

THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE RUBBER TRADE IN BOSTON. 



dent. 



Ttive. with si 'me lines in goo 

 mand, others not. For instance, last month and the 

 previous one were the rainiest Jinn- and Julj on record in 

 ["his had thi of stimulating the retail 



lothing and in light weight rubbei shoes, 

 it had just the opposite effect on the hose business. 

 i be fairlj w ell satisfied n ith pi i 



and the belting business is having somewhat oi a I 



advance in leather belting prices, which have 

 increa se ol the European demand Fi ir army 



shoes, harness and military utrements. The demand for 



rubber soles and heels is also g 1 for the same reason. 



Mechanicals and druggists' sundries arc in good demand, 



while fruit jar rings arc going out, seemingly, by the million. 



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The Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. Mutual Benefit 



iation, held its first annual held day at Lexington Park, 



. on July 3. The outing was attended by 600 members 



and proved very enjoyable. The program included a varied 



ports for both men and women, and a hall game. The 



latter was played between the Woven Hose and the Edison 



Light ball teams, both members of the -Mercantile League. The 



was 8 i" 1 in favor of the Wo\en Hose nine. Appropriate 



n e i e 



a u .1 r d e d to 

 the winners in 

 each e V e n t. 

 The day's cli- 

 ent con- 

 cluded w i t h 

 dancing in the 



evening. 



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1 he United 

 States Rubber 

 Co. of New 

 1 n g 1 an d is 

 now well set- 

 tled in its 

 it seven - 

 story building 

 just across 

 Fort Point 



Channel, on Summer street, about five minutes' walk from 

 the South Terminal station. Here the company occupies 

 nine floors (including basement and sub-basement) with a 

 frontage of about a hundred feet and approximately 100.000 

 feet of floor area. This affords ample space for the big stocks 

 oods formerly carried in the live stores which have been 

 consolidated. The store front, with its plate glass lirst-story. 

 is a hands. mie one. The various trade mark brands are em- 

 blazoned in gold on the windows, and an illuminated sign 

 the "U. S." seal or trade mark shines oxer the door- 

 way. 



The first floor contains the business offices, the sample 



exhibition and the accounting department. President W. H. 



Porter has a commodious office at the right of the front door. 



where he is at all times ready to welcome the visiting cus- 



rs. and able to have a supervising eye over the wdiole 



floor. The information desk is hack of the big rubber mat 



ing the new "TJ. S." trade mark or seal, and is in charm 



of Wallace Campbell, who is an animate directory of the en- 



stablishment. 



Lack of Mr. Porter's office is the exhibition or sample 

 room, where, in electrically lighted plate glass cases, arc sam- 

 ples of the many lines of goods made by the various con- 



solidated companies. On< case is filled with tennis -' 

 another with rubber footwear, and here arc to be seen -. 

 very unique specimens oi colored and particolored rubbers. 

 A third showcase is devoted to fountain syringes and hot 



water bottles, and others to bathing caps and swimming ac- 

 cessories, automobile inner tubes, patches and cements, and 

 to various druggists' sundries. Around the walls and posts 

 are frames containing samples of small molded goods, me- 

 chanicals and similar art n les 



Pack of this room is a row of offices occupied by the 

 managers ,,t the various footwear lines. These are occupied 

 respectively by Charles I. Cooper, manager of the Candee 

 branch; Chester J. Pike. Jr.. Hubmark; Clarence L. Weaver, 

 Banigan; II. C. Kalish, Wales-Goodyear, and E. B. Swett, 

 American. 



\t the left of the entrance is the private office of assistant 

 treasurer. I . A. Cyr, while beyond, anil occupying nearly one- 

 half the first floor, is the accounting department, admirably 

 arranged for efficient work. Back of this is the tire depart- 

 ment, in charge of Ralph L. Jackson, and the mechanical 

 department, under R. J. Parker. At the rear is the shipping 

 room, with openings on a driveway at the rear of the building. 

 The second story is devoted entirely to the raincoat busi- 

 ness, while the live upper floors, also the basement and sub- 

 baseme-nt, contain the stocks of goods. Taken in all its 



First Annual Field Day of the Boston 



hearings, the move is an important one. and the one great 

 building a tine home for the consolidated business. 



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At the United States Rubber Co.'s headquarters at 140 Es- 

 sex street one of the sample rooms contains a table on which 

 is shown the largest variety of cemented tennis and other 

 cloth-upper rubber sole shoes on display in this city. While 

 many dealers have full catalogs and price lists of these lines. 

 \isiting buyers — who were numerous last month — expressed 

 their surprise at the large variety and the beauty of the sam- 

 ples shown. 



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The Enterprise Rubber Co. has for eight or nine years 

 carried on an extensive retail rubber business on Federal 

 si iet. and the store, with its big plate-glass windows, was 

 one of the attractions of the street, which was promenaded 

 by thousands of business men and women on their way to 

 and from the South Terminal station. The removal of the 

 Candee branch store to the new building on Summer street 

 was tlie cause of a big clearance sale in June and on the first 

 ..f July the business was taken over by the Gillett Rubber Co. 

 M. D. Gillett. who has been with the Enterprise company 

 since its establishment in this store, is the manager. 



