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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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1904. 



The company have been marketing for some time a special 

 cushion tire. 



= The Akron Dental Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), April 28, 

 1904, under Ohio laws. Officers : George W. Aultman, presi- 

 dent ; Arthur C. Squires, vice president and manager; William 

 J. Aultman, secretary and treasurer. The company will erect 

 a factory to. make rubber dental specialties under patents 

 granted to Mr. Squires. 



= T. S. Buck Manufacturing Co. (New York city), April 27 

 1904, under New York laws ; to make rubber hand stamps and 

 automatic inking stamps ; capital, $100,000. Directors : Taylor 

 S. Buck, T. L. Buck, Brooklyn; Frank White, Albany. To 

 continue the business of Taylor S. Buck, No. 227 Canal street. 



THE GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER CO. (AKRON). 

 A plan of reorganization of this company has been submit- 

 ted to their creditors, who are offered the option of taking in 

 full for their claims stocks and bonds of the company, or a 

 certain percentage of cash and the remainder in securities. The 

 present capital is $500,000, in common stock, of which the plan 

 calls for the surrender of $150,000. There are to be issued 

 $500,000 of 6 per cent, cumulative preferred shares, and $300,- 

 000 of 10 year 6 per cent, bonds, secured by mortgage on the 

 company's plant. Creditors may take for their claims (A) 40 

 per cent, in bonds and 60 per cent, in preferred shares, or (B) 

 20 per cent, in cash and 40 per cent, in bonds. Creditors are 

 invited to deposit their claims with The Cleveland Trust Co. 

 (Cleveland, Ohio) before July I, 1904, and the plan is to be de- 

 clared operative whenever claims have been so deposited to a 

 sufficient amount to seem to warrant the success of the reor- 

 ganization. The company are to have the right to redeem 

 bonds and preferred shares at any time. 



RUBBER HOOF PAD SUIT IN TRENTON. 

 The suit of the Farrier Hoof Pad Co. against Albert E. 

 Wheatcroft for an injunction restraining him from in any dis- 

 posing of an invention in hoof pads was decided in the Court 

 of Chancery April 4 in favor of the company. By the terms of 

 the settlement the shares of stock of the company claimed by 

 Wheatcroft were to be turned over to him, and he in turn was 

 to turn over the patent right to the company. These mandates 

 of the court have been complied with and the company will 

 continue to manufacture the hoof pads as formerly. [See The 

 India Rubber World March, 1904 — page 215.J 



TRENTON RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 



The Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co. finished and shipped 

 the last week in April a special order for their " Black Bear" 

 packing, consisting of two rolls weighing 1400 pounds each, 

 full 36 inches wide and y& inch thick. The companystate that 

 though the " Black Bear " is a high priced packing it is rapidly 

 growing in popularity. This brand is now marketed with a 

 handsome black finish that is the cause of much favorable com- 

 ment among dealers. The Trenton company have just com- 

 pleted a complete overhauling of their machinery, and this, 

 with the improvements made a few months ago, places this 

 factory in the best possible shape to turn out goods. The 

 factory is busy and trade is reported good. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Franklin Rubber Co. (Boston) have begun work on an 

 addition to their factory at Maiden, to be of brick, one story 

 high, 62 X 62 feet. Upon the completion of this structure the 

 entire manufacturing plant of the company will be located at 

 Maiden with offices and salesrooms as heretofore at No. 105 

 Summer street, Boston. 



= A fire occurred in the factory of the Durham Rubber Co., 

 Limited (Bowmanville, Ontario), on March 28, caused by an 



explosion in the cement building. The company's fire brigade 

 extinguished the flames after damage had been done to the 

 extent of $2000, which is covered by insurance. 



= Mr. J. M. Hardy, who is widely known in the trade, will be 

 connected with the Eureka Fire Hose Co. (New York), after 

 May 1, with full charge of their fire hose business in the New 

 England states. 



=The Elmira Rubber Co. (Elmira, New York), the incorpor- 

 ation of which was reported in the last India Rubber World, 

 has for its objects the sale of the Hood Rubber Co.'s brands of 

 boots and shoes. M. H. Murphy is president, M. A. Kelly vice 

 president, and John Keeffe secretary and treasurer. 



=James A. Young, of the Durham Rubber Co., Limited 

 (Bowmanville, Ontario), was in New York during the month 

 to expedite the shipment of a much delayed lot of cotton 

 duck, much needed at the factory, which lately had been run- 

 ning day and night on mechanical rubber goods, and particu- 

 larly on pneumatic tires. 



=The Standard Last Co. (Montreal, Quebec), organized to 

 combine the shoe last plants operated formerly by the Cana- 

 dian Rubber Co. and the Granby Rubber Co., are reported to 

 be doing a good business, making lasts for both leather and 

 rubber shoes, and having a capacity for 300 pairs a day. 



=The Rubber Soled Leather Shoe Co. (Boston) have been 

 petitioned into involuntary bankruptcy at the instance of 

 creditors whose claims amount to $1890.73. 



= The Marion Insulated Wire and Rubber Co. (Marion, Indi- 

 ana), who are now manufacturing insulated wires, expect soon 

 to produce a full line of soft rubber goods. 



=The factory property occupied by the late firm of George 

 Watkinson & Co., manufacturers of rubber footwear, situated 

 at Thirty-sixth and Reed streets, Philadelphia, has been pur- 

 chased by the Philadelphia Rubber Works. The latter com- 

 pany are not prepared, however, to announce any plans with 

 regard to the future use of the property. 

 PERSONAL MENTION. 



In the sketch of Mr. James Bennett Forsyth, in the April 1 

 issue of The India Rubber World, a regrettable printer's 

 error gave the date of his becoming superintendent of the Bos- 

 ton Belting Co. as 1886, whereas, of course, the figure should 

 have been 1866. 



= John H. Ferris, a prominent citizen of South Norwalk, 

 Connecticut, died in that city on April 10, aged 62 years. He 

 was a director in the Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 (New York), of which his son, Jesse M. Ferris, is treasurer. He 

 was also a large owner of coasting schooner interests, and a 

 director in several South Norwalk institutions. He repre- 

 sented his town in the Connecticut legislature in 1887, and in 

 1889 was a state senator. 



= At the last regular meeting of the New York section of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry, at the Hotel Savoy, on the even- 

 ing of April 22, the first paper on the program was one on 

 " Resins of Gutta-percha and Allied Gums as a Means of Iden- 

 tification," by Wilton G. Berry, of the laboratory connected with 

 the office of the appraiser of merchandise, United States Cus- 

 toms Service, New York. 



= Mr. Arthur E. Friswell has resigned the position of assis- 

 tant superintendent of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., and 

 leaves soon for a six months' rest in Europe. 



= Mr. A. H. Alden, of the New York Commercial Co., sailed 

 for Europe on April 23. 



=Mr. Waldemar Scholz, of the firm of Witt & Co., rubber 

 merchants, of Manaos, Brazil, was a visitor to New York by 

 the steamer llildebrand, from that port, which arrived here on 

 March 28. Mr. Scholz returned by the same steamer. 



