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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1903. 



Incorporators: E. E. Gift, J. H. Camp. John Dearbone, and 

 Joseph H. Edwards, of Philadelphia, and Lewis Starr, Camden, 

 New Jersey. It is understood that the object is to operate the 

 plant of the New Century Rubber Co., manufacturers of re- 

 claimed rubber, which recently went into liquidation. 



= Mercury Rubber Co., October 27, 1903, under New York 

 laws; capital, $15,000. Directors: I. Markowitz and George 

 Bernard, New York city ; Charles F. Hart, Elizabeth, New 

 Jersey. 



A STRIKE ENDED AT TORONTO. 

 After having been on strike for ten weeks, the employes 

 of The Maple Leaf Rubber Co., Limited, at Port Dalhousie 

 (near Toronto), on October 21, at a meeting in their union hall, 

 decided to apply in a body to be taken back in the company's 

 employ. The management of the company decided, however, 

 that each applicant for work must be considered individually, 

 and each was required to sign new factory regulations. The 

 company does not recognize the Union, but Superintendent R. 

 F. Foote assured the employes that they should receive here- 

 after as high wages as were paid in any other Canadian factory 

 for the same work, and in some cases this will result in an in- 

 crease of wages. 



RUBBER WORKERS' UNIONS. 



The officers of Akron Local, No. 5, are: Charles Fornaker, 

 president ; John Callahan, vice president ; E. M. Goodenberger, 

 carresponding secretary ; W. A. Labhe, secretary and treasurer. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Business in the mackintosh department of the Apsley 

 Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts) is reported very good. 

 This department will now be enlarged, owing to room being 

 gained by transferring to the new building mentioned in our 

 last issue some of the boot and shoe work formerly carried on 

 in the same building with the mackintosh work. Already 

 about 100 new sewing machines have been installed in the 

 stitching rooms. 



= Letters patent of incorporation have been granted to A.V. 

 Roy, John J. McGill, Edward Gauthier, Gustave Gravel, and M. 

 Huberdean, all of Montreal, Canada, as the Corona Rubber Co., 

 with capital of $[00,000, and headquarters in that city. 



= Mr. Albert T. Bell, for some time manager of the New 

 York store of The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio) has re- 

 signed his position, and will take charge of a large hotel, to be 

 known as " The Chalfonte," soon to be erected at Atlantic City, 

 New Jersey. Mr. F. P. Stewart takes his place as manager of 

 the New York store. 



= Thirty shares of American Chicle Co., preferred, were sold 

 at auction in New York on October 7 at 80^. 



= The Sweet Tire and Rubber Co. (Batavia, New York) were 

 exhibitors at the recent national carriage convention at Boston, 

 where they booked some good orders, and it is stated that they 

 have now business enough in hand to keep the factory busy 

 through the season. 



=The fact that the control of the Glenark Knitting Co. 

 (Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is now in the hands of important 

 shareholders of the United States Rubber Co. has given rise to 

 reports that the former company is controlled by the latter. 

 The statement has been authorized, therefore, that the United 

 States Rubber Co. stand on the same basis in relation to the 

 purchase of Glenark goods as any other large customers. 



= Selden W. Tyler has retired from J. H. Stedman & Co., 

 Inc. (Boston), dealers in scrap rubber — having sold his interest 

 to the Stedman family— and accepted a position with Carter's 

 ink Co. (Boston), a concern with which he was connected for- 

 merly. 



= The Rubber Step Manufacturing Co. (Exeter, New Hamp- 

 shire) lately filled an important order for rubber step pads for 

 a German coachbuilding house. 



= The Connecticut Rubber Co., extensive retailers of rubber 

 goods at Hartford, Connecticut, were active supporters of the 

 recent " Merchants' Week " enterprise in that city. During 

 the week ending October 3, visitors from the neighboring 

 towns, who came in under a half-fare arrangement made with 

 the railways, were offered a concession in prices on retail pur- 

 chases, the idea being to make the people of those towns ac- 

 quainted with the Hartford stores in a way that would make a 

 good impression. 



= The Cambridge Manufacturing Co., organized last spring 

 to make golf balls at Plantsville, Connecticut, have removed 

 their plant to Bridgeport, in the same state. Mr. W. T. Dale is 

 not now connected with the company. 



=J. F. Preston, of the Preston Hose and Tire Co., has brought 

 suit against six members of the board of trade of Marlboro, 

 Massachusetts, for a sum claimed to be due and unpaid, on ac- 

 count of a bonus promised to him in consideration of the loca- 

 tion of his factory in that town. 



=William S. Hunnewell, lately of Exeter, New Hampshire, 

 has sold his residence there and purchased a ranch at New 

 Chicago, Montana, he being now connected with the Goodyear 

 Rubber Co.'s business at Butte. Montana. 



= Suit has been brought against the Diamond Rubber Co. 

 (Akron, Ohio) by Mattie D. Vanderhoff, for damages in the 

 sum of $1995, claimed for injuries alleged to have been sus- 

 tained by her, while employed by the company, through slip- 

 ping on a platform outside the factory, on which sleet had 

 fallen. 



= William Meagher, who has been appointed chief engineer 

 in the factory of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. (Providence) 

 was engineer in the factory of the Marvel Rubber Co. (Woon- 

 socket) when that concern was in business. 



= The factory of the Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 (New York), at Passaic, New Jersey, though located in the dis- 

 trict so disastrously flooded early in the past month, was not 

 obliged to cease operations. Many other mills were closed, 

 however, and the damage to Passaic has been estimated at $2,- 

 000,000. 



= The new four story brick building of the New York Insu- 

 lated Wire Co., at Wallingford, Connecticut, mentioned in this 

 journal in August as being under way, is reported completed. 



= " There is a Place in Every Mill for the ' Original Rubber 

 Man '" is the title of an attractive adverstising folder issued by 

 the Boston Belting Co., who manufacture so many rubber 

 requisites for mill and factory use. 



=The new rubber shoe factory of Terrence McCarty, at 

 Bristol, Rhode Island, began operation on October 23. 



=The Whitehead Brothers Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) 

 have been making further improvements in their plant, putting 

 in new shafting and gears, and adding machinery, including a 

 Royle tubing machine. Their hose capacity is now 14,000 feet 

 a day. 



= Captain John J. Farley has left the druggists' sundries de- 

 partment in the factory of the National India Rubber Co. 

 (Bristol, Rhode Island) to accept the position of foreman in 

 the same department in the factory of Morgan & Wright (Chi- 

 cago). Before leaving Bristol, Captain Farley was the recip- 

 ient of a handsome piece of jewelry from the employes of his 

 department at the National factory, together with an expres- 

 sion of their best wishes for his success in his new field. Cap- 

 tain Farley derives his military title from being commander of 

 a company in the Rhode Island militia. 



