October 1, 1918.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



News of the American Rubber Industry. 



PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER CO. ANNUAL CONFERENCE. 



THE annual conference of sales directors and branch man- 

 agers of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeanette, Pennsyl- 

 vania, was held at the factory of the company from 

 September 18 to 21, the business sessions taking place, however, 

 at the Wayfarers Club — the Pennsylvania Rubber Company Club, 

 next to the factory. The meetings were conducted by H. W. 

 DuPuy, president, and Seneca G. Lewis, general manager, while 

 messages were read from the vice-president, Major C. M. Du 

 Puy, and other members of the company now serving the 

 Government. The artistic little booklet giving the program had 

 as a center-spread a miniature service flag printed in the proper 

 colors, bearing six stars, and under each appeared the name of 

 the man it represented. 



THE CUTLER-HAMMER COMPANY IN WASHINGTON. 



The Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wis- 

 consin, manufacturing electric-controlling devices and simi- 

 lar apparatus, opened on September 3, 1918, a branch office 

 in the Union Trust Building, 15th and H streets, N. W., 

 Washington, District of Columbia, in charge of H. W. 

 Knowles and C. W. Yerger, engineers who are quite famiHar 

 with the company's products. This office will be operated 

 entirely for the purpose of serving the Government and 

 others who require information about the company's goods, 

 orders, contracts, etc. 



ASHLEY PLANT SUFFERS FIRE LOSS. 



On the morning of September 26 the plant of T. C. Ashley & 

 Co., manufacturers of chemicals and rubber substitutes, in the 

 Brighton district of this city, was almost entirely destroyed by 

 lire, with a loss variously estimated from $15,000 to $20,000. 



It may be remembered that T. C. Ashley & Co.'s plant at 

 South Boston was burned a year ago, and the firm moved from 

 that location to Brighton. 



GOODRICH NOTES, 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, is calUng for 1,000 new 

 women war workers in its gas-mask and balloon department. 

 It assures good wages, daylight shifts, and wholesome factory 

 conditions. 



The list of former employes of The B. F. Goodrich Co. now in 

 service numbers 3,356. 



"The Goodrich Circle" printed in its September number a 

 notice to employees in four languages besides English, advising 

 American and foreign employes alike how to conduct themselves 

 at work, urging them to guard against arguments, fire, waste, 

 excessive indulgence in alcoholic drinks, and laziness, as well as 

 the showing of consideration to foreigners — all in the interest 

 of maximum production of what the country needs. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. started on September 9 a special 

 class in citizenship, under the direct supervision of Dr. Oscar 

 .Tunek. Foreign-born employes previously classed as enemy 

 ahens, but who had taken out their first papers at least two 

 years prior to the declaration of war on Germany by the United 

 States were declared eligible for membership and to apply for 

 final papers. 



Following its policy of re-employing soldiers who return 

 disabled by the war. The B. F. Goodrich Co. now has back in 

 its tire-finishing department Jean Joseph Roignant, who has a 

 limp, a Medaille Militaire, and a Croix de Guerre. He pays a 

 high tribute to Americans in the war — "They fight like the 

 French," he says, "to the death, and wliat they take they hold." 



DIVIDENDS. 



The Amarican Chicle Co., New York City, declared its regular 

 quarterly dividend of one and one-half per cent on its preferred 

 stock, payable October ! on stock of record September 20, 1918. 



The Apsley Rubber Co., Hudson, Massachusetts, has declared 

 its semi-annual dividend of three and one-half per cent on its 

 common stock, payable October 1 to stock of record September 

 30, 1918. 



The Canadian General Electric Co., Limited, Toronto, Ontario, 

 Canada, has declared its regular quarterly dividend of two per 

 cent on its common stock, payable October 1 to stock of record 

 September 14, 1918. 



E. I. du Pont de Nem.ours & Co., Wilmington, Delaware, de- 

 clared the regular quarterly dividend of four and one-half per 

 cent on the common stock, payable September 16 to stock of 

 record August 31 ; also the regular quarterly dividend of one and 

 one-half per cent on the debenture stock, payable October 25 to 

 stock of record October 10, 1918. 



The Hawkeye Tire and Rubber Co., Des Moines, Iowa, de- 

 clared on August 1, the semi-annual dividend on its preferred 

 stock and on August 19, a dividend of six per cent on its com- 

 mon stock, payable October IS, 1918. 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New York City, has declared 

 its quarterly dividend of $1.50 per share on its six per cent pre- 

 ferred stock, payable October 1 to stock of record September 16, 

 1918. 



The Keystone Tire and Rubber Co., New York City, has de- 

 clared its quarterly dividend of two per cent and an additional 

 one-third of one per cent on its preferred stock and its regular 

 quarterly dividend of three per cent on its common stock, pay- 

 able October 1 to stock of record September 20, 1918. 



The Portage Rubber Co., Barberton, Ohio, has declared its 

 regular quarterly dividends of three per cent and one and three- 

 quarters per cent, respectively, on its common and preferred stock, 

 the former payable November 15 on stock of record November 5, 

 1918, and the latter payable January 1, 1919, on stock of record 

 December 20, 1918. 



The Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown, Ohio, declared its quar- 

 terly dividend of one and three-quarters per cent on its pre- 

 ferred stock, payable September 1 to stock of record .\ugust 20, 

 1918. 



The Sewell Cushion Wheel Co., Detroit, Michigan, recently 

 declared a seven per cent cash dividend on both common and 

 preferred stock. 



TILLINGHAST COMPANY INCORPORATES. 



The business of the late B. C. Tillinghast at 236 Market street, 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been incorporated as the B. C. 

 Tillinghast Rubber Co., Inc., with capital of $75,000 and the 

 following officers: A. W. Tillinghast, president; J. H. Carr, 

 vice-president and general manager ; F. F. Crippen, secretary 

 and treasurer. Besides these, the incorporators include Mrs. L. 

 W. Tillinghast, James H. Beith, and Charles Hess, Jr. 



The company was incorporated in accordance with the wish of 

 Mr. B. C. Tillinghast, as expressed in his will, and the incor- 

 porators include his widow and son and the employes of the 

 concern, of whom the latter have been in service for periods 

 ranging from 22 to 38 years. These are to have the privilege 

 of purchasing stock in the new company. Messrs. Carr, Beith, 

 and Hess will continue to travel for the concern, in addition 

 to their other duties. The company manufactures all kinds of 

 rubber goods, including "Imperial" tires and tubes, clothing and 

 footwear, mechanical rubber goods, and rubber toys. 



