February- I, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER 'JVORLD 



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NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. (aKRON RUBBER WORKS). 



AT the annual meeting on January 8, the resignation of 

 H. C. Corson, of which notice had been given several 

 months in advance, became effective. The vacancy 

 was filled by the election of Bertram G. Work, general 

 superintendent. The list of directors and officers now stands : 

 Ditectors. — George T. Perkins, George W. Grouse, F. H. Mason, 

 Richard P. Marvin, Charles C. Goodrich, W. A. Folger, B. G. Work. 

 President. — Colonel George T. Perkins. 

 Vice-President. — Bertram G. Work. 

 Second Vice-President. — Hon. George W. Crouse. 

 Secretary. — Richard P. Marvin. 

 Treasurer. — W. A. Folger. 

 Assistant Secietary. — C. C, Goodrich. 

 Assistant Treasurer. — W. A. Means. 

 General Superintendent. — E. C. Shaw. 

 Assistant General Superintendent. — C. C. Goodrich. 

 Superintendent of Works. — F. H. Mason. 



Mr. Corson retains an investment in the factory, and is ex- 

 pected to keep in touch with its affairs. During the month, 

 however, he sailed for Europe with his family to remain sev- 

 eral months. Mr. Work has long been acknowledged to be 

 one of the strongest and most capable men in the rubber in- 

 dustry. He has in a marked degree genuine executive ability, 

 and a faculty for systematizing that is marvelous. After his 

 graduation from Harvard University he entered the factory of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., where his father had been superin- 

 tendent, and, beginning at the bottom, worked up to the posi- 

 tion of general superintendent by sheer ability. He keeps in 

 close touch with rubber matters the world over, to the end that 

 the Goodrich company, to which he is intensely loyal, may be 

 not only abreast, but ahead of the times. 



U. S. RUBBER RECLAIMING WORKS. 

 This company, which, since June 28, 1900, had been oper- 

 ated as a corporation under the laws of New Jersey with $500,- 

 000 capital, on December i8, 1901, filed articles of incorpora- 

 tion with the secretary of state of New York, the capital 

 remaining the same. The reason for making this a New York 

 corporation is that, after the completion of the new plant at 

 Buffalo, the bulk of the company's manufacture will be done in 

 this state, instead of outside, as heretofore="Work on the 

 remodeling of the building acquired for the company's Buflfalo 

 plant has made very satisfactory progress to date. A building 

 permit recently obtained from the city provided for additions 

 to the building to cost $10,000. -^ The vacancy in the office 

 of secretary of the company caused by the death of Mr. Max 

 T. Rosen, on October 24 last, has been filled by the election to 

 that office of Walter T. Rosen, a son of the former, and a 

 member of the banking house of Ladenberg, Thalman & Co., 

 (New York). 



RUBBER SOLED LEATHER SHOE CO. 

 This company, whose factory is at South Framingham, Mass. 

 has been reorganized, with Fayette W. Wheeler president and 

 general manager, and G. F. Butterfield, treasurer. A building 

 has been acquired, 45X60 feet, with seven acres of land. An 

 extra boiler and 150 H i' engine have been put in, and electric 

 lighting apparatus. The company manufactures leather shoes 

 to the soles of which a rubber sole and heel are attached under 

 patents issued to George F. Butterfield. C. O. Benton has 

 charge of the rubber department. It is planned to manufac- 

 ture the leather work, also, instead of depending upon shoe 

 factories for the same. The company now have an office at 



No. 73 Tremont street, Boston. They will open a retail store 

 at No. 137 Summer street. 



AMERICAN CYCLE MANUFACTURING CO. 

 The incorporation of this company, to control the bicycle 

 department of the American Bicycle Co., was noted in the last 

 India Rubber World. On January 13 directors were chosen 

 as follows: Joseph E. Bromley, R. Lindsay Coleman, Albert A. 

 Pope, Henry A. Lozier, and George Pope. Mr. Bromley has 

 been elected president ; J. C. Mattack vice-president; and J. 

 A. McGregor treasurer. The offices of the company have been 

 removed from New York to the " Crescent " wheel factory in 

 Chicago, for the reason that four of the eight factories operated 

 by the company are located in the latter city. 



WATERPROOFING TEXTILES WITHOUT RUBBER. 

 Judge C. M. Willard, of Rutland, Vermont, writes to The 

 India Rubber World that he acquired at one time a patent 

 process for waterproofing textiles without rubber,upon which he 

 made some improvements that are kept secret. Being 81 years 

 of age, however, he does not feel disposed to engage personally 

 in exploiting the business. Hence he has sold the rights for 

 the United States, outside of New England, to parties in Chi- 

 cago who will erect a large plant there. The New England 

 rights have been disposed of on a royalty basis to Clark & 

 Laventure, of Rutland, who will continue and enlarge the 

 small business started in that town by Judge Willard as the 

 New England Waterproof Co. 



PICHER LEAD CO. 

 The Picher Lead Co. announces that, beginning on January 

 I, 1902, it will oflfer its products to the New England rubber 

 trade direct. The Picher products have heretofore been dis- 

 tributed throughout the New Enpland territory by The Chad- 

 wick Lead Works, and their successors, the Chadwick Boston 

 Lead Co. At the office of the company in New York, it was 

 stated that the new arrangement was only in the natural course 

 of events, and in line with the modern tendencies toward cen- 

 tralization of control. 



WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF SHOE JOBBERS. 

 The fourth annual business meeting at Chicago, on January 

 8, was well attended, as usual. Orlando C. Smith, president of 

 the Smith- Wallace Shoe Co. (Chicago), was elected president 

 of the association for the fourth term, and S. W. Campbell, No. 

 243 Franklin street, Chicago, was elected secretary. The list 

 of vice presidents represents ten states. The discussions related 

 to a wide range of topics, not the least in interest being 

 that of maintaining prices on rubber footwear. The fourth 

 annual banquet was held in the evening, at the Grand Pacific 

 Hotel, with President Smith at the head of the table ; Erskine 

 M. Phelps, toastmaster, at his right ; and the Hon. L. D. Aps- 

 ley, of the Apsley Rubber Co., at his left. The first toast, 

 drank in silence, was to the late Charles L. Johnson, of the 

 United States Rubber Co., who spoke at the banquet last year. 

 Mr. Apsley was among the speakers. Among others who re- 

 ferred to the rubber goods trade was A. H. Andrews, of Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, who said : " I do not understand why the shoe 

 jobbers who are selling rubbers should have any hesitancy in 

 going out and demanding a fair price or the price the rubber 

 company has made to us on goods the coming season. There 

 is no question but what we handle the best line of rubbers 

 made in the world. America is exporting rubbers now to all 



