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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[AraiL 1, 1920. 



TransC.nli.unlal Tire & Rubber Co., Inc.. February 27, 1920 (New 

 York), $_'O.0<)O. W. VV. Lesselbaum, F. Druss, E. Eisenstein— all of 128 

 liroadwav. New York City. To manufacture tires. 



United Tire Stores Co., Inc., March 6, 1920 (Delaware), $10.500,0(X). 

 T. L. Croteau, M. A. Bruce, S. E. Dill— all of Wilmington. Delaware. 

 To manufacture and sell tires. 



Unsinkable Life Saving Suit Co., Inc.. March 10, 1920 (New Y'ork), 

 $5,000. W. T. McCoy, 216 West 138th street; C. Mardenbro, 312 West 

 59tb street: R. Washington, 427 West 52nd street— all of New York Citv. 



organizer and business man of exceptional ability that renders 

 his acquisition most fortunate. It is taken to mean the begin- 

 ning of a new era in the history of the company. 



To 



libber 



REPUBLIC RUBBER CORPORATION'S NEW 

 PRESIDENT. 



17 1'". Jones, recently elected president of The Republic Rubber 

 ^— '• Corporation and the Republic .Rubber Co., Youngstown, Ohio, 

 succeeding Guy E. Xorwood, resigned, brings to the company 

 thirty years of prac- 

 tical experience in 

 t h e manufacturing 

 field. 

 For leu years Mr. 

 was identified 

 rii)us responsi- 

 apacities with 

 Illinois Steel 

 (o. : til e n for a 

 twelve-year period 

 with ihe Interna- 

 national Harvester 

 ( 'o., which he served 

 in all departments; 

 later with the Mor- 

 gan Spring Co. and 

 Xational Manufac- 

 iiiring Co.; next 

 as president of 

 Clinton-Wright 

 \\ ire Co., Worces- 

 ter, Massachusetts, 

 and more recently 

 as vice-president and 

 general manager of 

 the Elyria Iron & Steel Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 



The majority of the directors of The Republic Rubber Corp. 

 consists of iron and steel mannfacturers in the Youngstown dis- 

 trict, which accounts in a measure for the election of Mr. Jones. 

 He has, however, established a reputation as a capable executive. 



THE REPUBLIC RUBBER CORPORATION. 



THE Republic Rubber Cori>or.\ti<in had ils first start nearly 

 twenty years ago when a rubber manufacturing company 

 was organized at Y'oungstown, in Mahoning County, Ohio, largely 

 through the exertions of John Scott McClurg, who became the 

 manager. It was incorporated as the Mahoning Rubber Co. 

 on February 28, 1901, but by the end of the year it had been 

 found advisable to change the name, and it became the Republic 

 Rubber Co. on December 2. 



The capital of $400,000 was easily raised locally as Youngstown 

 hoped to be able to rival its neighbor, Akron, in the rubber 

 industry. The Wick family was interested in the enterprise, 

 and after 11. W. Wick, the first president, resigned, his son- 

 in-law, Warner Arms, was elected in his place and held that 

 office until his death in 1910. 



From the start the company manufactured niliber goods of 

 all descriptions, fire hose, balata belting, inechanical goods, and 

 molded goods. By 1905 it had taken up tires, both solid and 

 pneumatic. Other specialties of the company were the side wire 

 wheel and golf balls. In that year the capital was increased to 

 $1,000,000. The business continued to expand rapidly, and in 

 1912 under Thomas L. Robinson, Mr. Arms' successor as presi- 

 dent, the capital was increased to $10,000,000. 



The spread of the business made it advisable to establish sub- 

 sidiary companies in various parts of the country, so that when 

 the company was reorganized in 1917, it included the Republic 

 Rubber Co. of New York in New York City; of Massachusetts 

 at Boston; of California at San Francisco; of Texas at Dallas; 

 of Pittsbtirgh, and the Republic Rubber Co., Inc., at London, 

 England. 



On October 6, 1917, the business of the company was taken 

 over by the Republic Rubber Corp., incorporated under the laws 

 of New York with a capital of $11,250,000. The plant at Youngs- 

 town then covered 45 acres, with buildings containing 15 acres 

 of floor space, where rubber goods of all kinds were manufac- 

 tured and 3,000 tires could be turned out daily. With it was 

 then amalgamated the Canton Blackstonc Co., which had been 

 the Knight Tire & Rubber Co., of Canton, Ohio, with seven acres 



Pl.^nt of The Republic Rubber Coepor.iiTion, Youngstown, Ohio. 



