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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1904. 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



NEW RUBBER RECLAIMING COMPANY AT AKRON. 



THE Alkali Rubber Co , of Akron, Ohio, with $1,000,000 

 capital, has lor its objects the control of the rubber re- 

 claiming patent of Arthur Hudson Marks (No. 635,141 

 — October 17, 1899), and the operation of a rubber re- 

 claiming plant for supplying the trade. The company begins 

 operations by acquiring the reclaiming plant which the Diamond 

 Rubber Co. have maintained for the past four years for meeting 

 their own requirements. The officers of the new company are : 

 A. H. Marks, president ; Bertram G. Work, vice president and 

 treasurer; George G. Allen, secretary. The remaining directors 

 are Colonel George T. Perkins and Ohio C. Barber. It will be 

 noticed that the official board is composed of representatives 

 of The Diamond Rubber Co. and The B. F. Goodrich Co. Re- 

 port has it that the Diamond company is to receive from the 

 Goodrich company a handsome payment for a half interest in 

 the new corporation. The reclaiming plant hitherto operated 

 by the Goodrich company is to be closed, the space occupied 

 by it to be devoted to other purposes of the company. It is 

 understood that the Diamond plant is to be enlarged at once. 

 Frank Peabody has been superintendent of the plant since its 

 inception. The Marks reclaiming process consists in treating 

 ground rubber scrap with a dilute alkali solution at a compara- 

 tively high temperature, then washing, drying, and sheeting. 

 The same patent is the basis of the rubber reclaiming work of 

 the Northwestern Rubber Co., Limited (Liverpool), of which 

 Mr. Marks is president and Mr. Barber a director. 

 MR. WARNER GOES TO MISHAWAKA. 

 Mr. Emmett A. Saunders, manager of the rubber depart- 

 ment of the Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Co. (Misha- 

 waka, Indiana) since its establishment, became president upon 

 the death of Martin V. Bei^'er, who formerly held that office. 

 With his added duties Mr. Saunders found too much work on 

 his hands, and the position of manager of the rubber depart- 

 ment has been filled by the appointment of Mr. Adna D.Warner, 

 who since 1899 has been general manager of the Beacon Falls 

 Rubber Shoe Co., having been formerly for a number of years 

 factory superintendent of the Goodyear's Metallic Rubber 

 Shoe Co., at Naugatuck. 



VICTOR RUBBER CO. — SALE OF PLANT. 

 At the first meeting of creditors of the Victor Rubber Co. in 

 bankruptcy [See The India Rubber World, June 1, 1904 — 

 page 320], at Springfield, Ohio, on June 3. George S. Dial was 

 chosen as trustee. On June 14 Trustee Dial offered at public 

 sale the property of the company at Snyderville (near Spring- 

 field), for which the highest bidder was Daniel Snyder, at 

 $23,550. The company did not own the real estate occupied by 

 their factory. It is understood at Springfield that Mr. Snyder 

 intends to reorganize the company, with a view to putting the 

 factory in operation again. 



THE NEPONSET RUBBER CO. 

 Amended articles of incorporation have been filed with the 

 secretary of state of New Jersey, changing the name of the Old 

 Colony Rubber [mentioned in the last India Rubber World 

 —page 321] to the Neponset Rubber Co., the authorized 

 capital remaining at §125,000, and the registered office in New 

 Jersey at No. 243 Washington street, Jersey City. The new 

 company will engage in the manufacture of mechanical rubber 

 goods, at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, having acquired the plant 



operated by the Boston Gossamer Rubber Co., which has been 

 idle since the retirement from business of the latter company 

 about a year ago. J. C. Spillan and Thomas B. Pervis, Jr., 

 both of Boston, are mentioned as the prime movers in the new 

 enterprise. 



HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS CO. — ELECTION. 



At a special meeting of the shareholders of the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co., one of the constituent companies of the 

 Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., at Hartford, Connecticut, 

 on June 7, James VV. Gilson was elected a director to succeed 

 Lewis D. Parker. At a meeting of the directors held imme- 

 diately afterward, the following officers were elected : 



President -Chari.es II . Dale. 



First Vice President and General Manage) — WILLIAM Seward, Jr. 



Second Vice President — Chaki.es A. HUNTER. 



Third Vice President— Justus D. Anderson. 



Secretary, Treasurer, and General Agent — James W. Gilson. 



Assistant Secretary and Treasurer — Henry Plow. 



General Factoty Manager— }. E. ToURTELLOTTE. 



General Superintendent — H. W. BlGELOW. 



General Purcliasing Agent — W. H. W'HALEN. 



The board of directors comprises the first six names on the 

 above list, with the addition of Ernest Hopkinson. Mr. Gilson, 

 who had been sales manager of the company, in June, 1903, 

 was elected secretary, to which office is now added that of 

 treasurer. 



MILFORD RUBBER CO. — INCREASE OF CAPITAL. 

 The Milford Rubber Co. (Milford, Massachusetts), proofers 

 of cloth for the trade, have increased their capital from $10,000 

 to $40,000, fully paid, the new shares being held by Leon Aron- 

 son, president ; Harris B. Gordon, treasurer ; and Joseph Aron- 

 son, a director. The company began business in Milford about 

 six years ago on a small scale ; in May, 1899. they were incor- 

 porated, with $10,000 capital ; and in the return made to the 

 state commissioner of corporations in March last their assets 

 figured at $59,000. The company inform The India Rubber 

 World: " Our reason for increasing our capital stock is, that 

 it is the intention of the directors to have a calender put in 

 our factory at Milford, and manufacture a general line of me- 

 chanical rubber goods." 



A. W. FABER RUBBER WORKS. 

 The firm of A. W. Faber (New York), pencil manufacturers, 

 who recently acquired the plant and business of The Para- 

 mount Rubber Co. (Newark, New Jersey), are now operating 

 the same in their own name, in the manufacture of their re- 

 quirements in erasers, rubber bands, and the like. The rubber 

 goods sold by this firm in Europe are made at their Newark 

 factory. 



AN INDIANAPOLIS RUBBER STORE. 



The only wholesale house in Indianapolis devoted exclusive- 

 ly to rubber goods is that of the Central Rubber and Supply 

 Co., established and incorporated in 1894, since which time the 

 business has grown steadily. Their premises, No. 229 South 

 Meridian street, comprise four floors, 25X100 feet, all the space 

 in which is utilized for the storage or display of mechanical 

 rubber goods, carriage tires made for the company, waterproof 

 clothing, and rubber specialties, together with a general line of 

 mill supplies. The company's trade covers Indiana, Illinois, 

 and eastern Ohio, and gives employment to five traveling sales- 

 men. The mechanical goods line carried is that of the New 

 York Belting and Packing Co., Limited. Almus G. Ruddell is 



