Jani \kv l. 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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210 Wesl Fortj fourth street; J II Halfbey and Isidor Lobatto 

 — both d!" 105.! Southern Boulevard all in New York City. To 

 deal in boots, rubber shi k s, 1 1< 



Wire Tire Co., Mi 28, 1914; under the laws of Dela- 



ware; authorized capital, $1,000,000. Incorporators: John S. 

 Lyons, 412 North Main streel Gi rgi I Brown, 40 North Main 

 street both of Wilkes-Barn and rhomas V. Zukoski, Plj 

 mouth all in Pennsylvania. To manufacture and sell automo- 

 biles, automobile tires, rims or acci 



X Prot Co., Inc.. I'lii . November 21, 1914; under the 



laws of New York; autho pital, $20,000. fncorporat 



Isidore Neustaedter and Hyman J. Rosenbloom — both of 63 Park 

 Row, and Ufred Ui andi iO West One Hundred and Eleventh 

 street .ill ol New York Cit) ro manufacture tire proti 

 devices and other auto acc( — 



BUSINESS ACTIVE WITH CONVERSE CO. 



According to its monthly statement for S 

 verse Rubber Shoe Co., oi Maiden, Vlassachusetts, is making 

 9.000 pairs a daj against <>.()00 pairs in November, 1913. The 

 company having refused to bid gn orders for this season, 



he increase is solel) attributable •■ h mi demands. It has 

 .inn found necessary to opi rat m; it de] trtments night and day. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Rubber footwear prices, which for the pasl two years have 

 been announced in January, and prior to thai time were published 

 in April, are not yet ready. The "Boot & Sinn- Recorder," in its 

 issue of December 12, sta lists will be issued 



March 1. 



At the meeting of the Retail Shoe ^ssoci; Louisville, 



Kentucky, the subject ■ f profits to be obtained on rubbers was 

 discussed, some dealers maintaining that rubbers selling at whole- 

 sale for 65 cents per pair should be retailed at $1.25, while 

 others claimed that a price of $1 per pair— which would give 

 the dealer a profit of 31 per cent, on the selling price and of 

 44 per cent, on the cost price — would encourage the public to 

 buy more freely. 



Large orders are being received by Canadian manufacturers 

 for rubber shoes for the Allied armies. The Canadian Con- 

 solidated Rubber Co., Limited, of Montreal, has received an 

 order for over 60,000 pairs of two-buckle arctics, through repre- 

 sentatives of the British government, and practically all the 

 rubber shoes in stock at the warehouse of this company and the 

 branch in that city of the Gutta Percha & Rubber, Limited, have 

 been bought for immediate shipment. 



The Loewenthal Co. has removed its New England office from 

 Chelsea, Massachusetts, to 161 Summer street, Boston. 



The plant of the Leicester Rubber Co., at Catasauqua, Penn- 

 sylvania, damaged by fire last summer, was sold by the receivers 

 on November 24 at $5,900, the machinery bringing $4,800 and 

 the site and what remains of the building $1,100. 



Fire recently damaged the plant of the L'nited States Rubber 

 Reclaiming Co., at Buffalo, to the extent of about $75,000. This 

 plant was valued at $1,000,000, and the fire is supposed to have 

 been caused by spontaneous combustion. 



The United States Rubber Co. has opened a new branch store 

 at Indianapolis, Indiana, in charge of J. II. Hassett, formerly of 

 the Banigan Rubber Co.'s Chicago force and also at one time 

 connected with the New England Rubber Shoe Co., at Boston. 



Fred Becht, who for a number of years was connected with the 

 Goodyear's India Rubber Selling Co., has been appointed manager 

 of the Maumee Rubber Co., at Toledo, Ohio. 



An organi2ation known as the Federal Goodfellowship Club, 

 composed of employes of the Federal Rubber Manufacturing 



Co., of Milwaukee, was instrumental in bringing Christmas cheer 

 to a number of the less fortunate of that city during the holidays. 

 I his club had envelopes distributed among the employes on pay 

 days for some time prior to Christmas, and each contributed 

 what lie could conveniently spare toward the cause. 



I In regulations under schedule B of the Emergency Revenue 

 law, i mber 1, 1914, provide that on 



chewing gum or substitutes then for stamps must be affixed by 

 the manufacturer before packages leave the factory, at the rate 

 of 4 cents for every dollar's worth of gum at retail price; and that 

 a labi ig the number of tablets in the package, with the 



retail prit c i if each tablet, musl al sed. 



The Plymouth Rubber i M ssachusetts, has re- 



cently contracted with i trie Illuminating Co., of 



■ in, for a supplj al in about 1,600 horse power 



day, and amountii 10.000 a year. 



An .nun iiii.ii ment n reo effect that Mi 



Harold van der Linde and Victor i I inde have severed 



their connection with the Century Rubber Co., of Plainfield, New 



Jersey. 



Some inti eei piled bj the Federal 



Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in regard 

 to its output of tires for baby carriages. The quantity of this 

 material sent out from the factory in October was sufficient to 

 ,^.000 baby carriages, which, at 1_' ire per carriage, 



would require 1.05(>,000 feet, or 200 mill 



A ruling of the Circuit ( ourl of Appeals in the case of the 

 L. E. Waterman Co., of New York, against thi Modern Pen 

 | both manufacturers of fountain pens — has been affirmed by 

 the Supreme Court, which holds thai there is no proprietary in- 

 terest in the name \\ aterman, and that the Modern Pen Co., 

 with which Arthur A. Waterman is associated, may mark its 

 wares "Arthur A. Waterman & Co. Not connected with the 

 L. E. Waterman Co." 



The rubber stamp making establishment of R. A. Stewart & 

 Co., Inc., at 203 Broadway, New York, was severely damaged 

 by the fire which recently destroyed the three upper floors of the 

 five-story building at that address. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, is one of the rubber con- 

 cerns that has profited from the season's big grain crops, having 

 rilled a great many orders for their "Longlife" and "Maxecon" 

 conveyor belts for use in western elevators. Some of these belts 

 are 715 feet long and 40 inches wide. 



\ meeting of stockholders of the Northland Rubber Co., Inc., 

 which manufactures pneumatic tires and tubes, was held at the 

 company's office at 703 Northland avenue, Buffalo, on Novem- 

 ber 17. when the following directors were elected: B. L. Jones 

 [president] ; G. G. Riley [secretary], and C. O. Henderson, for 

 three years each; W. F. Kasting [vice-president], H. D. Miles 

 and C. L. Ingham, for two wars each; J. I Ferguson, C. B. 

 Hill and J. Jolly | assistant treasurer] for one year each. 



The El Paso Rubber Vulcanizing and Auto. Supply Co., of El 

 Paso, Texas, has Tiled certificates of dissolution. 



A convention of the National Foreign Trade Council, of which 

 James A. Farrell is chairman, will be held at the Planters' Hotel, 

 uis. Missouri, January 21 and 22. 



The Motor Truck Club of America held its annual meeting 

 and banquet mi Wednesday evening. December 16, at the Auto- 

 mobile Club of America, New York. The club now has 344 

 members, representing all the various industries associated with 

 truck manufacture and operation, its membership including 15 

 tire manufacturers and 9 tire salesmen. At this meeting George 

 H. Duck, of the Sewell Cushion Wheel Co., was elected a director 

 for a three-year •°an. 



