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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1908. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.'S SHARES. 



Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange for five 

 weeks ending July 25 : 



Common Stock. 

 Week June IJ Sales 1,515 shares High 25J/2 Low 24 

 Week July 3 Sales 750 shares High 2473 Low 24 

 Week July 11 Sales 3,410 shares High 26!'2 Low 2X^/2. 

 Week July 18 Sales 7,075 shares High 28 Low 26 



Week July 25 Sales 5,100 shares High 28' s Low 27^ 



For the year — High. 2.%ii, July 22; Low, i;;;, Feb. 26. 



Last year — High, 523^; Low, ijj^. 



First Preferred Stock. 



Week June 27 Sales 310 shares High 92"8 Low 92^! 



Week July 4 Sales 800 shares High 93"s Low 927^^ 



Week July 11 Sales 2.200 sliares High 9734 Low 94 '4 



Week July 18 Sales 2,451 shares High 99*8 Low 9614 



Week July 25 Sales 2,167 shares High 97;4 Low g6j4 



For the year — High, 99^^, July 14; Low, 76, Feb. 19. 



Last year — High, iog%; Low, 61 J4. 



Second Preferred Stock. 



Week July 27 Sales 116 shares High 58 Low 58 



Week July 4 Sales 100 shares High 60 Low 60 



Week July 11 Sales 500 shares High 63 Low 61 



Week July 18 Sales 200 shares High 62,4 Low 6214 



Week July 25 Sales 400 shares High 65 Low 64 



For the year — High, 65, July 20: Low, 42, Feb 21. 



Last year — High, 7SJ^; Low, 30. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



Mrs. Georciana Derby Clapp, widow of the late Charles 

 ^lartin Clapp, died on July 13. Funeral services were held 

 on July 16 at the residence in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 

 built by her husband some years before his death in 1897. Mr. 

 Clapp was for many years identified with the rubber industry in 

 New England, in which he won an unusual degree of success. 



Mrs. Julie M. Truman, wife of Henry H. Truman, a member 

 of the New York Stock Sxchange and former mayor of Orange, 

 New Jersey, died at her home in that city on June 25. in her 

 fifty-sixth year. Mrs. Truman was the daughter of the late 

 Charles Gideon Judson, of Woodbury, Connecticut, and later of 

 New York City and Orange. For 15 or 20 years prior to 1875 

 Mr. Judson was in the rubber goods business in New York, being 

 for part of that time New York manager for the Nashawannuck 

 Manufacturing Co. { Eathampton, Massachusetts). 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Sprague Electric Co. (No. 527 West Thirty-fourth street. 

 New York) have opened a branch at Seattle, Washington, in ad- 

 dition to the one already maintained on the Pacific coast at 

 San Francisco. While primarily an electrical company, the 

 Sprague company's armored hose branch has become a very im- 

 portant part of their business. 



W. F. Schacht, hitherto superintendent of the Elkhart Rubber 

 Works (Elkhart, Indiana), has been elected president of the 

 company. He is actively assisted in the conduct of the business 

 by Secretary J. O. Waterman. 



Howard Ramie Fibre Manufacturing Co., incorporated last 

 year in New Jersey [see The India Rubber World, August i, 

 1907. page 354] have begun operations through a subsidiary 

 concern — Howard Ramie Gas Mantle Co., capitalized at $125,000. 

 The superiority of ramie over all other textiles for gas mantles 

 is claimed. The company's factory is at Kenilworth. New Jersey, 

 and the main office at No. 19 Park place. New York. 



Harold Stimson, lately manager of the Ajax-Grieb Rubber 

 Co.'s branch at Seattle, Washington, has been transferred to the 

 New York office, as assistant to President De Lisser. Frank 

 Lumsden, formerly of the Ford Motor Co., succeeds Mr. Stim- 

 son as manager at Seattle. 



The Harburg and Vienna India-Rubber Co. (of Great P.ritain), 

 Limited, was registered June ^,0. with i5,ooo capital, to carry on 

 the business conducted hitherto by the Vereinigte Gumniiwaarren- 

 Fabriken Harburg-Wien branch houses in London, Birmingham, 

 and Glasgow. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



T AMPRECHT & CO., a new firm, successors to Max Bertsch- 

 ■•— ' inger (Zijrich, Switzerland), manufacturers of soft rubber 

 goods and representatives in Switzerland of William Warne & 

 Co., Limited (London), have issued, under date of May, 1908, 

 a "Catalogue Illustre" of druggists' sundries and allied goods, 

 involving a line unusually varied and complete. The descriptive 

 matter is printed in both German and French. [8" X 10^". 

 120 pages.] 



J. Ell WOOD Lee Co. (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) issue a 

 Catalogue of Truss Department — the output of which embraces 

 many items containing rubber. The catalogue also embraces 

 elastic hosier}-. The firm now manufacture the rubber parts of 

 their trusses. [SVg" X 954"- 64 pages.] 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. (.\kron, Ohio), in "A Book on 

 Rubber Belting," in addition to listing a great variety of belts, 

 give some interesting general information on this line of rubber 

 goods, together with letters from a number of satisfied belt 

 users. Special mention is made of belting for paper mills, mine 

 elevators, grain elevators, oil wells, and belt conveyors. The 

 price list includes items ranging from 7 cents to $15.68 per foot. 

 [534" X 84". 40 pages.] 



Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have issued 

 one of the handsomest trade publications of the year — "Firestone 

 Side-Wire Tires" — designed to illustrate the great development 

 of the modern commercial motor vehicle, and the consequent 

 importance of the demand which has been created for rubber 

 tires. The company omit from this extensive pamphlet any 

 argument of their own in behalf of their tires, but instead pre- 

 sent scores of letters from manufacturing and commercial firms 

 using these tires on motor vehicles, with illustrations of the 

 various types of cars. Fire apparatus is included, and more 

 than 200 cities and towns are named in which "Firestone" tires 

 are used on such apparatus. [9^" X iz54". 32 pages.] 



David T. .\bercrombie Co. (New York) issue an illustrated 

 catalogue of Camp Outfits which is so complete that it would 

 seem that nothing required for an out door vacation has been 

 overlooked. Naturally, since waterproof articles are so desirable 

 in camp life, very many items of rubber goods are included. 

 [S" X 7." 168 pages.] 



ALSO RECER-ED. 



The Adains & Ford Co., Cleveland, Ohio^The Everstick Foothold. 6 

 pages. 



William F. Mayo & Co., Boston = [Catalogue (No. i, 1908), of Rubber 

 Footwear from leading manufacturers: comprising the lots which formerly 

 were offered each year at auction.] 40 pages. 



Sprague Electric Co., New York =: Flexible Steel Armored Hose. (Bul- 

 letin No. 507.) 16 pages. 



Imperial Manufacturing Co., Newark, New Jersey ::r Pneumatic Cushion 

 Keys for Typewriters. 4 pages. 



Innerseal Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, Ohio = Innerseal Puncture 

 Remedy [for tires]. 4 pages. 



Barrett Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia = A New Tarvia Treatment. 

 [Tarvia is a substance for treating roadways for motoring use to render 

 them dustless. ] 24 pages. 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York quotations — prices paid by consumers for car- 

 load lots, per pound — show an advance, as compared with last 

 month : 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 7^(f? 7l'i 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign.... 7'A® 7/4 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 6 @ 6]/2 



.■Xutomobile tires 6 @ Syi 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires. 7 (2 8 



White trimmed rubber ". loj/jfrrii 



Heavy black rubber ;.■.'. .•..'. 4>4(ff 454 



AW brake hose .....'.........■ 3}i(ft 4 



Garden hose 2 @ 2j4 



Fire and large hose 234® 1-5^ 



Matting Ij4@ iH 



