July 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



601 



TKADE KOTES. 



To meet the demands of constantly increasing business the 

 New York Rubber Co., New York City, has increased its capital 

 stock from $300,000 to $500,000. 



Gaston, Williams & Wigmore, Inc., New Y'ork City, have re- 

 moved their offices from the Guaranty Trust Building to the 

 Equitable Building, 120 Broadway. 



The recently issued annual report of the Westinghouse Elec- 

 tric & Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows 

 a surplus of nearly double that of the year before. During the 

 12 months ending last March the company did a gross business 

 of $89,539,442, on which it realized a net manufacturing profit 

 of $17,461,690. Over a million dollars of miscellaneous income, 

 including interest, dividends and royalties, brought the profit up 

 to the $18,000,000 mark. 



The New Jersey Testing Laboratories, Montclair, New Jersey, 

 have recently completed e-xtensive additions to their offices and 

 laboratories, the latter now occupying three buildings and being 

 equipped to handle a large amount of research work, carrying 

 tests to the semi-commercial stage, if desired. 



The New York City offices of the General Electric Co. have 

 been removed from 30 Church street to 120 Broadway, in the 

 Equitable Building. 



The L. Candee & Co., New Haven, Connecticut, has purchased 

 the property of the Connecticut Pie Co. adjoining its plant and 

 also the property belonging to the Yale Brewing Co. No 

 definite plans have yet been formulated with reference to the 

 use of these real estate acquisitions. 



After July 1 the Oak Rubber Co., formerly operating in 

 Akron, will be located in Ravenna, Ohio, this change being neces- 

 sary to secure satisfactory quarters for the increased produc- 

 tion of toy balloons, the company's exclusive product. Two and 

 one-half acres located on North Chestnut street on the Erie 

 Railroad, have been secured, and a factory will soon be built 

 on this property. 



Formal transfer was made of the Adams & Ford Co. property 

 at Cleveland, Ohio, to the United States Rubber Co., New York 

 City, on June 1. The .\dams & Ford Co. is one of the oldest 

 and largest distributers of rubber footwear in the Middle West 

 and is the owner of the "Everstick" rubber. 



The Kemp Rubber Co., Buffalo, New York, has moved to 246 

 Washington street. This concern, which has been operating for 

 20 years, carries a general line of rubber merchandise. 



The Gillette Rubber Co., Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has com- 

 menced operation. 



It is reported that the Dowse Rubber Co., recently incor- 

 porated, plans to take over an already equipped plant in Chicago, 

 Illinois, and that the product of the company will be stamped 

 "Dowse-Durability." 



POLACK TYRE & RUBBER CO, APPOINTMENTS. 



G. H. Miller has been appointed manager of sales and ad- 

 vertising for the Polack company, with headquarters at the 

 New York City office. 



William Domnich has been made representative of the com- 

 pany at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



H. J. Kenney is manager of the branch at New Haven, 

 Connecticut. 



Carl Theodore Goldenberg acts as representative in the 

 Virginia territory, with headquarters at Lynchburg. 



Earl H. Pellett has been appointed manager of the Boston. 

 Massachusetts, branch and will also supervise the Providence, 

 Rhode Island, territory. 



C. W. Smith has been made manager of the Washington, 

 D. C, territory. 



THE REPUBLIC COMPANY'S NEW PRESIDENT. 



AT a recent meeting of the Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown, 

 Ohio, Guy S. Norwood was elected president. Mr. Nor- 

 wood is well fitted to assume this important position, having 



been intimately 

 connected with the 

 rubber business 

 since the opening of 

 this century. He is 

 still a young man, 

 having been born in 

 Allegany, New 

 \ ork, in February, 

 1876. After com- 

 pleting his educa- 

 tion, which was ob- 

 tained at the local 

 schooLs, the Cook 

 .Academy at Mon- 

 tour Falls. New 

 ^'ork, and Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, 

 .Xew York, Mr. 

 Norwood went to 

 the Eastman Kodak 

 Co., Rochester, New 

 Campbell Studio. ''°''^' '" 1^98 as in- 



G. S. Norwood. dustrial engineer. In 



1901 he entered the 

 engineering department uf The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, five years later resigning to accept the management of the 

 cost department of the Diamond Rubber Co., Akron. In 1910 

 he became director and assistafit treasurer of that company and 

 wdien the corporation was consolidated with The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co. in 1912 he was elected to the directorship and given the 

 position of assistant treasurer of the Goodrich company. In 

 1913 he became assistant secretary and early this year was elected 

 secretary, the position which he resigned in order to accept the 

 presidency of the Republic Rubber Co. 



Mr. Norwood is a man of pleasing personality and has a wide 

 circle of friends in the ruljljer business who will wish him 

 every success in his new position. He is a member of the Amer- 

 ican Society of Political and Social Science and of the Franklin 

 Institute. Fie is a thirty-second degree Mason, is treasurer of 

 the Young Men's Christian Association of Akron and a member 

 of the Akron University Club, of which he was president last 

 year. 



Ill this connection it might be well to mention that Thomas 

 L. Robinson, former president of the Republic company, will 

 continue as chairman of the hoard and in charge of the financial 

 management of the corporation. 



"Rubber Machinery," Mr. Pearson's newest book, filled with 

 valuable information for rubber manufacturers, is now ready for 

 mailing. Price, $6. 



EXPAN.SI0N OF THE VULCAN RUBBER CO. 



The Vulcan Rubber Co.. Erie, Pennsylvania, is liuilding a 

 railroad siding to its plant from the line of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad. The new brick, fireproof factory buildings are also 

 under construction, one three stories high and the other a one- 

 story structure. An additional calender, mills and other equip- 

 ment have been ordered and it is hoped to have the new buildings 

 in operation by .August 1. The present plant is being operated 

 day and night on the company's products — inner tubes, solid 

 truck tires, cements and tire accessories — and the manufacture 

 of a hand-made fabric automobile tire is contemplated. The 

 officers of the Vulcan company are as follows : M. Liebel, Jr., 

 president ; Edward Hcuer, vice-president and treasurer ; Bernard 

 Cochran, secretary. 



