February i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



165 



TnriTED STATES BVBBER GO'S ISSTTES. 



Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange for four 

 weeks, ending January 2$ : 



Common Stock. 



Week Dec. 28 Sales 710 shares High 21 Low 20 



Week Jan. 4 Sales 1,310 shares High 20ji Low 20 



Week Jan. II Sales 5,050 shares High 24^ Low 21 



Week Jan. 18 Sales 3,345 shares High 26 Low 23 



Week Jan. 25 Sales 1,810 shares High 24 Low 22 



For the year — High, 26, Jan. 14; Low, 20, Jan. 2. 

 Last year — High, 52H : Low, 1354. 

 Sales during 1907 — 175,277 shares. 



First Preferred Stock. 



Week Dec. 28 Sales 510 shares High 77^ Low 74^ 

 Week Jan. 4 Sales 658 shares High 79"/^ Low 77 

 Week Jan. 11 Sales 3,940 shares High 88J4 Low 80 

 Week Jan. 18 Sales 2,804 shares High 88"4 Low 83 

 Week Jan. 25 Sales 1,475 shares High 82 Low 80 



For the year — High, 88J^, Jan. 9: Low, 77. Jan. 2. 

 Last year — High, 109^^; Low, 61 J4. 

 Sales during 1907 — 120,108 shares. 



Second Preferred Stock. 



Week Dec. 28 Sales 10 shares High 50 Low 50 



Week Jan. 4 Sales 460 shares High 49'/4 Low 46'/^ 



Week Jan. 11 Sales 2,340 shares High 60 Low 49^^ 



Week Jan. 18 Sales 320 shares High 60 Low 59 



Week Jan. 25 Sales 100 shares High 61 '4 Low 61 ■/4 



For the year — High, 6l^, Jan. 23: Low, 465^, Jan. 2. 



Last year — High, 78^; Low, 39. 



Sales during 1907 — 31,203 shares. 



t 

 DIVIDENDS DECLAHED. 



American Chicle Co., regular quarterly dividend of lyi per 

 cent, on the preferred stock, payable January 2 ; regular monthly 

 dividend of i per cent, on the common stock, payable January 20; 

 and a special dividend of i per cent, on January 20. 



The United Shoe Machinery Co. paid on January 5 a dividend 

 of 2 per cent, on their common and 1^2 per cent, on the pre- 

 ferred stock. The company have practically consolidated their 

 manufacturing at the Beverly (Massachusetts) plant. 



The fifth regular quarterly dividend of i^ per cent, on the pre- 

 ferred shares of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, 

 was payable January i. 



EUBEKA FERE HOSE CO.— CHANGE OF NAME. 



At a meeting of the shareholders of the Eureka Fire Hose 

 Co. (New York), held on January 20, it was resolved unanimously 

 to change the corporate name of the company to Eureka Fire 

 Hose Manufacturing Co. The Eureka company was incor- 

 porated in 1875 and its development to its present very large 

 dimensions has been a measure of progress generally in the art 

 of fire hose manufacture. 



NEWS OF THE RUBBER SHOE FACTORIES. 



Work was resumed at the factory of the National India Rubber 

 Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), on Monday, January 6, after a shut- 

 down lasting about three weeks. On the same date the boot 

 factory of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. at Millville started work 

 again. The company's ".-Mice" mill, at Woonsocket, has been 

 running since December 30, having been closed only four days, 

 for the holidays. It is reported that the Fells factory of the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co., which has been closed since December, 

 will reopen on February 3, and the factory of the Goodyear's 

 Metallic Rubber Shoe Co., at Naugatuck, on February 10. 



MR. APSLEY ON BUSINESS CONDITIONS. 



In an interview given to a local newspaper the Hon. L. D. 

 Apsley, president of the .\psley Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massa- 

 chusetts), said that when the company's plant was closed 

 temporarily a few weeks ago, it was not on account of any 

 pressing business condition, but as a precautionary measure. 

 After an expose had been made of certain matters connected 

 with the banking world, gossip about which had led to a shaking 

 of confidence, the legitimate business of the country was found 

 to be in an unusually sound condition. 



"The Apsley Rubber Co.," said President Apsley, "has done 

 the largest business during the past year that it has ever done. 

 The profits have been remunerative, collections have been good 

 and the losses have been absolutely little or nothing. A settle- 

 ment of 60 per cent, on a bill of $700 is all. This is most re- 

 markable in doing business of between two and three millions, 

 and I firmly believe that it reflects the sound condition of busi- 

 ness houses generally throughout the country. Believing that 

 the financial storm is blowing over and that conditions are as 

 stated, we are again running on full time." 



1908 CALENDARS RECEIVED. 



A. -Ad.wison, rubber machinery manufacturer (Akron, Ohio). — 

 Calendar with reproduction of Blenner's painting of a lady, 

 "In Maiden Meditation, Fancy Free." 



Consumers' Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island). — Calendar 

 with a picture of a girl, "Merry Christmas." 



J. H. Stedman & Co., Inc. (Boston). — Calendar with large 

 view of "The Old Town Mill" at New London, Conn., built in 

 1650. 



The Stanford Rubber Supply Co. (Stamford, Connecticut). — 

 Calendar with separate leaf for every day, with unusually large 

 figures. 



Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Co. (New York) send us a 

 handsome calendar and a picture illustrating the importance of 

 caring for fire hose. 



Continental Rubber Works (Erie, Pennsylvania) have pre- 

 sented to their friends in the trade, as their 1908 picture, "Mar- 

 guerite," a handsome copy on ivory board from a canvas of the 

 celebrated American artist, Mr. W. H. McEntee. 



AFFAIRS OF THE ALADDIN EUBBEE CO. 



C. S. Eddy, receiver for The Aladdin Rubber Co. (Barbcrton, 

 Ohio), has had the property appraised, with this result: Land 

 and buildings, $11,200; machinery and tools, $18,127; scrap rubber 

 stock, $4,272.89; total $33,399.89. The debts amount to about 

 $25,000, and the receiver thinks that if it is necessary to sell the 

 property to satisfy the creditors, enough would be realized to 

 pay 80 per cent, on the claims. But an attempt is being made to 

 get the shareholders to pay an assessment in order to care for 

 the indebtedness and avoid a sale and there is some prospect 

 that this plan will succeed. 



TEAtiE NEWS NOTES. 



The Sunswick Co. (Astoria. New York), on January 25, made 

 an assignment for the benefit of their creditors, to David Steward 

 Bingham, No. 80 Broadway, New York. .\ meeting of creditors 

 was to be held at that address on January 30 at 2 P. M. The 

 Sunswick Co. are in the insulated wire trade. 



E. Bers & Co., in the waste rubber trade in Philadelphia, 

 have removed their offices to a new and superior location, No. 

 330 South Delaware avenue, adjoining their warehouses. 



The Faultless Rubber Co. (.\shland, Ohio), have established 

 a New York branch at No. 27 West Fourth street, where a com- 

 plete stock of their products will be carried. 



The American .Agency for the Harburg and Vienna India- 

 Rubber Co. (Vereinigte Gummiwaaren-Fabriken Harburg-Wien. 

 .Actiengesellschaft has been taken by George Borgfeldt & Co., 

 No. 48 West Fourth street, New York. 



Charles J. Bailey, of C. J. Bailey & Co., rubber goods dealers, 

 in Boylston street, Boston, and the inventor of the "Won't Slip" 

 tire tread, sailed on January 21 for a six weeks' trip to Europe, 

 where his house has extensive connections. 



Mr. Joseph Thomas Hart, who has become general manager of 

 the La Crosse Rubber Mills Co., came to that company in June, 

 1907, from Berlin, Ontario, where he had been superintending the 

 Merchants Rubber Co. factory. Mr. Hart's father was a suc- 

 cessful rubber factory superintendent, having been some time 

 in the employ of the Goodyear India-Rubber Glove IManufacturing 

 Co., and later of the Lycoming Rubber Co., at Williams- 

 port, Pennsylvania. 



