M vrch 1. 1915. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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business at present, all based on guarantee of prices, which will be 

 announced on the day this journal is published. The reclaimed 

 rubber business is not over brisk; naturally the low price of crude 

 interfering with the demand for reclaimed. 



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The opening of the new wing of the Huston Museum of Fine 

 \rts, on tin' evening of Februarj 3, was the culmination of the 

 distribution for the public good of a portion of the wealth left by 

 the laic Robert D. Evans. This addition, which in its effect 

 really makes the back of the building the principal facade, greatly 

 enlarge- this magnificent museum. Situated on the Fenway, 

 this new front is not only magnificent in itself, but is reflected in 

 rlu- water so as to make an architectural picture rarely equalled in 

 New England. 



The front is of Greek architecture. Fluted columns of Maine 

 granite, cut on the Ionic pattern, stand 22 in a close set row along 

 the 325-foot front. They run from the level of the ground floor 

 2>Sy 2 feet to the solid upper wall. Above are three sculptures by 

 noted artists. Each has two figures, and these groups represent 

 Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. The interior is far finer 

 c \ in than the rest of the museum and excellentlj adapted to the 

 purposes for which it was planned. There is a great hall for 

 tapestries, galleries for paintings, small rooms for etchings and 

 water color exhibits, a lecture hall and a splendid staircase, sur- 

 mounted by a half-dome with Doric pillars. Here, cut in stone, 

 is a memorial inscription reading: 



IX LOVING MEMORY OF 



ROBERT DAWSON EVANS 



1 843-1909 



MERCHANT. FINANCIER AND 



PATRON OF ART 



A TRUSTEE OE THIS MI'SEl'M 



BUILT BY HIS WIFE, 



MARIE ANTOINETTE EVANS 



Nearly 10,000 persons attended the opening and Mrs. Evans 

 held a reception in one of the large halls. 



This is another of the great gifts to the public by Mrs. Evans, 

 who had previously built the Robert Dawson Evans Memorial 

 Building as a branch of the work of the Boston Homeopathic 



Hospital. 



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The manufacture of rubber soles is receiving additional stimu- 

 lus from the continued high prices for sole leather. Manufac- 

 turers of these soles are continually experimenting and improving 

 their product. The latest in this direction is a leather tipped 

 rubber sole. Soles answering this description are made by several 

 manufacturers, and some shoe producers purchase the cut off 

 soles and bevel on a toe of sole leather. The objection to this is 

 that the joint separates with the action of the foot. The new 

 -ili has a very flexible leather tip skived and then vulcanized on 

 the sole. It is claimed that this avoids all the troubles caused by 

 the bending of the sole. The same manufacturers turn out a 

 rubber sole with leather reinforcement along the tread of the 

 big toe, where the greatest wear comes in tennis playing or in 



dancing. 



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Competition continues keen in the rubber heel business One 

 western manufacturer of such goods, the Federal Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co., has put a working force in this city to visit every 

 shoe repairer, to push the use of its rubber heels. A widespread 

 advertising campaign is being run in connection with this canvass. 



The latest manufacturing concern to enter the sole business is 

 the C. J. Bailey Co., whose rubber heels already have a large sale. 

 The soles will have an oval space covering the tread of the for- 

 ward part of the foot, in which will be a design in U-shaped pro- 

 iections or bosses, similar to those in the Bailey heels. These 

 soles will be made in white, red and black rubber and are pro- 

 nounced un-slippable. 



Announcements have been sent out of the marriage of Horace 



E. Bailey and Miss Ethel Scannell, daughter of Burt R, Scan- 

 nell of Beacon street, Brookline, on February 10. Mr. Bailey is 

 the son of C. J. Bailey, the well-known rubber man in this city. 

 He was a student at Cornell previous to entering business with 

 his father. There is an element of romance in this marriage. 

 Mr. Bailey called at the Scannell residence and invited Miss 

 Scannell, whom he had known for some months, to ride in his 

 limousine to the- Brae P.urn Club to dine. Instead of that 

 went to the station, thence to Xew York, and were married at 

 the "Little Church around the Corner." It was a surprise, but in 

 no sense an unpleasant one, to the parents of either bride or 

 groom. They will be "at home" after March 1, at Surrey Road, 



Newton. 



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Some of the local manufacturer- of eastern Massacln 

 considerably exercised over a bill now before the Legit la 

 which would make it illegal for freight handlers on the railroad 

 to work after 12 o'clock Saturday during May, June, July, August 

 and September. Such a law would work a hardship to thos< 

 could not deliver their freight to the station in time to have it 

 placed in cars before noon on Saturday. This would result in 

 practically two days' delay at the start, and thus freight which 

 should arrive in New York Monday could not get there until 

 Wednesday, and corresponding loss of time would result for all 

 other western receiving points. 



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Ira F. Burnham, president and treasurer of the Stoughton 

 Rubber Co., gave an interesting talk on the gathering, curing 

 and importation of crude rubber, and its manipulations in the 

 manufacture of rubber clothing, before the Chickatawbut Club 

 of Stoughton recently. The talk was illustrated with lantern 

 slides depicting the various stages in the preparation of the raw 

 product and the processes of handling the cloth, etc.. in making 

 up into garments, the former views being from pictures taken by 

 members of the staff of The Indian Rubber World, and the 

 latter fully showing the various departments of the Stoughton 

 Rubber Co.'s enlarged factory. 



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W. B. Laighton, well known in the rubber footwear trade 

 and for the last fourteen years with the Apsley Rubber l 

 occupying the positions of general selling agent and treasurer, 

 lias gone with the Hood Rubber Co. at East Watertown, M 

 chusetts, where he will be connected with the distributing end 

 of the business. Mr. Laighton has many friends in the trade, and 

 has had long and successful selling experience. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE Thermoid Rubber Co. is working two shifts of men in 

 an effort to keep up with orders. The day shift works 10 hours 

 and the night shift is on duty for 12 hours. This compan; has 

 recently installed an additional 250 horse power boiler. \ new 

 battery of mixing mills has been placed in operation and a new 

 John E. Thropp tire making machine has been installed 

 are now 6 vulcanizers and 4 tire machines in operation. The 

 tube department has been moved to a new building, thus giving 

 the tire department a whole floor. The new mill line i- operated 

 by a 300-horse power electric motor, A 100-horse power i 

 has been installed to operate a new calender line. 



J. O. Stokes, president of the Thermoid company, started in 

 February on a thr.ee months' trip. He will visit California, also 

 New Orleans and other Southern cities, and will spend 

 time in Cuba. 



The Delion Tire and Rubber Co. is the latest addition to Tren- 

 ton's growing colony of rubber manufacturing establishments. 

 This company has begun business in its newly erected factory, a 

 description of which as contemplated appeared in the June. 1914, 



