August i, 



1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORL.D 



369 



=The Boston Belting Co. have issued a neat folder devoted 

 to Fire Hose for factory and mill protection, that will interest 

 those who buy goods in this line. 



= On the New York Stock Exchange July 29 common stock 

 of Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. sold up to 22 and pre- 

 ferred to 70. Within a month these shares had sold as low as 

 18 and 66;s', respectively. 



= A dividend of i per cent, on the common stock of the 

 American Chicle Co. will be payable August 10. 



=The factories of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. were closed 

 on July 30 for two weeks. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The Hon. Elisha S. Converse, president of the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co., celebrated his eighty second birthday at his 

 home in Maiden, Massachusetts, on July 28. The immediate 

 members of his family and relatives gathered lor a family din- 

 ner, and Mr. Converse received the greetings of hundreds of 

 callers. 



=Mr. Edward B. Kelley, of the Mechanical Fabric Co. 

 (Providence, Rhode Island), has returned from a vacation in 

 England. 



=On the retirement of Mr. John J. McGill as general mana- 

 ger of a Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal, he was presented 

 by the employes with an illuminated address testifying to their 

 regret at his departure, to which Mr. McGill made an appro- 

 priate response. 



= Mr. H. D.Warren, president of the Gutta Percha and 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. of Toronto, Limited, reached New 

 York on the Oceanic, July 16, after an absence in Europe of 

 several months. 



= Captain John J. Farley, recently elected commander of 

 Company C, second regiment of infantry, Rhode Island militia, 

 was presented with a uniform by his associates in the drug- 

 gists' sundries department at the National India Rubber Co.'s 

 factory. 



= Mr. Fred. T. Alden, of the Boston Belting Co., won first 

 prize in the Fourth of July parade at Wmthrop, Massachusetts, 

 on the occasion of the town's semi-centennial celebration. 



= Mr. George Puchta, president of the Queen City Supply 

 Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio), agents for the Boston Belting Co., has 

 been elected president of the Business ^en's Club, of that 

 city. 



= Miss Ida Pauline Towner, daughter of Mr. H. N. Towner, 

 of the leading rubber goods house at Memphis, Tennessee, is 

 making a tour of Europe this summer. 



= Mr. Theodore S. Bassett, president of the U. S. Rubber 

 Reclaiming Works, was not able to attend the summer outing 

 of the New England Rubber Club, owing to illness. 



=The Hon. E. S. Converse has sent to the Editor of The 

 India Rubber World, some verses on the Converse park in 

 Maiden, known as " Pine Banks." These verses were written 

 by a day laborer who lived in the vicinity and whose sudden 

 advent as a poet not only surprised all who knew him, but de- 

 lighted them as well with the excellence and smoothness of 

 his rhyme. 



OBITUARY. 



John L. Shepard, foreman of the clothing department of 

 the factory of the National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode 

 Island) for nearly twenty-five years, died July 10 as the result 

 of strokes of paralysis experienced earlier in the month. Mr. 

 Shepard was born at Cold Spring, Connecticut, August 23, 

 1845, and became connected with the National factory at the 

 age of twenty-one. Last Autumn he became lessee of the 

 D'Wolf Inn, at Bristol, which he managed in addition to his 

 business at the ru'ober factory. He leaves a son, Charles R. 



Shepard, who resided with him. He was a member of the 

 Masonic organizations at Bristol. 



= Harry Harrington Perrin, of Boston, died July 14 in a pri- 

 vate hospital at Brookline. He was born at Roxbury in 1S56, 

 and after leaving school was engaged successively in Boston, 

 New York, and St. Joseph, Missouri, in the leather and shoe 

 trades. He left the latter city to become connected with the 

 Boston office of the United States Rubber Co., as assistant to 

 Chester J. Pike, and later became connected with the firm of 

 Converse & Pike, since which time he has been treasurer of the 

 Tremont Rubber Co. (Boston). Mr. Perrin lately took charge 

 of the sale of the " Wales-Goodyear " goods, and while out 

 West in this connection, in April last, he became ill at St. Jo- 

 seph, and never afterward recovered his health. 



= The many friends of Mr. Henry J. Doughty, of Providence, 

 Rhode Island, general manager of the Atlantic Rubber Shoe 

 Co., will be grieved to learn of the blow that has fallen upon 

 him in the death of his son, a youth of twenty. 



VULCANIZED RUBBER CO. TO HAVE A NEW PLANT. 

 The Vulcanized Rubber Co. (formerly the Goodyear Vulca- 

 nite Co.) have purchased ground near their present location 

 at Morrisville, Pennsylvania, upon which they will at once 

 erect a new plant. Their plans include the erection of four 

 two story buildings, each 40x275 feet, and the expenditure 

 of $300,000, including the cost of new machinery. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT AKRON. 



BY OUR RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. ■ 



TO THE Editor OF The India Rubber World : Delay 

 on the part of the city officials in vacating the land 

 ceded some time ago to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., 

 has retarded work on the new building planned by this com- 

 pany for that site. It is expected, however, that ground will 

 be broken the first week of August. Revised plans for the 

 new structure provide for a building 300 >< 60 feet, and three 

 stories high above the basement. When completed. General 

 Manager Seiberling states, the addition will make room for 

 100 more employes, who will be needed on account of the con- 

 templated expansion of the company's business. 



The Colonial Tire and Rubber Co., composed of Akron men, 

 and who control the European trade outside of Great Britain 

 for the Swinehart solid rubber vehicle tires, have established 

 agencies at Berlin, Vienna, and Nice, and arranged for one at 

 Brussels. The company have received a proposition from a 

 French manufacturer looking to the control of the trade in 

 these tires in that republic. A member of the company states 

 that 3>i inch tires is the size mostly in demand. 



Francis Seiberling, for himself and others, purchased at an 

 assignee's sale on July 14, for $25,700, the factory of The J. F. 

 Seiberling & Co., used originally in the manufacture of mow- 

 ers and reapers, and occupied subsequently by a bicycle con- 

 cern now out of business in Akron. It is reported that a new 

 rubber company will occupy the building, but Mr. Seiberling 

 states that his associates are not yet ready to make their plans 

 public. 



It is said to be likely that the Faultless Rubber Co. will es- 

 tablish a branch factory at Ashland, Ohio. The company have 

 recently closed contracts for goods in excess of the present 

 capacity of their plant in Akron, and have received a proposi- 

 tion to occupy a manufacturing building at Ashland now idle, 

 which is owned by H. B. Camp, of Akron, president of the Ash- 

 land and Wooster railroad, and also interested in the Faultless 

 company. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. are preparing to manu- 



