August i, 1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



The Victor Rubber Co. (Springfield, Ohio), July 2, 1904, under 

 Ohio laws, to manufacture rubber goods ; capital, $100,000. In- 

 corporators: Joseph A. Niehaus, Joseph Rielog, John W. Pohl- 

 man, E. P. Lamping, R. C. Cronin. 



= United Rubber Sole Shoe Co., June 30, 1904, under Massa- 

 chusetts laws ; capital authorized, $600,000, represented as paid 

 in by application for United States patent for rubber soling 

 boots and shoes. Fayette W. Wheeler, Maiden, Mass., presi- 

 dent ; Reuben T. Robinson, Cambridge, Mass., treasurer. Mr, 

 Wheeler, a lawyer with offices in Boston, advises The India 

 Rubber World that the company are not yet prepared to 

 make their plans public. 



= The Alfred H. Smith Co., July 6, 1904, under New York 

 laws; capital, $125,000. To continue the business of the late 

 Alfred H. Smith, dealer in toilet articles, No. 84 Chambers street' 

 New York, including importation of rubber sponges. Incor- 

 porators: S. D. Smith, R. H. Smith, N. M. Smyth. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



At a meeting of the board of directors of L. Candee & Co. 

 (New Haven, Connecticut), on July 7, the following officers 

 were reelected: Henry L. Hotchkiss, president; H. Stuart 

 Hotchkiss, vice president and secretary; George E. Bailey, 

 treasurer. 



= At the annual meeting of the Easthampton Rubber Thread 

 Co. (Easthampton, Massachusetts), on June 21, L. S. Stowe was 

 reelected president, Frederick T. Ryder treasurer, and F. W. 

 Pitcher general manager. 



= The Goodyear Rubber Co. have introduced on the market 

 a line of fruit jar rings, labeled " Gold Seal," put up 1 dozen in 

 a carton and packed 2 gross in a box. 



=The factory of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., at Olney- 

 ville, Rhode Island, which has been closed since early in the 

 month, is expected to resume operation on August 15. 



= Mr. J. E. Spencer, until recently purchasing agent for the 

 National Cash Register Co. (Dayton, Ohio), has been appointed 

 manager of sales for the Mechanical Rubber Co., Chicago. 



= The factory of the La Crosse Rubber Mills Co. (La Crosse- 

 Wisconsin) resumed work on July 11 with a full force, after 

 having been closed for two weeks to give the employes a 

 vacation. 



= The creditors of The Combination Rubber and Belting 

 Co., bankrupt (Bloomfield, New Jersey), early in the month re- 

 ceived notice from the referee in bankruptcy that a first divi- 

 dend, of not less than 20 per cent, on their claims, would be de- 

 clared on luly 19. 



= The Duckwall- Harman Rubber and Supply Co. (Indianapo- 

 lis, Indiana), have increased their capital stock from $15,000 to 

 $25 000. The business of the company dates from April, 1899, 

 and was incorporated in 1900 with $8500 capital, which sum 

 has been increased successively to the amount named above. 

 The company are selling agents in their territory for the rub- 

 ber products of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co. 

 (Akron, Ohio). 



= There is a newspaper report to the effect that Frank A. 

 Magowan, sometime of the Trenton rubber industry, was at 

 Milltown, New Jersey, about the middle of July, holding " con- 

 ferences " with citizens of that place relative to reorganizing 

 the late Milltown India Rubber Co. 



= There is no rubber in the " Vulcanite Rubber Roofing" 

 offered by the Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Co. (Du- 

 buque, Iowa). It is made of wool felt, densely compressed, and 

 saturated and coated with a special compound, to render it 

 fireproof against all ordinary roof exposures. 



= The Mason Regulator Co. (Boston) have issued a new 

 price list of parts for all sizes of Mason Reducing Valves, a 

 copy of which they will be pleased to mail on application. 



= Work was resumed on July 18, at the factory of the Lam- 

 bertville Rubber Co. (Lambertville, New Jersey), after a brief 

 shutdown for stocktaking and repairs. The mill is reported to 

 be well supplied with orders. 



= The directors of the India Rubber and Gutta Percha Insu- 

 lating Co. (Yonkers, New York) on July 1, declared a dividend 

 of "i\i. per cent., payable July 11. 



= The Sweet Tire and Rubber Co. (Batavia, New York) have 

 added to their output pump valves and rubber tired truck 

 wheels. W. F. Stearns has been made superintendent of their 

 factory. 



= The Union Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), jobbers of rubber 

 goods and engineers' supplies, have filed with the secretary of 

 state of Ohio a certificate of reduction of their capital stock 

 from $50,000 to $10,000. 



= F. R. Miiller & Co., long established as India-rubber and 

 Gutta-percha merchants, at Glasgow, London, and Liverpool, 

 have opened a branch house in New York, at No. 108 Water 

 street, which will be in charge of Mr. Wallace L. Gough. 



= Boston Rubber Garment Workers' Union No. 174 on July 

 3 ordered a strike of the members of the union employed by 

 the Cooperative Rubber Co., No. 175 Hanover street, and at a 

 later meeting assessed members who are at work elsewhere 5 

 per cent, of their wages for the benefit of the strikers. Union 

 No. 174 on July 20 elected Jacob Glazer president, Samuel 

 Starr vice president, Gabriel Jacobson recording secretary, 

 Edward Rosen financial secretary, George Garner treasurer, 

 and Samuel Schneider sergeant at arms. 



= In an interview printed in the Hartford Post, with E. D. 

 Robbins, mentioned as counsel for Lewis D. Parker, until lately 

 president of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., it was intimated 

 that legal proceedings would be brought in behalf of his client 

 to recover damages for his deposition from office. A later issue 

 of the Post (July 13) reports the matter " in abeyance for the 

 present and probably for some time in the future." 



= W. C. Coleman Co., dealers in scrap rubber and second 

 hand rubber machinery, have removed to Setauket, Long Island, 

 New York, where they have largely more space than was avail- 

 able at their New York city location. They were recently the 

 purchasers of the crude rubber and rubber scrap included in 

 the effects of the North American Rubber Co., in liquidation. 

 Another recent purchase of scrap by them amounted to 400,000 

 pounds, which is a large transaction in scrap when not includ- 

 ing old shoes. 



= The Manhattan Web Co., makers of elastic webbing, at 

 Newport, Rhode Island, have won a suit against the Aquid- 

 neck National Bank, of that city, under unusual circumstances. 

 Having been a New York corporation, the company was re- 

 organized in 1899 under a New Jersey charter, continuing as 

 before to do their banking business with the Aquidneck insti- 

 tution. On February 30, 1900, the bank held notes against the 

 Manhattan Web Co. of New York, and against E. Read Good- 

 ridge, its treasurer, aggregating $7750, which were paid on that 

 date with a check on the same bank signed by Goodridge as 

 treasurer of the reorganized concern. Shortly afterward a new 

 treasurer was elected and the company's account with the bank 

 was closed. About a year ago the Manhattan Web Co. of New 

 Jersey brought suit against the bank on the ground that their 

 treasurer in 1900 (Goodridge) had no authority to draw on their 

 account to pay his own debts or those of the old corporation, 

 and on June 14 last a jury rendered a verdict in favor of the 

 company for the amount claimed and interest— §9758.50. 



