June 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



535 



NATIONAL 



ASSOCIATION OF 

 FACTURERS. 



COTTON MANU- 



AT the annual meeting of this organization held at the Copley- 

 Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts, April 25 and 26, practically 

 the whole board of government was reelected : Albert Farwell 

 Bemis for president, Russell B. Lowe and W. Frank Shove, vice- 

 presidents ; Philip Dana and John E. Rousmaniere for full terms 

 on the board of directors, Thomas H. Rennie for two years to 

 succeed R. M. Miller, resigned, and William B. MacCoU for one 

 year, to succeed William N. Kimball, resigned. 



All of the many important addresses, including a stereopticon 

 lecture on "The New Cotton Fields of the Southwest," by 

 Walter E. Packard of the University of California Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, El Centro, California, gave indication that 

 the leading men of this industry realize its importance during 

 the present critical period and the imperative need of increased 

 production of factories and farms to help sustain our burden in 

 the European conflict. National policies affecting the war were 

 discussed, and the association expressed itself in favor of select- 

 ive conscription, daylight saving, and cultivating garden plots, 

 outlined a plan for a fair tax levy to furnish the Government 

 with all the money needed, and called for a firm hand on the 

 limitation of the ultimate destination of exported American 

 cotton. An international cotton conference was advocated to be 

 held immediately upon the conclusion of the present war at some 

 convenient point in the United States, and to be composed of 

 representatives of all branches of the cotton industry in the 

 countries with which we shall at that time enjoy reciprocal trade 

 relations. 



R. M. LOEWENTHAL & CO. 



R. M. Loewenthal & Co. is the name of a recently organized 

 waste rubber concern which will confine its operations exclu- 

 sively to auto tire scrap. The head of the new company is Ralph 

 M. Loewenthal, formerly of The Loewenthal Co. and well 

 known in the waste rubber industry. The new company, with 

 offices at 51 East Forty-second street and warehouse in Buffalo, 

 New York, has a highly developed buying and sales organization. 



CANADIAN DRAWBACK ON RUBBER FABRICS. 



Canadian custom regulations issued under an order in coun- 

 cil of February 6, 1917, authorize a drawback of 99 per cent of 

 the customs duties on imported cotton fabrics which are used 

 in the manufacture in Canada of rubber belting, rubber tires, 

 and rubber tubes'. Drawback will be allowed only when the 

 duty has been paid not more than three years before the manu- 

 facture of the goods and cannot be claimed for a quantity of 

 cotton fabric in excess of the quantity of similar cotton fabric 

 used in the manufacture of rubber belting, tires, and tubes made 

 by the claimant for drawback and exported during the period 

 covered by the claim subsequent to January 1, 1917. Satis- 

 factory proof must be furnished as to the manufacture and ex- 

 portation of the goods on which drawback is claimed. 



CUTLER-HAMMER ADDS TO PLANT. 



Extensive additions to the plant of The Cutler-Hammer Manu- 

 facturing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, maker of electric con- 



FLAG RAISINGS IN RHODE ISLAND. 



The employes of the several rubber manufacturing plants 

 in Rhode Island continue to show their patriotism by 

 flag raisings and appropriate exercises, so that "Old Glory" 

 waves triumphantly from numerous staffs and out of many win- 

 dows at every rubber factory in the State. Flags are now 

 installed in nearly every department at the Davol Rubber Co. 

 plant. There was an elaborate flag raising on May 1 at the 

 boiler room and box factory of the National India Rubber Co.'s 

 plant at Bristol, and a similar flag raising at the office of the 

 factory of the International Rubber Co., at West Barrington, 

 earlv in the month. 



First of the New Units being added to the Milwaukee 

 Works of The Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co. 



trolling devices, are in progress and one of the new buildings is 

 shown in the accompanying iUustration. It is of reinforced con- 

 crete construction, fireproof throughout, six stories high and 

 extending the length of a city block. Arrangements for daylight 

 and artificial lighting are exceptionally well provided for and a 

 complete air washing system will be installed. 



NEW OFFICERS OF THE NARRAGANSETT RUBBER CO. 



At a meeting of the stockholders and directors of the Narra- 

 gansett Rubber Co., Bristol, Rhode Island, held May 17, to fill 

 the vacancies caused by the death of the president and treasurer, 

 Terrence McCarty, Mrs. James P. Murphy and Mrs. Florence F. 

 Sullivan were added to the board of directors. Robert S. Emer- 

 son, of Pawtucket, was then elected president and Miss Nora 

 Leahy, treasurer. 



Robert S. Emerson, the newly elected president, is well known 

 in the legal profession. He is a member of the law firm of Mum- 

 ford, Huddy & Emerson, of Providence, Rhode Island. He grad- 

 uated from Brown University in 1897, and for several years was 

 connected with the selling department of the National India 

 Rubber Co. In 1903 he graduated from the New York Law 

 School, beginning the practice of law the next year. For 

 nine years he was Clerk and Associate Justice of the Tenth 

 District Court of Rhode Island. In 1915 he was elected 

 Judge of the Probate Court at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 

 which office he now holds. He is also president of the Tilden 

 & Thurber Corporation, of Providence. Mr. Emerson has 

 been associated with Mr. McCarty's business since 1912, when 

 he was appointed receiver for the Consumers' Rubber Co., 

 of whicli the Narragansett Rubber Co. is the successor, and 

 is thus well qualified to fill the office to which he has just 

 been elected. 



Miss Leahy, the new treasurer of the company, was elected 

 secretary of the Consumers' Rubber Co. in 1906, to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of Mr. McCarty's son. She is 

 secretary of the Narragansett company and since Mr. Mc- 

 Carty's illness had been assistant treasurer. 



