August i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



381 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



UNITED STATES HUBBER CO.— DIVIDENDS. 



THE board of directors of the United States Rubber Co., on 

 July 2, declared from the net profits of the company for the 

 fiscal year the regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, 

 on the first preferred stock (including all outstanding old "pre- 

 ferred" stock) and the regular quarterly dividend oi 1^/2 per cent, 

 on the second preferred stock, to holders of record on June 15, 

 payable without closing of the transfer books on July 31. 



THE OLD BOSTOK RUBBER CO.— A REMINDER. 



One of the buildings which formed premises of the Boston 

 Rubber Co., at Chelsea, Massachusetts, has been sold to L. 

 Sneierson & Sons, who will occupy it as a fiour bag factory. 

 It is a six-story brick building at Xos. 37-39 Winnisimmet street, 

 and was used by the Boston Rubber Co. as a warehouse. The 

 Boston company's plant in time became the property of the 

 United States Rubber Co., and was not operated after April I, 

 1896. The sale of the building here mentioned will not interfere, 

 it is said, wth the use of the rubber company's remaining 

 property in Chelsea for manufacturing purposes, 



THE NEW TREASURER OF L. CANDEE & CO. 



Mr. William H. Gilbert, of Woonsockct. Rhode Island, who 

 was elected recently to be treasurer of L. Candee & Co. ( New 

 Haven, Connecticut), assumed the duties of that office on July I. 

 Mr. Gilbert began his connection with the trade 21 years ago as 

 receiving clerk at the Millville factory of the Woonsocket Rubber 

 Co. For some time past he has been assistant general manager 

 of tlie Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., in addition to which he for 

 several years audited the books of the branch offices of the 

 United States Rubber Co., throughout the country. 



OUTING OF THE "NATIONAL" CLERKS. 



The foremen, clerks, and salesmen of the National India Rub- 

 ber Co. (Bristol. Rhode Island) had their seventh annual clam- 

 bake on Saturday, June 2~, at the Tobin farm. There were about 

 SO in attendance, including Agent LeBaron C. Colt, Secretary 

 Walter De F. Brown, and Superintendent Cushman, who were 

 the guests of the day. The day's program embraced various ath- 

 letic sports, including a baseball game between married and single 

 nines, won by the former — 10 to 9. The clambake, presided over 

 by James A. Munro, of the National company's printing depart- 

 ment, was enthusiastically praised. The committee in charge of 

 the outing consisted of Charles Henning, Edward Bunn, J. Louis 

 Coggeshall, E. E, Wilkinson, John Conley, W, R, Davis and J. A. 

 Munro, 



HYGIENIC RUBBER WORKS. MUSKEGON. 



The Hygienic Rubber Works is the new name of the business 

 at Muskegon, Michigan, organized early in 1907 as the Osius 

 Chemical Co., Inc., for the manufacture of dental vulcanite and 

 dental specialties. Dr. Frederick Osius, who was president of the 

 first company, has become sole proprietor under the new ar- 

 rangement. The new management will add the manufacture of 

 stamp rubber. The address is N05. 13-17 First street, Muskegon. 



A CALMON BRANCH IN AMERICA. 



A DISTRIBUTING Center for the sale in the United States, Mexico, 

 and Cuba of the asbestos goods and special lines of rubber 

 goods of the Calmon works in Hamburg is to be established 

 in New York, under the style of The Calmon Asbestos and 

 Rubber Works of America. The local company will be in- 

 corporated in due time with the following officers : Edward H. 

 Garcin, lately of the Combination Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 (Bloomfield, New Jersey), president; Rudolf Gruber, of the New 

 York banking house of Ladenburg Thalman & Co., vice presi- 

 dent; Rudolf Gaerter, secretary and treasurer. Under this ar- 

 rangement the Asbest- und Gummiwerke Alfred Calmon Aktien- 



gesellschaft have for the first time a direct representation in the. 

 United States. The company have a capital of 10,500,000 marks 

 [= $2,499,000], and employ in their factories at Hamburg some 

 6.000 hands. Their asbestos works probably are the largest in 

 existence. They obtain raw material from their own mines 

 from the town of Calmon, in Quebec, Canada. The company's 

 products include asbestos paper, asbestos millboards, asbestos 

 yarn, asbestos cloth (for technical and mechanical purposes and 

 for theater curtains) ; also Calmon's asbestos slates for build- 

 ing purposes, and asbestos insulating materials for the electrical 

 industry. The Calmon rubber factory turns out all the lines of 

 mechanical goods as well as rubber shoes and automobile tires. 

 It is understocd that Mr. Alfred Calmon, the founder of the 

 company named and its managing director, who has paid several 

 visits to America, will be on this side the Atlantic, again in 

 the autumn. 



A LARGE CABLE CLOTH COI" TRACT. 



WiTHix the past month the Massachusetts Chemical Co. (Wal- 

 pole, Massachusetts) have entered into contract with one of the 

 largest firms of insulated wire and cable manufacturers to supply 

 their entire requirements of cable cloth. The wire and cable 

 company in question have for many j'ears made their own cable 

 cloth, but have been convinced that by delegating this part of 

 cable making to the Massachusetts Chemical Co., whose exclu- 

 sive specialty is insulating compounds and the impregnating of 

 fabrics with the same, they not only will get a better and more 

 uniform product but get it at a lower cost than that at which 

 they have been producing it themselves. 



SCHULTZ PATENT RUBBER CO. 



George W. ScHfi.TZ, for a number of years engaged in busi- 

 ness in the mechanical rubber goods and asbestos fabric lines in 

 Philadelphia, after having retired for a while, announces that he 

 has resumed business in these lines under the new title of Schultz 

 Patent Rubber Co.. later to be incorporated under the laws of 

 Pennsylvania. Mr. Schultz was some time a partner in Sayen & 

 Austin Rubber Co., and later in Sayen & Schultz, which suc- 

 ceeded the former company in 1900. The new business is located 

 at No. 1230 St. James street. Philadelphia. The company for the 

 present will have manufactured for their trade a line of pack- 

 ings and other mechanical goods, and also asbestos specialties, 

 from compounds and formulas which they own. 



AN ASSIGNMENT. 

 The R. H. Smith Manufacturing Co. (Springfield. Massachu- 

 setts) made an assignment on June 26 to Robert A. Knight and 

 Charles H. Beckwith, for the benefit of creditors. The business 

 of the company is asserted to have been profitable, both in the rub- 

 ber stamp and stamp outfit department and in the manufacture of 

 the Smith speedometer. It is intimated that the main reason 

 for the assignment was that the business had outgrown its cap- 

 ital, and the continuation of the business is looked for. Mr. 

 R. H. Smith, the head of the business, died recently, and a 

 reorganization cf the company was reported in The India Rub- 

 ber World of June i (page 308). 



THE DUTY ON SAFETY FUSE. 



Ax importation of mining safety fuse at Denver. Colorado, was 

 assessed for duty as a manufacture of cotton, under paragraph 

 322 of the Tariff act. which reads : "All manufactures of cotton 

 not specially provided for in this act, 45 per cent, ad valoretn." 

 The importers claimed the goods to be properly dutiable at the 

 rate of 35 per cent, ad valorem under paragraph 450 of the Tariflf 

 act, as an article in which gutta-percha is the component material 

 of chief value. After a hearing the United States general ap- 

 praisers at New York sustained the protest of the importers. 



