The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-07
VALUABLE MENTIONS,
RECENT ACHIEVEMEN7S OF J. II.
 EARCE OF [. CANDEE & co
sevorai mucmlnes Have Been Produced Which Are of Great Assistance to the Rubber Goods Industry All In Suc- cessful Operation.
M es Have Been Produced

" hlGh Are pI SFBuL assistance GD VII
 Rubber Goods Industry All In Sue
 cessfuI Operation.
 Self-made men, those who nave riser
 from the humble stations in life to DO
 sitions of trust and responsibility, al
 through their own eXertionS, are to-day
 the formidable supports of our com
 munity and the men on whom we car
 rely for the proper fulfillment of any
 task. These men have by their thor
 ough mastery of details in their chosen
 lines, their strict attention to business
 their honesty and fidelity, attracted the
 attention, commanded the respect Of
 their superiors and advanced according.
 ly. Merit will always win recognition
 for itself. Men of this calibre are being
 sought for at all times. Such a mar
 is John H. Pearce, who has recently
 been advanced from the position of as
 sistant superintendent to that of super
 intendent of l.. Candee & Co.'S enor-
 nous plant for the manufacture of rub
 Der boots shoes and other rubber goods
 This concern is one of the largest and
 most successful in the country
 Through his own efforts which were
 stimulated by ambitions, such as all
 young men of intelligence have, MT.
 Pearce has arisen to his present prom
 inent position from one of low degree
 in a Massachusetts factory. He was
 born in Canada and like hundreds of
 other young men was restless at home
 and desired to cross the border and
 make his way to the states. He did so about twenty-three years ago and was successful in receiving employment shortly after arriving in Boston. His skill and industry were soon recognized and he was advanced in consequence.
 During his long years of experience MT. Pearce has recognized the need of improvements in certain machinery for the rubber industry and has been at work on them for some time. Several have already been completed, patented and are in successful operation in va rious parts of the world. Others are yet in the embryo but will soon be made public.
 Their great value not only in saving of labor, stock and time but also in making the manufactured article more nearly perfection has been readily recognized by the manufacturers of rubber goods of all descriptions,
 One of these machines has been in successful operation for the past twelve years not only in the L. Candee com pany shop in this city but in several other mills of the United States also in Italy and Germany It is technically known as ia machine for coating fabric with India rubber on one or both sides" Tyy. IL ..-I,, i, time of introduction of this invention was that of coating the fabric on one side at time and then reversing and running on the opposite sides. It was possible to coat piece of fabric yard | long or thousand or even longer. The | new machine does not lose this advan tage but adds newer and greater ones in that both sides of the fabric are coated with rubber simultaneously, and there is no more labor attached to the operation than there Is to the machine which single coats the fabric. The coating is certain to be more evenly dis tributed by the new machine, the quan- tity of work greater and has the one especial advantage that there is an en- ormous saving of stock.
 This machine was patented in 1888 and is useful not alone in boot and shoes factories but also in mills where hose, belting, packing, etc., is made, in fact it is useful anywhere the coating of a ia bric on both sides is needed.
 Another machine which is of especial use to those factories which make 8 speciality of rubber carriage cloths sur gica1 and dental goods is ''an apparatus for the coating of fabrics with rubber This machine makes any fabric which S run through it absolutely waterproof. It is practically used for placing of suc- ,essive layers of rubber on the fabric. As many layers can be placed on as is lesired. This process strengthens the product and improves the quality and makes it capable of standing much , ligher pressure than any other method 1 -et invented ! One of the most recent inventions of Ir. Pearce and one on which the pat ! nts were granted on December 10 last , $ a new device for mixing of plastics. / t is designed to mix the composition ', which enters into the rubber automati- ally and feeding i automatically before < ombining with the rubber. This ma hine removes all doubt as to the thor ugh manner in which the composition 5 distributed through the rubber and y 5 unquestionably of very great value 0 the rubber industry. A working | 1odel of the machine has been in sue essful operation in the Candee factory or more than two months past and has Il iven excellent satisfaction. The pro- [ uction of this machine is in every way n uperior to the method of mixing by f and This was the old style and y ne which is in use in almost h very rubber mill in the coun- h ", but mixing by hand has e ever been as satisfactory or as perfect J s the work of this new machine has p roven. In fact there have been devel- tt oments which were not expected and ,e machine is in every way exceeding h ,e inventors expectations. The com W any is now awaiting figures from we'll d. nown builders of machinery of this de- V ription when they will place an order te IF the construction of several more of W e new machines. The machine fills a W ng felt want in rubber factories and