November i. iqio.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



61 



THE FIRESKINK TiKK ANU KUBBER 



Taf Row.—U. E. Uikcr, R. E. Wolcott, F. H. Mover, L. Greenwald, 

 C. A. -Myers, Ole llibner, \V. E. Fouse, A. W. Moore. II. L. Beers, T. 

 P. Patterson, K. R. Corner, H. Kubler, C. H. Gerholil, P. 1!. Talbott, E. 

 M. Hmrphrey, H. C. Brenizer, J. W. Thomas. 



Second Row. — E. P. Palmer, L. F. Birdsong, A. L. Schavoir, O. E. 

 Johnson, F. C. Burt, H. E. Esterly, F. W. Telford, R. !.. Harpham. F. 

 M. Moore, G. M. Martin, Geo. Eckel, P. F. Kohrbacher, C. M. Folger, 

 G. A. Talbolt. 



TItirJ Kow.~\\. H. Jenks, N. B. Burwell, H. W. Makley. W. F. Ridge, 

 W. <;. Bedford, R. D. Barr, R. W. Phelps, R. W. Ingersoll, J. F. Cast, 



n. F. E. Gahagan. 

 .. ^. N. Harris, J. G. 

 Firestone (Pres.), 



COMPANY'S S.\LLS.\1KN s (_ ( l.\ \ EM 1().\. 



\Vm. O'Neil, W. A. Simonson, W. L. Esterly. J. H. lr^ 

 Fourth Row. — W. A. Clark, C. C. Eichelberger. S. 



Rob;rtson, S. G. Clarkhuff, R. J. Firestone, H. S. 



Miller, Will Christy, T. J. Glenn, E. L. Campion, W. F. West, 



Harshaw, O. Fenstermacher, A. F. Sheldon. 



Fifth Row.— U. H. Turner. W. C. Mayville, C. E. Jackson, J. V. 



D. C. Swander, W. R. Walton. F. H. Martin, Chas. Habhegger, 



Rowerdink, R. E. Warner. A. G. Partridge. O. A. Lazenby, 1^. L 



W. T. Brown. D. B. Price. 



Bottom Row. — T. A. Smith, T. F. Singleton, E 



Robertson, P. B. Cosworth, B. N. Beedon, D " 



. A. 

 W. 



Mowe, 

 W. H. 

 Black, 



.., „. S. Firestone, W. W. 

 F. White, W. F. Bailey. 



In the early days of the Diamond Rubher Co., C. H. Pahnor, 

 who retired a few days ago from the Diamond Match Co., sold 

 a tjiird interest in the enterprise for $32,000. To-day, it is 

 estimated he could have collected about $9,000,000 on propor- 

 tionately the same amount of stock. 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. are shortly to open a new 

 branch office in San Francisco, especially adapted for the stor- 

 age of tires, and as a general exhibiting point for the Pacific 

 coast. 



FIRESTONE COMPANY'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE. 



The recent yearly conference of tlie officers, branch managers, 

 agents, and salesmen of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., 

 at Akron, Ohio [see The India Rubber World, October i, 

 1910 — page 26], was by all odds the best the company have ever 

 held. It was not only full of enthusiasm but of great value to 

 those present. The illustration on this page shows the Firestone 

 selling organization, while in the background is the framework 

 of a new factory, which is said to include the largest single 

 building in the world devoted to the manufacture of tires. The 

 names of those in attendance are printed under the illustration 

 on this page. 



The main building of the new plant covers a ground space of 

 265 X 360 feet. The baseinent and first floor cover this entire 

 space, but the upper floors are cut into by courts for purposes 

 of ventilation and light. As the company confine themselves to 

 the tire manufacture, the whole structure may be designated 

 as a tire building. 



The Firestone Company were referred to recently as having 

 booked alreadj' for the coming season orders for automobile tires 

 of a value exceeding $2,000,000. They naturally arc not pessi- 

 mistic as to the trade outlook. 



AN OLD GUTTA-PERCHA PIPE. 



AV 711 ILK strolling on the sand at Rockaway Beach, near New 

 '" York, recently, Mr. John J. Ridgway, engaged in the 

 conveyor belting business at No. 207 Fulton street, came across 

 an odd section of piping, which evidently had been buried there 

 for a long period. No one in the vicinity could explain the pres- 

 ence there of such an article, and no one in the trade to whom it 

 was exliil)ited was prepared to give any account of its history. With- 

 out doubt this is a relic of the gutta-percha water pipe system 

 installed sixty years ago, to connect New York city with adja- 

 cent islands. In 1850 a contract was made with the American 

 Gutta-Percha Co. (now the Bishop Gutta-Percha Co.) to lay a 

 pipe from the foot of East Seventy-ninth street to Blackwell's 

 island. This pipe was 3 inches outside diameter and fs inch 

 thick, made in lengths of 9 feet. Tliese were joined by inserting 

 one end of each length into the end of the next, while heated 

 in hot water, thus making a permanent joint. For the purpose 

 of anchoring the pipe on the bed of the river, collars of gutta- 

 percha were placed round the pipe at regular intervals and over 

 these cast iron anchors were hung. Subsequently other gutta- 

 percha pipes were in service around the cit", some of them as 

 recently as 1868, but these varied in construction from the pijic 

 first mentioned in this article. From its appearance the section 

 found by Mr. Ridgway seems likely to have been a relic of the 

 first pipe laid. A fuller account of the gutta-percha water pipe 

 appeared in The Indi.\ Rubber World. June 10. i8g6 (page 

 261). 



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