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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1906. 



usual, two New York shows. That under the auspices of 

 the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers will 

 be held, as last year, at Madison Square Garden. The dates 

 are January 12-19. 



AN EKHCIF.NT SELI ING .STAl F. 



Till, illustration at the foot of this page is based upon an 

 excellent photograph of the officials and selling force of the 

 Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. (New York). The names of 

 the gentlemen facing the photographer are as follows, read- 

 ing from left to right : Front line — Frank A. Kissell, Fred- 

 erick A. Seaman (secretary of the company). Van H. Cart- 

 well (president of the company), Robert F. Houston, Harry 

 K. Doty. Rear line — George D. Kdwards, Hdmund S. Rob- 

 erts, Stanley F. Hall, Frank IC. Holcomb, Howard ,S. Co.x, 

 John Glenn, Paul D. Beach, F. A. Oatman. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES 



Till-; B. &R. Rubber Co. (North Rrookfield. Ma.s.sachn.setts) 

 opened their olTice on September 5. On that date the first in- 

 stalment on the stock subscriptions was collected, and work is 

 being pushed on the factory buildings. Messrs. Charles Beebe 

 and Thomas G. Richards, the heads of the business, have 

 bought residences at North Brookfield. 



= Mrs. Frances A. \V. Mcintosh, formerly advertising 

 manager of the Standard Tool Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), and 

 more recently connected with the advertising department of 

 Pozcer, New York, has taken charge of the publication de- 

 ])artnicnt of the Norton Co., makers of Alnndum grinding 

 wheels, Worcester, IMassachusetts. 



=The cable from the I'nited States to Alaska earned 

 $24,000 in July, besides which the official despatches sent 

 would have cost $12,000 at commercial rates. The increas- 

 ing demands upon the cable will be met bj- the government 



I)}' duplexing the cable. The cable ship Riirtiside, on going 

 north for this purpose, carried 200 miles of new cable, made 

 at New York, for the extension of the line. 



= Ohio Rubber Co. (Cleveland) have filed a certificate of 

 increase of capital stock from $175,000 to $225,000. 



=The annual meeting of managers and salesmen of the 

 Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Massachu.setts) this year 

 lasted a week and ended with a day's outing, on land and 

 sea, which embraced a fine clambake in a grove near Spring- 

 field. Representatives of the company from all jiarts of the 

 country made favorable reports in regard to the company's 

 tire business, 



= Michclin Products Selling Co., Inc. (New York) say in 

 their trade announcements : " Sixty per cent, of all the tires 

 sent to our repair works have suflered more or less from 

 under inflation. Of these, a good proportion are completely 

 ruined." 



= Schedules in assignment of the Thermalite Co. [see The 

 Indl-k Rubber World, September i, 1906 — page 405] show 

 liabilities of $16,650, nominal assets of $10,700, and actual 

 assets of $1014. 



= Oscar L. Fllison, No. 308 West Forty-seventh street. 

 New York, was arrested on the complaint of Frank C. Howe, 

 who alleged that he had invested $1300 in the former's busi- 

 ness of selling puncture fluids for automobile tires, on 

 account of false representations, and was afterward unable 

 to get his money back. The police stated that several others 

 had given money to Ivllison under similar circumstances. 



=F. & G. Pflomm have leased from the plans the build- 

 ing to be erected at No. 1741 Broadway, New York, for a 

 term of years, to the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. (Jeannette, 

 Pa.), for their tire depot. 



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OFFICERS AND SEULINQ FORCE OF THE CONSOLIDATED RUBBER TIRE CO. 



