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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1913. 



at 138 North La Salle street. R. T. Whelply, the Chicago rep- 

 resentative of the Mcllroy concern, reports that business has in- 

 creased very largely since the change in location and tliat the 

 prospects for the coming year are excellent. 



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A few years ago, the eelskin seamless, solid woven, cotton 

 belting now so much in demand in this country could be ob- 

 tained only from England. With the high rate of duties on 

 such material, this sort of belting was very expensive. Now the 

 Boston Belting Co., through its Chicago agency, is furnishing 

 the Middle West, the Northwest and the West with a full line 

 of the materials. Experiments and tests of most severe nature 

 have resulted in agreement on the part of experts that the product 

 of the Boston concern is fully equal to the imported article. This 

 belting is the first of the kind made in the United States. 



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An indication of increasing activity on the part of some of 

 the railroad companies is seen in the fact that they are buying 

 more freely in the line of rubber goods than heretofore for some 

 time. The fact that it is necessary to equip many cars idle 

 heretofore, in connection with the movement of the crops, is an 

 explanation of the increasing demand for the output of the me- 

 chanical rubber factories for use on cars. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN CINCINNATL 



By a Resident Correspondent. 



THE ideal weather that has predominated over the Central 

 States during the past thirty days has been beneficial to 

 the rubber trade in this section. The tire manufacturers report 

 business booming, and indications that there will be no let up 

 in activity, while in the other lines, such as the rubber clothing, 

 golf balls and rubber toys the season has been more active than 



anticipated. 



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Local dealers of adjustable calks and rubber hoof-pads and 

 horseshoes are much interested in the civil anti-trust suit filed 

 by the government in Detroit, December 12, against the Master 

 Horseshoers' National Protective Association and a number of 

 other large manufacturers of horseshoes and calks. Hulbert 

 Marshall, of this city, secretary of the International Union of 

 Journeymen Horseshoers, commented on the action of the gov- 

 ernment as follows : "The men of our union, numbering 15,000, 

 are employed by the master horseshoers. Why the Association 

 of Master Horseshoers and the manufacturers should be charged 

 with being a horseshoers' trust, I can not understand, for it 

 always seemed to me that they were within the law. I know 

 that the horseshoers did try through agreements with the manu- 

 facturers to confine the sale of calks, or toes, and horseshoe pads 

 to horseshoers, but the plan never worked out, and I or any- 

 one else could buy all of these things we wanted. The manu- 

 facturers sent out agents who >vouId sell to anybody. A 

 man would buy shoe toes or pads, take them to a shop, and 

 then want his horse shod for fifty cents. Naturally the horse- 

 shoers objected and wanted to handle these things themselves, 

 but they never succeeded in confining the sale only to horse- 

 shoers." 



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To many a poor family Christmas would be of only passing 

 moment, while many poor little tots in Cincinnati would not 

 know the joys of a visit from Santa Claus, if it were not for 

 the activities of W. G. Brown, head of the firm of W. G. Brown 

 & Co., rubber brokers. Mr. Brown has been connected with 

 the Citizens' Santa Claus Committee since its inception, and 

 each year it falls to his lot to be the executive head of that 

 committee. This year a determined efifort was made by Mr. 

 Brown and his committee to bring Santa Claus into the lives 



of 10,000 children. .Arrangements were made to distribute 



Christmas baskets containing dolls, toys, candy, nuts and fruits. 



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The X'ictor Ruhhcr Co., of Springfield. Ohio, riled with the 

 Secretary of State notice of an increase in its capital stock from 

 $60,000 to $1.S0,000. 



The Schacfi'er Kuliher Co., retail dealers in rubber clothing 

 and rubber sundries, have entered into a lease for a term of 

 eight years, for the storeroom now occupied by them at 116 East 

 Fourth avenue. The lease calls for close to $50,000 as rental 

 for the term. 



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J. S. Sackett has placed on the market here a new device, in- 

 vented by himself, for clamping patches applied to inner tubes. 

 Simplicity is its feature, together with the element of conveni- 

 ence, for the reason that there is no further need of using the 

 foot as a means of pressure while patches are in process of dry- 

 ing. The clamp can easily be packed in any tool chest. 



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Not to be outdone by its competitors in this territory. The 

 United States Tire Co. has just completed and is now occupy- 



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Nku U. S. Tire Cu.V Stcire at Ci.m i.nnati. 



ing its own building in Cincinnati. The building is located at 

 1121 and 1123 Race street, is of re-inforced concrete and terra 

 cotta, three stories in height, and is one of the ornamental struc- 

 tures in the automobile and tire district of the city. The two 



