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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



facture of rubber footwear. Harry J. Smith is president and A, 

 W. Caney vice-president. 



"The Lehigh Tire & Rubber Co., Pottstown, Pennsylvania, has 

 changed its name to the Vulcweld Tire & Rubber Co. J. A. 

 Maney is secretary. 



The London Rubber Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has elected 

 the following officers : A. L. London, president ; C. M. London, 

 vice-president; H. London, secretary and treasurer. 



The Union Rubber and .Asbestos Co., Warren, Pennsylvania, 

 has been incorporated under the laws of New Jersey to manu- 

 facture, buy, and sell mechanical rubber goods and asbestos ma- 

 terials. Donald W. Mackie is president; J. M. Shear, vice- 

 president; Harry M. Prill, treasurer; and Charles H. Swoger, 

 secretary ; directors— R. A. Mackie, J. E. Golden, Thomas Flynn, 

 and E. G. Cottingham. The personnel includes men familiar 

 with the rubber needs of the oil field industry. 



The Corona Cord Tire Co., East Butler, Pennsylvania, has re- 

 moved the machinery in the buildings which it purchased in 

 September last on the 20-acre property near Butler, and has 

 progressed with the installations of its own machinery to the 

 point where it hopes to begin production of tubes in February 

 and of cord tires in March, to which line it will confine its 

 business. The officers are: Thomas Phillips, Jr., president; 

 H. B. Callahan, vice-president; C. H. Miller, secretary-treasurer. 

 The directors include, in addition to the foregoing, T. V. Ritts, 

 Elias Ritts, B. D. Phillips, and A. C. Fisher. 



The New Castle Rubber Co., New Castle, Pennsylvania, is 

 greatly increasing its facihties for the manufacture of fabric 

 and cord tires and inner tubes. Many changes are being made 

 at the company's plant at Mahoningtown and modern equipment 

 is being installed. A new executive office is under construction 

 and will be ready for occupancy this spring. Over 1,200 tires 

 per day are being manufactured at present. 



The officers are F. A. Krusemark, president; H. G. Carpenter, 

 vice-president ; L. G. Funkhouser, general manager, and F. T. 

 Hutson, secretary-treasurer. 



The Kelley Tire and Rubber Co., Inc., 962 Chapel street. New 

 Haven, Connecticut, is excavating for its plant to be built at 

 West Haven, on the line of the New York, New Haven & Hart- 

 ford railroad. It is expected that the office building will be com- 

 pleted in .\pril. All machinery and equipment for building 500 

 "Kelley King of Kord" tires and 1,000 tubes daily has been pur- 

 chased and orders are being taken for delivery on July 1. 



The Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., Norwalk, Connecticut, is 

 building an addition to its plant, 158 by 83 feet, six stories high, 

 which it expects to occupy within a month. The construction is 

 brick with steel frame. 



The McClaren Rubber Co., Charlotte, North Carolina, has 

 appointed the McClaren Rubber Tire Co., 327 West 57th street. 

 New York City, its distributer. 



The Diainond Holfast Rubber Co., 33 .Auburn avenue, At- 

 lanta, Georgia, will build a rubber plant to cost approximately 

 $1,000,000 and will increase its capital to $2,500,000. H. Diamond 

 is president. 



The Virginian Rubber Co., Charleston, West Virginia, is 

 building and has about half completed its two-story brick and 

 concrete factory building, 100 by 260 feet, and a power house 

 SO by 40 feet, has been almost finished. The total cost will be 

 about $275,000, and the company will manufacture both cord and 

 fabric tires. Operation about June 1 is expected. The officers 

 s^=: A. A. Lilly, president; Houston G. Young, vice-president; 

 W. D. Guyer, secretary and treasurer; E. P. Stroman, general 

 manager and T. A. Conger, general superintendent, formerly 

 with the Henderson Tire & Rubber Co., at Bucyrus, Ohio. 



The Kentucky Tire & Rubber Association, Louisville, Ken- 

 tucky, newly incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing "Blue 

 Grass Kord" tires, has temporary executive offices at 502-503 

 Realty Building. The construction of the first unit of its factory 

 will be started at an early date. This will be 60 by 400 feet, part 

 two stories high, and will be located on the K. & I. railroad. 



The officers of tlTe new company are: H. P. Didriksen, presi- 

 dent ; W. R. White, executive vice-president ; J. E. Peterson, sec- 

 retary; directors, II. J. Huff, Perry Frantz, O. R. Peterman, A. 

 D. Hile, and J. W. Cambron. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN NEW JERSEY. 



e.v Our Regular Correspondent. 



TRENTON NOTES. 



THE RECENT FRESHET in the Streams of this section caused a ser- 

 ious loss to the Empire Rubber & Tire Corp., situated on 

 the Assunpink creek and necessitated closing the plant for more 

 than a week. The boiler rooms and lower floors of the works were 

 flooded and generators, motors, etc., were badly damaged by 

 water. When the plant was finally put into shape for operation 

 a second freshet caused further damage and the works closed 

 again. The loss from the two freshets will total many thousand 

 dollars. Apart from stock and machinery damage the company 

 has lost heavily in curtailed production. The tire department on 

 the lower floor is where the water did the most damage. The 

 Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. was also flooded, causing the works 

 to close down at a loss of several thousand dollars. The Cres- 

 cent Belting & Packing Co. also suff'ered a considerable loss. 

 The Bergougnan Rubber Manufacturing Co. was closed down 

 for a day because the employes were unable to reach their work, 

 due to the blizzard stopping the trolley lines. 



Mayor Frederick W. Donnelly plans to prevent the future 

 flooding of the rubber plants along the shores of the Assunpink 

 Creek by the building of a long retaining wall. A conference 

 was held between the mayor and representatives of the Puritan 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., Empire Rubber & Tire Corp. and 

 the Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. The proposed wall will contain 

 17,000 feet of material and will cost about $150,000. The expense 

 will be borne equally between the rubber manufacturers and the 

 city of Trenton. C. Edward Murray, Jr., second vice-president 

 of the Empire Rubber & Tire Corp., was made a member of the 

 committee in charge. 



Everything in the rubber line from tires to small hose has 

 been advanced in price by Trenton manufacturers during the 

 past month and prices will remain up for some time. There 

 had been a general advance along all lines. The increased 

 rates are due chiefly to the higher cost of cotton fabric, which 

 has trebled in price during the past year. Compounding in- 

 gredients have also advanced materially. While -there had been 

 an increase in the cost of labor during the year, the advanced 

 prices of manufactured goods are principally due to the cost 

 of raw materials. 



The plant of the Nearpara Rubber Co., East Trenton, was 

 destroyed by fire on March 17, causing a loss of several thousand 

 dollars. Herman Rosenthal, the proprietor, announces that he 

 will build a new plant. Considerable stock was burned. The 

 building was of frame construction, 125 by 60 feet in size. 



The winter home of George R. Cook, situated at .Camden, 

 South Carolina, was recently destroyed by fire, including all 

 the household goods. The cause of the blaze is unknown and 

 the loss is very heavy. Mr. Cook is president of the Acme Rub- 

 ber Manufacturing Co., and the Hamilton Rubber Manufactur- 

 ing Co., both of Trenton. 



W. O. Rutherford, vice-president of The B. F. Goodrich Rub- 

 ber Co., Akron, Ohio, was entertained recently at dinner at the 

 Trenton Club by John S. Broughton, president of the United 



