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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 1, 1920. 



credit manager, R. B. Bramwell, advertising manager, and W. L. 

 Hogarty, Boston branch manager. 



The Franklin Rubber Co., 134 Federal street, Boston, recently 

 declared a regular annual dividend out of the earnings of 1919. 

 At that time the corporation voted a dividend of like amount 

 to be given to the employes April 1, based on their salaries for 

 1919. This new departure met with a gratifying response by the 

 employes. 



A new rest room for the girls in the Boston office of Ever- 

 lastick, Inc., 52 Chauncy street, has recently been opened. It 

 is attractively furnished and has electric stoves for warming 

 food brought for luncheon. 



At last automobile tires are among the articles being sold on 

 the deferred payment plan. Farley & MacNeill, 107 Federal 

 street, Boston, are offering Cleveland-Standard fabric and Tiger- 

 Foot cord tires for a first payment down of 20 per cent of the 

 list price and the balance in easy monthly installments covering 

 a period of four to six months. These tires are made by the 

 Standard Tire Co., Willoughby, Ohio, and carry guarantees of 

 6,000 and 10,000 miles, respectively. 



The Greene & Daniels Co., Boston and Pawtucket, Rhode 

 Island, which w-as incorporated under Massachusetts laws Oc- 

 tober 8, 1919, by articles of amendment filed December 1, 1919, 

 changed its name to The Ninigret Mills. The authorized capital 

 stock is $1,050,000, and the company has mills at Pawtucket and 

 Westerly, Rhode Island. H. T. Dunn is president and H. G. 

 Fisk, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, is treasurer and clerk. The 

 principal office is in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the company hav- 

 ing incorporated in that state under the name of The Ninigret 

 Mills Co., November 20, 1918. The company manufactures all 

 kinds of textiles and yarns, including tire fabrics. Further in- 

 formation about the development of this organization appeared 

 in our issue of February 1, 1920. 



James E. Odell, crude rubber broker, 200 Devonshire street, 

 Boston, who has undergone a series of hospital operations dur- 

 ing the past four months, is on his feet again, and after two 

 months in the South hopes to resume his former activities. Mean- 

 while, the business is being ably conducted by his son, James E. 

 Odell, Jr. 



Coincidentally with the celebration of its eleventh anniversary, 

 the Monatiquot Rubber Works Co., of South Braintree, Massa- 

 chusetts, announces the election of the following officers : James 

 H. Stedman, president and treasurer; Merton A. Turner, vice- 

 president and sales manager, and Benjamin Ayer, general factory 

 manager. 



Mr. Stedman is well known to the trade as the founder of this 

 company and for his former prominence in the scrap rubber 

 industry. He is still a young man despite many years of busi- 

 ness activity. 



Mr. Turner joined the company as a salesman at its inception 

 and his success is evidenced by his election to the new office and 

 the board of directors. He is one of the best known figures of 

 the reclaimed rubber industry. 



Mr. Ayer joined the organization in 1910 after his graduation 

 from Dartmouth College, and advanced through the successive 

 stages of foreman, production superintendent and factory super- 

 intendent to his present office. He is a keen student of labor and 

 production conditions, and is the originator of methods which 

 have signally increased the value of the company's recent suc- 

 cesses. 



The various teams of the Fisk Athletic Association of The 

 Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, have always 

 held high places in the rubber mill athletic activities of the 

 country. And now comes the good word that the Red Tops on 

 March 12 and 13 won the industrial championship of the United 

 States in the American Industria'^ Athletic Association basket- 

 ball tournament at Akron, Ohio 



To take care of the increased demand for "Big Nine" tennis 

 shoes, which has exceeded the production facilities of the Mai- 

 den factory, the Converse Rubber Shoe Co. has opened a stitch- 

 ing department at Concord. 



L. J. Waldron, who has been selling Vacuum Cup tires in this- 

 territory for five years, has been appointed sales manager for 

 New England by the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., with headquar- 

 ters at 683 Beacon street, Boston. 



The Akron Tire & Rubber Co., 24 Columbus avenue, Boston, 

 is perfecting plans for opening a chain of branch stores in lead- 

 ing New England cities. 



The Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., 158 Brookline avenue, Boston, has- 

 secured a fleet of Maxwell cars for the use of its several sales- 

 men who call on New England trade. E. D. Winans, general 

 manager, claims that a salesman's efficiency is increased from 

 25 to 60 per cent by the use of an automobile. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE MANUFACTURERS of rubber goods of all description ia 

 Rhode Island are still struggling to overcome the setbacks 

 experienced since the beginning of the year through weather 

 conditions. Ever since before Christmas the railroads and high- 

 ways have been hampered by the worst accumulation of snow 

 and ice that has been known in this vicinity since 1857. Train 

 and trolley service was badly crippled, all freight traffic sus- 

 pended and all movements of coal crippled. In consequence 

 practically every plant in the state was idle for longer or shorter 

 periods. 



Business activities continue brisk and with good orders on 

 their books all of the concerns are preparing for a considerable 

 increase in volume that will exceed anything ever experienced. 

 With the advent of settled weather, alterations, expansions and 

 improvements are being generally rumored. Not only are the 

 regular rubber plants active but also numerous textile plants 

 that are manufacturing tire fabrics. A number of additional 

 textile concerns are preparing to equip their plants, or a portion 

 thereof, for tire fabric production which is expected to become 

 a very substantial branch of both the rubber and the textile 

 industries of the future. 



The plant of the Ninigret Mills Co., Westerly, Rhode Island, 

 owned by The Fisk Rubber Co., wherein is manufactured cord 

 tire fabric, is running 23 hours daily and has been for several 

 weeks past. The company has secured a new site and work 

 is to commence cm a new mill as soon as the weather becomes 

 settled. The officers of the concern have already been trans- 

 ferred from the offices of the Westerly Textile Co., on Main 

 street, to the new plant of the Ninigret Co., on Canal street, where 

 convenient and attractive quarters have been established. 



The additions to the plant of the Revere Rubber Co., Provi- 

 dence, that have been in process during the winter are now 

 practically completed and are being occupied by the concern, 

 greatly increasing its capacity and facilities. The new buildings 

 cost upwards of $200,000 and consist of two three-story concrete 

 structures, one 150 by SO feet, to be used as a chemical laboratory 

 and the other, 120 by 100 feet, for manufacturing purposes. The 

 latter also contains an employes' restaurant and recreation 

 rooms such as have come to be regarded so favorably as 

 essentials of contented economic community life. The combined 

 floor space of both buildings amounts to 60,000 square feet and 

 the latest types of machinery and laboratory apparatus are now 

 being installed. 



The new tire factory of the United States Rubber Co., in 

 Providence, is to be called the "Colt Plant," in honor of Colonel 

 Samuel P. Colt, chairman of the executive committee of that 

 corporation. The factory is one of two units operated as the 



