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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN BOSTON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 

 DUSINESS continues good in nearly all lines of rubber manu- 

 '-' facture. The clothing men are not taking many orders just 

 now, but their factories are running full time on orders and some 

 overtime. Mechanicals are in pretty good demand, but really 

 are busier than usual at this season of the year. 



Footwear people have more business on their books than ever 

 before at this particular season. The call for tennis goods has 

 been unusually good, and while the withdrawal of prices on 

 the 21st had a tendency to hold back orders, the manufacturers 

 are confident of a big season's business. Drug sundries are being 

 called for. Tires are being made in many cases to full capacity 

 of the factories, and the advance of 10 per cent seems to have 

 stimulated rather than retarded business. 



The United States Rubber Co. will remove its Boston of- 

 fices about March 1. It has leased the entire five-story building, 

 130 Essex street, corner of Columbia street, recently vacated by 

 the Singer Manufacturing Co. Extensive alterations are in prog- 

 ress at this writing, which will greatly alter and improve the 

 front of the building. The interior is being thoroughly modern- 

 ized and arranged to house the footwear department on the first 

 floor, while the four upper stories will be occupied by the cloth- 

 ing department in charge of N. Lincoln Greene. 



The building is so close to the present offices of the footwear 

 department and which until recently was the salesroom of the 

 American Rubber Co.'s clothing sales department, that old cus- 

 tomers will easily find it, while the patrons of the Stoughton 

 Rubber Co. find it right in the heart of the ready-made clothing 

 section and much more central than the old headquarters of that 

 company on Summer street extension. 



The contemplated consolidation of the Stoughton Rubber Co. 

 with the clothing department of the American Rubber Co. has 

 been consummated under the name of the American Rubber Co. 

 The officers are: Lester Leland, president; Ira F. Burnham and 

 N. Lincoln Greene, vice-presidents ; H. H. Nance, treasurer ; 

 Homer E. Sawyer, general manager. N. Lincoln Greene will be 

 manager of the clothing department, E. H. Hicks serving as as- 

 sistant manager. 



The Stoughton Rubber Co. has for years been the New 

 England agents for the New York Belting & Packing Co. Now 

 the latter company has decided to operate a branch store at 65 

 Pearl street, Boston, similar to the branches in several other 

 leading cities. Fred J. Pickard has been appointed manager, and 

 is now overseeing the changes to fit the new premises for the 

 incoming stock. Mr. Pickard started with the Stoughton Rub- 

 ber Co. 20 years ago and for 16 years has sold mechanicals in 

 this territory. 



The dedication of the new building added to the plant of the 

 Apsley Rubber Co. at Hudson took place New Year's eve, when 

 nearly 2.000 employees and their families were entertained roy- 

 ally. This neft' factory building of 40 x 192 feet was given 

 over for the occasion. Each floor was profusely decorated with 

 bunting, evergreens and electric colored lights. A floor each was 

 used for games, a musical and dramatic entertainment, refresh- 

 ments, and a grand ballroom. Music was supplied by a band, 

 an orchestra and a concert company. In every way the ar- 

 rangements were carried out in the liberal manner which has 

 always characterized Mr. Apsley's entertainments for his em- 

 ployees. The disappointment of the evening was that Mr. 

 Apsley was unable to participate, as he was confined to his room 

 at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, where he has been ill with 

 the grip for over a month. At present writing, however, he has 

 so far recovered that he is expected to return to Hudson almost 

 any day. 



We shall Soon have, in Massachusetts Bay, the largest crude 

 nil motor yacht yet constructed in this country. This yacht is 

 being built for Arthur H. Marks, vice-president of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., Akron, O., and will measure 151 feet on the water 

 line, 22 feet beam, and 7.6 feet draft. It is of steel construction 

 arid will have ten spacious staterooms for the owner and guests, 

 besides ample accommodations for the crew. On the deck are 

 located the dining, chart, music and smoking rooms. The motors 

 are designed to develop 7SQ H. P. and the fuel tank capacity is 

 sufficient for a trip across the Atlantic and return. 



Mr. Marks is a yachting enthusiast and a member of the 

 Eastern Yacht Club. 



J. H. Learned, for the last 14 years sales manager of the 

 Revere Rubber Co., will hereafter confine his efforts entirely 

 to a few of the specialties of the company, turning over the gen- 

 eral sales management to Walter B. Rigdon, who comes here 

 from the San Francisco office. Previous to his going to the 

 Pacific coast Mr. Rigdon was in the Pittsburgh office of the com- 

 pany. 



The Revere Rubber Co., which is now occupying a portion of 

 the office floor of the United States Rubber Co., will remove 

 about March 1 to larger quarters. 



Richard H. Rice, General Electric Co., Lynn, is president of 

 the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, an organization re- 

 cently formed for the purpose of studying proposed legislation 

 affecting the industrial prosperity of the state and promoting 

 beneficial measures. William H. Gleason, Revere Rubber Co., 

 Chelsea, is president of the executive council, and Harry G. Fisk, 

 Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, and George E. Hall, Boston 

 Woven Hose & Rubber Co., Cambridge, are members of the 

 executive committee. 



The new year brought substantial recognition to some two 

 hundred employees of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co., 

 who had served the company for from 10 to 35 years. These 

 workers assembled in the Cambridge works on New Year's 

 afternoon and received gold coin to the total value of several 

 thousand dollars, that was distributed according to length of 

 service to those on the honor list. Addresses were made by 

 J. W. Fellows, factory manager ; Henry B. Sprague, treasurer, 

 and George E. Hall, vice-president and general manager. 



The annual election of officers of the Boston Woven Hose & 

 Rubber Co. Mutual Benefit Association was held on December 

 13 with the following results: W. A. Briggs, president; W. 

 H. Nolan, vice-president; George A. Mather, financial secretary; 

 William Burgess, treasurer ; Joseph I. Taylor, recording secre- 

 tary ; William G. McCarthy, Edward Butcher, F. R. Rowe, 

 Thomas Gormley, J. C. Long, Charles Laverty and Jack Kelley, 

 directors. The organization was started but little more than 

 a year ago, has over 600 members, no obligations, and over $1,000 

 in the treasury. 



In recognition of 25 years of service with the Boston Woven 

 Hose & Rubber Co., a dinner was recently tendered to John E. 

 Laffey, a department head, by officers of the company, department 

 heads and other business friends. He was presented with a 

 gold watch and chain as a token of esteem from his associates. 

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In the United States District Court Judge ^lorton has ap- 

 pointed John E. Eaton and Louis A. Frothingham receivers of 

 the Columbia Rubber Co., upon a petition filed by Stoneman, 

 Gould & Stoneman. The bonds were fixed at $9,500. Mr. Eaton 

 was suggested by David Stoneman as a result of agreement of 

 attorneys representing various creditors. Mr. Frothingham was 

 the choice of Judge Morton. 



The Peerless Rubber Co., which has be.en represented in 

 Boston by the Enterprise Rul?ber Co. and later by the United 

 States Rubber Co., will open its own branch store in this city 



