February 1, 1919.1 



formerly general manager of the Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, 

 and has recently been commercial manager of the Wellsbach 

 Co., Gloucester, New Jersey. 



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 Samuel J. Mullane has been promoted to the position of super- 

 intendent of the Mattson Rubber Co., Lodi. He has been in the 

 employ of the company for fifteen years. 



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

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., presided at the New Year's dinner 

 given at the Trenton Country Club to the seventy-five boy 

 caddies employed there. It was the fifth annual event of this 

 sort for the youngsters that has been arranged by Mr. Lambert, 

 wliM i> ili.iinnan of the caddies' dinner committee. Mr. Lambert, 



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Trenton Country Club Caddies at New Year's Dinner. 



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

 others gave talks. A feature of the dinner was the singing of 

 parodies on popular songs, in which the caddies paid their re- 

 spects to the golf players. An orchestra furnished music for 

 the occasion. Mr. Lambert is an expert golf player and takes a 

 big interest in the boys employed at the club. In the accompany- 

 ing photograph, the notch at the top indicates where Mr. Lam- 

 bert is standing. His son Raymond is on his left in uniform. 



Joseph H. K. Lambert, son of John A. Lambert, secretary- 

 treasurer of the Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co., has re- 

 ceived his honorable discharge from the Navy and will resume 

 his duties as assistant manager of the Acme company. Mr. 

 Lambert's other son, John R. Lambert, is a member of the Gas 

 Defense Service, and is stationed in New York. 



Edward M. LaRue, who has been in charge of the service de- 

 partment of The Empire Rubber & Tire Co. for the past five 

 years, has gone to Kansas City, Missouri, to become assistant 

 manager of the Empire branch store in that city. 



The employes of the Ajax Rubber Co. are to organize a 

 patriotic league and benevolent association, 100 per cent strong, 

 to assist members who become maimed, ill, or disabled while in 

 the employ of the company. It is also intended to promote the 

 education, Americanization, and material welfare essential to 

 both employer and employe. 



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The store of the Federal Tire and Accessory Co., Wrights- 

 town, New Jersey, was gutted by fire recently. The loss is 

 atout $3,000. The fire was caused by spontaneous combustion. 



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William Henry Sayen, Jr., treasurer of the Mercer Rubber 

 Co., returned from France recently and gave an interesting talk 

 on the war to the employes of the company. Mr. Sayen 

 and his brother went to France last May as Y. M. C. A. workers 

 with the French army. His work took him onlv a few kilometers 



from the front and his closest call was when he and a friend 

 were caught in a barrage and his friend's legs were blown off. 

 On another occasion a German aviator blew off part of the roof 

 above them with an aerial torpedo. Following Mr. Sayen's 

 talk to the employes an entertainment with vocal and piano 

 selections was held in the plant. 



The good will and chattels of the North American Rubber Co., 

 a Delaware corporation, with an establishment at 34 Parker 

 avenue, Trenton, for the manufacture of tires, was sold by 

 Sheriff Fred P. Rees recently to Solomon Mixer, of New York, 

 for $560. The automobiles were sold to different parties. After 

 the United States District Court had appointed Anthony S. 

 Brennan as receiver for the company it decided that the concern 

 was not bankrupt and ordered the sale of the chattels by Sheriff 

 Rees. The machinery, etc., were sold to satisfy a judgment of 

 .?2,896.40, secured in the New Jersey Supreme Court by Robert 

 C. Dunham, of New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



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Lieutenant Charles A. Wilson has received an honorable dis- 

 cliarge from the Army and will again represent the Dural 

 Rubber Corp., Flemington, New Jersey, in New York City. 

 Because of his commercial knowledge Mr. Wilson was one of 

 eight privates selected from 20,000 men at Camp McClellan as 

 candidates for commission without going to training school. 

 When the armistice was signed he had become sub-depot quarter- 

 master at Camp Hancock and had been recommended for a 

 captaincy. 



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The Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. made a substantial gift of 

 money to the Poor Kiddies' Christmas Fund during the holidays. 

 John A. Lambert, secretary-treasurer of the Acme Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., who was chairman of the last Red Cross 

 drive, vCas also an active worker during the holidays. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN CONNECTICUT. 



By Our Special Correspondent. 

 T'HE Todd Rubber Co., Waterbury, has been succeeded by F. 

 H. Potter, Inc., as of January 3, 1919. The incorporators 

 are: A. V. Miller, N. R. Bronson, F. H. Potter. The officers are: 

 H. A. Hoadley, president; F. H. Potter, treasurer; N. R. Bron- 

 son, secretary. The concern is incorporated under the laws of 

 the State for $25,000. It will distribute Kelly-Springfield and Gil- 

 lette tires exclusively in Waterbury, Naugatuck, Thomaston, 

 Torrington, Winsted, Norfolk, and Canaan, and will probably 

 add a line of wholesale and retail automobile accessories. 



The Seamless Rubber Co. had an industrial open house night 

 at the Y. M. C. A. on the evening of January 15. The entertain- 

 ment included mass singing and an exhibition by the Senior 

 Leaders' Club in the gymnasium, followed by a social program 

 and light refreshments. 



William LaPine, Danbury, is acting as distributer in the State 

 for the fiber soles manufactured by the Norwalk Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Norwalk. The output has increased 100 per cent during the 

 last two months. 



Each of the 50O employes of the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Norwalk, received a War Savings Stamp for a Christmas present. 



Thirty young women who have been employed in the gas- 

 mask department of the Hartford Rubber Works, Hartford, gave 

 a luncheon to celebrate the completion of the contract. .A chair 

 was presented to the foreman, Edwin R. Sawyer, and a smoking 

 set and tobacco to the assistant foreman, Herbert Martin, by the 

 "eye" table workers in the same department at the celebration 

 which took place when these workers were laid off, following the 

 signing of the armistice. 



