1, 1919] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



265 



William Jameson, superintendent of The Fisk Rubber Co., 

 Chicopee Falls, has been elected president of the Board of 

 Trade of that town. 



The Social and Athletic Association of The Fisk 

 Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, has flooded its big park, thus 

 making a skating rink, and has built a toboggan slide, which 

 has in it an angle which will ensure exciting and exhilarating 

 speed, and now the only thing necessary is freezing weather. 

 Every employe's custom now is to consult the thermometer at 

 least three times a day. 



It may be remembered that the majority of the stock of 

 the Boston Belling Co. and the Roxbury Carpet Co., whose 

 factory adjoins the rubber mill, were purchased by Willett, 

 Sears & Co., which organization later transferred its interests 

 in these two corporations to certain banking interests in this 

 city. William A. Gaston, prominent in financial, legal and 

 political circles in this city, has been elected president of the 

 two companies, and Henry B. Sprague, treasurer. The directors 

 are Frederick E. Snow, Frank W. Knowlton, John C. Rice, 

 Otis B. Prescott and William A. Gaston. It is reported 

 that the business of these concerns will be pressed 

 actively and will be divorced from the interests of Willett, 

 Sears & Co., or any of their various enterprises. The Rox- 

 bury Carpet Co. has offices in the downtown district, but the 

 business offices of the Boston Belting Co. will continue at the 

 plant, 80 Elmwood street, Roxbury district. The new man- 

 agement proposes to push the business vigorously and to 

 extend its trade. 



The business of the Sterling Fountain Pen Co., which is 

 owned and operated by the Davidson Rubber Co. of this city, 

 is offered for sale by the latter. As may be remembered, the 

 Davidson Rubber Co. has of late years reduced its items of pro- 

 duction to a comparatively small number of specialties, pre- 

 ferring to manufacture in large lots rather than in great variety. 

 The pen business does not fit in with this policy, neither does 

 it go so well in a factory devoted mainly to soft rubber goods, 

 while the distributing end is in the stationery instead of the 

 drug trade. The Sterling Fountain Pen Co. was established in 

 1884. and has patents with several years to run. 



James J. Rafferty, director of the Bureau of Commerce and 

 Industry, Manila, Philippine Islands, is now in this country to 

 explain the advantages of investments in a tropical country 

 un>jer the United States flag, rather than in countries under 

 European governments. He advises rubber planting there, argu- 

 ing that in any such emergency as that recently in the Federated 

 Malay States, the American rubber industry would be free from 

 domination by other governments. He called upon some of the 

 larger rubber manufacturers here, explaining the peculiar advant- 

 ages of raising rubber in our Far Eastern possessions. 



William H. Moore, until recently assistant manager of the 

 New England organization of The B. F. Goodrich Co., having 

 been promoted to the position of manager of the Pittsburgh, 

 Pennsylvania, branch of that company, was the guest of honor 

 at a dinner given by his associates at the Copley Plaza Hotel, 

 attended by 85 heads of departments and salesmen from the 

 Boston headquarters and the branches at Worcester and Spring- 

 field. Massachusetts ; Providence, Rhode Island : Manchester, 

 New Hampsliire ; Burlington, \"ermont, and Portland and 

 Bangor, Maine, were present. Joseph J. Buckley, Boston man- 

 ager of sales, in behalf of those present, tendered to Mr. Moore 

 a handsome gold watch, chain, and charm in appreciation of 

 liim as a fellow worker. The dinner was supplemented by a 

 theater party. 



Mr. Moore entered the employ of the company nearly ten 

 years ago, bringing to his new endeavors an extensive business 

 experience. Determined to learn the business from the ground 

 up, he worked first as a tire repairer, subsequently passing 

 through other departments, absorbing practically their details, 

 until he was advanced to the position he relinquishes to assume 

 the more important one in Pittsburgh. 



The old established firm of Chadbourne & Moore, manufac- 

 turers of elastic web at Chelsea, with offices at 179 Lincoln 

 street, Boston, has been dissolved, and a corporation, known as 

 Chadbourne & Moore, Inc., has been organized under the laws 

 of Massachusetts, with a capital of $400,000. which has taken 

 over all the assets of the firm and will continue to carry on the 

 business at the same Chelsea and Boston locations. 



B. F. Chamberlin, organizer and former vice-president and 

 general manager of the Walpole Shoe Supply Co., and later 

 manager of the shoe supply department of the Revere Rubber 

 Co., Chelsea, has taken over the business of that department, 

 and will continue it with offices and stock rooms at 184 Sum- 

 mer street, Boston. Mr. Chamberlin organized the business 

 in 1908, and successfully managed it as a branch of the 

 Walpole Rubber Co. until 1914, when the latter company 

 became financially embarrassed. The business was taken over 

 by the Revere Rubber Co. and has been under Mr. Chamberlin's 

 management up to the present. Besides other supplies for shoe 

 manufacturers, he will continue to handle rubberized cloth and 

 "Gem" insole duck and material. 



At the meeting of the National Shoe Wliolesalers' Association, 

 held in Boston, January 9, 1919, George H. Mayo and Charles 

 W. Barnes of the United States Rubber Co., explained the 

 present rubber footwear situation and advised the wholesalers 

 to send in their detailed orders as early as possible if they desired 

 them completed in full, They told why : because workmen and 

 workwomen could not be transferred from making one line of 

 rubber footwear to another, some departments in the various 

 factories w-ere rushed to capacity and others running to part 

 time on small tickets. 



Robert L. Rice, sales manager of the Hood Rubber Co., ^\'ater- 

 town, also addressed the meeting, and urged wholesalers to look 

 closely after their tennis orders, as there was a likelihood of a 

 greater demand than supply later in the season. 



A. H. Elder, for many years connected with the Boston 

 Belting Co., resigned from that company recently to accept a 

 position on the sales force of the Electric Hose and Rubber 

 Co., Wilmington, Delaware, and is representing that Com- 

 pany in New England with headquarters at 161 Devonshire St.. 

 Boston, Massachusetts. 



George H. Hichborn, general manager of the United States 

 Rubber Co., New York City, was one of the speakers at the 

 thirty-third annual banquet of the Association of Railroad and 

 Steamboat Agents at Young's Hotel, Boston, Saturday evening, 

 January 11, 1919, at which about two hundred guests were 

 present. Mr. Hichborn advocated the return of the railroads 

 to private ownership. 



The Boston .Vutomobile Dealers' .Association Show, to be held 

 March 20-25, 1919, in Mechanics' Hall, Boston, will undoubtedly 

 be a great success, as space is rapidly being allotted. The Motor 

 & Accessories Manufacturers' .\ssocialion will participate, and 

 a large representation is expected. 



