June 1, 1920.] 



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selling automobile tires and tubes and similar articles. Since 

 that time the certificate of incorporation has been amended and 

 the capitalization increased to 100,000 shares, par value $10 per 

 share, and 100,000 shares, no par value. The officers are : 

 George V. S. Williams, president ; Henry W. Van Alen, treas- 

 urer; and F. C. Woods, secretarj'. 



R. H. Hale & Co., 1947 Broadway, New York City, has beet, 

 organized by R. H. Hale, formerly in charge of the New York 

 City store of The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., to do a general 

 business dealing in pneumatic tires of all leading makes. 



William H. Stiles & Co., New York City, crude rubber brok- 

 ers, have removed to No. 1 Liberty street, Rooms 1807-1809. 



The Kelley Tire & Rubber Co., New Haven, Connecticut, has 

 e.>iablished its New Y'ork factory branch at 1656 Broadway, cor- 

 ner of 51st street. New York City. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, a West Vir- 

 ginia corporation, has appointed E. P. Jones its New York 

 representative, with headquarters at 1871 Broadway, the New 

 York Cit}- office. 



A vacancy on the board of directors of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co., New York City, having been caused by the decease of 

 Theodore N. Vail, at the annual meeting of stockholders on April 

 20, 1920, George R. Deshler, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, 

 was elected the twenty-fourth member. The personnel of the 

 operating council was also elected, as follows : Charles B. Seger, 

 chairman; Homer E. Sawyer, Elisha S. Williams, J. Newton 

 Gunn, Ernest Hopkinson, and W. G. Parsons. The other officers 

 elected are the same as given in The India Rubber World, May 1, 

 1920. 



The Executive Committee of the Motor and Accessory Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, New York City, at its recent meeting 

 in Atlantic City, after a canvass of its members, adopted reso- 

 lutions opposing the introduction of the metric system into 

 .-\merican industries. 



PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. 



The Carlisle Tire & Rubber Co., Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is 

 building a small addition to its factory. 



The Fawcus Machine Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has pur- 

 chased an interest in The Schaflfer Engineering & Equipment 

 Co., of which the new officers are: A. F. Cooke, president and 

 general manager; J. C. Schaffer and Eliot A. Kebler, vice-presi- 

 dents; A. A. Alles, Jr., treasurer; and Waller Crow, secretary. 



CONNECTICUT NOTES. 



The Goodyear Rubber Company, Middletown, Connecticut, 

 will build a three-story plant, SO by 216 feet, to cost about $144,- 

 000. 



The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., Beacon Falls, Connecti- 

 cut, has recently let a contract for the building of fifty-four new 

 houses for employes, located on what is known as the "hill." 

 These will be sold on easy terms and are a part of the general 

 plan of the town which the company hopes to make one of the 

 most beautiful in the Naugatuck valley. Forty houses were 

 built four years ago by the company in this same locality and 

 were promptly bought by employes. 



The Farrel Foundry & Machine Co., Ansonia, Connecticut, has 

 recently authorized an issue of $1,500,000 preferred stock, of 

 which $1,200,000 has been sold. The common stock of this 

 company has stood at $1,200,000 for a number of years. , 



THE SEAMLESS RUBBER COMPANY. 



TPhe Se.\mless Rubber Company, Inc., will soon move from 

 *■ the quarters it has occupied for over forty years into the 

 new $3,000,000 factory it has built on the New Haven water- 

 front. The business was started in the early seventies of the 

 last century by Charles E. Longden, a young man who had a 

 japanning shop in Naugatuck, Connecticut. An Englishman 

 named Collins interested him in rubber, and the two, finding 

 water power on Longdcn's farm, began making seamless nipples, 

 sewing machine rings and hollow rubber balls. Having formed a 

 partnership with George Hine, the firm of Hine & Longden 

 started a factory in the town of Naugatuck in 1875 and moved to 

 New Haven two years later, when The Seamless Rubber Com- 

 pany was incorporated with $50,000 capital. 



About the time that the United States Rubber Company was 

 being formed, Joseph Banigan became interested in the Seam- 

 less company and became president in 1893. Three years later 

 the control passed to George A. Alden and George M. AUerton, 

 <:he former continuing as president till his death in 1904. Mr. 

 Longden remained as superintendent till 1901. In 1917 the 

 company came into the hands of the present management, and 

 the officers are: F. O. Williams, president; F. W. Dodge, vice- 

 president ; W. C. Hutton, treasurer ; H. W. Gordon, secretary, 

 and J. W. Patterson, superintendent. 



The present plant at Congress avenue and Daggett street, re- 

 peatedly enlarged with the company's progress, will be sold. 







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