\i gi si 1. 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



617 



Many readers ol ["hi I\m\ Rubber World are intimately 

 acquainted with John Hopewell, formerly presideni ol the 

 Reading Rubber Co. Mr. Hopewell still retains his business 

 interests in several manufacturing industries, but has turned 

 over to others the rubber business. IN is the owner ol Maple 

 Ranch Farm, Natick, one of the must farms in New England, 

 wlu-rc he has carried on many interesting experiments in 

 agriculture, and where he spends a large part of the year. 



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I ast month mention was made of the collision between the 

 yacht "Vanadis" and the Boston New Vork steamer "Bunker 

 Hill" which resulted in the death of President Kendrick, of 

 the Boston Packing & Belting Co. \t that writing tew knew 



that S. 1'. Sharpies, the venerable analytical chemist, whose work 

 in the rubber industry is so well known, was on the same 



steamer. Mis stateroom was demolished by the impact of tile 

 yacht, lmt. happily. Mr. Sharpies was not in his stateroom at the 

 time, and this is the reason why he is still alive and active anil 

 was aide to participate, as usual, in the enjoyments of the Rub- 

 ber Club at its OUting mentioned elsewhere in this issue. 



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A report appeared in the daily papers of July 19 to the effe< I 

 that a seven-year-old boy, son of |-\ C. Hood, a I'.oston maun 

 facturer, had been drowned at a summer camp. The father 



of this boy is not Frederic C. Mood, the president of the 



Woven Hose & Rubber Co. Mutual Benefit Association. 



Hood Rulilicr Co. Mr. II. .od's only 

 and a recent graduate of Harvard. 



son is 21 years of age 



Charles Rogersott Harms, connected with the experimental 

 laboratories of the United. States Rubber Co. in Naugatuck, 

 i onnecticut, was married mi July 21 at the historic North 

 Church in Boston, to Miss Annette Austin, daughter of a 

 former mayor of Galveston, Texas, but who has more recently 

 lived in Xew York City, where she has gained a reputation 

 Its a writer on scientific subjects. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 

 By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE rubber industry throughout Rhode Island continues 

 active. All the manufacturers report good orders with 

 little prospect for any extended shutdown this summer, as 

 has been the case in years past. Most of the factories that 

 are making footwear are in receipt of orders enough to keep 

 them going all summer, it is reported, while the plants that 

 are making tires, automobile accessories and medical goods 

 are working overtime — a condition partially explained, at 

 least, by the continued demand for tires and other rubber 

 goods from Europe. 



The filing of a petition in the United States District Court 

 ntly by Maui ; 



nt in I stock of the \\ al] fin & Rubbei ' 



ing permission to intervi irpose "i 



taking appeal- from decrees of the court ordering the sale 

 oi tin I -. .mil in . .iii.ii mil. ntroi ed a new 



ill litigatii 'ii in the settle) 



that bankrupt corporation. 

 Sellers' p. mi. .ii -ta;..! that he believed I pur- 



ed by the New York creditors' committee for $780,000 t" 

 ie worth i [Ore than that amount and also that there was 



I -"Mil oi prefi rred stock and $1,500,000 i 



stock ol 'b. company still outstanding which would be worth- 

 less unless the two decrei wen ed or modified Hi 

 permission t.. enter the case in order that he might ap- 

 peal From the decrees m behalf "t himself and a grou 

 Stockholders who desired such action. 



Attorney I'lante. counsel for the creditors' COmri 

 which purchased the company's assets, objected to the allow- 

 ing of the petition before Judge Dodge. He stated that 

 the petitioner had had ample time to object to the dei I 

 but had not been in court once or made any objection to 

 the proceedings. He said that it would be impossible HOVi 

 to get the parties in the case- back to their original status 

 inasmuch as the majority of the assets purchased have since 



l.i en sold to 

 the Revere 

 Rubber Co. 

 The filing of 

 this petition 

 marked t h e 

 entrance inti 

 the case of a 

 n e w stock- 

 holder-' 

 mittee made 

 up of pre- 

 ferred share- 

 holders. 

 A t t on 

 Plant 



Judge 1 lodge 

 .1 i n i c d the 



in tition. 



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Vice-President and Manager LeBaron (.'. Colt, of the Na- 



i..n.d India Rubber Co., at Bristol, has had a large room at 

 the factor} equipped as a hospital room and another >■ 

 fitted up as a reclining room for the women employe! 

 the plant. A room for first aid to persons who were ill or 

 had becomi injured has been maintained at the factory for 

 scleral years, but the new hospital and reclining rnmii. arc 

 more elaborate. 



The hospital room is on the first Hoor near the calendering 

 and is immaculate in its finishings and furnishings of 

 white. It is fitted with the latest appliances used in hospital 

 work. A trained nurse engaged for duty at the factory re- 

 cently began her work in that capacity. She is also to be on 

 nights at the' DeWolf Inn. where a number of the 

 women employees live. 



The reclining room and first aid room for women opera- 

 is a little larger than the hospital room — which is 15 x 

 40 feet — and is located on one of the upper Moors at the 

 north side- of the plant near the stitching and shoemaking 

 departments, where' the greater number of women are era- 



] 1 A I'd. 



I he output of tennis shoes at the factory of the National 

 'in is increasing so that from 111 to 14 freight cars of 



