May i, 1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



291 



ADDITIONAL TRADE NOTES. 



THE four members of Boston Rubber Garment Workers' 

 Union, No. 174, including President Nurenberg, mention- 

 ed in the last India Rubber World as having been expelled 

 for going back to their work in the Union Rubber Co.'s factory 

 while a strike was in progress there, were reinstated in the 

 Union on April 21. Meanwhile, the strike of the garment 

 makers, ended on March 17, had been declared on again. 



= The foremen and clerks of L. Candee & Co, (New Haven, 

 Connecticut), to the number of fifty, on the evening of April 20, 

 tendered a complimentary banquet to their superintendent, 

 Mr. John H. Pearce, at the Tontine Hotel, New Haven. 



= The Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. (New York) have leased 

 the premises No. 2334 Olive street, St. Louis, which are being 

 remodelled for their use. 



= The new courthouse now building at Syracuse, New York, 

 will be floored with the " Interlocking " tiling of the New York 

 Belling and Packing Co., Limited. The original contract was 

 for marble floors, but this was changed by the board of super- 

 visors. 



= At the recent annual town meeting of Cranston, Rhode 

 Island, a resolution to exempt the Atlantic Rubber Shoe Co. 

 from taxation for five years was defeated. 



=The Russell Manufacturing Co. have decided to equip their 



plant at Rockfall, Connecticut, devoted hitherto to the making 

 of cotton yarns, with looms for the manufacture of elastic web- 

 bing. Webbing is now made at some of the company's mills in 

 South Farms, in the same state. 



= Mr. J. Edwin Davis has joined forces with the Continental 

 Rubber Works (Erie, Pennsylvania) and will have full charge 

 of their sales. The small plant which he has been operating 

 for some time at Buffalo, New York, has been given up, and the 

 machinery disposed of. 



= Morgan & Wright (Chicago) are pushing actively a line of 

 rubber heels. 



=Frank Venn has been placed in charge of the packing de- 

 partment of the Edgeworth factory of the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co., to succeed John N. Williams, resigned. Mr. Williams had 

 occupied the position for 29 years, while Mr. Venn has been in 

 the employ of the company for 25 years. Mr. Venn has been 

 mentioned in The India Rubber World several times as the 

 patentee of an ingenious device for marking rubber boots and 

 shoes with sizes. 



= Albert B. Beers, broker in India-rubber and commercial 

 paper (New York) will, on May 1, remove from No. 58 William 

 street to No. 68 William street. 



= E. H. Cutler, formerly selling agent of the Woonsocket 

 Rubber Co., is now connected with the selling department of 

 the Atlantic Rubber Shoe Co. 



REVIEW OF THE CRUDE RUBBER MARKET. 



THERE was a somewhat easier condition of the market 

 during the first part of the month, including a decline 

 amounting to 4 cents on higher Para grades. Latterly, 

 however, prices have advanced to the level which ex- 

 isted at our last report, besides which they are more firmly 

 held. While arrivals have continued heavy, deliveries for con- 

 sumption have been large. 



The report of the last Antwerp sale, in another column, would 

 indicate a declining market there. It should be noted, how- 

 ever, that while the prices obtained were lower in some cases 

 than the brokers' valuations, the valuations had been raised. The 

 prices paid were on a parity with the actual prices of the pre- 

 ceding month. 



Respecting the condition of the trade an importer states: 

 " Of course there is a ' corner' on rubber, and a bad one, but 

 it came about in the desire to get rubber for actual consump- 

 tion and not as a speculation. The United States Rubber Co. 

 bought so heavily for their present and future needs that they 

 got a large share of the stock in sight ; then the importers, to 

 cover their ' shorts,' were forced to jump in and get what they 

 could. It is a corner, but a perfectly natural one." 



Arrivals at Pard, of all grades, including Caucho, for the past 

 four seasons, have been as follows, in metric tons : 



1900*01. 1901-02. 1902-03. 1903-04. 



To December 31 11,300 13,630 12,250 13,470 



To April 30 24,350 26,670 26,020 326,305 



[fl-To April 28, 1904.] 



Following is a statement of prices of Para grades, one year 

 ago, one month ago, and on April 29— the current date: 



PARA. May i. '03. Apr. 1, '04. Apr. 29, 



Islands, fine, new go@gi 107(0)108 io8@i09 



Islands, fine, old 92@g3 @ @ 



Upriver, fine, new g2@93 iog@uo ni®ii2 



Upriver, fine, old g8@gg iio@m ii2@M3 



Islands, coarse, new 59@6o 07® 68 64® 65 



Islands, coarse, old @ @ @ 



Upriver, coarse, new 7£@73 S6@ 87 86@ 87 



Upriver, coarse, old ® © © 



Caucho (Peruvian) sheet 5g@6o 



Caucho (Peruvian) ball 70@7i 



69© 70 

 77@ 78 



6g@ 70 



7 8@ 79 



The market for other sorts in New York, changes in which 

 have been about the same, is as follows : 



AFRICAN. 



Sierra Leone, istqualit>95 ©96 



Massai, red 95 @g6 



Benguella 75 ©76 



Cameroon ball 65 @66 



Accra flake 36 ©37 



Lopori ball, prime g3 ©94 



Lopori strip, prime g2 ©93 



Ikelemba 96 @97 



Madagascar, pinky 82 ©83 



Late Para cables quote : 



Per Kilo. 



Islands, fine 6$8oo 



Islands, coarse 3$yoo 



Exchange, 



Last Manaos advices : 

 Upriver, fine. ... 8$ooo 



CENTRALS. 



Esmeralda, sausage. . .77 ©78 



Guayaquil, strip 67 ©68 



Nicaragua, scrap .. . .76 ©77 



Panama, slab 58 ©59 



Mexican, scrap 74 ©75 



Mexican, slab 56 ©57 



Mangabeira, sheet. . . .50 ©57 

 EAST INDIAN. 



Assam 83 ©84 



Borneo @ 



Per Kilo. 



Upriver, fine 8|ooo 



Upriver, coarse 6$ooo 



Upriver, coarse 5$8oo 



Exchange, \*%d. 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



New York quotations — prices paid by consumers for car- 

 load lots— in cents per pound — show a slight decline from the 

 last published prices, as follows : 



Old Rubber Boots and Shoes— Domestic b\i @ §Yi 



Do — Foreign 5 % @ 5% 



Pneumatic Bicycle Tires 4 © 4% 



Solid Rubber Wagon and Carriage Tires 7 



White Trimmed Rubber 7K @ 1 3 A 



Heavy Black Rubber 4 



Air Brake Hose 1% © 2% 



Fire and Large Hose 1 % © 1% 



Garden Hose i?s & i'A 



Matting &@I 



