December 1, 1920 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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making tires furnished the Hardman company. The Ilardman 

 company contended that the apparatus was not usable and filed 

 a counter claim. Judge Bodine dismissed the counter claim. 



Sydney J. McCabe, connected with the Pocono Rubber Cloth 

 Co., Trenton, has removed to Trenton from Leechburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and purchased the West State street residence of William 

 G. Zimmerman, vice-president of the Zee-Zee Rubber Co., of Vard- 

 villc. 



The Economy Tire Store has opened an establishment at 156 

 East F"ront street, Trenton, with George MacTighc as general 

 manager. 



The Grizzly Rubber Co. has opened a store at 576 Perry street, 

 Trenton, and announces that a Grizzly tube will be given free 

 with the purchase of every tire. 



John O. Bigelovv, 786 Broad street, Newark, New Jersey, who 

 was recently appointed by the United States courts as receiver 

 for the Trent Rubber Co., Trenton, has asked creditors of the 

 company to present their claims. Mr. Bigelow intimates that the 

 Trent Rubber Co. is solvent. 



The executive and sales offices of the Globe Rubber Tire Manu- 

 facturing Co. are now located at its factory in Trenton. 



MISCELLANEOUS NEW JERSEY NOTES 



A questionnaire has been mailed by Warren C. King, president 

 of the Manufacturers' Council of New Jersey, to more than 2,000 

 manufacturers, including the various rubber concerns, with the 

 request that the manufacturers take a vote on the following: 

 "Do you favor a continuation of daylight saving by moving the 

 clock forward for one hour March 31 and returning to standard 

 time on October 30 each year?" In his letter to the manufacturers 

 President King said : 



"Advocates of daylight saving have urged that it would prove 

 a great benefit to factory workers. We have had two years' 

 experience and the advantage is still a question. There has 

 never been a vote taken on this important matter among the 

 employes of the factories and the Manufacturers' Coimcil feels 

 that the opinion of the employes should be obtained to determine 

 once and for all their desire to have daylight saving continued 

 during the summer months." 



The store of the Star Tire Exchange, 229 Broad street, Eliza- 

 beth, New Jersey, was damaged recently by fire to the extent 

 of more than $15,000. The stock of the store amounted to $35,- 

 000, but some of the tires were saved. 



The Atlantic City Tire & Rubber Corporation, Atlantic City, 

 New Jersey, has purchased a site on Mediterranean avenue, 

 where it will erect at once, for the manufacture of tires and tubes, 

 a modern plant having a capacity of about 400 tires and 500 tubes 

 per day. 



Judge Freeman Woodbridge, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, 

 has handed down a decision to the effect that theft insurance paid 

 on a tire must be returned to the insurance company in the case 

 of recovery of the tire. The owner of a machine at New Bruns- 

 wick had a valuable tire stolen from his machine, and an insur- 

 ance company adjusted the loss with him. It was later learned 

 that the tire had been stolen as a joke and subsequently the in- 

 surance company demanded the return of the money. 



John Tenney, president of the Howe Rubber Co., New Bruns- 

 wick, has been made a director of the Hysig Co., Plainfield, New 

 Jersey. This company contemplates the erection and equipment 

 of a factory for the manufacture of the Hysig signal for motor 

 cars. 



De Mattia Brothers, Garfield, New Jersey, manufacturers of 

 rubber mill machinery, have had plans prepared for a mezzanine 

 floor type building to cost in the neighborhood of $200,000, to 

 be erected adjacent to the present foundry at Clifton. Actual 

 operation on the addition will be postponed until general con- 

 ditions become somewhat more settled. 



The XoCeem Rubber Corporation, Harrison, New Jersey, has 

 the following officers ; president, Harry S. Quick ; vice-president 

 and general manager, W. L. Fairchild ; treasurer, Edward S. 

 McGrath; secretary, Avery McDougall. It manufacturers the 

 'XoCecm" corrugated red cord inner tube. 



The Stockton Rubber Co., Stockton, New Jersey, was forced 

 into bankruptcy in the United States District Court of New 

 Jersey, owing to .shortness of working capital. The plant of this 

 company is at present in firsi-class condition and ready to resume 

 operation. 



The Rubbcrset Co., Newark, New Jersey, intends to erect a 

 one-story machine shop at its Wilson avenue plant to conform 

 with the general type of buildings now at this plant. The com- 

 pany reports its machine .shop requirements have become so 

 great that it is necessary to maintain a shop at this factory as 

 well as the large machine shop at the Ferry street plant. 



Employes of Brighton Mills, Inc., Passaic, New j'ersey, have 

 erected a fitting memorial to their coworkers who died in the 

 World War. The monument, placed on a mound near the entrance 

 to the Passaic plant, is a finely proportioned two-ton boulder 

 bearing a bronze tablet with the following inscription: "Dedi- 

 cated to the men of the Brighton Mills who made the supreme 

 sacrifice. 1917— The World War— 1919. Harry Miller, Neil 

 Visbeck, Stephen Patrick, Richard Goggin, Jacob Halpern. 

 Erected by their co-workers." The dedicatory services were 

 held at the close of the day's work and were attended by hun- 

 dreds of workers in both plants as well as by many of the rela- 

 tives of the five men to whose memory the stone has been erected. 

 The committee of arrangements for the dedication consisted of 

 William A. McCann. John R. Meader and Edmund Scnnert. 



WATSON-STILLMAN CO. REWARDS LONG SERVICE 



On November 1 the Watson-Stillman Co., manufacturer of 

 rubljer machinery, Aldene, New Jersey, conferred souvenirs of 

 service on eight men who have been identified continuously with 

 the firm for more than twenty-five years. A watch fob was 

 presented to Carl Wigtel and suitably inscribed gold watches 

 were presented to Walter Watson, William Graudorf, T. W. 

 Hammond, A. D. Carnes, J. Hardy, William Koshwitz, William 

 Meily and C. J. Wessels as tokens of appreciation. 



Walter Watson, a skilled machinist and brother of the late 

 Thomas Watson, completed his fiftieth year on that day and in 

 commemoration of his long and faithful services he was pre- 

 sented with a check for $1,000 accompanied by appropriate reso- 

 lutions in which it was stated that on Mr. Watson's voluntary 

 retirement from employment the company would pay him $65 

 per month during his life, and on his death $50 per month to 

 his wife during her life. A copy of the resolutions has been 

 framed and placed in the company's offices and a handsome eight- 

 page brochure devoted exclusively to the day's events has been 

 printed. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



BOSTON NOTES 



THE REPRESENTAVIVES of the rubber trade present at the regular 

 Fall meeting and luncheon of the New England Shoe Whole- 

 salers' Association, held at Young's Hotel, Boston, on October 27, 

 expressed the opinion that the rubber footwear industry is destined 

 to be more prosperous than ever. That although there is a gen- 

 eral feeling that prices of all commodities must be reduced, the 

 rubber companies themselves have not yet reached that question, 

 partly because rubber footwear prices have never advanced any- 

 where as much as those of leather footwear. As a matter of fact, 

 advances in rubber and canvas footwear have been only between 

 27 and 30 per cent in the past 10 years. It was stated that during 

 the past 10 or 15 years there has been a steady increase in the 

 demand for fabric footwear. The cost of labor in the manufac- 

 ture of canvas footwear is now about 41 per cent of the total cost, 



