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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1. 1914. 



this city, is still in charge of the plant on Vallej' street, a new 

 superintendent not having yet been selected. 



Arthur Homer Carr, superintendent of the rubber thread de- 

 partment of the Revere company, was married recently at 

 Grace Church, New York, to Miss Ethel Howard Tuttle, of 

 Providence. Mr. and Mrs. Carr sailed the following day on the 

 "Mauretania" for a two months' trip abroad, during which they 

 will visit London and Paris, as well as Italy, Germany, Austria 



and Russia. 



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The local branch of the B. F. Goodrich Co. has been removed 

 from its former cramped quarters in Weybosset street to the new 

 building facing Broadway, at the junction of Jackson and Cope 

 streets. The first floor is to be used as office, shipping depart- 

 ment and salesroom. The basement is designed to be used en- 

 tirely for storage of solid tires for motor vehicles, and there is 

 also a shop in the front end of the basement equipped with a 

 hydraulic press and other apparatus for applying Goodricli wire- 

 less solid truck tires. The second and third floors will be used 

 for the stocking of pneumatic tires. The building is triangular 

 in shape, three stories high, of brick construction, and was 

 erected specially for occupancy by the Goodrich company. 



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The joint standing committee on fire department of the City 

 Council of Woonsocket has awarded a contract for 1.000 feet of 

 fire hose to the 

 United & Globe Rub- 

 ber Manufacturing 

 Cos., of Trenton. 

 New Jersey, which 

 bid 60 cents per 

 foot. 



The contract to 

 furnish the fire de- 

 partment of Fall 

 River with 2,500 feet 

 of 2]^z and 3-inch 

 hose has been 

 awarded by the 

 board of fire com- 

 missioners to the 

 same concern, which 

 was the lowest of 

 seven bidders. The 

 respectively. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



By Our Rc:j,uhir Correspondent. 

 A NEW RUBBER F.\CTORY. 

 "TTIE Dclion Tire & Rubber Co.'s new factory at Trenton is 

 ^ rapidly ncaring completion. This company owns three 

 acres, located on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad, 

 with excellent switching facilities. The Trenton trolley runs in 

 front of the factory, affording easy access to and from the city. 

 The main building is 285 feet long and 75 feet wide, with two 

 stories, containing a total of 42,750 square feet of floor space. 

 The construction is of a modern substantial factory type, which 

 is necessary to support tlie heavy rubber machinery. The build- 

 ing is of red brick, with large windows, which admit the ma.xi- 

 mum amount of daylight. Unobstructed floor space and con- 

 venient elevators are provided to assist in efficient plant man- 

 agement. The Birmingham Iron Foundry, of Derby, Connecticut, 

 is installing the washers, mixers, calenders and heaters. The 

 molds and patterns are of the wrapped tread one-cure system, 

 manufactured by the John E. Thropp's Sons Co., of Trenton. 

 The machinery and plant of this model factory are intended to 

 make it the most complete and up-to-date mill of its size in 

 the East. Its product will consist of non-skid and plain tread 

 tires, with a capacity of 400 tires and 600 tubes a day. The 

 officers are as follows : O. E. Condit. president ; W. W. Thomas, 



vice-president; H. 

 H. Coleman, secre- 

 tary and treasurer ; 

 Lionel Emdin, sales 

 manager. The di- 

 rectors are : O. E. 

 Condit, W. W. 

 Thomas, Wm. T. 

 Rock, Chas. R. 

 Whitehead, L. B. 

 Tompkins, F. G. 

 Hasselman, Lionel 

 Emdin, Wm. R. 

 Brown and H. H. 

 Coleman. 



Plant of Delion Tire & Rubber Co, 

 prices bid were 60 and 74 cents per foot 



A branch of the .'\lling Rubber Co, was opened on Monday, 

 May 4, on High street. Westerly, with a complete line of every- 

 thing in rubber. 



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A new bed plate for the engine at the factory of the National 

 India Rubber Co., Bristol, was installed early in the month, a 

 force working from Saturday shut-down at noon until Monday 

 morning in order that there need be no cessation of work among 

 the employes of the factory, as the shoe making departments are 



rushed with orders at present. 



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The insulated wire factory of the I'cjurn Rubber Co., in the 

 rear of 12 Constitution street, was entirely destroyed by fire 

 May 19, entailing a loss estimated at $25,000, which is fully 

 covered by insurance. The bla^e started in some coal dust in 

 the boiler-room and spread rapidly. Nearly a hundred persons 

 were at work in the building at the time, and considerable con- 

 fusion prevailed in the efforts of the employes to make a hasty 

 exit. One young woman jumped from a second story window 

 to the street, and was badly cut and shaken, tho not seriously 

 injured. One fireman was overcome by the dense smoke. Sev- 

 eral dwcliings surrounding the factory w^ere more or less dam- 

 aged. The building will probably be rebuilt at once. 



So great has been 

 the interest in the 

 recently closed up-keep contest between chauffeurs operating 

 cars equipped with Ajax tires that the Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. 

 has offered prizes in another similar competition on tires pur- 

 chased any time after April 1 of this year — the contest to close 

 on March 31 next. The rules governing this competition are 

 the same as those mentioned in the May number of The India 

 Rubber World, page 428, in connection with the one just closed, 

 and prizes to the amount of $5,000 are again offered— a first 

 prize of $500, a second of $300, three of $200, and 205 other 

 prizes in amounts of $100, $50, $25, $20 and $10. The com- 

 petition is for employed chauffeurs only, tho the benefits 

 extend beyond the chauffeur to the owner of the car, through 

 the endeavors of the former to get the maximum service from 

 his tires, and the greater care and attention he is likely therefore 

 to give them. The record for the previous contest was 16.783 

 miles, and the average for the 208 w^inning tires was 6,906 miles. 

 This company was obliged recently to suspend operations for 

 a few days, the first time since starting in business, in order 

 to replace certain machinery which had given out from constant 

 service. Between 200 and 300 persons suffered enforced idleness 

 for about a week as a result of the accident. 

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Factory additions and the installation of new machinery are 

 contemplated by the Empire Rubber & Tire Co., of this city, 

 the present plant, equipped for the manufacture of automobile 

 tires and rubber specialties, and operating night and day with a 



