November 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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horse-drawn traffic has decreased 5 per cent per year, while motor 

 vehicle traffic has increased 70 per cent per year. This is the 

 result of a systematic count, taken at 238 points, 14 hours per 

 day, for seven days. In 1912 the proportion was 63 per cent 

 motor vehicles and 37 per cent horse-drawn. The 1915 census 

 of traffic showed 82V2 per cent motors and 17'/2 per cent horse 

 vehicles. During the six-year period the total traffic increased 145 

 per cent, but motor vehicles increased 420 per cent and horse 

 vehicles decreased 30 per cent. There were practically no motor 

 trucks in 1909, but the increase from 1912 to 1915 was 230 per 

 cent. 



These are accurate figures. They apply to 1915. Any one at 

 all familiar with the trade knows that 1916 should show an even 

 greater proportionate increase over the previous year. It would 

 not seem far out of the way to estimate an increase of 100 per 

 cent this year over last, and a proportionate augmentation of the 

 tire business. ♦ * * 



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

 bestos" products, and rubber specialties, which recently acquired 

 the plant of the Walpole Rubber Co., at Walpole, has sold its 

 plant at Framingham to the Bela Body Co., manufacturer of 

 automobile bodies, whicli will remove there from Amesbury, 

 Massachusetts. * * * 



The Lations Manufacturing Co., of Worcester, manufacturer 

 of suspenders and other elastic webbed goods, has moved to 

 larger quarters, having leased some 6,100 square feet of floor 

 space in the new addition of the New England Corset Co.'s 

 building, on Green street, in that city. This change will more 

 than double the capacity of the first-mentioned company. 



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The plant formerly occupied by the Bemis Rubber Co., near 

 Bemis station, in Watertovvn, has been sold to the Sawyer 

 Products Co. of East Cambridge. The premises consist of 2yz 

 acres of land, and factory buildings with an aggregate floor space 

 of about 17,000 square feet. There is also a railroad siding con- 

 necting with the Boston and Maine railroad. The new owners 

 will make extensive improvements and will operate the factory 

 in the manufacture of an entirely new product. 



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Merton A. Turner, sales manager of the Monatiquot Rubber 

 Works Co., South Braintree, Massachusetts, and Miss Olive H. 

 Grant were married at the residence of the bride, in Braintree, 

 on October 11. The marriage wa5 a quiet one, only immediate 

 relatives of the bride and groom being present. The honeymoon 

 was spent on an automobile trip. Mr. Turner has a host of 

 friends in the trade who are sending congratulations. 



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Charles W. Barnes, of the New York City office of the United 

 States Rubber Co., was in Boston a week ago on a sad errand. 

 He was a resident here previous to his transfer to the head office, 

 and his aged mother made her home in Cambridge. Last month 

 the old lady, ninety years of age, visited friends in New Glasgow, 

 Nova Scotia, and on the 19th, died in a house but a short dis- 

 tance from the one in which she was born. Mr. Barnes brought 

 the body to this city for burial. 



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Frederick C. Hood, of the Hood Rubber Co., opened tlie at- 

 t-active grounds of his estate, in Brookline, the 7th of last month, 

 for the exhibtion of puppies by the Airedale Terrier Club of New 

 England. Mr. Hood's estate was an ideal place for the show, 

 t'.e residence situated at the top of a hill, and the judging ring 

 was one of the terraces leading to the garden. Mr. Hood was 

 awarded a prize for his "Boxwood Bingley Bountiful." 



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Ira A. Burnham, vice-president of the American Rubber Co., 

 is nursing a broken collar bone, the result of an automobile 

 accident. Mrs. Burnham had three ribs fractured at the same 

 time. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



■"PIRE manufacturers here are much interested in the Egan 

 ■*■ good roads bill, which is to be voted upon by the people 

 of New Jersey at the November election. The bill provides 

 for the appropriation of several millions of dollars to be ex- 

 pended in building good roads from one end of the State to 

 the other. One of the results of the law's enactment, it is be- 

 lieved, would be a big boost to the auto and, consequently, to 



the tire business. 



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An electrical show will be held in Masonic Temple, December 

 6, at which time there will be a display of insulated wire and 

 hard rubber goods used in connection with electrical devices. 



* * * 



William R. Thropp & Sons, Co., the well-known rubber ma- 

 chinery house, has found it necessary, owing to the increase of 

 its business, to purchase additional real estate, adjoining its 

 plant, on East State street. 



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John M. Miller, for 17 years with the Empire Rubber Tire Co., 

 of this city, has been appointed manager of the Cleveland, Ohio, 

 plant of the Poison Rubber Co. He will enter upon his new 

 duties the first part of November. 



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Dale O. Pohlman, sales manager of the Thermoid Rubber Co., 

 returned about the middle of last month from a trip during 

 which he visited the St. Louis, Indianapolis, Chicago and Detroit 

 branches of the company. 



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J. M. Dawson has been placed under arrest here on the charge 

 of passing bogus checks, some of which he is said to have used 

 to defraud people in the rubber trade. According to the police, 

 Dawson obtained a facsimile of the checks used by the Crescent 

 Insulated Wire & Cable Co. Several checks, alleged to have 

 been passed by Dawson, were received, in due course by the 

 First National Bank of Trenton and were declared to be forger- 

 ies. * * * 



The John A. Roebling Sons Co., of this city, has leased a 

 five-story and basement warehouse at 223-227 Arch street, Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania. The building, it is said, will be used for 

 making wire goods and for storage purposes. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 

 ■yV/HILE the several rubber factories throughout the State 

 '" continue to report an unprecedented business activity, 

 the increasing scarcity of desirable help is causing considerable 

 worriment. Goods of every description are being shipped in 

 large quantities daily, and to all parts of the world. Rubber 

 shoes of all kinds are being distributed to every section of this 

 country and to many foreign ports. Tennis shoe orders are 

 large. » * * 



Some time ago the employes of the Revere Rubber Co., Olney- 

 ville, with the assistance of the officials, formed a "safety first" 

 committee, and great strides are being made in the company's 

 plant in the work of protecting the employes. In a large rubber 

 manufacturing establishment such the Revere company's, acci- 

 dents are more or less numerous, because of the number of 

 grinding and other large machines. The "safety first" body has 

 been going through the plant in a .systematic manner, covering 

 up the dangerous parts of the machinery, and educating the 

 emi)loyes to be more careful at their daily toil and to take bet- 

 ter care of themselves. As a result of this work, the number 

 of accidents has been reduced, until the hospital of the plant, a 

 modern improvement recently cstabhshed, is amply al)Ie to at- 

 tend to all the cases. 



