused to be published at denial of report othat he will 

 be a candidate to fill the next vacancy in the United States senate 

 from Rhode Island. 



Mr. James Bishop Ford, first vice president and treasurer of 

 the United States Rubber Co., though an exceptionally busy man 

 in connection with the corporation named and his private affairs, 

 is often called upon to serve on the grand jury of New York 

 county. He was selected to serve on a special grand jury sworn 

 in on January 3 of this year, the deliberations of which were 

 prolonged until early in June, when the foreman of the jury, 

 Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., appeared in court, presented a re- 

 port, and asked that the jury be discharged. This motion was 

 denied by the court, however, and the jury were ordered to 

 continue their work. No other case of jury duty so long con- 

 tinued is on record in the county. 



Mr. G Edwin Alden, of Boston, is one of the directors of a 

 very swell country club that has just been started in Wellesley, 

 Massachusetts. 



