July 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



563 



The Davidson Rubber Co. has recently sold to the De Vilbiss 

 Manufacturing Co.. Toledo, Ohio, a portion of its hard rubber 

 equipment, and it was reported that the Davidson company wa5 

 about to retire from hard rubber manufacture and use the space 

 formerly devoted to this branch for the development of soft rubber 

 specialties. I am in a position to contradict this story. The only 

 equipment which the Davidson company has sold is that pertaining 

 to the manufacture of hard rubber parts for atomizers. Aside 

 from that, the Davidson company's hard rubber department will 

 continue as usual. ♦ * * 



Mention was made in my letter last montli of the completion 

 of new buildings of the Boston Woven liose & Rubber Co., and 

 I am sending you a photograph of one of the new buildings in 

 order to show their character and stability. This is the smaller 

 of the recently added buildings, measuring 155 by 60 feet. Like 



the others, it is of reinforced concrete construction. This 

 structure will be used mainly for storage purposes, although 

 one floor will be devoted to the comfort and convenience of 

 the employes during their noon hour, tables being provided for 

 those who bring their lunch, while a lunch counter will be 

 established where food will be furnished practically at cost. 

 There will be facilities also for entertainment, thus adding to 

 the welfare work already established by the company. A sim- 

 ilar building just completed is used for a machine shop, the 

 manufacture of garden hose, and for storage. This is also 

 60 feet wide and more than 200 feet long, and is provided with a 

 traveling crane in the center bay which extends the full length 

 of the building. The company has just broken ground for 

 another building, 165 by 60 feet, four stories, also of this same 

 solid concrete construction, which building will be used to ex- 

 tend the manufacture of friction tape, rubberized fabrics, etc. 



The strike at the Revere Rubber Co. factory at Chelsea has 

 now lasted a month, with prospects of a long continuance. The 

 strikers demand a nine-hour day and 50 hours a week for men, 

 and a 48-hour week for women, as well as an increase on piece- 

 work l)asis. At a conference between the strike committee and 

 Superintendent Scribner on the 19th of June no agreement was 

 reached. In an interview, Mr. Scribner said he has only the 

 kindliest feeling for the men, that he regrets the continuance of 

 the strike, but sees no prospect of an early settlement. 



The Standard Woven Fabric Co., manufacturer of "Multi- 

 bestos" products and rubber specialties, is installing new equip- 

 ment and making important changes in the plant at Walpole 

 which it recently purchased. This will give the company a 

 much needed addition to its present facilities for the manu- 

 facture of clutch linings which is now being carried on at the 

 plant at Framingham. The business of this company has been 

 so important and so pressing as to necessitate working upon a 

 day and night schedule, but it is hoped that as soon as enough 



machinery is installed at Walpole, it will be possible to discon- 

 tinue production at Framingham, and to move the whole equip- 

 ment from there to the newly acquired property at Walpole. 

 In this connection the company will develop a business in 

 friction and insulating tapes for the electrical trade, the Wal- 

 pole property lieing particularly adapted for this line of manu- 

 facture. The company has closed a contract to manufacture 

 rubber heels for the Panther Rubber Co., Stoughton. It is 

 reported that the contract calls for a maximum output of 100 

 gross per day, and the company has already started on this work. 



Everett Morss, president of the Simplex Wire & Cable Co., 

 of this city, which has had a successful profit-sharing plan in 

 operation for 15 years, is scheduled to speak at the Third An- 

 nual Babson Conference on Cooperation at Wellesley Hills, 

 Massachusetts, in September. Vice-Chairman Edward N. Hur- 

 ley, of the Federal Trade Commission, has also accepted an 

 invitation to speak, and others who are interested in profit- 

 sharing are expected. Mr. Morss's address last year excited 

 keen interest on account of the simplicity and directness of his 

 ideas on profit-sharing. 



The F. S. Carr Co., of this city, has removed its Canadian 

 factory from Tilbury. Ontario, to Granby. Quebec, where it has 

 bought the premises formerly occupied by the Walpole Rubber 

 Co. This is a five-story brick main factory and a brick cement 

 mixing building, and is in every respect an up-to-date establish- 

 ment. The Carr company will manufacture a line of rubber heels 

 and shoe factory supplies, automobile fabrics, rubber sheetings 

 and hospital supplies. This, of course, is an auxiliary factory for 

 supplying Canadian trade. No change will be made in the Fram- 

 ingham, Massachusetts, plant. The Canadian factory is in charge 

 of P. G. Dunham, who went to Granby seven years ago, and 

 organized and managed the Walpole company's factory there, and 

 later assumed the supervision of the Walpole, Massachusetts, 

 plant, resigning two years ago to take charge of the Carr com- 

 pany's Canadian business. 



The new mill of the .\merican Tire Fabric Co.'s plant in Xew- 

 buryport is now nearly completed and equipment is soon to be 

 installed. It is a brick structure, 186 feet long and from 20 to 64 

 feet wide. This concern is a successor to the American Textilose 

 Co. It is expected to give employment to about 80 hands at the 

 start. 



At the National Shoe and Leather Market-Fair, which is 

 to be held in this city the week of July 12 to 19, the follow- 

 ing manufacturers will exhibit : Panther Rubber Co., Essex 

 Rubber Co., Federal Rubber Co., The B. F. Goodrich Co., Avon 

 Sole Co., Revere Rubber Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. All 

 of these are manufacturers of rubber soles and heels, but only 

 one manufactures boots and shoes. This might seem strange at 

 first thought, but practically the season's business in rubber foot- 

 wear has already been placed and this may be the reason why 

 none of the other rubber boot and shoe manufacturers have 

 thought it expedient to make exhibits. 



Hudson, Massachusetts, holds its fiftieth anniversary of in- 

 corporation as a town the second, third and fourth of this month 

 and there will be a general celebration appropriate to the Fourth 

 of July, and also an industrial exhibit at the Armory, of goods 

 manufactured in Hudson. The Apsley Rubber Co. will show a 

 full line of all its diflferent styles of goods, and will have in 

 operation machinery for manufacturing. Operatives will show 

 the making of boots and shoes and rubber clothing. Hudson 

 was named for the only member of Congress elected from that 

 place previous to its date of incorporation and the only other 

 member of Congress from that town is the Hon L. D. Apsley, 

 who will deliver an address on this occasion. 



