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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



( February 1, 1917. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Advance Rubber Co., January 16 (.Uelaware), $2^)00,000. 

 F. D. Buck, George VV. Dillman, and M. L. Horty— all of 

 Wilmington, Delaware. Principal office, Delaware Charter Guar- 

 antee & Trust Co., 328 DuPont Building, Wilmington, Delaware. 

 To deal in tires, tubes and automobile accessories, etc. 



.\kvon Biltwell Tire & Rubber Co., The, December 27 (Ohio), 

 $200,000;. M. Braley. J. F. Risch, W. H. Kline and W. A. 

 Young. Principal office, Akron, Ohio. To manufacture tires and 

 accessories. 



Archer-Strauss Rubber Co., January 4 (Massachusetts), $100,- 

 000. Aaron L. Strauss, 16 Browne street, and .-Xlbert Gutterman, 

 11 Browne street, both in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Calvert 

 B. Archer, 45 Irving place, Franiingham. Massachusetts. Prin- 

 cipal office. I-'raminghain, Massachusetts. To manufacture and 

 deal in rubber and rubber products. 



Automatic Top Sales Corporation, The, January 6 ( New York), 

 $500,000. Donn Wood, Thomas H. Smith, and Baylis M. Daw- 

 .son— all of 10 Wall street. New York City. Auto top busiiiess. 

 Auto Tire Exchange, Inc.. January 12 (New Jersey). $100,000. 

 Herman Lefkowitz, 127 Johnson avenue; Leo Kaplus, 129 John- 

 son avenue: Morris E. Rothhouse, 173 Morris avenue— all of 

 Newark, New Jersey. Principal office, 225 Halsey street, New- 

 ark, New Jersey. To manufacture and deal in tires, tubes, etc. 



Balanced Whip Golf Club Co., Inc., December 1 (New York), 

 $15,000. Rufus P. Johnston, president and treasurer; P. H. 

 Lynch, vice-president; George N. Vanderbilt, secretary. Prin- 

 cipal ofifice, 103 Park avenue. New York City. To manufacture 

 the Balanced Whip Golf Club. 



Brooklyn Rubber Works, Inc., January 16 (New York), $5,000. 

 Axel Larson, 168 East 112th street. New York City; Frederick 

 S. Lafond, Jr.. 1117 Carroll street, and Theodore .\. Deveer. 28 

 Boerum place— both in Brooklyn, New York. Tires, etc. 



Great Republic Tire & Rubber Manufacturing Co., January 15 

 (Delaware), $100,000. W. H. Owens, Denton, Texas; K. M. 

 Dougherty and E. Lynch— both of Wilmington, Delaware. 

 Principaloffice, Colonial Charter Co., 927 Market street, Wilming- 

 ton, Delaware. To manufacture and deal in automobile tires, 

 inner tubes and other rubber products. 



Hagberg Automobile Co., January 5 (Kansas), $150,000. C. A. 

 Hagberg (president- and general manager), F. L. Eraser (sec- 

 retary and treasurer)— both of Wichita, Kansas, and R. E. New- 

 berry (vice-president and sales manager). Principal office, 

 Wichita. Kansas. To manufacture and deal in rubber goods, 

 automobile supplies, accessories, etc. 



Henry's Tire Shop. December 5 (Oregon), $5,000. John T. 

 Henry, John Henry and R. H. Cochrane— all of 82J^ North 

 Broadway, Portland, Oregon. Principal office, Portland, Oregon. 

 To deal in tires, etc. 



Independent Tire Co., December 27 (Tennessee), $6,000. F. F. 

 Cain, M. E. Cain and A. B. Hatch. Principal office, Memphis,' 

 Tennessee. To deal in auto tires and accessories. 



Manufacturers Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., January 9 (New Jer- 

 sey), Eric Windmiller. 43 High street, Passaic; Herman Feder, 

 335 Belmont avenue, Newark, both in New Jersey, and Justin S. 

 Galland. 25 Broad street. New York City. Principal office, 335 

 Belmont avenue, Newark, New Jersey. To manufacture ma- 

 chinery, tires, rubber goods, etc. 



National Compo. Co.. Inc., Decemlier 26 (New York), $5,000. 

 Jacob Meisel, 752 Broadway; Paul R. Gordon, 149 Broadw-ay, 

 both in New York City, and .Abraham Lit^ky. Newark, New 

 Jersey. Insulating materials, etc. 



North Star Rubber Co., October 20 (Minnesota), $50,000. 

 Jeremiah C. Spillane. J. W. Laramy and Samuel H. Greeley, all 

 of St. Paul, Minnesota. Principal office, St. Paul. Minnesota. 

 To manufacture rubber products. 



Olsen, Wilson & Stendicke. Inc.. January 4 (New York). $15,- 



000. Albert Olscn, 427 Fast 158th street. William J. Wilson, 

 511 West 143rd street, and Richard .A. Stendicke, 173 East 

 Seventy-fourth street, all in New York City. 'I'o deal in auto 

 tires, tubes, etc. 



Peerless Tire & Rubber Co., January 5 (Wisconsin), $50,000. 

 F. E. Burrall, John P. Jcssen and A. W. Brown, all of Green 

 Bay, Wisconsin. Principal office Green Bay, Wisconsin. To 

 manufacture and deal in tires, rubber goods, etc. 



Samson Tire & Rubber Corporation, January 12 (Delaware), 

 $1,000,000. James M. Satterfiekl, L. B. Phillips and J. B. Bailey, 

 all of Dover, Delaware. Principal office. United States Corpora- 

 tion Co.. 311 South State street, Dover, Delaware. To deal in 

 tires, etc. 



Security Tire & Rubber Co., December 27 (Delaware), $1,000,- 

 000. V. C. Bogardus, H. H. Waller and M. Friedberg, all of 

 140 Nassau street, Manhattan Borough, New York City. Prin- 

 cipal office. Capital Trust Co., of Delaware, Dover, Delaware. 

 To manufacture and sell inner tubes for automobile tires. 



Stearns Tire & Tube Co., Inc., December 26 (New York), 

 $250,000. A. K. Ott, 518 West 161st street. New York City; 

 Henry Pearlman, 2038 Eighty-fifth street, and M. Hawthorne, 

 1221 Fifty-fourth street, both in Brooklyn, N. Y. To manufac- 

 ture tires, tubes, etc. 



Tire Co. of America, December 12 (Wisconsin), $2,000. Ed- 

 ward Ver Halen, John Gregory, and E. H. Ludwig. Principal 

 office, Milwaukee. Wisconsin. To manufacture and deal in tires, 

 etc. 



Titan Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., January 17 (New York), $1,200.- 

 000. Horace D. Newman, 329 West Forty-eighth street; John J. 

 Gray, 309 East Seventeenth street, both in New York City, and 

 J. Gerald Kenlon, Goytesville, New Jersey. Principal office, 

 Batavia, New York. To manufacture rubber goods. 



Utica Tire Exchange Co., Inc., January 13 (New York), $5,000. 

 Alonz') Hand, Vernon; N. F. Hand and Earl G. Becker, 49 

 Franklin Square, Utica, both in New York. Principal office, 

 Utica, New York. To deal in tires. 



Washington Waterproof Clothing Co., Inc., January 8 (New 

 York), $10,000. Benjamin Jacobson and L. Jacobson, 1338 

 Forty-fifth street. Brooklyn, New York, and Hyman Cohen, 611 

 West 113th street. New York City. To manufacture rubberized 

 clothing, etc. 



RUBBER COMPANY SHARE QUOTATIONS. 



Tiie following market quotations of shares of rubber manufacturing com- 

 panies on January 24 are furnished by Tolin Burnham & Co., 115 Broad- 

 way, New York City, and 41 South la -Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois: 



Bid. Asked. 



Ajax Rubber Co. (new) 76 llVz 



Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.. common 140 145 



iMresfone Tire Sr Rubber Co., preferred 107 WiVi 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., common 59"^ 605^ 



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



Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., common 278 2825^ 



Goodyear Tire o: Rubber Co., preferred 10714 108^ 



KcUy-Springfield Tire Co.. common 59^ 60 



Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., 1st preferred 92H 95 



Miller Rubber Co., common 248 255 



Miller Rubber Co., preferred 107?/$ lOiyi 



Portage Rubber Co., common 164 166 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., preferred 110 



Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co 84 87 



Ignited States Rubber Co.. rommon 597.^ 60^ 



I'nited States Rubber Co., nreferred 110 111 



RUBBER COMPANY DIVIDENDS. 



The Besaw Tire & Rubber Co. paid a dividend of 7 per cent 

 on all preferred stock from date of issue to January 1, to 

 stockholders of record on that date. 



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

 declared a quarterly dividend of 2 per cent on the first preferred 

 stock and a quarterly dividend of lyi per cent on the second 

 preferred stock, payable January 31 to stockholders of record 

 January 15. 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. has declared a quarterly divi- 

 dend of 4 per cent on the common stock, payable February 1 

 to stockholders of record January 15. 



