January 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



195 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. DEFERS PRICE ANNOUNCEHENT. 



The United States Rubber Co. has sent out a notice to the 

 trade that it will announce its new prices on February 1 instead 

 of on January 1, as has been its usual custom, at least for some 

 years past. The announcement does not give any intimation as 

 to whether the prices will be advanced or reduced. In view of the 

 reduction in the price of crude rubber the past year it is generally 

 assumed that there will be no advance. The trade is hoping for 

 a reduction, but if one is made it is likely to be small. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The creditors of the Mansfield Rubber Co., Mansfield, Ohio, 

 held a meeting on December 9, to prove their claims, examine 

 the bankrupt, appoint a trustee and transact other business that 

 came before the meeting. 



The company has filed in the United States District Court a 

 schedule showing over $191,000 of assets, with liabilities of over 

 $189,000. 



The Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing Co., Kansas City, Missouri, 

 will hereafter do a general business in various makes of auto- 

 mobile tires, instead of confining themselves as hitherto to the 

 product of a single factory. 



The Fisk Rubber Co., of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, will 

 soon open direct factory branches in Brooklyn, New York; Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania; Cincinnati, Ohio, and Butte, Montana, in- 

 creasing the total number of direct factory branches to thirty- 

 four. 



The Diamond Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has seven branches in 

 California, one in San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno, Oakland, 

 Sacramento, and two in San Francisco. It also has stores in 

 Portland, Seattle, Spokane and Salt Lake City. 



There seems to be some unhappy influence that affects the 

 Maiden, Massachusetts, fire department whenever its services are 

 needed at the factory of the Converse Rubber Shoe Co. The 

 disastrous fire of last February, which caused a damage of 

 $200,000, will still be remembered. On December 7 there was 

 a slight blaze in the shipping department of the factory and an 

 alarm was rung in, but for some reason or other the numbers 

 became mixed and the fire department hurried to a spot half a 

 mile from the factory. By the time the error was corrected and 

 the firemen had reached the rubber mill, the sprinkling system, 

 assisted by a dozen workmen, had squelched the blaze with a 

 small loss. 



Among some interesting rubber information culled from a 

 down east daily is this statement : "The rubber directors are 

 now working on a plan to consolidate the Rubber Goods Manu- 

 facturing Co. with the United States Rubber Co., although there 

 may be delay on account of the Rule of Reason in the Sherman 

 law." 



Inasmuch as this consolidation took effect nearly seven years 

 ago, when the United States Rubber Co. purchased the control 

 of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., the delay on account 

 of the Sherman law is not likely to be very serious. 



The Intercontinental Rubber Co. declared, early in December, 

 a dividend of 1J4 per cent, on its preferred stock, payable Decem- 

 ber 30 to stockholders of record on December 20. 



People familiar with the motorcycle industry are estimating 

 that over 40,000 of these machines will be built during the year 

 1912. With those already in use this will bring the number up 

 to about 100,000. There are all told 32 companies, counting 

 small as well as large companies, interested in the manufacture 

 of motorcycles. 



A new co-partnership — Arnold & Zeiss — has been formed un- 

 der date of January 2, to carry on from that date the business of 

 the late firm of Poel & Arnold, which expired by limitation on 

 December 31, 1911. 



Frank Poel, one of the general partners of the firm of Poel & 



Arnold, retires from active business. Messrs. Ileilbut, Symons 

 & Co., of London and Liverpool, have become special partners, 

 and the capital heretofore employed by them in the firm of Poel & 

 Arnold will hereafter be employed in the business of "Arnold & 

 Zeiss." 



The Hartford Rubber Works Co. has so many orders on hand 

 that it is working now with three shifts of eight hours each. 



At a meeting of the stockholders of the Batavia Rubber Co., 

 held at its office in Batavia, New York, December 8, it was voted 

 to increase the capita! stock from $70,000 to $500,000. Directors 

 elected were Charles R. Rogers and E. E. Carpenter, of New 

 York City ; George E. Perrin and Ashton W. Caney, of Batavia, 

 and John W. Mullen, of Morganville. Officers elected were as 

 follows : Vice-president, Ashton W. Caney ; secretary and treas- 

 urer, George E. Perrin. The office of president was left vacant, 

 as it is expected that the position will be filled by a prominent 

 New York financier and business man. 



Ground was broken on December 9 for the factory of the In- 

 ternational Automobile League Tire & Rubber Co., at Buflfalo, 

 New York. 



The Gillette Rubber Co., the present name of what was former- 

 ly called the Humane Rubber Horse Shoe Co., of Montgomery, 

 New York, has purchased a commodious plant at Fishkill-on-the- 

 Hudson, main building being 40 x 140 feet, three stories high, with 

 two "L" extensions 75 feet long, one being 24 feet wide and the 

 other 30 feet vifide, and both three stories in height. The com- 

 pany is equipped for making horse hoof pads, rubber cushioned 

 horse shoes, automobile repair stock, and automobile tire casings. 



A Cleveland daily contains the following item in regard to the 

 earnings of one of the great Akron plants : "Net earnings of the 

 B. F. Goodrich Co. for the year, it is stated, will be more than 

 $4,500,000, which is a half million over the entire par value of 

 the company's preferred stock. In the thirty-one years of the 

 company's existence it is stated that earnings every year have 

 made gains over the previous year." 



The plant of the Bourn Rubber Co., in Providence, was saved 

 from what probably would have been a disastrous fire on Decem- 

 ber 4, by the perfect working of its sprinkler system and the fire- 

 fighting brigade, made up of its employes. In the middle of the 

 afternoon a "blow down" pipe, running between the boiler and 

 the fire box of the engine burst. The pressure from the boiler 

 blew the contents of the fire box out onto the floor of the engine 

 room. In a second the room was in a blaze. The sprinkler 

 system in the engine room, started by the rising temperature, 

 began its work immediately and on the sounding of the auto- 

 matic gong the fire brigade got to work, with the result that 

 before the fire department had reached the plant the flames were 

 extinguished. 



N. B. Taylor, hitherto western district manager of the Good- 

 year Tire and Rubber Co., has succeeded A. C. Leonard as man- 

 ager of the San Francisco branch. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. is erecting in Akron, Ohio, 

 a fine ofiice building, five stories high, which, it is asserted, when 

 completed will be the largest office building in that city. 



The new calender building of the Republic Rubber Co., 

 Youngstown, Ohio, which will be one of the most complete cal- 

 ender departments in the United States, will be ready for opera- 

 tion in about a month. 



The reclaiming mill of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber 

 Co., at Plymouth, Massachusetts, turned out a product for the 

 last week in November of 166,000 pounds, which is the record 

 output for that plant. 



The Tyer Rubber Co., Andover, Massachusetts, has opened a 

 coffee-room for the benefit of those employes who bring their 

 lunches with them. Not only is hot coffee served with the lunches, 

 but newspapers and periodicals are provided to help them utilize 

 the noon hour in an agreeable and profitable way. 



