November 1, 1920 



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state have been thoroughly overhauled and renovated so that they 

 are now in the best physical condition that they have been since 

 the beginning of the W orld War, six years ago. Additions that 

 have been under way at several of the plants have been com- 

 pleted, thereby increasing the capacities to a very appreciable 

 extent, while several others have been commenced. 



Ground was broken about the middle of the month for a new 

 addition to the wire manufacturing division of the National India 

 Rubber Co.'s plant at Bristol, Rhode Island. The structure is 

 to be located cast of the main wire building and will be of brick 

 and mill construction, two stories high and about 100 by 180 feet. 

 When completed the new building will give an increase in floor 

 space of upwards of 30,000 square feet. The new building will 

 be used for the braiding departments, and 192 triple-decker, 

 weather-proof, wire-braiding machines will be installed, making 

 a total of 1,400 braiding machines in the company's wire division. 



An -Americanization school has been established at the plant of 

 the National India Rubber Co. at Bristol, Rhode Island, which 

 is in charge of the Industrial Relations Bureau, and is under 

 the personal supervision of Mrs. Bacon. The school was opened 

 on September 9, when more of the employes of the plant than 

 could be accommodated under the present arrangements applied 

 for admission. A spacious schoolroom has been provided and 

 furnished with all modern appointments, and there is an efficient 

 corps of teachers. Classes are to be held from 8 to 4 o'clock, 

 five days a week, and the employes are to receive their pay dur- 

 ing the time that they spend in the school-room. After the 

 school is fully established on its regular schedule of classes it 

 is expected that at least 200 employes will be accommodated, the 

 majority of whom at present are able to speak but little English. 



The valuation on the taxable property of Providence has been 

 announced by the Board of Tax .Assessors for this year, and the 

 list contains a luiinlier of individuals, firms or corporations iden- 

 tified with the rubber manufacturing industry or its kindred and 

 allied trades that are assessed on a valuation of $50,000 or more. 

 Among these are the following, together with the amount of their 

 assessment; American Multiple Fabric Co., $117,580; Walter 

 S. Ballou, $91,840; estate of Joseph Banigan, $1,139,120; Mary 

 Banigan, $50,720; .Augustus O. Bourn, $95,140; Bourn Rubber 

 Co., $292,580; Samuel P. Colt, $340,240; Davol Rubber Co., 

 $627,100; Mary E. Davol, $874,200; Glendalc Elastic Fabric Co., 

 $217,300; International Braid Co., $1,215,320; Mechanical Fabric 

 Co., $177,400; Eugene R. Phillips, $153,700; Revere Rubber Co., 

 $2,000,000; Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., trustee under will 

 of Joseph Davol, $391,600; United States Rubber Co., $3,618,920. 



More than 250 employes of the Bourn Rubber Co., Providence, 

 attended the annual outing that was held at Emery Park about 

 the middle of the past month. The party proceeded from the 

 company's plant on Warren street by special conveyance to the 

 grounds, arriving shortly after 12 o'clock, when a luncheon was 

 served, after which ihe boot cutters defeated the boot makers' 

 team, 11 to 8, in an exciting baseball game, which was one of the 

 principal events on the sporting program of the afternoon. The 

 tug-of-war between the married and single women was won by 

 the married team. The day's outing concluded with the clam- 

 bake at 4 o'clock. 



The Westerly Textile Co. and the Ninigret Co., at Westerly, 

 Rhode Island, that have been working on orders for The Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co., .Akron, Ohio, have completed their con- 

 tracts and tem])orarily discontinued the production of tire fabric, 

 as there have been no renewals with the Goodyear people, al- 

 though it is expected that new contracts will be made at an early 

 date that will insure active operations for some time to come. 



The -Atlantic Tubing Co. is taxed on a property valuation of 

 $67,270 in the city of Cranston, Rhode Island, according to the 

 assessments levied for this year by the Board of Assessors as 

 certified to the city treasurer for collection. Others paying taxes 

 on $5,000 valuation and over are; -Arch Narrow Fabric Co., 



$18,075; William B. Banigan estate, $46,900. In the town of 

 East Providence the -American Electrical Works is taxed on 

 $838,590, and the Washburn Wire Co. on $585,050. 



The Central Warp Co. is one of the busiest concerns in the 

 Blackstone Valley and is running to its full capacity, with an 

 increase of orders coming every day. The manufacture of yarns 

 for tire fabrics is one of the most important branches of the 

 concern's business and is expected to Ix'Come more important in 

 future operations. 



The Lynn Rubber Co., of Warren, Rhode Island, has made a 

 trust deed of $100,000 to the Industrial Trust Co., which has been 

 recorded at Warren. The bonds are guaranteed by the Kleistone 

 Rubber Co., which has leased the property of the Lynn Rubber 

 Co., at Warren, both real and personal, as a going concern for 

 ten years with an option to purchase at a fixed price. 



George L. Drown, Jr., for IS years in the employ of the 

 United States Rubber Co., has been transferred from the National 

 India Rubber Co., where he was foreman of the binding and 

 spreading departments, to the new Colt plant at Providence, 

 where he is in charge of several departments. 



Harlow W. Waite, who for some time has been factory mana- 

 ger in charge of the Revere plant of the United States Rubber 

 Co. on \'alley street. Providence, has been transferred to a posi- 

 tion of greater responsibility in New York. 



James Q. Dealey, Jr., .son of Professor Dealey, of Brown Uni- 

 versity, and now associated with the Lycoming Rubber Co., of 

 Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of the United States 

 Rubber Co., has been named as the 1920 Rhodes scholar from 

 Rhode Island. He was chosen by the electors from four candi- 

 dates for the appointment. He was a member of the class of 

 1920 at Brown and since leaving college has been connected with 

 the Industrial Relations Department of the Lycoming Co., and 

 is now managing the factory newspaper, which he recently in- 

 augurated. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN OHIO 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



AKRON NOTES 



A<R()X, tlie rubber center of the world, is the thirty-second 

 city in size in the I'nited States, according to the Federal 

 census made public recently. 



Summit County, of which .Akron is the county seat and hub, 

 including Barberton, Kenmore and Cuyahoga Falls, all small but 

 energetic manufacturing cities, has a population of 286,065 per- 

 sons. This is an increase of 177,812, or 164.3 per cent over the 

 population ten years ago. 



Summit County is now the third largest count\- in the state of 

 Ohio, Cuyahoga County, of which Cleveland is the hub, being 

 first, and Hamilton County, containing Cincinnati, being second. 



The population of the state of Ohio has increased more than 

 1.00U,lX)0 the past ten years. The total has been announced as 

 approximately 5,757,461 for 1920 as compared with 4,767,121 in 

 1910. This is an increase of 20.8 per cent. Only one county is 

 missing from the Ohio census figures. Ohio leads the United 

 States in the number of cities having over 200,000, having five 

 such cities, and ties Massachusetts with seven cities over 100,000, 

 being exceeded by none. 



The increased population is mainly in the cities, Ihe rural coun- 

 ties as a rule remaining practically stationary or losing. The 

 increase is obviously due to the greater manufacturing carried 

 on in the state. During the war the Government census of manu- 

 facturing districts showed that a circle with a 200-mile radius 

 with Pitt.sburg as a center would include more than 30 per cent 

 of the manufacturing area of the whole United States. Akron 

 and Summit county are in that area, as is Cleveland, Lorain 

 and other eastern Ohio cities. 



