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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, igoa. 



some cup offered by Mr. R. P. Marvin and the championship 

 as well, again go oatside the rubber business, E. E. Andrews, 

 secretary of the Akron Electrical Manufacturing Co., winning 

 the distinction and prize. Mr. Andrews and Secretary Charles 

 W. Seiberling. of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., spent 

 the latter part of October hunting in northern Michigan. 



A. G. Lyon, A. D. Logan, and J. T. Diehm.of Akron, are the 

 active men in the Lyon Rubber Co., lately converted from a 

 partnership into a corporation, and which evidently is building 

 up a prosperous business. Mr. Diehm is president, Mr. Lyon 

 vice president, and Mr. Logan secretary and treasurer. 



Mr. James A. Swinehart, vice president of the Firestone Tire 

 and Rubber Co., sailed from New York on October 7 to visit 

 France, in the interest of the Colonial Tire and Rubber Co., 

 who control the Swinehart tire patents in continental Europe. 

 He was accompanied by Mr. P. D. Hall, of the Colonial com- 

 pany. 



Letters from Mr. H. C. Corson, formerly vice president of 

 the B. F. Goodrich Co. and still a member of their advisory 

 Doard, state that he and Mrs. Corson will spend the winter 

 near Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Mr. Corson has built for the 

 people about his house there a handsome chapel. 



President O. C. Barber, of the Diamond Match Co., is inter- 

 ested in the North Western Rubber Co., Limited, of Liverpool, 

 England, which is pushing the Diamond Rubber Co. of Glas- 

 gow, Scotland, mentioned in the October India Ri;bber 

 World. Mr. Barber, who recently returned from Europe, says 

 that the American rubber trade is extending to all European 

 countries. The North Western company are largely controlled 

 by stockholders of the Diamond Rubber Co. of Akron. 



Rabbi Isador Philo, of the Reformed Hebrew congregation 

 of Akron, is an honorary member of the rubber workers' union 

 and attends the meetings regularly. The union have promised 

 to nominate him for mayor next spring and there is some talk 

 that the local labor unions will combine to support him as an 

 independent candidate for that office. 



Mr. Harry K. Raymond, a department manager of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., and Miss Gertrude Mason, daughter of F. H. 

 Mason, general manager of the works of the Goodrich com- 

 pany, will be married in the First Congregational church on 

 November 5. A handsome home is being remodeled for them 

 at Union and Forge streets. 



Colonel George T. Perkins, president of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., was elected president of the Reunion Association of the 

 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry regiment at its meeting in 

 Chardon, Ohio, October 17. Colonel Perkins has held this 

 position for years, the veterans having great pride in him. 



The engagement is announced of Mr. Francis R. Peabody, 

 superintendent of the South Akron factory of The Diamond 

 Rubber Co., and Miss Ethel Wright, of Akron. 



The Canton Rubber Co., at Canton, Ohio, whose manage- 

 ment is largely in the hands of former Akron men, is reported 

 to be doing an excellent business in dipped goods. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT TRENTON. 



BY OUR RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



TO THE Editor of The India Rubber World: Three 

 local rubber manufacturing companies have increased 

 the wages of their employes 5 per cent. On September 30 the 

 United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos. announced a gen- 

 eral increase of 5 per cent, to take effect from September 26. On 

 October 8 the Whitehead Brothers Rubber Co. posted a notice 

 in its mill of a similar advance, to take effect from October 3. 

 On October 18 a general increase of 5 per cent, was announced 



by the Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co. In each instance 

 the increase was voluntary and gave much satisfaction to the 

 employes. 



Some of the mill hands claim that the advance will extend to 

 all the local mills soon, and that the voluntary raise is a diplo- 

 matic move on the part of the manufacturers to prevent any 

 defection in the ranks of their employes when the completion 

 of the new Eureka mill will make a sudden and unusual demand 

 for rubber workers. 



The Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co. are building two ad- 

 ditions to their plant — a one- story brick structure 70 X 50 feet, 

 and a two-story brick building 100 X 5° feet — to increase the 

 capacity of the rubber carriage cloth department. 



The United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos. are mak- 

 ing further improvements at their mills. A steam heating 

 plant is being installed in the new office building, to supply 

 which a new 500 H. P. horizontal return tubular boiler has been 

 put in. A new dust house has been built, 80 feet from the fac- 

 tory, into which all dirt and refuse from the old rubber is blown 

 by steam fans through 12 inch pipes. A new hydraulic pump 

 capable of producing 3000 pounds pressure, and seven De Laski 

 looms for cotton hose have been installed. 



Frank W. Thurman, New York manager for the Crescent 

 Belting and Packing Co., has opened a retail rubber store at 

 No. 7 South Warren street, this city. It is attractively fitted 

 up and IS well stocked with all kinds of wearing apparel, drug- 

 gists' sundries, and mechanical goods. It is the only exclusive 

 rubber store in this city. During Mr. Thurman's absence in 

 the metropolis Mrs. Thurman attends to the business. 



The officials of the new Union Rubber Co. are now fully 

 established in elegantly appointed offices in the Broad Street 

 National Bank building. The company are busy getting out 

 samples. 



Further improvements are being made at the factory of the 

 Home Rubber Co. Two new return tubular boilers of 130 h.p. 

 each have been installed, and the boiler and engine room is 

 being enlarged and partially reconstructed. When completed 

 it will measure 40X40 feet. The boilers were built by the John 

 E. Thropp & Sons Co., of this city. 



The Modern Rubber Manufacturing Co. are erecting a new 

 factory to replace the one destroyed by fire in September. The 

 main building will be a one story frame structure 60 X 3° feet ; 

 the engine room 25 X 38 feet, and the new reclaiming Duilding 

 24 X 30 feet. The engine and boiler were not seriously dam- 

 aged by the fire and will be used for operating the new plant. 

 The company expect to be running by December i. Enough 

 orders have been booked to keep the mill running for six 

 months. Since the fire, through the courtesy of the Whitehead 

 Brothers Rubber Co. in allowing the use of factory facilities, 

 the Modern company have been able to fill their more pressing 

 orders. 



The Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co.'s "Black Bear" 

 packing, first put upon the market last spring, has proved a 

 splendid seller, giving satisfaction to steam fitters and engi. 

 neers generally. 



The Farrier Hoof Pad Co. organized lately to manufacture a 

 new rubber hoof pad, has met with such success in selling this 

 article that work has to be pushed night and day to fill orders. 



In the Mercer court, on October 20, Justice Mahlon Pitney 

 suspended sentence upon Thomas Edward Taylor, aged 18. 

 who had been convicted of manslaughter on the charge of kill- 

 ing Edward Hyde, another youth, while they were working to- 

 gether in the factory of the Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 Taylor will be on probation for an indefinite periqd, and his 

 light sentence is due to mitigating circumstances. 



