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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1917. 



the latter despite the fact that the summer is half gone. This 

 state of affairs applies equally to the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. 

 and the Converse Ruliher Shoe Co., of Maiden, The American 

 Rubber Co.. of Cambridge, the Apsley Rubber Co., of Hudson, 

 and the Hood Rubber Co., of Watertown. The belting and pack- 

 ing factories are also busy, the Boston Woven Hose & Belt- 

 ing Co. rushing in practically all its departments, while the de- 

 mand for jar rings is in millions. The Boston Belting Co. 

 has been running double or triple time a portion of the last 

 two months. The Apsley Rubber Co.. Hudson, and the Frank- 

 lin Ruliber Co., of Maiden, are making ponchos on government 

 contracts. Tlie Revere Rubber Co., of Chelsea, was never busi- 

 er, and the same reports or similar ones come from the makers 

 of coated fabrics and artificial leather for carriage and auto- 

 mobile tops and upholstery. 



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The Hood Rubber Co. plant, with its recent enlargements, 

 mentioned in a former letter, is just buzzing with industry, and 

 the output shows the remarkable progress of the company's 

 business. The daily product of this big plant includes 40,000 

 pairs of rubber boots and shoes, 36,000 pairs of canvas foot- 

 wear. 750 tires, 600 tubes and 80 solid rubber tires. Few com- 

 panies in the industry can boast of greater progress than has 

 been made by the Hood Rubber Co., wdiich started in one small 

 factory not so very many years ago. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 

 .salesrooms in this city are on Boylston 

 street in the automobile district, where 

 the company occupies a handsome 

 business dniilding including fine show- 

 rooms. But this is certainly an incon- 

 venient place for footwear men to visit 

 and the company has just opened a 

 sample room for the sale of its 

 "Neolin" soles in the heart of the shoe 

 and leather district, at 283 Essex street. 

 This office is in charge of J. H. Willett, 

 who serves as special representative 

 lor these soles to the wholesale trade. 

 yiv. Willett has a wide acquaintance 

 in the footwear trade, having traveled 

 over the entire country for prominent 

 lirms as well as with shoes made in 

 Ills own factor}-. His retirement from 

 the shoe manufacturing business a 

 year or two ago was preliminary to 

 forming this business connection with 

 the Akron company for presenting to 

 the shoe manufacturers of the country 

 the advantages of this now well-known 

 used in bottoming shoes. 



J. H. Willett. 

 substitute for leather, 



The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, this state, has one of 

 the largest and most successful factory athletic organizations 

 in the country. It is organized under the name of the Fisk 

 Athletic Association, and is a registered member of the A. A. U. 

 Some 2,500 employes, with paid-up memberships, are enrolled. 

 The activities are all in the hands of the employes, governed by 

 elected officers and committees, and a board of directors. It 

 not only supports an all-star baseball team, known as the "Red 

 Tops," but conducts a league of six teams, all Fisk workers, 

 and these teams are playing excellent baseball, and affording 

 recreation for the employes of all departments. As has been 

 previously mentioned in these columns, the company has a fine 

 athletic field, 20 acres in extent, w-here these games are played, 

 and where other athletic sports are indulged in by the workers 

 at the factory. The association has furnished uniforms, bats, 

 balls, bases, etc., for these teams, between which much good- 



natured rivalry abounds. A recent success of this association 

 was the staging of a first-class track meet, to which were at- 

 tracted a number of the leading amateur and college stars of 

 New England. 



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E. M. & I'. Waldo, manufacturers and dealers in compound- 

 ing ingredients and colors, New York City, have opened an of- 

 fice in the new Rice Building, 10 High street, Boston, in order to 

 take better care of their increased business in this territory. 

 This office is in charge of Townsend H. Cushman, who has been 

 with the house for several years and is well known to the New 



England trade. 



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The Pneumatic Cushion Inner Tube Co., of this city, which 

 is exploiting a rubber cushion filler to take the place of an air- 

 filled inner tube, has made arrangements to have its product 

 manufactured at Canton, this state. It is rumored that there 

 is a possibility that the government will adopt this non-col- 

 lapsible tube for army vehicles. 



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Ellis F. Harlow, son of President Robert C. Harlow, of the 

 Monatiquot Rubber Works Co., South Braintree, has enlisted 

 in the First Massachusetts Engineers, which regiment will be 

 called on July 25. This regiment was formerly known as the 

 First Corps Cadets, whose history dates back to 1776. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



APPLICATIONS that are interesting to the rubber industry 

 have been made to the Warren Town Council for exemp- 

 tion from taxation on proposed new buildings and land of three 

 corporations which are contemplating locating in Warren. The 

 petitions were received at a meeting of the Town Council early 

 in the last month and after an informal consideration were con- 

 tinued for action at some future meeting. 



The corporations seeking exemption from taxation for ten 

 years are the .'\merican Web Co.. which is to manufacture nar- 

 row fabrics, and is located at Boston ; the Deaudelion Fabric 

 Co.. to manufacture tire fabric, and the Lynn Manufacturing Co., 

 of Lynn, Massachusetts, manufacturing rubber heels, soles and 

 arch supporters. The town clerk was authorized to correspond 

 with these concerns, notifying them to send representatives to 

 confer with the members of the council. 



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A chicken dinner and an extended program of athletic contests 

 featured the annual outing of employes of the Davol Rubber 

 Co., Providence, July 14, at Duby's Grove. With respites for 

 dinner and luncheon, the sports continued from the arrival of 

 the party in special electric cars shortly after 9 o'clock until 

 4 o'clock, after which dancing became the form of entertainment. 

 Prizes in the sport events were awarded. 



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The National India Rubber Co., Bristol, has had a considerably 

 higher valuation placed upon its property in that town by the 

 tax assessors this year than that in 1916, following the con- 

 struction of numerous additional buildings, the improving of 

 the old structures and the introduction of new machinery and 

 equipment. The valuation now is $790,000. Last year it was 

 $555,000. The company will pay a tax this year of upwards of 

 $13,000. 



One of the most attractive features in the Fourth of July 

 parade at Bristol was the appearance of 60 young women em- 

 ployed in the stitching room of the National India Rubber Co., 

 who paraded as Red Cross nurses. 



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The Bourn Rubber Co., Providence, is calling for experienced 

 shoemakers, also young women to learn. 



.\ contract has been given for the erection of a building for 



