October i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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A NEW CHICLE COMPANY. 



The Case Chicle Co. was incorporated July 25, 1907, under the 

 laws of New York ; capital, $100,000, fully paid. Incorporators : 

 B. K. Peebles, Chicago; C. H. Stewart, Rochester, N. Y. ; E. D. 

 Halsey and L. L. Beach, Pittsburgh. The company is successor 

 to a corporation of the same name, registered in New York 

 April 7, 1905, having purchased its rights, franchises, etc., at 

 private sale. Case Chicle Co. have their trade marks copyrighted, 

 and their vending machines patented, and manufacture their 

 chewing gum under a secret but not patented formula. They 

 have no connection with the American Chicle Co., Factory and 

 office: Nos. 8-1 1 Lundy's lane, Rochester, N. Y. 



GOOD BUSINESS IN RAILWAY AIK BRAKES. 



The directors of the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. have recom- 

 mended an increase in the capital stock from $11,000,000 to 

 $14,000,000, and the payment of a 25 per cent, stock dividend from 

 the increase, to be voted on by the stockholders at the annual 

 meeting on October i. The company's gross sales for the year 

 ended July 31, 1907, amounted to $11,230,410, against $9,744,984 

 in the year before. Applied to dividends, $2,475,000, against 

 $2,200,295 in 1905-06. The total amount available for dividends 

 was equal to 35 per cent, on the capital stock; the dividends 

 declared amounted to 20 per cent. 



WEDDINGS ON A RUBBER MANS YACHT. 



The schooner rigged yacht Whim, owned by Mr. Charles H. 

 Dale, president of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., is shown 

 in an accompanying illustration. The boat is 100 feet in length 

 over all, and 70 feet on the water line. It has a large cabin, four 



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Mr. C. H. D.\le's Yacht "Whim." 



large staterooms, and two baths. It has a 100 HP. gasoline en- 

 gine and develops a speed of 10 miles an hour; the boat is also 

 a fast sailer under canvas. 



Not a little romantic interest has attached of late to the Il'liim. 

 on account of the celebration on it of two marriages, reports of 

 which have appeared in the newspapers. The first occurred in 

 August, ofif Block Island, when Miss .^nna Seabury, of Montclair, 

 New Jersey, who to that time had been private secretary to Mr. 

 Dale, and Dr. P. D. Saylor, of New York, were married. Later, 

 at Larchmont, Mr. Harris B, Senn, an employe of the Peerless 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. (of which Mr. Dale is also presi- 

 dent), and Miss Minnie Kaesche, daughter of a New Yorker 

 having a summer home at Larchmont, were married. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Dale were present at both ceremonies. 



THE FOOTWEAR TRADE IN CANADA. 



The factory of the Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Co., Limited, 

 at Berlin, Ontario, has been closed. This company was or- 



ganized in 1899 and has been engaged principally in making 

 rubber footwear. In February last it passed under the control 

 of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited. The Berlin 

 company brands will continue to be marketed, but will be made 

 at the factory of the Merchants' Rubber Co., Limited, also in 

 Berlin and controlled by the Canadian Consolidated. 



Jacob Kaufman has resigned the presidency of the Merchants' 

 Rubber Co., Limited, which he helped to organize in 1903, after 

 having been president of the Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 from its beginning. Mr. Kaufman is reported to be intending to 

 establish a new rubber factory at Berlin, under the style Kauf- 

 man Rubber Co. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 



A PUBLISHED interview with an official of this company states: 

 "Our company is doing an excellent business, and there are suffi- 

 cient orders on our books, and those of our subsidiary com- 

 panies, to keep the various plants running through the remainder 

 of the current year at least; that is, through December, as our 

 sales year commences January i. Since the commencement of 

 the new fiscal year, on April i, the volume of business transacted 

 is some millions of dollars ahead of the corresponding period 

 of last year. The increase is due to greater operations in our 

 various branches, including the tire and other departments." 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 



The Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co. (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 

 lately applied for a receiver, at which time the creditors were 

 informed that this step was made necessary by the absorption 

 of the ready money of the company in constructing a large factory 

 building to an extent that had been found to embarrass its 

 operations. But a number of orders at profitable prices stood 

 on their books, and it was thought that the factory can be 

 kept running. The company states that at a fair valuation of 

 their assets they are perfectly solvent. The Michigan Trust 

 Co. were appointed temporary receivers, and later the appoint- 

 ment was made permanent. The principal creditors are two 

 Grand Rapids banks and two crude rubber importing firms. 



The firm of Goldberg & Rathman, prominent in the Boston 

 waste rubber trade, at Nos. 289-293 Commercial street, have 

 made an assignment to Samuel K. Casson, with liabilities re- 

 ported at $150,000, and available assets uncertain in extent, but 

 probably not exceeding $25,000. The partnership existing be- 

 tween Isaac Goldberg and Alfred H. Rathman was dissolved in 

 April last, the business continuing under the old name, with Mr. 

 Rathman at the head. 



A RUBBER SHOE FACTORY CLOSED. 



The Globe Mills Rubber Co. (Lawrence, Massachusetts) have 

 ceased operations, and the machinery and raw material in stock 

 have been sold to W. C. Coleman Co., who are removing the 

 same to make room for a woolen mill. The Globe Mills Rubber 

 Co. w-as incorporated early in 1905, organized with Loring M. 

 Monk president, and engaged in the making of rubber foot- 

 wear. Work was continued until during the past summer. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The New York offices of the American Congo Co. have been 

 removed from No. 35 Nassau street to No. in Broadway, the 

 headquarters of the Continental Rubber Co. The offices in 

 Brussels are at 5.\, Rue du Congres. 



Justus D. Anderson has resigned the presidency of The G & J 

 Tire Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana), in order to be able to devote 

 himself more closely to the affairs of the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co., of which he is also president. B. C. Dowse has been 

 elected president of the G & J company. The latter company 

 has established a branch at Buffalo, New York, at No. 912 Main 

 street, in charge of Frank Berrodin. 



Traver Blowout Patch Co. (No. 1265 Broadway, New York), 

 whose tire repairing device was described in The India Rubber 

 World June I, 1907 (page 276) have established distributing 

 agencies in several American cities and in Paris, France. 



