October 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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News of the American Rubber Trade. 



BRIGHTON MILLS BUILDS NEW PLANT. 



IN connection with plans for increasing it.s product, the Brighton 

 Mills, Passaic, New Jersey, large manufacturer of tire fabrics 

 for the rubber trade, has purchased about 300 acres of land at 

 Allwood, New Jersey, which is within a mile of the present 

 plant. Nearly 50 acres of this property, which is located on the 

 Newark branch of the Erie Railroad, about midway between 

 Newark and Paterson, will be reserved for factory purposes, and 

 the balance will be developed into homes for the employes. 

 Building operations have just started. 



It is planned to increase the total output by approximately 30 

 per cent. The machinery to be installed was ordered months 

 ago, and it is confidently expected that the new plant will begin 

 turning out tire fabric in January. 



John Nolan has been engaged to plan out the streets and land- 

 scape effects. Morris Knowles, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will 

 supervise the sanitary installations. The John W. Ferguson Co.. 

 Paterson, New Jersey, will be the builders, and Murphy & Dana, 

 of New York City, have been engaged as architects for the 

 houses. 



BUBBER COMPANY SHARE QUOTATIONS. 



The following market quotations of shares of rubber manu- 

 facturing companies on September 25, are furnished by John 

 Burnham & Co., 115 Broadway, New York City, and 41 South La 

 Salle street, Chicago, Illinois : 



Bid. Asked. 



.Jijax Ri-.bber Co. (new) 64"/^ 65!^ 



Firestone Tire & Ruhbe- Co., coinmon 1050 1080 



Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., preferred 110 112 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., common 72^ 72 J< 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., preferred 112 114 



Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., common 270 290 



Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., preferred 106K 108^ 



Kelly-.SpringficId Tire Co., common 83 83J^ 



Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., 1st preferred 98 100 



Miller Rubber Co., common 250 275 



Miller Rubber Co., preferred 104 106 



Portage Rubber Co., common 160 170 



Portage Rubber Co., preferred 160 170 



Swinebart Tire & Rubber Co 90 96 



United States Rubber Co., common 59 59J-:i 



United .Stales Rubber Co., preferred 113 114 



RUBBER COMPAUY DIVIDENDS. 



The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. paid its 70th regular 

 quarterly dividend of 1^4 per cent on the preferred stock on 

 .September 15 to stockholders of record September 12. 



A 2J4 per cent dividend on common stock and a 1J4 per cent 

 dividend on preferred stock has been declared by the Portage 

 Rubber Co., the common stock dividend payable November 15 

 to stockholders of record November 3, and the dividend on 

 preferred payable October 1 to stockholders of record Sep- 

 tember 20. 



A quarterly dividend of 1^ per cent on the preferred stock 

 of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. has been declared, payable Oc- 

 tpber 2 to stockholders of record September 15. 



PROPOSED FISK INCREASE. 



Stockholders of the Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls. 

 Massachusetts, have been called to meet on October 2 to 

 vote on increasing the capital stock by $12,500,000. Of the 

 new stock, $7,500,000 would be first preferred convertible, and 

 $5,000,000 second preferred. At the same time the stock- 



holders will vote on increasing the common stock by an 

 amount sufficient to take care of the conversion of the present 

 outstanding second preferred stock, and the proposed new 

 preferred issues. The adjustment of Fisk stocks is to be 

 completed by reducing the amount of the authorized capital 

 stock by $5,000,000, the amount of second preferred stock, 

 Series B, authorized a few months ago but not issued. 



STANDARD TIRE COMPANY FORGES AHEAD 



Charles 



P, Smith. 



P. Smith, 

 newly appointed sales 

 manager of the Stand- 

 ard Tire & Rubber Man- 

 ufacturing Co., Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, reports 

 an increase in the com- 

 pany's business in the 

 last six months of 650 

 per cent. The plant is 

 running day and night, 

 with three shifts, and 

 enlargements are be- 

 ing made, and machin- 

 ery and equipment or- 

 dered, which will give a 

 capacity of about 600 

 tires daily. The Stand- 

 ard company has re- 

 cently put on the market 

 a new tire called the 

 "Velvetread." 



■RUBHIDE" IN RUBBER. 



A marked tendency in the compounding of India rubber today 

 is a lessened use of inorganic and an increased use of organic 

 iillers. While we hold no brief for the Henderson Rubber Co., 

 Baltimore, Maryland, the notable increase in its business, as 

 shown by the addition to the plant, would seem to prove that 

 "Rub-Hide" was finding a place in the rubber trade. This sub- 

 stance, made from raw hide according to rubber manufacturers, 

 possesses the following virtues: It adds notably to the tensile 

 strength while giving practically the same elongation; it has 

 no deteriorating effect, but rather is a preservative. That it 

 stands the heat as in vulcanization is shown by the fact that it 

 is used not only in soft rubber goods such as tires, inner tubes, 

 and mechanicals, but in hard rubber as well. From 25 to 33 

 per cent is used in ordinary compounding. 



WATER-CURED RUBBER GOODS. 



The S. & \V. Rubber Manufacturing Co., College Point, New- 

 York, is about to put on the market a new line of inner tubes, 

 called "Velvet Water Cured" tubes. These goods will be, 

 as the trade-mark indicates, cured in hot v/ater; they will be 

 produced in two colors, gray and non-blooming bright red. 



Water-curing is not new, as quantities of hard rubber goods 

 are thus cured. As far as soft rubber goes, the process is rarely 

 used and certain mechanical difficulties being overcome, offers 

 advantages — for example, water-cured goods are not likely to 

 be overcured or "burned." 



The company is also about to put on the market, tire casings, 

 dress shields, elastic bands, bathing caps, jar rings, packing, 

 etc., all water-cured. 



The process is a product of the veteran inventor and experi- 

 menter in rubber goods, Arthur C. Squires. 



