June 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



483 



An excellent photographic picture of the Banigan Rubber Co.'s 

 factory at Woonsocket api)ears in the back of that concern's new 

 catalogue, recently issued. 



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LeBaron C. Colt, manager of the National India Rubber Co., at 

 Bristol, has been elected captain of the new honorary veteran 

 military organization in that town. 



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Just at this time, when innumerable schools and colleges 

 throughout the country are preparing to send forth their annual 

 quota of young men into the business and professional world to 

 carve out a future, it is very interesting and instructive to hear 

 from men who are at the head of large business enterprises or 

 commercial establishments some of their personal experiences 

 in attaining these high standings. 



Not many yoimg men fitting themselves fur teaching would 

 think of giving up that vocation and taking to another calling, 

 much less in the humbler position of errand boy. Isaac Crocker, 

 of the Mope Rubber Co., did this when he was 21 years of age. 

 He is now president and treasurer of a system embracing ten 

 rubber companies. 



"Leaving my school work," said Mr. Crocker recently, "I went 

 to Lowell, Mass., where I let myself out at $4 a week as an er- 

 rand boy. It was just such a position, nothing more. I was 

 employed by the Lowell Rubber Co., a retail concern. The first 

 thing I had to learn was how to sweep a floor properly. I de- 

 livered packages all over the city, helped move big cases of 

 goods, made myself generally useful, and. being the 'office boy,' 

 was at general beck and call. 



"There were no parcel deliveries in Lowell at that time, and 

 not all the retail stores owned delivery wagons. That was thirty- 

 three years ago. I had to work from 7 o'clock in the morning 

 until 7 o'clock every nisht, with 11 o'clock as the closing hour 

 on Saturday nights. 



"I must have made good, as the expression is now, for in a 

 short time I was entrusted with the making of sales, and when 

 I had become familiar with the business and the trade I was sent 

 out on the road. In 1889 I had advanced to the point where I 

 was made manager of the Lawrence, Mass., branch, and in 1898 

 I came to Providence to take charge of the shop in this city. I 

 purchased the business in 1903, thereby controlling a chain of 



eight stores." 



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The .'\merican Electrical Works at Phillipsdale. East Provi- 

 dence, report an increasing demand for their products, and are 

 adding to the number of their employes. Recently they have 

 been calling for men in their wire drawing department, offering 

 20 cents an hour while learning, with an average of $14 to $16 



weekly thereafter. 



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The State Board of Control and Supply, of which Gilbert R. 

 Parker of Providence is secretary, is making up the forms for 

 bids for supplies for the various institutions throughout the State 

 for six months, commencing July 1. The list includes all the 

 rubber goods of every description used in the institutions. 



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John J. Kelley, paymaster of the National India Rubber Co., 

 who has been confined to his home in Warren for the past six 

 weeks with a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism, has re- 

 sumed his duties at the Bristol offices. He was warmly con- 

 gratulated by his friends on his recovery. Frederick Wilson, of 

 the paymaster's department, was acting paymaster during the 

 time Mr. Kelley was absent. 



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A new one-story brick building, about 260 feet in length and 

 160 feet wide, is to be erected within the next few months at the 

 plant of the National India Rubber Co. at Bristol, and three 

 buildings are now being demolished to make room for the new 



structure, which will be located east of the wire-drawing plant. 

 The new building will be used for the wire-stranding machines. 

 The buildings which are being razed are the old one-story press 

 room, part of the old druggists' sundries room, the one-story 

 building which contains the curing heats, and part of the old 

 two-story calender and gum rooms. 



Ground has also been broken for a new one-story shipping 

 shed to extend 146 feet west of the present shipping shed north- 

 west of the wire department. The building will be 70 feet wide 

 and built of wood. A new naphtha storage reservoir, made of 

 cement below the surface of the ground, is being constructed. 

 This will be divided into four compartments or tanks, each of 

 which will have a capacity of 5,000 gallons, so constructed as to 

 be entirely independent of each other. 



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The Bourn Rubber Co. of 58 Warren street, this city, has been 

 granted permission by the inspector of buildings to erect a one- 

 story brick workshop in the rear of Westfield street, adjoining 

 the present plant. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



By a Resident Correspondent. 



TRADE has quieted down somewhat during the past month, 

 owing to a variety of causes. In the first place there is the 

 tariff. Tlien the State Legislature has passed measures which 

 big corporations feel to be restrictions on their enterprises, and 

 one measure — the liability of employers for injuries occurring to 

 employes — has also tended to make some big industrial com- 

 panies feel uneasy. The law as it now stands gives compensa- 

 tion (in all mechanical industries) in cases of those who are 

 injured or killed, even though the injury be the result of the 

 negligence of a fellow employe. This law will affect many em- 

 ployers who arc allied with the rubber business, and they are 

 naturally interested in the outcome. The theory of the law is to 

 shift tile Inirden of the financial loss, in the case of accidents, to 

 the employer instead of to the employe, upon the theory that the 

 employer will for this reason be much more concerned for the 

 protection of those in his service. 



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Mr. R. H. Pease, president of the Goodyear Rubber Co., of this 

 city, has returned from his eastern trip. He has renewed his 

 contract as Pacific Coast selling agent of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co. He reports that he found conditions in the East about as 

 they are here. R. H. Pease, Jr., treasurer of the company, is 

 now in Paris, and will return early in June. Upon his return 

 from Europe it is likely that he will take charge of the company's 

 branch in Portland. 



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Mr. Brady, general sales manager of the Gorham-Revere Rub- 

 ber Co., has returned from his trip to the northwest, where he 

 found business very good, especially in Seattle. Mr. W. H. 

 Given, the former manager of the company's branch at Spokane, 

 has resi.gned. and Henry Thompson has been placed in charge of 

 that store. Mr. Thompson was formerly manager of the Port- 

 land branch store. The new manager of the Portland branch 

 will be W. G. Roope. 



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M. E. Morris, recently appointed Pacific Coast district manager 

 of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron, succeeding W. 

 T. Powell, has' arrived in this city, accompanied by his wife and 

 daughter. This being district headquarters. Mr. Morris has been 

 getting acquainted with the big establishment on Van Ness ave- 

 nue. He is accompanied by C. W. Martin, manager of the truck 

 tire department of the company, and also by L. C. Rockhill. man- 

 ager of the pneumatic tire department. The latter two will make 

 semi-annual trips to this territory. They have been busy con- 

 ferring with Manager Frank Carroll of the local branch, and are 

 about to start for a trip through the cities of the northwest. 



