September 1, 1913] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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York, whose mineral rubber, M. R. X,, is so well-known in 

 the rubber manufacturing industries. Mr. AUlen has been con- 

 nected with the rubber trade during his whole business life, either 

 as a manufacturer or as a dealer, and has a host of friends in 

 the trade who wish him renewed success and prosperity in his 

 new enterprise. 



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A. II. Elder, secretary of the Boston Belting Co., who has 

 been spending his vacation at Chatham, "down on the Cape," is 

 now back, ready for another season's hustling business. B. F. 

 Elson, assistant manager of the same company, is at present 

 writing at Cape Porpoise, Maine, where fishing and boating are 

 among the vacation attractions. 



Another sojourner at Cape Porpoise was William B, Laighton, 

 treasurer of the Apsley Rubber Co., of Hudson. Mr. Laighton 

 is modest and will not communicate to your correspondent any 

 information as to his prowess as a fisherman. 



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Charles A. Coc, of the United States Rubber Co., is spending 

 the summer at Annisquam, taking his vacation in installments, 

 coming up to the city on market days, and on other days spending 

 much of the time on his motor-boat, one of the fastest of its 

 class in the harbor. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN CINCINNATI. 



By a Resident Correspondent. 



T ABOR trouble at the various rubber factories throughout the 

 '— ' country, followed locally by a strike of teamsters which 

 has continued for several weeks and tied up freight traffic, has 

 resulted in dealers in rubber goods entering the fall trade with 

 very limited stocks, and in consequence business is quiet despite 

 the fact that jobbers are well supplied with orders, being without 

 any way of filling them. The rubber tire houses have no com- 

 plaint to make, business in this line continuing to surpass that 

 of last year. Perhaps the branch to feel the present labor trouble 

 the most is that of rubber clothing. Jobbers in these goods 

 have hundreds of orders on hand to be filled, but. having only 

 limited stocks, and being hindered in the receipt and shipment of 

 goods, the trade is almost demoralized. 



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Ira J. Cooper, head of the firm of I. J. Cooper & Co., who 

 has fixed his metier as tiremaster by distributing in this section 

 one third of the output produced by the Racine Tire Co.. spent 

 several days at the company's plant in Racine, Wisconsin, and 

 reports that the plant is swamped with orders, to fill wliich it 



is working double shifts. 



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-An amended bill of complaint has been filed in the United 

 States District Court here in the patent infringement suit of 

 Cecil F. .-Xdamson. of East Palestine. Ohio, against J. Everett 

 Inman and George Inman, doing business as the Victor Inner 

 Tire and Rubber Co., of Dayton. Ohio. The patent involved 

 in this litigation covers improvements in tire vulcanizing repair 

 apparatus. The complainant asks for an injunction and an 

 accounting of damages and profits. 



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William E. Schaefer, of the Schaefer Rubber Co.. accom- 

 panied by his wife, is making a two months' tour of the West. 

 Most of their time will be spent visiting the principal points in 



Colorado. 



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Prosperity of an extraordinary sort is attending the activities 

 of the Motor Supply and Tire Co.. at 919 Race street. This 

 concern has undergone a thorough reorganization under the 

 direction of F. W. Stukenberg. manager, and now is part of the 



chain series whose other links are at Cleveland and Columbus. 

 The business of the local branch has assumed immense propor- 

 tions, extending to eight of the nearby states. 



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B. M. Lovell, manager of the local branch of the B. F. Good- 

 rich Co., has arranged an elaborate display in the huge show 

 windows of the company's branch house at 1110 Race street. 

 The display consists of a reproduction of the mammoth plant 

 of the company in full operation. It is one of the most inter- 

 esting exhiliits seen here and is attracting considerable atten- 

 tion. 



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The managers and tire salesmen connected with branch houses 

 in this city have organized a club known as the Queen City 

 Tire Club. The purpose of the organization is to give the 

 members a chance to get acquainted with their competitors, and 

 to promote social intercourse and good fellowship. W. C. Price 

 lias been elected president, and Harry C. Falkell, connected with 

 the Goodyear branch, is secretary and treasurer. 



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Rudolph Greiss, president of the Western Surgical Supply Co., 

 and who is well known in rubber circles in the state, recently 

 treated his friends to a surprise by announcing that he was 

 secretely married more than a month ago to Mrs. Zesta Wilcox, 



of Kenton, Ohio. 



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The annual convention of the National Retail Druggists' As- 

 sociation, which will be held here the week of .August 25, will 

 have, in connection, an exposition in which leading manufac- 

 wrers of pharmaceutical goods, chemists and surgical instru- 

 ment dealers will have a big display. The entire ninth floor of 

 the Hotel Sinton has been engaged for the exposition. A num- 

 ber of the rubber factories throughout the country manufactur- 

 ing druggists' sundries have arranged for space. 



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"Vulcorine" is the name of another product just placed on the 

 market by the Wilcorine Company. This is guaranteed to heal 

 a puncture in a pneumatic tire as large as a thirty-penny spike. 

 The main office and laboratory of the company are located in 

 .Atlanta. Georgia, but Cincinnati has been selected in which 

 to promote the sale of the new product. H. A. Lonshore. man- 

 ager — and the inventor — describes his new product as a liquid 

 fiber compound for use in all pneumatic tires. It stops punc- 

 tures, rim cuts, slow leaks and pinches, does not injure the tires, 

 and is a preservative of rubber. Mr. Lonshore. while here, lo- 

 cated a branch at 141 East Fourth street, and also looked over 

 several available manufacturing sites, as the company contem- 

 plates moving to this city. 



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Following the plans so successfully operated by the Automo- 

 bile Club of .America in New York, and motor organizations at 

 Philadelphia and Louisville, the Cincinnati .Automobile Club is 

 about to make an advanced move — that of conducting a motor 

 supply accessory and tire depot in the exclusive behalf of its 

 members. Secretary L. S. Colter visited Xew York and Phila- 

 delphia recently to gather ideas, and after his return the club 

 authorized him to work out the plan in detail and have it in 

 operation by fall. A salesroom is to be obtained and a com- 

 plete stock of tires and other automobile requisites is to be in- 

 stalled, to be sold at a profit just sufficient to defray expenses of 



operation. 



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The Miller Rubber Co. has entered the local tire field by es- 

 tablishing an agency with the Miami Vulcanizing and Rubber 

 Co. This concern for years represented the Firestone Tire and 

 Rubber Co.. but since the establishment of a direct factory 

 branch of the Firestone company at Xinth and Sycamore streets, 



