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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1913. 



prizes were offered for unique stunts, both on board the boat 

 and on lanil, and all report a most enjoyable time. 



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The Buckeye Rubber Co. (the Kelly-Springfield tire factory) 

 is extending the building of its vulcanizing department and 

 adding three large, new vulcanizing machines, running full 

 force day and night and employing all the men they can secure. 



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The Taplin-Rice-Clerkin Co., which manufactures rubber 

 machinery and furnaces, has increased its capital stock from 



$250,000 to $350,000. 



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A. C. Partridge, assistant sales manager of The Firestone 

 Tire & Rubber Co., has started on a six weeks' trip, during 

 which he will visit western Canada, the Pacific Coast and the 

 main towns west of the Mississippi. Mr. Partridge is keeping 

 close tab on the company's business, developing new avenues of 

 trade and promoting enthusiasm among the employees. 



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W. W. Smith, formerly with the Faultless Rubber Co., has 



accepted a position as sales manager of the Star Rubber Co. 



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Emil Gammeter, general manager of the Gammeter-Brodbeck 

 Sales Agency, has returned from Europe where he was pushing 

 the sale of shells for holding fabric and aluminum flake. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN BOSTON. 



By a Resident Correspondent. 



WHEN one speaks of the trade in Boston, it may bring out 

 the pessimistic question — "Is there any trade in Boston?" — 

 for there are those in the rubber business who are just at this 

 time taking a somewhat dreary view of the state of trade. 

 The fact is that things are none too lively, but then, people 

 who know anything about it know that August is the dullest 

 month in the year in more than one line. However, taking into 

 consideration all the facts, business is not so bad, after all, and 

 the outlook for a start-up by the time this letter gets into print 

 is most encouraging. 



Trade in hose, especially garden hose, has been excellent all 

 through the spring and summer, but it has let up just now — w'hich 

 is natural. Dealers are sold out, and they must order later, to 

 be prepared for next spring's demand. Belting and packing 

 are going steadily, though moderately. Druggists' goods have 

 a normal and satisfactory call. The boot and shoe business is 

 hardly up to average, which is largely explained by the fact that 

 many dealers, having carried over fair-sized stocks from last 

 season and in the absence of any inducement to order early, 

 have delayed re-stocking; and many thousand cases are likely 

 to be called for later in the .season which imder other circum- 

 stances would have been ordered prior to June 30. The clothing 

 situation is somewhat uncertain, as the tarifif is considered likely 

 to interfere with the season's sales, but traveling men are now on 

 the road, and early reports of orders are extremely gratifying. 

 The tire business has been good all the season, and continues so. 

 There has come to be a steady demand for tires which each year 

 begins earlier and extends later, and which is larger and larger 

 each recurring period. 



It is somewhat interesting to note the influence of the weather 

 on the fruit-jar ring trade. This was excellent up to July or 

 August, but when the unseasonable weather set in the demand 

 ceased as suddenly as if there never was such a thing as a 

 preserve jar. Surely there are branches of the rubber manu- 

 facturing trade which are as uncertain as the weather on which 



they depend. 



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The Patterson Rubber Co.'s new plant at Lowell is now 

 in operation, with a moderate force of workmen, turning out 



tires which are well spoken of by the trade. The plant is 

 thoroughly modern, new from the ground up. and furnished 

 with the very latest in the way of machinery. It is near the 

 Merrimac River, in open ground, is supplied with an abundance 

 of light and air, and has a spur track which facilitates the 

 receipt and shipment of material and goods. Mr. Patterson is 

 a thorough rubber man, who knows the business in all its details, 

 and he has surrounded himself with a force of assistants, 

 experts and w-orkmen, whose esprit-de-cor[<s promises well for 

 the product of the factory. 



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The automobile is changing the vacation habit to a marked 

 degree. In former years many men in the trade would take 

 the month of July, or August, or perhaps both, and hie to the 

 summer resorts at the mountains or the seaside. Today it's 

 decidedly different. In place of "stiving'' one's family in a 

 three-room suite at a fashionable hotel for a month, and spend- 

 ing his time in the billiard room or on the piazza, the business 

 man concludes that his own spacious home and his own bed 

 and bath are far more comfortable and convenient, while there 

 are resorts near enough to be reached by his own automobile; 

 so he piles his family into his car and starts off for a week-end 

 at the mountains or the sea-shore, and is back again at his 

 home in Boston's suburbs by Monday or Tuesday. Perhaps 

 the family stays at the hotel for a w-eek or two, but not so 

 the business man. The automobile has worked a wondrous 

 change in just this way — and, incidentally, the rubber business 

 gets its share of the benefit. 



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The Boston office of the Monatiquot Rubber Works Co.. which 

 for some years has been on Atlantic avenue, will be removed to 

 Weld Building, 176 Federal street, October 1, where comfortable 

 and appropriately arranged offices have been secured. Mean- 

 while, the receiving and shipping department, which occupied 

 the rear of the .\tlantic avenue building, with entrance on Con- 

 gress street, is being fitted and furnished for occupancy by a 

 shoe jobbing house, and the Monatiquot Rubber Works Co. 

 has arranged for all its shipments to be made to and from its 

 South Braintree establishment. 



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The Seamless Rubber Co. has discontinued its store at 103 

 Massachusetts avenue, w-here it exploited its specialty of tires 

 and inner-tubes, but continues its Boston office at 18 Elm street, 

 where it has hitherto carried only lines of druggists' goods. 

 The Seamless tire will also be carried hereafter at this location. 



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The Apsley Rubber Co.. of Hudson, has maintained a Boston 

 office at Summer and High streets for several years. Last 

 season the company opened a jobbing house at 520 Atlantic 

 avenue, which is run under the name of the Arco Rubber Co., and 

 here is carried a stock of the clothing and footwear manufac- 

 tured by the .\psley company. Last month it was decided to 

 unite the two establishments, and so the Apsley Rubber Co.'s 

 Boston office and sample room has been moved to the above 

 named location, where a fine private office is provided for 

 Treasurer Laighton, and suitable accommodations for Messrs. 

 Xorbury and Lockwood. This office is in the shoe district, and 

 the move is therefore considered an excellent one. 



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The Boston agency for Diamond tires has been transferred 

 from 867 Boylston street to the salesrooms and offices of the 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., which company now manufactures this 



brand of automobile tires. 



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G. Edwin .\lden, for many years prominent in the rubber 

 business, has taken an office in the Rice & Hutchins Building, 10 

 High street, and will deal in crude rubber, also acting as agent in 

 Xew England for the Standard .Asphalt and Rubber Co. of Xew 



