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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1903. 



tised for sale. The plant is in condition for carrying on the 

 manufacture of rubber goods, or may be readily adapted for 

 other purposes. Further details are contained in the advertis- 

 ing pages of this Journal. 



ANOTHER SINGER FACTORY IN EUROPE. 



The Singer Manufacturing Co. will establish a sewing ma- 

 chine factory in Germany, at Wittenberge, midway between 

 Hamburg and Berlin. This will be the Singer company's fourth 

 factory in Europe, the others being located (1) at Kilborne, 

 near Glasgow, Scotland ; (2) at Kloridsdorf, near Vienna ; and 

 (3) at Poldosk, between St. Petersburg and Moscow, in Russia. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



The Buffalo Rubber Manufacturing Co., July 17, under 

 New York laws ; capital, $50,000, fully subscribed. E. L. Toy. 

 formerly vice president of the Alden Rubber Co., is president, 

 and A. J. Commins, former secretary of the Alden company, is 

 secretary and treasurer. A desirable manufacturing plant has 

 been acquired at Tonawanda and West avenues, Buffalo, New 

 York. The same has been electrically equipped, and at last ac- 

 counts the company hoped to have an attractive line of rubber 

 specialties on the market by October 1. 



= The Housatonic Rubber Co. (Bridgeport, Conn.), Sep- 

 tember 22, 1903; capital, $4000, in $50 shares. Directors: 

 Justin A. Wilson (president), Phebe A. Wilson (secretary and 

 treasurer), A. B. Beers. The corporation is formed to con- 

 tinue the rubber reclaiming business conducted by the late 

 James A. Wilson as the Housatonic Rubber Co. 



= Anchor Rubber Tire and Manufacturing Co., September 5, 

 1903, under New York laws ; capital, $125,000. Incorporators : 

 A. C. Farnsworth and A. ]. Farnsworth, New York city; Ed- 

 ward Ridgway and Joseph W. Elberson, Setauket, Long Island. 

 The purpose of the company is to make solid rubber vehicle 

 tires and insulated wire, at a Setauket factory with which Mr- 

 Elberson has long been'identified. Mr. Elberson will be gene- 

 ral manager, and it is proposed to begin work early in this 

 month. 



= Harris Rubber Co., September 1, 1903, under New York 

 laws, to manufacture rubber goods ; capital, $15,000. Incorpo- 

 rators: Benjamin Harris and Minnie Harris, No. 209 Sixth 

 street, Hoboken, New Jersey ; Max Cohen, New York city. 



= The incorporation of the American Rubber Co., under 

 New Jersey laws, with $100,000 capital, was reported in The 

 India Rubber World June 1, 1903 [page 320J. On June 29 

 the company filed a certificate at Trenton, changing its name 

 to the Continental Rubber Co., and increasing the capital to 

 $1,000,000. One of the incorporators, Samuel R. Betts, of a 

 legal firm at No. 120 Broadway, New York, informs The India 

 Rubber World that the company are not yet prepared to 

 make public any statement regarding their object or plans. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Fairfield (Connecticut) Rubber Co. have awarded a 

 contract for the erection of an additional storage warehouse, to 

 be of brick, 40 X 120 feet, with fireproof roofing. 



= Four large new boilers have been installed in the power 

 plant of the Fells factory of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. 



=The Ailing Rubber Co. have enlarged their store at Bridge- 

 port, Connecticut, by annexing an adjoining store, so that they 

 now occupy Nos. 1 125 to 1 129 Main street. The store is divided 

 into sections for different lines of goods, the bicycle tire de- 

 partment being spoken of as unusually extensive and complete. 

 Ernest M. Jaycox is resident manager. 



= The engine at the new rubber shoe factory of Terrence 

 McCarty, at Bristol, Rhode Island, have been running for sev- 

 tral days, and at last accounts it was expected that manufac- 

 euring would be begun shortly after the first of the month. 



=*The Yatman Rubber Co. (Newark, New Jersey), whose loss 

 by fire was mentioned lately in these columns, inform The 

 India Rubber World that they have succeeded in getting 

 their insurance adjusted and have resumed manufacturing at 

 the same premises, Nos. 224 228 High street. 



=The Fawkes Rubber Co. (Denver, Colorado) have opened 

 a branch office at No. 1679 Broadway, New York, for the sale 

 of their new vehicle and bicycle tire, which was described in 

 The India Rubber World for July 1, 1903. The office will 

 be in charge of Basil S. Courtney, as manager of sales for the 

 company — a gentleman of several years experience in the tire 

 selling trade, he having been until recently with the New York 

 Belting and Packing Co., Limited. 



=The twenty-nine salesmen of the Chicago Rubber Shoe 

 Co., on August 29, the last day of their summer vacation, were 

 delightfully entertained at the summer home of the president 

 of the company, Mr. E. G. Stearns, at Lake Geneva, a few hours 

 out of Chicago. Seven states are covered by the firm's travel- 

 ing staff. 



=Theodore Hofeller & Co. (Buffalo, New York) are distrib- 

 uting to the trade a neat folder illustrating the expansion of 

 their trade in old rubber, in which line they now claim the 

 largest business in the world. A view is given of their present 

 large premises, in comparison with their original plant, in 1881. 

 The title of this folder is characteristic of the spirit which per- 

 vades the business of the establishment: "Expansion Thro' 

 Mutual Good Will." 



=The factory of the Goodyear's Metallic Rubber Shoe Co. 

 [Wales-Goodyear], at Naugatuck, was closed for a few days 

 early in the month on account of an accident to the engine. 



= Henry L. Hotchkiss, of L- Candee & Co. (New Haven, 

 Conn.), has been elected president of the Glenark Knitting 

 Co., of Woonsocket, R. I. The board of directors includes 

 also Colonel Harry E. Converse, of the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co., and John J. Banigan, formerly of the rubber trade. 



= In the Labor Day parade in Boston a feature was a float 

 showing a bevy of pretty girls, employes of the Hood Rubber 

 Co., displaying a banner inscribed " Patronize Union Labor." 

 There were in the parade 150 men belonging to the Rubber 

 Workers' Union, and 150 female employes. 



= The firm of Gibson-King Rubber Co. (No. 206 Broadway, 

 New York), the formation of which was mentioned in The 

 India Rubber World of August 1, was dissolved on Septem- 

 ber 14 by mutual consent. A. Rasines, of the same address, 

 has been appointed trustee in liquidation. 



= The blowing out of a boiler tube at the factory of the 

 Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., scattered coals from the grate 

 around the boiler room, setting fire to the woodwork. An 

 alarm was sounded and the Providence fire department put out 

 the flames before much damage was done. 



=The strike in the rubber shoe factory of L. Candee & 

 Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), mentioned in our last issue, 

 came to an end about the middle of the month. It resulted 

 from the introduction of a new line of shoes and the fear of the 

 employes concerned that, with the required number of pairs 

 per day, they could not earn their accustomed wages. The 

 strike began during the vacation of Superintendent Pearce, 

 who, on his return, called the striking girls together in the 

 work rooms, where they found ice cream and cake served — 

 something which has served as a basis for comment in very 

 many newspapers, as introducing a new idea in dealing with 

 labor troubles. During the strike a number of the girls in- 

 volved secured employment at the Beacon Falls rubber shoe 

 factory, where they are still at work. A rubber workers union 

 has been organized at New Haven, as one result of the strike. 



