September i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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OFFICEHS OF THE CONTINENTAL RUBBER CO. 



There have been some changes in the list of officers of the 

 Continental Rubber Co. (New York), following the resignation 

 as president of Mr. Howard Page, who has gone to Europe for 

 a long vacation. Mr. Page remains on the board, however. The 

 officers now are : 



President — William H. Stayton (formerly vice president). 



Vice President and Treasurer — Edward B. Aldrich. (Treas- 

 urer from the beginning, and now filling two offices.) 



Secretary — C. B. Reid. 



General Manager [a new office] — Walter Button (formerly 

 auditor of the company). 



The same official list applies to two other corporations: (i) 

 Continental-Mexican Rubber Co., having in charge the manu- 

 facturing interests in Mexico of the Continental Rubber Co., 

 and (2) Compania Ganadera y Textil de Cedros, a cattle and 

 fiber company operating on the hacienda "Cedros'' in the Mexican 

 state of Zacatecas. 



A CORRECTION. 



The Atlantic Rubber Co. (Hyde Park, Massachusetts), through 

 an inadvertence, was mentioned in The India Rubber World 

 in July as being engaged in the manufacture of rubber clothing. 

 Their principal business is the rubber-proofing of all kinds of 

 fabrics, including single, double and triple textures ; rubber 

 heels and molded specialties ; rubber sheeting, dress shields, 

 bathing caps and various toilet specialties. The present com- 

 pany was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 

 January, 1908. F. H. Stratton is president, Alfred A. McLaren 

 treasurer, and S. W. Culver, clerk. The factory and principal 

 offices are located at Hyde Park. 



NEW GOODRICH PREMISES IN NEW YORK. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio) have purchased 

 property in New York, upon which they purpose erecting a large 

 building for the purposes of their branch in this city. The 

 purchase was made from the Marsh estate, and embraces 

 Nos. 1776-1778 Broadway, at Fifty-seventh street. The insig- 

 nificant structures now on the ground — irregularly shaped and 

 measuring 53.10x132.1 and 50x100.5 — will be replaced probably 

 by a si.x-story modern structure. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



American Rubber Reclaiming Co., Inc., June 30, 1908, under 

 the laws of Pennsylvania; capital authorized, $100,000. Incorpo- 

 rators and directors: John R. Livezey (president); Joseph R. 

 Liveze)', William A. Flanagan, William R. Taylor and John Ox- 

 ford (treasurer). The new company have acquired the business 

 of the Manufacturers' Co., reclaimers of rubber by a non-acid 

 process, with mills at Germantown and Kensington, Philadelphia. 



Palmer-Hawkins Rubber Tire Co., June 22, 1908, under the 

 laws of Ohio ; capital, $1,000. Incorporators : M. R. Palmer, 

 N. M. Palmer, George N. Hawkins, E. P. Otis, E. E. Otis— all 

 of Akron, Ohio. 



Tire-Life Co., July 6, 1908, under the laws of Delaware; author- 

 ized capital, $500,000. Incorporators : William H. Sterling and 

 Montaigu M. Sterling, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Samuel G. Meetser, 

 New Y'ork city. 



Perfection Emergency Tire Co., licensed August 10, 1908, un- 

 der the laws of Illinois ; capital, $25,000. Incorporators : G. C. 

 Grable, W. R, Hartley, and D. W. Norris. 



National Insulite Co., licensed August 4, 1908, under the laws 

 of Illinois ; capital, $25,000. Incorporators : A. H. Mikesell, A. 

 M. Scott, and John K. Newhall. Principal office : Aurora, 111. 



Kerite Insulated Wire and Cable Co., July 30. 1908, under 

 the laws of New York ; capital, $500,000. To succeed to the 

 business long conducted by W. R. Brixey, at Seymour, Con- 

 necticut, and in New Y'ork city. Incorporators : Richard D. 

 Brixey, Seymour; Reginald W. Brixey, No. 2 Rector street, New 

 York; and Abel Crook, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Calmon Asbestos and Rubber Works of America, August 10, 

 igo8, under the laws of New York; capital, $25,000. Incorpora- 

 tors : Edward H. Garcin, Rudolf Gaertner, and Rudolph Gruber, 

 all of New York city. Advance particulars appeared in The 

 India Rubber World, August i (page 381). 



Sectional Rubber Tire Co., August 26, 1908, under the laws 

 of Massachusetts ; capital, $50,000. A. H. Gushing, Brookline, 

 treasurer; W. T. Simpson, South Weymouth, clerk. 



Knickerbocker Tire and Repair Co., August 15, 1908, under 

 the New York laws ; capital, $10,000. Incorporators : William J. 

 Staunton, No. 321 Pacific avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey; 

 John J. Walsh and Charles P. Bispham, New York city. 



A. G. Spalding & Brothers, August 13, 1908, under the laws 

 of Maine ; capital, $500,000. To deal in sporting goods. The 

 incorporators include J. W. Spalding, Monmouth Beach, New 

 Jersey; William T. Brown, East Orange, N. J., and Paul Walton, 

 Ridgewood, N. J. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Henry C. Pearson, editor of The India Rubber World 

 and delegate from the New England Rubber Club to the Inter- 

 national Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition to be held this 

 month in the Olympia, London, sailed from New York on the 

 Minnehaha on August 22, and will remain abroad so long as the 

 exhibition is in progress. 



President Samuel P. Colt, of the United States Rubber Co., 

 spent the month past at Jackson, New Hampshire. Secretary 

 Samuel Xorris, of the same company, spent his vacation in the 

 Adirondacks. Treasurer John J. Watson, Jr., spent some of the 

 heated term at Lake Mohonk, New York. Manager of Sales 

 Edward R. Rice was in London recently, planning to go to the 

 Continent. 



Mr. Eben H. Paine, the resident director in London of The 

 LTnited States Rubber Co., has ended his summer vacation on 

 this side of the Atlantic. 



Mr. James Bishop Ford, first vice president of the United 

 States Rubber Co., with his schooner yacht Katrina, took part 

 in the annual cruise of the New York Yacht Club, starting from 

 New London, Connecticut, en August 7. 



The will of the late Charles H. Dale, president of the Rubber 

 Goods Manufacturing Co., filed in the surrogate's court in West- 

 chester county, New York, on August 3, bequeaths to the widow 

 his entire estate. The value is not stated, but has been estimated 

 at about $2,500,000. Mrs. Dale is appointed sole executrix. 



August Johnston, of New Y'ork, engaged in the india-rubber 

 and gutta-percha machinery trade, is making a two-months' 

 visit to Europe, particularly to Sweden, his native country, 

 though he will look into the rubber business elsewhere on 

 the continent. 



His excellency, Wu Ting-fang, the Chinese ambassador at 

 Washington, paid a visit recently to Butler, New Jersey, and 

 was shown through the work of the American Hard Rubber Co. 



Mr. Tracy S. Lewis, treasurer of the Beacon Falls Rubber 

 Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls, Connecticut), arrived at home during 

 the month from six weeks' absence in Europe. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The directors of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. 

 have declared a semi-annual dividend of $4 per share on the com- 

 mon stock, payable September 15, to stockholders of record 

 September 5. 



James Gray, for several years superintendent of the Joseph 

 Banigan Rubber Co., has accepted the position of superintendent 

 of the factory of the Merchants Rubber Co., Limited, rubber 

 footwear manufacturers at Berlin, Canada. Mr. Gray was con- 

 nected with the Woonsocket and Banigan companies altogether 

 for 30 years. 



The Apsley Rubber Co. (Hudson, IMassachusetts) have resumed 

 work after the annual summer shutdown for inventory and re- 

 pairs. 



