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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1903. 



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PLANT OF THE ATLANTIC RUBBER SHOE CO., CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND. 



NEW PLANT OF THE ATLANTIC RUBBER SHOE CO. 



Just at the.edge of the town of Cranston, which is really a 

 suburb of Providence, Rhode Island, the fine plant of the 

 Atlantic Rubber Shoe Co. is rapidly approaching completion. 

 The location, from a manufacturing standpoint, is ideal. It is 

 on the main line of the consolidated railroad, with its own sid- 

 ing. It is also close to the Pawtuxet river, assuring plenty of 

 water, and the five cent trolley fares from Providence render it 

 attractive to labor. The illustration on this page shows the 

 present condition of the plant, except the partly finished 100 

 foot tower at the main entrance. The officers of the company 

 are Frank N. White, president ; G. Trowbridge Hollister, (of 

 Vermilye & Co., bankers, New York), vice president ; Charles 

 E. Spencer, secretary and treasurer. The directors are the of- 

 ficers named above, together with Latham A. Fish (of Ver- 

 milye & Co.), Thomas B. Hidden, J. H. Flagler (of the Standard 

 Oil Co.), Joseph O. Stokes (of the Home, Trenton, and Joseph 

 Stokes rubber companies), and B. H. Hotchkiss. General 

 Manager Henry J. Doughty is at Cranston, busy with superin- 

 tending the work of construction. Maurice E. Clark, former 

 superintendent of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. (Provi- 

 dence, R. I.), has severed his connection with that company 

 and taken the superintendency of the Atlantic Rubber Shoe 

 Co. His late position with the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. is 

 filled by James Gray. 



THE NEW CENTURY RUBBER CO. 

 Norman Grey, of Camden, New Jersey, receiver of this 

 company, on October 9, offered at public sale at East Burling- 

 ton, New Jersey, the plant, machinery, goods, and chattels of 

 the company, for which was realized $3475, the purchaser be- 

 ing the attorney for interests not at the time disclosed. The 

 sale was confirmed by the New Jersey court of chancery on 

 October 12. The building, ground, and boiler and engines, 

 being leased, were not offered for sale. A carload of reclaimed 

 rubber (29,855 pounds) belonging to the company will be of- 

 fered for sale by the receiver at No. 54 Harrison street, New 

 York, on November 5, at 12 M. 



THE NEW YORK CREDIT MEN'S ASSOCIATION. 

 The annual report, dated October 1, records some good work 

 accomplished during the year in the furtherance of its objects 

 in the protection of its members against imposition and fraud 

 and in bringing about mutual improvements in trade customs 

 and usages. The association carries on its work in connection 

 with a National Association, by means of which, when a fraud- 

 ulent collection agency was driven out of New York last year, 



it was proceeded against later in various cities in other states, 

 and its head finally placed in jail, where he is now awaiting 

 trial. The objects of this association are most commendable 

 and it should have a larger membership. 



COLONEL COLT NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR. 

 At the Republican convention held at Providence, Rhode 

 Island, on October 6, to nominate candidates for the state 

 offices to be filled at the next annual election, Colonel Samuel 

 Pomeroy Colt, of Bristol, was the choice for governor. Colonel 

 Colt filled the office of attorney general in that state, by elec- 

 tion, for three annual terms 

 ( 1 883- 1 886), after having served 

 previously for three years as 

 assistant attorney general. 

 Colonel Colt since 1901 has 

 been president of the United 

 States Rubber Co., in which 

 he has been a director since its 

 organization. He had pre- 

 viously been president of the 

 National India Rubber Co. — 

 an office which he still holds 

 — and is now president of two 

 of the other constituent con- 

 cerns, the Woonsocket Rubber 

 Co. and the Goodyear's Metal- 

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Colt wrote a letter under date of October 9 accepting the nom- 

 ination. ==The Republican convention at the same time nom- 

 inated, for reelection as state treasurer, Walter A. Read, a di- 

 rector in the Woonsocket Rubber Co.— =Colonel Colt, if 

 elected, will be the second prominent member of the rubber 

 trade to fill the office of governor of his state, the first having 

 been the Hon. Augustus O. Bourn, president of the Bourn 

 Rubber Co. (1883-1885). 



ATTRACTIVE ADVERTISING FEATURES. 

 The Candee Rubber Co. have brought out a series of ten 

 photo-reproductions of "The World's most Famous Paint- 

 ings" on cards 6x8 inches. On the back of each is a brief 

 story of the picture and of the artist, with just enough refer- 

 ence to the subject of rubber footwear. The cards will be prized 

 by the shoe retailer's customers— and others— fortunate enough 

 to get them.— —The Meyer Rubber Co. have been distributing 

 a series of blotters, faced with lithographed copies of other 

 pictures which, if less famous, are spirited and amusing.— A 



