( (CTOBER I, 1903.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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= E. Bers & Co. (Nos. 22-24 South Delaware avenue, Phila- 

 delphia) report that they carry in stock about 500,000 pounds 

 of various grades of scrap rubber, and are at all times in a posi- 

 tion to fill orders promptly. Orders are in many instances ex- 

 ecuted on the day of receipt. The firm have also a house at 

 No. 10^ Desbrosses street, New York. 



= The Calumet Tire Rubber Co. (Chicago) have been espec- 

 ially busy of late, chiefly on solid tires, though they are doing a 

 good business also in horseshoe pads. They are preparing to 

 introduce a new line of solid tires, but are not yet ready to put 

 out samples. 



= The Camp Rubber Co. (Akon and Ashland, Ohio) have 

 filed with the secretary of state of Ohio a certificate of increase 

 of capital from $50,000 to $150,000. 



= The regular quarterly dividend of $2 per share on the cap- 

 ital of the Boston Belting Co. is due on October 1 to stock- 

 holders of record of September 15. 



=The Bishop Gutta-Percha Co. have purchased a plot of 

 ground. 50X98. 9 feet, adjoining their premises on the south 

 side of East Twenty-filth street, New York. 



=The Duckwall-Harman Rubber and Supply Co. (Indianap- 

 olis, Indiana) announce an increase in their capital from §io,- 

 000 to $1 5.000. The business of the company dates from April, 

 1899. The company are selling agents in their territory for the 

 Gutta-Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. — being supplied 

 from the Chicago branch — and also for leading manufacturers 

 in various lines of supplies. 



= The Rubber Sole Leather Shoe Co. (South Framingham, 

 Mass.) are stated to have entered into a contract for the manu- 

 facture of their shoes by J. W. Russ & Co., of Haverhill, Mass. 



= The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) are 

 mentioned as having purchased a touring car for use in testing 

 automobile tires — a three cylinder 30 HP. machine, with 34 

 inch wheels and a speed capacity up to 50 miles an hour. 



= After twenty-four years spent in the rubber business in 

 Cleveland and in Boston, Mr. Alfred L. Lindsey, president of 

 the Stoughton Rubber Co., Boston, severs his connection 

 with rubber and goes into coffee and tea, the new position 

 being sales manager for the Chicago house of the well known 

 firm of Chase & Sanborn. For ten years past Mr. Lindsey 

 has been an active factor in the mackintosh business in Boston 

 and has left a record as a hard, successful, and conscientious 

 worker. The New York management of the Stoughton Rub- 

 ber Co. part with Mr. Lindsey with the greatest regret and 

 as an indication of their appreciation of his services present- 

 ed him with an elegant complete silver service. The good 

 wishes of the whole trade will go with Mr. Lindsey. 



= Few perhaps, even in the rubber footwear trade, appreci- 

 ate the remarkable growth of the business of the Mishawaka 

 Woolen Manufacturing Co. In the last six years business 

 has increased seven fold, the sales last year amounting to over 

 $4,000,000. To take care of this business the building of addi- 

 tions has gone on almost continuously. At the present time 

 foundations are being put in for a storehouse for crude stock 

 and for manufactured goods. This house will be 150X280 

 feet five stories, of brick, and connected with the main factory 

 by bridges. 



PERSONAL NOTES. 



The Rev, Dr. Edwin S. Lines, who has been chosen bishop of 

 the Episcopal diocese of Newark (New Jersey), is the subject of 

 a sketch in Leslie's Weekly (New York), which states he is a 

 native of Naugatuek, Connecticut, where, in his early years, he 

 worked in a rubber factory to earn money to help pay his way 

 through Cheshire Academy. He was graduated from Yale in 

 1872, ana after studying for the ministry and accepting a small- 



er pastorate, he became rector of St. Paul's Church, in New 

 Haven, which position he has held until now. 



= Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt, president of the United 

 States Rubber Co., and Mr. William R. Dupee, president of 

 the American Rubber Co. (Boston) were at Aixles Bains dur- 

 ing August, returning at the end of the month to Paris, where 

 Mr. Russell Colt, son of Colonel Colt, left the party to return 

 to his studies at Yale University. Colonel Colt arrived at home 

 late in September. 



=rGeorge S. Andrus, general manager of the La Crosse Rub- 

 ber Mills Co. (La Crosse, Wis.), after an absence of two months 

 from active business with an attack of appendicitis, is again at 

 the helm, and pushing things with his old time vigor. 



= Mr.JB. T. Morrison, general manager of the Reading (Mass.) 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., accompanied by Mrs. Morrison, 

 has been making a tour of Europe. 



= Mr. E. D. Hewins (Boston), well known to the New Eng- 

 land rubber trade as an enterprising cloth merchant, has 

 lodged with the Interstate Railway Commission, a complaint 

 regarding the practice of the New York, New Haven and Hart- 

 ford railroad of charging as much for .a parlor car seat for a 

 short distance, as it does from Boston to New York. 



= Mr. and Mrs. Charles Varnum Perry, of Bristol, Rhode 

 Island, celebrated their silver wedding on September 17. Mrs. 

 Perry was Mary Isabel Trotter, daughter of the late Andrew 

 Ramsay Trotter, who was treasurer of the National India Rub- 

 ber Co. for a long time. 



THE FIGURES THAT GOT MIXF.D. 



In a late issue The Boot and Shoe Recorder (Boston) ob- 

 served : 



The India Rubber World is noted for the exactness of its state- 

 ments. Editor Pearson never prints anyilem of news without first veri- 

 fying it. Therefore we are pleased to learn, on the authority of The 

 India Rubber World of September 1, that the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co., in its two factories, has a capacity of 332,000 pairs of boots and 

 shoes daily. We haven't time just now to compute what the yearly pro- 

 duction would be if they run at that full capacity every day except holi- 

 days, but we congratulate the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. on their ability 

 to sell all the goods which they can manufacture. 



The mistake occurred in the simplest manner imaginable. 

 Editor Pearson was engaged in solving two problems at once : 

 (1) the daily ticket of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and (2) the 

 number of times Editor Putnam had announced in thecolumns 

 of the Recorder the fact that "Lester Leland is in New York 

 this week." The first was intended as an item for The India 

 Rubber World and figured 55,333 pairs, and the second to be 

 used as a cure for insomnia and totaled 332.000 insertions. The 

 totals were transposed in the editorial mind. That's all. 



Wellington Mackenzie, No. 48 Yorkville avenue, Torontb 

 has filed a claim for a deposit of asbestos on the shore of Lake 

 Temiscaming, about two miles from New Liskeard, on the On- 

 tario side of the lake— the first to be discovered in Ontario. 

 Mr. Mackenzie informs The India Rubber World that the 

 material is abundant and of very fine quality, the fiber being 

 four inches long. ^^^^ 



A traditional nickname for Akron— one that has been in 

 use for years— is disappearing. That name was " Tip-top city," 

 having its origin partly in the fact of Akron's elevation, being 

 probably the highest city in the state. The name which is 

 taking its place is " Rubber city." Cigars, pencils, and many 

 things in the way of advertising matter are being branded 

 " Rubber city,' and the Akron public are taking up the name 

 with interest. 



