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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1913. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Mercer Rubber Co., ol New York, Inc., 95 Broad street, 

 New York, has been organized with a capital of $10,000 to take 

 the New York agency of the Mercer Rubber Co.. of Hamilton 

 Square, New Jersey, which manufactures meclianical rubber 

 goods and specialties. The president of the New Y'ork company 

 is W. A. Dale, who has been connected with the New York 

 rubber jobbing trade for twenty-live years. 



The Swinehart Tire Agency has recently been opened at 

 726 Main street, Buttalo, for the distribution of the Swinehart 

 solid and pneumatic tires in Western New^ Y'ork and Penn- 

 sylvania. The president of this new agency is C. A. Couch, 

 and the secretary and treasurer F. P. Georger. 



By a vote of the stockholders at a meeting held at Pittsburgh 

 early in May, the business of the McGraw Tire and Rubber 

 Co. of Pennsylvania was transferred to the McGraw Tire 

 and Rubber Co. of Ohio, a corporation with a capital stock 

 of $1,000,000 and with a factory at East Palestine. Ohio. 



William H. Scheel, of 159 Maiden Lane, New York, who spe- 

 cializes in earths, clays, calcined magnesia and fillers of all kinds 

 — domestic and imported — has the exclusive agency in New Y'ork 

 of Ohio aluminum flake, and plans to carry a very large stock 

 of this on hand, in order to be able to fill immediately all urgent 

 requirements of the trade. He occupies a five-story building 

 and has ample room for abundant storage. 



The Rosenthal Co., manulacturers of rubber erasers and rub- 

 ber balls, moved their offices, about the last of May, from 346 

 Broadway to 45 East 17th street, corner of Fourth avenue, New 

 York, where they have taken considerably larger space. 



The Keaton Patents Co., New York City, has been incor- 

 porated, with a capital stock of $100,000, for the purpose of 

 manufacturing rubber tires and pnuematic cushions. 



The United States Rubber Reclaiming Co., with factories at 

 Buffalo and executive offices in the Forty-Second Street Build- 

 ing, New York, have recently erected a new factory building 

 equipped with every late mechanical appliance, which will be 

 exclusively devoted to the production of tire stocks, increas- 

 ing the capacity approximately 100 per cent. i«i this class of 

 work. The factory is in operation day and night. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has given 

 out plans for the construction of a four-story brick, steel and 

 reinforced concrete manufacturing plant addition. 



A firm of commission agents in a Mediterranean country 

 informs an American consulate that it would like to secure 

 agencies for the sale of .\merican shoes, rubber goods, and 

 hardware. This firm is said to be well rated and would like 

 to import direct. The consular report is No. 11152. 



The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachu- 

 setts — of which Captain Francis H. .Appleton has been the com- 

 manding officer during the past year — celebrated its 275th anni- 

 versary on June 2. The exercises consisted of church services 

 in the morning in the Old South Church, Boston, with a sermon 

 by Rev. A. Horton, D.D., while later in the day a banquet was 

 served at the Copley Plaza hotel. 



MK. CTTTLEE OPENS HIS OWN OFFICE. 



Mr. D. A. Cutler, formerly associated with The Continental 

 Rubber Co., and more recently in the development work of the 

 United States Rubber Co., has opened an office at 277 Broad- 

 way, where he will operate as an expert in crude rubber research. 

 Mr. Cutler has had an extensive and successful experience in 

 practical work of this sort, and there is every likelihood that his 

 services will be in active request among rubber manufacturers. 



A RADICAL DEPARTURE IN ADVERTISING U. S. TIRES. 



The tire trade was very much surprised wlieu it became 

 known on June 10 that the United States Tire Co. had 

 abolished its advertising department and that hereafter all 

 the various kinds of advertising put out by this company 

 would be handled through an agency, which is expected to 

 move its offices into the United States Rubber Co. building, 

 Broadway and Fifty-eighth street, New York, where the offices 

 of the tire company are located. The only reason given for 

 this radical change is that it is hoped to effect substantial 

 economies. Mr. Hubbs, who has been in charge of the com- 

 pany's tire advertising department, has no plans for the 

 immediate future. 



MR. J. M. GILBERT. 



The June issue of The Indi.a Rubber World contained an 

 announcement of the resignation of Mr. J. M. Gilbert from the 

 position of general manager of the United States Tire Co. and 

 his assumption of the duties of president and general manager 

 of the Lozier Motor Co., Detroit; and some details regarding 

 his career in the tire manufacturing field were given at that 



J. M. Gilbert. 



time. The accompanying photograph shows that Mr. Gilbert is 

 still a young man ; and this fact, together with the possession 

 of unusual energ)-. and a marked degree of executive ability, 

 promise exceptional .success in his management of the Lozier 

 company. He has been acquainted with the automobile trade 

 ever .since the time, a dozen years ago, when he was sales 

 manager of the Firestone Tire Co., so that, while he goes from 

 tire manufacture to automobile manufacture, he is very far 

 from being a stranger in his new field. 



DIVIDENDS DECLARED. 



The B. & R. Rubber Co. has declared a regular quarterly divi- 

 dend of 1^4 per cent, on its preferred stock, and a dividend of 

 2 per cent, on its common stock — payable July 1 to stockholders 

 of record on June 21. 



The Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, declared 

 its usual quarterly- dividend of 1J4 per cent, on its preferred 

 and 1 per cent, on its common stock, payable July 2 to stock 

 of record June 21. 



RUBBER GOODS COMPANY PAYS DIVIDENDS. 



On June 4 the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. declared 

 its 57th regular quarterly dividend of 1-H per cent, on the 

 company's preferred stock, and a dividend of 1 per cent, on 

 the common stock — both payable June 16. 



