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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



April 1, 1921 



One of the most recent additions to the organization is that of 

 a Southwestern Division recently formed, with headquarters in 

 St. Louis. This division has already been active in preventing 

 unjust and discriminatory legislation against waste material 

 dealers in that section. 



Several proposed changes in the by-laws of the .Association were 

 adopted, the most important of which was that permitting waste 

 material merchants in foreign countries to become associate 

 members of the organization. This change was viewed as an 

 expansion of the Foreign Trade Division of the National As- 

 sociation. 



SCRAP RUBBEE DIVISION 



Nat E. Berzen was reelected chaimian for the coming year. 

 The meeting was interested particularly in the effect of present 

 high freight rates in the present market. Reclaimed rubber, in 

 order to compete with crude at present prices, must depend on 

 such low-priced scrap that for most collectors it is almost im- 

 possible to sell scrap at such levels on account of the high freight 

 rates. It was therefore the sense of the meeting that railroad 

 rates ought to be reduced, and that the Association ought to 

 endeavor to bring them down within reason. 



York Athletic Club, Morris County Golf Club, Stamford 

 Yacht Club, The Rubber Association of America, Motor & 

 Accessory Manufacturers' Association, and the Society of 

 Colonial Wars. 



VICE-PRESIDENT, KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE CO. 



FREDERICK A. Se.\man, vice-presidcnt of the Kelly-Springfield 

 Tire Co., New York City, has for over two decades played 

 an important part in the financial and commercial develop- 

 ment of this conspicuously successful firm. Born in New 

 York City in 1862, he received his education at the Swarth- 

 more Preparatory School and Swarthmore College, from 

 which he was graduated in 1883. 



On leaving college he became assistant to the receiving 

 teller of the Tradesman's National Bank, and in 1886 secre- 



Feederick a. Seaman 



tary to the New York & New Jersey Globe, Gas & Light Co. 

 In 1899 he associated himself with the Kelly-Springfield Tire 

 Co. as secretary and assistant treasurer. The following year 

 he became secretary and treasurer, in 1919 vice-president and 

 secretary, and in 1920 served as president. At the last annual 

 meeting he was elected first vice-president. 

 He is a member of the University Club, Lotus Club, New 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN NEW JERSEY 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



TRENTON NOTES 



THE RUBBER MANUFACTURERS of Trenton and vicinity believe 

 that all branches of the business will begin to pick up with 

 the advent of summer, as they can see no reason at this time 

 for a continuation of the slump. John S. Broughton, president 

 of the United & Globe Rubber Manufacturing Co., recently 

 returned from a business trip through the West, and found con- 

 ditions there very encouraging. He said the western business 

 interests believe that the trade will reach normal in a short time. 

 Other Trenton rubber manufacturers are of the same opinion, 

 but the present time finds all branches of the rubber industry far 

 from normal. The tire situation has begun to pick up, but the 

 mechanical end of the trade is very dull. 



One branch of the rubber industry not greatly affected by the 

 readjustment period is the manufacture of rubber heels. Clifford 

 H. Oakley, president of the Essex Rubber Co., Trenton, states 

 that if the rubber heels being produced by the Essex company 

 were piled on top of each other, the height would be about one 

 mile. More than nine tons of rubber heels are being produced 

 daily at the Essex plant. 



In order to prevent further annual losses through freshets in 

 the Assanpink Creek, the Empire Tire & Rubber Corporation 

 has asked the Trenton City Commissioners to take immediate 

 action to minimize the danger. When the creek flooded its banks 

 last winter, bringing damage to factories located along the stream, 

 the Empire corporation sustained losses aggregating $240,000, of 

 which amount $90,000 was wages to employes, due to the necessary 

 closing of the plant. The Joseph Stokes Rubber Co., which is 

 also situated along the stream, has likewise suffered severe 

 losses. 



The Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. will shortly erect a new store- 

 house to take the place of the one recently destroyed by fire. 

 The new building will be fireproof. 



The New Jersey Rubber Manufacturers' Association recently 

 held its monthly meeting at the Trenton Country Club. After 

 a business meeting a banquet was served. Talks were given by 

 several members, who predicted better business conditions by 

 early summer. John S. Broughton, president of the organization, 

 presided. 



Twenty-two students were enrolled in the new department of 

 rubber technology at the Trenton School of Industrial Art, which 

 has just closed for the season. The department proved a big 

 success, the students comprising shopmen, foremen and superin- 

 tendents from the various Trenton rubber mills. A series of 

 twenty lectures was given by Dr. William F. Zimmerli, chief 

 chemist of the Howe Rubber Corporation, New Brunswick, and 

 formerly assistant professor of chemistry in charge of the course 

 in rubber chemistry at the Municipal University, Akron, Ohio. 

 The lectures were on the history, theory and practice of the 

 rubber industry, and covered all branches of the business. It is 

 planned to broaden this rubber course next season. 



Students in the Trenton high school were recently given an 

 idea of how certain kinds of rubber products are manufactured. 

 Edmund W. Craft, purchasing agent of the Thermoid Rubber 

 Co., gave an illustrated lecture on crude rubber before the 

 students and explained the various processes used in the rubber 

 industry. 



At its recent annual meeting the Globe Rubber Tire Manu- 

 facturing Co., Trenton, elected the following officers : H. W. 

 Kugler, president; R. E. Glass, vice-president; J. V. Iverson, 



