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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 190,1 



during their visit to the city. Altogether the occasion proved 

 so delightful to those present that already they speak of it as 

 their First Annual Banquet, and doubtless it will become a 

 regular institution. A record of the banquet, which has been 

 printed handsomely, in pamphlet form, iscertain to be treasured 

 by all who shared in it. 



APSLEY RUBBER CO. (HUDSON, MASS.) 

 Co have been awarded for an addition to the boot 



and shoe mill that will double its capacity. The addition will 

 adjoin the main building at the east end, and will be of brick t 

 six stories, 62 X 80 feet. This is to be completed in July. The 

 machinery will be supplied by the Farrel Foundry and Machine 

 Co. The Apsley company have been putting in two additional 

 elevators and have more than doubled their steam plant, put- 

 ting in a 400 hp. boiler. They have added seven new mills 

 rtilh interchangeable calenders and washers, and are making a 

 number of other improvements which, when completed, will 

 afford a capacity for 15.000 pairs of rubber boots and shoes per 

 day, in addition to their mackintosh and rubber clothing busi- 

 ness. The company manufacture their own packing boxes and 

 have their own last factory (the Millay Last Co.) The Hon. 

 L. D. Apsley, president of the company, began the manufac- 

 ture of mackintoshes at Hudson in 1883. The manufacture of 

 rubber footwear was begun in April, 1900, and at once became 

 an important and successful branch of the company's business. 



NATIONAL INDIA RUBBER CO., BRISTOL, R. I. 



BUSINESS continues very brisk in every department of the fac- 

 tory. The insulated wire department has been run at night for 

 some time past, in order to turn out the work required of it. It 

 has been decided to remove the insulating department from its 

 present location to the east end of the brick building at the 

 north side of the plant, where three floors will be occupied. 

 Additional machinery is to be installed and it is expected that 

 150 hands will be employed in this department after the changes 

 have been made. 



THE WESTERN RUBBER CO. (GOSHEN, INDIANA). 



The plant of this company, although not the largest in their 

 line, is capable of turning out a very large amount of high 

 priced work. The buildings consist of a large three story brick 

 structure, the ground floor of which is used for a mill room, 

 and which has a washer, two large grinders, a calender, a tub- 

 ing machine, and several presses. In the rear of this is the en- 

 gine and boiler house, and at one side a dry house for rubber 

 and compounding material. The plant is close to the tracks 

 of the " Big Four " railway. 



REESE WATERPROOF MANUFACTURING CO. 

 A tract of six acres in Oakland, California, has been ac- 

 quired by this company, mentioned in The India Rubber 

 \V ■ 1 ; 1 . L> of September 1. 1902, as having been incorporated un- 

 der California laws, with $200,000 capital, to waterproof goods 

 by a newly patented process. It is reported that an extensive 

 factory is to be erected. The business office of the company, 

 No. 1 57 1 Seventh street, Oakland, is in charge of the vice presi- 

 dent and general manager, J. W. Phillips. 



CONCORD JUNCTION RUBBER WORKERS' UNION. 

 Rubber Workers' Union 9856. A. F. of L., at Concord Junc- 

 tion, Massachusetts, on December 23. 1902, reorganized as Local 

 No. 2, of the new International Amalgamated Rubber Workers' 

 Union of America, affiliated with the American Federation of 

 Labor, with Clarence E. Akerstrom. president. On February 

 25, 1903, the Concord Junction union adapted a resolution con- 

 demning the Boot and Shoe Workers' Union and commending 

 the Knights of Labor, in connection with labor troubles in the 

 leather shoe factories at Lynn. On March 2, 1903, Clarence E. 



Akerstrom, as national secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated 

 Rubber Workers, wrote a letter to the general president of the 

 Boot and Shoe Workers, stating that the resolution of the Con- 

 cord [unction union— his own Local — was "an illegal act," in- 

 spired by a few "radical, irresponsible people who are trying to 

 disrupt that local " ; that the four principal officers of the lo- 

 cal had resigned in consequence; and that "the local was sus- 

 pended and its charter revoked this evening." 



AFFAIRS OF THE CRUDE RUBBER CO. 



Justice Lacombe, in the United S'ates circuit court at New 

 "York, on March 10, signed an order appointing John J. Towns- 

 end a special master to take proof and report as to what per- 

 sons are entitled to share in the distribution of funds coming 

 into the hands of the receivers of the Crude Rubber Co. The 

 creditors were allowed until April 21, 1903.10 file their respect- 

 ive claims at No. 20 Nassau street, the office of the receivers. 

 An application to extend the tune was denied. 



THE KEMPSHALL MANUFACTURING CO. 



Golf ball patents have been issued recently to Emmet 

 Schultz, of Arlington, New Jersey, assignor to the Arlington 

 Co., of the same address. The Arlington Co. was incorporated 

 January 31, 1899, under New Jersey laws, the papers being 

 signed by Henry S. Chapman, Edward N. Crane, Emmet 

 Schultz. L. Stoughton Ellsworth, and R. H. Ensign. The 

 India Rubber VVorld is informed that " All patents of The 

 Arlington Co., on golf balls, etc., belong to the Kempshall 

 Manufacturing Co. [Arlington, N. J.], and goods made under 

 said patents will be put out by the Kempshall company." 

 Messrs. Chapman and Crane, mentioned above, are now offi- 

 cers of the Kempshall Manufacturing Co. 



THE NEW YORK FIRE HOSE FRAUD CHARGES. 

 Justice Scott, in the New York supreme court, on March 

 12, dismissed the demurrers to the indictments against former 

 Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell and William L. Marks. 

 They were indicted for conspiracy to defraud the New York 

 fire department while Scannell was commissioner. This de- 

 cision means that they must stand trial. The indictments were 

 filed on November 22, 1901, and charge the defendants, among 

 other things, with awarding contracts for fire hose to others 

 than the lowest bidders. Further details appeared in The In- 

 dia Rubber World August 1, 1901 (page 336) and December 

 1, 1901 (page 90). 



LARGE FIGURES IN A LAWSUIT OVER TIRES. 



The National India Ruober Co. on March 11 filed two suits 

 in the Rhode Island supreme court, at Providence, against the 

 Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., for the aggregate sum of 

 $160,000. In the first suit the plaintiff corporation alleges that 

 on November 9, 1899. it became a party to an agreement in- 

 volving the transfer, to the New York brokerage firm of F. S. 

 Smithers & Co., acting as agents of the Rubber Goods Manu- 

 facturing Co., of the special machinery in the factory used in 

 making rubber tires, and the stock of tires and tire material 

 then on hand. The consideration was $10,000 (or the machin- 

 ery and $49.00° for the material, payment being accepted in the 

 form of 590 preferred shares of the Rubber Goods Manufactur- 

 ing Co. at par— or $59.000— with a guarantee that within three 

 years these shares would be redeemed, besides paying divi- 

 dends at the rate of 7 per cent, per year. On November 8, 

 1902, the last business day of the three years, the 590 shares, it 

 is alleged, were tendered to the Rubber Goods Manufacturing 

 Co., which corporation refused to pay $59,000 for the same. 

 Whereupon the National company sues, and lays its damages 

 at $100,000. 



In the second suit, the complainant alleges that, following 



