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THE INDIA RUBBER vvOKl.D 



[May I, 1909. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mk. Heinrich Otto Train, of Hamburg, Germany, was a 

 welcome visitor to the oflices of The India Rubber World. 

 wliile in the United States during the past month. Mr. Traun 

 is the son of Senator Dr. Traun, the founder of Dr. Heinr. 

 Traun & Sohne (formerly Harburger Gumini-Kamm Co.). The 

 head of the family having retired from active connection with 

 the business, its control passed to his sons, and since the la- 

 mented death of the elder. Dr. Frederick Traun, the actual head 

 has been the gentleman who has just been renewing in America 

 the friendships and acquaintances which date from 1894, when 

 he became connected with a New York house for a while in 

 order to study business conditions in America. 



MILLER— MYERS. 



The wedding of Mr, Thomas William Miller and Miss Helen 

 Adelaide Myers, at Ashland, Ohio, on March 31, was the social 

 event of the season in that part of the state. The bride is the 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Myers, at whose home the 

 ceremony occurred at noon. Mr. Miller, as the whole rubber 

 trade knows, is the president of The Faultless Rubber Co., of 

 Ashland, one of the principal industrial establishments in that 

 town. The' bridal pair went to the Pacific coast, and expect to be 

 at home in Ashland, in a residence which is Mr. Miller's gift 

 to his bride, by June i. Prior to the wedding a bachelor dinner, 

 given in honor of the prospective bridegroom at the Hotel Otter, 

 was attended by the leading business and professional men of 

 Akron (where Mr. Miller formerly lived) and Ashland, to- 

 gether with several guests from a distance. 



CHANGES OF ADDRESS. 



The firm of Parker, Stearns & Co., rubber manufacturers, so 

 long established in New York, and now occupying the new fac- 

 tory in Brooklyn illustrated in The India Rubber World, Sep- 

 tember I, 1908 (page 415), announce the removal of their offices 

 to the new location — Nos. 286-300 Sheffield avenue, Brooklyn, New 

 Y'ork. 



U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Works (New York), have removed 

 their offices from Duane street to No. 277 Broadway (Broadway- 

 Chambers building). 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Electrical Insulating and Specialty Co. is mentioned as 

 having been organized at Cleveland, Ohio, where a factory will 

 be erected for making a new substitute for rubber, for electrical 

 and other purposes. Charles C. Clark is president of the concern. 



Mr. A. R. Duryee, for many years superintendent of Alfred 

 Calmon's Asbest-und Gummiwerke in Hamburg, sailed for the 

 United States late in March. He expects to spend about a 

 month in Virginia and will later visit the rubber centers of thv^ 

 United States. 



Mr. J. H. Stedman, of J. H. Stedman & Co., Inc., in the waste 

 rubber trade, has been elected vice president of the Trade Club 

 of Boston. 



The largest office calendar which has come to The India 

 Rubber World at any time is issued by the Dunlop Tire and 

 Rubber Goods Co., Limited (Toronto). There is a detachable 

 sheet for each month in the year, the figures on which can be 

 read across the street, but even more space is devoted to excel- 

 lent photogravures of the head office and the factory buildings of 

 this enterprising company. 



A SIDE LIGHT ON THE TIRE TRADE. 



A RECENT German patent (No. 198,979), issued to Friedrich 

 Wiechard, of Hanover, relates to a novel method of attaching 

 a solid rubber tire. The shape of the tire is also unusual, as will 

 appear from the accompanying illustrations. Figure I shows 3 

 section of the felly and of the tire, indicating also the means by 

 which the tire is held within the flanges of the rim. Figure 2 

 shows the tire and its appurtenances separated, including the 

 details of the screw arrangement which binds the flanges to the 

 felly. 



r^EVELOPMEXT in the automobile industry in whatever 

 ^-^ branch, we -take it, presages good for the rubber tire in- 

 dustry. The more automobiles that are made, and the more 

 kinds of automobiles, the greater will be the improvement in 

 the various details of the automobile manufacture, including the 

 appliances and machinery employed. And the greater will be the 

 ecoriomy of production, the cheaper these vehicles will become 

 and the greater the number sold. All of which means an in- 

 creased demand for tires, with the logical result, by the same 

 token — and better tires at a lower cost than now. 



These reflections are suggested by the progress made in France 

 in the manufacture of automobiles for agricultural use — for 

 plowing land, keeping crops in condition, harvesting, hauling to 

 market, etc. Plows, harrows, reaping machines and what not 

 can now be operated with the use of gasoline motors instead of 

 horses. An international congress is to be held at Amiens in 

 July for the promotion of the "agricultural automobile" and its 

 applications, in connection with which will be an exhibition of 

 appliances. An exposition devoted to the same interest was held 

 at Brussels in April, and another, on a larger scale, occurs this 

 month at Antwerp. In Paris a periodical devoted to the new in- 

 terest, I'Antomobile Agricolc, soon will complete its second year. 

 If there is merit in the new departure in agriculture, it is not 

 likely to remain unknown in other countries than those named 

 here. 



Of course plows, harvesters, and the like, and particularly sta- 

 tionary engines for farm use operated by motors on the same 

 principle as is employed in automobiles, will not directly widen 

 the demand for rubber tires. But as has been said above, their 

 manufacture tends to the development of the automobile industry, 

 and it can hardly fail to happen that one result will be an 

 increased demand for motor vehicles that do require tires. One 

 point to be made that the agricultural automobile will tend to 

 lessen the number of horses and accustom the world to do 

 without horses, and this alone will promote the use of the auto- 

 mobile as a passenger vehicle — on farms, where so large a 

 proportion of the world's population lives — as well as in cities. 



At a special meeting of shareholders in Cie. du Caoutchouc 

 Monopole du Portugal (Brussels, March 31) a resolution was 

 adopted to go into liqiudation, with a view to reorganizing the 

 business by forming a new company, with 700,000 francs capital. 

 Paul Wauvermans was named as liquidator. The company was 

 formed in Belgium March S, 1898, with the exclusive privilege of 

 manufacturing rubber goods in Portugal for ten years, and with 

 1,000,000 francs [=$193,000] capital. A factory was established 

 near Lisbon, and for awhile the results were satisfactory, but 

 for several years past there have been no profits. 



The development of aerial navigation has led to great activity 

 in the rubber industry in the production of rubberized fabrics for 

 balloons, aeroplanes and the like. Already The India Rubber 

 World has mentioned at length the production of such fabrics by 

 Continental Caoutchouc and Gutta-percha-Compagnie, of Han- 

 over, Three other German rubber factories may now be men- 

 tioned as having engaged in a practical way in making goods of 

 this class : Etablissements Hutchinson, at Mannheim ; Franz 

 Clouth, Rheinisch Gummiwaren-Fabrik m. b. H., at Cologne ; and 

 Aktiengesellschaft Metzeller & Co., at Munich. 



The accounts of Mitfeldeutsche Gumminaren-Fabrik Louis 

 Peter, A.-G. (Frankfort 0/ M.) show a net profit for the busi- 

 ness year 1907-08 of 1,200,031 marks [=$285,607.38], against 

 806,223 marks in the preceding year. The dividend was 22 per 

 cent., against 16 per cent, the year before. The capital of the 

 company is 3,000,000 marks. Solid tires had a good sale during 

 the year, and large contracts are in hand for future business. 



