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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1915. 



THE NEW JERSEY CAR SPRING & RUBBER CO. 



IN 1858 the late John J. Fields established a company under 

 the title of the Elastic Lone Spring Co., on Cortlandt street, 

 in New V for the manufacture of rubber car springs, 



which at that time had come into verj general im-. Within a 

 few years, however, the spiral coil steel spring was invented, 

 and this gradually displaced the rubber car springs, compelling 

 the Elastic 



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its attention to 

 other line- 

 manufacture. It 

 moved over to / 



Jersey City and 

 a little late r 

 w a s re-incor- 

 porated under 2fl 

 the of f£|H 



the New Jersey 

 Car Sprit . 

 Rubber Co., un- 

 der which name 

 it has continued 

 doing business 

 up to the pres- 

 ent time. 



After tlie rub- 

 ber car 5] 

 had practically 

 gone out i >f use 

 the c m p a n y 

 began the man- 

 ufacture of 

 sheet packing, 

 valves and 

 other molded articles, 

 a belting department. 





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Then it added a hose department, later 

 and finally branched out into the general 



manufacture of mechanical rubber goods, including belting for 

 transmission, conveyor and elevator use. About five years ago 

 it added an automobile tire department to its already extensive 

 lines, and it has met with excellent success in this new depart- 

 ment. That the company's products are of the permanently 

 satisfying kind is proved by the fact that it has many accounts 

 on its books that have been there for 20 years and over. 



The present officers of the company, all of whom are active in 



anagement, 

 are as follows: 

 President, John 

 J. Fields ; vice- 

 presid e n t, 

 George B. Dick- 

 erson : treasur- 

 er. Townsend 

 t i icks ; secre- 

 tary George E. 

 Jeandheur; as- 

 sistant treas- 

 urer. John J. 

 3rd. 

 The com- 

 pany's w o r k s 

 and main office 

 are still in Jer- 

 sey City, where 

 they were es- 

 t a b 1 i s h e d 50 

 years ago ; and, 

 in addition, it 

 has branches in 

 X e w V o r k , 

 Philadel- 

 phia, Pitts- 

 burgh, Cleve- 

 land, Chicago 

 centers in almost all of the 



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and Los Angeles, with distributing 

 principal cities of the country. 



THE R. J. CALDWELL CO. WINS ITS SUIT. 



The R. J. Caldwell Co., of Xew York, won the suit which it 

 recently brought in the Supreme Court, Kennebec County, Maine, 

 against the Cushnoc Paper Co., of Augusta, that State. The 

 Caldwell company sued the defendant for breach of contract, in 

 failing to pay for a number of dryer felts, which the defendant 

 admitted having received. The paper company cited by way of 

 defense that the plaintiff had failed to keep its part of the con- 

 tract, but the jury, after brief deliberation, brought in a verdict 

 for the Caldwell company against the local corporation. 



SWINEHABT FACTORY ADDITION. 



The Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co. is adding a three-story 

 steel and brick building, 122 x 105 feet, to its plant at Akron, 

 Ohio, which it expects to have ready for occupancy by the first 

 of July. This building will be used for the extension of the 

 pneumatic and truck tire departments, which are to be located 

 on the first and second floors, and for the company's general 

 offices, which will be on the third floor. In it will also be lo- 

 cated a new and up-to-date hospital, as well as rest rooms for 

 the employes. The addition to the line of a demountable and 

 pressed-on type truck tire for heavy duty trucks, made in both 

 the cellular and plain tread styles, is responsible in part for these 

 changes. 



A JOBBING HOUSE ENTERS THE FIELD OF MANUFACTURES. 



Xegotiations are reported pending between The Independent 

 Rubber Co., of Akron, and the Chamber of Commerce, of Bar- 

 berton, Ohio, for the establishment of a tire manufacturing in- 

 dustry in the latter city. The Independent company, at present 



engaged in the jobbing business, has announced its intention of 

 entering the manufacturing field, and if satisfactory arrangements 

 can he made, would occupy the old factory of the Summit Rubber 

 Co., at Barberton. These arrangements include a $50,000 sub- 

 scription by the Trade Board to the stock of the company. 



FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY ALLEGED. 



William A. Ellis, president of the Ellis-W'ard Co., of 817 

 Boylston street, Boston, dealers in rubber tire goods, and Elsie 

 G. Morehouse, acting treasurer of the company, are under in- 

 dictment in Boston — the former for larceny and the latter for 

 making false entries on the books of the company with intent 

 to defraud. It is alleged that the defendants were doing a 

 separate business under another firm name and that they con- 

 nived to pay with Ellis-Ward money for purchases made for the 

 other concern. 



S. & M. TIRE CO. FINANCING. 



A petition recently filed by the Board of Trade of Coshocton, 

 Ohio, brings to light some interesting details of the alleged op- 

 erations of those concerned in the promotion of the S. & M. 

 Tire Co.. incorporated under the laws of < 'iiio January 1, 1913, 

 with a capital stock of $20,000. and to which the Board furnished 

 a factory and plant valued at $30,000. The incorporators were 

 Alois Michler, Ervin S. Kintz and Charles M. Smith. The 

 petition, asks that a receiver be appointed. In securing the fac- 

 tory site and plant representations were made that the cc impany 

 would commence operations, with a force of at least 100 men, not 

 later than August 1. 1913, manufacturing rubber and metallic tires 

 and accessories for vehicles and other rubber products, but work 

 was never started. 



