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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1903. 



" Last season it was all price and quality did not count a great 

 deal," said one manufacturer. "This season quality is coming 

 to its own again and the general average will be higher than at 

 any time in the present century." 



Taplin, Rice tt Co. are receiving many orders for molds for 

 rubber work. They have rarely been so busy in this depart- 

 ment. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. have established a branch at 

 Cleveland, Ohio, in charge of F. E. Tayloran. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. are manufacturing for 

 a fire engine of the Paris, France, fire department, asetof end- 

 less solid tires, 48x6 inches. 



The Faultless Rubber Co. are meeting with success with a 

 new parlor ball, which is dipped instead of molded, by which 

 means seams are avoided. That they will not deflate is an- 

 other claim made for the balls. 



The annual art souvenir of The B. F. Goodrich Co. is, as 

 usual, a masterpiece in its way — the portrait of a young woman, 

 by J. Alfred Mohlte, reproduced in colors on heavy paper. The 

 Goodrich pictures are eagerly watched for each year by Akron 

 people as well as by the trade. 



Writing to Akron friends, Mr. H. C. Corson, former vice 

 president of The B. F. Goodrich Co., says that he will remain 

 at his summer home in Nova Scotia, communing with nature, 

 enjoying the winds and waves and birds, until February, when 

 he and Mrs Corson will go to Europe. 



The Faultless Rubber Co. closed their factory for inventory 

 December 31, to resume January 5. 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. have begun manufactur- 

 ing their own tires, in an addition to their plant recently com- 

 pleted. The engines were started in the new department on 

 December 22. 



Mr. John W. Lyman, manager of the Philadelphia branch of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., and Miss Nellie Josephine Dague, 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dague, of Akron, were married 

 at the bride's home on the evening of December 10. Their 

 home will be at No. 431 1 Fansom street, Philadelphia. Mrs. 

 Lyman has been one of the most prominent members of Akron's 

 younger society set. 



Employes of the Alden Rubber Co. have organized a band. 

 The B F. Goodrich and the Diamond company employes have 

 had each such an organization for some time — the former for 

 many years. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. observed their usual custom of giv- 

 ing every emplo)6 a turkey or its equivalent in cash at Christ- 

 mas. Turkeys were in demand and 1800 were distributed. 

 GROWTH OF THE AKRON FACTORIES. 



The past year has been one of notable progress in the rub- 

 ber trade of Akron. Several new companies have been formed 

 and new factories built, besides which nearly all the older con- 

 cerns have been expanding. There is likely to be less done in 

 the way of new buildings in the coming year, but it is consid- 

 ered probable that the amount of business done will be even 

 greater than during the past twelve months — undoubtedly the 

 most productive in the history of the trade here. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. have just completed a new brick 

 building 360 >; 60 feet, five stories above the basement. The 

 shipping rooms will be located in this building, which affords 

 improved facilities, as it stands beside a belt line which reaches 

 all the railroads touching Akron. The Goodrich company 

 have increased their engine cipacity by 1500 H. p. and their 

 boiler plant by 2000 H. P. The additions include two steam 

 turbines, which are said to be the first to have been placed in a 

 rubber factory. Another extension made by the Goodrich com- 

 pany has been the purchase of five acres of land, a mile from 



the main premises, on which two small buildings for experi- 

 mental purposes have been erected. 



The growth of the Diamond Rubber Co. during the year has 

 been marked by the completion of an additional brick building 

 upon its premises, 330 X 80 feet, five stories and basement. 

 The tire departments were removed into this building last Feb- 

 ruary, making room in the older structures for an extension of 

 the manufacture of mechanical goods. An additional en- 

 gine of 350 H.P., making a total of 35 000 h.p., was installed. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. are completing and expect 

 to occupy early in January an additional building 300 X 60 feet, 

 of three stories. It is to be used for a general extension of the 

 company's business. An addition of similar size and a pressed 

 brick office building, two stories and basement, were completed 

 by this company in September, 1901. 



The Faultless Rubber Co. completed in October an addition 

 35 X no feet, four stories high, and another of two stories, 

 32X50 feet. Still another addition of four stories, 32 < 54 

 feet will be erected before spring, when the company will put 

 in their own mills and calenders. 



Although not an Akron factory, the Camp Rubber Co. are 

 all Akron men. Their factory is at Ashland, Ohio, but their 

 offices are in Akron. In addition to the building now occu- 

 pied, a four story structure 50 X 'So feet, they will erect at an 

 early date another building 50X50 feet, of the same height. 

 They will then place in operation their own mills and calen- 

 ders. 



The Miller Rubber Manufacturing Co. erected during the 

 year an addition partly two and partly three stories, looX 124 

 feet, for a general extension of their present lines. 



The Pure Gum Specialty Co., at Barberton, erected two ad- 

 ditions — one of brick 40X80 feet, and two stories high, and a 

 two story frame structure 30 \ 50 feet — and are now at work on 

 a third addition, 40 X8o feet, of brick construction, and two 

 storits high. The concern was started by H. F. Mitzel, for- 

 merly employed by The B. F. Goodrich Co., three years ago, 

 and incorporated December 10, 1900. Last August the capital 

 stock was increased from $20,000 to $75,000. 



The Alden Rubber Co., at Barberton, erected an addition of 

 brick 60 \ 100 feet and three stories high, putting in machin- 

 ery for a general extension of their present lines and the manu- 

 facture of tiling on a large scale. 



The Buckeye Rubber Co., built during the year a one-story 

 brick addition to their warehouse, 100 x 60 feet. 



The Stein Double Cushion Tire Co., though incorporated in 

 1901, did not complete their factory and begin work until 

 )une, 1902. Their main building is 220 X 106 feet, two stories 

 high. 



The Lyon Rubber Co., with a capital stock of $10,000, is an- 

 other of the children of 1902. 



In the same list aie the Summit Rubber Co., capitalized at 

 $25,000 whose factory, a two-story brick building 40 X 80, is at 

 Barberton. 



The Colonial Tire and Rubber Co., organized to handle the 

 Swinehart cross wire vehicle tire in Europe, are another 1902 

 company, but without any buildings in Akron. 



The Combination Tire and Rubber Co., organized to make 

 and sell a new vehicle tire, described In The India Rubber 

 World for December, and the Superior Rubber Manufactur- 

 ing Co., of Cuyahoga Falls, mention of both of which compa- 

 nies appears in this issue, were also in the 1902 group of 

 new concerns. 



The Peoples' Hard Rubber Co. completed their plant and be- 

 gan operation during the past year, which puts them also in 

 this list. 



