August 1, 1914.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WOKLU 



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Large shipments of rubber shoes were made the early part 

 of July from the factory of the Xational India Rubber Co., at 

 Bristol, the goods being consigned to the far West and the 

 Southwest. 



At this factory a new system of endless chain conveyors 

 has recently been installed on the front end of the buildings, 

 for the better manipulation of the material in process of 

 manufacture at the plant. 



Information has been received at Bristol tliat William 

 McCaw, former paymaster and assistant treasurer of the 

 Xational company, has been elected assistant treasurer of the 

 Lee Tire & Rubber Co., of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, oi 

 which John J. Watson, former treasurer of the United States 

 Rubber Co., and formerly a resident of Providence, is vice 

 president. Mr. McCaw has been connected with the company 

 only a short time, going there as office manager, his family 

 not having yet been removed from Bristol. 



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The steel stack at the plant of the Revere Kubl)er Co., on 

 Valley street, this city, has been completed. It was erected 

 in four sections, the base setting upon a steel-supported 

 foundation 30 feet in height. The first two sections of the 

 stack are 35 feet in length and the other two are 30 feet each. 

 The entire stack is 130 feet in heiglit, IVi feet in diameter 

 and weighs approximately 23 tons. It is attached to the new 

 power plant of the company. 



Greeted by a large motor truck filled with the superin- 

 tendents and heads of departments at the local plant of the 

 Revere Rubber Co., Mr. and Mrs. Arthur FI. Carr arrived 

 here June 26 following a honeymoon of about two inonths in 

 Europe. Mr. Carr is superintendent of the rubber thread de- 

 partment of the plant and was sent to Europe to observe 

 methods in use there and to obtain certain stock which was 

 needed at the plant. Before going away, however, he stole 

 a march on his fellow workers by getting married without 

 announcing the fact to them. This was the reason for the 

 demonstration upon their return home. 



The plant of the Revere company, at Atwell's avenue and 

 Valley street, this city, was closed June 26 for the purpose of 

 taking the annual account of stock. The gates reopened July 

 6 with the prospect of the plant being operated to its fullest 

 capacity and the possibility of having to run overtime in tlie 



near future. 



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The Perfection Rubber Co., with a capital stock of $100,000. 

 has filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State 

 of Rhode Island. It is to be located in this city and manu- 

 facture a patented device known as "The Perfection Sanitary 

 Belt." The incorporators are John P.. Dcsrosiers. Eldrcgc 

 Desrosiers and John T. Bannon. 



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Contracts for supplying rubber coats, rubber boots and fire 

 hose for the several fire companies of Bristol were recently 

 awarded by the town council. Charles V. Perry, of Bristol. 

 will supply the boots at $2.80 a pair; Frank M. Dimond, of 

 Bristol, the rubber coats at $3.95; the Cornelius Callahan Co., 

 of Boston, 500 feet C. C. C. fire hose, at 70 cents; Combina- 

 tion Ladder Co., Providence, 500 feet wa.\-treated hose, at 70 

 cents; Eureka Fire Hose Co., 400 feet, at 65 cents — all to be 

 single jacket hose. 



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The Bourn Rubber Co. has decided not to rebuild its fac- 

 tory on Westfield street, this city, that was burned down a 

 couple of months ago, and which contained the wire depart- 

 ment. -A. large building on Westfield street, only a short dis- 

 tance from the Bourn plant, has been temporarily leased by 

 the com,pany and has been equipped to do the work formerly 

 done in the burned building. About 80 per cent, of the 



capacity of the old shop is the output of the new quarters to 

 start with, and this is more than double the amount of wire 

 that was being turned out at the time of the fire. 



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George R. Stamford, Fall River, has filed suit in the Su- 

 perior Court in this city against the Cataract Rubber Co., of 

 Providence, for the sum of $8,000 lor alleged breach of con- 

 tract. The plaintifT claims that he entered into an agreement 

 with the defendant company to sell shares of the capital stock 

 of the concern. He claims he made several sales, the com- 

 mission for which is still due and that he was discharged with- 

 out notice on February 1, 1913. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 

 By Our Regular CorrcspoudcnI. 



THE preliminary schedule filed by the State Board of As- 

 sessors shows the tax against 8.371 miscellaneous cor- 

 I)orations of the State for the year to amount to $2,544,943. 

 .\mong the corporations which will pay taxes upon an out- 

 standing capital of $50,000,000 or over are the American Steel 

 &■ Wire Co., manufacturers of rubber insulated and other wires, 

 with a capital stock of $90,000,000. and the United States Rublicr 

 Co., with a capital of $95,693,700. 



The report for the year ending May 31 shows that tiie State 

 Department of Motor Vehicles has received in 1914 for auto- 

 mobile, motorcycle and drivers' licenses $106,133 more than the 

 total similar receipts for the previous year, the total collection 

 for 1914 amounting to $600,335, and for 1913 to $494,202. 



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The I'nited & Globe Rublicr Manufacturing Cos., of this city, 

 are re])cirted to have passed a resolution for a $50,000 increase 

 in capitalization, this new financing to be employed in the erection 

 and equipment of a tire manufacturing plant. 



E. H. Openshaw, who has been assistant general manager 

 of the United & Globe companies, has resigned this position and 

 gone to Chicago to join his wife, who is visiting in that city, 

 and will later spend some time in traveling, having as yet made 

 no definite plans for the future. Before leaving the city he was 

 presented with a handsome twenty-four piece set of cut glass 

 by the employes of the company, as a token of their appreciation 



and esteem. 



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.A number of the employes of the Empire Rubber & Tire Co. 

 spent July 3 at Pleasure Bay and nearby coast resorts, going 

 down by automobile early in the morning and returning late 

 in the evening of the same day. 



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Edgar M. Church has been appointed sales manager and sec- 

 retary of the Howard Demountable Rim Co. and will hereafter 

 ilivide his time between the Philadelphia and Trenton offices 

 of that company, being in the former city until 1 P. M. on 

 .Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 



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The Red Letter Tire Co. has been formed at Columbus, Ohio, 

 with offices at 20 East Town street, to act as local distributors 

 of Acme Red Letter tires and tubes, the product of the Acme 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Trenton. Leo E. Sulzer is man- 

 ager of the new company. 



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The timely and effective use of garden hose was instrumental 

 in saving to the people of Morrisville, New Jersey, the Baptist 

 church of that town, which caught fire on the night of July 4 

 from fireworks dropped on the roof. A nearby resident dis- 

 covered the blaze and neighbors responding to the alarm with 

 their garden hose extinguished the fire before the arrival of the 

 fire deiiartment. 



