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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1912. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.'S ISSUES. 



Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange for four 

 weeks, ending May 25 : 



Common Stock, $25,000,000. 



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

 Last Dividend, April 30, 1912—1%. 



Week Mav 4. .. .Sales 15,300 shares 



Week Mav 11.... Sales 7,420 shares 



Week May 18. .. .Sales 18,300 shares 



Week ^lay 25 Sales 66,260 shares 



High 60M Low 



High 5»M Low 



High 6234 Low 



High 67'yi Low 



For the vear — High, 67J^, May 21; Low, 45^:4, February 1. 

 Last year— High, 48^; Low, lO'A. 



First Preferred Stock, $39,824,400. 



Last Dividend, April 30, 1912—2%. 



High IW/z Low 



High 114.>^ Low 



High 114J4 Low 



High 116 Low 



For the year— High, 116, May 20; Low, 109, January 30. 

 Last year— High, IISVS; Low. 104. 



Second Preferred Stock, $9,965,000. 



Last Dividend, April 30, 1912— 1J4%- 



Week May 4.... Sales 1,300 shares High 80 Low 



Week May 11.... Sales 430 shares High 80 Low 



Week May 18.... Sales 1,100 shares High 80J^ Low 



Week May 25.... Sales 10,275 shares High 855^ Low 



For the year— High, 85J4, May 21; Low, 75, January 23. 

 Last year — High, 79; Low, 66. 



Six Per Cent. Trust Gold Bonds, $18,000,000. 



Outstanding of the 1908 issue of $20,000,000. 

 May 4.... Sales 35 bonds High 104^^ Low 



56% 



56 



58/2 



61/8 



11354 



113/2 



11354 

 110 



79 



787A 

 79J4 

 8014 



Week 



Week May 11.... Sales 



May 18. ...Sales 



May 25.... Sales 



Week 

 "Week 



46 bonds High 10454 Low 

 52 bonds High 104% Low 

 69 bonds High 104^4 Low 



104/ 

 104/ 

 104/ 

 104/ 



For the year — High, 105, February 24; Low, 103^, January 6. 

 Last year — High, 105; Low, 101J4. 



THE APPALLING AMERICAN FIRE WASTE. 



THE following statement from the address of Governor Charles 

 S. Deneen, of Illinois, before the National Fire Protection 

 Association at its annual meeting, held in Chicago, May 14 to 16, 

 which shows the great — in fact appalling — fire waste in this 

 country as compared with European countries, will be of interest 

 to business men in general and particularly to manufacturers 

 and dealers in rubber fire hose. 



"According to statistics of the Interior Department of the 

 United States Government for the year 1910 the fire loss in the 

 United States was more than $234,000,000. And in addition to 

 the loss of this property these same statistics show that 1,449 

 lives were sacrificed by fire and 5,654 people were injured 

 through this same agency. This tremendous drain upon the 

 ■financial resources of this country as indicated by these statistics 

 does not include any of the cost borne by the cities and villages 

 throughout the country for the maintenance of the equipment to 

 fight fire. 



"European nations have dealt with this problem with a signal 

 degree of success and the result of restrictions in building laws 

 and improved building conditions, inspections and the awakening 

 of the mind of the people to a full realization that a loss by fire 

 is a loss forever has proven to the students of this question how 

 much criminal wastefulness our people are guilty of in this 

 country. In 1910 thirteen of the largest cities of Germany with 

 a combined population of five and one-half millions sufifered a 

 fire loss of $1,067,205. Five American cities, to wit, Chicago, 

 Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis and San Francisco, with a com- 

 bined population of 100,000 less, suffered a fire loss during the 

 same period of nearly fifteen million dollars. The city of New 

 York, last year, suffered a fire loss of five times the loss of 



London and nine times that of Paris. In Berlin, a city of about 

 equal size to Chicago, the average fire loss is less than $200,000, 

 while in Chicago the annual property loss by fire for the past five 

 years has been about forty-seven times as much. Between 1901 

 and 1910 the per capita loss to every man, woman and child in 

 the United States was $2.71 for this fire waste, while the 

 European was paying on an average of thirty-three cents and 

 the German was only called on to pay nineteen cents. Between 

 1900 and 1909 the population of the United States increased 

 seventy-three per cent., while the fire loss increased 134 per cent." 



SEVERE HOSE SPECIFICATIONS. 



The following letter has been received from a dealer in fire 

 hose in a western town regarding the specifications for hose 

 issued by the local fire department : 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World, Dear Sir : — The 

 specifications for fire hose issued by the local fire department 

 state that the hose must be put under a pressure test of 400 

 pounds to the square inch, after which one 50 foot length shall 

 be cut in two, 25 feet from the coupling, and if same shows cor- 

 rugation all of the hose must be rejected. We do not consider 

 this a fair proposition to the manufacturer, and would like your 

 opinion on it. Is it not a fact that if hose does not show 

 some corrugation after being under a 400 pounds pressure, it is 

 reasonable to suppose that the tube has been over-vulcanized for 

 the purpose, and that, therefore, it will not give as good service 

 as hose that showed some corrugation at the time it was cut? 

 And, furthermore, what hose shows after 400 pounds is no 

 criterion, because it is practically impossible for the hose to be 

 used at a fire under as high pressure, 200 pounds or a little more 

 being the greatest possible pressure that could be put on a 2/- 

 inch hose by an engine at a fire. We submit this to you and 

 would like your opinion, recognizing that you are an authority in 

 the matter. W. A. C. 



THE RUTHERFORD RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. MAKING TIRES. 



The Rutherford Rubber Co., whose factory is located at 

 Rutherford, New Jersey, has, within the short time it has been 

 in the tire business, built up a very creditable trade. The factory 

 is now running a day and night shift, turning out 200 tires a 

 day, and when the new big calender ordered from the Farrel 

 Foundry & Machine Co. is delivered — which will probably be 

 within the next two weeks — the capacity will be raised to 300 

 tires a day. The tires made by the company are known as the 

 "Sterling"' ; they are made both in straight wall and in quick 

 detachable clincher type. The company makes an anti-skid tire 

 known as the "Sterling Spur" tread, and has an application in 

 the patent office covering a new extra heavy anti-skid tire. The 

 "Sterling" blue inner tubes and gray inner tubes are also made 

 at the Rutherford factory. These tubes are seamless through- 

 out, being rolled from a single piece of rubber vulcanized solidly 

 throughout, then spliced by vulcanization instead of by the acid 

 cement cure. The blue tubes are covered with a blue gum layer 

 to keep out Hght rays, and are also impregnated with flour of 

 mica, which acts as a non-conductor of heat. 



Another specialty of the Rutherford Company is the "Ster- 

 ling" red backed hoof pad, the distinguishing feature of which 

 is the fact that the heel is vulcanized on to the fibre back. 



The officers of the company are : Charles Austin Bates, presi- 

 dent; Spencer Welton. vice-president; J. A. Miller, treasurer; 

 brank DeWitt, secretary. 



An interesting feature of the Rutherford Company's work is 

 the issue from time to time of a little magazine called "The 

 Sterling Spur," which, while primarily intended to exploit the 

 company's tires and hoof pads, at the same time, contains a 

 deal of entertaining reading. The quality of this reading will 

 be readily inferred from the fact that the president, Charles 

 Austin Bates, contributes to the magazine very frequently. He 

 probably is the best known writer on advertising and other 

 business problems in the country. 



