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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1920. 



The Ajax Rubber Co., Trenton, has taken out a permit for tlie 

 erection of an addition to the plant on Breunig avenue. The new 

 structure will be three stories high, 60 by 350 feet, and will cost 

 $39,000. The plans have been drawn and the work will be 

 started as soon as bids are received and contracts let. 



Clifford H. Oakley, president of the Essex Rubber Co., Tren- 

 ton, has been made president of the Trenton Council of Boy 

 Scouts of America. Mr. Oakley has long been interested in all 

 kinds of welfare work for boys. He was chairman for Trenton 

 in last spring's drive in behalf of the National Association of 

 Scouting, and pushed Trenton to the head of the list of New 

 Jersey cities. Mr. Oakley is especially interested in water 

 sports for boys and he will now help in the formation of a 

 sea scout crew at Trenton. Charles Howell Cook, treasurer of 

 the Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing Co., has contributed a 

 clubhouse along Sanhicak Creek for the use of the boys. 



The annual meeting of the Trenton Rubber Manufacturers' 

 Association, held on December 8 at the Trenton County Club, 

 was largely attended. The association comprises Trenton, 

 Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware, rubber manufacturers. 

 Following a business meeting a banquet was served. Important 

 business relating to the rubber industry was transacted and the 

 following officers were elected : president, John S. Broughton, of 

 the United & Globe Rubber Co. ; vice-president, Charles E. 

 Stokes, of the Home Rubber Co.; secretary, Robert J. Stokes, 

 of the Thermoid Rubber Co. ; treasurer, Alfred Whitehead, of 

 Whitehead Brothers' Rubber Co. 



The Pocono Rubber Cloth Co., recently chartered with a 

 capital of $500,000, will soon engage in the manufacture and 

 sale of rubber goods at 137 East State street, Trenton. Robert 

 R. Gulliver, of Trenton, and Neil E. Bowman and Theodore 

 S. Cart, both of Mount Vernon, New York, are the incor- 

 porators. 



MISCELLANEOUS NEW XEHSEY NOTES. 



The United States Rubber Co., New Brunswick, New Jersey, 

 has come to the aid of its employes and is selling to each two 

 pounds of brown sugar. Bags containing 1,200 pounds were 

 sent to the factory for distribution. 



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

 manufacturer of tires and tubes, is offering for sale 10,000 

 shares of preferred stock and a like amount of common stock. 

 The company's earnings during the past year are stated as 

 $2,500,000. 



William Henry Sayen, Jr., treasurer of the Mercer Rubber 

 Co., Hamilton Square, New Jersey, has just been awarded the 

 Croix de Guerre by Marshal Retain for extreme bravery while 

 under fire. Mr. Sayen was a Y. M. C. A. worker and was 

 constantly under bombardment during his stay overseas. Osgood 

 Sayen. brother of W. H. Sayen, Jr., who was formerly with 

 the Mercer Rubber Co., is now an officer in the French navy. 



Philip H. Lang has been promoted from the position of New 

 York branch manager to that of district manager for the Em- 

 pire Rubber & Tire Corp., Trenton. 



Frank Wallace Servis, Bloomfield, New Jersey, has been made 

 administrator of the estate of his father, William H. Servis, 

 who died some time ago. Mr. Servis owned a beautiful home 

 in Trenton and other real estate. 



The Duratex Co., Newark, has awarded a contract to the 

 American Concrete Steel Co. for the erection of a rubber mill 

 to cost $175,000. 



The Rydon Tire & Rubber Co., Asbury Park, New Jersey, 

 has plans drawn for a brick and steel factory to cost $100,000. 



Robbers recently burglarized the store of the Joseph Sesta 

 Tire Co. at Red Bank and escaped in a motor truck with 

 $30,000 worth of automobile tires. 



The plant of the Johnson Rubber Co., situated in Ewing 

 township. New Jersey, was destroyed by fire on December 12. 

 Antonio De Piano, manager of the plant, was filling a gasoline 

 tank when it exploded. He was fatally burned and died a week 

 later. The plant was one story and measured 60 by 60 feet. 

 About 250 gallons of oil were burned. The plant was owned by 

 the Ivens Machine Co. and will be rebuilt. 



The Weldon Roberts Rubber Co., manufacturer of stationers' 

 sundries, Newark, New Jersey, reports that notwithstanding 

 the disadvantage to the foreign buyer in the matter of exchange, 

 the company is experiencing an unprecedented demand for its 

 products, particularly erasers, in foreign countries. Large ship- 

 ments have recently been made to Italy, Argentina, Great Britain, 

 Russia, Japan, Australia and China. 



Fifteen hundred and one shares of stock of the Boonton Rub- 

 ber Manufacturing Co., Boonton, New Jersey, were sold No- 

 vember 25, 1919, to R. W. Seabury for $1,501 by Francis P. 

 Garvan, Alien Property Custodian. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



By a Special Correspondent. 

 KJew England has always been the rubber footwear center of 

 ^ ^ the United States, and the State of Massachusetts takes 

 the lead. No less than 85 per cent of all the rubber footwear 

 made or worn in the United States is produced in the three 

 states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and 50 

 per cent comes from Massachusetts alone. About half of the 

 rubber footwear manufactured is the product of female labor. 



The six principal companies manufacturing rubber footwear 

 in Massachusetts are the Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, employ- 

 ing 9,100 persons for the manufacture of both footwear and 

 tires; the American Rubber Co., Cambridge, employing 3,200 

 persons ; the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden and Melrose, 

 employing 3,000 persons ; the Converse Rubber Shoe Co., Mai- 

 den, employing 1,700 persons for the manufacture of both foot- 

 wear and tires; the Apsley Rubber Co., Hudson, and the Woon- 

 socket Rubber Co., Millville. Of these the American Rubber 

 Co., the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and the Woonsocket Rubber 

 Co. and subsidiaries of the United States Rubber Co., which has 

 50 factories of one sort or another, of which 17 in various states 

 are largely devoted to the manufacture of footwear. 



The largest single rubber footwear factory in the world, how- 

 ever, is that of the Hood Rubber Co., which has an average 

 capacity of 65,000 pairs daily and has run a ticket as high as 

 72,000 pairs, and makes 20 per cent of all the rubber footwear 

 produced in the United States. The Maiden and Melrose plants 

 of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. also have a daily capacity in 

 excess of 60,000 pairs. The Apsley Rubber Co. has one of the 

 most completely equipped rubber footwear plants in the country, 

 with a capacity of 20,000 pairs daily. 



The 12,000 employes at the West Lynn plant of the General 

 Electric Co. are being insured at the company's expense. Each 

 man or woman in the company's employ one year will be in- 

 sured for $500; two years, $750; three years, $1,000; four years, 

 $1,250, and five years or more $1,500. Should an employe leave 

 the company's service the insurance ceases, but may be continued 

 through payments by the individual insured. 



\ 100 per cent American plant by September, 1920, is the goal 

 which the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co., Cambridge, has 

 set for itself. Very few aliens have been hired during Decem- 

 ber, and the policy of giving preference to American citizens is 

 bringing satisfactory results. It may take a little longer to fill 

 the job, but the job stays filled longer. 



Twice a week, during the noon hour, an .Americanization class 

 is held in the recreation room of the plant for the benefit of 



