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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I October 1, 1916. 



millions of Rallnns of salt water which is punipcil from the har- 

 bor just south of the DeW'olf Inn to the factory, and after being 

 used is returned to the harbor. Trouble has been experienced 

 for some time because of the failure of the present pipes to carry 

 the water to the harbor, and the company is desirous of installing 

 larger pipes, and thus overcoming the difficulty. The contract 

 for the work has been awarded and it is proposed to lay iron 

 pipes 22 inches in diameter. 



The International Rubber Co. is operating its factory at West 

 Harrington on an overtime schedule evenings, in an effort to 

 catch up with rush orders, of wliich it has a large number on 

 hand for carriage cloth, upon \vl»ch the concern is at present 

 specializing. The company has just completed an important addi- 

 tion for a new filter .system. The addition is a wooden build- 

 ing, two stories high, and measures approximately 50 liy 60 feet. 



The new structure contains two sets of tanks, large enough to 

 take care of all the waste from the dyeing vats during the day. 

 Each day the waste is carried into one set of vats. The day 

 after it reaches the filtration building the liquid is first treated 

 with chemicals and then is pumped to the presses where much 

 of the sediment and precipitation is eliminated. The liquor is 

 then conducted by pipes to another tank and is passed over the 

 sand filters. When it passes through this operation it is purified 

 and its color has been changed from an inky black, in which con- 

 dition it leaves the dyehoiisg, to clear water. 



The installation of this system was made necessary because of 

 complaints that were made from owners of oyster beds near the 

 outlet of the stream into which the company's refuse water 

 flowed. Suits were brought in the State courts against the 

 International Ruliber Co. and another corporation, with damages 

 aggregating $100,000. These were finally settled and the concerns 

 agreed to take such preventive measures as would be necessary 

 to eliminate the contamination. 



P'rank B. Wilson has resigned the position of receiving clerk 

 and storekeeper at the factory of the National India Rubber Co.. 

 Bristol, after a long term of service, to accept a similar position 

 with the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., at Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, 

 taking up his new duties early in September. Mr. Wilson had 

 been employed by the National India Rubber Co. for nearly 30 

 years, 22 of which were in the position he has just resigned. Fle 

 had charge of the raw material in the company's storehouse. 



The Bourn Rubber Co., Warren street. Providence, is so driven 

 with orders in practically all of its departments that it is con- 

 stantly hiring additional help as fast as they can be placed and 

 broken in. This is especially true in the lumbermen's and arctic 

 departments. The firm is advertising for rubber shoe and 

 quarter makers and is also taking on a number of learners. 



The factory of the Narragansett Rubber Co. at Bristol closed 

 on August 31 and reopened tlie day after Labor Day. During the 

 shutdown the machinery was given a thorough overhauling and 

 a number of repairs were made. The factory is very busy on 

 orders and has enotigh work in sight for at least six moiiths or 

 more to come. Additional help is being constantly hired for all 

 departments. 



An addition that will entirely alter the appearance of the fac- 

 tory is being erected in connection with the main building at the 

 Knightsville plant of the Atlantic Tubing Co. The new portion 

 will cover in the big water tank at the top of the old structure 

 that has been such a prominent landmark. The company reports 

 an unusually busy season since something over a year ago. 



Roswell C. Colt, who has been spending his vacation with his 

 mother, Mrs. Samuel P. Colt, at her home in Bristol, has returned 

 to" Montreal, Canada, where he is purchasing agent of the Can- 

 adian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited. 



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Jolin J. Farley, fornurly foreman of tilt mechanical depart- 

 ment of the National India Rubber Co., Bristol, but now manager 

 of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, branch of the Federal Rubber Co., 

 has been spending his vacation with his mother at Bristol. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



A I.ITTLK army of machinists w-ill be put to work probably 

 ** within the next two or three weeks in.stalling tire-niaking 

 equipment in the new addition of the Ajax Rubber Co., which is 

 now rapidly Hearing completion. The addition is three stories 

 high. It is 350 by 60 feet and will enable the company to devote 

 an extra 63,000 square feet of Hoor space to the making of the 

 famous .-Vjax tires. A new engine room SO by 100 feet has also 

 been erected. .An overhead bridge coimects the new addition 

 with the main factory, which is on the opposite side of the 

 street. 



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Tile Thermoid Rubber Co. is justly proud of the record made 

 l)y its brake lining, used on the car in which S. B. Stevens re- 

 cently completed a trip from New- York to San Francisco. The 

 journey was made in the remarkable time of 5 days and ISj/. 

 hours. Thermoid brake lining was used for the cone clutch and 

 "Thermoid 100 Per Cent" for the brake lining. In addition to 

 giving perfect service on the trying journey the lining was in 

 fxcellein condition at tlie end of tlie trip. 



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 Tlic rubber industry of Trenton will 



be widely advertised, in the near future, 

 by means of miniature posters or stamps 

 to be affixed to the outgoing mail of 

 every concern connected with the trade. 

 The poster, which is in three colors, 

 sliows a tire, in the center of which is 

 the figure I't a ser'ngueiro tapping a 

 rubber tree. It is estimated that hun- 

 dreds of thousands of these stamps or 

 posters will be sent out from Trenton in the next year, thus 

 giving wide publicity to the importance of the rubber indus- 

 try ill tliis city. 



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1 he P(]st Tire and Rubber Co., which sent out a circular letter 

 to prospective stockholders, intimating that it would consolidate 

 three tire-making plants in Trenton under one head, has evidenly 

 met with disaster. \\"hen the representative of The India Rub- 

 ber NX'oRLU called at the offices of the concern to learn what 

 progress had been made in tlie consolidation plans, he was con- 

 fronted witli a notice tacked upon the office doors announcing 

 that the bank officials had obtained a distraining order covering 

 the office furniture for rent alleged to be due. President Post, 

 who, it is said, came here from Washington, D. C, to promote 

 the business, could not be located. One of the companies it was 

 planned to take over (according to the circular) announced that 

 the first intimation it had of such a move was contained in an 

 unauthorized statement in tlic letter seeking stockholders. 



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The Semple Rubber Co., which makes tubes exclusively, is 

 steadily forging ahead. It was necessary recently to take over 

 additional room for manufacturing purposes. Charles Semple, 

 president of the concern, is a rubber man of many years' experi- 

 ence. He has reduced the making of tubes to a scientific basis. 

 The uniform success that has attended hi^ efforts seems to point 



