April 1. 1920 1 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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& Globe Rubber Co., Trenton. A number of Trenton rubber 

 manufacturers were present. Following the report Mr. Ruther- 

 ford visited several of the Trenton rubber plants and the points 

 of historic interest in old Trenton. 



John A. Lambert, treasurer and general manager of the Acme 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., has been elected president of the 

 Trenton Chamber of Commerce at its annual reorganization 

 meeting. Mr. Lambert was first vice-president of the organiza- 

 tion and also chairman of the manufacturers' bureau. He has 

 for many years been deeply interested in the affairs of the 

 Trenton Chamber of Commerce. His term of office is for three 



John S. Brouglitoii, president of the United & Globe Rubber 

 Co., has offered three prizes of $S each for the highest averages 

 in the work in the mechanical drawing classes at the Trenton 

 School of Industrial Art. 



General C. Edward Murray, of the Empire Rubber & Tire 

 Corp., and W. J. B. Stokes, of the Thermoid Rubber Co., have 

 been appointed members of the committee to raise $35,000 for the 

 Trenton Welfare Association. 



The Whitehead Bros. Rubber Co., Trenton, has elected Sam- 

 uel Cadwallader secretary and manager, succeeding the late 

 Alfred Whitehead. Charles W. Appleget has been appointed 

 sales manager for the same company. 



MISCELLANEOUS NEW JERSEY NOTES. 



James Dcshler Wilmot, for the past three years superinten- 

 dent of the United States Rubber Co.'s plant at New Brunswick, 

 has been promoted to the position of production manager of the 

 Goodycar's India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co., Naugatuck, 

 Connecticut. Mr. Wilmot was succeeded in New Brunswick by 

 Seymour Hadaway, of New Rochelle, New York, who has had 

 charge of the service department of the company's plants at New 

 Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Wilmot has several times been pro- 

 moted by the company, and has planned and carried forward 

 many improvements for the benefit of the workers. The various 

 clubs and recreational facilities at the New Brunswick plant were 

 all planned by him and he has looked out for the welfare of the 

 employes at all times. He planned and equipped the hospital 

 where injured employes are treated and also inaugurated the 

 citizenship school for foreign workers, and the athletic teams. 



The Michclin Tire Co., Milltown, New Jersey, is planning 

 shortly to erect fifty new frame cottages at Milltown for the 

 use of the company's workmen. The houses will contain five 

 rooms and bath, and will be erected on land owned by the com- 

 pany. More houses will be erected later. 



The Stanwood Rubber Co., Inc., Ehzabeth, New Jersey, 

 which has executive offices at 9 East 40th street, New York 

 City, is to build a new power plant, 75 by 84 feet, on a solid 

 concrete and steel mattress. The first floor of the company's 

 main building, which is about ISO feet from the power house, 

 will be used for mill and calender room, while the second floor 

 will be devoted to lire building and finishing, and the third 

 floor will be used as a tire repairing room. The company is 

 utilizing the former plant of the Hardman Rubber Corp. at 

 New Brunswick, which it purchased some time ago, for the 

 manufacture of its tubes. 



Smith & Serrell, manufacturers of machinery couplings, have 

 removed from the West street building, New York City, to 44 

 Central avenue, Newark. New Jersey. 



The Driver-Harris Co., Harrison, New Jersey, has increased 

 its capitalization to $3.fXX),000, divided c(|ually between common 

 and preferred stock. The company is building a three-story 

 addition to its plant, 52 by 100 feet, and is planning to add to 

 this a 100-foot extension of equal height. The upper floor will 

 be used as the general office, the second floor for spooling and 



testuig room, and the ground floor fur shipping and cleaning 

 departments. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



By Our Regular Correspotidciit. 

 pvuRiNG the recent traffic tie-up in New England, due to the 

 *-^ series of blizzards which twice put the railroads more or 

 li?ss completely out of commission for several days, rubber plants 

 were seriously aftected. For a lime snow shoveling was the 

 principal business of many a rubber mill operative in an attempt 

 to keep sidings clear. .A.nd when the Boston Chamber of Com- 

 merce sent out a call for men to assist the railroads to clear 

 their lines, rubber men were among those who responded. 

 Trucks were found inadequate for local deliveries, and several 

 companies, including the Monatiquat Rubber Works Co., South 

 Braintree, resorted to horses and pungs. 



On account of the embargoes on freight and express, the Bos- 

 ton Rubber Shoe Co. and the Converse Rubber Shoe Co. sup- 

 plied their customers by parcel post shipments. It became al- 

 most a common sight to see the sidewalk in front of the Maiden 

 post-office blocked with several hundred cases of rubber foot- 

 wear awaiting shipment. Several companies in the Boston dis- 

 trict were perilously near a shut-down due to lack of coal, and 

 Ihe Panther Rubber Manufacturing Co., Stoughton, was actually 

 closed for a few days. The Avon Sale Co., of Avon, tided itself 

 over the period of fuel shortage by burning wood. The Revere 

 Rubber Co., Chelsea, is installing an oil-burning system which 

 it is believed has many advantages and will reduce the uncer- 

 laintA' of fuel supply to a minimum. 



The eighteenth annual Boston Automobile Show under the 

 auspices of the Boston .Automobile Dealers' Association, Inc., 

 was held from March 13 to 20 inclusive, and was in every respect 

 the greatest ever held in this city. Mechanics Building proved in- 

 adequate and many of the exhibits were housed in the South 

 -Armory nearby in Irvington street for the benefit of the Y. D. 

 Club. While it was essentially a show of motor vehicles, the 

 exhibits of accessories were many and varied. Tires were never 

 more in evidence, but for the most part displayed by local agents 

 and distributers rather than the manufacturers. Giant cord tires 

 for trucks were a conspicuous feature. 



Among the exhibits of interest to the rubber trade were the 

 following : .A.rrow Grip Manufacturing Co., non-skid devices ; 

 Bascon's Inc., Victor tires; Bigelow & Dowse Co., Franklin tubes; 

 Budd Wheel Corp., Michclin steel disk wheel ; Central Automo- 

 bile Tire Co., tires and tubes; L. C. Chase & Co., top material; 

 .A. L. Cherrj-, Inc., Gordon tires and tubes; Cobb Electric Ap- 

 pliance Co., tube vulcanizers ; Columbia Tire & Top Co. ; Eastern 

 Rubber Co., Magic Rubber ilend ; Green & Swett Co., Amazon 

 and Miller lircs ; Grow Tree Co., Grow tires ; Holland System, 

 Inc., Trading Corporation. Overman tires; Lambert Trublpruf 

 Tire Co., Lambert Trublpruf tires ; New England Savold Tire 

 Co., rebuilt tires; Northwestern Chemical Co., cements, tire and 

 rim paints ; Perrine Co., Braender tires and tubes : Record Tire 

 Sales Co., rebuilt tires; E. P. Sanderson Co., Viking tires and 

 tubes ; Sewell Cushion Wheel Co., Sewell cushion wheel ; Story 

 Rubber Corporation, Bonner tubes; Times Square -■Xuto Co., 

 Buckskin, McLean, Timesco and Triumph tires and Timesco and 

 Triumph tubes; Wetmore-Savage Co., .Auburn tires; Austin J. 

 Wright, Coffield tire protector. 



The Owen Tire Co., 177 Portland street, Boston, has secured 

 Ihe exclusive New England agency for the McCIaren J. & D. tires 

 manufacUired by the McCIaren Rubber Co., Charlotte, North 

 Carolina, and is seeking local dealers throughout the territory. 



Two days prior to the opening of the Boston automobile show 

 the Michclin Tire Co. began holding its convention of New 

 England salesmen at the Copley Square Hotel. .At these daily 

 conferences several officials from the home office were present, 

 including J, A. Hincs, assistant sales manager; J. J. Rooney, 



