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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1. 1912. 



W. G. Brown, of W. G. Brown & Co., crude rubber brokers 

 in the Provident Savings Bank building, said: "The rubber 

 business is flourishing, and the outlook is the best in years. 

 There is a heavy demand for crude rubber at this time for hose, 

 belt, packing, tires and other purposes." 



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To acquaint and interest Cincinnati capital in the possiliilities 

 of .Mexico as a rubber growing country is one of the principal 

 objects of the establishment in this city of a Mexican consulate. 

 Enrique Ornelas has been sent to this city by the Mexican 

 government to make a study of American industries, and at 

 the same time interest Americans in the possibilities of his coun- 

 try. It is more than likely that within a short time there w^ill 

 be organized here a company that will operate an extensive 

 rubber plantation in Mexico. 



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Setting out with the aim of answering satisfactorily the annoy- 

 ing "tire question," the Ideal Steel Wheel Co. has located a 

 factory in this city under auspices most promising. Its chief 

 product is to be the Ideal Steel Wheel, wliich they describe as 

 "stronger than a wooden wheel, more easily cleaned, and with 

 sufficient resiliency in itself to make possible the use of a punc- 

 ture-proof cushion tire, at all speeds, with the same comfort 

 attending a pneumatic tire on a wheel of wood." The officers 

 of the new company are J. B. Fitch, president; J. E. Strietel- 

 meier, vice-president and inventor of the patent; B. L. Mattox, 

 secretary, and E. H. Maffey, treasurer. The capital stock of 

 the company is $500,000. 



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The Diamond Rubber Co. iiled petition in the Common Pleas 

 Court in this city September 25 asking for the appointment of a 

 receiver for the Ohio Motor Car Co., of this city, for the benefit 

 of its creditors. The Diamond Rubber Co. claims to be a 

 creditor of the defendant company on a note of $6,000, which 

 was payable September IS. The Diamond Rubber Co. alleges 

 in its petition that because of irreconcilable differences existing 

 between the officers in active control of the business and some 

 of the stockholders, unless harmony is restored the assets 

 of the company will be wasted and reduced in value to the 

 loss of its creditors. According to the statement of the officers 

 of the company the assets amount to approximately $404,000, 

 and its liabilities to $177,000. The Diamond Rubber Co., besides 

 asking for the appointment of a receiver, asks for judgment on 

 its claim of $6,000. The court appointed Edward G. Schults 

 receiver. 



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"I believe I have absolutely the newest system of tire repair- 

 ing," said F. B. Williams, local agent for the Jackson Motor 

 Car. "One of my men was returning from a trip to the country 

 the other day, and within 20 miles from town had a blow-out in 

 one of his rear tires. He had an extra inner tube, but there 

 was a hole in the casing that he could put his hand through. 

 Unfortunately his tire repair outfit was left behind, and there 

 was not an emergency patch to be had within 20 miles. After 

 some figuring he went to the nearest farm house and secured 

 an old grain sack and a couple of straps from a discarded har- 

 ness. Pumping up the new inrer tube just enough to bring it 

 up to its shape, he tore the grain sack into strips, and wrapped 

 several layers around the tube at the place where the casing 

 was damaged. He then put the tube in tlie casing, put it on and 

 pumped it up a little harder, wrapping the harness straps around 

 the outside of the tire and between the spokes. The tire was 

 then pumped up to its normal pressure and he went on his 

 way rejoicing." 



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Articles of incorporation of the Federal Motor Supply Co. of 

 this city have been filed with the Secretary of State. The capi- 

 talization is $250,000. While the company is authorized to 



manufacture and sell automobiles, motor vehicles, motor boats, 

 motor-driven air vessels and the supplies and accessories for 

 the same, one of the principal features of the new concern will 

 be the handling of tires and other rubber accessories. The 

 officers and directors of the new concern are : President, George 

 W. Piatt; vice-president, Fred H. Belohs; secretary, Jesse W. 

 Wozencraft : treasurer, Emil G. Schmitt ; directors, Edward H. 

 Maffey, William C. Straehley, C. T. Woodrow, J. William Theo- 

 bold and F. W. Stukenborg. The company's principal retail store 

 and warehouse will be in this city, with branches in a number 

 of otlier surrounding cities. Executive offices have been opened 

 at No. 506 Fourth National P.ank building. 



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I hat rubber clothing is coming to the front as one of the 

 important mercantile lines in the larger cities is evident from 

 the fact that very recently this line of business has grown from 

 a mere side line in the various department stores in this city 

 to a business all by itself. Perhaps no one forecast the possi- 

 bilities of the rubber clothing business more accurately than 

 (lid the Schaefer Rubber Co., which is now operating one of the 

 largest retail rubber stores in the Middle West, and has a branch 

 house in Detroit, Michigan. Then followed the Ohio Rubber 

 Co., with a store on Race street, and then came the Goodyear 

 Raincoat Co., of New York, which secured a store room at one 

 of the busiest corners in the downtown district. Recently the 

 London Raincoat Co. opened a branch store here. 



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There were few, if any, of the local representatives of the dif- 

 ferent ruliber tire manufacturers who missed the opportunity of 

 attending the first sales convention of automobile dealers and 

 manufacturers which was held in Indianapolis October 8-9. 

 This convention was the founding of what is to be known as the 

 General Sales Convention .\ssociation. Perhaps the most im- 

 portant speaker representing the rubber industry at the conven- 

 tion was F. A. Seiberling, president of the Goodyear Tire and 

 Rubber Co., of Akron. In his address to the convention Mr. 

 Seiberling said in part: "I am in charge of the department of 

 visions of my concern and am expected to see ahead, far and 

 away. The total value of automobiles and accessories sold in the 

 United States during the past year summed to the enormous 

 total of $1,000,000,000, this as a result of a short ten years of 

 activity and growth. But we are just under way and well going, 

 and with better roads at our service and the sequeling possibility 

 of connecting all cities, towns and villages through the agency 

 of the motor truck I predict that in another ten years the in- 

 come value of our automobile outputs will exceed that of all 

 the railroads in operation everywhere. Before this can be 

 accomplished, however, the motor car salesman must tone up 

 and become more dignified, while the dealer must lay his mind 

 more acutely on the matter of taking care of the machines he 

 has sold. As to the 'Ocean to Ocean Highway' now being 

 plai ned and appearir.g almost insurmountably stupendous, T say 

 that it will be built and nothing on this earth can stop it. The 

 need of a national highway from coast to coast has been so 

 obvious that its possibility, in fact, its almost definite assurance, 

 seems to be the most natural thing in the world. The plan pro- 

 posed by C. J. Fisher of Indianapolis is the first practical plan 

 to my knowledge that has yet been advanced. In pledging its 

 pro rata of approximately $300,000 the Goodyear Tire and Rub- 

 ber Co. feels that it has done nothing remarkable or unselfish. 

 We look upon the pledge as a movement on which we will 

 e.xpect to realize dividends. The fact that the industry is sup- 

 porting this move argues to my mind that the manufacturers 

 look upon the project in the same light. In my opinion the 

 move will succeed, it deserves to, and the men behind it are 

 calculated to see that anything that they back gets its deserts. 

 In other words, they are business men and it takes business men, 

 not politicians, to do all of the really big things of today." 



