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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1908. 



tinue the business of dealing in rubber garments for reducing 

 flesh, and various toilet articles. 



The Eastern Flexible Conduit Co., September 21, 1907, 

 under the laws of New York; capital $20,000. To manu- 

 facture and sell flexible conduits, rubber tape, and pitch tape. 

 Directors: Eugene T. Trotter (No. 276 Quincy street), A. P. 

 Hinsky, and S. H. Smith, all of Brooklyn, N. Y. 



National Waterproof Co., December 6, 1907, under the laws 

 of Illinois; capital $250,000. Incorporators; J. A. Kemper, 

 Frank A. T. Trotter, and P. E. Coate. Business office stated; 

 1 129 First National Bank building, Chicago. 



Congo Brazilian Crude Rubber Co., December 17, 1907, 

 under the laws of New Jersey; authorized capital $500,000. 

 Incorporators: Charles N. King, Jr., George H. Russell, and 

 Frank A. Van Winkle. Principal office in New Jersey, No. 

 243 Washington street, Jersey City, N. J., and the agent in 

 charge. New Jersey Corporations Agency. 



The Solvini Auto Horn and Tubing Co., December 19, 

 1907, under the laws of New York; capital $30,000. Incor- 

 porators: Salvatore Solvini, No. 402 East One Hundred and 

 Sixteenth street, New York; G. Brunelli, New York, and A. 

 Casazza, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Pneumatic Heel Cushion Co., January 11, 1908, under the 

 laws of New Jersey; capital, $100,000. Incorporators: Will- 

 iam L. Gordon, Milan Ross, and Joseph G. Coleman, all of 

 No. 213 First avenue, Asbury Park, N. J. 



NEW ENGLAND HUBBEH CLUB. 



The New England Rubber Club are to be congratulated 

 upon having secured Governor Hughes, of New York state, 

 as a speaker at their next dinner. The date, March 10, is 

 a little late, but the distinguished visitor's list of dates was 

 full, and overfull, up to that time. The members of the Club 

 have to thank Mr. E. E. Wadbrook for his faith that Governor 

 Hughes could be induced to attend, if only the invitation 

 was extended in a convincing manner. He therefore jour- 

 neyed to Albany, interviewed the governor, incidentally be- 

 coming an admiring "Hughes man," and succeeded. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Hartford Rubber Works Co. have discontinued their 

 New York branch at No. 88 Chambers street, and will concen- 

 trate their business in this city at their more recently organized 

 branch at Broadway and Fifty-seventh street. Hiartford goods 

 will be kept in stock downtown, however, by Charles E. Miller, 

 at No. 97 Reade street. 



The Sweet Tire and Rubber Co. (Batavia, New York), who 

 have been engaged hitherto in making solid tires, are reported 

 to be installing a plant for the manufacture of pneumatic tires 

 for bicycles and automobiles. 



Edward A. Rickitts, many years ago superintendent of the 

 Davidson Rubber Co. (Charlestown, Massachusetts), has re- 

 turned to his first love and is again superintendent of the same 

 factory. 



The Sterling Manufacturing Co. (Gloucester, Massachusetts) 

 arc putting on the market three grades of substitutes, samples 

 of which sent to The Indi.\ Rubber World office appear to be 

 excellent. They sell by number, No. 2 being used in mold work. 

 No. 10 in carriage cloth, and No. 67 in proofing. 



Mr. Arthur E. Friswell, who recently returned from England 

 on account of the death of his father, has determined to re- 

 main in America in connection with the settlement of the lat- 

 ter's estate. Mr. Friswell has made an exceptional record in 

 the rubber tire industry. He was first with the Mechanical 

 Fabric Co., going to the Hartford Rubber Works Co. when 

 they took over the Fabric company's tire department. Later 

 Mr. Friswell became connected with Messrs. David Moseley & 

 Sons, Limited, of Manchester, England, where it is understood 

 he did remarkably good work in the tire branch. 



THE RUBBES TRADE IN CANADA. 



For the past two months weather conditions in the Dominion 

 have been such as to encourage both wholesalers and retailers of 

 rubber footwear. Manufacturers have been kept fairly busy, 

 and in some cases behind in their orders. The winter began 

 with a heavy fall of snow, which was favorable to the rubber 

 trade, and the mild weather which set in accompanied with 

 showery periods proved no less so. The Canudian Shoe and 

 Leather Journal points out that whereas many retailers find 

 their rubber trade profitable, there are large numbers who still 

 seem to regard the sale of rubbers as a side issue and who use 

 cheap prices in this line as the means of advertising their gen- 

 eral business. In some towns a fixed price list has been ad- 

 hered to throughout the season with reported satisfactory re- 

 sults. 



Fisk Limited (Montreal, Quebec), manufacturers of leather 

 and shoe goods, and who have a rubber cement factory at 

 Lachine, are understood to have an excellent business in the 

 latter line, with a very encouraging outlook for the coming year. 



The Canadian Boomer & Boschert Press Co. are turning out 

 at their plant in Montreal a full line of presses, such as are 

 made by the present concern at Syracuse, New York, including 

 the designs intended especially for rubber factory use. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Viscoloid Co., whose office and factory are in Lan- 

 caster street, Leominster, Massachusetts, manufacture a com- 

 position which they call "Viscoloid" and describe as being a 

 material similar to celluloid. 



The Wire and Telephone Co. of America (Rome, New York) 

 have appointed the Besco Supply Co., of Birmingham, Ala- 

 bama, their agents for the South, and supplied them with a stock 

 of bare and rubber covered wires and telephone apparatus. 



The annual meeting of The Middle States Shoe Wholesalers' 

 -Association is scheduled for Philadelphia on February 20. 



A note in a local newspaper regarding the intended removal 

 of the factory of the Bourn Rubber Co. (Providence, Rhode 

 Island), related only to a small building at Cranston used by 

 the company for making oil varnish, at some distance from the 

 regular plant, as is the rule with most of the rubber factories. 



The Eureka Fire Hose Co. (No. 13 Barclay street, New 

 York), advise that Mr. Henry H. Cypher has severed his con- 

 nection with them. 



The employes of the B. & R. Rubber Co. (Northfield, Massa- 

 chusetts), have organized the "B. & R." hose company, which 

 has been supplied with equipment for protecting the plant 

 against fire. 



At the annual meeting of the New England Shoe Whole- 

 salers' Association, held in Boston on December 11, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected: George T. Howard (Batchelder 

 & Lincoln Co., Boston), president; William A. Pickett (Hos- 

 mer-Codding Co., Boston), vice president and treasurer. 

 George C. Houghton, No. 166 Essex street, Boston, was 

 reelected secretary. The executive committee consists of 

 Messrs. Howard and Pickett; A. S. Foster and W. F. Mayo, 

 of Boston; and C. A. Blodgett, Springfield, Mass. 



Alexander Macpherson has retired from the position of 

 manager of the mechanical goods department of The Gutta 

 Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Toronto, Limited, 

 which he had filled for a number of years. 



Mr. Frederick W. Dunbar, vice president of the New York 

 Commercial Co., has been elected a director of the Aetna 

 National Bank of New York. 



The Waterbury Co. (of New Jersey), the regular quarterly 

 dividend of 2 per cent, on the preferred shares and a quar- 

 terly dividend of i,'4 per cent, on the common, payable Feb- 

 ruary I. The Waterbury Co. (of West Virginia) a quarterly 

 dividend of one-half of i per cent., on February i. 



