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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Young Co.. A. M., March 10 (Michigan), $40,000. Arthur M. 

 Young. Emanuel R. Kuhn and John J. Knight. To deal in the 

 manufacture of metal and rubber specialties. Principal address, 

 Kalamazoo, Michigan. 



TRADE NOTES. 



Pedro Rafecas is representing Rosenwald & Weil, the well- 

 known manufacturers of raincoats and allied products, Chicago, 

 Illinois, in Central and South America and Porto Rico. 



The Dryden Rubber Co., Chicago, Illinois, has added a general 

 line of typewriter accessories to its output. 



The Walpole Shoe Supply Co., a subsidiary of the Revere 

 Rubber Co., has been transferred to the new building at 60 

 High street, Boston, Massachusetts, and now operates as a 

 deparbmertt, under the name of the Revere Rubber Co. 

 The supply department will continue under the direction of 

 B. F. Chamberlain, formerly manager of the Walpole Shoe 

 Supply Co. 



The Ravenna Rubber Co., Ravenna, Ohio, notice of whose 

 incorporation appeared in the April issue of The India Rubber 

 WoRLD^ has purchased a four-story building containing about 

 45,000 feet of floor space and land covering 3^ acres to allow 

 for future additions. The building is being equipped as a factory 

 for the manufacture of rubber sundries. The company expects 

 to be producing several lines by the middle of the month and 

 to be equipped for full operation before the end of the year. 



The Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co., Inc., rubberizer of 

 textiles for the rubber raincoat manufacturing trade, formerly 

 of 89 Hope street, Brooklyn, New York, has moved to larger 

 and better quarters at Fourth avenue and Eighth street. College 

 Point, New York. Arthur C. Squires, rubber ejcpert, has laid out 

 the plant, to which have been added washers, mills, and a battery 

 of five dry heat vulcanizers. The company will wash and dry 

 crude rubber for the trade ; will compound, mill and vulcanize 

 stocks by the vapor, dry heat or open steam processes. Single 

 and double surfaced white sheetings, auto top fabrics and trans- 

 parent bathing cap fabrics will also be added to the output of 

 the factory. 



Richter & Co., Hartford, Connecticut, have obtained control 

 of 4,200 of the 5,000 shares of the Omo Manufacturing Co., mak- 

 er of dress shields, hospital sheeting and general sanitary goods 

 at Middletown, Connecticut. The annual meeting of the Omo 

 company was held May 17, at which the following board of 

 directors was elected : W. C. Fisher, Russell Manufacturing Co., 

 Middletown; Edward M. Day, Hartford; James W. DeGraff, 

 selling agent of Omo Manufacturing Co., Plainfield, New Jersey ; 

 Ferdinand Richter, Hartford ; G. Lloyd Jones, Middletown ; 

 Arthur G. Woolley, Hartford; H. M. Burr, Middletown. Later 

 the following officers were elected by the directors : Edward M. 

 Day, president; G. Lloyd Jones, vice-president; H. M. Burr, 

 treasurer; T. H. Barbour, secretary. 



The entire business, patents, registered trade-marks and good 

 will of the National Cement & Rubber Co. and the New Process 

 Vulcanizer Co., both of Toledo, Ohio, have been purchased and 

 the entire plants removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where in future the 

 business will be carried on under the name of the National Rub- 

 ber Specialties Co., manufacturing a large variety of cements, 

 oils, enamels, vulcanizers, and similar goods for cycle and auto- 

 mobile supplies. The company's address is 4433-49 Chickering 

 avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



The Columbus Rubber Co. of Montreal, Limited, is now con- 

 trolled by the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited. 

 Montreal, Canada. A meeting of the directors of both com- 

 panies held in New York City during Easter week to discuss the 

 terms of sale of stock resulted in the purchase of 2,250 shares 

 of the Columbus Rubber Co.'s stock by the Canadian Con- 

 solidated company, thus securing a controlling interest. 



SUPERINTENDENT GRANBY RUBBER FACTORY. 



CHARLKS J\. HUTCHINSON, superintendent of the Granby 

 rubber factory of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., 

 Limited, started his business life after graduating from the high 

 school at New Haven, Connecticut, his native city, as an ap- 

 prentice in a merchant tailoring establishment, but after duly 

 qualifying as a "knight of the needle and shears," he deserted 

 _ that business in 

 1892 to become 

 shipper in the L. 

 C a n d e e & Co. 

 factory. Later 

 he became cost 

 clerk, which posi- 

 tion he held for 

 ten years, and in 

 September. 1907, 

 he went to Canada 

 to become super- 

 intendent of the 

 Granby rubber 

 factory. When that 

 factory was shut 

 down three years 

 later, Mr. Hutchin- 

 son was trans- 

 ferred to the head 

 office of the Ca- 

 nadian Consoli- 

 dated Rubber Co., 

 Limited, at, Mont- 

 real, as factory 

 cost accountant. In 1915 he was appointed superintendent of 

 labor and efficiency for the company, a position which lie filled 

 with thoroughness and ability, and when the Granby factory 

 was again opened, because of the great increase of orders for 

 footwear, partly caused by the demands of the Canadian govern- 

 ment for its troops sent to the European war, Mr. Hutchinson 

 was again appointed superintendent, thus returning to the scene 

 of his earlier success. Mr. Hutchinson in his youthful days 

 was an active member and officer in the Connecticut National 

 Guard, later joining the State Naval Militia, and during the 

 Spanish-American war enlisted for active service in the United 

 States Navy. He maintains that his military and naval experi- 

 ence in handling men has greatly helped him in the positions 

 wdiich he has held. He is receiving many expressions of con- 

 grntulation on his recent transfer to Granby. 



HUTCUI 



THE RUBBER HEEL CLUB OF AMERICA. 



.\t the recent convention of the National Leather and Shoe 

 Finders' Association at Richmond, Virginia, representatives 

 of several rubber companies, which are members of that body 

 were present and formed another association under the name 

 of the Rubber Heel Club of America. The members of this 

 club are: Elastic Tip Co., Boston, Mass.; Essex Rubber Co., 

 Trenton, N. J.; Federal Rubber Co., Milwaukee. Wis.; Foster 

 Rubber Co., Boston, Mass.; O'Sullivan Rubber Co., New 

 York City; Panther Rubber Manufacturing Co.. Stoughton, 

 Mass., and Plymouth Rubber Co., Canton Junction, Mass. 

 George A. Stetson, of the Elastic Tip Co., was elected presi- 

 dent, secretary and treasurer. The full details of the organi- 

 zation have not yet been perfected, but its objects cover the 

 correction of trade evils and abuses, the education of the 

 general public in the use of rubber heels, and the general 

 improvement of the rubber heel industry. The secretary's 

 address is. Care of Elastic Tip Co., 370 Atlantic avenue,. 

 Boston, Massachusetts. 



