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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1907. 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.— DIVIDENDS. 



THE board of directors of the United States Rubber Co., 

 on October 3, declared the regular quarterly dividend of 

 2 per cent, on the first preferred capital stock, and the 

 regular quarterly dividend oi ly^ per cent, on the second pre- 

 ferred stock, from the net earnings for the fiscal year beginning 

 April I, 1907, payable on October 31. In connection with the 

 announcement of these dividends it was stated at the offices 

 of the company that the net earnings for the first six months of 

 the business year, with September partially estimated, were $2,- 

 175,000. including dividends amounting to $277,812.50 received 

 upon the stock of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. in the 

 IJnited States company's treasury. 



DEVELOPMENT AT BRISTOL. 

 The large new building for the insulated wire department of 

 the National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), referred 

 to at some length in The India Rubber World May i, 1907 (page 

 256), is practically completed and the installation of machinery 

 is in progress, with the idea of having it in working order by 

 New Year. The rubber clothing department, in operation since 

 the company was started, in 1865, has been discontinued, in 

 order to make room for the greater development of the insulated 

 wire branch. No mackintoshes have been made by the company 

 for four or five years past. 



ENLARGING A RUBBER RECLAIMING PLANT. 



The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. have found it neces- 

 sary to add to their facilities at Plymouth, Massachusetts, for 

 producing reclaimed rubber. Work has been started on a three- 

 story brick building, 109 x 109 feet, and an engine room and 

 boiler house, all directly connected with the present buildings. 

 It is understood that the contractor is to have the work com- 

 pleted by the middle of January next. Several parcels of land 

 have been acquired for building and storage space, and for a 

 number of houses to be occupied by the company's employes. 



FORCED TO BUILD BY GROWING BUSINESS. 



The Bristol Co. (Waterbury. Connecticut) are about to erect 

 another addition to their plant 53 x 170 feet, three stories high. 

 This additional space is made necessary by the increased demand 

 for Bristol's recording thermometers and Bristol's patent steel 

 belt lacing. With the amount of business already in sight the 

 company feel that it will not be long before even this addition 

 will be crowded. 



SPOT-PROOFING OF FABRICS. 



Plvmoi'th Rubber Co. (Stoughton, Massachusetts), proofers 

 for the trade, announce that they have installed and are oper- 

 ating successfully a new method for spot-proofing silks, satins, 

 and the like. They are in a position, therefore, to supply the cut- 

 ting trade with silks that are rubberized as well as spot-proofed, 

 thus contributing to the material excellent waterproof qualities. 

 The new treatment may be applied to fabrics before or after 

 they have been rubber-coated. Plymouth Rubber Co. are now 

 headquarters for work in this new line. 



AN ALLING STOKE IN NEW JERSEY. 



The chain of Ailing rubber stores, starting in Connecticut, has 

 now extended to New Jersey, The Ailing Rubber Co., of Pater- 

 son, having been incorporated, with $10,000 capital, to deal in 

 rubber goods at wholesale and retail, and also bicycles and sun- 

 dries and sporting goods. Clarence E. Ailing, who is connected 

 with the Ailing syndicate's store at Stamford, is president and 

 treasurer of the new company, and Frederick F. Lockwood secre- 

 tary. The location is at No. 131 ^lain street, Patcrson, New- 

 Jersey. 



GUAYULE IN TEXAS. 



Contracts are being entered mto between the general land 

 office of Texas and the Big Bend Manufacturing Co. for all the 

 guayule shrubs over 6 inches tall that may be found upon the 

 unsold pviblic school lands in the state, that company having 

 been the highest bidder for such guayule. [See The India 

 Rubber World, October i, 1907 — page 21.] The price bid was 

 $5i,ooo. The company have four years in which to remove the 

 guayule. James D. Crenshaw, of San Antonio, is president of 

 the Big Bend Manufacturing Co., incorporated in Delaware 

 August 27, 1907, with $25,000 capital authorized. 



TAXIMETER CABS IN NEW YORK. 



The New York Taxicab Co. on October i began their service 

 of motor cabs of the landaulette type, available for use either 

 open or closed, with a seating capacity for four persons inside 

 and one person outside with the driver. Each cab is equipped 

 with a taximeter for the regulation of charges, which are 30 

 cents for the first half mile or fraction, and 10 cents for each 

 quarter mile thereafter — a marked reduction from prices ordi- 

 narily paid for cab service in New York. The company began 

 with about 70 cabs, starting from the principal hotels and clubs, 

 and it is intended to increase the number until several hundred 

 are in use. It is stated that 600 cabs have been contracted for. 

 Based upon the success of the Compagnie Frangaise des Auto- 

 mobiles de Place, of Paris, and several companies in London 

 operating similar systems, it is estimated that the new service 

 will prove popular and profitable, and if so an important new 

 demand for pneumatic tires will be created. The offices of the 

 New York Taxicab Co. are at No. 546 Fifth avenue. Harry N. 

 Allen is president; G. Winthrop Sands, vice-president; Walter 

 C. Allen, secretary, and W. W. Tracy, treasurer. Messrs. Sands, 

 Tracy and H. N. Allen are the directors in New York of the 

 New York Motor Cab Co., Limited, recently registered in Lon- 

 don [see The India Rubber World August i, 1907 — page 352], 

 which corporation owns and controls the New York Taxicab Co. 

 The taximeters used supplied by Societe Generale des Compteurs 

 de Voitures of Paris. 



Another New York company has been talked of for entering 

 the same field, by the name of The Touring Car and Ta.xicab 

 Co.. but no details are yet available regarding it. 



THE ''P. B." DYNAMOMETER. 



In connection with the above-named testing machine for india- 

 rubber and certain other materials, referred to in The India 

 Rubber World for September i (page 382) as having been 

 bought out by A. D. Cillard fils, of Paris, it was mentioned that 

 a New York address was maintained by the interest. Since the 

 article in question was first written the New York address has 

 been changed. The address now is Nos. 43-45 West Thirty- 

 fourth street, and in writing, letters should be addressed to 

 Mr. Ch. Dien. 



WHEN TIRES CAN COME IN FREE. 



The United States treasury department has issued a circular 

 to customs officials, regulating the admission of foreign made 

 automobiles, once imported and paying duty, and afterward 

 taken abroad by the owners for touring purposes. On taking 

 out of the country any such automobile the owner is required 

 to obtain a certificate, to aid in the identification of the car when 

 its entry is again sought. "If the certificate covers a set of 

 foreign tires, it w-ill not be necessary to prove that the tires 

 brought back on the wheels were those taken abroad. - - - 

 Foreign tiros taken out on the wheels of automobiles may be 

 brought back free of duty." 



