October 1, 1918.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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I'Vank Venn has sold all interest in the business and patents 

 of the Venn marker to the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden, 

 Massachusetts, a subsidiary of the United States Rubber Co. 



Robert H. Montgomery succeeds William J. McNeill as local 

 manager of The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, in 

 Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. McNeill entered government 

 service in June. 



Farley & MacNeill, 105-107 Federal street, Boston, have been 

 appointed by the Dural Rubber Corp., Flemington, New Jersey, 

 exclusive distributers for that company in Massachusetts and 

 Rhode Island. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 

 'T'HE ominous clouds caused by labor disturbances, that over- 

 *■ shadowed the plants of the United States Rubber Co. at 

 Bristol, Woonsocket, and Millville, for nearly two months were 

 dispelled about the middle of September. After numerous con- 

 ferences between the employes and the management of each 

 plant concerned, an amicable understanding was finally reached, 

 satisfactory adjustments made, and the operatives returned to 

 their work. 



In the meanwhile advantage was taken of the enforced idleness 

 to make numerous repairs, renovations, and improvements 

 necessitated by the unprecedentedly long period of constant 

 operation at capacity speed, so that when the mills resumed they 

 were in better condition than at any time for many months 

 previous. 



Improvements and extensions at the plant of the National 

 India Rubber Co. at Bristol include not only additional build- 

 ings and equipment at the plant itself, but the establishment of 

 several features of a social and economic character for the com- 

 fort and welfare of the employes. In addition to opening a 

 restaurant at the mill, the company has recently purchased a 

 large dwelling house and lot of land at the corner of High and 

 Bourn streets. The house is to be remodeled and used as a 

 day nursery for small children of the employes. 



The newly erected brick addition to the plant has been com- 

 pleted and is being occupied and used exclusively for the pro- 

 duction of footwear. 



Tlie Lynn Rubber Manufacturing Co. has completed the first 

 of the buildings at its new plant at Warren and has begun the 

 manufacture of rubber shoe-heels and soles. The plant is 

 favorably situated in the east part of the town near the yards 

 and station of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- 

 road. Further mention of the company's plans was made in tlie 

 issues of The India Rubber World of April 1 and May 1. 1918. 

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Arrangements are well under way at the plant of the .\lice 

 Mill, of the Woonsocket Rubber Co., at Woonsocket, for the 

 establishing of a department for the making of rubber boots. 

 Tliis is the first time since the erection of the Woonsocket mill 

 that this move has been contemplated. Up to the present time 

 the entire floor space of the Alice mill has been used for the 

 manufacture of rubber shoes. 



Thomas W. Dwyer, who was employed for a number of years 

 at the factory of the National India Rubber Co.. has received 

 his commission as a second lieutenant in the Army after com- 

 pleting training at the officers' training school at Camp Lee, 

 Petersburg, Virginia, where he has been since June 29. Previous 

 to going to Camp Lee he was a sergeant at Camp Devens, Ayer, 

 Massachusetts, having been appointed soon after his enrollment 

 in the National Army. 



Included in the list of individuals, firms and corporations 

 assessed on valuations of $50,000 and over in the annual report 

 of the Board of Tax Assessors of Providence, as filed a few 

 days ago with the City Treasurer, are the following identified 

 with the rubber industry: American Multiple Fabric Co 

 $94,380; Walter S. Ballou, $86,840; Joseph Banigan Estate, 

 $1,045,580; Augustus O. Bourn, $84,640; Bourn Rubber Co 

 $180,300; Samuel P. Colt, $219,060; Davol Rubber Co., $500,000;' 

 Glendale Elastic Fabric Co., $177,300; Joslin Manufacturing Co., 

 $485,080; Mechanical Fabric Co., $190,200; Revere Rubber Co.i 

 $830,100; United States Rubber Co., $1,462,600. 



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Henry C. Wagner, superintendent of the Alice Mill, of the 

 Woonsocket Rubber Co., was operated on at the Woonsocket 

 Hospital. September 6 for gall stones and appendicitis. 



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Miss Anna C. Doran has resigned her position as school nurse 

 in the public schools of Woonsocket to accept the position of 

 nurse at the Woonsocket Rubber Co., succeeding Miss Essie 

 McDonald, who has entered Red Cross work. 



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George .\. Cragin, for the past two years general sales manager 

 of the National India Rubber Co., Bristol, has resigned on ac- 

 count of ill health and returned to his home at Worcester, Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



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-A-mendments to articles of association have been filed at the 

 office of the Secretary of State under the laws of Rhode Island, 

 by the Glenwood Manufacturing Co., represented by Elmer K. 

 Watson, president, and Alice M. Clark, secretary, for the pur- 

 pose of engaging in the business of mant»factnring and selling 

 of textiles, fabrics, felts, rubber goods, and goods from raw 

 materials. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 

 VWHILE Trenton rubber manufacturers are 100 per cent 

 patriotic and always willing to help the Government in 

 the winning of the great war, they were surprised when informed 

 that the Federal order restricting the output of tires would be 

 extended to the first of the year. The news also surprised the 

 many workmen who were laid ofif the first of August, who were 

 of the belief that they would secure their old positions the 

 first of October. Some of the tire-makers are working at other 

 positions while the order is in efifect. 

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 The order of the War Industries Board calling for the elimin- 

 ation of many styles of rubber footwear for the duration of 

 the war will not aftect Trenton rubber industries. The Essex 

 kulilier Co., Inc.. is a big producer of rubber heels and soles, 

 luit no order has lieen received to change the style of the heels 

 and soles now being made. 



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 Rev. Joseph Howell, of Fa.ston, Pennsylvania, who was pastor 

 of the Presbyterian Cliurch at Hamilton Square, New Jersey, 

 has taken a position at the Mercer Rubber Co.'s plant at the latter 

 place. He announces that he will turn his salary over to the 

 Trenton Chapter of the .\merican Red Cross. 



John .A,. Lambert, treasurer and general manager of the Acme 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., has been appointed a member of 

 the Community Board of the Trenton district and will assist 

 the Federal-State Municipal Employment Bureau in the Muni- 

 cipal building, Trenton. 



J'oseph K. Lambert, assistant manager of the tire manufac- 

 turing department of the -Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co.. 

 who enlisted in the Navy last June, is now stationed in the 



