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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1915. 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



THE ADAMSON MACHINE CO. STILL GROWING. 



THE Adamson Machine Co., of Akron, Ohio, was started 

 in 1892 by Alexander Adamson. Fourteen years later 

 it was incorporated. The company's plant has been 

 increa i li From time to time. Five years ago it built 



an entirelj new plant, with a tloor area of 45,000 square feel 

 Since that time this has been increased considerably over 

 100 per cent. so that its floor area now amounts to 110,000 

 square feet, and with th< addition now building 1.55.000 square 

 feet. 



THE UNITED STATES TIRE CO. CONCENTRATES ITS WORK. 



The United States rire Co. was funned in 1911 to market 

 four of the best known brands of tires, namely: Morgan & 

 Wright, made il Detroit; the Hartford, made at Hartford. Con- 

 necticut; tlie H. & J., made in Indianapolis, and tlie Continental, 

 made by the Revere Rubber Co., Providence. Rhode Island Foi 

 about a year these tires were sold under their individual names 

 Then the four brands were eliminated, or at least subordinated, 

 and all the tins were sold under the general brand, United 

 States Tii" G Mow in order to manufacture with greater 

 •econonn and better facilities for specialization, the company in- 

 tends to concentrate the manufacture of automobile tires in two 

 ■of its plants, namely, those at Hartford and Detroit, while all 

 its bicycle and motorcycle tires will lie made at the Indianapolis 

 plant and the solid tires, for motor trucks, carriages and other 

 vehicles, will be manufactured in the Revere plant at Providence. 



NO INCREASE IN PIANO TUBING PRICES. 



The Chicago correspondence which appeared in a recent num- 

 ber of this publication spoke of the advance in the price of 

 rubber tubing for player-pianos. Such an advance took place 

 soon after tlie outbreak of the war and the phenomenal rise in 

 crude rubber prices, but in some cases the prices for tubing have 

 been restored to their original figure. The L. J. Mutty Co.. 

 of Boston, Mr instance, advanced its price for piano rubber 

 tubing 10 per cent early in the fall, but reduced the figure again 

 to the original price On the lust of November; and all its cus- 

 tomers who had contracts were fully protected during the 

 period covered by the advance. No increase in price was made 

 in us line of rubber coated cloths. 



RUBBER COMPANY DIVIDENDS. 



The Board of Directors of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing 

 Co. on December 2 declared a sixty-third regular quarterly divi- 

 dend of 1-14 per cent, on the preferred stock of the company, 

 and a dividend of 1 per cent, on the common stock — both pay- 

 able December 15 to stockholders of record on December 10. 



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

 dends of V/< per cent, on the 6 per cent, preferred stock of the 

 company and U4 per cent, on the 7 per cent, preferred stock — 



1 ilf January 2 to stockholders of record on December In; 

 also ,, dividend of l'j per cent, on common stock, payable Feb- 

 ruary 1 to stockholders of record on January 15. This is the 

 first dividend declared bj the company on its common stock, 

 which two years ago sold at 15 and is now in the neighborhood 

 of 70 



The Converse Rubber Shoe Co., of .Maiden, Massachusetts, on 

 December 1 paid a regular semi-annual dividend of V/i per 

 cent, on preferred stock to stockholders of record on No- 

 vember 25. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, has de- 

 clared a quarterly dividend of I'm per cent, on its preferred 

 stock and a dividend of 3 per cent, on contra >.i stock, payable 

 January 15 to stockholders of record on December 31. 



The Apsley Rubber Co., of Hudson, Massachusetts, has de- 

 clared a regular semi-annual dividend of V/i per cent., payable 

 January 1 to stockholders of record on December 2S. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Beginning January 1, the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co., 

 at its plant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will reduce the work- 

 ing hours of all employes in its factory from a 10 and 11 to 

 a nine hour basis per day. This reduction in hours will not 

 mean a reduction in wages to the operatives, as they will receive 

 the same total wage per week for the shorter hours that they 

 have heretofore received. 



The Keystone Rubber Manufacturing Co. has built a $50,000 

 addition to its plant at Erie, Pennsylvania, increasing its ca- 

 pacity about four times. The company intends to make a spe- 

 cialty of red and gray inner tubes. 



I he L. J. Mutty Co., which manufactures rubber fabrics and 

 tubing, has moved its executive offices from 93 Federal street 

 to 1/5 Congress street, Boston. 



The St. Louis branch of Fisk Rubber Co., of Chicopee Falls, 

 Massachusetts, will remove about April 1 from its present quar- 

 ters at 3917 Olive street, to the 2-story and basement fireproof 

 building now under erection at 2206 Locust street, on which a 

 long time lease has been taken. 



The American Rubber Fabric Co. has under way a 6-story 

 fireproof concrete addition to its plant at Pittsburgh, which, 

 when new- machinery is installed, the company states will con- 

 stitute one of the best equipped rubberizing plants in the coun- 

 try. This company produces a line of rubber hospital sheeting, 

 raincoat Cloth, automobile top cloth and many other rubberized 

 fabrics. 



The tire tread and repair stock, cement, etc., of the Stoddard 

 Rubber Co., of Worcester and Millville, Massachusetts, is now on 

 sale in New York City, by the Stoddard Rubber & Tire Co., of 

 177 Broadway. 



The Marathon Tire & Rubber Co., of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 

 in a letter recently received, states that arrangements have 

 been made by which Marathon tires will be made in Canada by 

 a firm at St. Catharines, Ontario, under the trade name and 

 subject to the supervision of the Marathon company. The erec- 

 tion of a plant there has been abandoned for the present. 



The Detroit Insulated Wire Co., of Detroit, Michigan, has 

 increased its capital stock from $100,000 to an authorized issue 

 of $500,000, of which on December 4 $250,000 was outstanding. 

 Its manufacturing facilities are being improved and 'increased, 

 and new buildings and machinerj provided. 



The Searle Unburstable Inner Tube Co. has been incorporated 

 in New York, with a capital stock of $400,000, to manufacture 

 the Searle automobile inner tube. The incorporators are Orson 

 Kilborn. Frederick H. Hall and J. Campbell Thompson, all of 

 New York. 



The Wellington Rubber Co., id' Medford, Massachusetts, was 

 petitioned into bankruptcy on December 15, with liabilities 

 amounting to $100,941. and assets $43,754. 



The East Palestine Rubber Co. has moved its executive offices 

 from 200-2 Wood street to 439 Sixth avenue, Pittsburgh. 



The Summit Rubber Co., of Barberton, Ohio, which is in the 

 hands of receivers, states that it will not resume rubber manu- 

 facture. 



A factory is being established in the outskirts of London by 

 Johnson & Johnson, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, makers 

 of surgical appliances, rubber bandages, plasters, etc. The fac- 

 toid at New Brunswick has been kept in continuous operation 

 night and day for the past three months, filling orders for 

 French and British hospitals, requisitions for five tons of band- 

 age at one time being nothing unusual. 



