July i, 1903.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



349 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN AKRON. 



BY I ill' .1 



'T" rHE Editor of The India Rubber World : 'i he Firc- 



* stone Tire and Rubber Co. on |une 5 obtained in the 

 United States court for the northern Illinois district, at Chicago, 

 a decision in their favor in a suit brought to restrain the Union 

 Tire and Rubber Co. (Chicago) from the manufacture and sale 

 of tires alleged to infringe on the Swinehart side wire patent 

 granted May 16, 1S99. Suit was commenced by the Firestone 

 company against the Union Tire and Rubber Co., and John W. 

 D. Carslaw, their general manager, and other officers of the 

 company, in June, 1901. The decree just entered perpetually 

 enjoins the defendant company from manufacturing or selling 

 the tires found to infringe on the Swinehart patent, and Elisha 

 B. Sherman is appointed by the court to take an accounting of 

 the profits of the Union company and determine the damages 

 due the plaintiffs. The defendant company are understood to 

 have discontinued business. They were not represented by 

 counsel at the final hearing in court. The tires which infringed 

 were made for them by others. 



* * * 



Vice President B. G. Work, of The B. F.Goodrich ( ... 

 returned during the month from a visit of six weeks in Eng- 

 land and the continent, on which he was accompanied by Mrs. 

 Work. It was while Mr. Work was in London that the St. 

 Andrew's Golf Association, the organization of professional 

 golf players in England, rescinded their action of the past win- 

 ter in barring the Haskell golf ball from their play. Their ac- 

 tion pleased Mr. Work, one of the inventors of the Haskell 

 ball and manager of the Haskell Golf Ball Co., very much, but 

 it did not surprise him. Golfers in general and public senti- 

 ment had been in favor of the Haskell ball all along, and even 

 the most powerful organization known to the game could not 

 withstand such a combination. The B. F. Goodrich Co. will 

 continue to manufacture the Haskell ball for the Haskell Golf 

 Ball Co., which will supply the foreign trade. 



* # * 



The annual picnic of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.'s 

 employes is scheduled for June 27 at Silver lake. Richard 

 Whittlesey, of the shipping department, is in charge of the ar- 

 rangements which, if the weather permits, will have been most 

 pleasantly carried out by the time The India RUBBER World 

 reaches its readers. The employes of the Buckeye Rubber 

 Co. will, as in former years, join the Goodyear workers in their 

 annual outing. The emplojds of the Whitman & Barnes 



Manufacturing Co. will hold their annual picnic under the 

 auspices of the Whitman & Barnes Relief Association, at Con- 

 neaut lake, on Saturday, July 11. Foreman George S. Whit- 

 ney will be master of ceremonies. The Diamond Rubber 

 Co. workers' picnic will be late this year — perhaps not until 

 August. Foreman M. Flynn, of the tire department, has the 

 arrangements in charge. The annual picnic of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. will be held at Silver lake on Saturday, August 

 1. As usual the company will provide free transportation for 

 all employes and their families. 



* * * 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. have added 500 H.P. t<> 

 their power capacity within the past few weeks, making 2000 

 h.p. all told. They have doubled their capacity in this respect 

 during the past year. 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. are making a number of 

 eight inch solid tires for use on the heavy motor trucks of a 

 large St. Louis brewing company, which are said to be the larg- 

 est rubber tires ever manufactured. The Firestone company 



are also making some extraordinarily heavy tires for use on fire 

 department apparatus. The engines and trucks of the Newark, 

 (New Jersey) lire department will be equipped throughout with 

 this company's tires. 



The whole plant of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing 

 Co. in Akron is now devoted to the manufacture of twist drills 

 and high grade rubber mechanicals. Orders for the cheaper 

 goods are being steadily refused. The policy of producing only 

 the higher class goods has been found entirely successful, the 

 business increasing remarkably. 



The Lilly Rubber Manufacturing Co., who began business in 

 Barberton in Much, hive an exceptionally neat and practical 

 plant. It is well situated as to transportation facilities and well 

 eq upped. The company will soon begin producing an exten- 

 sive line of molded goods in addition to their dipped work. 



1 1 irry C. Miller, formerly of The B. F. Goodrich Co., but for 

 some time active in the Union Rubber Co., the only rubber 

 j >bbing concern in Akron, has accepted the management of 

 the Detroit branch of the Goodrich company, succeeding Harry 

 (i. Miller, resigned. 



S. J. CarkufI, after a year's absence from the rubber trade, in 

 business on his own account in Chicago, has returned to the 

 Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., with which he was formerly 

 connected, as assistant manager. 



I. R. Bailey, formerly of the Clifton Manufacturing Co. (Bos- 

 ton), is making a distinct success of the hard rubber depart- 

 ment of The Diamond Rubber Co. One of their main pro- 

 ducts is insulating tapes. 



Sales Manager H. E. Raymond, of The B. F. Goodrich Co., 

 will leave on July 2, to spend a two months' vacation in Eng- 

 land and on the continent. Mr. Raymond was invited to ad- 

 dress a convention of rubber jobbers at Niagara Falls on July 

 S, but his plans were such that he could not remain for the 

 meeting. 



Mr. W. Tischbein, sales agent of the Continental Caoulchouc- 

 und Guttapercha-Co. (Hanover, Germany), visited Akron rub- 

 ber factories on June 16 and 17. He was accompanied by his 

 wife, this being their wedding trip. They were entertained at 

 the homes of Messrs. R. P. Marvin, B. G. Work, and J. A. 

 Swinehart. 



F. A. Seiberling, general manager of the Goodyear Tire and 

 Rubber Co., has been spending the latter part of June at his 

 island, Kaukenagea, near Mackinac, Michigan. His family are 

 there for the summer, and Mr. Seiberling will be a frequent 

 visitor. 



J. A. Artley, of the offices of The Diamond Rubber Co., has 

 been made assistant cashier of the Guardian Savings Bank of 

 Akron. 



Dr. L. E. Sisler, treasurer of the Firestone Tire and Rubber 

 Co., has been chosen treasurer of the Dollai Savings Bank 

 which recently opened for business in Akron. 



It is reported that a number of rubber manufacturers, some 

 of them in Akron, have been " taken in " by a person who has 

 sold them what purported to be the formula for the Russian 

 rubber sponge, but proved practically worthless. 



The Akron Machine Co., placed in the hands of a receiver on 

 March 13, was declared bankrupt by Referee D. A. Doyle on 

 June iS. Creditors will meet June 30. The schedule filed 

 shows assets of $108,143 93 anc ^ liabilities of but §34,357.09. 



The Garlock Packing Co., of Cleveland, and the Akron rub- 

 ber concerns made good exhibits at the annual meeting of the 

 Association of Stationary Engineers of Ohio in Akron, on June 

 17-18. 



R. L. Chipman, local representative of George A. Alden & 

 Co. (Boston), won the spring championship of the Portage Golf 



