NOVBMBZR 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



81 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



ENLARGED EaUIPMEKT FOR THE ACUSHNET PROCESS CO. 



THERE have been continual complaints from manufacturers 

 purchasing Ccylons that different lots of this rubber vary 

 widely in efficiency, and variations in the same lot are not 

 unusual. It has long been the desire of the trade, and incident- 

 ally the producers, to standardize these products in some way, 

 so that the manufacturer purchasing a certain brand can 

 always feel confident of obtaining unvarying results. 



The Acushnet Process Co. of New Bedford, Massacluisetts, 

 has found a means of standardizing these rubbers, and is 

 rapidly equipping to take care of the demand. The power 

 plant is being changed over for the installation of 

 electric drives throughout the factory. General Electric Co. 

 generators and motors being installed to operate on a 220 volt, 

 60 cycle, alternating current. 



The new combination office and garage has already been 

 completed, and a three-story factory building, 60 x 60, is in 

 course of construction. The new factory building is laid 

 out as a unit of a system of buildings that will ultimately 

 take advantage of all the available land now owned by the 

 company, thus insuring development along scientific lines 

 and economical operation from the start. 



The company is finding a very active demand from manu- 

 facturers for reclaiming their uncured friction stocks by 

 solvent processes in place of the old acid treatment. A more 

 useful grade of rubber is obtained, which shows practically 

 no signs of vulcanization by the use of this method. 



The well known brands, "Hidalgo" and "Fairhaven" rub- 

 bers, are meeting with a satisfactory demand from the trade. 

 The "Acushnet" brand rubber, a treated Ceylon, is quite 

 out of the ordinary, and the officers of the company are very 

 sanguine of the interest manufacturers will take in this product, 

 which is to be immediately introduced. 



PTTRE DKINKING WATER FOR WILLIAMS WORKMEN. 



Safe drinking water for the employes of The Williams 

 Foundry & Machine Co. is insured by a new system just 

 installed. 



Water is pumped from a deep well on the property to a 

 sterilizing plant on the top floor. The sterilizer, which is of 

 the type used by the government in the army, in Cuba and 

 in the Canal Zone, as well as by leading hospitals, purifies 

 the water by the boiling process. After boiling, the water 

 is quickly cooled and aerated so that it is delivered bright 

 and sparkling without the flat taste common to distilled or 

 boiled water. 



The machine cools the water to a proper drinking tem- 

 perature and there is an arrangement for further cooling when 

 necessary, without direct contact with ice. 



After leaving the sterilizer the water flows through gal- 

 vanized pipes to sanitary drinking fountains of tlie bubbling 

 type, conveniently located about the factory. 



GOVERNORS ELECTED FOR THE REPUBLIC CLUB HOUSE. 



It will be recalled that a picture was shown in a recent 

 number of The India Rubber World of the new club 

 house erected by the Republic Rubber Co., of Youngstown, 

 Ohio, for the benefit of its employes. The club house was 

 recently completed and ready for use and on October 16 

 an election was held to select five members from the Re- 

 public factory hands to act, in connection with three ap- 

 pointees made by the president, as a Board of Governors 

 for the club. There was great interest manifested in this 

 election and not a little electioneering. The five governors 

 chosen were: Oscar Watkins, C. A. Miller, Daniel Evans 

 and J. Deiter from the factories, and C. C. Porter of the 

 general offices. 



THE CINCINNATI RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. INCREASES ITS 



PLANT. 



The Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Co. is at the present 

 time doubling the capacity of its boiler house. This is but 

 the beginning in carrying out plans for the enlargement 

 of the whole business of the company. Later there will be 

 quite extensive additions to the machinery and general equip- 

 ment of the plant, in order to take care of the increased 

 demand for the company's products. 



THE FISK COMPANY'S SUCCESSFtTL TEAR. 



The Fisk Rubber Co. of Chicojice F'alls, Massachusetts, has 

 had a very successful year. Its report covering the fiscal year 

 ending October 31 has not yet been issued, but it is believed 

 that when it is it will show a net profit for the year of about 

 $000,000, which is sufficient to cover the 7 per cent, on the 

 $3,000,000 preferred stock and to pay a like dividend — if the 

 company should so elect — on the common stock. The company 

 has been making 1,800 tires a day but with the increased equip- 

 ment recently installed will be able next year to make 2,500 

 tires a day. 



THE PORTAGE COMPANY DOUBLING ITS TIRE CAPACITY. 



The Portage Rubber Co., of Akron, is preparing to double 

 its capacity for auto tires and tubes for next season. It is 

 now erecting an additional building 50 x 107 feet, of steel and 

 brick construction and three stories high. The first floor will 

 be used for storing crude rubber, the second for an additional 

 calender and six new mills — which will be motor driven — and 

 the third floor will be used as an additional tire building room. 



A HANDSOME LITTLE DERBY CALENDAR. 



The Derby Rubber Co., of Derby, Connecticut, sends its 

 customers a small monthly calendar the size of a desk 

 pigeon-hole which is an attractive piece of work even if in 

 miniature. It is printed in dark green on a cream colored 

 ground, which in turn has a green mount. The upper part 

 of the calendar for October is occupied by a process print, 

 very handsomely colored, giving bust and head view of a 

 comely young woman — the whole being tied with a green 

 silk ribbon. 



RUBBER COMPANY DIVIDENDS. 



The Batavia Rubber Co. on October 1 paid dividends on 

 its preferred and common stocks of September 15 record — a 

 regular quarterly dividend of I'A per cent, on the preferred; 

 and on the common a regular quarterly dividend of 1 per 

 cent., with an extra dividend of }4 per cent. 



The Lee Tire & Rubber Co. on October 10 paid a regular 

 quarterly dividend of 1^ per cent, on stock of record 

 October 1. 



On October 2 the board of directors of the United States 

 Rubber Co. declared a quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, on 

 its first preferred stock, a quarterly dividend of lj4 per cent, 

 on its second preferred stock and a quarterly dividend of I'/t 

 per cent, on its common stock — payable October 31 to stock 

 of record on October 15. 



A NEW RUBBER IMPORTING HOUSE. 



.\s this number goes to press it is learned that a new rubber 

 importing house is in process of organization. Altho the details 

 of the project are not yet ready for publication, it is known that 

 the company will be composed of men who have been well known 

 in the rubber trade for some time and who have had wide 

 experience in this line. In our next issue we shall probably be 

 able to give the details of the organization as well as the names 

 of the men who will compose it. 



