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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May i, 1904. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. RESUME DIVIDENDS. 



The board of directors, at their meeting on April 21, de- 

 clared a dividend of 1% per cent, on the preferred shares of the 

 company, from the net earnings for the fiscal year ending 

 March 31, 1904, to holders of record at 3 p. M., May 31, payable 

 June 15. This is the first dividend paid by the company since 

 January 31. 1901. Dividends were paid regularly on the pre- 

 ferred shares from the organization of the company, at the rate 

 of 8 per cent, per annum, |up to October 31, 1900. The next 

 succeeding payment — in the January following — of 1 per cent, 

 was described as "the second quarterly dividend from the net 

 earnings for the fiscal year," after which no further payments 

 were made. The last dividend on the common shares was paid 

 April 30, i9O0.-==The dividend now announced will require 

 $352,882.50. 



WATERPROOF CLOTHING TRADE IN CANADA. 



While the amount of waterproof and rainproof clothing 

 manufactured in Canada is increasing each year [says the To- 

 ronto Clothier and Haberdasher'] the demand is also increasing, 

 at a tremendous rate, so that the fact that there has been a 

 rapid growth in imports during the last six years does not in 

 any way reflect upon the enterprise of Canadian manufacturers 

 or the merit of their product. 



EDWARD G. MILLBURY CO. IN BANKRUPTCY. 

 Schedules in bankruptcy of the Edward G. Millbury Co.> 

 dealers in oiled and rubber clothing, formerly at No. 38 White 

 street. New York, show liabilities of $12,822 and assets $8839,- 

 consisting of outstanding accounts $5062, and cash $3777 in a 

 trust company to the credit of Edward G. Millbury, receiver. 

 The largest creditors are H. M. Sawyer & Son, of East Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., $3041, and Effie J. M. Marsh, of Brooklyn, 

 $5225. Edward G. Millbury was appointed permanent receiver 

 in May, 1903. in proceedings for voluntary dissolution. He was 

 appointed temporary receiver, September 9, 1902, when the lia- 

 bilities was stated at $12,064 a °d the nominal assets $15,242. 



THE B. F. STURTEVANT CO.'S NEW PLANT. 

 Since the removal of the foundry and pattern departments 

 from the B. F. Sturtevant Co.'s plant at Jamaica Plain to its 

 extensive new quarters at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, the mov- 

 ing of the other departments has progressed in earnest. The 

 fan, heater, and electrical departments have already been 

 moved, and the engine and gal- 

 vanized iron department are in 

 the process of removal and the 

 erection of the machines in the 

 machine shop is well under way. 

 These machines, as well as all the 

 others throughout the works, will 

 be of the most modern and im- 

 proved type and with the systems 

 of cranes and industrial railways 

 will enable the work to be turned 

 out accurately, rapidly and at a 

 minimum cost. The handsome 

 office building is rounding into 

 shape. The standing finish, 

 quartered oak on the first and 

 second floors and plain oak on the 

 third and fourth floors, is com- 

 pleted and the walls and ceilings 

 are being tinted. The headquar- 

 ters are still at Jamaica Plain, 

 but in a few months the entire 

 plant will be moved. 



THE RUBBER GOODS TRADE IN CHICAGO. 

 Our correspondent reports : " Local shoe jobbers are having 

 a breathing spell, now that the weather has become settled, and 

 the tire men and mechanical rubber goods manufacturers' 

 agents are becoming busy. The automobile season is on in 

 full blast, making a good demand for tires. The footwear men, 

 while admitting that the trade is a little quiet — more so than 

 at this period of last year — assert that they have had such a 

 heavy season that a lull should not be complained of. It is 

 generally believed that western retailers and jobbers have 

 taken advantage of their opportunity and have placed their or- 

 ders so as to get in before the advance in prices which were ex- 

 pected. Others, who were late, are preparing to get in ahead 

 of the advance expected June I." 



AMERICAN PNEUMATIC HORSE COLLAR CO. 

 A judgment for $9298 was entered on April 6 against the 

 American Pneumatic Horse Collar Co., in favor of the City 

 Bank of Battle Creek, Michigan, on a note for $9000 due four 

 months from September 8, 1903, and unpaid. The summons 

 was served on Dee Allen, president of the company, at No. 25 

 Broad street, New York, who had been a resident of Battle 

 Creek. The company was incorporated in New Jersey, June 

 14, 1901, with $2, 000,00c capital authorized. 



INTERIOR OF THE HODGMAN RUBBER STORE. 

 The illustration gives a view of the interior of the handsome 

 store of the Hodgman Rubber Co. (New York), as seen from 

 the front — Nos. 806-808 Broadway — and extending back to 

 Fourth avenue. A single photographic view does not due full 

 justice to so spacious a storeroom, or give an adequate idea of 

 the number and extent of handsome showcases used in display- 

 ing the large line of goods marketed by this company. In ad- 

 dition to the store being so spacious, it is exceptionally well 

 lighted, having the advantage of a row of windows on the right, 

 overlooking the grounds attached to Grace church. Toward 

 the rear, on the left of the storeroom, are the entrances to the 

 offices of the company, which are not only extensive and well 

 arranged, but are also excellently lighted by means of a very 

 large court area in the middle of the block. There are further 

 large accommodations in a basement having the same floor 

 area as the store, and also a sub basement practically of the 

 same extent. 



INTERIOR OF STORE— HODQMAN RUBBER CO. (NEW YORK.) 



