Febplarv 1, 1920] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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At a conference of the committees on industrial relations of the 

 rubber factories controlled by the United States Rubber Co., 

 held at the National factory, there were inspections and com- 

 parisons of plans. The physicians, dentists, and nurses of the 

 factories also held a convention the same day at the DeWolf Inn 

 at Bristol, when papers were read by several, including Dr. 

 M. J. O'Brien, dentist at the Bristol plant, who spoke on "In- 

 dustrial Dentistry." 



In line with other improvements in the welfare work at the 

 National factory, the circulating library, which the company has 

 maintained for the benefit of its employes for a long time, is 

 to be materially enlarged, the demands upon its facilities having 

 increased to a considerable extent in the last few months. 



A powerful pump for use in bringing salt water from Bristol 

 harbor to the National factory has been set in place at the 

 pumping station on Thames street, greatly increasing the factory 

 water supply. 



Mrs. Augusta Mapes, who was employed at the National 

 factory for more than 40 years as overseer in the clothing and 

 other departments, previous to some ten years ago, died at the 

 Home for Aged \\'omen in Bristol on January 11, in her 87th 

 year. 



The Revere Rubber Co. continues to extend and improve its 

 plant on Valley and Hemlock streets. Providence, and has re- 

 cently purchased several additional tracts of land, so that the 

 holdings of this concern have increased considerably during 

 the past year. The company is now erecting for storage pur- 

 poses a three-story fireproof building of steel, brick and con- 

 crete on Hemlock street. It is 120 feet by 110 feet, and work 

 is being pushed as rapidly as possible. The company is also 

 building an addition to one of its two-story factory buildings on 

 Eagle street. 



The Kokomo Tire Co., a corporation to deal in motor cars, 

 tires and accessories, in Providence, with a capital stock of 

 $10,000, has been granted a charter under the laws of Rhode 

 Island. The incorporators are Maurice Robinson, David C. 

 Adelman and Charles M. Robinson. 



The National Rubber Co., 36 Franklin street. Providence, 

 I has been purchased by Amedo Morville and Carlo Morville, 

 who will continue the business. 



Ludger Goyer and Gustave Grandine have filed their state- 

 ment with the city clerk of Central Falls, that they are the 

 owners of the Reliable Vulcanizing & Tire Co.. 575 Dexter street, 

 I that city. 



The firm of Albert Bliss & Co., has been incorporated under 



I the laws of Rhode Island, and organized as the Bliss Rubber 



Co., and will continue business at 130 Empire street. Providence. 



' Albert Bliss is' president and general manager, and the firm 



will handle Racine tires. 

 i The Columbia Narrow Fabric Co., manufaclurcrs of elastic 

 ' webbing at Shannock, is planning an addition to increase the 

 1 plant's operations. The concern recently negotiated for the 

 [ purchase of the Carmichael Mill property at Shannock. 



Three ne\v mills are to be added to the plant of the Tubular 



I Woven Fabric Co., Pawtucket, lo adjoin the present property at 



! Main and Carver street and to extend to the Pawtucket river. 



; One of the structures will be of brick, four stories high, 58 by 



183 feet, and the other two buildings will be one story high, 



99 by 37 feet, and 60 by 105 feet, respectively. The estimated 



cost of the new buildings will be $200,000. 



The New England Elastic Braid Co., 18 Broadway, Pawtucket, 

 is owned by Mrs. .\gnes Coucher of that city, according to her 

 statement filed at the city clerk's office. 



\V. Maxwell Reed, for the past year and a half plant manager 

 of the -American Wringer Co., at Woonsocket, has resigned. John 



F. Sweeney, assistant plant manager and sales agent, will fill 

 the position temporarily. 



The Broadway Tire Exchange, 107 Broadway, Providence, has 

 changed the firm name to Millers, Inc., the new officers being 

 David Miller, president; Bernard II. Miller, treasurer and gen- 

 eral manager; Henry J. Miller, vice-president, and Samuel Miller, 

 secretary. Charles E. Angell and Angelo Uranoli, formerly of 

 the Broadway Tire Co., Providence, have taken over the vulcan- 

 izing department and have opened a shop at 50 Broadway. 



Trial of the suit of the I. T. S. Rubber Co., of Elyria, Ohio, 

 against the United Lace & Braid Manufacturing Co., of Provi- 

 dence, in which the plaintiff alleges infringement of a patent on 

 a rubber heel, was heard in the United States District Court 

 before Judge Arthur L. Brown early in the month. The plaintitt 

 asked that the court grant a permanent injunction, restraining the 

 defendant from the further use of the heels in controversy, and 

 also for an accounting and settlement from the defendant com- 

 pany of the sales of rubber heels which the plaintiff declares are 

 an infringement on their patent rights. The case was taken 

 under advisement. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



By a Special Correspondent. 



THE NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION of the National Shoe Retail- 

 ers' Association, held in Mechanics' Building, Boston, 

 January 12, 13, 14 and 15, proved to be a triumph, exceeding in 

 attendance, number of exhibitors and of important addresses all 

 previous gatherings of the association. Some 6,000 buyers from 

 all parts of the country overtaxed the capacity of the city's hotels. 

 At the various business sessions many timely talks were given by 

 leaders in the industry, some with motion picture, the subjects 

 treated including general business and market conditions, style 

 and price tendencies, mainufacturing and sales problems, etc. 



Interested centered, however, in the manufacturers' exhibits in 

 Paul Revere Hall, where the rubber industry was well represented 

 by the following firms displaying rubbers, rubber boots and over- 

 shoes, rubber and fabric shoes, rubber heels and fiber soles and 

 machinery : Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., Beacon Falls, Con- 

 necticut ; Cambridge Rubber Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts ; 

 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio; United Shoe Machin- 

 ery Co., Boston, Massachusetts ; Foster Rubber Co., Boston, Mas- 

 sachusetts ; The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio ; The Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio ; Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, 

 Masachusetts ; Plymouth Rubber Co., Canton, Massachusetts ; 

 United Lace Si Braid Manufacturing Co., Providence, Rhode 

 Island. 



Two miniature rubber shoe factories operated in the basement 

 of Mechanics' Building by the United States Rubber Co. attracted 

 much attention. Expert shoemakers demonstrated how rubber 

 shoes and white canvas fiber-soled shoes are made, starting with 

 the crude rubber and going right through to the finished product. 



The second evening, the Style Show, one of the most popular 

 features of past conventions, was repeated in elaborated form. 

 Beautiful young women, appropriately costumed, paraded along 

 the broad, elevated "Chemin des Dames" and other war-named 

 avenues, and mingled with the crowd displaying the newest styles 

 in all sorts of footwear. To show the latest dictum in rubber 

 and fabric sport shoes, there were bathing girls, tennis girls, golf- 

 ing girls and basket-ball girls. Children's and men's canvas foot- 

 wear were also shown. 



The convention came to a close Thursday evening with a ban- 

 (|uet in Convention Hall, at which Governor Calvin Coolidge and 

 Senator David I. Walsh, of Massachusetts, were the principal 

 speakers. The next national footwear convention will be held 

 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 



Some 800 foremen in the footwear division of the United States 



