October i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



25 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



AJAX-GRIEB RUBBER CO.S ANNUAL. 



THE annual meeting of shareholders of the Ajax-Grieb Rub- 

 ber Co. was held at Trenton, New Jersey, on September 3, 

 when formal approval was given to plans which have been 

 prepared for extensive new buildings, which will add about 7S,ooo 

 square feet to their factory floor space. The plans call for a 

 three-story brick main building, with extensions ; the reported 

 cost is $80,000, and it is intended to be the finest factory in Tren- 

 ton. The location is on the west side of Olden street, the present 

 plant being on the east side. The officers were reelected : Horace 

 De Lisser, president; William G. Grieb, vice president; Harry 

 Grieb, secretary and treasurer. The merger of the Ajax and 

 Grieb rubber companies dates from September 10, 1906, and the 

 results are declared to have been in every way satisfactory. 



NEW BUILDING AT COLLEGE POINT. 



The Traun Rubber Co. {New York) are enlarging their fac- 

 tory at College Point by the addition of a four-story building, to 

 be devoted to the manufacture of some of their rubber special- 

 ties. The new factory will also be equipped for making gutta- 

 percha tissue. The company have been very busy throughout 

 the past summer. Mr. William Schrader, treasurer of the com- 

 pany, lately returned from a three months' vacation in Europe. 

 He reports the business outlook very bright in Germany, where 

 all the manufacturers are very busy. 



A NEW TILING CONCESN. 



The National Metal Back Rubber Tiling Co., of Philadelphia, 

 have begun the manufacture, at Trenton, of their patented tiling, 

 for which purpose they have leased from Philip McGrory. with 

 the option of purchase, the factory at Beaks and May streets, 

 occupied formerly by the Dyson Rubber Co. The Dyson com- 

 pany was incorporated in 1903, and their plant was purchased 

 about a year ago by Mr. McGrory, who has considerably im- 

 proved and enlarged it. The National Metal Back Rubber Tiling 

 Co. are capitalized at $500,000. C. Edward Hyke is the factory 

 manager. 



NEW SUBSTITUTE FACTORY. 



Robert E. Tvson, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, mentioned last 

 month as establishing a factory at Fairfield for making substitutes, 

 advises The India Rubber World that the factory is about com- 

 pleted and the machinery installed. He has associated with him 

 as superintendent L. C. Bullock, formerly with the Stamford 

 Rubber Supply Co., who has had a long experience in the rubber 

 and substitute business. 



RUBBEH. INDUSTRY IN NEW JERSEY. 



The forthcoming annual report of the bureau of statistics of 

 New Jersey will show that during 1906 there were 38 rubber 

 factories in that state (which is taken to include rubber reclaim- 

 ing plants), representing $15,143,208 of capital. The average 

 number of persons employed was 6,279, and the total of wages 

 paid $3,075,239. The cost value of materials used is stated at 

 $15,840,571, and the value of products $22,824,737. The latter 

 figure compares with $20,210,024 for 1905. There were 2,562 male 

 employes with weekly wages of $10 or more. 



SHOE FAIR IN CHICAGO. 



The second annual Shoe and Leather Market Fair held in 

 Chicago at the Coliseum, from August 28 to September 4, was 

 well patronized by the trade and the exhibits, covering about 33,- 

 400 square feet of floor space, were fairly representative of the 

 interests to which the fair was devoted— boots and shoes and find- 

 ings and all the grades of leather entering into footwear. The 

 rubber shoe trade was represented both by manufacturers of foot- 

 wear and by several houses marketing rubber heels. Displays 



were made by the Hood Rubber Co., Apsley Rubber Co., and the 

 Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., of their standard lines of boots 

 and shoes. Displays of heels were made by Morgan & Wright, 

 whose booth contained a pyramid of 5,000 heels ; by the Good- 

 year Tire and Rubber Co., who showed a non-slip sole as well 

 as heels; by the Foster Rubber Co., and the Springfield Elastic 

 Tread Co. The rubber trade was further represented by Eugene 

 Arnstein. of Chicago, with an exhibit of cements. 



NAUGATUCK, "THE RUBBER TOWN." 



A BOOKLET descriptive of Naugatuck, Connecticut, issued re- 

 cently by the board of trade of that town, begins with a brief 

 sketch of Charles Goodyear, whose inventions while a resident 

 there caused Naugatuck to become widely known as "the rubber 

 town." The rubber shoe industry ranks first among local manu- 

 facturing interests, more shoes being made there than in any 

 other town in the world, while a rubber reclaiming plant there is 

 said to be the largest in existence. A variety of other rubber 

 goods are made here, together with cotton fabrics for the rubber 

 shoe trade, paper boxes used for packing rubber goods, and 

 various manufactures of metals. The book includes views of the 

 principal buildings, public and private, and altogether gives the 

 impression that Naugatuck is an attractive town, as well as pros- 

 perous. As might be expected, the local rubber men form a 

 good percentage of the board of trade. 



MOTOR 'BUSES IN PHILADELPHIA. 



The Auto Transit Co. of Philadelphia have placed in com- 

 mission on Broad and Diamond streets, in that city, twelve 

 electric motor 'buses resembling the London type, and the vehi- 

 cles lately introduced on the Fifth avenue. New York. [See The 

 India Rubber World, August i, 1907 — page 355.] The Phila- 

 delphia 'buses are being well patronized, and the company plans 

 to increase the number before long to 50. 



DrVTDENDS DECLARED. 



The regular quarterly dividend of 1J4 per cent, on the pre- 

 ferred shares of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. was pay- 

 able on September 16. 



The directors of the Waterbury Co. (of New Jersey) have de- 

 clared the regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, on the pre- 

 ferred stock and the regular quarterly dividend of 25^ per cent. 

 on the common stock, payable October l. The directors of the 

 Waterbury Co. (of West Virginia) have declared the regular 

 quarterly dividend of i per cent., payable October i. 



The regular monthly dividend of i per cent, on the common 

 stock of the American Chicle Co. was payable September 20, and 

 an extra dividend of i per cent., making 13 per cent, for the year. 



The directors of the Consolidated Cotton Duck Co. declared 

 the usual dividend of 3 per cent, upon the preferred stock, for 

 the six months ended June 30, 1907, payable on October I. 



RUBBER MAN IN A RAILWAY WRECK. 



The New York World's report of the accident on the Boston 

 and Maine railroad at West Canaan, New Hampshire, on Sep- 

 tember 15, in which 32 persons lost their lives, contains this 

 paragraph : "Among the passengers was a young man in an 

 undershirt and trousers, grimed from head to foot and very quiet. 

 He was Talman H. Rieder, secretary and manager of the 

 Merchants' Rubber Co., of Berlin, Ontario. He had done his part 

 in the awful work of the dawn. One of the first out of the 

 sleeper, he was abreast of the trainmen into the wreck, and as 

 long as one living person had a chance of rescue he was in the 

 front of the work, chopping and sawing, prying and helping until 

 no more could be done- for the living." 



