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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1904. 



NEW OFFICES OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 

 The United States Rubber Co. have just moved their New 

 York offices into the magnificent new twenty story office build- 

 ing at No. 42 Broadway — the largest office building on that 

 thoroughfare. The offices of the company have been situ- 

 ated for the last six years in the Franklin building, Nos. 9- 

 12 Murray street, where they occupied three floors. These 

 quarters were ample for a time, but, owing to the large in- 

 crease of business they have during the last two or three years 

 been growing more and more inadequate. The company have 

 for some time been looking for more spacious offices, and 

 finally decided to take the entire twelfth floor of the new 

 building above mentioned. It has a frontage of 115 feet on 

 Broadway and runs back 200 feet to New street, the rear of 

 the building being in the form of two wings, with an inter- 

 vening court. The unusual amount of floor space in this build- 

 ing enables the company to have all their departments on 

 one floor. The east end of the southern wing is devoted to of- 

 fices and meeting rooms for the directors and executive com- 

 mittee and officers of the company. These rooms, very hand- 

 somely finished in antique oak, are furnished entirely in ma- 

 hogany. The view from these offices, looking over East river 

 and across Brooklyn, is particularly fine. Next to the directors' 

 rooms come the general purchasing and crude rubber depart- 

 ments. The north wing is devoted to the selling depart- 

 ment, Mr. Paine, Mr. Armstrong, and Mr. Rice having pri- 

 vate offices at the extreme eastern end, the rest of this wing be- 

 ing occupied by the transportation and advertising depart- 

 ments, and by various other members of the selling organiza- 

 tion. Between these two wings, opening on the court, but also 

 looking out across the East river, the assistant general mana- 

 ger, Mr. Sawyer, has a suite of offices for himself and his 

 assistants. The greater part of the Broadway side is occupied 

 by the treasurer's department. The view from these front 

 windows is superb, being entirely uninterrupted and looking 

 across North river, Jersey City, and westward indefinitely — a 

 very suitable situation, as it will enable Mr. Watson, whenever 

 collections are slow, say in Idaho or Nebraska, to step to the 

 window and see what the trouble is. The auditing department 

 has the northwest corner, with a great wealth of windows fac- 

 ing west and north and, on a small court, to the east, so that 

 even the bookkeeper in the remotest corner will not only have 

 all the light he wants, but the particular kind of light that he 

 may prefer. The building has twelve elevators, six " express " 

 and six " locals," so that the twelfth floor has the best elevator 

 service in the building. In addition to providing largeand com- 

 modious offices for the entire organization, generous provision 

 has been made for the convenience and comfort of out of 

 town customers, who will find not only desk room and con- 

 ference rooms at their disposal, but the best possible tele- 

 phone and messenger service and other facilities to which 

 they will all be made most welcome. 



MARION INSULATED WIRE AND RUBBER CO. 



The factory of this new company, at Marion, Indiana, is 

 about completed, and some of the departments are already in 

 operation, but they have yet some machinery to install, on ac- 

 count of delay in obtaining the same from the makers. The 

 company advised The India Rubber World late in March 

 that they hoped to be in full operation within 30 days. 



INTERNATIONAL RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 



[See The India Rubber World, March i, 1904 — page 213.] 



At a meeting of creditors of thii company, at Hoboken, New 



Jersey, on March 14, in bankruptcy proceedings, William T. 



Baird, who on December 7 last had been appointed receiver for 



the company, was duly elected trustee in bankruptcy, and ac- 

 cepted the trust. It has since ordered by the New Jersey 

 court of chancery that on April 4, at 10 a.m., at No. 15 Ex- 

 change place, Jersey City, the creditors and shareholders of 

 the corporation show cause, if they have any, why an order 

 should not be made directing William T. Baird as receiver to 

 present his account and report, and be discharged as receiver, 

 the residue of the assets to be turned over to William T. Baird 

 as trustee in bankruptcy. 



CONSOLIDATED RUBBER TIRE CO. 

 The company's earnings for the year 1903 were sufficient to 

 permit of the payment on April 1 of 1% per cent, on their out- 

 standing 4 per cent, debenture income bonds, through the 

 Manhattan Trust Co. (New York), agent for the bondholders 

 under the agreement of April 1, 1901. The annual meeting of 

 the shareholders will be held on May 2. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



The Falcon Rubber Co. (New Haven), February 29, 1904, 

 under Connecticut laws, to manufacture druggists' and sur- 

 gical rubber goods; capital, $60,000. Organization effected 

 March 3. Directors: Patrick J. Cronan, Lewis C. Warner, 

 Andrew R. Bradley, Francis P. Bush, Benjamin L. Coe, Fred- 

 erick S. Ward, Charles E. Langdon, Dennis B. Martin, and Al- 

 bert C. Coe. Officers: Albert C. Coe, president; Francis P. 

 Bush, treasurer; Charles E. Langdon, superintendent; Dennis 

 B. Martin, manager of sales. Mr. Coe has been connected for 

 18 years past with L. Candee & Co., rubber manufacturers, of 

 New Haven, in executive positions. Mr. Bush has been iden- 

 tified with important manufacturing interests. Mr. Langdon is 

 also a practical rubber manufacturer, who was for some years 

 connected with the Seamless Rubber Co. (New Haven), manu- 

 facturers of druggists' sundries. Mr. Martin is well equipped 

 for the position of sales manager through his wide acquaint- 

 ance with wholesale trade. 



= The Davie Rubber Co., Inc., February 17, 1904, under New 

 Jersey laws, to make and deal in rubber horseshoe pads ; capi- 

 tal, $20,000. Succeeds the firm of Davie & Co., patentees of 

 the Davie hoof pad, Camden, New Jersey. Officers: Hewlings 

 Lippincott, president ; H. F. Davie, vice president ; Robert M. 

 Lippincott, secretary and treasurer. 



= New York Pneumatic Horse Collar Co., February 23, 1904, 

 under New Jersey laws ; capital $200,000. Incorporators : 

 Alexander Hamill, No. 130 East Twenty-third street, New 

 York ; George W. Flaacke, Jr., and A. Livingston Norman, 

 lawyer. No. 25 Broad street, New York. Registered office in 

 New Jersey, No. 1 Montgomery street, Jersey City. Messrs. 

 Flaacke and Livingston have been identified hitherto with 

 companies incorporated in New Jersey to exploit the rubber 

 horse collar patent at one time controlled by the United States 

 Pneumatic Horse Collar Co., an unsuccessful enterprise. 



= Nelson Crosskill Corporation (Danvers, Massachusetts), 

 February 19, 1904, under Massachusetts laws, to manufacture 

 rubber cements ; capital, $5000. Incorporators: Nelson Cross- 

 kill, Wellesley, Mass.; George W. Kent, Providence, R. I.; 

 William L. King, Somerville, Mass. 



Maine Rubber Shoe Co. (Portland, Maine), March 26, 

 1904, under Maine laws; capital, $10,000. Objects, to deal ex- 

 clusively in rubber footwear made by the Hood Rubber Co. 

 Directors : W. H. Given, George E. Bird, A. C. Berry, and J. 

 H. Parsons. The president and treasurer and manager of the 

 company is W. H. Given, for some years connected with the 

 Pacific coast trade of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., and later 

 with the enterprise Rubber Co. (Boston). The address of the 

 Portland store is Nos, 82-92 Gross street. 



