THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



IJUNF. 1, 1920. 



planning another addition to be constructed immcdialcly. This 

 latest addition to the new structure erected last summer in the 

 rear of the original plant will be 70 feel in length and 40 feet 

 wide, two stories high and will connect tlic new mill now being 

 completed with last summer's annex to the old plant. 



The National India Rubber Co., at Bristol, Rhode Island, is 

 steadily shifting its power plant from coal to oil burning, 12 of 

 its IS large steam boilers having already been so changed. There 

 are, however, five more of the boilers to be connected with the 

 oil supply tank before the whole of the boiler department of the 

 company's plant is fitted for burning oil for fuel purposes. This 

 company is considering the practicability of establishing a branch 

 of its factory at Newport, and a building on Thames street 

 which would be available for the purpose was inspected recently 

 by Mr. Pollock of the National Co. 



Several changes have recently occurred among the department 

 heads at the National India Rubber Co., Bristol, Rhode Island, 

 Charles R. Caldwell, foreman of the printing department, has re- 

 cently resigned and been succeeded by Samuel Simpson. 



Harlowe S. Waite has been elected a vice-president and di- 

 rector of the Revere Rubber Co., Providence, in recognition of 

 his many years of faithful and efficient service as factory man- 

 ager. 



The Davol Rubber Co.'s business continues to increase in 

 volume and already the plant has been expanded until all the 

 space available at the present site in Providence has been occu- 

 pied. The company has recently secured the Sunmons building 

 and is to occupy this entire structure as soon as it is vacated and 

 alterations can be made to meet the company's requirements. 



The Alice Mill Employes' Association has turned over to the 

 trustees of the Woonsocket Hospital $154.53, the net proceeds 

 of the recent ball given by that association for the benefit of the 

 hospital. 



DAVOL SALES AND ADVERTISING MANAGER. 



KYMOND J. Fries, sales and advertising manager and a mem- 

 ber of the executive council of the Davol Rubber Co., 



Rhode Isla 



was born in Trenton, New Jersey, 

 in 1876. After attending the 

 grammar schools and graduating 

 from the high school in New Ro- 

 chelle. New York, in 1894, he 

 entered the employment of the 

 Kearney & Foot Co., file manu- 

 facturers, as stock clerk. Later 

 he became superintendent of the 

 Foot Manufacturing Co., maker of 

 polishing supplies, and then or- 

 ganized the New York BuiT Co. 

 It was in 1905 that Mr. Fries 

 first became connected with the 

 rubber industry as stock clerk in 

 the New York City store of The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., later being 

 promoted to sundries salesman in 

 New York. In 1907, upon the 

 death of H. L. Doherty he went 

 to the Davol Rubber Co. as salesman, and later managed the 

 New York City office of the company until 1917, when he moved 

 to Providence as advertising inanager, and was made sales 

 and advertising manager in 1919. 



Mr. Fries designed and planned the now well-known line 

 of "Superservice" goods of the Davol company, and made the 

 first use in the sundries trade of the folding or knock-down 

 package for flat goods, now almost universally used. 



Raymond J. Fries. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



By Our Regular Correspondent, 

 BOSTOir NOTES. 



■yiRE ADJUSTERS from all over New England, representing The 

 B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., met at the Copley Square Hotel, 

 Boston, recently and discussed methods of standardizing tire ad- 

 justments. Frank G. Harrison, Jr., district manager of sales 

 service presided, and devoted much of the morning to instruc- 

 tion. Fred T. Moore, district manager, also spoke. In the af- 

 ternoon the convention adjourned to the Exeter Theatre, where 

 the delegates viewed "Striking Tires," an amusing cartoon 

 motion picture recently released by the Goodrich company in the 

 interest of tire conservation. 



The week of May 17 was observed as "ship by truck" week all 

 over the country. With bands playing and motors chugging, a 

 caravan of nearly fifty motor trucks, including army and navy 

 contingents, made a three-days' run from Boston which covered 

 about 170 miles. The object was to bring to the attention of 

 business men the value of shipping goods by motor truck, par- 

 ticularly in these days when our transportation systems are so 

 badly tied up. The route included Cambridge, Somerville, Chel- 

 sea, Revere, Lynn, Salem, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Worces- 

 ter and back to Boston. The caravan attracted much attention 

 along the route, especially in the cities visited, where stops were 

 made for addresses of welcome by city officials and talks on the 

 value of motor trucks by some of those on the tour. H. H. 

 Davis, of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., was in charge of 

 the tour. 



During the recent freight embargo due to striking railroad op- 

 eratives, the United States Tire Co. and several other rubber 

 firms sent trucks over the road to their factories for tires in 

 order to supply the demands of the Massachusetts territory. 



Robert C. Freeman, for several years manager of truck tire 

 sales in the New England district for The B. F. Goodrich Rub- 

 ber Co., now heads his own concern, the Goodrich Tire Service 

 Co., 66 Broadway, Boston, which is a distributing agency for 

 Goodrich solid and pneumatic truck tires and Diamond pneumatic 

 tires. He has associated with him Nathaniel A. Finkelstein, also 

 an experienced truck tire man, having successfully distributed 

 Goodrich tires in Boston under the firm name of the Commer- 

 cial Tire Service Co., at 118 Dover street. 



V. J. Mulherin, 825 Boylston street, Boston, is New England 

 distributor for Howe tires and tubes. 



Guy D. Niles, formerly Boston representative for the Portage 

 Rubber Co. and the Gillette Tire Co., has been appointed man- 

 ager of the Boston branch of the Lee Rubber & Tire Corporation 

 by Harry E. Field, vice-president and general manager of the 

 latter company. When Mr. Field was vice-president and sales 

 manager of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., ten years ago, Mr. 

 Niles was beginning his career as a tire salesman for that com- 

 pany. A. H. Robinson succeeds Mr. Niles as manager of the 

 Gillette branch. 



A. H. Mclntyre has resigned as Boston manager of the Ful- 

 ton Truck Co. to become sales manager of the Reliance Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Keyport, New Jersey. Mr. Mclntyre is secretary 

 of the Bay State Automobile Association and one of the best 

 known automobile men in New England. This is the second 

 time within a few months that a rubber company has selected 

 the secretary of this association for a responsible position, his 

 predecessor, W. O. Durrell, having joined the Goodyear forces at 

 Akron a short time ago. 



Ellsworth E. Leach, manager of mechanical sales of The B. 

 F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Boston, on May 1, rounded out twenty 

 years of loyal and faithful service and the sales force and de- 

 partment managers of the company remembered the anniversary 



