March 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



297 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



THE NEW YORK EUBBER CO. ELECTS OFFICERS. 



At the annual stockholders' meeting of the New York Rubber 

 Co. (New York), held January 30, the following trustees were 

 re-elected for the ensuing year: John P. Rider (chairman of the 

 board), John .'X.cken, William H. L. Lee, Rufus A. Brown, Henry 

 Montgomery, Edward S. Woodward and H. F. Hering. 



.'\t a meeting of the board of trustees, held January 31, the 

 following officers were re-elected for the current year: John 

 Acken, president and treasurer; Henry Montgomery, vice-presi- 

 dent and secretary, and H. F. Hering, second vice-president. 



THE SEAMLESS RUBBER CO. INCREASE CAPITAL. 



At the annual meeting of The Seamless Rubber Co. (New 

 Haven, Connecticut), held January 17, the officials of the com- 

 pany were authorized by the stockholders to issue preferred 

 stock to the amount of $500,000. Practically all of this authori- 

 zation has been subscribed and paid for. 



THE REPUBLIC RUBBER CO. TO ENLARGE PLANT. 



As soon as the weather will permit, work will be begun on the 

 new addition to the main shop of the Republic Rubber Co., 

 Youngstown, Ohio, which will be five stories high and 80 by 400 

 in size. When all of the improvements are completed the shop 

 force will be nearly trebled. 



The officers elected for 1912 are as follows : President, 

 Thomas L. Robinson ; first vice-president, L. J. Lomasney ; sec- 

 ond vice-president, L. T. Peterson; secretary, C. F. Garrison; 

 treasurer, M. L Arms. President Thomas L. Robinson is 

 chairman of the executive board. 



CENTRAL CITY RUBBER CO. 



The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Central City 

 Rubber Co., Syracuse, New York, was held in that city on 

 January 22. The directors elected for the ensuing year were : 

 David A. Gould, John R. Graham, A. Park Sager and H. F. 

 Smith. The board elected officers as follows : David A. Gould, 

 president; A. Park Sager, vice-president; and John R. Graham, 

 secretary and treasurer. The company is contemplating the 

 issue of $25,000 additional preferred stock. 



CHICAGO RUBBER CLOTHING CO. 



A meeting of the board of directors of the Chicago Rubber 

 Clothing Co., Racine, Wisconsin, was held January 16. A 

 dividend of 10 per cent, was declared, to be paid forthwith. A 

 motion was passed that the thanks of the board of directors be 

 tendered to G. G. Bryant, secretary, and E. C. Laughton, treasurer, 

 for the very successful and satisfactory manner in which they 

 had managed the affairs of the company during the past year. 

 The annual stockholders' meeting of the company was held on 

 January 27 and the following officers were re-elected : Hon. 

 Charles H. Lee, president; E. V. Laughton, treasurer; and G. G. 

 Bryant, secretary and manager. 



THE WEST BOYLSTON CO. ENLARGES ITS PLANT. 



The West Boylston Manufacturing Co., Easthampton. Massa- 

 chusetts, which manufactures automobile tire fabrics, intends soon 

 to begin the building of an addition to its plant, consisting of an 

 added story to No. 4 mill. 326 feet x 117 feet; and a new three 

 story mill, 272 feet x 117 feet, with a four-story ell-building 140 

 feet X 120 feet. The addition is planned to increase the capacity 

 of both the spinning and weaving departments. 



TYER RUBBER CO. TO BUILD A NEW FACTORY. 



The Tver Rubber Co., Andover, Massachusetts, has purchased a 

 plot of land not far from its present plant, and is planning to build 

 a complete new factory. This new factory will consist of a 

 series of buildings (to cost $250,000), the main one of which will 

 be 27S feet long, 60 feet wide, and four stories high. The new 

 factory will be so constructed that it can be added to from time 

 to time, as the demands of the business may necessitate. The 

 company expects to remove its press room and box-making de- 

 partment from the present factory to the new one, and to take 

 up other lines of manufacture— particularly the making of auto- 

 mobile tires on an extensive scale. The druggist sundries de- 

 partment will also be materially enlarged. The company thought 

 it better in view of its increased requirements to build a new 

 plant, rather than to attempt to increase the size of its present 

 one. When the new plant is complete, there will be 350,000 square 

 feet of floor space devoted to the manufacture of "Tyrian" rubber 

 goods. 



THE WILKIE COMPANY IN A NEW LINE. 



The Wilkie Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Lynn. Massachu- 

 setts, are manufacturing a new line of druggists' sundries in 

 molded and dipped goods. This is in addition to their old line 

 of mechanical rubber goods in hard and soft rubber and their 

 large business in rod and tubing. 



The officers of the company are: Frank C. Spinney, president, 

 of Faunce & Spinney, Lynn, Massachusetts; Philip K. Parker, 

 treasurer; Harvey F. Mitzel, general factory manager and super- 

 intendent. The directors are : Jas. M. Marsh, of Geo. E. Marsh 

 Co., Lynn, Massachusetts; Jas. P. Phelan, of Jas. Phelan & 

 Sons, Lynn, Massachusetts, and Frank C. Spinney. 



The company has added a large amount of new equipment 

 to its factory. Mr. Mitzel, the manager, has made great changes 

 at the plant and has imbued a spirit of "get there" into the 

 employes that points to a new era of prosperity for the company. 



INVENTORS PETITION THE PRESIDENT. 



The Inventors' Guild, the president of which is Ralph D. 

 Mershon, 60 Wall street, New York, whose members are prac- 

 tical inventors, recently sent a set of resolutions to President 

 Taft, in which they state that the independent inventor is at a 

 very serious disadvantage in prosecuting his work successfully — 

 for three reasons: First, because of his financial inability 

 to defend his rights in the courts against the large interests, 

 in the second place, because of the protracted delay in legal 

 processes, even where he seeks to defend his rights in the courts, 

 and third, because of the fact that most lines of commercial enter- 

 prises are now under a single control, and that control naturally 

 is less interested in new inventions than in maintaining its pres- 

 ent supremacy. The combined influence of these three causes, 

 the Guild affirms, tends to discourage the activity of inventors 

 and the successful outcome of their labors. Therefore, they in- 

 vite the President's attention "to the urgent need of reforms in 

 the patent office, and also in the courts which hear and decide 

 patent causes," and request the President to recommend to 

 Congress such action as will best accomplish the needed reforms. 



The San Francisco branch of the Republic Rubber Co., at 

 Youngstown, Ohio, will hereafter be known as the Republic 

 Rubber Co. of California. The Western branch found it more 

 convenient to incorporate under a new company to handle the 

 business on the coast. 



