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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1913. 



Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co.'s line and will carry a complete 

 stock. They have also made arrangements to act as Pacific coast 

 agents for the Hodgman Rubber Co., of New York, and will 

 tarry a complete line of their druggists' sundries in San Fran- 

 cisco. 



The Pennsylvania Rubber Co. is now making provisions for 

 handling the Pennsylvania V. C. truck tires on this coast from 

 its branch here, and George Miither. who has been chief clerk 

 for the past three years is to be manager of the new truck de- 

 partment. This truck tire with its patent demountable construc- 

 tion makes it possible to change tires as easily as the ordinary 

 tire, and is an innovation in truck tires, so that Mr. French, 

 the manager, believes that the new department will be a big suc- 

 cess from the start. Mr. Muther is a reliable and efficient rub- 

 ber man with long business experience. 



The Asbestos Rubber & Supply Co. has consolidated with the 

 Plant Rubber & Supply Co., and the business will be conducted 

 under the name of the Plant Rubber & Supply Co. 



Mr. Nat Dodge, the new vice-president and general manager 

 of the American Rubber Manufacturing Co., whose offices are 

 in San Francisco, reports that an additional brick building will 

 be constructed adjacent to the two big brick buildings which 

 now constitute the factory at Emeryville. New machinery is 

 being installed, including a new calender, new mills, a 2S-foot 

 belt press, and belt making machinery, so that the capacity of 

 the plant will be nearly doubled. The excellent increase in busi- 

 ness warrants him in believing that there will have to be still 

 further increase in the matter of facilities. This establishment 

 is going especially after the belt business. 



Bissell & Roch is the name of the new vulcanizing firm at 

 Marysville, Mr. Roch having bought a half interest with B. L. 

 Bissell. 



The Miller Rubber Co., of California, has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000, with its principal place of 

 business in San Francisco. 



William Perkins is no longer connected with The Goodrich 

 Rubber Company, having made plans to start in for himself 

 with a new rubber heel which he has invented. 



Charles Gilbert, Pacific coast manager for the United 

 States Tire Co., was married in Hanford last week, to one of 

 the most attractive young ladies of that city. Mr. Brady, of 

 the Gorham-Revere Rubber Co., acted as best man. 



Mr. Sawyer, of the Sawyer Belting Co., of East Cambridge, 

 is now visiting the principal points of interest on the Pacific 

 coast. 



Considerable talk has been heard recently among the men 

 in the rubber business of forming a club for social purposes 

 only. The regular trade association has fallen into disuse, 

 and as its real benefits were chiefly from the social end it has 

 been deemed advisable to have for the chief object of the 

 new club, monthly luncheons at which the members may all 

 meet together. 



The Oregon Packing & Rubber Co. has been incorporated 

 at Portland, Ore., with a capital stock of $15,000. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. is now installed in its 

 fine new building on upper Van Xess avenue. This company 

 had built a special building not long ago, and had not occu- 

 pied it long when the property was taken over by the city, as 

 part of the new civic center site. This was not so unfortunate 

 for the Firestone people as might appear, because they had 

 found that they hardly had enough room for their increased 

 business. Their new building is much larger. W. H. Bell, 

 the coast manager, says that business has nearly doubled dur- 

 ing the past year. 



B. H. Pratt, Pacific coast manager of the Fisk Tire & Rub- 

 ber Co.. has returned from his recent visit to the factory. 



J. Elwood Lee. president of the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., is 

 making a tour of the west, a'nd visiting the company's branches. 

 He is now in San Francisco, having come up from a visit 

 to Los Angeles, where he made his headquarters with the 

 Chanslor-Lyon Company, distributors for the Lee tires. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 

 By a Resident Correspondent. 

 ""PlIE rubber manufacturers of this city and nearby towns in- 

 ■*■ tend to fight against the proposed cut in the tariff on rub- 

 ber of from 35 to 10 per cent. The rubber manufacturers of 

 this city and Lambertville decided at a meeting this month to 

 make a formal protest against any reduction in the present rate. 

 The manufacturers who have combined to protest to Con- 

 gress include John S. Broughton and J. Watson Linburg, of the 

 United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Co. ; John A. Lambert, 

 of the Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co.; George W. Pratt and 



B. H. Taylor, of the Lambertville Rubber Co. ; J. Russell Kelso, 

 of the Woven Steel Hose and Rubber Co. ; Charles E. Stokes, 

 Home Rubber Co. ; William G. Grieb and L. P. Destribats, of 

 Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. ; Clarence D. Wilson, Joseph Bartine 

 and Bruce N. Bedford, of the Luzerne Rubber Co.; Alfred 

 Whitehead, of the Whitehead Brothers Rubber Co. ; Oscar F. 

 Beck and Samuel H. Dodd, of the Vulcanite Rubber Co., of 

 Morrisville; A. E. Sawyer, of \'ulcan Tire Co.; C. H. Oakley, 

 Essex Rubber Co., Inc. ; C. Edward Murray and J. Boyd Cornell, 

 Empire Rubber and Tire Co., and Crescent Belting and Packing 

 Co.; W. J. B. Stokes, of the Thermoid Rubber Co.; William L. 

 Blodgett and William H. Servis, of the Hamilton Rubber Co., 

 and the Mercer Rubber Co., and the Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. 



The manufacturers declare that the proposed reduction if put 

 into effect, will virtually put out of business many branches of 

 the manufacture of soft rubber. It is the opinion of the local 

 manufacturers that the proposed cut is decidedly inimical to the 

 interests of the manufacturers and employes. The duty on hard 

 rubber is left considerably higher than that on soft rubber. 

 John S. Broughton, of the United and Globe company, and 



C. H. Oakley, of the Essex company, will head a delegation 

 which will visit the tariff makers at Washington. 



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The makers of automobile tires say the proposed cut will bring 

 havoc to the trade. It is claimed that English, French and Ger- 

 man tire makers will have no difficult}' in underselling the Amer- 

 ican manufacturers, as the tire makers here are paid from $22 

 to $28 per week, while in the foreign countries it is said the 

 average wage of tire makers is not more than $10 per week at 

 the outside, with other labor in proportion. 



Cornell G. Murray, son of General C. Edward Murray, treas- 

 urer of the Empire Rubber and Tire Co., and Crescent Belting 

 and Packing Co., is to be married to Miss Anna G. Apgar, 

 daughter of Counsellor W. Holt Apgar at an early date. Young 

 Murray is manager of the sales department of the Empire Co. 



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With a view of further increasing the present prosperous busi- 

 ness abroad of the Home Rubber Co., Arthur R. Foley, of this 

 city, has been promoted to the superintendency of the London 

 branch. W. J. B. Stokes, head of the Home company, said the 

 business of the company was increasing so steadily that it was 

 decided to have Mr. Foley assume direct control. Mr. Foley 

 sailed on the Mauretania, April 23. from New York. He has 

 been identified with the rubber industry from boyhood. 



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The Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. has contracted with builder, 

 George E. Benson, for the erection of a one-story brick addition 

 to the plant on Taylor street to cost $3,500. The new building 

 is an addition to the power house. 



