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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Seitember 1, 1921 



arc at his disposal. Nearly halt of the trucks of the country art 

 operating on the wrong kind of tires. This is a condition wliich 

 we hope to correct." 



AMERICAN SOOETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS ELECTS OFFICERS 



The American Society for Testing Materials, Engineers' Club 

 Building, 1315 Spruce street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, elected 

 the following officers during the annual meeting held at -Asbury 

 Park., New Jersey, June 21-24: 



President (for one year) : C. D. Young, general supervisor of 

 stores, Pennsylvania System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



Vice-president (for two years) : Guilliaem Aertsen, assistant 

 to the vice-president, Midvale Steel and Ordance Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pennsylvania. 



Members of Executive Committee (for two years) : F. R. 

 Baxter, chief of testing laboratory. Vacuum Oil Co., Rochester, 

 N. Y. ; E. D. Boyer, cement expert, Atlas Portland Cement Co., 

 New York, N. Y. ; F. M. Farmer, chief engineer. Electrical Test- 

 ing Laboratories, New York, N. Y. ; W. H. Fulweiler, chief 

 chemist, United Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



Committee D-13 on Textile Materials will hold a meeting Oc- 

 tober 28 at Providence, Rhode Island. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



THE close of August found a more encouraging feeling pre- 

 vailing among industrial concerns of Rhode Island, through 

 the evidences of an improvement in general prospects, as well 

 as an apparent stabilizing tendency of conditions that give prom- 

 ise of an early advance toward the much desired normalcy. 



After months of partial or complete idleness, many of the tex- 

 tile plants engaged in the production of tire fabrics are gradu- 

 ally resuniin,g operations and the indications are favorable to 

 further expansions in this direction. 



One of the largest plants of this character that has resumed 

 is that of the United States Cotton Division of the Jenckes 

 Spinning Co., on Fountain street. Central Falls, Rhode Island, 

 where approximately 350 employes began operations about the 

 first of August after a period of two months of inactivity. The 

 plant, which manufactures yams for use in tire fabrics, sus- 

 pended operations early last May. The number of employes has 

 been increased as conditions have improved until there are now 

 upwards of 500 employed at the plant. 



After a shut-down of nearly two months the factory of the 

 National India Rubber Co., at Bristol, Rhode Island, is reopen- 

 ing, it having been decided that the Keds division will have its 

 first day's making on Tuesday, September 6. Other departments 

 are resuming in regular order, beginning with the machine cut- 

 ting department, which opened on Monday, August 22. To what 

 percentage of the full complement of more than 4,000 operatives 

 work will be afforded will be dependent entirely upon the extent 

 to which orders are received, but it is the intention of the man- 

 agement to maintain operations to the fullest extent possible, 

 both as regards hours and numbers. 



The plants of the Revere, Providence, Bourn and Devol rubber 

 companies, Providence, and of the Woonsocket Rubber Co.'s 

 plants at Woonsocket and Millville, are in operation, althou.gh 

 on curtailed time and employment schedules, in some departments. 



Probably no incident of the past month was of more signifi- 

 cance to the commercial, industrial and political aflfairs of Rhode 

 Island than the death of Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt. The 

 news of his death caused keen regret throughout the Common- 

 wealth and State and city officials and business men united in ex- 

 pressions of praise for his character and career and of sympathy 

 for the family. The town of Bristol, in which Colonel Colt be- 

 gan his business career, in which he had always maintained his 



home, and in which he died, mourned the passing of its tirst 

 citizen with a keen sense of loss. Word of his death was sent 

 promptly to the plant of the National India Rubber Co., which 

 formed one of the links in the chain of industries controlled by 

 him, and the bell on the factory was rung for half an hour and 

 the flag was set at half-mast. 



Despite the general business depression of the past six months, 

 the tax assessment announced by the State Tax Commissioners 

 on the corporate excess of corporations in Rhode Island com- 

 puted to the close of the fiscal year of June 30, shows no strik- 

 ing evidences of such depression. The total tax assessed is $1,- 

 777,834.05, an increase of $50,053.94 over that for the year 1920. 

 The total corporate excess this year upon which the tax is 

 levied is $320,479,151.81. Among the corporations upon which 

 the taxable excess is $100,000 or more are the following that 

 are connected directly or indirectly with the rubber industry 

 and the amount of the assessed valuation : 



American Multiple Fabric Co., $131,997.18; American Web- 

 bing Co., $283,712.54; Atlantic Tubing Co., $187,730.00; Bourn 

 Rubber Co., $308,306.29; Collyer Insulated Wire Co., Pawtucket, 

 $365,329.69; Davol Rubber Co., $356,482.67; Everlastik, Inc., 

 Boston, $186,222.54; Glendale Elastic Fabric Co., East Hampton, 

 Massachusetts. $197,238.80; The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., 

 Akron. Ohio. $222,336.73; The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Akron, Ohio. $425,000.01 ; George Grow Tire Co., Boston, $107,- 

 500.25; Hamilton Web Co., Hamilton, $289,475.65; Hope Web- 

 bing Co., Pawtucket, $1,313,144.35; Jenckes Spinning Co., Paw- 

 tucket, $8,739,115.00; Mechanical Fabric Co., $586,826.06; National 

 India Rubber Co., Bristol, $2,257,155.36; New England Butt Co., 

 $347,070.17; Ninigret Co., Pawtucket, $1,754,340.00; O'Bannon 

 Corporation, West Barrington. $869,600.00; Revere Rubber Co., 

 $641,003.50; Tubular Woven Fabric Co., Pawtucket, $167,902.05: 

 United States Rubber Co., New York, $2,247,291.26; Woonsocket 

 Rubber Co., Woonsocket, $537,673.60. 



In the list of tax assessments in the town of Bristol, just com- 

 pleted, by far the largest taxpayer is the United States Rubber 

 Co., of New Jersey, which is taxed this year on a total valuation 

 of $1,990,500 on all the property it owns in that town. This is 

 an increase in valuation of $875,400 over that of last year. The 

 tax to be paid by this corporation this year is $44,786.25, an in- 

 crease of $18,246.87 over last year. 



The announcement of the proposed consolidation of The Fisk. 

 Rubber Co., The Federal Rubber Co., and The Ninigret Co.. a. 

 subsidiary fabric manufacturing corporation, was received in 

 Rhode Island with more than usual interest from the fact that 

 one of the plants of the Ninigret Co., is located in Pawtucket, 

 where the corporation purchased the old Greene & Daniels mills 

 and equipped and arranged them to meet the requirements of 

 the corporation. 



The sixth annual outing of the employes of the Revere Rubber 

 Co., was held last month at the Hummocks in Hamilton, and 

 more than 400 attended. After an enjoyable sail down Nar- 

 ragansett Bay, with an orchestra on board, the excursionists sat 

 down to an appetizing luncheon at 12:30 o'clock. Then followed 

 an elaborate card of sports and athletic events as well as dancing, 

 liathing, and various other forms of entertainment. Prizes were 

 awarded in connection with every event and when the party had 

 enjoyed an old-fashioned Rhode Island clambake that was served 

 at 5 o'clock, everyone voted that the committee had provided a 

 perfect day. 



Employes of the Bourn Rubber Co., to the number of nearly 

 200 conducted their annual outing last month at Duby's Grove- 

 on the banks of the Pawtuxet river. A lunch was served upon 

 the arrival of the party at noon after which field sports were in 

 order. Despite the rain the games went on, and the baseball" 

 contest between the cutters and the makers terminated in vic- 

 tory for the cutters by a score of 7 to 6, while the married mens 

 won the tug-of-war from their single opponents. 



