February 1', 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



173 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT TRENTON. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



AT a recent meeting of the Thermoid Rubber Co., New York, 

 Messrs. Robert J. Stokes and Fred S. Wilson were elected 

 directors of the company at a subsequent directors' meeting, 

 Mr. Stokes was elected secretary and Mr. Wilson vice-president 

 of the company. Both gentlemen are well qualified to be of 

 practical service to the corporation in their respective positions. 

 Mr. Stokes, who is the son of W. J. B. Stokes, who has large 

 rubber interests in Trenton, and who has five uncles prominently 

 identified with the rubber business, spent his summer vacations, 

 as a boy, in one of the plants with which his father was con- 

 nected, and later, entering Princeton University, took up chem- 

 istry as his special study. On graduating, in 1904, he went into 

 the rubber business, taking a practical course that began at the 

 bench. He gradually rose by steady promotion until he attained 

 his present rank as secretary and superintendent of the plant. 

 Mr. Wilson entered the employ of the Messrs. Stokes about 

 seventeen years ago, and after some three years in the mill, 

 went over to the sales force for several years. He has bad full 

 charge of the company's automobile goods department and has 

 at different times filled the position of sales manager and ad- 

 vertising manager, the company being notably heavy advertisers. 

 From one of the smallest concerns, the Thermoid Rubber Co. 

 has grown into one of the largest rubber manufacturing cor- 

 porations in the East, and as to some of its lines enjoys a 

 world-wide reputation. It has branches in New Yoik City, Bos- 

 ton, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, St. Louis, Detroit and San Fran- 

 cisco, and London, England. Its principal lines are mechanical 

 rubber goods, automobile tires, tubes and brake lining. The 

 present officers of the company are as follows : 



President — J. O. Stokes. 

 I^ice President — F. S. Wilson. 

 Treasurer — W. J. B. Stokes. 

 Secretary — R. J. Stokes. 



Charles Y. Flanders, general sales agent of the L^nitcd and 

 Globe Rubber Manufacturing Co., Trenton, New Jersey, who re- 

 cently suffered an attack of acute indigestion while riding on a 

 train and was taken to the Mercer Hospital, is now reported to 

 have completely recovered. 



George R. Cook, of the Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing Co., 

 is wintering with his family at Court Inn, Camden, South 

 Carolina, at which place they have been for several seasons past. 

 Mr. William H. Service, of the same companj-, recently left for 

 a vacation which he will spend in Florida. 



Karl G. Roebling, general sales manager of the John A. 

 Roebling Sons Co., left for a trip to Honolulu the last of 

 January. 



Katzcnback & Bullock Co., importers of manufacturers' sup- 

 plies, have opened storehouses from which to make quick de- 

 liveries at Trenton, Philadelphia, New York, and Montreal. 



General C. Edward Murray and Mr. C. H. Semple, of the 

 Empire Tire Co., will personally attend the Chicago Automobile 

 Show, where the company will have an attractive e.xhibit. 



Watson H. Linburg, president of the United and Globe Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., recently left for Palm Beach, where he 

 expects to spend some time. 



The Leicester Rubber Co. are now occupying their new plant 

 at the foot of Paul and Perrine avenues. This company manu- 

 facture door mats, mats for automobiles, and arc equipping to 

 make other molded goods and to reclaim. 



Whitehead Brothers, Rubber Manufacturing Co. have recently 

 erected a two-story brick office building on the site of the old 

 Whitehead homestead. The new offices are handsomely ap- 

 pointed and equipped with every convenience. 



A BOOK for rubber planters — Mr. Pearson's "What I Saw in 

 the Tropics." 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



'T'llE Gorham-Revere Rubber Co. is a new California corpora- 

 ■*• tion recently organized to take over the business of the 

 Gorhani Rubber Co., of San Francisco, and that of the Revere 

 Rubber Co. on the Pacific coast. The headquarters will be in 

 San Francisco, and in each city on the coast in which these 

 separate firms have had branches the business is to be conducted 

 in future under one roof. The list includes Seattle and Spokane, 

 Washington ; Portland, Oregon ; and Los Angeles and Oakland. 

 California. The officers are 



President- — William J. Gorhani. 



yiee President — ^Charles C. Case. 



Treasurer — W. R. Pierce. 



Secretary and Assistant Treasurer — W. B. Hcckmann. 



The president of the new company was the founder, fifteen 

 years ago, of the business which has grown into the Gorham 

 Rubber Co., of which he has been president. The treasurer, Mr. 

 Pierce, has been the manager of the local branch of the Revere 

 Rubber Co. Mr. Case, the vice president, is the vice president of 

 the Revere Rubber Co., a Rhode Island corporation, and Mr. 

 W. B. Heckman, secretary and assistant treasurer, was the secre- 

 tary of the Gorhani Rubber Co. prior to the amalgamation. 



The year has opened up favorably with the rubber houses, 

 the principal feature of the opening days having been a good long 

 rain, which was general throughout the entire state. Prior to 

 that, for many weeks, there had not been a drop of rain. It is 

 said to have been the longest period at that time of the year 

 without rain that has been known here, and the fall business was 

 unquestionably interfered with. Fortunately the dry spell did 

 not continue for a period long enough to interfere with the 

 crops of the coming season. The rains have allayed the fears of 

 the farmers, and have restored confidence to those who feared a 

 dry season. The storms have also helped the retailers to dispose 

 of goods which they had feared they might have to carry over to 

 another year. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. has opened its store at No. 341-347 

 Market street. The company has also established quarters at No. 

 5S6-S60 Golden Gate avenue, which store they propose to devote 

 to the handling of local automobile trade. It is under the man- 

 agement of Mr. A. W. Ralph. 



Electric Hose & Rubber Co., which has been represented for 

 the past two years by Mr. F. C. Anderson, who conducted busi- 

 ness under his own name, has moved to No. 562 Howard street, 

 and will hereafter operate under the name of the company, of 

 which Mr. F. C. Anderson will continue the management. The 

 former location was at No. 422 Mission street. 



The Association of the Rubber Merchants of San Francisco 

 held its regular monthly banquet last week at the Palace Hotel. 

 An elaborate menu was enjoyed, and the meeting was presided 

 over by Mr. W. R. Pierce. 



The Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufacturing Co. will soon 

 occupy its new quarters on Fremont street. 



The George .\. Sheehan Co., Coast representatives of the Davol 

 Rubber Co., of Providence, R. I., report that last year's business 

 shows a substantial increase over that of the year preceding. 

 This company has recently taken the agency of the Hygeia nurs- 

 ing bottle, manufactured in Buffalo, which has proved to be a 

 popular account. 



A. LAW SUIT OVER PROFITS FROM an artificial rubber scheme is 

 reported from Boston. Why doesn't the plaintiff save himself 

 trouble by producing enough artificial money to supply all his 

 wants ? 



There must be more involved in rubber planting in Ceylon 

 than is dreamed of in the philosophy of the Western world. Else 

 how could one find in a matter of fact newspaper a mention of 

 a "Kanakapulle" sleeeping inside a rubber factory at Gampola? 



