THE INDTA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 

 A N INCREASE of $20,960,780 in all kinds of property values in 

 **■ Providence is shown by the official assessment of the Board 

 of Tax Assessors for the year 1919. In the list of more than 1,000 

 individuals, grms and corporations that are assessed upon a valua- 

 tion of $50,000 or more are the following that are directly, or in- 

 directly, associated with the rubber industry : American Multiple 

 Fabric Co., $94,380; Augustus O. Bourn, $84,640; Bourn Rubber 

 Co., $272,580; Walter S. Ballon, $87,640; Joseph Banigan estate, 

 $1,045,580; Samuel P. Colt, $219,060; Mary E. Davol. widow of 

 Joseph Davol. $834,500; Davol Rubber Co., $500,000; Glendale 

 Elastic Fabric Co., $117,300; International Braid Co., $1,079,320; 



William B. McElroy et ux, $118,100; 



Mechanical Fabric Co., $202,500; 

 Revere Rubber Co., $1,346,200; 

 Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co.. 

 trustee under the will of Joseph 

 Davol, $465,100; James E. Sullivan 

 (trustee^ $288,780: United States 

 Rubber Co., $1,651,960. 



The Revere Rubber Co., Prov- 

 idence, has purchased additional 

 land at \'alley and Eagle streets, ag- 

 gregating nearly 35,000 square feet 

 for the purpose of enlarging its 

 plant. This with the land already 

 owned gives the company a tract 

 containing more than l,000.0(>i 

 square feet. 



The property of the American 

 Locomotive Works, containing 

 about 450,000 square feet, was ac- 

 quired more than a year ago and 

 the rebuilt and new structure were 

 recently put in operation for the 

 manufacture of light rubber goods, 

 especially druggists' sundries. 



Since taking over the old Banigan 

 Rubber Co.'s plant several years 

 ago the Revere Rubber Co. has 

 steadily increased its plant. The 



original factory buildings are now used for the manufacture of 

 solid rubber tires for motor trucks, the production of pneumatic 

 tires and tubes having been transferred to other plants of the 

 United States Rubber Co., which controls the Revere Rubber Co 



Work was commenced during the past month on new build- 

 ings that will add nearly 60,000 square feet of floor space and 

 cost approximately $200,000. One of the new buildings will 

 be used for laboratory purposes and the other for manufactur- 

 ing. Both buildings will be of concrete and steel, three stories 

 high. The laboratory building will be 150 by 50 feet and the 

 manufacturing building, 120 by 100 feet. 



Another forward step in the movement for the welfare of its 

 employes has been taken by the National India Rubber Co., at 

 Bristol, by the installation of an excellent dental equipment. The 

 outfit consists of a sterilizer and stand, an air compressor, unit 

 equipment and dental chair, an aseptic table stand, dental cab- 

 inet, a Bosworth light and a gas oxygen outfit. Employes may 

 have dental work performed at only a nominal fee to help cover 

 the cost of material used. Dr. M. J. O'Brien is in charge. 



.\ legal department has also been established which is to be 

 conducted for the sole interests of the employes of the corpora- 

 tion. Judge Frank H. Hammill, attorney-at-law, has been en- 

 gaged to maintain an office at the company's plant where he will 

 spend a portion of every working day. Legal advice concerning 

 personal and property rights will be provided without charge. 



W.^R Memori.\l Erected at the Alice Mill of 

 WooNsocKET Rubber Co. 



The Glendale Elastic Fabric Co. has commenced extensive 

 alterations and repairs at its four-story building in Providence. 



The Davol Rubber Co. has commenced the erection of a one- 

 story pumping house at its plant in Providence. 



P. Raymond Wesley has been made general manager of the 

 Davol Rubber Co., Providence, succeeding Edwin M. Caldwell 

 who resigned October 1. Mr. Wesley has been with that com- 

 pany in responsible positions for about 25 years. 



Day and night shifts are being employed at the International 

 Rubber Co.'s plant in West Barrington, owned by the O'Bannon 

 Corporation, owing to the pressure in the market for carriage 

 cloth, one of the products of this concern. 



A twelve-ton boulder has been 

 placed on the lawn in front of the 

 office of the Alice Mill of the Woon- 

 socket Rubber Co., facing Fair- 

 mount street. Woonsocket, upon 

 which has been mounted a bronze 

 honor roll tablet of the employes of 

 that corporation who went from the 

 .\lice Mill into various branches of 

 the country's service during the 

 World War. It bears the names of 

 90 employes. The memorial was 

 dedicated with appropriate exer- 

 cises on Saturday, October 11, in 

 the presence of the entire force 



The Woonsocket Rubber Co. has 

 received recognition from the 

 United States Government for tak- 

 ing back into its employ every 

 former worker who went into 

 military or naval service, who ap- 

 plied for his place upon returning. 

 Of the employes who went into 

 service, more than two-thirds are 

 reported as being back at their old 

 jobs or better ones. 



WESLEY APPOINTED GENERAL MANAGER. 

 "T^HE .^ppoixtme.n't of p. R. Wesley to the position of general 

 ••• manager of the Davol Rubber Co., Providence, Rhode Island, 

 was a natural and fully deserved promotion of one who had risen 

 step by step during a service of 

 more than a score of years with 

 that corporation. 



Mr. Wesley was born in Colum- 

 bia, Connecticut, September 3, 

 1871, and was educated in Hart- 

 ford, that state, where he was 

 graduated with the degree of B.S. 

 from Trinity College in 1894. For 

 three years, while in college, he 

 served on the "Hartford Tele- 

 gram," and after graduation be- 

 came buyer for a department store 

 in Providence, Rhode Island. He 

 entered the employ of Joseph 

 Davol, founder of the Davol Rub- 

 ber Co., in a private capacity in 

 1898, and then served successively 

 in the pricing and purchasing de- 

 partments and as assistant to gen- 

 eral manager C. J. Davol, now president of the company. Mr. 

 Wesley was made manager of sales four years ago, and on 

 October 1, this year, he became general manager. 



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