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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



L February 1, 1915. 



CAPITAL STOCK CHANGES. 



I Ik II I Rubbei i o., of Watertown, Massachusetts, lias in- 

 creased its common stock from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, and has 

 issued $150,000 additional preferred stock, to be sold al a price 

 netting the company above par. the proceeds to be used for ad- 

 ■i.d H orking capital. 



\ special meeting of stockholders of the Quality Tire & 



Rubber Co., of Hartville, Ohio, was held on January 19, to 



authorize an increase of capital stock from $75,(1011 to $500,000, 



the end in view being an increase in productive capacity to 300 



tires per day. 



I lie Falls Rubber ( o., ol < uyahoga Falls, Ohio, has increased 

 i] itali ation from $200,000 to $300,000. 



WAR ORDERS. 



The New Brunswick, New Jersey, plant of the United States 

 "Rubber Co. has had a share in the war business received in 

 this country, rush orders calling for January 15 shipment 

 occupying this plain al top speed lor three weeks without 

 even a let-up on New Year's day. 



Calvet Rosenthal, who arrived in New York, January 12. 

 by the "Minnetonka" from London, representing himself as 

 special agent for the French government, stated that he was 

 authorized to purchase, among other things, 2,000,000 pairs 

 of rubber gloves and 1,000,000 pairs of wire nippers, the latter 

 to cut barbed wire and the former for protection against 

 electric shocks. 



i Ithei orders reported include one for rubber shoes placed 

 with the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., of Boston; a $500,000 or- 

 der for uniforms with the Kenyon Co., manufacturers of 

 weatherprooi garments, Brooklyn; 1,000,000 yards of duck — 

 variously distributed; automobile trucks to a value of about 

 $18,000,000, and 200 war aeroplanes. 



WHAT SHOE MANUFACTURERS SAY ABOUT RUBBER SOLES. 



The tenth annual convention of the National Boot & Shoe 

 Manufacturers' Association was held in Xew York, at the Hotel 

 Astor, January 12-13. In discussing the use of substitutes such 

 is fabric tops and rubber bottoms, it was declared that the 

 purchasers of such shoes were not receiving value equal to 

 that of all-leather footwear and, while the shoe manufacturers 

 benefited by greater consumption, the increasing expenditure for 

 shoes by the general public would latterly affect the manufac- 

 turers. 



ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS TO ORGANIZE. 



Representatives of a number of electrical manufacturing com- 

 panies met last month in the Hotel Biltmore, New York, to dis- 

 cuss the formation of an organization of manufacturers, to deal 

 with the commercial problems of the industry. R. K. Sheppard, 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, was chosen chairman 

 of the meeting, and 11. R. Sargent, of the General Electric Co., 

 secretary. After some discussion it was resolved to place the 

 matter of organization in the hands of a representative com- 

 mittee of 9, with instructions to report to a general meeting to 

 be called on February 9, to which electrical manufacturers from 

 all over the country would be invited. 



The Semple Rubber Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, has adopted 

 the design here shown as a label for use on all its tire tubes, 

 being one of the first of the 

 American rubber manufacturing 

 concerns to make use of the new 

 Hade slogan. The Semple com- 

 pany makes inner tubes of two thicknesses, under the trade 

 names Semco and Sedrala. 



The Chester Rubber Tire & lube Co., East Liverpool, Ohio 

 have made extensive repairs in their plant, which was shut down 

 for several weeks for this purpps" With new machinery, in- 

 cluding two new mixing machines, they expect to do a large 

 business during the coming season. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 

 -Meyer & Brown, crude rubber brokers, of 35-7 South William 

 Street, New York, sent out an announcement on January 2 of 

 the renewal of their partnership and their intention to carry on 

 the business as heretofore. 



The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., of East Palestine, Ohio, is 

 ■ ffering investors an opportunity to purchase $500,000 of its 7 

 per cent, preferred stock. The company's earnings for the fiscal 



year ending November 30 are reported as $308,578 in excess of 

 those of 1913, amounting to $594,136, and its net tangible assets, 

 exclusive of good will, patents, etc, to he wortli $1,353,670. Its 

 authorized capital stock is $1,000,000. 



The Gaulois Tire Corporation, of 49 West Sixty-fourth street, 

 Xew York, states that shipments of Gaulois tires continue to 

 arrive from Havre and Marseilles, France, as in the past, and that 

 no price advances have been made on account of the war. 



The Toledo Rubber Co.. of Toledo, Ohio, has moved into 

 in « quarters, occupying now an entire large four-story building. 

 This company, which was established 24 years ago, conducts a 

 wholesale and retail business in all kinds of rubber and sporting 

 goods. Its officers are E. C. Deardorff, president, and T. H. 

 Deardorff, vice-president and treasurer. 



A lecture on "Rubber from Tree to Tire" was recently de- 

 livered at the Seventh Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, by W. G. 

 Brown, of the firm of W. G. Brown & Co., distributors of 

 crude rubber, compounding ingred'ents, etc., of that city. This 

 lecture was illustrated by moving pictures, 4,000 feet of film 

 being required to show the processes through which the rubber 

 passes front its collection to manufacture into finished goods. 



A co-partnership under the name of Arnold & Zeiss has been 

 formed by C. H. Arnold, Albert Zeiss and W. J. Kelly, to take 

 over and carry on, on and after January 1, 1915, the business 

 of the firm of Arnold & Zeiss, whose partnership expired by 

 limitation on December 31. Heilbut, Symons & Co., of London 

 and Liverpool, became at the same time special partners, con- 

 tinuing in the present firm the same financial interest that they 

 had in the former concern. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, Ohio, has brought from 

 its factory at Colombes, France, millimeter solid tire molds 

 to be used in the production of tires for army vehicles. The 

 French factory of the Goodrich company is being operated by 

 the Government, but under some disadvantage, about 350 of its 

 former employes having joined the military forces. 



Three new 10,000- ton vessels, costing about $3,000,000, are be- 

 ing built for W. R. Grace & Co., of New York, who do a large 

 business with South American countries, both in import and 

 export lines. 



A dinner was held on January 5 at the Hotel Astor, New 

 York, to bring together the men who between 1900 and 1905 

 were members of the selling staff of the Hartford Rubber Works 

 Co., of Hartford, Connecticut, and to form an organization to 

 perpetuate their friendship. Ernst H. Brandt, Joseph Rental 

 and Harry E. Field were responsible for the idea and the Jist of 

 persons invited to the dinner contained 51 names. 



The Paramount Rubber Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, has 

 appointed The George D. Kramer Co., of New York, dis- 

 tributors in the Eastern States of its line of tennis and hand 

 balls. The Paramount line includes ten varieties of hand balls, 

 but the company has only recently entered the golf ball field, 

 turning out this class of goods for the first time last summer. 

 The process of manufacture is said absolutely to seal the 

 high pressure of compressed air in the ball, leaving no avenue 

 of gradual escape, thus eliminating all possibility of going 

 soft or dead. 



