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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1919. 



a series of weekly military drills at the De Wolf Inn. A number 

 of the women who board at tlie Inn, which is conducted by the 

 corporation, began the drills some time ago and upon their 

 invitation many of the other women are joining their ranks. 



Douglas Morey, who has been head of the planning and 

 industrial relations departments of the National company, suc- 

 ceeds H. W. Brown, recently resigned, as head of the employ- 

 ment bureau. The three departments have been consolidated. 



Many of the hands released from other manufacturing plants 

 in Bristol recently, owing to the curtailment on orders, are 

 securing employment at the factory of the National India 

 Rubber Co. 



The National company closed its entire plant at Bristol on 

 December 27 for the annual taking of stock. The mill, in which 

 4,500 hands are employed, is scheduled to resume operations on 

 January 3. 



The American Electrical Works, manufacturers of insulated 

 wire, etc., at Phillipsdale, in East Providence, are planning a 

 number of improvements in connection with their power distribu- 

 tion service, a contract having already been awarded to construct 

 an intake pipe of reinforced concrete, 300 feet in length and 30 

 inches in diameter. The engineers in charge of the work have 

 recently completed a study of the company's power plant with 

 a view to offering recommendations as to additional units or 

 changes necessary for increased efficiency. A new centrifugal 

 pump w^ith a capacity of about 1,800 gallons per minute is to be 

 installed and the construction of a pump-house is proposed, the 

 engineers being engaged at present in drawing the plans for this 

 building, which will be of brick, one story, about 20 by 20 feet. 

 Further improvements in the near future are forecasted. 



The Woonsocket Rubber Co. has opened its restaurant for 

 employes at its Millville plant and catered to 200 on the first 

 day and over 225 on the ne.xt. The restaurant is modernly 

 equipped and the excellent menu is in charge of an experienced 

 chef, assisted by an able corps of attendants. The food is 

 sold practically at cost. In the first of the company's restaurants, 

 which was opened several months ago at the Alice Mill, Woon- 

 socket, more than 300 persons are catered to daily. Hot meals 

 are appreciated at both places. 



A permit has been granted by the Inspector of Buildings to 

 the Bourn Rubber Co. for the erection of a one-story brick-and- 

 concrete structure on Warren street. Providence. It will be 90 

 by 60 feet and is to be used for storage purposes. 



An addition is being erected on Hemlock street to the plant 

 of the Revere Rubber Co., that will be one story high, and about 

 120 by Z2 feet. It will be practically of steel construction and 

 is intended for manufacturing purposes. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE signing of the armistice was quickly followed by orders 

 to cease manufacturing war material. Trenton rubber 

 manufacturers were ordered to continue work on only such 

 goods as were already in process. The Empire Rubber and Tire 

 Co. and the Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co. are completing 

 such orders. The Essex Rubber Co. had a large contract for 

 gas-masks, but the work was quickly stopped. The United & 

 Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos. are working on a large 

 government order for fire hose. This order was not cancelled. 



Trenton rubber manufacturers announce that the tire busi- 

 ness is not as prosperous as during the summer, and that this 

 is not unusual at this season of the year. They predict a boom 

 in the tire and tube line after the first of January. Meanwhile 

 the plants are kept busy on other lines of work. 



The corporate name of the city is to be changed from "The 

 Inhabitants of the City of Trenton" to "City of Trenton." 



E. B. Knowles has been appointed general sales manager of 

 tlie Thcrmoid Rubber Co., Trenton. He succeeds the late Harold 

 F. Blanchard, whose portait and obituary notice appeared in 

 The India Rubber World for November 1, 1918. 



Practically every rubber-manufacturing concern in Trenton 

 has informed the Federal-State-Municipal Employment Agency 

 that it will give the returning soldiers and sailors their former 

 positions. Arrangements have been made to reemploy all of 

 those disabled in service in such a way that by providing me- 

 chanical or other aid they can be made self-supporting. 



.\t the annual meeting of the Trenton Rubber Manufacturers' 

 .\ssociation, which comprises the Trenton, Wilmington and 

 Philadelphia districts, the following officers were elected: 

 John A. Lambert, president, Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co.; 

 John S. Broughton, vice-president. United & Globe Rubber 

 Manufacturing Cos.; Robert J. Stokes, secretary, Thermoid 

 Rubber Co.; .Mfred Whitehead, treasurer. Whitehead Brothers. 

 The board of directors decided to contribute $100 semi-annually 

 towards the support of the Trenton Day Nursery. The associa- 

 tion contributes to various other charitable institutions. 



William E. Sanders, publicity man for the Essex Rubber Co., 

 recently gave an address on "Rubber" before the Trenton 

 Kiwanis Club. * » * 



The Delion Tire & Rubber Co. has nearly completed a two- 

 story all-steel structure 40 by 100 feet to be used as a core room. 



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The Thermoid Rubber Co. has completed an eighty-foot addi- 

 tion, two stories high, at a cost of $36,000. 



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The Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. has installed a modern fire- 

 fighting system providing an ample water supply throughout 

 its plant. The new equipment will reduce insurance rates 

 considerably. » * * 



Charles E. Stokes, vice-president of the Home Rubber Co., 

 has been made chairman of the committee to unite all the civic 

 clubs of Trenton having for their object the publicity, progress 

 and prosperity of the city. 



The Hamilton Rubber Co. is erecting a one-story manufactur- 

 ing building to be used as a kiln plant. The structure will be 

 brick, 28 by 41 feet, and will cost $2,500. 



C. Edward Murray, Jr., second vice-president of the Empire 

 Rubber & Tire Co., and Mrs. Murray have returned from White 

 Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. 



The employes of the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., are perfecting 

 plans for the organization of a patriotic and benevolent asso- 

 ciation. 



Edgar H. Wilson, president and general manager of the 

 Dural Rubber Corp., has proposed that a landing field for freight 

 and passenger airplanes be established in Trenton, and has taken 

 up the matter with the Trenton Chamber of-Commerse. Mr. 

 Wilson has a wide knowledge of aircraft parts, particularly 

 those made of rubber. He holds twenty-two patents on aircraft 

 parts and has been consulted by representatives of several for- 

 eign governments relative to the rubber parts for planes con- 

 trolled by him and the Dural company, and which have been 

 extensively used by the United States Government. At the 

 Remington, New Jersey, plant of the company more than 100,000 

 parts for aircraft have been manufactured. 



