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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1908. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Ennis Rubber Manufacturing Co., February 7, 1908, under 

 New York laws ; capital $50,000. Directors : Frederick J. Ennis 

 (No. 157 Halsey street, Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; James M. Bessey and 

 Giarles N. Foster, New York city. 



P. & H. Tire Co., January 30, igoS, under New York laws ; 

 capital, $20,000. To manufacture and sell the P. & H. inner tube 

 for tires. It differs from the ordinary tube in that it is rein- 

 forced with two layers of fabric, laid in such a way as not to 

 interfere with elasticit.v. Roger G. Howell is president, and 

 Paul M. Pelletreau secretary and treasurer. John D. Prince has 

 been appointed general manager. The offices are at No. 1657 

 Broadway, New York. 



The Hadley-Gill Cement Co., December 16, 1907, under the 

 Massachusetts laws ; capital, $25,000. To manufacture rubber 

 cements, at Salem, Mass. Incorporators : Albert H. Hadley, 

 Lynn, Mass. ; Mary Louise Gill and Michael J. ]\IcCaflferty, Sau- 

 gus, Mass. 



Adamson Machine Co., December 19, 1907, under the Ohio 

 laws; capital, $150,000. To succeed to the business of Alexander 

 Adamson, manufacturer of rubber factory appliances and other 

 machinery, at -Akron, Ohio. Incorporators : Alexander Adam- 

 son, C. J. Gilletly, R. B. Koontz, C. F. Adamson, and W. E. 

 Slabaugh. 



Jersey City Specialty Co., January 10, 1908, under the laws 

 of New Jersey ; capital authorized, $50,000. Incorporators : 

 Clement Eckrode, Alpheus L. Mundy, H. Raymond Groves, and 

 M. Irving Demarest, all of New Brunswick, N. J. 



Randall Insulated Wire Co., January 22, 1908, under the laws 

 of New York; capital, $100,000. To make and deal in insulated 

 wire. Directors: Franklin S. Randall, Weehawken, New Jersey; 

 Ira Mowery, Morristown, New Jersey ; Bernard G. Heyn, No. 60 

 Wall street. New York. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



EvERV employee of the New York Rubber Co., at the factory 

 at Matteawan, N. Y., on February 8 received an envelope in- 

 scribed: "You will find inclosed an extra week's pay, with the 

 company's best wishes." 



The Elkhart Rubber Works (Elkhart, Indiana), issue a very 

 practical descriptive circular of rubber pump valves which is 

 a .specialty of theirs. They describe in detail two types of hot 

 water valves, special valves for acid, oil, ammonia, and syrups, 

 6 types of cold water valves, 4 condenser valves in red and gray, 

 and soft tough gray valves for air. Each valve is given its 

 special number for convenience in ordering. 



The Goodyear Rubber Co.'s footwear factory, at Middletown, 

 Connecticut, at the beginning of the month increased their run- 

 ning time from 40 to 50 hours a week. 



Mr. E. E. McConnell, manager of the Interlocking Rubber 

 Tiling department of the New York Belting and Packing Co., 

 Limited, sailed for Europe on the Kuiseiin Augusta Victoria on 

 February 15, in connection with several large contracts recently 

 made for this line of tiling in France and England. 



R. S. Harding, for several years in charge of the mailing de- 

 partment of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., has been transferred 

 to the similar department in the New York offices of the United 

 States Rubber Co., at No. 42 Broadway. 



The regular quarterly dividend of I'X per cent, on the pre- 

 ferred shares of the Manufactured Rubber Co. (Philadelphia) is 

 payable March 2. 



Mr. E. H. Stcdman, a cousin of Arthur W. Stedman, of George 

 A. Alden & Co., Boston, and a brother of Dr. J. C. Stedman, a 

 well-known figure in the New England Rubber Cub, has ac- 

 cepted a position with the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co., 

 as New York city. salesman. 



The Ohio Rubber Co. (Cleveland, Ohio) have opened a rubber 

 footwear department, and have secured the agency in their 

 territory for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.'s lines. 



MATTSON RUBBEB CO A CORRECTION. 



Through inadvertence a mention of the Mattson Rubber Co. 

 (Lodi, New Jersey) in the last India Rubber World described 

 them as manufacturers of Druggists' Sundries. The company are 

 too well known in the trade for such a statement to mislead 

 any one, but we are desirous none the less of correcting it. In 

 addition to the various lines of goods which the Mattson com- 

 pany have been manufacturing for so many years, they have 

 built up a large business lately in tire repair stocks. 



CONSOLIDATED RUBBER TIRE CO. 



It is reported in financial circles that the annual interest pay- 

 ment due on April i on the 4 per cent, income bonds of the 

 Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. will be 2 per cent. These bonds 

 were issued under an agreement dated April i, 1901, in lieu of 

 a certain amount of preferred stock retired, and the volume 

 now outstanding is $2,850,500. On April i, 1902, 3 per cent, was 

 paid on the debentures, out of the earnings of 1901, since which 

 time the payments have been: lyi per cent, in 1904 and 1905; 

 2 per cent, in 1906; and 3 per cent, in 1907. 



POPE MANUFACTURING CO.'S PROFITS. 



The profits last year of the Pope Manufacturing Co., in the 

 hands of receivers since August 14, 1907, are reported to have 

 reached $400,000. The prospects are stated to be good for thfe 

 reorganization of the company on a sound working basis, in- 

 volving the continuance of the plants at Hartford and West- 

 field, while the other plants will be disposed of. It is under- 

 stood that Colonel Albert A. Pope, the founder of the company, 

 will retire. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Elastro Co. (Hartford, Connecticut), manufacturers of 

 "Tire Life," announce that, after having engaged in filling motor 

 car tire shoes with their compound in solid form, they have 

 perfected a system of molding in the compound, a pneumatic core 

 capable of being inflated or deflated. This core is referrd to 

 as being about one-third the size of the inner tube and is placed 

 close to the rim, making a perfect riding cushion. At the same 

 time, it is thoroughly protected from puncture and cannot blow 

 out. 



American Rubber and Leather Belting Co. are a new jobbing 

 house in mechanical rubber goods and mill supplies, at No. 

 222 Market street, St. Louis, and No. 1304 Union avenue, Kan- 

 sas City. They buy largely from the Boston Woven Hose and 

 Rubber Co., and the Page Belting Co. T. D. Davis is presi- 

 dent of the company. 



Mr. Arthur L. Kelley, president of the Mechanical Fabric Co. 

 (Providence, Rhode Island), has been elected president of the 

 Narragansett Electric Lighting Co., of Providence, to succeed 

 Marsden J. Perr\-. who resigned on account of the pressure of 

 other business. 



The necessary legal proceedings having been taken, the name 

 of the India Rubber and Gutta Percha Insulating Co. has been 

 supplanted by Habirshaw Wire Co. The offices remain at No. 

 253 Broadway, New York, and the works at Yonkers, N. Y. 



At the recent election, by the Rhode Island legislature, of a 

 United States senator, resulting in the choice of George Pea- 

 body Wetmore. the name of Colonel Samuel P. Colt was formally 

 placed in nomination and several votes were cast for him, al- 

 though he had announced definitely that he was not a candidate 

 for the position. 



Mr. Fred A. Hodgman, superintendent of the Hodgman Rub- 

 ber Co., who have a factory at Tuckahoe, New York, lives near 

 Travers Island, and is one of the enthusiastic gunners of th? 

 New York Athletic Club who go to the island every week for 

 trap shooting. The newspapers lately have mentioned some 

 remarkably good shooting by Mr. Hodgman. On a recent cold 

 windy day he maintained throughout an average of more than 

 90 per cent., accomplishing the difficult feat of shattering 25 

 consecutive targets in the Walrode cup event. 



