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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1917. 



80,000 square feet, and will give employment to 1,200 more men 



about the first of March. 



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Arthur Carr has been made general superintendent of the 

 Revere Rubber Works, Providence. Although but little more 

 than 30 years of age, Mr. Carr has been in the employ of this 

 concern for several years, and foreman of at least half a dozen 

 of the departments of the plant. He is now at the head of all 

 departments, being assistant to factory manager VV. H. Waite. 



The .'Arcade Rubber Co.. which has taken over the store of 

 the Decker Rubber Co., 76 Weybossct street, Providence, is being 

 conducted by the Direct Rubber Co., 47 Pine street, of which 

 Elw\n C. Thayer is treasurer. 



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John M. Xorris, who was employed for many years with the 

 National India Rubber Co. at Bristol, and later as foreman in 

 the calender department of the International Rubber Co. at West 

 Harrington, died at the State hospital at Howard, January 17, 

 after a long illness. He was 53 years of age and a native of 

 Bristol, where he has a wife, two sons and a daughter. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



/^NE of the most important happenings for a long time in 

 ^^ the rubber field of Trenton was the formal reorganization 

 this week of the Empire Rubber and Tire Co., with a capital 

 of $1,500,000 preferred and $3,000,000 common stock. The new 

 president, succeeding General C. Edward Murray, is J. E. Baum, 

 president of the Supplee-Biddle Hardware Co., Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, and a director of the Corn Exchange Bank. Gen- 

 eral Murray still retains a substantial interest in the company, 

 although he disposed of some of his stock at the time of the 

 reorganization. His son, C. Edward Murray, Jr., is vice-presi- 

 dent, and his other son. J. Cornell Murray, is treasurer of the 

 company. 



Other officers of the new company, not enumerated above, are : 

 E. B. McKay and J. A. Perkins, vice-presidents; A. Boyd Cor- 

 nell, 'secretary. The board of directors is made up of J. E. 

 Baum, General C. Edward Murray, J. Cornell Murray, E. B. 

 McKay and F. A. Forbes. 



Mr. McKay was for many years Chicago manager of the Em- 

 pire company. A. Boyd Cornell, the secretary, has also been 

 long identified with the concern. Some of the new capitalists 

 are said to be heavily interested in automobile manufacturing, 

 and this of itself, it is thought, will aid in greater development 

 of the Empire plant. It is expected that the present capacity 

 will be about doubled before the end of the present year. 

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Justice Kalisch, of the New Jersey Supreme Court, has handed 

 down an opinion reversing the decision of Judge Marshall, of 

 the Mercer County Court, in the case of Arthur F. Foley, travel- 

 ing salesman for the Home Rubber Co., who was drowned when 

 the steamer "Lusitania" w^as torpedoed in May, 1915. Mrs. 

 Foley brought suit for $3,000 under the workmen's compensa- 

 tion act. .-Xn insurance company defended the suit and the Home 

 Rubber Co. was not a party to the action. Judge Marshall de- 

 cided against the widow. 



Justice Kalisch, in reversing this decision, sets forth some legal 

 facts which will doubtless be of interest to all employers of 

 traveling men. Justice Kalisch says that Judge Marshall's de- 

 termination of fact was apparently founded upon a misconcep- 

 tion of the legal principle applicable to it. The trial judge, he 

 states, appears to have disposed of the facts upon the mistaken 

 notion that in order to hold a master responsible for an injury 

 to his employe as a result of an accident, the accident must be 

 one of which the actual negligence is the natural and proximate 

 cause. It is clear from a plain reading of the statutes, Justice 



Kalisch holds, that the (|uestion of negligence does not enter 

 into the consideration at all where compensation is sought under 

 section two of the act. It was advanced for the defendants that 

 the torpedoing was soinething not reasonably to have been an- 

 ticipated. The rubber company. Justice Kalisch holds, knew- 

 that h'oley, its agent, was booked upon the "Lusitania" and it 

 was legally bound to take notice that because of a condition of 

 war between Germany and Great Britain, ships might be cap- 

 lured or sunk. Precedents show that if the vessel had been lost 

 through collision, fire or storm, the mishap would have been 

 construed as one arising out of Mr. Foley's employment. The 

 fact that the ship was lost by an extraordinary peril does not 

 make it less an accident arising out of employment. The case 

 will now be placed on schedule for another trial. 



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A case of history faking which aroused interest throughout 

 New Jersey and in which the late Frank A. Magowan, one-time 

 rubber king, was the central figure, has just been rectified, much 

 to the satisfaction of his friends. Many years ago Mr. Ma- 

 gowan gave unsparingly of time and money, and was one of the 

 prime movers in a plan to have the Battle of Trenton com- 

 memorated by a suitable monument. I'inally, after years of 

 effort, Congress agreed to bear part of the expense. Mr. Ma- 

 gowan was appointed a member of the Battle Monument Asso- 

 ciation, composed of about a dozen prominent men, in charge of 

 the erection of the monument and its care after its completion. 

 No appointments were to be made to fill vacancies caused by 

 death, and following the demise of the last member, the work 

 devolved upon the State. After Mr. Magowan met with re- 

 verses some years ago and finally drifted low on the social and 

 financial scale, his name was secretly chiseled from the bronze 

 tablet in the monument and the name of another man substi- 

 tuted. The official picture of the Monument Association was 

 also doctored so that the face and head of another man was 

 placed where that of Mr. Magowan had been. Now, thanks to 

 the work of his son and the efforts of a local newspaper, the 

 wrong has been righted and both name and picture have been 



restored. 



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The .\jax Rubber Co. has increased its capital stock from 



$5,000,000 to $10,000,000. 



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VV. J. B. Stokes, the rubber manufacturer, has been reelected 



a director of the Broad Street Bank. 



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The newly finished State museum was opened this week in the 

 State House. One of the exhibits is from the United & Globe 

 Rubber Manufacturing Cos. It shows rubber in process of manu- 

 facture from a crude state to a finished automobile tire. This 



firm is erecting a $1,000 addition to its plant. 



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.-\ dinner was recently given by the officers of the Thermoid 

 Rubber Co. in honor of the branch managers of the concern 

 who were in Trenton for an annual conference. Those present 

 were: J. Oliver Stokes, president; W. J. B. Stokes, treasurer; 

 Robert J. Stokes, secretary; Dale O. Pohlman, sales manager; 

 Joseph Liston, Chicago, Illinois; George W. Whittemore, Bos- 

 ton, Massachusetts ; L. T. Kuhl and J. W. Pohlman, Indianapolis, 

 Indiana; J. N. Kirk, Jr., New York City; Harold F. Blanchard, 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



A RUBBER SPONGE PEN-WIPER. 



A suggestion for cleaning steel pens, said to be decidedly more 

 efficacious than the ordinary pen-wiper, is to place a rubber 

 sponge, wet with glycerin, in a glass holder, the sponge remain- 

 ing moist and always ready for use. The ink is absorbed from 

 the pen by contact with the glycerin, a thin layer of which ad- 

 heres to the pen, preserving it and making it take the ink at once 

 when dipped. 



