January i, 1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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= The two factories of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. were 

 reported recently to be employing about 1850 hands, of whom 

 1 100 were at work in the " Alice" mill, and 750 at Millville 

 The daily ticket was about 12,000 pairs of shoes and 4800 pairs 

 of boots. Both mills were running steadily and the company 

 were advertising for additional help. 



= The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls, Conn.), 

 having been mentioned as having under way a reclaiming 

 plant, they advise The India Rubber World that what they 

 are putting up is a small building in which to recover unvul- 

 canized scrap. As this is an acid treatment, it was thought 

 best to locate the plant outside of their main buildings. 



= The first shipment of rubber shoes from the new factory of 

 Terrence McCarty, at Bristol, Rhode Island, was made to Bos- 

 ton, on December 2. 



=iThe Plymouth Rubber Co. (Stoughton, Massachusetts) 

 recently purchased some real estate near their factory, with a 

 view, it is understood, to building an extension in the near fu- 

 ture. 



=The Hartford Rubber Works Co. have lately added a 900 

 HP. Corliss engine to their factory at Hartford, 



= The Corona Rubber Co., Limited, of Montreal, the incor- 

 poration of which was reported in the November issue of this 

 Journal, have acquired the plant of the late Strathcona Rubber 

 Co., at Nos. 200-208 Papineau avenue, and taken up the busi- 

 ness of proofing cloth for the waterproof clothing trade. 



= Dana Webster, for some time past assistant superintendent 

 at the factory of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., has accepted 

 a similar position with The India Rubber Co., the new com- 

 pany operating at New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



= From present indications the factories of the United States 

 Rubber Co. at Naugatuck will continue busy all winter. These 

 factories have been run at high pressure for the past three 

 years, and this winter the employes have not had even a full 

 week's shutdown for the holidays. 



= Not many years ago all fruitjar rings were packed in bar- 

 rels. The first rings offered in packages were in strawboard 

 tubes which contained a gross of rings. The Boston Woven 

 Hose and Rubber Co. have led in the movement to furnish 

 packages, and their line this year contains five grades that are 

 packed in embossed boxes containing one dozen rings, and 

 three grades that are packed in cartons containing one pound. 

 The cartons are appropriately labelled with handsome litho- 

 graphs. 



=The New York Belting and Packing Co., Limited, have 

 removed their San Francisco branch to Nos. 605-607 Mission 

 street. 



=The sixth annual meeting of the Western Association of 

 Shoe Jobbers will be held in St. Louis, on January 5 and 6, on 

 which occasion the rubber shoe trade, as usual, will be liberally 

 represented. The program provides for separate meetings of 

 the jobbers handling each of the leading brands of rubbers, in- 

 cluding the Western Association of Hood Rubber Co.'s Jobbers. 



= The Fall River (Massachusetts) Rubber Co. was damaged 

 by a fire which started in a neighboring dry goods store on the 

 evening of December 11. The loss has been determined by the 

 insurance adjusters at $1650. 



=The production of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. in one 

 week recently was 25,500 pairs of boots and 259,500 pairs of shoes 

 — total, 285,000 pairs. The number of employes was 3100 and 

 the pay roll $31,000. 



= At an auction sale of securities at Philadelphia on Decem- 

 ber 17, one lot of 700 sharesof Pneumatic Horse Collar brought 

 $1.10, and a lot of 100 shares brought 10 cents. The Stock 

 Exchange price in i899.was $3 per share. 



=The plant of the Monarch Rubber Co. (Campello, Massa- 

 chusetts) is being enlarged, with the view to adding new lines 

 of production. 



=The Boston Belting Co.'s regular quarterly dividend No. 

 137, of $2 per share, was payable on January 1 to holders of 

 record at the close of business on December 15. 



=The Franklin Rubber Co. (Boston) have obtained permis- 

 sion from the aldermen of Maiden to erect an addition to their 

 factory on Eastern avenue, in that city. 



=The Apsley Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts) were re- 

 ported lately to be working a larger shoe ticket than at any 

 previous date. 



= In May last an effort was made by the United States postal 

 authorities to convict one James B. Kellogg of using the mails 

 with fraudulent intent, in connection with the so called Inter- 

 national Wheel, Tire, and Rubber Co. This charge was not 

 sustained, but other charges of fraud already pending against 

 Kellogg were proved against him, and on December 9 he en- 

 tered the New York state prison at Sing Sing, to serve a term 

 of imprisonment of 18 months. 



= Mr. George B. Spencer has resigned as manager of the sun- 

 dries department of The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, 

 Ohio), to date from January 1, to devote his attention to his 

 interests in rubber in another direction. 



= The Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Trenton, New 

 Jersey, while not having given special attention to the fire hose 

 trade, has received some orders of late, including one for 2000 

 feet for the city of Yonkers, New York. 



=The Faultless Rubber Co., of Akron and Ashland, Ohio, 

 was incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, on December 24, with 

 $225,000 capital, by T. W. Miller, H. W. Camp, Roy Miller, T. 

 M. Gregory, and H. E. Andress. The nature of the business of 

 the new corporation will be found set forth in detail in the 

 Akron correspondence on another page of this paper. 



=The first calendar for 1904 that reaches us arrives with the 

 compliments of the Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. (New York 

 and Akron, Ohio), manufacturers of the Kelly-Springfield tire. 

 This calendar comprises six leaves of heavy paper, 10X ^1% 

 inches, each designed for two months, and each containing an 

 attractive picture in colors. 



=The Stamford (Connecticut) Rubber Supply Co. send us an 

 attractive calendar for 1904 which, suspended over the rubber 

 man's desk, will serve as a pleasant reminder throughout the 

 year of the business of this company in rubber substitutes. 



= Messrs. John Royle & Sons (Paterson, New Jersey) are 

 sending to their friends this year, as usual, a handsome pocket 

 memorandum book, with spaces for every day in the year, a 

 calendar, and data useful for reference, not forgetting a men- 

 tion of the machinery which they produce, for the use of the 

 rubber and other industries. 



=The regular quarterly dividend of iyi per cent, on Amer- 

 ican Chicle Co. preferred is payable on January 2, and the reg- 

 ular monthly dividend of 1 per cent, on the ordinary shares on 

 January 20. 



= Mr. Fred A. Plum has joined the selling forces of the 

 Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co., dating from January 1, 

 and will look after his friends in the trade in the states of New 

 York and Pennsylvania. Mr. Plum, in a former connection, was 

 for more than twenty-five years closely associated with Mr. 

 Voorhees, and it seems natural that they should again be allied 

 in business. The Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co. have 

 been very successful ever since their beginning in business in 

 1898, having now one of the best equipped factories in the 

 country, and^the addition of Mr. Plum to their forces is an- 

 other evidence of their good business judgment. 



