118 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1912. 



FISK TIRES ON A RACING CAB. 



Erwin Bergdoll, who finished second in the Elgin free-for- 

 all with his Benz car, reports remarkable service from the Fisk 

 bolted-on tires, with which the car was equipped. The origi- 

 nal front tires were not changed during the entire distance of 

 306 miles. The Fisk equipment was purchased at regular prices, 

 replacing another make of tire put on the car at a 50 per cent, 

 discount. Since the Elgin meet other well-known drivers have 

 approached the Fisk Rubber Co. for a racing arrangement on 

 Fisk tires. The Fisk company, however, offer drivers no spe- 

 cial racing inducement, believing the real test of tire equip- 

 ment is on the road in every-day use. 



THE GOODYEAR CO. OFFERS PRIZES. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, has hit 

 upon an excellent idea and one that should bring it a great deal 

 of valuable information at an inconsiderable expense. It has 

 offered prizes to the dealers handling its tires for the best true 

 short story regarding their advertising e.xperiences. The best 

 story will be awarded a prize of $10, and other contributions 

 considered interesting and valuable will be awarded $5 each and 

 these contributions will be printed by the Dealers' Service Bu- 

 reau of the Goodyear company, for the general benefit of its 

 customers. The best advertising ideas do not, as a rule, come 

 from theorists, but from practical experience, and the Goodyear 

 company ought to get very good returns for its offer. 



A CANADIAN TIRE PLANT IN THE UNITED STATES. 



x\ccording to very good authorities, the Canadian Rubber Co. 

 contemplates erecting a large factory for the manufacture of 

 tires on the American side of the river, with the intention of 

 making a special line of automobile tires for the American 

 trade. This factory will be in addition to its present factory in 

 Montreal. 



TO MAKE TIRES IN ST. LOUIS. 



Articles of incorporation were filed on October 14, 1912, by 

 the St. Louis Tire and Rubber Co., with a capital of $150,000, 

 all paid. This company is composed of the following business 

 men of St. Louis: Harry C. Barker, C. M. Skinner, Webster 

 Groves, Alfred C. Einstein, William H. Glasgow, Roy F. Brit- 

 ton. C. C. Collins, and J. A. Swinehart, who has recently moved 

 to that city from Akron, Ohio. They expect to use one of the 

 buildings erected by the E. G. Lewis Publishing Co., in Uni- 

 versity City. The building is three stories high and covers a 

 lot 177 X 40 feet, with a wing extension. It is the intention of 

 the company to make a large addition to this building in the 

 immediate future. 



Mr. Swinehart, who has been for 15 years identified with the 

 manufacture of tires, is active in the formation of the new com- 

 pany. He was associated with the Suineliart Tire Co., of 

 Akron, and also the Firestone company. 



He says that St. Louis is an ideal city for the location of a 

 rubber tire manufacturing concern. "Its geographic situation 

 could not be better," he told a St. Louis reporter, "for a plant 

 of this nature. It is the gateway to the South and West. St. 

 Louis has many advantages. Cheaper fuel and favorable ship- 

 ping facilities make the city very attractive for a tire company. 

 Labor, too, can be obtained readily in St. Louis. While at the 

 start we probably will turn out but about 30 or 40 tires a day, 

 within six months we expect to have a daily rapacity of at least 

 300 tires." 



Tires will be made for all classes of automobiles and trucks. 

 Solid tires, block tires for trucks, and special tires for the elec- 

 tric coupe, operated largely by women, will be among those 

 manufactured. 



Mr. Morris Loeb, president of the Chemists' Club, died Octo- 

 ber 8, 1912, in his SOth year. 



Mr. Wesley Wright, who for three years was Eastern sales 

 manager of the International Specialty Co., is now acting in the 

 capacity of sales manager of the shoe findings department of the 

 Esse.x Rubber Co., Inc., of Trenton, with an office at 250 Broad- 

 way, New York. Among the articles he is pushing are "Soft- 

 Spots" heel and arch cushions. 



Mr. N. Lincoln Greene, known to the rubber clothing trade 

 of the whole United States, was married on September 16, 1912, 

 to Miss Adelaide Deming, daughter of Mrs. Edmund Orr Dem- 

 ing, of Xew York City. 



Theodore W. Bassett, of the United States Rubber Reclaiming 

 Co., ran part of his celebrated string of race horses at the 

 Trenton fair on October 3, 4 and 5, and in the parlance of the 

 turf, "cleaned up everything in sight." 



MR. PAGE MAKES A CHANGE. 



Wallace G. Page, who is well known in the rubber-tire indus- 

 try, having had charge of the tire department of the Shawmut 

 Tire Co., Boston, has recently associated himself with George 

 P. Van Voorhis, in the American Motor Equipment Co., of 27 

 Haverhill street, Boston, jobbers and dealers in automobile tires 

 and supplies. It will surprise none of his acquaintances to know 

 that Mr. Page is doing very well in his new association, as he 

 has always had the gift of making friends wherever he has been. 

 He comes by his rubber proclivities naturally enough, as his 

 father is a rubber man, having been connected for some time 

 with the Chicago-Bolivian Rubber Co. 



THE MARRIAGE OF C. G. ROEBLINGS DAUGHTER. 



Miss Helen Roebling, daughter of Charles G. Roebling. of 

 John A. Roebling Sons Co., Trenton, New Jersey, was married 

 October 16 to Carroll Sargent Tyson, Jr., a well-known artist 

 of Philadelphia. The ceremony was performed in the home of 

 the bride. Trenton, by the Rev. Hamilton Schuyler, rector of 

 Trinity Episcopal Church. Owing to the death of the bride's 

 brother. Washington A. Roebling 2nd, on the ill-fated Titanic, 

 the wedding guests were restricted to members of the two 

 families. 



THE MARRIAGE OF MR. FRED R. SAYEN. 



Mr. Fred Richardson Sayen, secretary of the Mercer Rubber 

 Company, of Hamilton Square, New Jersey, was married on 

 September 25. 1912, to Miss Anne Jane Mellon, daughter of Mr. 

 and Mrs. William A. Mellon, of Sea Girt, New Jersey, and Pine 

 street, Philadelphia. The ceremony took place at St. Uriel's 

 Episcopal Church, Sea Girt, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Sayen 

 visited the Rubber Exposition at New York on their honeymoon. 

 They expect to reside at Hamilton Square, where Mr. Sayen has 

 built a very handsome bungalow. Mr. Sayen is not only well 

 known in rubber circles, but is a member of the Union League 

 and the Art Club of Philadelphia, and the Merion Cricket Club 

 of Haverford. Pie has traveled extensively and is widely known 

 as a collector of pictures and objects of art. 



REPRESENTS HIMSELF AS SON OF MR. PAUL. 



The Davidson Rubber Co., of Boston, have sent out a warn- 

 ing to the trade against a young man who has been representing 

 himself as the son of the company's president, Mr. Alexander M. 

 Paul, and under the cloak of that representation has been trying 

 to secure money from members of the trade. Mr. Paul has no 

 son and this man is an impostor. He is described as about 30 

 years of age. 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing about 150 pounds, 

 with dark complexion, black hair, brown eyes ; smooth shaven, 

 dressed in dark clothes and wearing a black derby and black 

 silk-lined overcoat, gray gloves and patent leather shoes. 



