December 1, 1914] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



155 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



CHARLES T. WILSON CO., INCORPORATED. 



OX November 1 the business of Charles T. Wilson, importer 

 of and dealer in crude rubber .it 46 Cortland! street, 

 New York, was transferred to the Charles I. Wilson Co., 

 Incorporated, all unfilled contracts and obligations being 

 assumed by the new concern. Tlii-^ company, of which 

 Charles T. Wilson is president and Henry Perlish vice- 

 president, is incorporated under the laws of New York with 

 an authorized capital stock of $250,000, of which they state that 

 $210,000 has been issued and paid in. 



THE T. H. & B. CHEMICAL CO. 



Having sold his interest in the firm of Ernest Jacoby & Co., 

 manufacturers of rubber substitutes, with factory at South 

 Boston, Mr. Ernest Jacoby has resigned his position as an 

 officer of that company. The business will be continued as 

 heretofore, under the name of the T. II. & 1!. Chemical Co., 

 with offices at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and Mr. Jacoby will 

 continue to sell its products. 



THE RUBBER RECLAIMERS' ANNUAL MEETING. 



The animal meeting of the Rubber Reclaimers' Club was held 

 at the Hotel Vanderbilt, New York, on November 5. Francis 

 11. Applcton was re-elected president. R. W. Seabury was re- 

 elected treasurer, and Lloyd E. \ppleton was elected secretary, 

 succeeding J. Norman. The club is in a very healthy condition 

 and its monthly meetings for the exchange of views on the re- 

 claiming industry are largely attended. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOSTON WOVEN HOSE & RUBBER CO. 



The annual report of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber 

 Co. shows total assets on August 31 valued at $3,710,036, or 

 a value of $171,700 in excess of assets on the same date last 

 year; while the surplus shows a gain of $177,869, standing at 

 $1,460,042 in the last report, against $1,282,174 in 1913. The 

 assets include cash and debts receivable to the amount of 

 $913,564, and the liabilities include accounts payable $48,304, 

 with a floating debt of $348,000. 



This company has declared a regular semi-annual preferred 

 stock dividend and a regular quarterly common stock dividend 

 of $3 per share, payable December 15 to stockholders of record 

 on December 5. It also declared an extra dividend of $25 a 

 share on common stock, payable November 27 to stock of record 

 on November 23, offering to common shareholders the privilege 

 of subscribing to 2.500 shares of new common at par, in the 

 ratio of one share of new for each four shares held of the old 

 issue. 



A CHANCE TO VISIT SOUTH AMERICA. 



The Travelers' Department of the Fidelity Trust Co. of Balti- 

 more has chartered the steamship "Finland" for the purpose of 

 taking a party of manufacturers, exporters, importers, and others 

 on a tour, lasting 106 days, of the principal ports of South 

 America. The ship will sail from New York January 27, and 

 from Baltimore two days later ; will visit all the important ports 

 in the southern continent, and return home by way of the Pana- 

 ma Canal. This trip is promoted for the purpose of giving 

 American business men a chance to acquaint themselves with 

 the business opportunities in South America. 



WELLINGTON, SEARS & CO. SECURE GOVERNMENT ORDERS. 



Government orders for about a million yards of cotton 

 duck have recently been received by Wellington, Sears & Co., 

 of Boston — manufacturers and exporters of ducks, sheetings, 

 drills, etc., especially suited to the needs of the rubber trade 

 — from the European countries now involved in war. The 

 French government alone has ordered, through the company's 

 agency in Great Britain, half a million yards, presumably for 

 army purposes. 



RAW MATERIAL AND THE EUROPEAN WAR. 



The terribli truggle now going on in Europe, and the conse- 

 quent n of general commercial and manufacturing con- 

 ditions, has brought in its train a lesson now receiving the seri- 

 ous consideration of most American manufacturers — that of the 



i oi dependence on supplies from over sea. The att< 

 of manufacturing trades — including rubber — is of necessity 

 tinned to the availability and extent of domestic sources of sup- 

 ply of a dependable and reliable character, The lining 

 of the waters around the British Isles creates a situation which 

 is likely, among other things, to have a restrictive influence on 

 the importation of chalk, on which the manufacture of whiting 

 is dependent, and is already affecting the market for deliveries 

 over nexl year. 



The Industrial Chemical Co., of 200 Fifth avenue, New York 

 City, which for many years has been studying the requirements of 

 the rubber manufacturing industry, has now perfected its >p« ial 

 brand of "Alba Whiting" to such a degree as to make it a most 

 efficient compounding material in the manufacture of rubber 

 goods. The largely increased demand from the trade has fully 

 justified the company's policy of expansion in erecting a 

 thoroughly up-to-date plant under scientific management, pro- 

 viding a means of doubling the present output and so placing the 

 company in a position to guarantee regularity of supplies, in 

 anticipation of an additional demand for material entirely of 

 American origin. Alba Whiting has been on the market for over 

 ten years, but its use has greatly increased during the last three 

 years. There are now over 80 rubber manufacturers who are 

 using this ingredient in their compounding. 



THE FISK RUBBER CO. MAKES A RED TOP TIRE FOR FORD CARS. 



The Fisk Rubber Co., of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, is 

 making a non-skid tire with red top and white side walls 

 for use on Ford cars. This tire is made only in sizes 3 x 30 

 inches and 3J/S x 30 inches. The tread has additional thick- 

 ness and is claimed to ride as smoothly as a plain tread and 

 without any bump and vibration. A letter received Novem- 

 ber 13 by the Fisk company from one of its representatives 

 in Arizona states that he had just examined a set of red tops 

 on a Ford car used in automobile stage service through the 

 desert that had traveled approximately 6,000 miles and looked 

 good for fully as many miles more. 



MONATIQUOT RUBBER WORKS CO. APPOINTS NEW AKRON AGENT. 



The Monatiquot Rubber Works Co., from its Boston sales 

 office at 176 Federal street, announces that James C. Baldwin, 

 of Akron, Ohio, has been appointed agent in that state for 

 "Naturized" Rubber, the product of the Monatiquot plant at 

 South Braintree, Massachusetts. The company has hereto- 

 fore been represented in that section by L. Y. Croft. 



RUBBER COMPANY DIVIDENDS. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, at a quarterly 

 meeting held Monday, November 2, declared an annual divi- 

 dend of 12 per cent, on the $8,000,000 common stock of the 

 company. 



The Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, has declared a 

 regular quarterly dividend of \y 2 per cent., payable Jan. 15 to 

 stock of record Dec. 15. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, has declared a regular 

 quarterly dividend of 1J4 per cent, on its preferred stock, 

 payable January 1 to stockholders of record on December 21. 



CAPITALIZATION CHANGES. 



The Star Rubber Co., of Akron. Ohio, has increased its 

 capital stock from $100,000 to $200,000. 



The Excel Rubber Co., of Akron. Ohio, has increased its 

 capital stock from $10,000 to $30,000. 



