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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1920. 



A contract has been awarded to the Flynt Building & Con- 

 struction Co., of Palmer, Massachusetts, for the erection of a 

 thrce-storj' addition, 95 by 42 feet, to the storage house of the 

 American Wringer Co.'s plant in Woonsocket, and work thereon 

 •will be commenced shortly. One floor of the addition is to be 

 used for the manufacture of boxes and crates, and machinery for 

 ^his purpose will be installed. The remaining two floors of the 

 inew building are to be devoted to storage purposes. 



Frederick E. Luth, for the past IS years in the employ of the 

 Glendale Elastic Fabric Co., Providence, during several years of 

 which time he was foreman in one of the departments, died June 

 27 in his 47th year. He was born at Newport, Rhode Island, and 

 is survived by his widow, four sons, a sister and two brothers. 



Clyde O. Dudley, for the past four years traffic manager at the 

 Xational India Rubber Co.'s plant, Bristol, has resigned to accept 

 the position of traffic manager of the Woonsocket Chamber of 

 Commerce and assumed his new duties July 12. He is succeeded 

 by J. D Cruickshank of the purchasing department. 



FIRST GOODRICH SALESMAN IN NEW ENGLAND. 



ELLSWORTH E. Leach, Boston manager of mechanical and 

 sundry sales for The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., was born 

 at North Easton, Massachusetts, in 1862. Upon completing his 

 course in the Stoughton High 

 School in 1878 he began his career 

 in the rubber trade as errand boy 

 for the American Rubber Co., Bos- 

 ton. During most of the twelve 

 years he remained with this con- 

 cern he was engaged in sales, first 

 as a traveling salesmen of general 

 rubber lines in New York State 

 and Canada. In 1884 Robert D. 

 Evans, president of the company, 

 appointed him associate manager 

 to open the first New York office 

 of the company as assistant to 

 Eben H. Paine, who was later 

 sales manager of the United States 

 Rubber Co., Mr. Evans being the 

 second vice-president of the latter 

 company following Joseph Bani- 

 gan. Mr. Leach's sales work cov- 

 ered footwear and clothing from 

 New York west to Chicago and south to the Ohio River, in- 

 cluding Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. 



In 1890 Mr. Leach opened in Boston the largest wholesale and 

 retail rubber store in New England, known as the Metropolitan 

 Rubber Co. From 1894 to 1899 he was engaged in the manu- 

 facture of rubber clothing and mackintoshes under the firm narne 

 of E. E. Leach & Co., Boston. 



In the latter year Mr. Leach became the first traveling sales- 

 man for The B. F. Goodrich Co. in the New England territory. 

 In 1902 the Goodrich company opened a small office carrj'ing a 

 small stock of specialty and mechanical goods in addition to 

 tires, and Mr. Leach was made manager of both the mechanical 

 and specialty departments. The company moved into a larger 

 store on Columbus avenue in 190S, and five years later to the 

 present six-story building on Boylston street. Mr. Leach did 

 all of the traveling sales work from 1899 to 1910. Since then 

 the New England traveling force has grown to seven men with 

 Mr. Leach still on the job. 



On May 1, 1920, Mr. Leach rounded out twenty years of loyal 

 and faithful service and the sales force and department managers 

 cf the company remembered the anniversary by giving a din- 

 ner In his honor and presenting him with twenty $20-gold-pieces, 



Ellsworth E. Leach. 



one piece for each year of service. Mr. Leach has a very wide 

 acquaintance and many friends in the rubber goods trade and 

 he has played an important part in guiding the destinies of 

 the Goodrich company in this part of the United States. He 

 is a member of the Boston Athletic Association, Bay State Au- 

 tomobile Club, G. A. R. Associates and has been for many years 

 a trustee of the Universalist church of Stoughton. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS. 

 By Our Regular Correspondent. 



({"-pRUCKPORT.^TioN" — new terminology for freight hauling by 

 1 pneumatically equipped motor trucks — has been given 

 tremendous impetus in Boston and adjacent territory by the 

 establishment of fifteen motor truck routes by The Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co. to give speedy and regular deliveries to 

 service stations in the vicinity of Boston. 



More than 68 per cent of all distribution from the local 

 branch is being made by motor trucks, approximately 

 400,000 pounds of rubber products being transported each 

 month. It is planned to deliver eventually by truckportation 

 95 per cent of sales made by the Boston office. Over 350 

 service stations are served by the fifteen truck routes. The 

 company plans similar lines for those of its 74 branches in 

 the United States aiTected by railroad transportation tie-ups. 



The longest route running from the Boston branch is a 

 two-day "Cape Cod" trip of 250 miles from Boston to Or- 

 leans, made weekly with stops at Plymouth, Sagamore, 

 Brewster, Chatham, Woods Hole, Buzzards Bay and Ware- 

 ham. The trip serves 40 distributers. The shortest line is 

 the SO-mile run to Brockton, requiring less than eight hours 

 and serving 12 distributors. 



The 110-mile trip to Worcester is made tri-weekly in less 

 than a working day to serve 23 service stations. Other 

 routes run to Lowell, Weirs, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; 

 Marlboro, Fitchburg, Athol, Rutland, Millbury, Haverhill and 

 Gloucester, with many intermediate stops. Keene, New 

 Hampshire is the terminus of a 168-mile route that will be es- 

 tablished shortly. 



BOSTON NOTES. 



The O'Bannon Corporation, 30 State street, Boston, has 

 had the honor of being recently cited by the War Depart- 

 ment for meritorious service in the War. 



The Central Automobile Tire Co., Ill Staniford street, 

 Boston, is now a direct factory distributer for the Sterling Tire 

 Corporation, Rutherford, New Jersey. 



Lehigh tires are now available to New England motorists, 

 a branch of the parent firm known as the Lehigh New Eng- 

 land Tire Co. having been opened at 559 Columbus avenue, 

 Boston. Fred W. Dogherty is manager and will be assisted 

 in developing business in this territory by Paul H. Bradley, 

 eastern sales representative. 



The Croker Pen Co., 36 Bromfield street, Boston, has 

 awarded a contract for a one-story addition to its plant at 

 Everett, Massachusetts, 60 by 120 feet, to cost $45,000 to 

 $50,000. 



L. J. Waldron, for the last five years assistant manager 

 of the Boston branch of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., 

 Jeannette, Pennsylvania, has been promoted to the position 

 of manager of the New England territory of the same com- 

 pany, with headquarters at Boston. 



H. H. Greenwood, a pioneer in the automotive industry, and 

 for the past five years general sales manager for the Hood Tire 

 Co., Boston, is New England distributor for Syra-Cord tires, 

 with offices and salesrooms at 739 Boylston street, Boston. Mr. 

 Greenwood's firm, the S'yra-Cord Tire Sales Co., has established 

 twenty agencies throughout New England. 



