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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1904. 



has been tied up for nearly two months by the ice and high 

 water in the Delaware river. The mill is located on the river 

 bank a short distance north of Trenton. The freshet of last 

 October flooded the mill and caused a shutdown, and on top 

 of that came the succession of freshets and ice floes of the past 

 few weeks. It was particularly unfortunate because the fac- 

 tory was just getting under way. The mill is being cleared for 

 action again and will be started up as soon as possible. 



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Former City Clerk C. Edward Murray, of the Empire Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. and the Crescent Belting and Packing Co., 

 A. Boyd Cornell, secretary of the Empire company, and County 

 Clerk C. Harry Baker filed an answer in the court of chancery 

 on March 7, to the cross bill filed a short time before that by 

 William H. Skirm, Jr. In his cross bill Mr. Skirm charged 

 Messrs. Murray and Baker with attempting to defraud him of 

 50 shares of the stock of the Empire company which were 

 held by the Mechanics' Bank of Trenton, as security for 

 a note of $3600 endorsed by Murray, and that Messrs. Mur- 

 ray and Baker secured the sale of the stock at forced sale 

 to Mr. Cornell in trust for them. In the answer the de- 

 fendants deny the charges, and allege that the purchase was 

 a bona fide one on the part of Secretary Cornell, and that 

 Messrs. Murray and Baker had nothing whatever to do with 

 the transaction. Answering further, Messrs. Murray and Bak- 

 er assert that Mr. Cornell, having been elected secretary 

 of the Empire company, succeeding Mr. Skirm, desired to 

 acquire some of the capital stock of the company. He there- 

 fore bid in the 50 shares that hid been deposited by Mr. Skirm. 

 Then, it is claimed, Mr. Cornell gave his note endorsed by Mr. 

 Murray, in payment for the stock and deposited the new certifi- 

 cates issued to him as security for the note. No date has yet 



been set for argument in the case. 



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Ninety-one shares of the stock of the Empire Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co. will figure in a suit to be brought by Pennington 

 Seminary against William H. Skirm, its former treasurer, on 

 the charge of misappropriating $7650 of the school funds. At 

 the time of General Skirm's failure it is alleged that he paid a 

 local indebtedness of $6000 with a check on the seminary 

 funds, and to cover the payment of the school money dis- 

 counted a seminary note in the bank at Millville, New Jersey. 

 To secure this note, the seminary authorities allege that Gen- 

 eral Skirm deposited with the bank the stock in question. The 

 known facts are that the bank holds the note against the semi- 

 nary and the shares of stock as security. 



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Former Mayor Welling G. Sickel, vice president of the 

 United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos., has returned 

 from St. Louis, where he made arrangements for his company 

 to be represented there during the Louisiana Purchase expo- 

 sition. No formal exhibit will be made, but the company has 

 leased for the exposition period the home of Mrs. Louisa T. 

 Averill, widow of the late A. M. Averill, and will use the hand- 

 some residence as a headquarters for the entertainment of the 

 patrons and friends of the company who visit the fair. The 

 residence contains eleven large rooms and is complete in all of 

 its appointments. The home is located at the corner of Cabanne 

 and Goodfellow avenues, within five blocks of the DeBaliviere 



gate to the exposition grounds. 



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The Dyson Rubber Co., incorporated last fall, got their fac- 

 tory equipped and under way just before the holidays, and dur- 

 ing the past month have got their business well established. 

 At present the output of the company is limited to foot mats 



of various grades and patterns, but an experiment with bottle 

 mats has been a success and a line of these will be out on the 

 market in a short time. Stair treads will be another specialty, 

 and experiments are in progress for the manufacture of hoof 

 pads and shoe soles. George A. Dyson, president of the com- 

 pany, was in Philadelphia the middle of the month to buy more 



material for the increase in manufacture. 



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The Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co. are engaged on a 

 large consignment of " Videto " cushion heels, for the Lincoln 

 Rubber Co. (Boston). The distinguishing feature of this heel 

 is a lift of sole leather riveted to the rubber which renders it 

 easy to fasten it to the shoe. Secretary Cornell of the com- 

 pany reports trade as good and says the factory is busy catch- 

 ing up with the orders which accumulated somewhat at the 

 beginning of the strike. 



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William R. Thropi', local maker of rubber machinery, has 

 just built and shipped two machines, a washer and a grinder, 

 to the Keasby & Mattinson Co., at Ambler, Pennsylvania. 



General Manager C. H. Oakley of the Grieb Rubber Co. 

 states that the Grieb mill is unusually busy, and is running full 

 handed with a night turn on. 



Charles M. Dilts, secretary of the New Jersey Rubber Co., 

 whose factory is at Lambertville, reports that the company are 

 very busy and the factory is being operated night and day. He 

 states that so far this year business has been extremely satis- 

 factory. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN AKRON. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



TO the Editor of the India Rubber World: At a 

 meeting of the shareholders of the Faultless Rubber Co. 

 (Akron) and the Camp Rubber Co. (Ashland), held in the for- 

 mer city on February 27, the companies were consolidated, as 

 foreshadowed recently in The India Rubber World, under 

 the name of the Faultless Rubber Co., with the following offi- 

 cers : H. B. Camp, president ; A. Vogt (Rochester, New York), 

 vice president; T. W. Miller, treasurer and manager; C. E. 

 Campbell, secretary. The directors are Messrs. Camp, Vogt, 

 and Miller, and George D. Bates and H. E. Andress. J. D. 

 Slater is superintendent, and W. H. Muschlet, salesman. The 

 stock of the two companies was owned by the same people, and 

 President Camp states that the consolidation was effected for 

 the purpose of centralizing the work of the office forces, mak- 

 ing it possible to conduct the business on a more economical 

 basis. This consolidation signalizes the success of Mr. H. B. 

 Camp in the rubber business. A few years ago he was known 

 among business men as the owner of one of the largest build- 

 ing tile industries in the country, located near Akron. Having 

 made a fortune in this line, he went into the rubber business. 

 He began on a small scale with the Faultless Rubber Co. of 

 Akron, but it was not long until the business had grown so that 

 it was necessary to make an addition to the plant. This was 

 done, and shortly after, he determined to start a factory in 

 Ashland. Mr. Camp at that time was president and owner of 

 the Ashland and Wooster railway, and was interested in Ash- 

 land to some extent. He organized the Camp Rubber Co. and 

 started a plant in Ashland, one of the principal articles of man- 

 ufacture being rubber cushions for a patent horse collar. In 

 time this business also became extensive, and at this time the 

 factory at Ashland is kept very busy. Only recently it was de- 

 cided by the owners of the American Horse Collar Co. of Hol- 

 land, Michigan, to remove to Ashland in order to have the plants 



