Warch 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



445 



SOUTHERN NOTES 



Tile UuBois Rubber & Tube Co., Chattanooga, Tennessee, is 

 erecting a two-story brick and steel tire plant, 80 by 160 fee!, 

 to cost in excess of $220,000, including machinery. A power 

 house, 42 by 48 feet, will be erected, to be used for steam pur- 

 poses only. The initial output will be 500 tires and SCO tubes per 

 day. The general offices of the DuBois Rubber & Tube Co. are 

 at 1121-23 Hamilton National Bank building, Chattanooga, and the 

 officers include M. X. Whitakcr, president; L. H. Lightfoot, vice- 

 president; K. G. Whitaker, secretary and treasurer. W. L. McLane 

 is production superintendent, and is in charge of erection of the 

 plant and installation of machinery. 



The Virginia Carolina Rubber Co., Richmond, Virginia, has 

 increased its capital to $500,000, and has taken bids for the first 

 unit of its new plant, conipri.sing a one-story building, 50 by 24.S 

 feet. It will also erect a machine shop for general repair, manu- 

 facture of parts, and similar work. 



The Cord Tire Corporation, Chester, West Virginia, has added 

 E. H. Hall and M. Harrison to the directorate, which includes 

 also I. E. Fair and the officers, J. D. Comstock, president; H. J. 

 Powers, vice-president, and H. B. Woodbury, secretary and 

 treasurer. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN NEW JERSEY 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



TRENTON NOTES 



THE RUBBER M..\Ni.iF.\CTURERS of Trentou believe that the rubber 

 business has reached its crisis and will begin to pick up in a 

 short time. The Bergougnan Rubber Corporation has resumed 

 operations and for the present a force of 125 hands is at work, 

 the output being 75 per cent of normal. Expectations are that 

 within a short time the present force will be increased to 200. 

 The company has taken advantage of the suspension of activities 

 by completing the erection of new buildings and installing the 

 necessary machinery. The new building includes a modern cafe- 

 teria and other features contributing to the welfare of tlie em- 

 ployes. 



The Grizzley Rubber Co., of which Richard R. Rogers, is the 

 head, has opened an establishment on Perry street, Trenton. The 

 company deals exclusively in Braendcr tires and tubes, having 

 secured the South Jersey agency for these products. Mr. Rogers 

 was for six years connected with the Empire Rubber & Tire Cor- 

 poration in the compound department and as chief adjuster, and 

 is well known in the tire industry. 



John S. Broughton, president of the United & Globe Rubber 

 Co., Trenton, was one of the prominent Masons to attend the in- 

 stitution of the new Forest of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon in New 

 York recently. It was the first lodge of its kind to be instituted 

 in New York state. 



Charles E. Stokes, vice-president of the Home Rubber Co., 

 Trenton, has disposed of his 100-acre farm and summer home at 

 Trenton Junction, and will seek a summer home elsewhere. 



Samuel H. Popkin, Trenton, has purchased a half interest in 

 the Free Bridge Motor Co. garage and tire sales establishment 

 at Morrisville, Pennsylvania. 



The Woven Steel Hose & Rubber Co., Trenton, held its annual 

 meeting on February 7 and reelected the following officers : John 

 S. Broughton, president; Horace B. Tobin, vice-president; Karl 

 G. Roebling, treasurer; H. B. Skellinger. secretary. Directors 

 elected were : John S. Broughton, Horace B. Tobin, Karl G. 

 RoebHng, John H. Janeway and H. .Mbert Rogers. 



E. B. McKay, formerly first vice-president of the Empire Tire 

 & Rubber Corporation, Trenton, has been elected vice-president 

 and general manager of the Inland Rubber Co., of Chicago, 

 Illinois. Mr. McKay has been connected with the Inland Rubber 

 Co., for the past year and a half. He has been identified with the 

 rubber industry for twenty years and is also president and treas- 



urer of the McKay-Grubb Rubber Co., of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

 jobbers in automobile parts and accessories throughout the North- 

 west. 



Bruce Bedford, president of the Luzerne Rubber Co., Trenton, 

 and Mrs. Bedford have gone to Bermuda, where they have taken 

 a villa for the remainder of the winter season. 



The Fay & Youngs Rubber Corporation, with offices at 36 

 Prince street, Trenton, has filed a certificate of dissolution in the 

 office of the secretary of state at Trenton. Frederick H. Miller 

 was the agent in charge of the company. The company was in- 

 corporated some time ago with $350,000 capital to manufacture 

 druggists' sundries, etc., and purchased a plant in East Trenton. 

 The incorporators were M. L. Youngs and C. L. Fay, of Mount 

 Vernon, New York ; F. H. Miller and A. H. Youngs, of Trenton. 

 The company has a plant at Barberton, Ohio. 



A drive is being made for members of the newly formed Rubber 

 Association of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Any one directly en- 

 gaged in the manufacture or distribution of rubber goods in the 

 states of New Jersey. Pennsylvania and Delaware is eligible. 

 Daniel P. Morgan, 1021 Filbert street, Philadelphia, is secretary. 



MISCELLANEOUS NEW JERSEY NOTES 



At a meeting of the stockholders of the F. A. Cigol Rubber 

 Co., of Paterson, held nearly five years ago it was voted to in- 

 crease the capitalization by issues of additional stock, both com- 

 mon and preferred. The meeting further voted to turn over to 

 Mr. Cigol 12.940 shares of common, $10 par value, as considera- 

 tion for the assignment by him to the corporation of certain patents 

 and applications for letters patent covering processes for the manu- 

 facture of rubber toys, etc. 



The preferred stock was to be taken by another concern which 

 held stock in the Cigol company and was a creditor in the amount 

 of $49,000. The money was paid in for the preferred stock and 

 the corporation was set on its feet again. At the end of June, 

 1919, Mr. Cigol resigned from the presidency and management 

 of the company and it was then found that the letters patent, 

 the applications having been granted, had never been assigned by 

 Cigol to the corporation. A Chancery Court action was instituted 

 in the name of the company and resulted in a decree directing 

 Cigol to assign the patents in dispute. 



The Red Raven Rubber Co., of Newark, New Jersey, has been 

 authorized to issue, without par value, 1,750 shares of common 

 stock to sell at $35 each, and 1,500 shares of Class B common to 

 sill at $1 each. The company was recently incorporated by Joseph 

 11. Dwork, Anshel Frcedman and David Feingold. 



The Manufacturers' Engineering Co. has leased for a term of 

 years a part of the building at 247 Sherman avenue, Newark, 

 New Jersey, for the manufacture of a new style tire pump and 

 a gasoline recording machine. 



Judge Lynch, of the United States District Court, has granted 

 the appointment of Francis L. Kohlman, of New York, as receiver 

 in equity of the Rambler Tire & Rubber Co., a Delaware corpora- 

 tion with offices in New York, and said to have assets in Gar- 

 field, New Jersey. The complainant, Emma Nurnberg, of New 

 York, claims a debt of $3,500 for money loaned to the company. 

 The petition gives the assets as $60,699.41 and the liabilities as 

 $28,873.73. The petition also alleges that the company has no 

 working capital, and cannot raise money to pay off its employes 

 or its creditors, several of whom are said to have started suits. 



The Atlantic City Tire & Rubber Corporation, Atlantic City, 

 New Jersey, is erecting a plant at Mediterranean and Drexel ave- 

 nues, for the manufacture of tires. The first unit will be a one- 

 story brick structure 168 feet long by 90 feet wide, and is ex- 

 pected to be ready for the installation of the machinery the latter 

 part of April. The proposed output for the first year is 300 tires 

 and tubes a day. The temporary offices and a demonstration room 

 have been opened at Massachusetts avenue and the Boardwalk. 



