New-York tribune., 1909-02-07
ELLIS'S NEW CONCERN
Nan of Many 4dUent"res Manager
of Big Com pGng.

1isnatcb from Mexico announces the formation
CT q $4,000 600 American corporation, known as the
Consolidated Palo-Amarillo Rubber company
which purposes 10 manufacture rubber from paIo-
amarillo CveIIovy wood) and amste trees. George
W. Young. banker. OF No. % Cedar street is said
to be president. Robert II. McCurdy, former Vice
president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company
is vice-presideut: Frederick Kopf s secretary; Ar
thur TIrnhuII of No us East 72d street. and John
J McCook lawyer OF No 190 Broadway, are d.
rectors William H Ellis, formerly Of No. wall
street. Mexican man 1ger.
The company. it is understood has secured from
the Mexican government the exclusive right to
manufacture rubber from their trees provided the
company erects a factory at cost Of S0o01 ana
has IT in operation by February 1. 1872
Mr Young verified last evening the dispatch from
Mexico and said that the company would have the
exclusive-right to manufa cture rubber from anna
rflIo and amate trees on Mexican government lanc.
The company. he said was incorporated under the
laws of a Western state. and would begin TO build
its factory Immediately. The stock he said was
owned principally in New York and Mexico and
would not be placed on the market
Mr. Turnbul would not state definitely last night
that company had been Incorporated. but he
said that Ellis had been in Mexico time, look
ing after the interests Of the company Mr.. Turn
ball said that he had agreed some time ago to act
as director in case the company were formed.
Ellis is the who figured in the badger
case, in 1895. in which Fayne Moore and her nus
band were charged with baCkmailing the late Mar
Hotel. John F. Mcintyre, IN cross-examining The
woman referred 10 one Ellis, whose name appeared
in her diary as a negro. Mrs Moore. however, in
sisted that he was a Cuban. In 1901 ". H. Ellis
was arrested a charge Of criminal assault pre-
ferred by young woman stenOgrapher-
In 1904 he accompanied Kent J Ioomis, brother OF
Francis b Loomts then Assistant Secretary OF State
who was the bearer Of papers relating to com
rnercial treaty with Abyssinia which he was taxing
to King Menelfk. Loomis disappeared from me
steamer inst before il arrived Southampton from
New York and Ellis took the documents and, with
the permission Of the State Department carried
them to Abyssnia.
A 7ispatch from Torreon Mexico. in December,
reported the arrival there of Ellis, and said that
he had announced that he had come in the inter-
est Of an American rubber company which ne hao
organized in New York, with capital OF *zo"''-
900 which company woul1 manufacture rubber
The dispatch also said that Ellis was promoting
o1an for coonizng several thousand Texas negroes
in Abyssinia and that he said that King Mehei'N
had granted him many millions Of acres OF land
The manufacture of rubber frsm the guaNule
Dlant OF shrub hiss been conducted on large scale
for the last Two three years by the Continental
Rubber Company. which incorporated IN New
Jersey IN January 1906 with 100000 capital stock.
This corporation. of which little is heard was sald
at the time Of its organization to be controiied oE
Thomas r Ryan. the Guggenheims. Senator <io-
rich of Rhode Island and other important hnanclaI
interests
In Iecem Der, 1906 the Intercontnental Rubber
Company was incorporated at Trenton, with s4V'-
100000 authorized capital stock. and was said to he
\ holding company for the Continental Rubber
Company and for certain companies organized or
planned for producing rubber in the Congo under
the concessions granted the American Congo Com
uarv bv the King Of the Belgians. In May. 1907,
President Colt Of the United States Rubber Com
parv in his annual report to the stockholders said
that an arrangement had been made between the
General Rubber Company z subsidiary Of the
former and the Continental Rubber Company
which insures complete harmony and cooperation
hereafter between the United States Rubber Com
pany and the Continental Rubber Company and
those connected with both companies