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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1. 1915 



Edward H. Huxley. 



H. Stuart Hotchkiss and William J. 



COMPANY FORMED TO EXPORT RUBBER GOODS. 



f VTE in November the United States Rubber Export Co., 

 '—' Limited, was Eormed, for the purpose ol concentrating and 

 bringing under one control all the export business oi the 

 United States Rubber < o. ( m December 2 the incorporators 

 of the new company met-.a) the building ol the United Si iti ■ 



Rubber Co. and 



pleted thi 



ion T li e 

 Colli iv i ird of 



directc 



ted: Samuel P. 

 president of 

 the I nited States 

 Rubber Co.; Les 

 ter Leland a ml 

 James B. I ord, 

 presidents ol 

 that c o in i 1 a n y : 

 Elislia S. Willi 



idenl of tin- 

 Rubber G Is 



Manufacturing Co., 

 and H o m e r E. 

 Sawyer, g e n e r a 1 

 manager of t h e 

 United States Rub- 

 ber Co., also Ray- 

 mond B. Brier. 

 Charles C. Case, 

 William E. Barker, 

 Joseph C. Weston, 

 Edward II. Huxley, 

 Maloney. 



The directors organized by electing the following officers: 

 President. Edward H. Huxley; treasurer, W. G. Parson, who 

 is also treasurer of the United States Rubber Co.; assistant 

 treasurer, H. Stuart Hotchkiss, and secretary, John D. Car- 

 berry, who is also assistant secretary of the United States 

 Rubber Co. and the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 



Edward Huxley, the president, has long been identified 

 with the rubber business. At the time of the reorganization 

 of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. he was one of 

 A M. Paul's right hand men. In 1911 he became assistant 

 general manager and sales agent of the National India Rub- 

 ber Co. Later he came to New York for the United States 

 Rubber Co. and devoted himself to the export field. In this 

 line he has proved himself an expert, becoming an encyclo- 

 pedia of information on commercial geography, tariffs, trade 

 routes, etc. 



THE GREAT EASTERN RUBBER CO. 



The Great Eastern Rubber Co., Inc.. has been organized at 

 Allnitown, Pennsylvania, and incorporated under the laws of 

 that state to manufacture, sell and distribute automobile tires 

 and other rubber goods. The capitalization of this concern is 

 $100.000 — 650 shares of 7 per cent, cumulative preferred and 350 

 s of common stock — the organisers having purchased the 

 common and turned over to the company $13,500 in cash, witli 

 equipment and stock valued at $24,000. as well as a patent cover- 

 ing iln ( rown" tire which it is their purpose to manufacture, 

 operating a factory at Allentown. The special claims for this 

 tire are that it has two more layers of fabric than any other 

 tire, that its resiliency point is at the side instead of at the bead, 

 and that it has an extra heavy tread. The officers are: V. A. 

 Nagle, president; D. M. Knabb, vice-president; Charles R. 

 Fluck, treasurer; A. E. Dodge, secretary. Messrs. Nagle and 

 Dodge are experienced tire men. and Charles Sullivan, the factory 

 manager, has long been associated with lire manufacture. 



BOSTON BELTING CO. 



The following is a condensed summary of the September 30 

 balance sheet of the Boston Belting Co.: 



Liabilities. 



pital stock $1,000,000.00 



Reserve fund 800.000.00 



Profit and loss 46,918.69 



Note, payable 200,000.00 



Unsettled bills 31.401.50 



\"KTS. 



''.il estate, land and buildings $351,256.01 



Water privilege 150,000.00 



Machinery 269,763.28 



Tools, furniture and fixtures 107,876:76 



i asli 53,693.94 



Bonds receivable; notes receviable j , ^i-mui 



Investment Acct.J aeets. receivable j ou >- m -° J 



Merchandise 495.035.37 



Trade marks, etc 150. (Hi 



$2,078,320.19 $2,078,320.19- 



ALEMBIC GUM. 

 |n spite of the explosions and their fatal results, noted in recent 

 » :- of The India Rubber World, the Alembic Process ' 

 Perth Amlio>, New Jersey, is si ill at work on its synthetic rubber. 

 Rumor has it that it is made from turpentine and costs but 12 

 cents per pound. A professor of chemistry at Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity is said tc have examined the process and reported favor- 

 ably upon it. 



A RUBBER RETAILER CELEBRATES HIS 25th ANNIVERSARY. 



The India Rubber World is not the only institution connected 

 with the American rubber trade that has recently celebrated its 

 25th anniversary. Howe's Rubber Store, situated in Central 

 Square, Lynn, Massachusetts, started in business in December, 

 1889, and has just celebrated the completion of its 25th year. 

 As a souvenir of this event it has distributed a little pocket 

 memorandum book in which the reason of its success is described 

 as follows : "This is largely due to our invariable policy of seek- 

 ing quality and worth, rather than the prevalent disposition of 

 our present day retailers — low prices." 



PINES RUBBER CO. TO DO RUBBERIZING FOR THE TRADE. 



The Pines Rubber Co., Inc., has purchased the business of the 

 Anglo-American Rubber Corporation, situated at Bush Terminal 

 building No. 19, Brooklyn. The incorporators are Joseph, David 

 and Morris Pines, who are also proprietors of the Pines Manu- 

 facturing Co., of 55 West Twenty-sixth street. New York, which 

 manufactures raincoats. The Brooklyn plant is being utilized 1 

 for the rubberizing of fabrics for the Pines manufacturing con- 

 cern, and will soon be in a position to also do rubberizing for 

 the trade. 



CLEVELAND FACTORY TO BE USED AS RUBBER WORKS. 



The Standard Tire & Rubber Co. has purchased land and 

 buildings at Cleveland, Ohio, formerly occupied by the American 

 Fork & Hoe Co., and are making the necessary alterations to 

 convert the plant into a rubber factory. This purchase includes 

 two 2-story buildings respectively 360 x 120 and 300 x 60 feet 

 and a 2-story wing 90 x 35 feet, with separate buildings for 

 engines, boilers, etc. The capitalization of the company, at pres- 

 ent $100,000, is soon to be increased. The product will consist 

 of solid tires, pneumatic tires and tubes and mechanical rubber 

 goods, and the factory, which will probably not be ready for 

 operation before July next, will be equipped to turn out about 500 

 tires per day. Its specialty will be the "Flex Steel" inner tire, 

 a device composed of steel and rubber (both made from secret 

 formulas in the possession of the company) and of fabric. The 

 company's officers are: M. J. Gillen, president; George G. Rus- 

 sell, vice-president; C. F. Groth, treasurer; Charles B. Shaw, 

 secretary. These officers, with E t L. Thompson, J. F. Schulte, 

 E. W. Silver, L. R. Adams and Dr. J. Y.- Gallagher, compose 

 the board of directors. 



