April 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE RUBBER TRADE AT AKRON. 



BV A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT, 

 ■y HE B. F. GOODRICH CO., by the purchase of 158 feet on 

 ■■■ Soutli Main street, with a depth of 191 feet on Cedar street, 

 secures a continuous frontage of 1,500 feet on South Main 

 street, from Falor to Cedar, and on the canal from Falor to West 

 Exchange street, a frontage of 2,000 feet. They will shortly re- 

 model the building occupied by their branch office in Phil.idelphia. 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co. held its annual conference of branch 

 managers in this city last niontli. About a hundred of these active 

 business men gathered in the company's main offices, heard le- 

 ports from their colleagues, discussed plans for increasing the 

 business, etc. The visiting managers were subsequently enter- 

 tained at a banquet. 



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The Republic Rubber Co. has almost completed, at Youngs- 

 town, O., a new five-story factory building. Their tire depart- 

 ment will occupy the first and second floors, the cotton hose 

 department the third, on the fourth will be the airbrake depart- 

 ment, and the rubber hose department will occupy the fifth floor. 



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The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. have recently completed 

 the rebuilding of their new cement mixing building, in which new 

 machinery has been installed. The company has lately added 

 the following new branches to its distributing stations : 2127 

 Farnum street, Omaha, Neb., where George A. Martin is in 

 charge ; 165 Division street, Grand Rapids, Mich., in charge of 

 the Grand Rapids Vulcanizing Co. ; Chattanooga, Tenn., in 

 charge of the Chattanooga Rubber Tire Works ; Newark, N. J., at 

 6 Branford Place, in charge of The Rubber Shop, and a new 

 Firestone service depot, in Washington, D. C, at 1736 Fourteenth 

 street, N. W., witli "Meeley the Tire INIan." 



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The Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co. recently issued $100,000 

 worth of sfock, all of which has been subscribed. They have 

 opened two more branches, one on Euclid avenue, Cleveland, 

 Ohio, in charge of M. J. O'Connor, and one in Detroit, Mich., 

 of which S. T. Andrews has charge. 



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The Port.age Rubber Co., manufacturing tires and molded 

 mechanical rubber goods, will erect, this summer, two new build- 

 ings near the present reclaiming plant at Barberton, Ohio, one of 

 which will be 90 x 150 feet and two stories high. .\ quarterly divi- 

 dend of 1^ per cent, on the preferred stock, payable .\pril 1, has 

 lately been declared out of the earnings of the reclaiming plant. The 

 annual stockholders' meeting of the company was held on March 

 6. The directors elected are James Christy, J. W. Miller, John 

 Kerch, Hon. Dayton A. Doyle, M. S. Long, James D. Raw, A. 

 S. Mottinger and W. W. Wildman. The officers elected are as 

 follows : 



President, — James Christy. 

 Vice-President. — J. W. Miller. 

 Treasurer. — Arthur S. Mottingek. 

 Secretary. — Gillum H. Dooliitle. 

 General Manager. — W. W. Wildman. 



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The Biggs Boiler Works, manufacturing rubber machinery, 

 contemplate the erection of a large building, to be equijipcd with 

 new and improved machinery which their increasing business 

 makes necessary. 



recruited at different points. They expect to increase their daily 

 lire output to 3,000. The added buildings include a power-house, 

 with engines of 120 horsepower, and a 250-foot stack of 12 feet 

 interior diameter. Si.x new 700-horsepower boilers have been 

 added to the former steam generating outfit. .-Xmong the con- 

 tracts on the company's order book are 10,000 waterproof boxes 

 for the Ohio National Guard, aeroplane material (including cover 

 bumpers, shock absorbers, tires for alighting wheels and water- 

 proof fabric) for the Wright Bros, and Glenn Curtis, and balloon 

 niatirial for Captain Baldwin. 



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'1 he Diamond Rubber Co. expect to enlarge their spacious 

 automobile garage this summer. The company h.-is been exten- 

 sively congratulated on the success of the advertising scheme it 

 used at the Boston Autonioljile Show — an aeroplane, held up 

 in tlic air by three kite.^, with a dummy in the seat and a pro- 

 peller that revolved. It looked as though moving, and deceived 

 all who were not in the secret. The company's branch at Phila- 

 delphia. Pennsylvania, will shortly move into the first four 

 stories of a new eight-story building, at Spring Garden and 

 Broad streets. E. H. Fitch will be in charge, with R. McTamany 

 as chief clerk. 



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The following statistics, from the year book of the Akron 

 Chamber of Commerce, will give some idea of the importance of 

 the city and of the magnitude of the rubber interest, to which it 

 is so largely due : 



Population, United States census 1910 



.\rea, square miles 



Miles of paved streets 



Miles of sewers 



Acreage of parks 



69,067 



11.48 



70 



115 



103.37 



.■\ggregate bank deposits, Nov. 1, 1910 11,113,625 



Gain over previous year 9% 



Postoffice receipts, Oct. 1, 1909 — Oct. 1, 1910 325,974 



Increase over previous year 25% 



Bank clearings, Nov. 1, 1909 — Nov. 1, 1910 49,855,000 



Increase over previous year i7% 



Increase in building permits, 1910 over 1909 S3% 



Increase in real estate transfers, 1910 over 1909 106% 



105 factories with aggregate capital of $75,142,000 give employment to- 

 23,450 employees. 



AKRON'S RUBBER INDUSTRY. 



Firm. Established. 



B. F. Goodrich Rubber 1869 



Diamond Rubber 1894 



Goodyear Tire & Rubber 1898 



Firestone Tire & Rubber 1900 



American )-lard Rubber 



Swinehart Tire & Rubber 1904 



Buckeye Rubber 1900 



Miller Rubber 1904 



Alkali Rubber 1904 



Star Rubber 1907 



Royal Rubber 1909 



American Tire & Rubber 1910 



.Standard Rubber 1 901 



Motz Tire & Rubber 1905 



Lyon Rubber 1904 



Federal Waterproofing Co 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



CO.XTINUOUS rains during the past month, while they helped 

 dealers in rainproof goods, somewhat, had an adverse 

 eifect on business in other 'lines, even factories running short 

 handed, and the sales of mechanical rubber goods being restricted. 

 With the advent of bright weather, an improvement has set in 

 and good spring business is now anticipated. 



C. F. .\damson, a mechanical nilibcr engineer of .-Xkron, has 

 entered into partnersliip with M. C. McCormick. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rulilier Co. have recently completed 

 additions to their manufacturing facilities, which, with the 

 volume of orders on hand, will necessitate the employment of 

 some 1,500 more men and 600 more girls whu arc now being 



The call for bids on lO.fXX) feet of fire Iiose, made by the fire 

 commissioners of this city, promised at first to interest the dealers 

 and manufacturers' representatives here. The nature of the 

 specifications, however, served to cool their ardor. They go 

 minutely into every detail of manufacture, even to number and 

 quality of threads in the fabric, the quantity of pure rubber, 

 which must be SO per cent, and other items. If these require- 



