January i, 1903 ] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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that ot the wire null 2,000.000 pounds working single turn ; and 

 that of the weatherproof factory 500,000 pounds of wire and 

 cable, working single turn. 



THE INDIA RUBBER AND INSULATED WIRE CO. 

 The company are just completing a three story addition to 

 their factory at Jonesboro, Indiana, 30X100 feet, the first floor 

 to be used for a tinning room and the second and third floors 

 for drying rooms. They have recently added to their equip- 

 ment several new mixing mills and another calender. Within 

 the past six months they have increased their braiding facili- 

 ties about 20 per cent. 



KOKOMO RUBBER CO. (KOKOMO, INDIANA.) 

 New machinery has been installed in the additional factory 

 building completed about two months ago, all the old machin- 

 ery was overhauled during the recent shutdown, and the fac- 

 tory is now at full capacity on contracts for the coming season. 

 Their contracts for solid rubber vehicle tires are on a larger 

 scale than at any time in the past. The company are under- 

 stood to have had a very prosperous year. 



ALLING RUBBER CO. 'S FIFTH STORE. 



The Ailing Rubber Co., of New Haven, Connecticut, have 

 purchased the retail store of the Crown Rubber Co., No. 52 

 Asylum street. Hartford, and will continue the business under 

 the name Ailing Rubber Co. It will be in charge of Amos P. 

 Mitchell, who becomes associated as a partner in the Ailing 

 Rubber Co. This makes five rubber stores in Connecticut con- 

 ducted by the Messrs. Ailing. The oldest is that at Norwich. 

 In 1895 a second was opened at Bridgeport, followed by stores 

 at Stamford and New Haven. =^Arihur P. Towne, the late 

 owner of the Crown Rubber Co., has opened an office in the 

 Catlin building, Hartford, for wholesaling rubber hospital sup- 

 plies. 



THE RUBBER INDUSTRY AT NAUGATUCK. 



A LOCAL newspaper reports that never before in the history 

 of Naugaiuck has business been so brisk in the rubber factories 

 there. Work has been steady, and wages satisfactory, and the 

 opinion is expressed that any suggestion of a strike would be 

 regarded with little favor by the rubber workers. There has 

 been no rubber \^orkers' union at Naugatuck since the strike of 

 1886, when the Knights of Labor were quite strong there. The 

 strike was speedily settled and the labor organization soon 

 came to an end. 



THE INDUSTRY AT AKRON. 



The present season is reported to be an exceptionally busy 

 one for the Akron rubber factories. One superintendent, 

 quoted by a correspondent of The India Rubber Woi.ld, 

 says that there has been no dull time at his factory during the 

 past summer and autumn, as has been the case in some years, 

 and that they had such an unlooked for rush of work that they 

 were caught unprepared and had to pick up washed rubber 

 Irom any source that it could be bought for. They found also 

 that the other factories had a similar experience. The large 

 factories have all been running day and night shifts. 

 HOOVER-BALL CO. (NEWARK, OHIO). 



This firm, organized January i, 1902, to do a jobbing busi- 

 ness in bicycles, bicycle sundries, tires of all kinds, druggists' 

 sundries, and other rubber goods, was incorporated without 

 change of firm style December i, under New Jersey laws, with 

 $25 000 capital. Harry J. Hoover, who has been elected presi 

 dent of the corporation, imported from England the first safety 

 bicycle ever sold at Newark ; in 1892 he opened the Newark 

 Cycle Store, for a retail trade, which, in 1899. became the New- 

 ark Cycle Supply Co., wholesale and retail, with Eugene F. 

 Bill associated with the business as manager. The retail 



branch was discontinued a year ago, and the subsequent 

 changes are recorded above. Mr. Ball is still connected with 

 the business, being secretary and treasurer of the new com- 

 pany. The rubber goods handled bear the brand " Avalon," 

 and are made foi the company, mostly at Akron. Mr. Hoover 

 is also cashier of the Licking County Bank and interested in 

 other business enterprises. Two traveling salesmen are em- 

 ployed : G. O. Simmons, of Bucytus, Ohio, and James Finlze, 

 of New York, the latter having been at one time a salesman for 

 Morgan & Wright tires. 



L. K. MC CLYMONDS LEAVES THE RUBBER GOODS. 



At a meeting of the Mechanical Rubber Co., held on De- 

 cember 8, Mr. L. K. McClymonds resigned as a director, 

 president and general manager of that company, and as di- 

 rector and officer of its several allied companies. In accepting 

 his resignation the board adopted the following resolution: 



Resolved^ That in accepting the resignation of Mr. L, K. McCly- 

 monds as president and a director of this company, the board of direct- 

 ors place on record their appreciation of Mr. McClymonds's services to 

 the company. He was one of the most important founders of the 

 company ; has been its manager and a director, and vice president or 

 president from its organization. He has served the company with 

 marked ability, energy, and integrity, and we believe that it is largely 

 owing to his efforts that the company's business has reached its present 

 earning power and prosperity. 



In 1873 Mr. McClymonds began his career in the rubber 

 business by assuming the management of the Cleveland Rub- 

 ber Co., whose sales were then less than $30,000 per year. In 

 1878 he organized the Chicago Rubber Works. In 1892 he 

 was instrumental in consolidating these two companies with 

 the New York Belting and Packing Co., Limited, the Stoughton 

 Rubber Co., and the Fabric Fire Hose Co., under the name of 

 the Mechanical Rubber Co., of which he was made general 

 manager, and moved to New York. In 1899 the Rubber Goods 

 Manufacturing Co. was formed, taking over the Mechanical 

 Rubber Co. and its allied companies, and other rubber manu- 

 facturing companies. Mr. McClymonds's management of these 

 con.panies has always been able and aggressive, resulting in a 

 remarkable growth of business. Their aggregate sales now run 

 into the millions, and their yearly earnings are larger and they 

 are in a more prosperous condition than ever before in their 

 history. His policy has always been broad and liberal to secure 

 outlets for goods, that the factories could be operated to their 

 full capacity, and produce goods at lowest cost. He has also 

 recognized the tendency of maker and consumer to come into 

 closer relations by distributing goods through the companies' 

 own stores located in all the important points in the country. 

 METROPOLITAN RUBBER CO. ( WALLINGFORD, CONN.). 



In the Connecticut superior court, at New Haven, on No- 

 vember 26, Alfred N. Wheeler, an assistant state attorney, was 

 appointed a committee to hear and determine the merits of the 

 claim of Charles A. Place, of New York, in his suit for $27,000, 

 alleged to be due him as salary unpaid as president of the Me- 

 tropolitan Rubber Co., for three years ending March i, igoo. 

 On April 1 1, 1902, application for the appointment of a receiver 

 for the Metropolitan Rubber Co. was made by Wilmot R. Evans 

 and two others — trustees under the will of Abner J. Tower, 

 former treasurer of the company and holder of 6700 of the io,coo 

 shares of its capital stock — and for the winding up of the affairs 

 of the company, which then had been out of business for two 

 years. George N. Gunn was appointed receiver. The suit of 

 Mr. PUce, brought originally in the New York supreme court, 

 was transferred in February, 1902, to the United States circuit 

 court lor the southern district of New York. The motion for 

 the appointment of a committee by the Connecticut court, 



