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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1912. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



It is reported that the retail shoe dealers in some of our smaller 

 cities have got together and adopted a uniform selling price for 

 rubber footwear, giving them an average profit of 40 per cent. 

 If the people who are constantly discussing the increased cost of 

 living run upon this item, they will have one more reason to 

 add to those hitherto cited by way of explanation. Forty per 

 cent, seems like rather a generous profit for the retailer. The 

 manufacturer and wholesaler would very much like to join tlie 

 40 per cent, class. 



The Monatiquot Rubber Works Co., South Braintree, Massa- 

 chusetts, on Thanksgiving Day gave a turkey to each of the 

 married men, cigars to the unmarried men, and candy to the 

 girls. Now the question arises — which of the three was best 

 pleased? 



The financial writers in some of the daily papers, speaking of 

 the future of the United States Rubber Co., remark that in four 

 years' time the company expects to lay down crude rubber in 

 New York for something like 20 cents per pound. When fine 

 quality crude rubber is laid down in New York for 20 cents a 

 pound, what will become of the valley of the Amazon, not a 

 pound of whose rubber under anything like present conditions 

 can be laid down in New York for twice 20 cents per pound? 



The Michelin Tire Co., Milltown, New Jersey, is reported to 

 have leased, for five years, the property at 1314 Huron road, 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



The factory of the National India Rubber Co., Bristol, Rhode 

 Island, still continues to run on very full time, with a present 

 promise of a continuance of this condition for a good part of 

 the winter. 



The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, has se- 

 cured a permit for the erection of a two-story brick building in 

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



The National Rubber Co., a Missouri corporation recently or- 

 ganized, contemplates the building of a factory at St. Louis, 

 Missouri, for the manufacture of rubber paints and other rubber 

 products, to be used in waterproofing aeroplanes, tents and in 

 preserving tires. 



The Standard Rubber and Cable Co., mentioned in the De- 

 cember number of The India Rubber World as manufacturing 

 a preparation known as "Vulco," used in the repair of tires, is 

 located at Bridgeport, Connecticut 



The fire that occurred in the plant of the John A. Roebling's 

 Sons Co., Trenton, New Jersey, on December 2, while it did 

 considerable damage was confined entirely to the one shop in 

 which flat wire is made, the other shops not being damaged. 

 Arrangements were immediately made by which the facilities of ■ 

 the other parts of the plant could be employed in doing the 

 work which had been done in the shop that was burned, so that 

 there was very little interference with the filling of the com- 

 pany's orders. 



William H. Scheel, No. 159 Maiden Lane, New York, importer 

 of chemicals used in rubber compounding, announces that he has 

 added to his line a fine grade of calcined magnesia, which can 

 be delivered in packages to suit the convenience of the customer. 

 This new line has been added for the reason that Mr. Scheel 

 has received many calls for a high grade imported product, which 

 notwithstanding the heavy duty levied on it can be sold at a 

 reasonable price. He also carries carbonate magnesia in stock. 



The Hood Rubber Co., Boston, Massachusetts, following its 

 custom for some years past, has issued to its customers a set 

 of "Memory Joggers," consisting of 12 little diaries, one for 

 each month with a page for each day and a leather cover in 

 which these little monthly booklets can be inserted. A pencil com- 

 pletes the outfit. The little book in the cover is only 3" x 5", 

 so that it can be conveniently carried in the waistcoat pocket. 

 The series is put up in a cardboard box where the diaries can 

 be filed after thcv have been used. 



FESSONAI. UENTION. 



The dailies recently had quite a little to say about young 

 Lionel de Jersey Harvard, a member of the family from which 

 came John Harvard, who founded Harvard University 275 years 

 ago. He was recently matriculated in the institution founded by 

 his distinguished relative, being the first student by that name 

 ever connected with the college. His father, J. M. Harvard, is 

 a prominent member of the rubber trade of London, having been 

 connected for over 30 years with the Leyland and Birmingham 

 Rubber Co., Limited, as manager of their London branch. 



J. W. Buckley, of the J. W. Buckley Rubber Co., New York, 

 has recently returned from a trip to Jamaica, British West In- 

 dies. 



Senator Wetmore, of Rhode Island, whose last election to his 

 seat was the occasion of a prolonged and memorable contest 

 between him. Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the United 

 States Rubber Co., and Robert H. I. Goddard, announces that 

 he will not be a candidate for re-election. 



H. J. Ackerman and Louis Brunt, who have been connected 

 with the factory of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, have recently become connected with the St. Louis branch 

 of that company, Mr. Ackerman becoming the St. Louis sales- 

 man. 



C. J. Butler, vice-president of the United States Tire Co., who 

 has recently made quite an extended trip through Europe, has 

 this to say on comparative factory equipment : 



"European rubber manufacturers do things in a very thorough 

 manner, but I fail to see wherein their methods excel ours in 

 any important particular. In the matter of equipment our fac- 

 tories rank with theirs in every way, and in many instances we 

 employ machinery to great advantage over their hand labor. And 

 our output is many times greater than they can lay claim to." 



Speaking of cars of the runabout type he says : 



"There is only a limited market in European countries for 

 small, medium priced cars. This is due to the fact that they 

 have no prosperous middle-class as we have in this country. 

 Practically all of the cars in use are of the large touring type, 

 although several manufacturers have begun making and market- 

 ing small cars. I doubt, however, whether there ever will be a 

 big demand for them." 



C. M. Schelp and Conrad Budke. Jr., have recently become 

 associated in the organisation of the Schelp-Budke Tire and 

 Rubber Co., in St. Louis. The company will handle the Swine- 

 hart tires for trucks, cars and carriages. 



H. G. Fisk, secretary of the Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls. 

 Massachusetts, has become a member of the Association of Na- 

 tional Advertising Managers. 



W. F. Bowers, president of the Bowers Rubber Works. San 

 Francisco, California, spent a large part of the month of De- 

 cember visiting the Eastern trade, reaching his old home in Lynn, 

 Massachusetts in time to pass Christmas with his mother, which 

 has been his annual custom for some time. 



G. C. Sterling has resigned his position with the Penn Rubber 

 Co., and the Boston Tire & Rubber Co., both of Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts, in whose interests he has for some years covered New 

 England territory, and has associated himself with the Hub 

 Cycle Co., of Boston, for which concern he will continue to travel 

 over his former territory. 



D. Lome McGibbon. president of the Canadian Rubber Co., 

 of Montreal, Limited, and a director of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co., is also president of the La Rose Consolidated Mines 

 Co., which recently declared the regular quarterly dividend of 

 2 per cent., payable January 20, 1912, to stockholders of record 

 December 30, 1911. He says that a statement will be issued to 

 the stockholders very soon outlining the policy of the manage- 

 ment with regard to the disposal of the cash surplus shown 

 on hand by the last statement. 



