August 1, 1920.1 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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down the time of making a tire. Tlie Bnrlington officials agrceil 

 to donate a parcel of land to the new tire company. 



The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co., Passaic, New 

 Jersey, has let to the Stone & Webster Company, Broadway, New 

 York, the contract for the erection of its reinforced concrete 

 brick and steel plant. The estimated cost is $1,000,000. 



The Eastern Tire & Equipment Co.. with principal offices 

 at 22-26 Union avenue, Rutherford, Now Jersey, has filed a cerlifi- 

 cate of dissolution in the office of Secretary of State Martin at 

 Trenton. 



The Dural Rubber Corporation, Flemington, New Jersey, by 

 arrangement with the -Automatic Safety Tire Valve Corpora- 

 tion, 1765 Broadway, New York City, will include the. "Whistler" 

 tire valve as part of the regular equipment of all Dural tubes, 

 adding only 35 cents to the cost of each tire. This tire valve 

 was described on page 366 of The Indi.\ Rubber World, March 

 1, 1920. 



The Whilall Tatum Co., 46-48 Barclay street, New York, 

 will soon have increased facilities at its druggists' sundries 

 plant at Keyport, New Jersey. Ground for a three-story steel 

 and concrete addition has already been broken, and the company 

 hopes to occupy it by October first. The addition and equip- 

 ment will cost about $200,000. The steady increase in the sale 

 of "dependable goods'' has made the extension necessary, though 

 in the face of almost prohibitive building conditions. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



By Our Regular Correspondent 



THE FEATURE of the business situation among the Rhode Island 

 manufacturing rubber industries and their auxiliary and co- 

 ordinate branches, during the past month, has been the vacation 

 period, practically all the plants in the State having been closed 

 one or two weeks. Advantage has been taken of this oppor- 

 tunity for an overhauling of power and machinery, renovations, 

 alterations and improvements. 



In accordance with a plan announced this spring, the Alice 

 Mill of the Woonsocket Rubber Co., at Woonsocket, closed down 

 for one week, beginning July 31 and opening August 9. This 

 plan is not in accord with usual custom of one department shut- 

 ting down after another, but all were shut down on the same day 

 and all started up again on the same day. 



The National India Rubber Co., at Bristol, shut down its entire 

 plant on July 31, for a period of one week, to reopen August 9. 

 This is to be a vacation with pay for all the employes of the fac- 

 tory who reported for work after the recent cessation without the 

 necessity of recourse to the reemployment plan. 



The following changes in the organization of the National 

 India Rubber Co., Bristol, were recently announced, to become 

 effective immediately : Jam.es W. Franklin, assistant to the vice- 

 president; Edward I. Cooper, factory manager; Edward A. Cur- 

 rier, Jr.. industrial relations manager ; .\. W. Anthony, manager 

 of central stores. Mr. Franklin had been superintendent of the 

 plant and Mr. Cooper, assistant superintendent. Mr. Currier had 

 been an office executive and Mr. .\nthony had been industrial 

 relations manager. 



A three-day conference of the truck tire experts of the United 

 States Tire Co. was held July 12, 13 and 14. The conference 

 opened with a session at the Hotel Astor, New York, July 12. 

 A banquet in the evening was followed by a theatre party, 

 after which the convention proceeded to Providence, where 

 Harlow W. Waite, factory manager of the Revere Rubber Co.'s 

 plant. Valley street. Providence, addressed the conference. He 

 commented on the fact that the motor truck industry seemed to 

 be on the verge of an expansion fully as great as that which 

 came to the passenger car industry a decade ago, and that 

 Providence, as the centre of the United Stales Tire Co.'s truck 

 tire activities, was destined to have a large share of it. 



The conference, which was attended by more than 100 truck tire 

 experts in the employ of the United States Tire Co., representing 

 every State in the country, assembled at the new truck tire manu- 

 facturing plant of the Revere Rubber Co., which has been named 

 the Colt plant in honor of Colonel Samuel P. Colt. Tuesday and! 

 Wednesday were devoted to the conference on truck tire develop- 

 ment, at the first session the subject being solid tires, with C. K. 

 Whidden, of New York, manager of the solid tire department, 

 presiding. On Wednesday, W. V. Logan, manager of the pneu- 

 matic truck tire department, was in charge of the discussion. 

 An inspection of the new Colt plant, with its special equipment: 

 of the most modern solid-tire-making machinery, was a promi- 

 nent feature of the conference programme. 



One of the most interesting events of the convention was the 

 presentation to George S. Shugart, vice-president and general 

 sales manager, of a set of platinum and pearl studs and buttons. 

 The rubber bathing suits that are being made by the Revere 

 Rubber Co. at its plant on \'alley street, Providence, were given 

 a picturesque introduction to the public the latter part of June 

 when some half a hundred Providence children appeared in a 

 pretty bathing beach scene at one of the theatres. While the par- 

 ticular costumes used in the scene were designed expressly for 

 the act, they were manufactuied in exactly the same manner as 

 the regular goods. The costumes are cut from a roll of thin 

 rubber sheet a yard wide and 50 yards in length. This is done 

 on the upper floor of one of the several buildings which compose 

 the plant. Here, more than 300 young women, working under 

 ideal sanitary conditions, cut most of the patterns and trimmings. 

 The machine assembling is done on this floor, but the finer work 

 of assembling is done on a lower floor. The trimmings, such as 

 birds, butterflies and other decorations, are cemented on the caps, 

 and the goods are inspected for the second time before going to 

 the vulcanizing room, after which they are inspected for the last 

 time, and any defective ones thrown out. At the theatrical per- 

 formance, where hundreds of persons learned for the first time of 

 the existence of such garments, many expressed surprise at the 

 bright coloring of the costumes. 



On July 15 the figures of the State Board of Tax Commission- 

 ers of the State revenue from corporate excess, franchise, public 

 service and bank share taxes were made public, together with a 

 list of all individuals, firms and corporations having an excess 

 of $100,000 or more. Included in this list are the following, 

 with the amount of their excess: American Electrical Works, 

 Phillipsdalc, $2,652,932.44; American Multiple Fabric Co.. $124.- 

 296; .American Wringer Co., New York, $1,034,252.95; Anchor 

 Webbing Co.. Pawtucket, $252,420.06 ; Arbeka Webbing Co., Paw- 

 lucket, $163,438.99; Atlantic Tubing Co., Cranston. $244,574.50; 

 Bourn Rubber Co.. $276,700.29; Collyer Insulated Wire Co., Paw- 

 tucket, $505,759.07; Davol Rubber Co., $384,364.66; Everlastik, 

 Inc., Boston, $351,695.20; Federal Felting Co., Westerly, $126,- 

 103.60; Glendale Elastic Fabric Co., Easthampton, Massachusetts, 

 $327,520.53; Goodby-Rankin Co., $139,366.66; The B. F. Goodrich 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. $279,073.26; The Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co.. Akron, Ohio. $291,601.79; Hamilton Webbing Co., 

 Hamilton, $2.59,347; Hill & Lacross Co.. $257,534.65; Hope Web- 

 bing Co., Pawtucket, $1,855,467.54; TiUernationa! Braid Co., $1,- 

 409,900.80; Jenckes Spinning Co., Pawtucket, $8.0.59,520: Mechan- 

 ical Fabric Co., $577,446.97; Mount Hope Spinning Co., Warren, 

 $465,791.81; National India Rubber Co., Bristol. $2,213,025.04; 

 O'Bannon Corporation, Boston, $1,394,939.87; Phillips Wire Co., 

 Pawtucket, $2,1,59.288.83; Revere Rubber Co., $524,114.01; Tama- 

 rack Co., Pawtucket, $529,541.80; Tubular Woven Fabric Co.. 

 Pawtucket, $243,921.90; United Lace & Braid Co., Auburn, $512,- 

 951.51; United States Rubber Co., New York, $2,105,090.29; 

 Washburn Wire Co., Phillipsdalc, $1,375,956.45; Woonsocket 

 Rubber Co., Woonsocket, $607,025.83. The enormous increase of 

 $3,594,861.70 over the fax of 1919 is shown in the assessment of 

 the Jenckes Spinning Co., which has a corporate excess of 

 $8,959,920. 



