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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1913. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. William Keyes, formerly witli Prescott Bros., Boston. 

 is now traveling in the South for the Chicago Rubber Cloth- 

 ing Co., of Racine, Wisconsin, and has booked some very 

 large orders for "at once" and future delivery. 



E. T. Carnahan has. resigned from the sales force of the 

 Swinehart Clincher Tire & Rubber Co., and will travel in the 

 East for the Firestone Tire Co., with headquarters at Buffalo. 



T. B. Goodlee has been made manager of the United States 

 Tire Co., Atlanta branch. He was formerly manager of the 

 company's branch at Richmond, where he has been succeeded 

 by J. G. Given from the Philadelphia organization. The United 

 States Tire Co.'s branch in Dallas, Texas, is now under the 

 management of W. F. Gordon, formerly with the United Motor 

 Co., Dallas. This branch covers the States of Texas, Louisiana, 

 Mississippi and part of Alabama. 



ME. MINITER WITH RAYFIELD. 



N. H. Miniter, who for several years has been sales manager 

 of the Stromberg Motor Devices Co., has resigned his position 

 with that concern and is now associated with the Findeisen & 

 Kropf Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, as factory sales manager. 

 He will in future represent the Rayfield Carbureter throughout 

 the country. 



F. C. HOOD, GENERAL MANAGER. 



On December 1, 1912, Mr. F. C. Hood retired as treasurer of 

 the Hood Rubber Co., and will hereafter act as general manager, 

 with his office at the Factory .Administration Building in Water- 

 town, where the company has consolidated all its business offices 

 including the purchasing department, foot-wear sales department, 

 tire sales department, and accounting department. Mr. A. N. 

 Hood will succeed Mr. F. C. Hood as treasurer, and Mr. J. E. 

 Stone will become assistant treasurer, with offices as heretofore 

 at 103 Bedford street, Boston. 



A DIAMOND PIN FOR MH. CROCKER. 



Mr. Isaac Crocker, treasurer of the Hope Rubber Co., of 

 Providence, the company that operates a chain of rubber stores 

 through New England and the Middle States, sailed for Florida 

 and the Panama zone a few days ago, and just before saihng 

 he was decoyed by his employes into one of the Providence 

 hotels, given a Christmas dinner, and presented with a hand- 

 some diamond stick-pin. Mr. Crocker was taken quite by sur- 

 prise, but responded appropriately to the complimentary speech 

 of presentation. ■ 



AN ALDEN CHRISTMAS CAROL. 



Geo. A. Alden & Co., of Boston, are famous for the individual 

 character of their advertising. They are now sending out to 

 the trade a little booklet of 4 pages and ornamental cover, en- 

 titled "Wishing You A Me Rry Xmas," etc., in which it will be 

 noticed that certain letters in "Merry Christmas" represent the 

 famous M. R. X rubber substitute manufactured by the com- 

 pany. The opening stanza of the carol is as follows : 

 " 'Twas the night before Christmas, 

 When all through the mill, 

 M, R. X. made by Alden 



Was used with good will." 

 And the rest of the carol maintains this same poetic level. 



VALIDITY OF THE ADAMS TIRE TREAD PATENT. 



In July, 1911, Judge Piatt, in the United States Di.strict Court, 

 Hartford, Connecticut, declared against the application of the 

 Calvin T. Adams patent. No. 609,320, to heavy automobile tires. 

 in the suit of the Metallic Rubber Tire Co., against the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co. On the dismissal of the suit, the plaintiffs 

 appealed, with the result that Judge Piatt's decision has been 

 reversed in the Court of Appeals by Judge Noyes. 



The patent is for preventing the yielding tires of bicycles and 

 other wheeled vehicles, from slipping in the roadway, as they 

 are particularly apt to do when the roadway is smooth and wet. 



THE CHICAGO RUBBER CLOTHING CO.'S NEW FACTORY. 



The Chicago Rubber Clothing Co., of Racine, Wisconsin, 

 will have completed by January 15 a new three-story and 

 basement brick factory, mill construction, 62 feet wide by 117 

 feet long, the upper floor of which will be devoted to the 

 manufacture of men's and women's "Slip 0ns," both single 

 and double texture. They have installed a number of new 

 and up-to-date machines and this new factory — combined 

 witli a 50-foot addition to their spreading department — will 

 enable them to double their output. The year just closed has 

 been the most successful the company ever had in its 28 

 years. 



THE PORTAGE CO. DOUBLES ITS OUTPUT. 



The Portage Rubber Co.. incorporated in the state of Ohio, and 

 capitalized at $1,000,000, is putting up a new building to add to its 

 plant in Barberton, Ohio. When this building is completed the 

 company e.xpects to double the output of its auto tires and 

 tubes. 



AHOTHER HOPE STORE. 



The Hope Rubber Co., which already had nine rubber stores 

 that do both a wholesale and retail trade, has now added a tenth 

 store, situated at Portland, Maine. Its chain of stores covers 

 most of the New England States and one or two of the Middle 

 States. They are operated by Mr. Isaac Crocker, treasurer of 

 the company, who is located at the Providence, Rhode Island, 

 store. 



TWO BIG FINES. 



Suit has been brought by the United States government 

 against the American Stepney Spare Wheel Co., and the Neu- 

 mastic Tire Co. A fine of $10,000 is claimed from each com- 

 pany, for failure to make returns under the corporation laws. 



THE UNDERWRITERS' LABORATORIES AND THE INSULATED WIRE 

 INDUSTRY. 



Editor, India Rubber World : 



In a recent number of the "Journal of Industrial and Engineer- 

 ing Chemistry" (November, 1912. page 856) Mr. G. H. Savage, 

 a rubber specialist well known in the chemical fraternity, calls 

 attention to the Cottle Extraction Apparatus designed by G. T. 

 Cottle of the New York Insulated Wire Co. 



It appears from the article that the Underwriters' Laboratories 

 have borrowed — to use a euphemism — the design of the apparatus 

 and the "Methods of Analysis." The author states that the 

 "Methods" are actually the joint work of several chemists of 

 the insulated wire industry, who completed the work without the 

 smallest assistance from the Underwriters' Laboratories. After 

 several unessential changes these instructions were actually pub- 

 lished as the "Underwriters Laboratories Methods for Chemical 

 Tests of Rubber Compounds, etc." This attitude of the Official 

 Laboratory of the National Fire Protection Association is inter- 

 esting in view of the Editorial which appeared in The India 

 Rubber World for December, 1912. Chemist. 



UNITED STATES TIRE CO. ENLARGING BRANCH SYSTEM. 



In addition to the changes in staff of agents noted elsewhere 

 the United States Tire Co. is opening new sub-branches at 

 Washington, D. C. ; Newark, New Jersey ; Birmingham, Alabama ; 

 Rochester, New York ; and Milwaukee. It is also in contempla- 

 tion to open sub-branches at Providence; Worcester, Mass- 

 achusetts; Baltimore; Syracuse, New York; as well as Columbus 

 and Toledo, Ohio. 



PROPOSED AUTO ROAD ACROSS CONTINENT. 



At a banquet attended by some 300 Indiana automobile manu- 

 facturers and dealers, the amount of $800,000 was subscribed 

 towards the construction of a macadam roadway from New 

 York to San Francisco. The length of the road would be 3.349 

 miles, and the total estimated cost $25,000,000. 



