August i, 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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MR. VOORHEES'S BEREAVEMENT. 



A most regrettable accident occurred on July 16 in Jersey 

 City, New Jersey, when Mr. John J. Voorhees, Jr., and his wife 

 and child were driving. Their horse, becoming frightened, ran 

 away, throwing the three from the carriage, and Mrs. Voorhees 

 was killed. Mr. Voorhees and the child were very seriously in- 

 jured, but have been improving. Mr. Voorhees is the treasurer 

 of the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co., of which his father 

 was the founder and is the present head. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Edward R. Rice, a director of the United States Rubber 

 Co., and their manager of sales, is at present in Europe, on a tour 

 of inspection of the company's foreign agencies. 



Major J. Orton Kerbey, some time consul at Para and later 

 connected with the Bureau of American Republics in Washing- 

 ton, has in press a book entitled "An American Consul in 

 Amazonia," which is understood to contain much interesting in- 

 formation regarding northern Brazil and its people. 



Mr. Walter Ernest Tuthill and Miss Edith Maud Tuthill were 

 married on June 28 at the home of the latter. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Tuthill will reside at Cambridge, Massachusetts., Mr. Tuthill be- 

 ing in the employ of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. 

 He is a graduate of Brown University, Class of '01. 



Mr. William S. Katzenbach. of Katzenbach & Bullock Co. 

 (Trenton, New Jersey), spent the month of July on vacation in 

 the Adirondacks. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The board of directors of the United States Rubber Co. have 

 declared from net profits a quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, on 

 the first preferred stock and a quarterly dividend of ij4 P" cent, 

 on the second preferred stock, payable July 30 to holders of 

 record on July 15. 



The Atlantic Insulated Wire and Cable Co. (New York), have 

 appointed Mr. Samuel D. Gloss, formerly with the Simplex Elec- 

 trical Co., sales manager, to succeed the late Mr. George F. 

 Porter. 



The United States Whip Co. (Westfield, Massachusetts), while 

 not to be classed as rubber goods manufacturers, use a consider- 

 able quantity of vulcanized and unvulcanized sheeting in the 

 manufacture of certain lines of whips. Their business as a 

 whole is very large, the company being capitalized at $1,000,000. 



The Liverpool Rubber Co., Limited, are represented in Can- 

 ada by Mr. M. B. Steine, No. 86 Grey Nun street, Montreal, 

 who carries a stock of the Liverpool rubber footwear. 



Mr. Everett S. Benson has been elected secretary of the Hart- 

 ford Rubber Works Co., which position he assumed on July I. 

 He was previously for several years identified with this com- 

 pany, at one time filling the position of branch manager in New 

 York, after which he was called to the factory. Toward the end 

 of 1906 he went to Indianapolis to become secretary and treas- 

 urer of the G & J Tire Co., which position he has since held. 



The Toledo Rubber Co. (Toledo, Ohio), have filed with the 

 secretary of state of Ohio a certificate of increase of capital 

 from $25,000 to $50,000. The company were organized 20 years 

 ago for the sale of rubber clothing and novelties, to which lines 

 they have added rubber goods generally. 



The Chicago Rubber Clothing Co. (Racine, Wisconsin), cap- 

 italized at $125,000, have been licensed to do business in Illinois, 

 as a foreign corporation. 



The directors of the Walpole Rubber Co. have declared a 

 quarterly dividend of Ij4 pet" cent, on the preferred stock and 1 

 per cent, on the common stock, payable on July 15 to holders of 

 record on July 1. 



The Imperial Belting Co. is a new concern in the mechanical 

 rubber goods trade, with a store at No. 166 West Kinzie street, 

 Chicago. Arthur R. Shurtleff is manager. A specialty is made 

 of the lines of the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Jersey 

 City, New Jersey.) 



THE PRICES OF AUTOMOBILE TIRES. 



The change in the prices of automobile tires announced on 

 July 1 by the leading makers has led to a variety of comments 

 in the trade, and particularly in the columns of newspapers of 

 that class which suppose that the cost of crude rubber is kept 

 up at an inordinate figure by large manufacturers who consume 

 this material. It is asserted by the tire makers that the advance 

 in prices this season is due solely to the higher cost of rubber 

 than prevailed a year ago, when prices were last made before. 

 It is denied that any such combination exists among the manufac- 

 turers as was claimed by the instigators of a suit filed in the 

 New York supreme court on July 6 by the Moto Block Import 

 Co. The plaintiffs in this action were called upon to show why 

 they should not be proceeded against for maintaining a combina- 

 tion in restraint of trade. It is asserted by more than one man- 

 ufacturer that the last combination of pneumatic tire manufac- 

 turers was held together by the G. & J. clincher tire patent, and 

 that when this patent expired there was gone the only incentive 

 manufacturers would have to form a close alliance. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The second semi-annual dividend of 3]/i per cent, of the Con- 

 verse Rubber Shoe Co. (Maiden, Massachusetts) is payable 

 July 1. 



Katzenbach & Bullock Co., Inc. (Trenton, New Jersey), issue 

 a catalogue of their chemical specialities, including several of 

 interest to the rubber trade, which they will be pleased to supply 

 to any applicants. 



Mr. N. Lincoln Greene, who for t8 years past has had charge 

 of the clothing department of the Boston Rubber Co., has been 

 appointed manager of the same department for the American 

 Rubber Co. This does not mean the relinquishment of the 

 first named line of goods. On the contrary, it means that Mr. 

 Greene will hereafter be the responsible head of the clothing de- 

 partments of both these companies. 



A New York journal devoted to the trade in waste materials 

 contains this paragraph in a recent review of the rubber scrap 

 market : "Dealers report that they are now receiving a smaller 

 quantity of auto tires, by reason of the fact that a number of 

 collectors are selling the material to people who make a specialty 

 of dealing in automobile sundries. The tires are patched up 

 and resold by the latter as second hand for further use on 

 the road." 



The St. Louis Rubber Cement Co. have entered extensively 

 into the manufacture of vulcanizing cements for repairing auto- 

 mobile tires and report a large demand for these goods. They 

 are making their cement of Para rubber, and it is claimed by those 

 using it that they have no further trouble with loose treads or 

 separated fabric as the cement stands hard usage without 

 powdering. 



A new office has been created in the management of the United 

 States Rubber Co. — that of comptroller — to which Mr. R. F. 

 Spencer has been appointed. Mr. Spencer has been for some 

 years connected with the Hamilton, Brown Shoe Co., of St. Louis, 

 and actively interested in The Western Association of Shoe 

 Wholesalers. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States Rubber 

 Company, was a recent subscriber of $5,000 toward the endow- 

 ment of the Rhode Island School of Design. 



Mexico has been invited to send delegates to the International 

 Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition, to be held in London in 

 June, 1917. This invitation was sent to Reginald Tower, British 

 minister to Mexico, who notified the government through the 

 department of foreign relations. This department, in turn, 

 handed the invitation over to the department of fomento, which 

 will make the appointment of a commission in case this gov- 

 ernment decides to be represented at the exposition. 



