December 1, 1912.; 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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factory business, with no sign of discouragenK-nt for the future. 

 The fine weather of the last few weeks has enabled the dealers 

 to "straighten out," and business is moving now in the most 

 satisfactory manner. The Chicago manager of the Standard 

 Rubber Shoe Co., with headquarters at 311 West Monroe street, 

 says the record of the year has been most pleasing to his com- 

 pany, and he looks for a continuance of good times in the rubber 

 boot and shoe trade. The Chicago house of the Beaver Falls 

 Rubber Shoe Co., 207 West Monroe street, reports business 



good and e.Kpects that 1913 ''will be the best in history." 



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Chicago continues to be one of the world's largest patrons of 

 the manufactories of rubber tires. Every local representative 

 of the factories who could be reached by personal call or by 

 telephone reported everything satisfactory in regard to the pros- 

 pects for 1913. 



In druggists' sundries and similar manufactures of rubber the 

 same prosperous conditions are reported. The demand for fire 

 hose increases just about in proportion with tlie increase in pop- 

 ulation. Additional purchases are made in some population cen- 

 ters because of discovery that hose on hand is of inferior quality 

 and likely to prove practically useless in case of emergency. As 

 a general rule, however, the calls on the hose manufacturers 

 keep up with the requirements caused by growth in population. 

 In all departments of the "hard rubber" trade in Chicago, busi- 

 ness is reported excellent. 



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H. W. Fauver has come here from Indianapolis to take position 

 as assistant manager in the Chicago headquarters of the Dia- 

 mond Rubber Co., 1523 Michigan avenue. 



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THE RUBBER TRADE IN CINCINNATI. 



By a Resident Correspondent. 



ITH the election over and the political battles fought, 

 rubber manufacturers and dealers are now down to hard 

 work again to make the year just closing a banner one for their 

 individual institutions. In the rubber clothing trade the 

 weather this fall has been all that could be desired to encourage 

 large orders in this line. Perhaps no other line has shared so 

 well in the prosperity of the city as did the rubber tire industry, 

 and from all local houses comes the same report — "Business is 

 very good." 



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Perhaps there was no one person in the country who worked 

 harder for the re-election of President Taft and felt the Presi- 

 dent's defeat more keenly than did Fred A. Geier, vice-president 

 of the Cincinnati Rubber Co., who was the president of the 

 ■"Prosperity League" that had its headquarters in this city and 

 was a power in getting before the business men of the country 

 arguments in favor of Mr. Taft's administration. 



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The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of the 

 Dayton Airless tire, and termed the "Air Free Care Free" tire, 

 has opened a branch in this city at iS03 Race street. B. H. 

 Pfister has been appointed manager in charge for this territory. 



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Bumiller & Remlin, local agents for several leading makes of 

 automobile, motorcycle and bicycle tires and dealers in auto- 

 mobile and bicycle accessories, have installed a unique feature 

 in connection with their establishment. This concern, located 

 at 412 Main street, is in the heart of the business district. They 

 have installed at the curb in front of their establishment a res- 

 ervoir for the purpose of supplying air to all automobile and 

 bicycle owners, free of charge. The supply of air is furnished 

 through the agency of an electrically-operated pump that fills and 

 refills the reservoir automatically, and air is available every day 

 and nialn throughout the year, the only requirement being a 



key, which the firm is distributing free to all automobile and 

 bicycle owners on application. The firm has had 500 keys made, 

 and most of them have already been distributed. 



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The rubber manufacturers and jobbers maintaining branch 

 houses in this city, which are the distributing points for the cen- 

 tral West and South, are unanimous in praising the results ob- 

 tained by the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association in the 

 development of the package car system, which is proving a bene- 

 fit to Cincinnati shippers. The main development is the issu- 

 ance by the association of shipping guides by which shippers 

 are enabled to judge before shipment what routing to give a 

 package to insure its earliest delivery at its destination. Pack- 

 age cars leave Cincinnati direct for the following distributing 

 points west and southwest and northwest : Chicago, Akron, 

 Denison, East St. Louis, Houston, Kansas City, Little Rock, 

 Memphis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Peoria, St. Louis, Shreveport 

 (Louisiana) and Vicksburg (Mississippi). At these points pack- 

 age cars start in various directions. A post card accompanies each 

 invoice, giving the date of shipment. The consignee marks on 

 it the time of receipt and puts on it any complaint as to delay. 

 This enables the association to take up with the railroads any 

 just complaints, and the railroads are co-operating to remedy 

 any delays in delivery and appreciate highly the work the asso- 

 ciation does in locating the blame for delay. A sticker is put on 

 every invoice and on every package. Local managers for the 

 rubber houses who have a large number of shipments each 

 week, and mostly shipments requiring prompt delivery, are en- 

 thusiastic over the results the association is obtaining in sup- 

 plementing the work of the railroads. 



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Arthur Jack, for several years active as Cincinnati newspaper 

 man and later engaged as city sales agent for the Diamond Rub- 

 ber Co., at Minneapolis, has returned to this city to serve in a 

 similar capacity for the Diamond Rubber Co. 



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Urged on by widely expanding trade, the United States Tire 

 Co.. which operates a branch house at 1121 Race street, has 

 just added two new salesmen to its already large staff — W. C. 



Price and J. A. Moore. 



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I. Z. Stone, of the Diamond Rubber Co., spent several days 

 in the city and wliile here took advantage of the opportunity of 

 mixing with automobile owners and talking Diamond tires. In 

 speaking of the several fallacies that it seems impossible to get 

 out of the average automobile owner's mind, Mr. Stone said: 

 'The belief that hot weather and road friction increase the air 

 pressure in a tire to a dangerous point, cost the car owners of 

 this country millions of dollars every year. Because of this 

 fallacy thousands of car owners habitually travel on under in- 

 flated tires, the 'soft' tire becomes bruised and cut, and before 

 long there is a blow-out. The internal friction in a tire caused 

 by the bending of the material, especially the fabric, does heat 

 the tire, but the softer the tire the greater the bending action 

 and the more internal heat. The increase in air pressure due 

 to heat is not nearly as great as the car owner thinks. To get 

 maximum mileage, the car owner should inflate according to a 

 very simple rule — the pressure per square inch as shown by the 

 pressure gauge should be 18 times the tire's cross section in 

 inches. For instance, a 354-inch tire should always be inflated 

 to 63 pounds, a 4-inch tire to 72 pounds, and so on. regardless 

 of hot or cold weather." 



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The I. J. Cooper Rubber Co., located at 717 Main street, has 

 ii^creased its capital stock from $10,000 to $100,000. The com- 

 pany deals in rubber accessories for bicycles and automobiles. 

 Although the company has been in business a little less than a 



