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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1917. 



The L'niti-d States Rubber Co. has purchased outright the en- 

 tire business and chain of plants of the Rubber Goods Manufac- 

 turing Co., including the factory at Providence. Since 1905 the 

 United Slates Ruliber Co. has held a controlling interest in tlie 

 corporation that it has now taken over, and the transfer just re- 

 corded is in line with the announced policy of the parent com- 

 pany to centralize the administration of its many holdings. 



The semi-annual convention of the sales force of the Davol 

 Rul)l)er Co. was held during the week of June 18 at the office 

 in Providence. P. R. Wesley, general sales manager, was in 

 charge of the meetings, which were full of interest and instruc- 

 tion to the salesmen. For entertainment the visitors were given 

 thi- Rhode Island johnny cake and chicken dinner one day, a 

 real Rhode Island clambake the ne.xt, and on the evening of 

 * * * tlie twenty-second. C. J. Davol, president and treasurer, gave a 



Col. Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States Rubber complimentary banquet to the sales force and heads of depart- 

 Co., and a party of friends left early in the month for Col. Colt's ments During the informal talk following the banquet Mr. 

 camp in the Maine woods, where they enjoyed three weeks of Davol stated that the past six months had been the most suc- 

 fishing and camping. The camp is located on a chain of lakes at cessfnl in the history of the company, which is now in its forty- 



the base of Mount Katahdin amid beautiful scenery about 35 

 miles up the Penol)scot river from Norcross, the trip to Norcross 

 being made in canoes. Trent and bass abound in the lakes and 

 streams of this territory. 



The party consisted of the following: Mr. and Mrs. .\ndrew 

 Weeks .-Anthony, Col. and Mrs. Harold J. Gross, Dr. Calvin S. 

 May, Walter S. Ballou, Mr. and Mrs. E. .\. Barrows, Mrs. 

 Florence Beresford, Ernest Hopkinson, Countess Eleanor Mo- 

 roni, Mrs. Imogene S. Waldron, S. X. Constantinidi, Mrs. John 

 W. Bicknell, l\. Stuart Hotchkiss, Nathaniel Myers and .-V. W. 

 Bahr. 



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It may be remembered that the overseers and employes of 

 the Xational India Riiblier Co. decided to purchase a motor 

 ambulance as a memorial to the late LeBaron C. Colt, former 



vice - president 

 and manager 

 if that corpor- 

 ation, the am- 

 ;>ulance to lie 

 operated be- 

 tween Provi- 

 t nee. Paw- 



tucket, Fall 

 River, Wallum 

 Lake, etc., and 

 to be housed 



The LeB.\rox C. Colt Memori.^l Ambulance, in the garage 



at the factory 

 of the Xational company. This was believed to be a memorial 

 which would serve a useful purpose and be far more highly 

 appreciated than a tablet or a monument. The ambulance has 

 just arrived and, as shown in the illustration, is of the latest 

 design, being built expressly for the committee having the mat- 

 ter in charge. This committee consisted of George Schlosser, 

 James W. Franklin, Frederick L. Dunbar, Wendell R. Davis, 

 and Edward E. Bunn. The ambulance has a silver tablet bear- 

 ing the following inscription : "In Memory of LeBaron Carleton 

 Colt. Given by the People of Bristol, Rhode Island." 

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Pui-.i^uant to an agreement made between Jesse P. Walsh, man- 

 ager of the American Wringer Co., and a committee of the em- 

 ployes who went out on strike about the middle of last month, 

 the 600 employes of the company have returned to work. The 

 agreement is for full time and a 20 per cent bonus, instead of a 

 10 per cent one under, which the operatives had been working 

 since the strike of a year ago. 



Charles McGinley, of Woonsocket, who for the past six years 

 has been employed at the American Wringer Co.'s plant in that 

 city, has been appointed salesman of the mechanical roll depart- 

 ment. He will have for his territory the southern part of New 

 York State, all the States as far south as Georgia and as far west 

 as Ohio, and also Texas. 



The .American Wringer Co. has had constructed a large 

 garage of brick and wood in connection with its plant on Social 

 street, Woonsocket. 



third year, having been established in 1874 by Joseph Davol, 



fa'.herof the present president and treasurer. 



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The factory of th'; Xational India Rubber Co., at Bristol, in 

 its shoemaking departments, will be closed down early in .August, 

 probably the eleventh, for the period of two weeks, for the pur- 

 pose of taking -the annua! inventory of the stock on hand in raw 

 material and manufactured products, and also to make an over- 

 hauling of machinerj' and equipment. 



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Thomas S. Walker, for several years connected with the Woon- 

 socket Rubber Co., and later with the Lycoming Rubber Co,, at 

 Williamsport, Pennsylvania, has been transferred to St. Louis 

 for organization work at the new factory of the United States 



Ru'iber Co. in that city. 



J. H. Kelley. 



HEWITT RUBBER CO. EXPANSION. 



The Hewitt Rubber Co., Buffalo, New York, which has at- 

 tained a high reputation for its manufactures of belting, hose, 

 mechanicals and railway specialties, will add automobile tires 

 to its line of products, and plans are 

 well under way for the erection of a 

 lire factory adjacent to its present 

 plant, to have a capacity of 5,000 tires 

 a day. It will increase its capital stock 

 from' $500,000 to $1,000,000. 



The general management of the busi- 

 ness is now intrusted to the newly 

 elected vice-president, John H. Kelley, 

 who retired from the Republic Rubber 

 Co., ^'oungstown, Ohio, after 14 years' 

 service, to assume this position. Mr. 

 Kelley is one of the best known tire 

 men in the Middle West. For nine years 

 he had charge of the Chicago branch of 

 the Republic Rubber Co., and in 1912, on the death of Vice- 

 President Lomasney, he became vice-president of the company. 

 .Another notable addition to the management is F. V. Springer, 

 j who has also been made a vice-president. Mr. Springer was 

 connected with the Republic Rubber 

 Co. for over ten years, and held the 

 important position of manager of sales 

 of the railway department of that com- 

 pany. He will act as assistant to Mr. 

 Kelley, and as special representative of 

 the company. 



H. H. Hewitt continues as president, 

 and W. C. Mullett is secretary and 

 treasurer. The acquisition of this group 

 of experienced leaders naturally means 

 a still further expansion of the com- 

 pany's business, in its present lines of 



„ ,. „ manufacture, and a similar enterprise 



F. V. Springer. , . . . , ,. , 



and activity m the new line of manu- 

 facture upon which it is entering. 



