October 1, 1911. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



43 



UNITED STATES RUBBEE 00. 'S ISSUES. 



TRAiSTSACTiONS Oil the New York Stock Exchange lor four 

 weeks ending September 23 : 



Common Stock, $25,000,000. 



[The treasury of a subsidiary company holds $1,334,000.] 

 Last Dividend, April 30, 1900 — 1%. 



Week September 2 Sales 3,700 shares High 37^ Low 36|^ 



Week September 9 Sales 2,100 shares High 37 Low 36J4 



Week September 16 Sales 1,100 shares High 37J4 Low 36^ 



Week September 23 Sales 8,600 shares High 37K Low 31 p^ 



For the year — High, 475i, March 1; Low, 31'^, September 23. 

 Last year — High, 52H; Low, 27. 



First Preferred Stock, $39,824,400. 

 Last Dividend, July 31, 1911—2%. 



Week September 2 Sales 400 shares High 109J4 Low 1085^ 



Week September 9 Sales 200 shares High 109 Low 109 



Week September 16 Sales 700 shares High 109^ Low \077/s 



Week September 23 Sales 1,450 shares High 108^ Low 104;^ 



For the year — High, 115}^ ,July 7; Low, 104>^, September 23. 

 Last year — High, 116J4; Low, 99. 



Second Preferred Stock, $9,965,000. 



Last Dividend, July 31, 1911— lj^$"c. 



Week September 2 Sales .... shares High . . . Low . . . 



Week September 9 Sales .... shares High . . . Low . . . 



Week September 16 Sales .... shares High . . . Low . . . 



"Week September 23 Sales 500 shares High 71 Low 67 



Low, 67, September 23. 



For the year — High, 79, March 1; 

 Last year — High, 84; Low. 59}^. 



Si.x Per Cent. Trust Gold Bonds, $19,000,000. 



Outstanding of the 190S issue of $20,000,000. 



Week September 2 Sales 12 bonds High 104J4 Low 104 



Week September 9 Sales 41 bonds High 104f^ Low 104 



Week September 16 Sales 33 bonds High 104J4 Low 104 



Week September 23 Sales 74 bonds High 10414 Low 103i4 



For the year — High. 105. July 15; Low, 1021^, March 5. 

 Last year — High, 106; Low, 102}^. 



PEKSONAL MENTION. 



The following anecdote alleged to have been told by Mr. E. C. 

 Benedict, and the accompanying photograph — considerably re- 

 ■touched — are both taken from the "Cosmopolitan Magazine." Mr. 

 Benedict was sympathizing with the owner 

 of a motor boat who had lost a race through 

 some sort of sharp practice. To show his 

 friend that others had suffered misfortune, 

 lie told the following story of an old darky 

 of his acquaintance who once lay seriously 

 ill of fever : 



This colored man was treated for a long 

 time by one doctor, and then another doctor, 

 for some reason, came and took the first 

 one's place. The second physician made- a 

 thorough examination of the patient. At 

 the end he said, "Did the other doctor take 

 your temperature ?" 



"Ah dunno, sah," the patient answered. 

 "Ah hain't missed nuthin' so fur but mah watch." 



Mr. Alfred H. Schlesinger, superintendent of the American 

 Hard Rubber Company's factory at College Point, Long Island, 

 has been forced to retire on account of ill health. Mr. Schles- 

 inger is the son of A. D. Schlesinger, who for many years was 

 superintendent of the same company and one of the pioneers in 

 the hard rubber business. The son made an enviable record as 

 an exceedingly capable and intelligent, and up-to-date manager, 

 and it is sincerely hoped that his enforced vacation will result 

 in the complete upbuilding of his health. 



Francis Lynde Stetson, general counsel for the United States 

 Rubber Company, and a member of the board of directors, has 

 l)een elected chairman of the section on Legal Education of the 

 ■American Bar Association. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Hartford Rubber Works Company (Hartford, Connecti- 

 cut) is erecting a new storeroom on the west side of its present 

 buildings. 



The National India Rubber Company (Bristol, Rhode Island) 

 recently made a shipment of two carloads of electric cable to the 

 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The shipment consisted of 49 

 drums, and three of them weighed about five tons each, said to be 

 the longest and largest pieces of insulated wire ever made. 



The Summit Rubber Company (Barberton, Ohio) recently in- 

 corporated, is doubling its manufacturing capacity and very 

 largely increasing its floor space. 



W. S. Hathaway, supervisor of the United States Motor Car 

 Company, with his son, G. L. Hathaway, and B. C. Stimson, 

 of the company's Minneapolis branch, has recently made a jour- 

 ney of inspection to the rubber plantations at Port Limon, Costa 

 Rica, with a view to acquiring some rubber growing property, 

 for development in connection with the company's tire business. 



The Consolidated Rubber Tire Company (New York) calls 

 its automobile tires the "Kelly-Springfield." That is the name 

 which it has been using for its carriage tire for the past 16 years. 



The Electric Storage Battery Company (Philadelphia) has 

 given out a contract for a new building to be 115 x 300 feet and 

 six stories high, with a one-story extension 80 x 120 feet. This 

 building will be constructed in accordance with the Brown 

 patented system of reinforced concrete construction. The com- 

 pany will have very largely increased facilities in its new 

 building. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron) intends to 

 place $15,000 insurance on the dirigible transatlantic balloon in 

 which Mr. Vaniman expects soon to start from Atlantic City 

 on a trip across the water. 



Carload lots of asbestos have recently been shipped from the 

 chrysotile mines at Lowell, Vermont, to Baltimore. 



An electric show, which promises to be important and complete, 

 will be given in Boston next fall, continuing from September 28 

 to October 26, 1912. It will be held in the Mechanics Building, 

 where the floor space available for exhibitors amounts to 100,000 

 square feet. This electric show will be under the management 

 of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, of Boston, though 

 it is not designed by the company to make any financial profits 

 out of it. The intention is rather to give all the electrical manu- 

 facturers an opportunity to display their products and to show 

 the world at large what has been achieved in this department. 

 The management hopes to arrange with the New England rail- 

 roads for excursion rates from every point in New England 

 during the duration of the show. 



The Kerite Insulated Wire and Cable Company has acquired 

 the interests of the Watson Insulated Wire Company and has 

 established a Western office in the People's Gas Building, 

 Chicago. The manager of this office will be B. L. Winchell, Jr., 

 formerly vice-president of the Watson company. 



Work was resumed in all the departments of the National 

 India Rubber Company (Bristol, Rhode Island) during the last 

 week in August. One of the last to resume was the footwear 

 department, which had been closed for over two months. Shut- 

 downs in this factory, however, have been less frequent and 

 much shorter in duration in the last few years than they were 

 in years gone by, greatly to the satisfaction of the people in 

 Bristol, who look upon the big National plant as their chief 

 mainstay. 



Work was resumed in the factory of the Beacon Falls Rub- 

 ber Shoe Company (Beacon Falls, Connecticut) on September 5. 

 During the previous weeks, while the factory was closed, a new 

 heating apparatus was installed and sundry other repairs were 

 made. 



All the employes of the Apsley Rubber Company (Hudson, 

 Massachusetts) went back to work on September 5 on full 

 time, after the summer shutdown. 



