Jl NE I, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



299 



TRADE OF AKRON AND VICINITY. 



BY A RUSIDENT CORRESI'ONUKNT. 



nr^o THi: Hi'iToit oi' The India Rubber World . Terry 

 -*- Ewar , a director of the Ohio State Fair, is making an 

 efFort to interest Akron rubber manufacturers in exhibiting 

 at the fair this fall. Mr. levari is an Akron man and is 

 anxious to have the Akron rubber industries represented at 

 the fair, as a means to advertising the city. Some of the 

 larger rubber companies are. entertaining the proposition, 

 and if it is decided to exhibit, rubber mills will be sliipped 

 to Columbus, and an exhibition will be gi\eu of the manu- 

 facturing processes. 



"Wanted, experienced rubber mill men " is an announce- 

 ment printed in all of the local newspapers in Akron and 

 its vicinitj-. All the rubber companies here are seeking 

 additional help. The larger companies are experiencing 

 the greatest difficulty in securing the proper amount of help 

 to turn out the -large orders which are on hand and which 

 have been greatly enhanced by reason of the San J'rancisco 

 disaster, in which some of the companies have lost their 

 entire stock. Not only is this demand manifest in Akron, 

 but rubber factories throughout the countrj- are seeking help 

 in .\kron by inserting advertisements in the Akron papers. 

 IvtTorts of the outside factories, however, have been futile, as 

 all available help is being taken up by the Akron plants, 

 which are hiring every person offering, with any experience 

 at all in the rubber business. 



The various rubber factories of Akron will be visited on 

 June 6 by 100 merchants and manufacturers of Pittsburgh, 

 who will spend the day going through the various plants. 

 This is the sixth annual trade excursion made to Akron 

 under the auspices of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' 

 Association of Pittsburgh, and these excursions mean con- 

 siderable to the rubber trade of the city, as many of the ex- 

 cursionists are big customers of the Akron rubber companies. 



President H. B. Camp, of the Faultless Rubber Co., has 

 made the statement that there is a possibility of the Ashland 

 branch factory being abandoned and the machinery and the 

 manufacturing done there transferred to the main plant in 

 Akron. This has been under consideration for some time. 

 One reason has been the failure of the Ashland council to 

 open a street leading to the plant of the Faultless company. 

 which is installed in a building erected for the operation of 

 the Pneumatic Horse Collar Co., a concern which failed. 

 The .Vshland council recentU' took steps looking to the 

 opening ol the desired street, but not until considerable 

 criticism had been heard from citizens, in view of Mr. 

 Camp's announcement, above quoted. 



Some time ago announcement was made that S2000 had 

 been donated by a prominent business man of Akron to the 

 Sunday School class of L. C. Miles, general manager of the 

 American Cereal Mills, of Akron, to pay the expenses to 

 Washington city and return of the entire class The class 

 numbers 5S persons, and on May S the party left Akron on a 

 special train for the National capitol and returned on Maj- 12. 

 The class was entertained in Washington by United States 

 Senator Charles Dick, of Akron, who introduced all of the 

 members of the party to the President. The name of the 

 donor was at first a secret, but it now appears to have been 

 Colonel George T. Perkins, president of The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co. \ 



Since the opening of the new plant of the Aladdin Rubber 

 Co., at Barberton, there have been several thefts of rubber 

 scrap from their premises. The police arrested three chil- 

 dren aged 9, II, and 16 years, who after their arrest, ad- 

 mitted that they carried off about 1200 pounds of rubber, 

 which they sold to junk dealers for $3 per hundred pounds. 

 The children were committed to the reformatory. 



From the annual report of the Akron city hospital for the 

 year ending May i. The B. F. Goodrich Co. are named among 

 the principal donors to the hospital. During the year this 

 company donated 32 dozen pairs of surgeons' gloves. 125 

 yards of rubber sheeting, and a dozen other important items 

 of rubber supplies. 



After a three months' automobile tour of luirope. Mr. 

 Bertram G. Work vice president of The B. F. Goodrich Co., 

 and party returned to Akron on May 15. The party, which 

 comprised Mr. and Mrs. Work and two others, left Akron 

 three months ago, with a large touring car. They visited 

 many points of interest in France, Italy, Germany, and 

 England. 



The Buckeye Rubber Co. are about to start building a big 

 addition to their plant in East Akron. The new addition is 

 to be connected to the main plant by sheds which will be 

 used for storing lumber. During the past year this factory 

 has undergone many improvements and the companj- are 

 continually adding to their facilities for manufacturing. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. have been brought into a new- 

 prominence, now that several manufacturing cities in the 

 vicinity of Akron are fighting the smoke nuisance. Edward 

 J. Lander, a constructing engineer of Canton, Ohio, who has 

 a wide reputation in his profession, has sent out a letter to 

 city councils where smoke nuisance ordinances arc being 

 considered, in which he calls attention to the smoke stacks 

 at the plant of The B. F. Goodrich Co., one of the largest 

 .factories in Ohio, as an example of smoke restriction. He 

 declares that if officials and manufacturers are sufficiently 

 interested to really desire to abate the smoke nuisance, ob- 

 servations of the various smoke stacks at the Goodrich plant 

 " and a tracing to the source of the stacks that are alive and 

 issuing the least smoke, will be pregnant with the informa- 

 tion desired. " 



The suit brought some time ago in the local common pleas 

 court by the Louisville (Ohio) Deposit Bank Co., against the 

 Rubber Speciality Co., of Akron, resulted a judgment in fa- 

 vor of the bank for $1,161.24, alleged to due the plaintiff on 

 a promissorj- note given by the defendant companj- several 

 }'ears ago. 



Mr. John F. Singleton has been appointed advertising 

 manager of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Mr. Single- 

 ton has been the representative in this vicinitj' of the mer- 

 cantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co. for a number of years. 



The Pan American Crude Rubber Co., of Akron, was in- 

 corporated under the laws of Ohio, early in May, with a cap- 

 ital named of $10,000, which later was increased to $500,000. 

 The incorporators are George G. Allen, E. A. Oviatt, F". H. 

 Waters, Harry E. Andress, and F. E. Whittemore. All are 

 Akron lawyers, except Mr. Oviatt, who is identified with the 

 Standard Table Oil Cloth Co. Mr. Allen is one of the ofiicers 

 of the Faultless Rubber Co. The incorporators have not 

 given out any statement of their plans further than the com- 

 panj' expect to cultivate rubber trees and place the crude 

 product on the market. 



