July i, 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



365 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



RUBBER WORK TO 3E RESUMED AT OLNEYVILLE. 



THE plant of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. at Olneyville 

 (near Providence), Rhode Island — one of the subsidiary 

 companies of the United States Rubber Co. — is being en- 

 larged and otherwise put into readiness for the manufacture 

 of tires and mechanical rubber goods. It is stated that about 

 $1,000,000 will be expended on the Olneyville plant, with a view 

 to taking over there an important part of the production of the 

 Revere Rubber Co., which a few months ago was amalgamated 

 with the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., which in turn 

 is controlled by the United States Rubber Co. 



The Joseph Eanigan Rubber Co. was incorporated in Novem- 

 ber, 1806, with $1,000,000 capital, under the presidency of the late 

 Joseph Banigan, and the manufacture of rubber footwear was 

 begun January 11, 1897, the nucleus of the factory plant being 

 the old Saxon woolen mill property at Olneyville. Following the 

 death of Mr. Banigan, his executors sold the factory and busi- 

 ness to the United States Rubber Co., in 1899. Three years 

 later the capital of the Banigan company was increased to 

 $1,500,000. 



Since March 10, 1908, the Banigan factory has not been oper- 

 ated, the management of the United States Rubber Co. deeming 

 it in the interest of economy to combine the production of the 

 Banigan company and the Woonsocket Rubber Co. in the fac- 

 tories of the latter. The plant at Olneyville, however, has been 

 "kept in a state of efficiency, with a view of its being put in opera- 

 tion whenever conditions of trade might render this desirable. 

 President Colt is quoted as saying that when the Olneyville 

 factory is again at work the four plants in Rhode Island con- 

 trolled by the United States Rubber Co. will have a combined 

 yearly output of $25,000,000. 



PICTURES OF THE RUBBER INDUSTRY. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio) are utilizing motion 

 pictures to a wide extent in advertising their products. In con- 

 nection with these pictures, which will be shown all over the 

 country, is a lecture by Mr. F. M. Tillisch, from the company's 

 office, entitled "From Tree to Tire." The picture films show 

 successively forest views in the rubber districts above Para, 

 Brazil; the tapping of rubber trees, coagulation of the latex by 

 smoking, and other details in the production of the rubber of 

 commerce. These are followed by views in the interior of the 

 Goodrich factory, illustrating all the processes of treating rubber, 

 by washing, grinding, and the like ; the building up of a tire, and, 

 finally, mounting the tire on an automobile. This lecture has 



been attended largely wherever it has been presented, and, to- 

 gether with the pictures, has been received with great interest. 



RUBBER GOODS DIVIDEND. 



The directors of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. on 

 June 1 declared from net earnings the forty-fifth regular quar- 

 terlv dividend of 1-4 per cent, on the preferred stock, payable 

 on June 15. 



MEMORIAL TO THE LATE R. D. EVANS. 



At the annual banquet of the alumni of the school of medicine 

 of Boston University, on June 1, the gift was announced of a 

 fund of over $200,000, for the establishment of a department of 

 chemical research as a memorial to the late Robert D. Evans, 

 some time president of the United States Rubber Co. The gift 

 is from Mrs. Evans. By the way, the "Stetson cottage," owned 

 by the late Mr. Evans, at Beverly, Massachusetts, is occupied 

 this summer, as last, by the President of the United States. 



RUBBER FACTORY EMPLOYES CELEBRATE. 



The Converse Rubber Shoe Club gave a successful entertain- 

 ment in connection with the opening of the new building of the 

 Converse Rubber Shoe Co. (Maiden, Massachusetts). The new 

 building is two stories high, 150 x 70 feet, designed partially for 

 manufacturing and partially for storage purposes. The club 

 mentioned is composed of employes of the rubber company. 



NEW YORK MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION. 



The twelfth annual report of the Merchants' Association of 

 New York shows a total membership of 1,294 corporations, 

 firms and individuals. There are no debts, and the association 

 has a comfortable rash balance. During the year attention was 

 given to various questions of commercial and general interest, 

 and the belief is entertained that much good has resulted from 

 the activity of the association. The membership embraces 17 

 companies and firms more or less directly connected with the 

 india-rubber interest, and a much larger number whose interests 

 is less direct. 



SOLID RUBBER TIRES IN EUROPE. 



The Colonial Tire and Rubber Co. — a corporation under the 

 laws of Ohio to hold the foreign patents on the Swinehart side 

 wire tire report that their licensee in Europe are all doing a 

 good business. These tires are made on royalty in France by 

 Establissements J. B. Torrilhon at Germont-F errand ; in Ger- 

 many by the Continental Caoutchouc- und Guttapercha-Com- 

 pagnie. at Hanover ; and in England by the Sirdar Rubber Co., 

 Limited, of London. The management of the company for the 





THE BANIGAN RUBBER FACTORY. AT OLNEYVILLE, RHODE ISLAND. 



