January 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Among manufacturing concerns in Trenton that have agreed 

 to form War Savings Stamps societies among employes are the 

 following: Ajax Rubber Co., Inc.; United & Globe Rubber 

 Manufacturing Cos. ; Home Rubber Co. ; Empire Rubber & 

 Tire Co.; Woven Steel Hose & Rubber Co.; Thermoid Rubber 

 Co. ; Essex Rubber Co. ; and John A. Roebling's Sons Co. 



The Federal Tire & Accessory Co., Wrightstown, suffered a 

 fire loss estimated at $2,500, not covered by insurance, on De- 

 cember 19. The cause was spontaneous combustion. 

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Charles J. and Aaron A. Moulds, formerly in the employ of 

 the Thermoid Rubber Co. and the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., re- 

 spectively, recently spent furloughs with their parents. Both 

 are sailors, the former on the U. S. S. Rhode Island and the 

 latter on the U. S. S. Adams. 



The Epworth League of the Clinton Avenue Methodist Church 

 conducted a rubber social on December 20, the price of admission 

 being a piece of rubber. 



CANADIAN NOTES. 



The Advisory Council for Scientific Industrial Research has 

 recommended to the Canadian Government to establish at 

 Ottawa a central research institute with the function of a 

 bureau of standards, with a view to establishing standards of 

 measures and materials used in various industries. Manufac- 

 turers of rubber goods would benefit equally with other industries 

 by the services of such an institution. 



W. Binmore, the retiring treasurer of the Dominion Rubber 

 System, Montreal, Quebec, was given a complimentary 

 dinner at the Ritz-Carlton by his associates prior to his 

 departure for California. R. E. Jamieson, director of sales, 

 presided, and addresses were made by T. A. Rieder, president 

 of the company, and Messrs. Jamieson, Eden, Allan, Thornton, 

 J. M. S. Carroll, and Lieutenant-Colonel Massie. Mr. Binmore 

 was presented with an illuminated address, and with fitted 

 traveling bags for both himself and Mrs. Binmore. 



The Oak Tire and Rubber Co., Limited, has removed its 

 head offices from Oakville, Ontario, to 19 Dundas street. East, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



The Hercules Rubber Co., Limited, Brampton, Ontario, is 

 completing its new factory building for the manufacture of all 

 kinds of rubber goods. Machinery, including large horse-power 

 motors, is being purchased and will be installed at an early 

 date. The first line of products will be automobile tires, tubes, 

 and accessories. A. Brown is the secretary and treasurer of the 

 company. 



K. & S. Canadian Tire & Rubber Co., Limited, 527 Yonge 

 street, Toronto, Ontario, a recently organized concern whose 

 incorporation was noted in our columns November 1, 1918, will 

 expend $250,000 in making additions to its plant at Weston. 

 This will cover its requirements in the way of new machinery. 

 Building operations at this point, however, will not commence 

 until early spring. 



The Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited, Kitchener, Ontario, won 

 the first honor flag in Kitchener for securing subscriptions to 

 the recent Victory Loan from more than 75 per cent of its 

 employes. The objective was $26,000 and the amount actually 

 subscribed totaled $50,300, which was obtained on the second 

 day of the campaign. To this was added $215,000 subscribed 

 by the company, making the total more than a quarter of a 

 million dollars. 



A bequest of $2,000 has been made to Bishop's College, Len- 

 noxville, Quebec, Canada, in memory of Lieutenant F. Reginald 

 Robinson, who was killed in action on August 19, 1916. He 

 was the son of W. H. Robinson, former president of the 

 Dominion Rubber System. 



HUGO WELLEIN. 



TfARD and conscientious work, beginning at the bottom and go- 

 ■^ ■'■ ing up the ladder round by round, is the record of Hugo 

 Wellein, the recently elected treasurer of the Canadian Consoli- 

 dated Rubber Co., Limited, Montreal. Quebec, Canada, whose 

 portrait is here pre- 

 sented. 



He was born 

 June 21, 1883, at 

 Bridgeport, Ontario, 

 near Kitchener, 

 and began his edu- 

 cation in the public 

 schools there. This 

 was followed by 

 three years at 

 Kitchener Collegi- 

 ate, supplemented 

 by a business course. 

 Starting as office 

 boy with the Berlin 

 (now Kitchener) 

 Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co., where 

 he remained four 

 years, he was ap- 

 pointed accountant 

 to the secretary- 

 treasurer of the 

 Merchants' Rubber 

 Co., Kitchener., in 1904. Six years later he entered the general 

 sales department of the head office of the Canadian Consolidated 

 Rubber Co., Limited, at Montreal. In February, 1913, he became 

 office manager to the manager of the Middle West Division of 

 the company, with headquarters at Winnipeg, Manitoba, and after 

 four years there was appointed manager of the Quebec Division. 

 A year later he became general auditor, and in October was 

 elected to his present position. Thus, for his entire business life 

 of 19 years, he has worked continuously for one concern, for the 

 other companies mentioned all merged to form the present 

 Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited. 



Mr. Wellein is very popular and is held in high regard by all 

 those with whom he is associated in business. He is receiving 

 many congratulations on his recent appointment. 



Hugo Wellein. 



The quarterly meetings of the National Association of Waste 

 Material Dealers at the Hotel Astor, New York, December 17 

 and 18, 1918, were well attended. It developed at the meeting 

 of the Scrap Rubber Division, under the chairmanship of David 

 Feinburg, that the Rubber Reclaimers' Division of The Rubber 

 Association now admits that the one-half-cent handling clause 

 of the new scrap rubber packing specifications is undesirable. 

 Freight classification and a possible inspection service for reject- 

 ed material were discussed. It was also learned that arrange- 

 ments had been made with the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 to the efifedt that auto tires may be tied wih four ropes, if pack- 

 ages tied with rope and wire are treated alike. 



The Camerox Machine Co.. 57 Poplar street, Brooklyn, 

 New York, has opened a new office in Cincinnati, Ohio, at 503 

 First National Bank Building. It is fully equipped with samples 

 of the company's line and is intended for a service station as well 

 as a sales office. 



"Rubber Machinery," by Henry C. Pearson, is filled with valu- 

 able information for rubber manufacturers. Price $6. 



