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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1, 1912 



and knees within a few feet of her bed. She demanded what 

 he was doing there. The negro made no response. She ordered 

 him out of the house and with that, took after him. After chas- 

 ing him out, she notified the other members of the family. 



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C. W. Seiberling, vice-president of The Goodyear Tire and 

 Rubber Co., is having plans made for a new residence to cost 

 $80,000. W. W. Sabin, Cleveland architect, has the plans in 

 hand. It will be a two-story brick and stone structure in 

 Colonial style. 



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O. C. Barber has just returned irc>m an e.xtcndcd European 

 trip. 



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F. A. Seiberling, president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber 

 Co., has returned from his vacation at the Cheneau.x Islands. 

 Mr. Seiberling has planned a magnificent home and a large es- 

 tate at the northern end of Portage Path, the plans of which are 

 being rapidly completed. To secure his ideal Mr. Seiberling 

 has made an extensive trip through Europe and has carefully 

 stu(Hed the various estates, manners and homes of Europe. 



L. C. VanVever, of the same company, sailed for England on 

 Sept. 3, to open an English branch and later to open a branch 

 in France and each of the other countries of Europe, and as 

 soon as these branches are fully completed, the foreign posses- 

 sions of the various European countries will be exploited. It is 

 the plan of the company besides establishing a branch in each 

 one of the leading countries, to establish distributing systems 

 radiating from the central branch of each country. 



The new office building of the Goodyear company is completed 

 .iud occupied. The main floor is used exchisively for executive 

 offices, those of the president, vice-president, secretary and other 

 executive officers being finished in solid mahogany. The re- 

 mainder of the offices are finished in golden oak paneling. Tlie 

 entrance hall is elaborate and finished in oak. These afford 

 spacious quarters for all departments. 



In order to better cope with the rapid increase in business, 

 the Goodrich company has built a factory at Colombes, near 

 Paris, France. The company runs a touring bureau and fur- 

 nishes reliable information concerning foreign tours free of 

 cliarge. 



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It is estimated by Akron rubber men that the output of the 

 .M;ron factories for the year of 1912 will exceed that of 1911 

 approximately 25 per cent. 



THE NEW BRAZILIAN LEGISLATION. 



It will be recalled that a decree was signed on January 5 last, 

 by the President of the Republic of Brazil, by which various 

 important measures were sanctioned for the benefit of the na- 

 tional rubber industry. A full extract of the decree appeared 

 in The India RtTBr.EE World of June, 1912 (p. 427). 



Since then the Brazilian Ministry of .\griculture has issued a 

 series of regulations intended to put into effect the provisions 

 of the decree. An English translation of both the decree and 

 ihe regulations has been published by the Brazilian Government. 

 It contains amongst other points, the regulations affecting the 

 free entry of machinery, chemicals and other requirements of the 

 rubber industry, of which the booklet contains a full list. 



The regulations for experimental stations, rubber refinery and 

 manufacturing establishments are likewise given at full length. 



The Inter-Continental Rubber Co. on September 30 paid a 

 quarterly dividend of IM per cent, on its preferred stock, to 

 holders of record September 20. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN CINCINNATI. 



j6\v (I Ri'sidfiit Correspondent. 

 'T'ill'. season of 1912 just closing will mark one of the greatest, 

 * if not the greatest, in point of business for local branch 

 houses of the various rubber tire manufacturers in their history. 

 For years this city has been looked upon by the tire manufac- 

 turers as an unprofitable city in which to open branch houses, 

 as it was the general opinion that the automobile would not 

 become a necessity, but would remain a luxury on account of the 

 steep hills surrounding the city. These opinions were not well 

 founded, and about the first to see the possibilities of this city 

 as an automobile tire center were the Diamond and the Goodrich 

 companies, which installed branch houses at a big expenditure. 

 It did not take long for other manufacturers to follow these two 

 companies and today the Commercial Club, and other civic or- 

 ganizations boosting trade for the Queen City never fail to call 

 attention to the prominence of Cincinnati as an automobile tire 

 center. Local agents for the various manufacturers are enthusi- 

 astic in their expressions of trade for next year and already 

 many improvements are being considered to take care of the ex- 

 pansion of trade that is looked for in 1913. 



The Ohio Retail Shoe Dealers" Association, which held its an- 

 nual convention in Dayton, Ohio, early in September, has prac- 

 tically declared war upon the "fabric" footwear, especially on 

 shoes made of cravenette cloth. Footwear of cloth and similar 

 materials, it was said, "comes into being with the rising of the 

 sun and ceases to be fashionable by night." Such styles were 

 regarded as a source of trouble and expense. The association 

 renewed its fight against the so-called trust manufacturing rubber 

 footwear, and the cominittee having in charge the matter of 

 financing a co-operative company to manufacture rubber foot- 

 wear reported to the convention that plans were about perfected 

 to launch a co-operative company in the near future. Fraudulent 

 advertising, discounts and mail-order houses were assailed, and 

 will be the objects of a relentless pursuit by the dealers from 



nov,- on. 



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Coughlin & Davis, local agents for the Morgan &. Wright Co., 

 received an order the other day from a Southerner of pronounced 

 political views. His letter containing the order follows : 



"Nashville, Tenn., August 31, 1912. 

 "Coughlin & Davis, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



"Gentlemen: Please send us the following tires: 



"One 34 x 4 Nobby Tread, M. & W. Q. D. 



"One 33 x 4 Nobby Tread, M. & W. Q. D. 



"One 33 X 4 Round Tread, yi. & W. Q. D. 



"One 34 X 4 Inner Tube. 



"Please see that we get Woodrow Wilson tires, as we don't 

 care for the G. O. P. or Bull Moose. Very truly yours, 



"Everett Philpot & Co." 



The defeat of one of the Constitutional Aincndments to the 

 Constitution of Ohio, voted on by the people Septeinber 3, which 

 provided for the issuance of a $50,000,000 bond issue for good 

 roads in the .State of Ohio, was keenly felt by local representatives 

 of the tire manufacturers. While Ohio has been expending in the 

 last few years sums in improving the various important high- 

 w-ays of the State, yet good-roads experts say that at the rate of 

 iinprovetnent it will be years before Ohio will have good roads 

 in all sections of the State, and the proposed amendment was 

 passed by the Constitutional Convention for the purpose of giving 

 the Legislature authority to pass laws for a bond issue that would 

 provide funds for improving the roads iinmcdiately. Local tire 

 men say that the condition of many roads in Ohio is directly 

 responsible for the major portion of complaints that come to 

 them bv automobile owners who complain of the life of tires. 



