February 1, 1912. | 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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it is expected that the departments will be closed by the last of 

 March.' The lines which are to be discontinued have been manu- 

 factured by the Bristol company, which is a subsidiary of the 

 United States Rubber Company, for 40 years. 



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Colonel Samuel P. Colt was a guest at the wedding of his 

 niece. Miss Elizabeth Linda Colt, daughter of United States 

 District Judge Le Baron Colt, and Mrs. Colt, on the afternoon 

 of January 17, to Andrew Weeks Anthony of Boston. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



(By a Resident Correspondent.) 

 ■yHE L. M. ANDERSON CO.. which was incorporated in this 

 •^ State this month with a capital stock of $60,000, with shares 

 at $100 each, has acquired the old Titus Woolen Mills' property for 

 the purpose of manufacturing raincoats and other rubber garments 

 for men and women. The corporation is installing machinery, 

 and the work of making garments is to be started next week. 

 The company expects to give employment to half a hundred per- 

 sons at the start, and later it is the intention to increase the 

 working force to one hundred or more. Sample garments are 

 now being manufactured in New York City. The promoters of 

 the enterprise are well-known Trenton business men, including 

 W. O. Anderson, treasurer of the New Jersey Pulp Plaster Co. ; 

 Arthur J. Anderson, of the same concern, and former treasurer 

 of the Essex Rubber Co. ; A. W. Lee, E. O. Machlin, fonrierly 

 with the Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., Trenton, and Howard A. Lee. 

 The latter and W. O. .Anderson are to be the active heads of the 

 concern. Arthur S. Schragger. for many years connected with 

 the Kenyon Raincoat Co., of Brooklyn, is to be the superintendent 



of the plant. 



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J. B. McKay, Chicago and western representative of the Em- 

 pire Rubber Co. and the Empire Tire Co., visited the Trenton 

 factory the past month for the purpose of getting in closer touch 

 with affairs of the companies. Mr. McKay was not idle during 

 the two weeks he was in this town, but put in from eight to ten 



hours a day at the plant. 



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The exhibit of the Empire Tire Co. at the auto shows in the 

 Garden and Central Palace, New York, the past month, resulted 

 in the booking of many orders for this excellent tire. Boyd Cor- 

 nell, secretary of tlie company, was responsible for the big ex- 

 hibit at both shows. 



General C. Edward Murray was last week re-elected president 

 of the Empire Rubber Co. and the Empire Tire Co. Boyd Cor- 

 nell was re-elected secretary of the above-named concerns. 



In addition to his large mterests in the Empire concerns. Gen- 

 eral Murray is the controlling factor in the Crescent Belting and 

 Packing Co. and the Crescent Insulated Wire Co. 



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The Endurance Tire and Rubber Co., of New Brunswick, has 

 filed a certificate with the Secretary of State, changing the par 

 value of Its capital stock from $100 to $25. As there are 1,000 

 shares of the stock, this will result in a reduction of the author- 

 ized capital from $100,000 to $25,000. The corporation was char- 

 tered in 1910 to manufacture all kinds of rubber goods. The 

 consent to the change was signed by all stockholders. 



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R. T. Elwell, of this city, president of the Elwell Rubber and 

 Insurance Co., of Claremont, N. H.. manufacturers of rubber spe- 

 cialties, has given the letter carriers of the Trenton Postal dis- 

 trict rubber heels for their shoes. 



Mr. Elwell hopes to secure the endorsement of the hundred or 

 more carriers of this city with a view of having the Governirient 



adopt the rnblier heels as a part of the uniform equipment of the 

 letter carriers. 



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The officers of the Thermoid Rubber Co., New York, were re- 

 elected at a meeting of the directors recently in this city. The 

 officers are: Joseph Oliver Stokes, president; Fred S. Wilson, 

 vice-president; W. J. B. Stokes, treasurer; Robert J. Stokes, 

 secretary. 



Vice-President Wilson attends to the western end of the com- 

 pany's business, which materially increased the past year. The 

 concern's output of automobile tires finds favor with autoists 



everywhere. 



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Watson H. Linburg, president of the United and Globe Rubber 

 Company, was re-elected to the board of directors of the First 

 National Bank, the Inter-State Fair Association and the Lotus 

 Club recently. Mr. Linburg announces the engagement of his 

 daughter. Emma, to Horace B. Tobin, of this city. 



The new $200,000 home of the Wilbur Young Men's Christian 

 Association, founded by the late Edward Grant Cook and his 

 brother, George R. Cook, of the Hamilton Rubber Manufactur- 

 ing Co., was opened to the public last month. 



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John H. Broughton, vice-president of- the United and Globe 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., is on the directorate of two banks — 

 the Mercer Trust and Trenton Trust and Safe Deposit Co. — 

 the School of Industrial Art, the Inter-State Fair Association, 

 Mercer Hospital, the Lotus Club, the Trenton Country Club 

 and various other organizations and corporations. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN CHICAGO. 



(By a Resident Correspondent.) 

 D EPORTS of conditions in the rubber industry received in 

 * *• Chicago from the west were never brighter. From all of 

 the Chicago concerns and agencies comes the declaration that 

 January was one of the best months for the trade, largely on ac- 

 count of the weather. With the Milwaukee automobile show 

 over and preparations going on for the Chicago show, tire men 

 have been extremely busy attending the one and looking forward 

 to the other, as well as taking flying trips to New York to get a 

 line on what 1912 is going to bring forth in the way of tires and 

 inner tubes. Salesmen traveling out of Chicago and making the 

 principal cities between here and the Pacific coast report busi- 

 ness as remarkable. 



On top of all this, Chicago will be placed on the map in the 

 near future as a tire manufacturing city. George B. Dryden, 

 president of the Dryden Hoof Pad Co., is going to build a new 

 factory this spring and enter the tire game. The company, 

 which at present has its plant located at West Twelfth street and 

 Forty-sixth avenue, has acquired property on the southeast cor- 

 ner of the intersection of Forty-third avenue and the tracks of 

 the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad, on which a 

 building will be erected shortly. Work will be begun about 

 April 1. The tract of land contains 59,000 square feet, and is 

 situated in the heart of the large West Side manufacturing dis- 

 trict. Besides their patent hoof pad and rubber shoes, the com- 

 pany will manufacture both pneumatic and solid rubber tires. 

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As yet no one has been appointed by the Republic Rubber Co. 

 to take the place of J. H. Kelly, formerly Chicago manager, who 

 was recently made manager of tire sales by President Thomas L. 

 Robinson. Mr. Kelly is now located at the general offices of the 

 company in Youngstown, Ohio, in an advisory capacity, during 

 the absence through illness of Mr. Lomasney, vice-president and 

 general sales manager. Mr. Kelly will also be associated with 

 F. P. Best, former New England manager for the company, who 



