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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1909. 



THOMAS A. FORSYTH, PRESIDENT. 



Something like forty years ago there came into the rubber 

 business an exceedingly brilliant young man who more than 

 anj other was able by invention and industrial foresight to set 

 his impress upon the mechanical goods industry. 'Ibis boy had 

 a brother who worked with him through all the years of his 

 accomplishment, who was his close friend, counsellor, and loyal 

 assistant. Of the two brothers, James Bennett Forsyth and 

 Thomas A. Forsyth, tin- former has passed away to the great 

 beyond, his mantle falling upon the one of all others whom he 

 would have chosen to succeed him. As president and general 

 jnanager of the Boston Belting Co., Mr. Thomas Forsyth brings 

 to the position forty years of experience, during which he was 

 in the closest touch with every phase of the business. In the 

 latter years, to be sure, his brother was almost constantly in the 

 Boston office, while lie was at the factory, but every evening at 

 the Touraine, where they lived, factory and office met, so that 

 every detail of the great business was known to both. It is 

 because of these conditions that the new president confidently 

 states that the set and established rules created by James Bennett 

 Forsyth are still in force and will be carried out. The new 

 pri sident of the Boston Belting Co. is very much like the late 

 James Bennett Forsyth. He is fortunate, 

 however, in being a stronger man physically, 

 and while he evinces the same conscientious 

 attention to business detail, his love of art 

 and his knowledge of paintings give him 

 the relaxation that every one needs who 

 successfully administers any great business. 



CHANGE IN THE UNITED AND GLOBE. 



At the annual meeting of shareholders 

 of United and Globe Manufacturing Cos. 

 (Trenton, New Jersey, October 11). Well 

 ing G. Sickel was elected president, suc- 

 ceeding \V. H. Linburg, and Aubrey Love 

 was elected secretary and treasurer, suc- 

 ceeding John S. Broughton. Two members 

 of the new board elected are Stephen B. 

 Elkins, a United States senator from Vir- 

 ginia, and Martin Maloney, of Philadelphia, 

 a director in the Consolidated Rubber Tire 

 Co., and sometime of the Electric Vehicle 

 Co. This enterprise is an outgrowth from 

 the Globe Rubber Co., established at Tren- 

 ton in 1878 for the manufacture of mechan- 

 ical rubber goods, and incorporated in 1897. 

 Throughout this period the company have 

 made a specialty of railwaj supplies, particularly airbrake hose, 

 for which they have now a capacity for 6,000 pieces, and supply 

 some of the leading railway systems of the country. The United 

 Rubber Co. came into existence a little later, not as makers of 

 goods, but as high class jobbers in mechanical rubbers. Their 

 sales were largely of Globe Rubber Co. products, and in 1899 

 the two companies were combined as United and Globe Rubber 

 Manufacturing Cos., with $250,000 capital. The growth of the 

 business since the consolidation has been constant and rapid, until 

 the company have today a factory that is among the largest in 

 the country, while none is more modern or complete. Mr. Sickel, 

 who now becomes president, after having filled other positions 

 with the company, is one of the best known men in the rubber 

 trade, having traveled north, south, east and west for the past 

 thirty years, lie is likewise a prominent citizen of Trenton, 

 of which city he was at one time mayor. 



MEMORIAL TO COLONEL POPE. 



A suggestion made by the Bicycling World that a memorial 

 be erected in honor of the late Colonel Albert A. Pope seems to 



Thomas Alexander Forsyth 



[President Boston Belting Co.] 



have been favorably received. Several former officials and 

 employes of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., at the time the 

 ^ainc was controlled by Colonel Pope, are mentioned as having 

 contributed to the proposed fund. Several of these gentlemen 

 are now in the automobile trade. By the way, Elliott Mason, 

 after a connection with the Pope interest for 30 years, during 

 which time he became so widely known in connection with the 

 marketing of bicycles, and later of automobiles, retired from 

 business on October 1. 



THE LATE JOSEPH DAVOL. 



At a special meeting of the executive committee of the Rubber 

 Sundries Manufacturers' Association, held in New York, the 

 following resolutions were adopted: 



Whereas, Mr. Joseph Davol, formerly president of this Association, and 

 an active member of the executive committee for many years, departed 

 this life on July 5, 1909, and, 



Whereas, 1 1 is deep" interest, able advice and sound judgment in behalf 

 of the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' Association as presiding officer and 

 a member of the executive committee, and, 



Whereas, His genial personality and noble character has endeared him 

 in the affection and admiration of all members of this Association, he it. 



Resolved, That the members of the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' 

 Association through the death of their late associate, Mr. Joseph Davol, has 

 suffered a great loss, and be it further 



Resolved, That in commemoration of the love 

 and esteem in which he was held by all mem- 

 bers of this Association and as evidence of 

 their sorrow and their deep sympathy with the 

 bereaved family, this preamble and resolution be 

 spread upon the Minutes of this Association, ami 

 that a copy be forwarded to the family of our 

 deceased associate and beloved friend. 

 II. C. Burton, President. 

 E. E. Huber, Secretary. 

 H. E. Raymond, 



( I. 1!. IIodgman, I ,, _ 



,. ,, T Lxecutive Committee. 



1-. H. Jones, 1 



G. M. Allerton, 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Marion Insulated Wire and Rubber 

 Co 1 Marion, Indiana), with $100,000 capi- 

 tal, have been authorized to do business in 

 Illinios as a foreign corporation, the capital 

 employed in Illinois being $5,000. 



The estimates for the United States war 

 department for the next fiscal year, to be 

 submitted at the coming session of congress, 

 will not provide for the appropriation of 

 $500,000 for aeronautics desired by General 

 James Allen, chief signal officer of the 

 army. It is hoped by friends of the cause, 

 however, that President Taft's interest in 

 aeronautics may serve in some way to bring the subject before 

 the congress in another form. 



The American rubber tire output this year is estimated by 

 Mr. H. S. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire and Rubber 

 Co. 1 \kron, Ohio), at nearly $30,000,000 in value. He predicts 

 for next year an output as large as $45,000,000 or $50,000,000. 



M. S. Long has been elected secretary, and W. W. Wildman, 

 Treasurer, of the United Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), succeeding 

 S. E. Connor, who formerly filled the position of secretary- 

 treasurer. 



The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston) are reported to be about to 

 erect a one-story concrete building 80 x 100 feet, being the 

 second building on the land purchased by them between the Bos- 

 ton and Maine railroad tracks and Arsenal street, Watertown. 

 St. Louis Rubber Cement Co. (St. Louis) have purchased the 

 entire business of the National Rubber and Chemical Co. (In- 

 dianapolis, Indiana), together with their good will and contracts 

 taken for next year. The St. Louis have increased their capacity 

 and are putting up a special building for their new department, 

 so as to keep it separate from their shoe cement department. 



