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= Elliott Manufacturing Co., February 23, 1904, to manufac- 

 ture golf balls and rubber goods; capital authorized, §125,000. 

 Incorporators: Charles B. Elliott, Eva C. Elliott, and Joseph 

 B. Wright. C. B. Elliott is president and treasurer and J. B. 

 Wright secretary. The company have acquired a factory at 

 Menlo Park, New Jersey, and are prepared to make dress 

 shields, hospital sheeting, dental dam, Gutta-percha tissue, 

 and the " Elliott Get There " golf ball— a low priced rubber 

 cored ball. Registered office : No. 43 Paterson street, New 

 Brunswick, New Jersey. 



= State Rubber Co. (Boston), February 27, 1904, under Massa- 

 chusetts laws; capital, $50,000, of which $40,000 preferred and 

 $10,000 common. Officers : Stoughton Bell, Cambridge, pres- 

 ident ; William J. O'Donnell, Boston, treasurer ; J. M. P. Wall- 

 ner, Boston, clerk. Mr. Bell informs The India Rubber 

 World that the company's plans are not ready for announce- 

 ment to the public. 



= First Rubber Co. (Chicago), March 16, 1904, under Illinois 

 laws, to manufacture rubber goods; capital, $10,000. Incor- 

 porators : William C. Boyden, Willard Moffett, and Robert S. 

 McClure. 



= Maryland Rubber Co. (Baltimore), March 16, 1904, under 

 Maryland laws, to do a general business in dealing in rubber 

 goods; capital, $25,000. Incorporators: Samuel H. Jones, 

 William M. Harman, Jr., George A. Eldridge, Charles G. Bald- 

 win, and Rignal W. Baldwin. 



= Potomac Rubber Co. (Baltimore), March 14. 1904, under 

 Maryland laws, to deal in rubber goods; capital, $1000. Incor- 

 porators: Silas M. Fleischer, Abram J. Ulman, Edwin S. 

 Drexel, Julius H. Wyman, and Robert E. Gerhardt. 



= General Rubber Co. (Newark, New Jersey), March 25, 1904, 

 under New Jersey laws, to manufacture rubber goods; capital, 

 $2,000,000. Incorporators: Edward A. Day, Morristown ; Wil- 

 liam D. Kellogg, Elizabeth ; and Jerome T. Congelton, Newark 

 — all in New Jersey. 



= Elmira Rubber Co. (Elmira, New York), March 25, 1904, 

 under New York laws, to deal in boots and shoes and rubbers ; 

 capital, $10,000. Incorporators: John Keefee, M. H. Murphy, 

 and M. A. Kelly— all of Elmira. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) announce 

 the successful test of their " White Shield " brand of fire hose 

 by the fire department of New York city. The announcement 

 refers to the 49,100 feet of hose sold to the city as reported in 

 The India Rubber World January 1, 1904 (page 137). 

 The company advise that though the specifications required by 

 the city were unusually exacting, their "White Shield " hose 

 stood the tests in every detail as to cover, duck, friction, and 

 brand. 



= Replying to inquiries regarding the ultimate disposal of the 

 Cable Rubber Works, recently bought by L. C. Chase & Co., 

 the company state that they will undoubtedly take the ma- 

 chinery out and have it installed at their factory at Reading, 

 Massachusetts, after which the buildings of the Cable company 

 will be put on the market. 



=Charles W. Harris, having disposed of his interest in the 

 Milwaukee Rubber Works Co., has taken charge of the carriage 

 tire department of The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, 

 Ohio). It is understood that business prospects in this depart- 

 ment are very encouraging. 



= The Goshen Rubber Works (Goshen, Indiana) on March 2 

 filed with the secretary of state of Indiana a certificate of in- 

 crease of capital from $100,000 to $200,000, in accordance with 

 the plan adopted at their last annual meeting and reported in 

 The India Rubber World of December 1, 1903 (page 97). 



= The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. have recently 

 built a large addition to their brass foundry, to take care of 

 their increased business on couplings, nozzles, and hose fittings. 

 With the addition of several new turret lathes and automatic 

 machines, they are now in a position to make prompt delivery 

 on all spring orders. 



=The Standard Underground Cable Co. (Pittsburgh) during 

 the last few years have laid many miles of underground cable 

 in Baltimore, for various telegraph and telephone companies 

 and the street railways. The various installations are referred 

 to as having been uninjured by the recent disastrous Baltimore 

 fire, except in cases where exposed ends of cables were injured. 



= L. Candee & Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), it is reported, 

 will close their factory on March 31, for the purpose of install- 

 ing new engines, which work, it is estimated, will require about 

 four weeks. 



= A pending suit is that of the Hartford Rubber Works Co. 

 v. Pennsylvania Rubber Co., for alleged infringement of United 

 States patent No. 631,803, granted August 29, 1899,10 Frank 

 Mallalieu, for the " manufacture of inflatable tubes." It is ap- 

 plicable particularly to tire inner tubes, and covers the " dog's 

 ear " or envelope fold form of tube. It is reported that the case 

 will be settled out of court. 



=J. C. Wilson has resigned as president of The India Rubber 

 Co. (New Brunswick, New Jersey), and at last accounts his suc- 

 cessor had not been elected. 



= F. H. Turner resigned as treasurer of the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co., on March 15, to become president of the Standard 

 Foundry Co. of Hartford. William H. Seward, Jr., factory 

 manager of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., has been chosen 

 treasurer to succeed Mr. Turner, and will discharge the duties 

 of both positions. 



= The Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. (Lockland, near Cin- 

 cinnati), will, it is reported, make a considerable addition to 

 their already large asbestos goods factory, in view of the in- 

 creasing demand for their fireproof products. The new fac- 

 tory will be devoted to asbestos roofing. 



= The latest advertising novelty designed by Mr. John P. 

 Lyons, this time calling attention to the Candee rubbers, is the 

 likeness of a beautiful girl swinging in a very comfortable ap- 

 pearing hammock. That the illusion may be more perfect, the 

 poster is mounted on card board so that the hammock may be 

 swung in any office, where its fair occupant calls attention to 

 the merits of the goods advertised. 



=The copartnership existing hitherto under the name of the 

 Elastic Tip Co., at No. 370 Atlantic avenue, Boston, has been 

 dissolved. The business will be continued under the same 

 style by George R. Stetson, one of the paitners. 



= A. N. Hammerstrom, former purchasing agent of the Sim- 

 mons Hardware Co. (St. Louis), has accepted the position of 

 business manager of the Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 (Trenton, New Jersey). 



= Mr. William J. Gorham, president of the Gorham Rubber 

 Co. (San Francisco), is now in Japan, presumably to secure 

 from the Japanese government a goodly share of the orders for 

 rubber blankets and other equipment that the war has devel- 

 oped. 



= Arthur C. Squires, of Akron, Ohio, is not now connected 

 with any rubber manufacturing concern, but has placed himself 

 at the service of the whole rubber trade as consulting expert in 

 general lines. 



= The Indiana Insulated Wire and Rubber Co. (Jonesboro, 

 Indiana) are reported to have shipped lately a good sized lot of 

 telephone cable to Japan, and a ton of rubber insulating tape 

 to each of the ports of Berlin, Paris, and Alexandria (Egypt). 



