August 1, 1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' Division of the Rubber 



Association. 



TatVie>-lntr a mpptlnp; ,,,35 held 



the I ifih \\emie Hotel in 



AWAY BACK IN 1898 a few manufacturers of druggists' and 

 stationers' rubber sundries met at the office of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. in New York City, and discussed the pos- 

 sibility of forming a trade association "to bring the members 

 of this industry into closer touch and to insure cooperation be- 

 tween them for their mutual benefit, upon the basis of honor 

 and good will." 



Resulting from this prelinii"^'' 

 on September 9 of that year 

 New York, at which the Rubber 

 Sundries Manufacturers' Asso 

 ciation was organized and the 

 following officers were elected 



H. C. Corson, president, The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 

 Ohio; Rhodes Lockwood, \ii.e- 

 president, Davidson Rubber Co 

 Boston, Massachusetts; Fred II 

 Jones, treasurer, Tyer Rulilie*" 

 Co., Andover, Massachusetts 

 E. E. Huber, secretary, Eberhard 

 Faber Rubber Co., Brooklyn 

 New York. 



Executive Committee: G F 

 Hodgman, Hodgman Rubber 

 Co., Tuckahoe, New York ; Jo- 

 seph Davol, Davol Rubber Co., 

 Providence, Rhode Island ; G. 

 M. Allerton, The Seamless Rub- 



Charles J. Davol, 



executive committee. Such a list . was prepared, printed and 

 distributed to the members, and was later known as the 

 famous "Jobbers' List," which was a source of trouble from its 

 adoption, because of the constant additions of houses which the 

 various manufacturers deemed worthy of preferential discounts. 

 Another motion adopted was that members of the Asso- 

 ciation should sell goods to other members at minimum prices, 

 subject to a courtesy discount of 5 per cent, and this was later 

 increased to 10 per cent by common consent. 



Each year an annual banquet 

 was held in the spring. In the 

 fall came the annual meeting, 

 at which routine business was 

 transacted and officers were 

 elected. The third annual meet- 

 mg, held October 3, 1901, was 

 attended by only ten members, 

 and owing to the apparent in- 

 diiTerence shown by the absent 

 members, it was deemed ad- 

 \isable to disband the organi- 

 zation. 



By 1903, however, it was felt 

 that there was need for some 

 such association, and after some 

 preliminary work, a meeting of 

 sundries manufacturers was 

 held April 3, at the Fifth Ave- 

 nue Hotel, which was attended 



H 



S. H. Jones, 



W. H. Balch, 



W. S. Davison, 



A. W. Warren. 



Executive Committee of the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' Division. 



ber Co., New Haven, Connecticut; H. C. Burton, Parker, Stearns 

 & Sutton, Brooklyn, New York. 



Besides these, there were present, as charter members of the 

 Association : F. T. Carleton, Tyer Rubber Co., Andover, Massa- 

 chusetts ; G. F. Simpson, Ideal Rubber Co., Brooklyn, New 

 York; G. W. Frost and James Kipp, Goodyear Rubber Co., New 

 York City; C. Van Vliet, Goodyear's India Rubber Glove Manu- 

 facturing Co., Naugatuck, Connecticut; J. C. Hardman and J. 

 Hardman, Riverside Rubber Co., Belleville, New Jersey; J. W. 

 Kelley and A. T. Bell, The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio: 

 H. H. Shepard, National Rubber Co., Providence, Rhode Island; 

 R. D. Pierce, Mechanical Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio; W. G. 

 Brewer, Mattson Rubber Co., Lodi, New Jersey. 



At this meeting a motion was made that each member present 

 a list of his customers which he deemed worthy of special con- 

 sideration, these lists to be combined and acted upon by the 



by Messrs. Burton, Hodgman, Hardman, Lockwood, Jones, 

 .Mlerton and Huber, of the old association, with the follow- 

 ing : H. E. Raymond, The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio ; 

 G. B. Hodgman, Hodgman Rubber Co., Tuckahoe, New York; 

 G. W. Front, Goodyear Rubber Co., New York City, and A. C. 

 Eggers, Goodyear's India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co., 

 Naugatuck, Connecticut. 



A constitution was adopted, and the following officers elected: 

 Joseph Davol, president; H. H. Shepard, vice-president; F. H. 

 Jones, treasurer; E. E. Huber, secretary. Executive Commit- 

 tee: G. F. Hodgman, H. E. Raymond, F. H. Jones, E. E. 

 Menges, A. C. Burton, Joseph Davol and E. E. Huber. 



Committees were appointed to prepare reports on "Dating 

 and Cash Discounts," "Payment of Freight on Deliveries to 

 Customers," "Inequality of List Prices," and "Indiscriminate 

 Returns of Goods to Manufacturers." 



