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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1913. 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



A RUBBER COMPANY BECOMES A WATER COMPANY. 



IT is not very often that a rubber nianufactnring company goes 

 into the business of municipal water supply, but that is what 

 occurred during the recent Western Flood, when the Republic 

 Rubber Co., of Youngstown, Ohio furnished the city with its 

 entire water supply for a number of days. The city's own water 

 supply was temporarily vitiated by the flood, while the water 

 supply of the Republic Rubber Co., amounting to 6,000,000 gallons 

 a day, was not affected. The company volunteered to give the 

 city its supply of water, gratis, as long as it was necessary. 



THE UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.'S ANNUAL MEETING. 



The twenty-first annual meeting of the stockholders of the 

 United States Rubber Co., will be held at the office of the com- 

 pany, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Tuesday, May 20, 1913, 

 at 12 o'clock noon, for the election of directors, and for the 

 transaction of any business that may come before the meeting, 

 including the approval and ratification of all purchases, contracts, 

 acts, proceedings, elections and appointments In- the Board of 

 Directors or the Executive Committee since the twentieth annual 

 meeting of the stockholders on May 21, 1912, and of all matters 

 referred to in the Twenty-first Annual Report to stockholders, 

 which will be sent to stockholders before the meeting. 



The transfer books will not be closed, but the New Jersey Cor- 

 poration Law will not allow to be voted any share of stock which 

 shall have been transferred after .April 30, 1913. 



A FIERCE BLAZE. 



A fire that was sudden, fierce and dramatic, though not at- 

 tended, fortunately, by any loss of life, or by any great loss 

 of property, occurred in Needham, Massachusetts, early in the 

 morning of April 11, when Stowe & Woodward's Rubber Works 

 plant was practically destroyed. The building, constructed of 

 cement and wood, was about 150 feet long, and a story and a 

 half high. Within five minutes of the breaking out of the fire 

 the entire building was a mass of flames. The company manu- 

 factured a rubberized lining used for buggy and automobile 

 covers. In its preparation considerable gasolene is used, and it 

 is supposed that a vat of gasolene situated on the first floor 

 exploded. What occasioned this explosion is not known. The 

 first intimation that the workmen had of the trouble was a 

 sudden burst of flame, which gave them barely time to rush 

 through the doors and leap out of the windows. The work- 

 men on the second floor saved their lives only by leaping from 

 the windows. There were about one hundred employes in the 

 building at the time. The financial loss did not exceed $20,000. 

 covered by insurance. 



The firm is running its Campello factory to full time, liowever, 

 and filling orders as fast as possible under this serious handicap. 



Regarding this fire, a curious coincidence is noted. At a large 

 establishment, devoted to the manufacture of rubberized cloth, 

 not over fifty miles from the one just mentioned, three incipient 

 fires were started on the same day that the Stowe & Woodward 

 factory was burned. These fires were also in the machine room, 

 and were, immediately under the rolls or calenders. An official 

 of this largen concern states that in his opinion, there was some- 

 thing peculiar in the meteorological conditions of the atmosphere 

 that day, and that the electricity in the air was sulficient to ignite 

 the material passing between the rolls of the calenders. 



THE UNITED STATES RUBBER RECLAIMING CO.'S NEW OFFICES. 



The United States Rubber Reclaiining Co. Inc., has joined 

 in the uptown movement and moved its offices to the handsome 

 new Forty-Second Street building, 18 East Forty-second street, 

 New York. 



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THE SEAMLESS TIRE. 



.An automobile tire which is creating quite a little comment 

 in automobile circles is that known as the "Seamless," so named 

 from its makers — The Seamless Rubber Co., of New Haven, 

 Connecticut. This company has been identified with the rubber 



manufacturing industry since 

 1877. It has been well known in 

 the manufacture of druggists' 

 sundries, and for two years and 

 a half, now, has been marketing 

 the "Seamless"' tire. We repro- 

 duce their trademark, which is 

 printed in red and black and is 

 distinctive and striking. The 

 tire is made of all Sea Island 

 fabric, and Para rubber, and is 

 built and vulcanized in a single 

 unit by the "Seamless" one-cure, wrapped-tread process. The 

 company has adopted the slogan, "Built up to a Standard, not 

 down to a Price," which is strong as a motto and excellent as a 

 declaration of policy. 



THE J. P. DEVINE CO.'S NEW LOCATION. 



The J. p. Dcvine Co.. manufacturers of vacuum drying ap- 

 paratus. Buffalo, Xew York, have moved their offices and also 

 tlieir factory to 1372 Clinton street in that city. 



NEW ADDRESS OF THE R. J. CALDWELL CO. 



Tile R. J. Caldwell Co., commission merchants, have recently 

 moved their offices from 488 Broadway. Xew York, to 15 Park 

 Row, on the corner of Broadway. 



THE REVERE CO.'S GENEROUS GIFT. 



Mention has been made before in these columns of the do- 

 nation of a spacious playground by the Revere Rubber Co., to 

 the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts, where the company has a 

 large plant. The deeds to the playground were finally passed 

 on March 28. Mr. W. M. H. Gleason, the company's treasurer, 

 acted as the company's representative, while the mayor and 

 treasurer of Chelsea accepted the gift in the name of the city. 



THE FIRESTONE'S NEW SYRACUSE BRANCH. 



E. .A. Hoffman, formerly manager of the supply ho\ise of Wyck- 

 oft'. Church & Partridge Co., has just been selected by the Fire- 

 stone Tire and & Rubber Co.. of New York, to open and operate 

 its new Syracuse branch and service station at No. 502-504 East 

 Genessee street. This is another advance on the part of the 

 Firestone Co. in its general policy of establishing branches and 

 service stations over the country. Mr. Hoffman has lived most 

 of his life in Syracuse, where he has a host of friends. His 

 experience dates back to the early bicycle days, having been at 

 one time in business for himself in Syracuse operating as Hoff- 

 man & Weaver. 



MR. BABCOX IS PROMOTED. 



Once in a while a man does so well in some other held of 

 advertising that he is promoted into the rubber field. Mr. Ed- 

 ward S. Babcox has just achieved this distinction. He was for- 

 merly advertising manager of the Yawman and Erbe Manufac- 

 turing Co., of Rochester. Xew York, and has now been made 

 advertising manager of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., of 

 .Akron. Ohio. Mr. Babcox is not only an advertising writer 

 and planner of acknowledged ability, but he can talk very enter- 

 tainingly nn this most abstruse science. 



