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They are widening their market, through the employment of 

 several experienced salesmen, with a view to a thorough can- 

 vas of the carriage and wagon trade of the United Slates. C. E. 

 Miley is president of the company, and E. J. Todd, secretary. 



REMOVAL OF THE MERCHANTS' RUBBER CO. 

 The Merchants' Rubber Co. have removed from their old 

 quarters, No 72 Reade street to a handsome new establishment 

 at No. 139 Duane street. The business of the concern had ex- 

 panded to such an extent that it was seriously cramped in the 

 old location. The new store has double the floor space of the 

 old, and is being fitted up in a very attractive manner. It ex- 

 tends through from Duane street, 185 feet to Thomas street. 

 The store proper, on the first named street, is 25 feet wide by 

 85 feet deep while the Thomas street side is 75X100 feet, and 

 in addition there is a deep basement under the entire place. 

 The salesrooms are fitted with modern display fixtures and con- 

 veniences which the shipping department and stock room will 

 be in the rear. Mr. William Morse, the president of the com- 

 pany, says that he will have space to handle 22,000 cases of rub- 

 ber shoes at one time and he has fixed shelving where he can 

 handle 2800 broken cases assorted in sizes. The convenience 

 and advantages of the new store aside from completeness of its 

 sales equipment are that all receipts and shipments are made 

 from the rear, and the store proper is merely a sample room. 



THE MACKINTOSH TRADE. 

 A prominent New York jobber in mackintoshes and rain- 

 coats says in regard to that line: "The trade during the past 

 season has been better than ever, taking it as a whole. The 

 demand for heavy rubber surface coats is larger than ever, and 

 the demand for cravenettes or raincoats is growing almost 

 more rapidly than it can be kept up with. The call for mack- 

 intoshes has fallen off, which is due undoubtedly to the in- 

 creased use of the raincoat. As these latter garments sell fcr 

 about twice as much as the former, the sales run up into money 

 very much more rapidly." 



CANADIAN RUBBER CO. OF MONTREAL. 

 At the annual meeting of the shareholders, on March 10, the 

 following directors were reelected : H. Montague Allan, J. B. 

 Learmont, C. F. Smith, H. Markland Molson, Lieutenant Col- 

 onel F. C. Henshaw, Alfred Piddington, A. A. Allan, and Hugh 

 A. Allan, and Lieutenant Colonel Prevost was elected in place 

 of J. O. Gravel. At a subsequent meeting the officers were 

 reelected, as follows; H. Montague Allan, president; J. B. 

 Learmont, vice president ; E. A. Wright, secretary- treasurer ; 

 D. Lome McGibbon, general manager. Reports submitted to 

 the shareholders made a favorable showing in regard to the 

 year's business, the volume of which, indeed, is understood to 

 have exceeded expectations. 



NAUGATUCK RUBBER FACTORIES BUSY. 

 The rubber industry of Naugatuck, Connecticut, which is 

 the main support of the town, was never in a better condition 

 than at present, the local factories being taxed to keep pace 

 with the orders. The Waterbury American says : " Fifteen 

 years ago the idea of a rubber factory running the year round 

 was considered absurd, and the help in those days considered 

 themselves lucky to get ten months' work out of the twelve. 

 But times have changed, and the local factories have now been 

 running steadily for the past three years with a good outlook 

 for 1904. This period of general prosperity is shown in many 

 ways, for during the past year the building of new dwellings 

 has barely kept pace with the increasing demand for tene- 

 ments, and there is scarcely a vacant tenement to be found in 

 the borough ; and any doubt as to the increasing prosperity of 



the people of the town can be set aside by any who care to 

 watch the stream of depositors who visit the savings bank 

 every Wednesday evening." 



END OF A STRIKE IN A MACINTOSH FACTORY. 

 The month began with a strike in progress in the factory ol 

 the Union Rubber Co., waterproof garment makers, No. 113 

 Purchase street, Boston, over a demand for increased wages. 

 The strikers had the support of Boston Rubber Garment Work- 

 ers' Union, No. 174. On March 17 the strikers returned to 

 work, after a conference at which concessions were made on 

 both sides.= = Four members of the garment workers' union, 

 including the president, Harry Nurenberg, have been expelled 

 for going to work for the Union Rubber Co. while the strike 

 was still in progress, and while they were on a committee to 

 confer with the company on matters relating to the strike. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS. 



United States Rubber Co. : 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. : 



DATES. 



Week ending Feb. 27 

 Week ending Mar. 5 

 Week ending Mar. 12 

 Weekending Mar. 19 

 Weekending Mar. 26 1 



THREE MORE ALL1NG RUBBER STORES. 

 Early in the month a retail rubber goods store was opened 

 at New London, Connecticut, under the name Ailing Rubber 

 Co. This is the seventh of the Ailing rubber stores in Con- 

 necticut. But this store, like the one at Norwich, is owned by 

 Wilbur S. Ailing, of that town, and not by a corporation.^^ 

 About April 1 the Ailing Rubber Co. of Hartford (consisting of 

 Noyes E. Ailing and Amos P. Mitchell) will open a rubber store 

 at New Britain, Connecticut, under the management of William 

 Keane, employed hitherto at the Hartford store. =-=The Ai- 

 ling Rubber Co. have opened a retail rubber in New London, 

 Connecticut, at No. 158 State street, making the eighth Ailing 

 rubber store in the state. 



BENEDICT REIS IN BANKRUPTCY. 

 [See The India Rubber World, February I, 1904— page 174.1 



In the New York supreme court on March 24 Isaac Leh- 

 mann was appointed permanent receiver of the assets of B. Reis 

 & Co., who did business as the Neptune Rubber Co., manufac- 

 turers of waterproof garments, No. 23 Lispenard street, New 

 York. Mr. Lehmann was appointed temporary receiver on Jan- 

 uary 13. A motion that Lehmann turn over the property in his 

 hands to E. B. Hamlin, the receiver appointed in the United 

 States district court, has been denied by Judge Holt, of the lat- 

 ter court, and the business will be wound up by Mr. Lehman. 

 The whereabouts of Bernard Reis has been unknown since early 

 in January. There are 29 creditors on the list, whose claims 

 aggregate $17,102, the principal ones being for cloth and water- 

 proofing. 



