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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1908. 



CANADIAN TBADE NOTES. 



The annual meeting of the Rubber Boot and Shoe Jobbers' 

 Associaton of Canada will be held in Montreal on January 21. 

 The secretary is N. L. Martin, No. 64 Wellington street, West, 

 Toronto. The Rubber Shoe Manufacturers' Association meets 

 only when occasion demands it, though the meetings of the two 

 associations often are coincident. 



Mr. S. H. C. Miner, founder of the Granby Rubber Co., does 

 not intend to be the last of his name in the rubber business. 

 This is well proved by the presence of his nephew in the Granby 

 factory, where he has been for some years quietly mastering 

 every detail of the business until he now is in charge of the 

 whole of the manufacturing end. 



RESIGNATION OF ME. RYDER. 



The resignation is announced of Frederick T. Ryder from the 

 position of assistant general manager of the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co., with which corporation he has been connected for many 

 years. Mr, Ryder was associated with the late Hon. Elisha S. 

 Converse, the founder of the company, almost from boyhood. 



and for years prior to 

 the death of Mr. Con- 

 verse was his private 

 secretary. At the 

 same time he filled 

 the office of secretary, 

 to which in time were 

 added the duties of 

 assistant general man- 

 ager. For a long 

 time he has been a 

 director in the East- 

 hampton Rubber 

 Thread Co., becoming 

 treasurer of that cor- 

 poration in 1898. He 

 has also been a di- 

 rector in several other 

 corporations, besides 

 being active in the- 

 social life of Boston 

 and Maiden, in which 

 Mr. Ryder was born in 

 Belfast, Maine, and educated partly there and partly in New 

 Jersey. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The trustee of the Milwaukee Rubber Works Co. (Milwaukee, 

 Wisconsin), bankrupt, has been authorized to file a new bond 

 for $S,ooo, instead of the former bond for $100,000, since the 

 assets have been converted into cash and for the most part paid 

 to the creditors. The plant was sold some time ago to a new 

 company and is in operation. 



The American Can Co., manufacturers of tin and metal cans 

 for a very large number of purposes, have purchased the United 

 Can Co., of San Francisco, for a consideration reported at more 

 than $1,000,000. The American company will now have a 

 monopoly on the Pacific coast. 



The young men, particularly if they are likable, are always 

 welcomed by the trade, for they are to be the patriarchs one 

 day, and perhaps the millionaires. This, by the way, is simply 

 a preface to the announcement that a son of the Rubber Trading 

 Co. (New York), or at least of a well known partner in it, Mr. 

 Robert B. Baird, who is named Robert L. Baird, is now visiting 

 the rubber factories in the interests of the house named. 



The Colonial Sign and Insulator Co. (South Akron, Ohio) are 

 well known makers of porcelain forms for rubber gloves, syringe 

 bags, cots, and bust forms. The company have an extensive and 

 admirably adapted plant and are turning out very excellent work. 



Frederick 1 humas Ryder, 

 cities he is a member of several clubs. 



A NEW RUBBER GOODS FACTORY. 



The Humane Rubber Horseshoe Co., whose officers have been 

 hitherto in New York City, have secured a plant at Montgomery, 

 New York (near Newburgh), with a view to making their ov«n 

 rubber cushioned horseshoes. They are equipping it for the 

 manufacture of small mold work and repair stock for auto- 

 mobile tires. The company was incorporated October 26, 1903, 

 under the laws of New York, with $2,000. This has since been 

 increased, one certificate to that effect having been filed October 

 I, 1904. F. D. Palmer and Philip Hasbrouck are mentioned in 

 connection with the enterprise. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



There has been no meeting of the Western Mechanical Rubber 

 Goods Association, of San Francisco, since the fire in April, 1906. 

 A member of the trade who was active in the organization writes 

 to The Indi.\ Rubber World : "The members of the association 

 have been extremely busy since our disaster and have not been 

 able to get together, but no doubt at a later date we will." 



A report has reached Keene, New Hampshire, that Roland 

 Stearns Pollard, a native of that town and superintendent and 

 manager ni charge of the plantation of the Yaveo Plantation Co., 

 with headquarters at St. Joseph, Missouri, and a rubber estate 

 near San Juan Evangelista, Vera Cruz, Mexico, was shot and 

 killed by a foreman on the plantation on November 24. He was 

 26 years of age and had been with the company since 1903. 



Federal Rubber Co. (Milwaukee. Wisconsin) are turning out 

 a new reclaimed rubber, made under the patents of W. .\. ICone- 

 man, who has been made the manager of their works. They are 

 not marketing any reclaimed rubber, but utilizing the product 

 in their own manufactures. The results obtained from the new 

 process have been very satisfactory and the company are largely 

 increasing their facilities for leclaiming rubber. 



An automobile tire made of reclaimed rubber, aluminum flake 

 and a small proportion of sulphur, which had been running on a 

 heavy touring car for more than six months and which was in 

 virtually perfect condition, was recently on exhibition in an Akron 

 store. It was regarded as a very substantial testimony to the 

 rubber preserving property of Aluminum Flake. 



The Buffalo Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Buffalo, New York), 

 who manufacture rubber specialties for patentees and large con- 

 sumers, have an attractive and up-to-date plant and the best pos- 

 sible facilities for turning out this class of work. 



The L. & M. Rubber Co. are a new manufacturing concern 

 located at Canton, Ohio, making a very attractive line of seam- 

 less goods. Messrs. John Lee and Harvey Miller compose the 

 company, Mr. Miller having been for years successfully identi- 

 fied with the rubber trade in Akron and the vicinity. Mr. Lee, 

 who has charge of the office department, is a successful young 

 business man well known in Canton and its vicinity. 



Mr. F, R. Moore, of The Akron Rubber Engineering Co., is a 

 well known designer of rubber mills and factory equipment. Mr. 

 Moore's work is not confined to designing but includes specifica- 

 tion and superintendence of construction. His recent erection ot 

 the plant of the Star Rubber Co., at Akron, is a creditable achieve- 

 ment. 



In regard to the financial situation, Albert B. Beers (broker in 

 crude india-rubber and commercial paper. No. 68 William street, 

 New York), advises: "During December the market for paper 

 has remained in the same condition as in November, there being 

 only an occasional demand, mostly from out-of-town banks, and 

 ruling rates being 9@lo per cent, for anything in the rubber line." 



To accommodate their growing American business The 

 Hanover Rubber Co., Limited (Hannoversche Gummi-Kamm 

 Co., Actiengesellschaft), have established an independent agency 

 for the United States and Canada at No. 27 West Fourth street, 

 New York, in charge of Mr. Julius Lehmann, who has been 

 .\merican representative since 1884. associated with George Borg- 

 feldt & Co. Mr. Lehmann will also represent Pliil. Penin, 

 Gummiwaren-Fabrik, .\ctiengesellschaft, of Leipsig. 



