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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 



1903. 



ent of the local plant of the American Hard Rubber Co., has 

 been nominated for councilman-at-large by the Republicans, 

 while Alexander Adamson, proprietor of the Adamson machine 

 shops, is the prohibition candidate for mayor. George S. Whit- 

 ney, a foreman in the rubber plant of the Whitman & Barnes 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., has been nominated for council- 

 man from the first ward by the Republicans. 



The Diamond Rubber Workers' Relief Association was in- 

 corporated on March 17, under the laws of Ohio, with a view 

 to including in its membership practically all the permanent 

 factory and office employes of the Diamond Rubber Co. Mem- 

 bers will pay monthly dues, to provide a fund for sick and 

 death benefits, and relief for widows and orphans. H. S. Rid- 

 dle, master mechanic of the Diamond Rubber Co., has been 

 chosen president. William Metzler is vice president ; George 

 Rex, treasurer ; John Staub, corresponding secretary ; and H. 

 S. Burgner, financial secretary. The employes of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. have a similar institution in the White Anchor 

 Relief Association, organized several years ago, and the em- 

 ployes of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co. likewise 

 have a relief association. 



Colonel F. M. Atterholt, of Akron, who is reported to be 

 concerned with negotiations for combining the leading elastic 

 webbing concerns of the country in a new $5,000,000 company 

 assures The India Rubber World's correspondent that the 

 details are not yet definite enough to admit of publication. It 

 is reported that some fourteen concerns, with factories located 

 in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, 

 are regarded as eligible for the proposed combination. 



At a meeting of the Alden Rubber Co., on March 19, M. R. 

 Ilayne was elected a director in place of E. L. Toy, formerly 

 vice president of the company. Mr. Toy retired from that 

 office at the annual meeting of the company Feb. 4. He has 

 mining interests in Tennessee which will claim his attention. 



No definite arrangements have as yet been made for the na- 

 tional convention of the Amalgamated Rubber Workers to be 

 held here in June. The local rubber workers' union will ap- 

 point committees, however, in a short time. In the recent 

 Republican primary election W. E. Demming, a member of the 

 local union, was defeated for nomination as councilman in the 

 second ward. It is but fair to state, however, that the ward 

 does not contain a large percentage of voters who are rubber 

 workers. 



Rumors are current connecting the name of C. H. Wheeler, 

 former president of The India Rubber Co., with a new rubber 

 factory project at Kent, Ohio (ten miles from Akron), and also 

 with an undertaking for a new factory in Akron. Regarding 

 these Mr. Wheeler said to The India Rubber World's cor- 

 respondent : " It is too early to talk for publication ; I may have 

 some information to impart in a few weeks." 



T. W. Miller, treasurer and manager of The Faultless Rubber 

 Co., went to California early in March to spend a month in 

 business and pleasure on the Pacific coast. 



The Camp Rubber Co. have purchased the abandoned plant 

 of the Ashland Canning and Preserving Co., adjoining their 

 factory at Ashland, Ohio, and are converting it into a factory 

 for making boxes and cartons for their own use and for the 

 trade. The Camp company are building an addition 50 X 100 

 feet, to be used as a milling room, and have purchased land on 

 which a still larger addition will be erected later in the season. 



The Williams Foundry and Machine Co. have begun the 

 erection of a four-story brick addition, 60X40 feet, to their 

 plant. They have been very busy of late in manufacturing 

 regular and special machinery and molds for rubber factories 

 and this, more than any other one thing, makes the addition 



necessary, though Mr. J. K. Williams, president of the company, 

 states that the enlarged quarters will be used for a general ex- 

 tension of all lines of their products. C. Franz, for eleven 

 years freight agent of the Erie railroad at Akron, has become 

 associated with the company. 



H. B. Camp, president of the Faultless and of the Camp Rub- 

 ber companies, is a director of the Lake and River Railroad 

 Co., recently organized to construct a railroad from Lake Erie 

 to the Ohio river. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. 's reclaiming plant is exceptionally 

 busy this season. They are reclaiming much more rubber for 

 the trade now than formerly. 



Mr. R. P. Marvin, secretary of The B. F. Goodrich Co., and 

 Mr. E. C. Shaw, their general superintendent, left on March 9 

 to spend several weeks in Europe. 



Although it is the season when, ordinarily, many young men 

 and women from the surrounding towns and country come to 

 Akron to work in the rubber factories, desirable help continues 

 to be in steady demand. Akron manufacturers are careful to 

 avoid the employment of boys and girls at an age when the law 

 requires their attendance at school. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



MR. JAMES BENNETT FORSYTH, general manager of 

 the Boston Belting Co. (Boston), is back at his office after 

 a brief illness, looking better in health than he has for months, 

 the many warm congratulations that he is receiving from the 

 whole trade showing in what esteem he is held by all who 

 know him. 



= Mr. Thomas G. Richards, superintendent of the Boston 

 Woven Hose and Rubber Co. (Cambridge, Mass.), recently 

 gave a very interesting lecture, illustrated with stereopticon 

 views, on the manipulation of India-rubber as applied to me- 

 chanical rubber goods, before the Mechanical Engineering So- 

 ciety, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. 



= Mr. William J. Cable, president of the Cable Rubber Co. 

 (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), has purchased a fine residence at Forest 

 Hills, one of the beautiful suburbs of Boston. His brother Sam- 

 uel F. Cable, has purchased land adjoining and will build on it. 



= Mr. Spencer R. Driffield, president and manager of the 

 Consumers' Rubber Co. (Cleveland, Ohio) was a recent caller 

 at the office of The India Rubber World. 



= Colonel Samuel P. Colt, Samuel Norris, and Lester Leland, 

 of the United States Rubber Co., made a tour during the 

 month of the mountains in the Carolinas. 



= Mr. George A. Alden, founder of the firm of George A 

 Alden & Co. (Boston), spent the month of March in Florida. 



= Dr. Carl Otto Weber, who was summoned to this country 

 to do certain expert work in India-rubber, sailed for England 

 on the Lucam'a the last of February. 



= Mr. William L. Adams, a prominent rubber planter of Liv- 

 ingston, Guatemala, was recently married to Miss Mary E. Cut- 

 triss, of New York, the bridal trip being to the country of the 

 bridegroom's adoption. 



= Mr. John P. Lyons, advertising manager of the United 

 States Rubber Co. (New York) returned to his office during the 

 last days of March, after an absence of five weeks due to illness 



with the grip. 



= Now that the public are so vitally interested in Mexico, it 

 may be well to remark that the largest line of photographs of 

 scenery and types, and showing manners and customs of the 

 Mexicans, particularly in the " hot country," have been secured 

 by an enterprising American by the name of C. B. Waite, whose 

 address is 1st San Cosme, 8)4 Mexico City. 



