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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1909. 



vehicle. The new product is constructed on a design similar to 

 that of a light automobile tire. It has deep corrugations on the 

 tread to prevent side slipping. "The demand for motorcycle tires 

 is growing rapidly," said an official of the company, "the auto 

 shows last winter gave motorcycles more attention than ever be- 

 fore and during the coming season the shows will have regular 

 divisions for their display." 



A new product in The Diamond Rubber Co.'s line is an im- 

 proved demountable rim. The improvements over the 1909 model 

 consist of a change in the rim so that it can be fitted to the 

 felloe of any automobile wheel of regulation construction, and the 

 elimination of the mortised groove in the felloe to admit the 

 valve stem. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. will open a branch house in .Atlanta, 

 Georgia, on September i, at No. 48 .\uburn street. It will be in 

 charge of Mr. Wiley West, who has heretofore represented the 

 company in the South, traveling out of Mobile. 



Mr. Ohio C. Barber, a director of The Diamond Rubber Co., 

 sailed on July 14 for Europe, where he will spend the summer 

 with his son-in-law and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Revan, of 

 Chicago, touring by motor through various countries. This is Mr. 

 Barber's forty-third trip to Europe. He intends to purchase a 

 herd of cattle while on the continent to bring to his farm near 

 Akron. 



Trouble has been encountered by the city street department 

 recently by the clogging of sewers in the vicinity of rubber fac- 

 tories with particles of rubber which leak through the sieves dur- 

 ing the washing process. A serious overflow of the sewer which 

 occurred in the Firestone plant, June 21, was traced to this cause. 



Tire makers are awaiting action of the Motor and Accessories 

 Manufacturers' Association before taking steps to be represented 

 at the opening show of the season in .Atlanta, Georgia, November 

 6-13. It is expected that the association will approve the show. 

 It will be one of the large automobile events of the year. 



Companies making solid tires in this city expect to be repre- 

 sented at the International Cohvention of Fire Chiefs in Grand 

 Rapids, Michigan, August 17-20. 



The Falls Rubber Co. recently organized in Cuyahoga Falls, 

 Ohio, has purchased the rights of manufacture of a patent rubber 

 horseshoe pad. A line of automobile tires will also be among the 

 products of the new concern. H. A. Post, formerly of Buffalo and 

 Denver, will be sales manager. On account of his removal to 

 Toledo, J. N. Weid leaves active participation in the company and 

 the officers have been changed to the following: Dr. S. H. Stur- 

 geon. Akron, president ; W. G. Short, Akron, vice-president ; H. F. 

 Siegrist, Akron, secretary and treasurer ; William Sherbondy, 

 Akron, superintendent. The offices will be located in Akron. The 

 new plant in Cuyahoga Falls is under roof. 



Salesmen traveling into Akron are interested to learn that the 

 Akron Hotel Co. was organized in this city July 14 to build 

 a $350,000 hotel here. The project is backed by the Chamber of 

 Commerce, and business men expect to see construction started in 

 60 days. 



The population of Akron is 70,354 according to a conservative 

 estimate based on the count in the 1909 city directory published 

 during the last month. This shows an increase of 7,000 during the 

 last year, a large part of it due to the expansion of Akron rubber 

 factories. 



quarters have been opened at No. 50 Church street. New York, 

 under the management of Mr. Max Viewcgcr. 



RUBBER STAMPS FOR THE GOVERNMENT. 



AMERICAN EXPOSITION IN BERLIN. 



A N American exposition is to be held in Berlin during the 

 ** months of April, May, and June, 1910, under the patronage 

 of prominent citizens in Germany and the United States, with 

 the idea of making it of permanent benefit to both nations. 

 It is stated that it will enjoy the lively interest of the German 

 emperor, as well as of many prominent persons in the empire. 

 The American advisory committee embraces a number of rep- 

 resentative business men in various branches. American head- 



■ I 'HE manufacturers of stamp rubber have issued new lists 

 ■* showing a marked advance in prices, due to the higher cost 

 of crude rubber. On June 21 bids were opened for supplies for 

 the United States postal service for the fiscal year beginning 

 July I, 1909, including an unusual number of rubber stamps. It 

 appears that the prices at which contracts were awarded were 

 the lowest in the history of the trade. The bids were made, it is. 

 true, before the announced advance in stamp rubber, but at a 

 time when the cost of crude rubber had become much higher 

 than twelve months before. The Stamp Trade Ncivs (Washing- 

 ton) criticises the policy of stamp makers in supplying govern- 

 ment goods at prices which make profits impossible. It says 

 that three years ago a New York firm which secured the rubber 

 stamp contract at higher prices than those of the successful 

 bidder this year, claimed to have lost heavily and declined there- 

 after to bid. The News says : "In days gone by it was worth 

 the while for a contractor to bid at cost on some items for what 

 they termed 'prestige,' but those days have passed, for there are 



no 'pickings' to be had any more. Let it be hoped that after 



twelve months of grinding out stamps at no profit, wearing out 

 their machinery and wasting their energy, government contractors 

 by this time next year will get some sense knocked into their 

 cocoanuts." 



Two branches of the government service have equipped rubber 

 stamp making outfits, presumably not with a view to saving 

 money so much as to enable them to fill promptly orders for 

 stamps for special work which may be speedily wanted. They 

 are the office at Ogden, Utah, of the forest service of the depart- 

 ment of agriculture, and the Isthmian Canal commission, at 

 Panama. 



A WIDER USE FOR RUBBER STAMPS. 



A CIRCULAR issued from the United States treasury depart- 

 ment under date of April 12 said: 



"There having been a marked improvement in the stamps here- 

 tofore used and in the quality of the ink used on pads and ribbons 

 since department circular 7 of January 20, 1900, was issued pro- 

 hibiting the use of rubber stamps or the typewriter by United 

 States disbursing officers in filling up checks, said circular is- 

 hereby revoked. The use of the rubber stamp and typewriter for 

 said purpose is, therefore, hereby authorized, provided care is 

 taken to insure perfect impressions in filling in the dates, amounts, 

 and names of the payees on checks, and that only permanent ink 

 be used on pads and ribbons." 



On account of objections heard from financial institutions, a 

 later circular was issued, providing that the above regulation be 

 "modified so that the amounts of the checks and the names of 

 the payees be filled in either with pen and ink or with the needle- 

 point typewriter, which perforates the paper. The use of the 

 ordinary typewriter for the purpose is hereby prohibited," 



There is a suggestion in the Washington Star that persons 

 whose signatures to letters are none too legible, might confer 

 a favor upon their correspondents by affi.xing their names with 

 a small rubber stamp underneath the written signature. An offi- 

 cial in one of the government departments at Washington is- 

 mentioned as having adopted this method. 



BoiLiNG-DowN Pots for Rubber. — A newspaper of Cleveland, 

 Ohio, in a report of the display made by a local rubber manu- 

 facturing company at the Industrial Exhibition in that city 

 during the past month, paid special attention to the specimens 

 of crude rubber as gathered in South America, which were in- 

 cluded in the exhibit. The newspaper says: "Hundreds were 

 attracted by the shoes made by the natives from the gum and 

 molded to their feet while still hot from the boiling-down pots." 



