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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1. 1913. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES, 



The W. C. Hendrie Rubber Co., of Denver, which recently gave 

 out a contract for a tire factory in Torrencc, California, is at the 

 same time doubling the size of its Denver plant. 



The Buckeye Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, is making a $20,000 

 addition to its present buildings, and is also remodeling one of its 

 old buildings in order to use it as a curing room. 



The American Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron, Oliio, has re- 

 cently opened a branch office in Milwaukee, Wis., with Albert 

 Weisskopf as general sales manager. 



The Fort Dearborn Rubber Goods Co., of Chicago, dealing in 

 reliners, blow-out patches and outer boots, has recently increased 

 its capital from $5,000 to $10,000. 



The Squires & Byrne Rubber Co.. of Los Angeles and San 

 Francisco, was recently awarded the contract to furnish the 

 California and Oregon Grain & Elevator Co., of Portland, Ore- 

 gon, 2,250 feet of Quaker City Rubber Co.'s Grain Elevator Belt. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, recently opened new 

 quarters in the Glenwood-Inglewood Building. Minneapolis, 

 Minnesota. 



The National Rubber Co., of St. Louis, is marketing a tire-cut 

 filling material called "Narco." It is said to be self-vulcanizing 

 and becomes an integral part of the tire upon standing over night. 



Announcement has been made of the opening in New York of 

 a branch selling agency for the F^tablissemcnts Bcrgougnan of 

 Clermont-Ferrand, France, makers of the Gaulois tires, and an 

 initial shipment of 5,CX)0 tires is said to have been already received 

 at the Gaulois headquarters, Sixty-fourth street and Broadway. 



The Ailing Rubber Co.. which has a chain, or more properly a 

 group of rubber stores in- various towns in New England and 

 New York State, expects soon to open another at 92 Genesee 

 street, Utica, New York, of which Mr. William Walls will be the 

 manager. 



The stockholders of the Patterson Rubber Co., of Lowell, in- 

 corporated last October, have voted to increase the capitalization 

 of the company from $500,000 to $1,000,000 by the issue of 2,500 

 shares of preferred and 2,500 shares of common stock at $100 a 

 share. 



UNITED STATES COMMON PAYS SIX PEE CENT. 



The directors of the United States Rubber Co. on April 3 de- 

 clared the usual quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, upon the first 

 preferred stock of the company, and a quarterly dividend of 1^ 

 per cent, upon the common stock. Over nine-tenths of the sec- 

 ond preferred stock has been extinguished under the recent offer 

 made by the company; on the small amount as yet outstanding 

 1J4 per cent, will be paid. It was stated that, although all of the 

 April 1 inventories had not been completed, sufficient was ascer- 

 tained to show that the net earnings of the company for the year 

 would be from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 in excess of all dividends 

 declared, including the increased dividend on the common stock. 



WANT AMERICAN RUBBER COATS. 



A report from an American consular officer in a Mediterranean 

 country states that a firm of large dealers in rubber goods in his 

 district desires to represent an American exporter of rubber 

 coats for men and women (mackintoshes) of the less expensive 

 and of the better qualities. Correspondence may be in English. 

 The report is No. 10,627. 



LABOR ORGANIZATION AT AKRON. 



While there arc now |)ractically wi reminders in .Xkron of 

 the recent strike that lasted a number of weeks in that city, 

 it is reported that the .American Federation of Labor is striv- 

 ing to bring about a permanent local organization in that city 

 and to make it the headquarters of the rubber workers of 

 America, who are connected with that labor organization. 



PEESONAL MENTIONS. 



Charles M. White, Jr., of The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. 

 has recently located in Detroit as pneumatic tire representative 

 to the Automobile Manufacturers of Michigan. Mr. White 

 formerly represented that company in Syracuse and his new po- 

 sition comes as a well deserved promotion. 



M. A. Magee, who for several years has been connected with 

 the Motz Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, has succeeded P. 

 M. Pontius as sales manager. Mr. Pontius is specializing in the 

 work of the Electric Pleasure Car Tire and is now in the position 

 of manager of that department. 



George W. Taite, who was vice-president and manager of the 

 Sawyer Belting Co. for about ten years, and who resigned some 

 few months ago and became the moving spirit of the transfer of 

 The National Belting Co.'s plant from Lawrence; Mass, to Elyria, 

 Ohio, has resigned his office as president of The National Belting 

 Co. and sold his holdings. 



MR. KENDALL GOES TO AKRON. 



Mr. J. A. Kendall, the Western representative of Tyson Bros., 

 Inc., of Carteret, N. J., who has been representing the com- 

 pany in Cleveland, has taken an office at 524 Second National 

 Bldg., Akron, in order to be able to take better care of the 

 Akron trade. 



A RUBBER MAN IN SOUTH AMERICA. 



A delegation of American business men, principally New Eng- 

 landers, sailed from Boston on April 24th, under the auspices of 

 the Boston Chamber of Commerce, for a three months' tour of 

 South America. They will go across the Isthmus of Panama, 

 take a look at the Canal, and then coast down the west shore of 

 South America, visiting Lima and other points in Peru, besides 

 the principal cities of Bolivia and Chile, going as far South as 

 Valparaiso; from there cross the continent to Buenos Aires, and 

 go up the east coast, stopping at Montevideo, Rio and other 

 points, and landing in New York, July 2i. There were about 

 sixty-live members in the party. 



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The only rubber man in the delegation is Edward T. Smith, of 

 the Iroquois Rubber Co., of Buflfalo, N. Y., who goes in the 

 interest of the United States Rubber Co., to see what rubber 

 goods are used on the Southern continent, what they look like, 

 where they come from, and what prices are paid for them. In 

 the present spirit of enterprise so evident all over South 

 America, these tourists from the States will undoubtedly receive 

 a warm welcome. Mr. Smith will doubtless learn a great deal of 

 value to the company he represents. 



