March 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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to $18,000, declaring a stock dividend of 125 per cent for this 

 purpose. The business of the last year has increased over the 

 past five years by 150 per cent, and the company is planning to 

 increase its facilities very materially in the near future. 



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The Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co., Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts, plans to double its authorized common stock from $2,- 

 000,000 to $4,000,000. 



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The good ship "Hypatia," often referred to as the flag-ship 

 of the Monatiquot Rubber Works Co., has been offered for war 

 service to the government by her owner, James H. Stedman. 

 treasurer of the company. 



In case of necessity she will be assigned to the Scout Patrol 

 fleet now being organized by the government, and made up 

 of privately owned crafts. A power boat of the "Hypatia's" type 

 is manned by a crew of five. She will carry a large gun forward 

 and an anti-aircraft gun at the stern. 



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A number of young men employed in the branch store and 

 the selling agency of the United States Rubber Co. in this city 

 have formed a self-culture club, and will hold weekly meetings at 

 the Boston Young Men's Christian Union building. The speaker 

 on February 14 was W. E. Piper, superintendent of the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden, who gave an instructive talk which 

 was highly appreciated. At a later meeting Samuel S. C. 

 Chilcote, assistant to President Hotchkiss of the General Rubber 

 Co., spoke on plantation rubber. Mr. Piper succeeded Frank A. 

 Locke as superintendent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.'s fac- 

 tories, when Colonel Locke was elected president of the Boston 

 Young Men's Christian Union some years ago. Since then this 

 latter institution has greatly broadened its field of usefulness 

 and is doing splendid social and educational work, and much 

 of this extension of influence must be credited to this ex-member 

 of the rubber industry. 



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Norman W. Biggart, of Danbury, Connecticut, representative of 

 the Mohawk Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, had an exciting expe- 

 rience on the morning of the 10th of last month when the Hotel 

 Lenox of this city caught fire. Mr. Biggart occupied a room on the 

 seventh floor, where his escape by the stairway was cut off. He 

 was rescued, however, by firemen, who reached him by an aerial 

 ladder and conducted him safely to the ground. 



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Another rubber man who had a similar experience was A. H. 

 Kerr, of the Chicago, Illinois, branch of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co. He was awakened by the roar of the fire, and when 

 he opened his door, was met by the advancing flames. Going 

 to the window, he threw out a pillow, to attract the attention of 

 the firemen, who immediately placed a ladder to his window, 

 so that he escaped without injury. Mr. Kerr is a salesman in 

 the heel and sole department of the company, and attended a 

 conference of that division in New York a few days previous. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN AKRON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



■ I 'HE policy of The B. F. Goodrich Co. to encourage national 

 •*■ military training is practically demonstrated in the offer 

 of this company to employ Akron soldiers who enlisted and went 

 to the border, in case they find their places in business houses 

 filled on their return home. The operating committee states 

 that the Goodrich factory can take care of all the soldiers from 

 Akron who are able to qualify physically. 



The $10,000 prize given by the Goodrich company for the 

 championship in driving contests throughout the year was recently 

 awarded at the drivers' dinner at Chicago, Illinois, Dario Resta 



receiving the lion's share. Resta used Silvertown tires exclu- 

 sively throughout the 1916 racing season. 



C. E. Cook has -been promoted to an 

 important post at the Akron factory, in 

 connection with the direction and 

 operation of the 120 branches and 

 stores and their thousands of em- 

 ployes selling Goodrich products. Mr. 

 Cook was formerly manager of the Pa- 

 cific Coast territory. As an evidence 

 of the esteem in which he was held 

 there his associates gave him a dinner 

 and presented to him an elaborate 

 ^^ silver service. 



. E. Cook. 



Tlie Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. makes the interesting an- 

 nouncement that at last a circus is to be motorized by the United 

 States Circus Corporation at a cost of $1,000,000, and that the 

 100 3}/2-ton Kelly-Springfield trucks and 100 heavy Troy trailers 

 necessary to move a six-ring show, together with the 1,200 per- 

 sons, horses, menagerie and other miscellaneous paraphernalia 

 are to be equipped with Giant single-tread solid tires. Never 

 before has such an opportunity arisen to demonstrate conclusively 

 the relative merits of single and dual tread tires for heavy 

 transportation. 



W. A. Bryan has been appointed to fill the recently created 

 position of master mechanic at the Firestone factory. Mr. Bryan 

 was formerly superintendent of the Akron motor truck plant of 

 the International Harvester Corporation. 



Two industrial fellowships in the study of the chemistry of 

 India rubber have been established at the Municipal University 

 of Akron, one by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and the other 

 by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Cov These fellowships will yield 

 $300 per year each and will be open to graduates of standard 

 American colleges who have completed a thorough college course 

 in chemistry and are recognized as students of excellent ability. 

 By action of the directors of the university, the holder will be 

 exempt from all fees and will render certain services in instruc- 

 tion and laboratory supervision. At the end of the year of work 

 at the Municipal University the holder of the fellowship will enter 

 the employ of the company which has provided the fellowship, 

 with the advantage of the basic knowledge of rubber chemistry 

 acquired at the laboratory of the university. 



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The American Rubber & Tire Co. has let the contract for a 

 108 by 40-foot, four-story building of steel and brick construction, 

 up-to-date in every respect. This addition will be used for the 

 general extension of all departments of the plant, especially for 

 the manufacture of the company's "Triple A" pneumatic tire and 

 for the cord tire recently added to its line. 



The capital stock of the company has been increased from 

 $500,000 to $1,000,000, $250,000 of which will be issued immediately. 

 As this amount has already been provided for, the stock will not 

 be offered to the general public. 



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At the recent annua! meeting of the .^kron Rubber Mold & 

 Machine Co. the largest business in the history of the company 

 was reported, and it was voted to buy further machinery and 

 increase the production in 1917. The regular dividend was 

 declared and officers reelected for the ensuing year, as follows : 

 S. W. Harris, president and general manager; W. E. Wilson,, 

 vice-president and assistant general manager, and G. F. Hobach, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



This company has purchased about eight acres of ground, be- 

 sides two tracts adjoining the present plant, for enlargement 

 purposes, but has not yet decided when to build on the newly 

 acquired property. 



