THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1, 1919. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



/J_V Our Rfguliir Correspondent. 



BOSTON has been passing through a critical experience the past 

 month, when the city police went on a strike, leaving the 

 city unguarded, and many of its stores were looted by hoodlums, 

 while criminals flocked here from other cities to take advantage 

 of the lack of police protection. The state guard and the local 

 militia were called out to police the city, thus drawing many men 

 from business for such duty. Many, perhaps all the rub- 

 ber factories, had employes who were thus called from their 

 work and it is a credit to the industry generally that every man 

 thus called to service has been paid his full wage during his ab- 

 sence from work, or the difference between his compensation 

 regularly received and that paid by the state. The United States 

 Rubber Co., which has thirteen factories in Massachusetts, took 

 this view of the situation, as did the other manufacturers having 

 fewer or less important establishments. 



H. P. Ballard, secretary of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 

 Maiden, is the colonel of the Twelfth Regiment of the State 

 Guard, and is on active duty in that capacity at present, with 

 headquarters at the armory at Cambridge. Among his captains 

 is E. H. Kidder, Boston branch manager of the United States 

 Tire Co. 



Stowe & Woodward Co., Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, 

 has nearly completed a three-story extension to its main build- 

 ing, and is equipping it with the latest approved machinery for 

 the manufacture of rubber-covered rolls of the largest dimen- 

 sions. For some years this concern has made smaller rolls, such 

 as are used in tanneries, bleacheries and dye works. But with 

 the purpose of extending this department the new addition has 

 been built, and the roll department has been placed in charge of 

 Raleigh C. Adams, who was for 25 years with the Boston Belt- 

 ing Co., and for much of that time superintendent of the roll 

 department. The equipment is adequate for covering paper-mill 

 rolls of the largest dimensions, even up to those 250 inches in 

 length, thus enabling the factory to meet the utmost require- 

 ments of the paper-making trade. 



The New England branch of the Acme Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co., Trenton, New Jersey, which has been located on Devon- 

 shire street near Summer street, Boston, for nearly a score of 

 years, has been moved to 134 Summer street, where it occupies 

 the entire second floor, thus giving a very commodious stock 

 room where a line of "Red Letter" tires and tubes, a large 

 variety of hose, and a good line of molded goods are carried. F. 

 H. Albee, the New England manager, has been connected with 

 this branch ever since it was started. He has a large acquaintance 

 with the trade, and reports a marked increase in the business 

 since his removal to the new location. 



The Boston Belting Co. is pushing ahead with a very con- 

 siderable domestic trade, and an export demand which is on the 

 increase. At present the company is at work on a contract for 

 several large conveyor belts, one of which is 42 inches wide and 

 nearly 800 feet long. There is also a good demand in the hose 

 department, including a large amount of oil suction hose for 

 one of the large oil-producing companies. The export demand 

 mentioned is mainly for hose, the company's brands having made 

 a reputation for standard goods in several foreign countries. 

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J. C. Haartz, Inc., 10 High street, Boston, has equipped a 

 rubber mill at New Haven, Connecticut, for the manufacture 

 of calendered goods including materials for automobile manu- 

 facturers and spreader coated fabrics. "Paramount" auto top 

 materials and "Haartz mackintosh cloth" will be featured. The 

 Forsyth Dyeing Co. is a department of this concern, which 



effects close cooperation between dye-house and rubber mill. 

 The company is capitalized for $1,000,000 common and $500,000 

 preferred stock. The officers are: J. C. Haartz, president and 

 treasurer; D. B. Stevens, vice-president; and Thomas Forsyth, 

 assistant treasurer and general manager at New Haven. The 

 above, together with Leslie Forsyth and L. A. Pickard, con- 

 stitute the board of directors. The rubber mill is under the 

 management of L Frank Burnham, formerly superintendent of 

 the Stoughton Rubber Co. Division of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co., Stoughton, Massachusetts. 



J. Frank Dunbar Co., Inc., importer and dealer in crude rub- 

 ber, for a number of years at 201 Devonshire street, Boston, re- 

 moves October 1 to 166 Essex street. Room 51. This is in a 

 most convenient location, but a short distance from the South 

 Terminal Station, and adjoining the commodious headquarters 

 of the New England Shoe and Leather Association and the Bos- 

 ton Boot and Shoe Club. 



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

 line of standard cord tires to its regular output. 



.\t the recent Welcome Home Celebration in honor of the 

 Andover soldiers returned from the war, the Tyer company par- 

 ticipated in the parade with four trucks arranged as floats, of 

 which two represented "The Sinking Ltisitania" and "The Peace 

 Table," bearing the slogans, respectively, "This started it" and 

 "This finished it." 



The C. & C. Rubber Co., Stoughton, Massachusetts, has discon- 

 tinued its Boston office, and is concentrating its entire business 

 at its Stoughton plant. A new building is in process of erection 

 wliich will add about 7,000 square feet of floor space. ^The com- 

 pany manufactures raincoats, and has just added a new line of 

 industry, the manufacture of blankets, having purchased a num- 

 ber of automatic looms from the American Felt Co., which has 

 discontinued, and is dismantling its Hyde Park Mills depart- 

 ment. The C. & C. Rubber Co. will start with an equipment of 

 six looms, to be increased later as the new industry develops. 



The Hood Rubber Co. is building a four-story brick structure 

 at its plant at East Watertown, which, when completed, will 

 enable the company to rearrange some details of the manufac- 

 ture to expedite its business. 



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Colonel Harry E. Converse, president of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co., who has been in somewhat poor health the past six 

 months, is now in the West recuperating, and reports are to the 

 effect that he is steadily and rapidly improving. 



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At a recent meeting of the directors of the First National 

 Bank of Boston C. Sinclair Weeks and A. Stanley North were 

 elected assistant cashiers. 



Miss M. G. Webber, for the last three years in charge of the 

 outdoor advertising of The Fisk Rubber Co. of New York, 

 Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, has been promoted to the position 

 of advertising manager of the company. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN NEW JERSEY. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



rENTON RUBBER M.\NUFACTURERS report that business is good 

 at the present time and that fall and winter prospects are 

 excellent. The outlook for tires and tubes is very good while 

 the other branches of the industry are also picking up follow- 

 ing the summer months. The Ajax Rubber Co. has placed a 

 number of new hands at work because of the increase in trade, 

 and the LInited & Globe Rubber Co. is busy in all its depart- 

 ments at the present time. 



