July 1, 1919.] 



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officers for the ensuing year : directors— Walter S. Ballou, 

 Charles C. Case, Samuel P. Colt, H. E. Converse, James B. 

 Ford, Lester Leland, Charles B. Seger, and Elisha S. Williams; 

 officers — Samuel P. Colt, chairman; Lester Leland, vice-chair- 

 man; Elisha S. Williams, president; W. H. Blackwell, treasurer; 

 John D. Carberry, secretary; F. L. Bunker, assistant treasurer 

 and assistant secretary; F. O. Miles, assistant treasurer. 



The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, has 

 disposed of its new issue of $15,000,000 of seven per cent cumu- 

 lative first preferred stock, tax-exempt in Massachusetts, on 

 which dividends are payable on the first days of February, May, 

 August and November. 



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Stickney, Tirrell & Co., importers of chalk and manufacturers 

 of whiting, have removed to the Old South Building, Washing- 

 ton and Milk streets, Boston, Massachusetts. Their factory is in 

 East Bost .n. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN OHIO. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE SCARCITY of home accommodations in Akron has fur- 

 nished the stimulus for the movement to be undertaken 

 by the Akron Home Owners' Investment Co., the president of 

 which is Harvey S. Firestone, who is also president of the Fire- 

 stone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron. Mr. Firestone has worked 

 out a plan by which the $S,000,000 company will erect 5,000 houses 

 in Akron and assist those who wish to buy them on first mort- 

 gages with a proper interest rate, or on second mortgages witli- 

 out commission and a low rate of interest. Titles will be 

 examined free of charge and architects' plans may be consulted 

 in the company's office. It is hoped to provide shelter for 20,000 

 persons. 



AKRON NOTES. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Firestone Park, Akron, has 

 organized a colony of deaf employes under the direction of 

 B. M. Schowe. The Firestone company has the honor of having 

 in its employ the first deaf men ever employed in the Akron 

 rubber industry. It is not generally known that deaf people, 

 and deaf mules, as well, make excedingly expert workmen. The 

 company also has in its employ a man who is totally blind, but 

 who can turn out tire repair work equal to that produced by 

 those possessed of full sight. 



The Firestone company has also organized a class to study 

 the sign language used by the deaf, under the direction of B. M. 

 Schowe of the Labor Department. The lessons will be given 

 twice a week and will be conducted in the sign language. The 

 spoken word will be forbidden in the classroom. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, now employs more 

 than 500 deaf mutes in its various departments. A special class 

 in the factory school is conducted for their benefit and they 

 have their own social and athletic organizations. 



the hotel property, dating from April 1, 1919, but construction 

 of the new ten-story building will not begin until late this autumn 

 or early next spring, due to unexpired leases of tenants of the 

 present structure. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, has appointed E. M. 

 Sonntag special representative of the company at Madrid, Spain, 

 to engage in promotional and investigational work throughout 

 the chief Spanish cities. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, is building a new 

 clubhouse for employes, opposite the factory office on Market 

 street and Goodyear avenue, 170 by 400 feet. It is to be of 

 brick and steel construction, five stories high, and will include 

 all the modern industrial clubroom features, such as gymnasium, 

 bowling alleys, showers, rest-rooms, reading-rooms, and a the- 

 atre which will seat 2,000. A corporation school with class- 

 rooms, study hall and auditorium is also provided, while on the 

 top floor will be a lunch and dining-room on the cafeteria plan. 

 The building will cost about $500,000. 



Fifty boy scouts with their officers will enjoy a motor-truck 

 camping trip in trucks furnished by the Goodyear Tire and 

 Rubber Co., Akron, beginning June 26, 1919. The boys will 

 cover about 3,000 miles and pass through nine states, visiting 

 the historical and scenic points along a route across the upper 

 part of New York, through Niagara Falls, Utica, Syracuse, and 

 Albany, across New Hampshire to Portland, Maine, and return 

 via Boston, Providence and New Haven to Ithaca, Lake Chau- 

 tauqua, and Youngstown. The trucks will be provided with 

 pneumatic tires and have double-deck upper and lower sleepirg 

 berths. 



The athletic team of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, at the 

 Memorial Day meet, rolled up a score of 59, as compared with 

 that of 45 by the Goodyear team, 40 by Firestone, and 9 by 

 Miller. The entry list totaled over 180, and all contestants 

 were bona fide members of the concerns represented. 



All point winners in this meet will be entered in the national 

 factory employes' track and field meet, to be held at Gary, 

 Indiana, July 4, 1919, under the auspices of the American Indus- 

 trial Athletic Association. Horseshoe pitching and wrestling have 

 been added to the regular list of events. 



Boy Scouts connected with the Goodrich company are building 

 a log cabin at Rex Lake from plans drawn by Henry Bishop, of 

 Department 18-U. The cabin will be a model Scout home, with 

 folding tables that pull to the ceiling, a 4 by 6-foot fireplace, and 

 spacious porch, besides the customary benches, bunks and 

 lockers. 



The Mohawk Rubber Co., Akron, is completing the factory 

 wing which will house portions of the cord-tire building and 

 curing departments. 



The American Rubber & Tire Co., Akron, has contracted for 

 another factory wing, to be of standard mill brick and steel con- 

 struction, five stories high, to cost approximately $100,000. 



Miss Merry C. Echols, a graduate of Akron City Hospital, 

 whose experience has included private nursing and institution 

 work as the superintendent of Massillon City Hospital for eight 

 years, has been secured by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, for the position of superintendent of nurses. She 

 had recently been resident instructor at the Akron City Hospital. 



Francis A. Seiberling, president of the Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, has been elected president of the newly 

 formed Para Co., which is to build a $750,000 hotel and office 

 building where the Hotel Buchtel now stands. The company 

 is incorporated for $40,000 and has obtained a 99-year lease of 



Fred J. Horn, recently discharged from the Army, will rep- 

 resent Fred Stern & Co., crude rubber importers, New York 

 City, in .\kron, assisted by Paul Bloom. 



CLEVELAND NOTES. 



The Poison Rubber Co.. Doan avenue and Nickel Plate Rail- 

 road, Cleveland, is planning to build a large modern factory to 

 take care of its increased business in tire accessories. 



The Ideal Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland, has increased its 

 capital from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000, consisting of $2,500,000 

 worth of both preferred and common stock. 



