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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1907. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT AKRON. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESl'ONDENT. 



AT the annual meeting of The B. F. Goodrich Co.. on January 

 9, Colonel George T. Perkins retired from the office of 

 piesident. He has been gradually giving up positions of busmess 

 activity with a' view to spending his declining years quietly. He 

 still retains his interest in the Goodrich company, however, and 

 will officiate as chairman of the board of directors. The olliccis of 

 the company arc: Bertram G. Work, president; F. H. Mason, 

 first vice-president: H. E. Raymond, second vice-president; E. C. 

 Shaw, general manager of works; C. B. Raymond, secretary; 

 \V. A. Folger, treasurer; \V. A. Means, assistant treasurer; C. C. 

 Goodrich, general superintendent, and H. E. Joy, assistant general 

 superintendent. The directors are Messrs. Perkins, Mason, 

 Work. Goodrich, Shaw and H. E. Raymond and George W. 

 Crousc. 



The past year was one of unrivalled prosperity with the com- 

 pany. Several extensive additions to the plant were made, and 

 others are being planned. Within the last few weeks the Good- 

 rich company have purchased nearly $50,000 worth of property 

 adjoining their general offices, and will erect buildings tliis year 

 which will double the office room. 



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The Aladdin Rubber Co. held their annual meeting during the 

 month in their offices in the Hamilton building. The officers" 

 annual reports showed the company to be in a prosperous condi- 

 tion, and the product sold six months ahead. It was said that 

 this fact has made it necessary to turn down a number of large 

 orders. Orders have been placed for machinery, which will 

 double the capacity of the present plant at Barbcrton, and the 

 officers of the company contemplate the erection of a new plant, 

 much larger than the one used at present, in the near future. 

 The old officers and directors were re-elected, as follows: James 

 Christy, president; C. M. Gilbert, secretary, treasurer and man- 

 ager. Directors: James Christy. Will Christy, C. M. Gilbert, 

 J. H. Conner and C. S. Heller. 



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James A. Swinehart, senior member of the Swinehart 

 Clincher Tire and Rubber Co., has returned from a European 

 trip, and is much elated over the strides which the Swinehart 

 tire has made in foreign countries. He closed a deal whereby 

 all of his German patents are to be sold to a manufacturing 

 concern in that country. 11. F. Siegrist. treasurer of the Swine- 

 hart company, has resigned, and has been succeeded by Fred A. 

 Boron, a local bank official. The company is mstalling a great 

 deal of new machinery in its plant, and when all proposed 

 improvements are completed its present output will be in- 

 creased 50 per cent. 



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"Andy" Aubi.e, the .-Vkron garage owner who, with \V. W. 

 Owen, of Cleveland (as chauffeur) and Fred Work, of Akron, 

 drove an Oldsmobile from New York to Ormond Beach, P'lorida, 

 in record time, is much gratified at the showing which he made. 

 The party encountered roads which were almost impassable, and 

 the name "Pathfinders," with which they were dubbed, fitted 

 exactly, according to Auble. ,\ peculiar feature about the trip 

 is that while the machine was fitted with Diamond tires, it car- 

 ried as a passenger Mr. Work, a brother of the newly elected 

 president of The B. F. Goodrich Co.. a rival concern in the tire 

 manufacture. 



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The Diamond Rubber Co. will erect another new building, 

 320 X 150 feet and five stories hi.gh. The structure will be used 

 to increase the Diamond company's facilities for the manufacture 

 of automobile tires. Mr. C. E. Mathewson. the Pacific coast 

 manager of the Diamond Rubber Co.. spent a week at the factory 



here when he came east to attend the New York automobile show. 

 He reports that his company have equipped with their tires more 

 than 6.000 of the 10,000 automobiles on the coast. 



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I'liE India Rubber Co. property, the site of a rubber factory 

 burned in March, 1903, has been purchased by the George W. 

 Carmichael Co., who probably will erect a furnace manufacturing 



plant there. 



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RuuAHD M.\soN' and Henry Hall, who have been employed by 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co. for 26 years, were placed on the pension 

 list January I. The Goodrich company adopted this plan of 

 retiring the most faithful of their employes two years ago. 



IHE RUBBER TRADE AT TRENTON. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



npilE Prudential Rubber Co., a new Trenton concern, was in- 

 ■^ corporated in the office of the secretary of state on January 

 21. 'J'he charter states that the company is formed for the pur- 

 pose of manufacturing and dealing in rubber goods of all descrip- 

 tions. The capital stock is $125,000, divided into 1250 shares of 

 the par value of $100. The incorporators are Charles F. McCoy, 

 M. A. McCoy, E. Furman Hooper, and A. A. Hooper. Charles 

 F. McCoy is the agent in charge, and the office at present will be 

 in the Wilkinson building. Mr. E. Furman Hooper was tax 

 receiver of Trenton for several years, and is head of the whole- 

 sale paint house of E. F. Hooper & Co. Mr. Hooper states that 

 at present the new company will confine its business to the selling 

 agency line, handling mechanical rubber goods. Later it may 

 enter the manufacturing field. 



Members, of the office force of the Ui ted and Globe Rubber 

 Manufacturing Cos. served a dinner on the c enir.g of January3, 

 in the Dutch room of Margerum's restai-rant, to celebrate the 

 closing of another year's business. The banquet followed the 

 annual stock taking. The tables were handsomely decorated and 

 the event was a most pleasant one. Those present were : Alex- 

 ander H. Clarke, Aubrey Love. Samuel Cadwallader, Frank H. 

 Van Derbeck, Je.sse M. Fabian, J. Oliver Thorp, Malcolm Salter, 

 Townsend N. Conrad, Daniel M. Lovett, Thomas A. Maguire«ind 

 J. Lewis Hendricks. Jr. 



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The Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. have been granted another patent 

 for a rubber heel and sole. The new invention is designed to 

 meet a want long felt by wearers of rubber soled footwear, that 

 is, the nonslipping quality. The new sole is composed of a black, 

 tough rubber stock with a center of pure white rubber and 

 ground cork. The cork element accomplishes the nonslipping 

 result. 



John S. Broughton. secretary, treasurer, and general manager 

 of the United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos., was chair- 

 man of the general connnittee which made a conspicuous success 

 of the charity ball given in Masonic Temple, on the evening of 

 January 10. for the benefit of Mercer Hospital. The ball was the 

 leading social function of the present season. More than 700 

 tickets were sold and $1,200 were the net proceeds. 



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William J. B. Stokes, one of f" ' proprietors of the Trenton, 

 Joseph Stokes and Home Rubber companies, was re-elected treas- 

 urer of the^ity of Trenton by the common council, on January I. 

 After taking the oath of office, Treasurer Stokes named a new 

 clerk, appointing Carl C. Kuhl, who was employed in the rubber 

 department of the John A. Roebling's Sons Co. Mr. Kuhl re- 

 signed to take his place in the City Hall. The term of Mr. Stokes 

 as treasurer is three vears. 



