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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Febrlarv 1, 1911. 



to Mr. Mulconroy. Beautiful floral decorations and tuneful 

 music added to the enjoyable character of the gathering. .Vmong 

 those present were: James J. Mulconroy, president; George J. 

 Holden, secretary; Edwin S. Morris, treasurer; Howard R. 

 Peterman, salesman; S. E. Lineweaver, salesman; Fred R. Mack- 

 rell, shipper; Hugh K. Anderson, factory fnrcmnn 



REPUBLIC COMPANY TO MAKE BALATA BELTING. 



FOR some time past the Republic Rubber Co., of Voungstown, 

 O., have been selling, in increasing quantities in tlie United 

 States, Lanco Genuine Balata Belting, manufactured by an 

 English concern, and for which, in spite of the heavy duty im- 

 posed on it under the United States tariff, they found a large 

 sale, owing to its adaptability to American methods of operation 

 and climatic conditions. Lanco Genuine Balata Belting, is said 

 to be the strongest in existence, the makers claiming for it a 

 tensile breaking strain of 9,000 pounds per square inch, which, 

 with its water-proof, durable and non-stretching properties, 

 adapt it particularly for severe conditions of service. 



By virtue of associations entered into with the English manu- 

 facturers, some time ago, the Republic Rubber Co. have arranged 

 with them for the installation, in this country, of a plant for 

 the manufacture of this belting and the establishment, which 

 has been built and equipped, under the direct supervision of 

 the English company, is now completed and in operation. 



Furnished with machinery, etc., of the most modern character 

 and thoroughly up-to-date devices for handling a large output; 

 the factory will be able to turn out belting to the value of more 

 than $1,000,000 per annum, while suitable storage space will be 

 provided for upwards of 2,000,000 feet of the finished article. 

 The balata belting made at Youngstown will be of the highest 

 standard quality and made under the secret impregnation proc- 

 ess which is the exclusive property of the English company, and 

 the sole right to which, in the United States and Mexico, with 

 other protected processes, the trade marks, copyrights, etc., of the 

 English company, the Republic Rubber Co. have required. 



Lanco Balata Belting is already handled in the United States 

 by a large number of jobbers, .and the Republic Rubber Co. 

 will push its sale actively, under the management of Mr. W. R. 

 Goudie, who comes from England to take charge of the selling 

 arrangements. It may be added that the reduction in price, 

 made possible by the saving of the tariff, will enable the manu- 

 facturers to sell Lanco Belting at about the price of high-grade 

 rubber belting, and very much cheaper than leather belting, so 

 that it should eventually find extensive sale in the United States. 



THE VOORHEES "OLD GUARD." 



men who have been actively engaged in the rubber business with 

 Mr. \oorhees for an aggregate of 283 years, or an average for 

 each man l( r 25 7/11 years. Their terms of service range from 

 21 to 31 years. These men are now heads of departments, engi- 

 neers, master mechanics — in a word, the supervising force of a 

 well regulated factory. 



The names of the men and positions they occupy in .the works, 

 beginning at the left of the top line, are as follows: Ernest Con- 

 verse, in charge of shipping department ; Warren W. Ainsworth, 

 mafttr mechanic: (The GUI Man I. Dennis Mulqueaney, mill 



IN these days of conflict between employer and employes, when 

 the press is full of accounts of strikes with and without 

 cause, it is rather refreshing to find a case where the relations 

 between the worker and the employer have continued amicable 

 for a quarter of a century. 



Every one in the rubber trade recognizes in John J. Voorhees, 

 the president of the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Jersey 

 City, New Jersey) one of the pioneers in the mechanical rubber 

 goods industry, but not every one knows of the veterans he has 

 with him— men who have been associated with him for the 

 greater part of his business life. 



The Voorhees company have a goodly number of men with 

 terms of service of over ten years, but the record of this "Old 

 -Guard," as it is appropriately termed, is phenomenal. 



It would seem unquestionable that in a business that is so com- 

 pUcated, so troublesome in detail as is the manufacture of rubber 

 goods, the experience of a body of intelligent men such as these, 

 must count for much, and prove a valuable adjunct to the con- 

 icern where they are employed. 



The illustration which accompanies this article shows eleven 



man; Albert L. Wilson, shipunig department; Lliarles Lichman, 

 foreman belt department ; Louis B. Pugsley, chief engineer ; Ed- 

 ward Walsh, foreman hose department; Nicholas Weisman, fore- 

 man sundry department. Front row, left to right : Edwin J. 

 Jones, foreman mill rooms; John Eisman, dean of calender men; 

 Albert Eggs, head platen man. 



THE **OLD GUARD" 



We, the undersi^aed, have been actively en^a^ed In (he rub- 

 ber manufacturing business witb Mr. John i. Voorhees, (or 

 the terms of service set opposite our respective names. 



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