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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 



1903. 



Club in the final play on June iS, defeating the former cham- 

 pion, George D. Dates. This is the first time within a couple 

 of years that the championship has come to one connected with 

 the rubber trade in Akron. 



The golf club organized by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. 

 office men now numbers 35 members and they have a first class 

 six hole course. C. W Seiberling holds the spring champion- 

 ship. The Goodyear company are manufacturing the Saunders 

 compressed air ball, but not pushing it hard this season. 



A considerable number of bicycle tires for wheels to be sold 

 in China and Japan are being made in Akron. In the latter 

 country a fair trade is developing, though both the Chinaman 

 and Jap buy only the cheap grades. Manufacturers express a 

 strong preference for the Japanese as people with whom to do 

 business as compared to the sons of the Flowery empire. 



J. K. Williams, of the Williams Foundry and Machine Co., 

 is an enthusiastic member of the Akron Gun Club, and was 

 among those who attended the Ohio state trap shoot at Cin- 

 cinnati the week of [une S. The next state shoot will be held 

 in Akron. 



Miss Myrtle C. Wild, daughter of Mr. W. L. Wild, local man- 

 ager of The India Rubber Co., was married on the evening of 

 June 10 to Mr. Frank C. Blanchard, of the office foice of the 

 Whitman and Barnes Manufacturing Co. It was one of the 

 largest weddings of the year in Akron. As a climax to the 

 evening's festivities at the Wild home, the bride and bride- 

 groom were suddenly missed, when it was discovered that, 

 with the assistance of Mr. A. H. Marks, of the Diamond Rubber 

 Co., whose home adjoins the Wild residence, they had escaped 

 in an automobile to Cuyahoga Falls, there to take a train, thus 

 avoiding the shower of too emphatic best wishes. 



Charles E. Sheldon, president of the Whitman and Barnes 

 Manufacturing Co., was chosen as one of the three trustees in 

 the bankruptcy proceedings against the Aultman, Miller & Co. 

 at a meeting of creditors on June 9. The claims against the 

 concern are approximately $2,900,000 and the election of trus- 

 tees developed a spirited contest. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



HV A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



TO the Editor OF The India Rubber World: There 

 was a strike of short duration at the middle of the 

 month, in the factory of the Whitehead Brothers Rubber Co. 

 Walter Hughes, the head baler, asked for an increase of wages, 

 which was denied by the superintendent, whereupon Hughes 

 resigned and his assistant, Isaac Stelle, was promoted to his 

 place. An hour later the entire factory force went on strike, 

 leaving the works. The next day three employes, comprising 

 the shop committee of the local rubber workers' union, con- 

 ferred with a member of the firm and the superintendent, with 

 the result that the former conditions were restored — Hughes 

 returning to work at his former wages, and the men agreeing 

 to refer any former grievances to the shop committee before 

 taking action. This strike was in no sense the work of the 

 union, but was entirely local to the Whitehead factory, and was 

 settled before the union had official notice of its existence. 



The Eureka Fire Hose Co., of New York and Jersey City, 

 have brought action in the New Jersey court of chancery 

 against The Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co. of Trenton, 

 N. J., to have the latter enjoined from the use of the word 

 " Eureka " in advertising their products, particularly in the 

 marketing of fire hose, and further to be restrained from using 

 the name "Eureka" in their title as a corporation. Messrs. 

 Crouse <t Perkins, of Jersey City, are counsel for the complain- 



ants, and former Judge William M. Lanning, of Trenton, repre- 

 sents the local concern. Acting for his clients. Judge Lanning 

 has filed his answer to the allegation of the New York com- 

 pany, in the course of which it is denied that the Eureka Fire 

 Hose Co. have acquired the right to the exclusive use of the 

 work " Eureka " as a trade name for their products. It is also 

 denied that the Trenton company have advertised goods under 

 the name " Eureka" stamped with the single word as a trade 

 mark. Continuing, the answer says : " That at the time of its 

 incorporation the local company made application to the sec- 

 retary of state to ascertain if any like company had been incor- 

 porated under the name ' The Eureka Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co.' The information was that no such name appeared in the 

 list of corporations. The name was then adopted and the sec- 

 retary of state granted a certificate." 



The protracted dry spell of April, May, and the first part of 

 June resulted in the local rubber factories being kept unprece- 

 dentedly busy in supplying the sudden demand for garden and 

 sprinkling hose. Mr. W. |. B. Stokes, of the Home Rubber 

 Co., states that the demand for such hose has never been 

 equaled. Mr. C. Edward Murray, of the Empire and the Cres- 

 cent rubber companies, said that their employes were com- 

 pelled to work overtime daily to keep up with the orders. 

 Other mills report a similar condition of affairs. The heavy 

 rains have broken the demand, however, and this particular 

 line of trade has dropped back to its normal state. 



In certain departments the Modern Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co. has fully recovered from the effects of the fire which totally 

 destroyed the plant last fall, and these departments are being 

 operated on full time. Some of the damaged machinery has 

 not yet been overhauled and the work of this is being done at 

 the factory of Whitehead Brothers. 



W. H. Harding, president of the Union Rubber Co., which 

 was established as a selling agency last August, reports that 

 already the volume of business done by the firm has exceeded 

 the most sanguine expectations. During the last few months, 

 Mr. Harding states, the orders have been three times what was 

 anticipated. The company handles aline of oil cloths and lin- 

 oleums, besides its rubber business. 



Harry E. Evans, manager of the Consolidated Rubber Co., 

 which is exclusively a selling concern, reports business as being 

 on a very satisfactory basis. This company has a fine suite of 

 offices in the Broad Street National Bank building. Mr. 

 Evans is chaplain of the New Jersey Assembly of the National 

 Union and took a prominent part in the meeting of the assem- 

 bly in this city on June 16. 



A building of historic interest to the. local rubber industry 

 was torn down early in June to make way for improvements. 

 This was the old structure on Clinton avenue, opposite the 

 Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing Co.'s plant. It was the sec- 

 ond building in Trenton to be devoted to the manufacture of 

 rubber goods, and was operated as a rubber mill by the late 

 Charles V. Mead. Later Mr. Mead moved his machinery to 

 the basement of the old grist mill further out on Clinton ave- 

 nue, and thus laid the foundation for the present factory of 

 the Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co. The property is owned 

 by the Trenton Potteries Co., and the old building was torn 

 down to be replaced by a large brick stable and storage build- 

 ing. The first building in the city to be used for the manufacture 

 of rubber goods was located in South Trenton and was torn 

 down a few years ago to make room for an extension to the 

 Wood house chain works. 



William A. Howell, superintendent of the Whitehead Broth- 

 ers Rubber Co.'s factory, is one of the veterans of the industry 

 here. He has been with the Messrs. Whitehead continuously 



