THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1919. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN NEW JERSEY. 



By Our K<\mil,ir Correspondent. 

 TRENTON NOTES. 



DISTRICT MANAGERS representing the Empire Tire & Rubber 

 Co. in all sections of the country recently held a three-day 

 conference at the plant at Trenton. Twenty-two representatives 

 attended and plans were arranged for launching the sales cam- 

 paign next year. Officials announced at the session that bright 

 prospects are held for the coming year, when all records in the 

 automobile tire industry are expected to be shattered. 



The Empire Tire & Rubber Corp., Trenton, has engaged a 

 number of women to act as inspector.s of rubber goods at the 

 plant. 



The Zee-Zee Rubber Co., Yardville, New Jersey, has in- 

 augurated a plan to establish branches in the various cities of 

 New Jersey. The company requests that a merchant in each 

 town deposit between $250 and $5,000, according to size of terri- 

 tory, with the rubber corporation. The deposit will be held for 

 one year at six per cent interest, the principal being returned to 

 the owner when business connections are severed. 



Nicholas Loukopulos, a former Trenton merchant, sailed on 

 October 20 for Patras, Greece, where he will introduce the 

 products of the Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co., and establish 

 agencies there for the sale of tires. The Acme company believes 

 that with automobiling increasingly popular in Greece a big de- 

 mand for American tires will ensue and the Trenton concern is 

 the first in that field. 



The Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, has appointed John T. 

 Spicer general sales manager, with offices at the Trenton factory. 

 Mr. Spicer has been advertising manager of the company for some 

 time. 



The .\tlas Tire & Rubber Co., Trenton, has changed its name 

 to the Trent Rubber Co. 



MISCELLANEOUS NEW JERSEY NOTES. 



Dr. Frederic Dannerth, a leading authority on industrial chem- 

 istry, delivered on October 17 the first of a series of thirty 

 lectures on corporation chemistry. This and other lectures in the 

 same group deal with advance industrial surveys, from the point 

 of view of the industrial chemist, of original sources of raw mate- 

 rials .and purification plants in the primary markets, including 

 mines, forests, plantations, etc. Subsequent lectures will give 

 directions in the line of efficiency in executive and advisory de- 

 partments, of laboratory management for business purposes, and 

 of the economic department. The lectures will be given at the 

 College of Technology, 367 High street, Newark, New Jersey, on 

 Friday evenings. 



The Victory Tire & Rubber Co. has changed its name to Rydon 

 Tire & Rubber Corp. and discontinued its New York office at 5 

 Columbus' Circle. It is temporarily located at 610 Eighth avenue, 

 Asbury Park, New Jersey, while its new factory is being built. 



The Driver-Harris Co., Harrison, New Jersey, is building a 

 three-story reinforced concrete addition to its factory, 50 by 100 

 feet, to cost $50,000. 



The Howe Rubber Co., of New Brunswick, New Jersey, has 

 opened a new cafeteria on the roof of its plant for the comfort 

 and convenience of employes. The opening was a chicken dinner 

 for the 400 employes. The meals are being served at cost. The 

 idea was inaugurated by W. H. .\lbcrt, comptroller of the 

 company. 



Charles Andrew Perkins, formerly office manager of the En- 

 durance Tire & Rubber Co., New Brunswick, New Jersey, died 

 recently at his home in New Brunswick, after a long illness, 

 aged 32. He was a member of the New Brunswick Lodge of 

 Elks and sang in the Christ Church choir at that place. 



The Braender Tire & Rubber Co., Rutherford, New Jersey, is 

 putting up a four-story addition to its factory, which it is ex- 

 pected will double its present production capacity. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE Old Bailey Rubber Store, for over 30 years on Boylston 

 street, Boston, is holding a sale preparatory to removing to 

 an even more central location in the shopping district. The new 

 store will be at 11 and 13 Avon street, directly adjoining the 

 Jordan, Marsh Co. annex. The business will occupy the entire 

 four-story and basement building, which will be refitted and 

 equipped for the purpose. 



The C. J. Bailey Co., which succeeded to the business of the 

 late Mr. Bailey, will continue to carry a full line of all kinds of 

 rubber goods, but will add thereto a complete line of women's 

 ready-to-wear garments, gowns, shirtwaists, etc. M. S. Law- 

 rence, the treasurer of the company, who will have general man- 

 agement of all departments, was for more than 30 years asso- 

 ciated with the late C. J. Bailey, and he will be assisted by H. E. 

 Bailey, son of the founder of the house, and for several years an 

 assistant to his father. While these new lines are to be added, 

 the same attention will be given to the rubber trade, in which 

 the house has become famous. 



The embargo on transportation has no terrors for the Ajax 

 Rubber Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, at least as far as the Boston 

 hrancli of tlie company is concerned. Motor trucks are bringing 

 tires to this city, the run from the factory being made in IS or 20 

 hours. Big trucks holding about 700 tires are used, and on the 

 return trips they are loaded with fabric. Thus time and expense 

 are saved, with a certainty of satisfactory service. 



C. E. Aldridge has been appointed manager of the Boston 

 branch of The Portage Rubber Co., Akron and Barberton, Ohio, 

 succeeding G. D. Niles, resigned. 



Richards & Co., Inc., Boston, one of the oldest houses in the 

 metal trade, established over a century ago, has recently entered 

 the crude rubber business, making a specialty of Ceylon rubber. 

 This new department is in charge of John Heard, who has been 

 associated with the house for the last decade. 



Thomas C. Cummings, for many years connected with the 

 United States Rubber Co., and its subsidiary companies, has 

 associated himself with E. M. Hamlin & Co., bankers, Boston, 

 where he is devoting much of his time to rubber industrial invest- 

 ments. Mr. Cummings was first identified with the National India 

 Rubber Co., Bristol, Rhode Island, later with the Mechanical 

 Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio, and more recently until October 

 was located with the mechanical department of the Boston office 

 of the United States Rubber Co. 



H. C. Krimmel, who has been manager of truck tire sales in 

 New England for The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, 

 has been transferred to the Chicago branch of that concern. He is 

 succeeded by Robert C. Freeman, who has been with the company 

 several years, first as truck tire salesman in some counties of 

 this state, then given exclusive Boston territory, and later made 

 special sales representative to large consumers of truck tires. 



The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. has opened a fine recreation room 

 on the first floor of one of its big buildings at its Plant No. 2 in 

 Melrose. The dedication exercises were held October 7, when 

 various officials of the company were present, and addresses were 

 delivered by Superintendent Philip C. Benjamin and by Mayor 

 Adams of Melrose, who highly commended the efforts of the 

 management in its social service to its employes. An interesting 

 musical program was given under the auspices of young women 



