May 1, 1914.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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twenty-two years and manufactures a full line of fountain pens — 

 ordinary, non-Ieakable and self-filling — and has recently also 

 increased its capital and expects to advertise and push the line 



stronger than heretofore. 



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H. A. Hine, secretary and treasurer of the Star Rubber Co., 

 of Akron, died March 28, as a result of an operation the day 

 before for appendicitis. Mr. Hine was born in Ohio in 1864, 

 and in 1890 became a resident of Akron. He first intended to 

 enter the profession of law, but he soon left his legal studies to 

 become a bookkeeper in the Star Drilling Machine Co., with 

 which organization he was associated for twenty-three years, 

 for the last fourteen years being its secretary and treasurer. 

 He was also connected with a number of other Akron enter- 

 prises and was prominent as a Mason and in other similar social 

 organizations. His wife and two daughters, of 14 and 12, sur- 

 vive him. 



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The various officials and owners of the .\krcin rubber com- 

 panies have taken a live interest in the raising of funds for a new 

 hospital for the city of Akron, which will probal)ly be located 

 in the south end of the city, not far from several large rubber 

 plants. The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. has subscribed the sum 

 of $5,000 toward this enterprise, the first payment of $500 to be 

 made at the time work is started on the building, and an equal 

 amount on the same date each year thereafter for a period of 

 ten years ; and a subscription of $6,300 has been made 1)y execu- 

 tive heads of the Firestone company. 



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The .\b)hawk Rubber Co. has changed its New York offices 

 from 18f)4 Broadway to 123 West Sixty-eighth street, the quarters 

 formerly occupied by the Century store, thus securing a much 

 larger floor space. 



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A ninnbcr of men wlio for some time past have lieen prom- 

 inent in the rubber industry of this city have become identified 

 with the interests of the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., of 

 Connecticut, mention of whom and of the incorporation and plans 

 of the new company is made on another page of this issue. 



The h'irestone Tire & Rubber Co. has appointed J. Jordan office 

 manager of its New York branch, succeeding J. S. Ridley, who 

 assumes the management of the new branch at Newark, New 

 Jersey. Mr. Jordan is well acquainted with the New York tire 

 trade, having been in this field for the past nine years, first as 

 assistant office manager of a large rubber company and of late 

 with the Century Tire Co. 



R. M. Merriman has associated himself with Tlic Cohmibia 

 Rubber Co., of Columbiana County, Ohio. 



J. \V. Miller, secretary, treasurer and superintendent of the 

 Star Drilling Machine Co., has been elected secretary and treas- 

 urer of the Star Rubber Co., to succeed Homer A. Hine, lately 

 deceased. 



Hmil Gammeter, of the Electric Reclaiming Co. and the Gam- 

 meter-Rrodl>eck Sales Agency, has just completed an extensive 

 trip through Europe in the interests of these two companies. 



T. S. Barbour has become associated with the sales department 

 of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. at its branch in Omaha, 

 Nebraska. 



E. D. Whorley has been appointed general manager of the 

 American Tire &' Rubber Co. 



R. M. Pillmore, president of the Mohawk Rubber Co.. wlio lias 

 spent the winter in California advancing the interests of that 

 company, is expected in Akron next week. 



John Johnson has been appointed general manager of the Elec- 

 tric Rul)ber Reclaiming Co. plant. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN BOSTON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



TPHE rubber trade is spotty. Some lines are having good busi- 

 ^ ness, others are slow. And some houses in similar lines 

 report dissimilar conditions. However, in the main, most people 

 are seasonably busy. The tire men are plugging along, some 

 reporting good business, others not, but all willing to produce 

 stock goods in anticipation of heavy demand later. 



The rubber footwear business is over for the season, as far 

 as the consumer is concerned. This is about the time when 

 formerly salesmen were taking good orders under the old sys- 

 tem of discount for early business, but now that no such induce- 

 ment is held out, salesmen find it difficult to interest customers. 

 Therefore jobbers are hanging back, and the mills are running 

 to very small tickets, and mainly on floor goods and tennis shoes. 

 The rubber clothing men are fully as busy as usual at this sea- 

 son. The druggist sundry people are having a normal trade. 

 'I'herc is a moderate call for mechanicals. Those factories where 

 rubber heels and soles are made are doing a rushing business 

 with orders ahead. 



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Tliis tendency to use rubber as a substitute for leather in the 

 slioe industry is shown in the formation of another company 

 to manufacture a shoe sole by combining leather scrap, finely 

 sliredded, with rul)ber. The C. & S. Co. is a new corporation 

 with a capital stock of $50,000, which is building a new machine 

 to manufacture such soles. The officers are prominent men in 

 Rrockton, the leading shoe center of Massachusetts for men's 

 shoe manufacture. Harvey F. Crawford is the president, and 

 the other officers are Herbert F. Bryant, vice-president ; Francis 

 E. Shaw, treasurer; and Ernest L. Shaw, clerk; and these, with 

 E. M. Low, are the directors. 



."Xnother Brockton enterprise, though it may not yet be beyond 

 the experimental stage, is the making of soles of a combination 

 of duck fal)ric and rubber, several alternate layers of each being 

 compressed and vulcanized, forming a sole which is said to be 

 much more flexible than leather, and to give far longer wear. 



Speaking of the latter fact, probably few are aware of the 

 extent to which rubber is taking the place of sole leather. There 

 is an economic side to this. Sole leather is higher in price to- 

 day than ever before in the history of the shoe trade. Cattle 

 are diminishing in number, hides are scarcer and as a conse- 

 quence the shoe manufacturers are welcoming any material 

 which can be properly and economically substituted. Rubber 

 soles have been used for years on certain lines of sporting and 

 outing shoes, but within the last two years their use has in- 

 creased enormously, and such soles have been made to the num- 

 ber of millions of pairs. A Brockton shoe manufacturer has 

 succeeded in making a strong, sensible, handsome shoe without 

 a single particle of leather in it. but this was more as a curiosity 

 than a business proposition, though a Chicago house has already 

 asked for samples and prices. In this connection the manufac- 

 turer claimed to be the first user of rubber for a welt, but this 

 is disputed by the makers of leather-soled rubber boots, which 

 have a rubber welt to which the leather sole is attached. 



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The news of the death of Jolm H. Forsyth came as a distinct 

 shock to his many friends. .-Mthough be had not been in active 

 l)usiness for some time, he still kept in touch with afi^airs and 

 was seemingly in fairly good shape. He was much interested in 

 the erection of the Forsyth Dental Infirmary, now nearing com- 

 pletion, which is a gift to the needy of this city, he with his 

 lirother. Thomas A. Forsyth, being the donors, having erected 

 it as a memorial to two brothers, James Bennett Forsyth and 

 George Henry Forsyth. He had hoped to see this novel benefac- 

 tion completed and turned over to the trustees for the purpose 

 intended. The funeral was attended by many friends. During 

 the services work was stopped at the Infirmary building, and also 



