May I, igcS.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



271 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER 00. S AFFAIRS. 



THE net earnings of the United States Rubber Co. for the 

 fiscal year ended March 31. 1908 (j^Iarch partially esti- 

 mated), after payment of interest charges, are stated to have 

 been approximately $3,508,000, which included dividends amount- 

 ing to $890,733 received upon stock of the Rubber Goods Manu- 

 facturing Co. in this company's treasury. The neat earnings one 

 year ago were then stated in like manner to have been $4,405,- 

 87384, including Rubber Goods dividends to the extent of 

 $684,308.3-'. 



The board of directors of the United States Rubber Co. on 

 April 2 declared the regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, 

 upon the first preferred stock, and the regular quarterly dividend 

 of lJ/2 per cent, upon the second preferred stock, for the quarter 

 beginning January i, from the net earnings of the fiscal year, 

 payable April 30 to stockholders of record April 15. This rep- 

 resents a disbursement for the quarter of $872,989. 



The annual meeting of the shareholders for the election of 

 directors and the transaction of any other business which may 

 properly be brought before the meeting will be held at the 

 registered office of the company in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 

 on May 19, at 12 o'clock m. 



MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK. 



The Merchants' Association of New York, while still opposed 

 to a general parcels post, in the belief that it would prove in- 

 jurious to the country merchant, is supporting a bill (No. 5122) 

 pending in the United States senate for the establishment of a 

 strictly local parcels post system on rural delivery routes, for 

 packages originating on a rural route or at the distributing post- 

 office for delivery by rural carriers to patrons thereof. There 

 are 38,266 rural delivery routes in the United States, over each 

 of which a mail wagon passes daily, but the carriers are pro- 

 hibited from carrying anything except mail matter as now pre- 

 scribed by law. The new bill has for its object the permitting 

 of carriers to assist in the exchange of small packages between 

 farms and the nearest postoffices, under conditions which would 

 yield a revenue to the government. 



HOFELLER PLANS LARGER PREMISES. 



Theodore Hofeller & Co., the extensive waste rubber mer- 

 chants of Buffalo, New York, have arranged for securing larger 

 premises, through the lease, for a long term of years, from the 

 Corn Products Co., of a factory in that city occupied formerly 

 by the American Glucose Co. in the manufacture of glucose. 

 The property embraces a five story brick building 80 X 108 feet 

 and an adjoining three story building 32 X 168 feet, the whole 

 affording about 70,000 square feet of floor area. Plans are under 

 preparation for modernizing the buildings by putting in electric 

 freight elevators and other electric equipment, baling presses, 

 and so on, and adapting floor levels to the height of car floors, 

 as shipping is to be done by the New York Central railroad, a 

 switch from which is convenient to the premises described. In 

 their new quarters Messrs. Hofeller & Co. v.'ill have facilities for 

 the waste rubber and allied trades not second to any other in 

 America or Europe. 



ANNUAL ELECTION OF THE GUTTA PERCHA COMPANY. 



At the annua! meeting of shareholders of the Gutta Percha 

 and Rubber Manufacturing Co., in New Y'ork, on April i, the 

 following directors were unanimously elected : Henry Spadone, 

 Walter W. Spadone, Mathew Hawe, and Alfred A. Spadone. At 

 a subsequent meeting of the board of directors the following 

 officers were elected; Henry Spadone; president; Walter W. 

 Spadone, vice president; Mathew Hawe, treasurer, and Alfred 

 A. Spadone, secretary. The three Messrs. Spadone men- 



tioned are sons of the late Amedee Spadone, so long president 

 of the company, and whose obituary appeared in The India 

 Rubber World March 1, 1908 (page 191). Mr. Hawe has 

 been identified with the company since about 1875, and has 

 filled the ofiice of treasurer for a number of years. 



RUBBER GOODS FOE THE INDLiNS. 

 The specifications for supplies for the Indians, at the govern- 

 ment expense, for the fiscal year beginning July i, 1908, for 

 which proposals will be opened at Washington on May 5, in- 

 clude specifications for the usual details in the way of rubber 

 footwear, as follows : 



720 pairs men's rubber boots, Nos. 7-13. 

 1700 pairs bey's arctics, Nos. i-6. 



775 pairs misses' arctics, Nos. ii-a. 

 1000 pairs womt-n's arctics, Nos. 3-8. 



875 pairs men's arctics, Nos. 7-13. 



750 pairs boy's "storm" rubber overshoes, Nos. 1-6. 



640 pairs misses' "storm" overshoes, Ncs. 1 1-2. 

 1580 pairs women's "storm" overshoes, Nos. 3-8. 



300 pairs men's "storm" overshoes, Nos. 7-13. 



At the same time proposals will be opened for rubber goods 



of the following amounts and descriptions : 



900 feet rubber belting, 4 to 10 inches wide. 



1300 pounds rubber paclting. 



1 1 20 pounds packing "Rainbow" style. 



8100 feet rubber garden hcse. 



5800 feet cotton rubber lined fire hose. 



136 hose couplings. 

 37 H dozen hose clamps. 



16 hose strap fasteners. 



120 hose nozzles. 



A NEW PENCIL FACTORY DJ PROSPECT. 



The important pencil manufacturing house of Johann 

 Faber, of Nuremberg, Germany, after having maintained an 

 American agency for a number of years, will begin soon 

 the operation of a branch factory in this country, which has 

 been in course of erection since July of last year, at Irving- 

 ton, a part of Newark, N. J. Already there are two large 

 Faber pencil concerns in the United States, both tracing 

 their origin to the long established Nuremberg industry, and 

 their business has added to an important extent to the 

 demand for erasers and other rubber stationers' sundries of 

 American make. The new enterprise may be expected to 

 have a similar eflfect. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Gilbert-Besaw Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), comprising 

 Cassius M. Gilbert and Charles A. Besaw, own a reclaiming 

 process said not to involve alkalies, acid, or oil, which 

 is controlled and operated in this country and Canada (with 

 the exception of a reservation in favor of the Firestone Tire 

 and Rubber Co.), by the New Jersey Rubber Co., of Lambert- 

 ville, New Jersey. Special machinery is used in the applica- 

 tion of this process, the product of which is claimed to be 

 especially adapted for the manufacture of tires mechanical 

 goods, and for insulation. 



The La Crosse Rubber ilills Co. (La Crosse, Wisconsin) 

 are making a full line of rubber boots and shoes, including 

 tennis shoes, on which they are putting their special "honey- 

 comb" sole. They also specialize on lumbermen's red soled 

 shoes. In addition to footwear the company makes a line of 

 mackintoshes and rain coats. They recently supplied every 

 member of the La Crosse police force with a pair of rubber 

 boots for the purpose of testing their wear-resisting qual- 

 ities, the result of which was wholly satisfactory. 



The N-Tire Rubber Sponge Co. (Chicago), manufacturers 

 of the well known "Featheredge" sponge, have commenced the 

 manufacture of red rubber, which they intend making ex- 

 tensively. They are now also putting out a line of sponges 

 adapted for railroad use and vehicle cleaning and other such 

 like purposes. 



