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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1907. 



NEW INCOEPORATIONS. 



Pneu L'Electric Co., July 26, 1907, under the laws of New- 

 York ; capital $200,000. The company are the American branch 

 of the Societe Industrielle des Telephones, of France, capitalized 

 at 18,000,000 francs [=$3,474,000], and largely engaged in making 

 the "Electric" automobile tires, as well as the electrical insulation 

 work in which they have so long been prominent. The American 

 company will confine its attention to tires. Office : No. 1610 

 Broadway, New York. 



Eureka Tire Compound Co., August 12, 1907, under the laws 

 of Michigan ; capital $20,000. Incorporators : John Walters, 

 Charles F. Murphy, and John J. Gafill, Jr. Offices: No. 29 At- 

 water street. East, Detroit, Michigan. The company report : "We 

 do not exploit any particular type of tire ; all we do is replacing 

 air in pneumatic tires with a compound that has met with good 

 success." 



The Springfield Tire and Rubber Co., May 8, 1907, under the 

 laws of Ohio ; capital $50,000. Incorporators : H. L. Slager, 

 D. K. Gotwald, W. H. Smith, J. W. Garnier, Eugene Gamier, 

 A. W. Staley, and W. W.. Ellsworth. This company succeeds a 

 West Virginia corporation under the same name formed in 1903, 

 and since operating a factory at Springfield, Ohio. The India 

 Rubber World is informed : "There has been no change in our 

 business, other than having the incorporation papers transferred 

 from West Virginia to Ohio. This was done to save paying 

 double taxes." 



California Antioak Tire and Motor Co., June 14, 1907, under 

 the laws of California ; capital $100,000. J. F. Weaver, president ; 

 Cory Hale, vice president; Milo H. Smith, secretary and general 

 manager. The company has the rights in California for the Anti- 

 oak leather tire and maintains offices and a garage at Los Angeles. 

 Safety Rubber Heel Co. has been incorporated under the laws 

 of California, with $25,000 capital, by F. B. Turpin, F. M. Wright, 

 and C. I. Howe. The purpose is to make a non-slippable rubber 

 heel, under United States patent 

 No. 839,886, issued to Elbert G. Per- 

 kins, of Vallejo, Cal. The office of 

 the new company is 925 Monadnock 

 building, San Francisco ; F. B. Tur- 

 pin is secretary and treasurer. 



The Multiplex Tube and Tire 

 Co., July 24, 1907, under the laws 

 of New Jersey; capital authorized, 

 $1,000,000. Incorporators: Horace 

 W. Gallaer, J, George Lotz, Fred- 

 erick H. Hippie, and Kenneth K. 

 McLaren. Registered office in New 

 Jersey: No. 15 Exchange place, 

 Jersey City. 



The Newark Compressed-Air 

 House Cleaning Co., July 25, 1907, 

 under the laws of New Jersey ; cap- 

 ital, $25,000. Incorporators : Wil- 

 liam F. Conway, Patrick J. McDer- 

 mott, and James Conway, all of 

 Newark, N. J. 



Empire State Tire Co., August 8. 

 1907, under the laws of New York ; 

 capital $20,000. Incorporators : Wil- 

 liam F. McClurg, A. McClurg, and 

 Sylvanus B. Nye. Sole state agents 

 for New York state of the Lemon 

 Greenwald patents for extensible 

 tread pneumatic tires and puncture 

 proof tire protectors. W. F. Mc- 

 Clurg is secretary and treasurer, at 

 75 Erie County Bank building, Buf- 



falo, N. Y. The Greenwald tire features were illustrated in The 

 India Rubber World, July i, 1907 (page 313). 



Howard-Ramie Fibre Manufacturing Co., June 20, 1907, under 

 the laws of New York; capital $1,000,000. To manufacture fire 

 hose and other articles from ramie fiber, and to utilize the gum 

 recovered from the fiber as a substitute for rubber. Harry H. 

 Howald-Howard, president ; Edward C. Best, vice president and 

 secretary; Adolph Hilderbrandt, treasurer. Office, No. 19 Park 

 place, New York. The president of this company is also presi- 

 dent and manager of the Howard Chemical Co., of New York. 



Whelpley Rubber Works, Chicago, August 23, 1907, under 

 the Illinois laws; capital $500; to sell tires and rubber goods. 

 Incorporators : George W. Yeoman, Richard T. Whelpley, W. E. 

 Schroeder. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York) an- 

 nounce the change of address of their agency at Buffalo, N. Y., 

 from Nos. 43-45 Pearl street, to Nos. 379-383 Washington street. 



The Fairfield Rubber Co. (Fairfield, Connecticut) report busi- 

 ness quite active for the whole year past. The company have 

 been putting in a patented stoker at their plant, to the marked 

 satisfaction of their neighbors as well, since it avoids spreading 

 black smoke from the factory chimneys. All the employes of 

 the company were recently guests of President Harral at a clam- 

 bake and outing, which v.-as immensely enjoyed. 



The Goodyear"s India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co. 

 (Naugatuck, Connecticut) are reported to have completed lately 

 an order for over 100,000 army blankets, and at present large 

 orders are being received for automobile horn bulbs. 



The Standard Underground Cable Co. (Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 

 vania) have located their Pacific coast headquarters permanently 

 at 511 Shreve building, San Francisco, under the management 

 of A. B. Saurman. The company's new factory at Oakland, Cali- 

 fornia, is four times as large as the factory destroyed by fire in 

 April of last year. 



Shareholders of La Xueva Providencia Rubber Co. 

 [See report in The India Rubber World, September i, 1907 — page 388.) 

 [Those standing, counting from left to right, are Messrs. Carside, Wa'jin, Atwood. Kurze. Hazard. 

 Whitmarsh, Paris, Goff, and Johnson. Those seated are Messrs. Spencer, Holmes, Gardner, Leo F. Nadeau, 

 Cnxe, and Nadeau, Sr. The Guatemalan flag is suspended above the group.] 



