December 1. 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



97 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN CINCINNATI. 



BV A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



THE recent announcement of a decline in the price of rubber 

 which was followed by an indication from the rubber tire 

 manufacturers that there would be a reduction in the price of 

 automobile tires, has caused the Cincinnati Automobile Club to 

 •drop its proposed plan of organizing a cooperative company among 

 the members of the American Automobile Association, and build 

 a factory to make tires which are to he sold to members at cost 

 Officials of the club when seen refused to discuss the matter, but 

 several of them intimated that there would be nothing further 

 done in this matter, and that the agitation is dying out. 



Mr. William Smith, formerly connected with a local theater 

 as its treasurer, and well known in this section, has been ap- 

 pointed representative for the Michelin Rubber and Tire Co., with 

 headquarters in this city. He will be in charge of the Ohio, In- 

 diana and Kentucky territory. 



Mr. E. B. Tozicr, who was sent to this city several months ago 

 by the Diamond Rubber Co., to supervise the building of that 

 company's new branch house here, and who was later made man- 

 ager of the Cincinnati branch, has been appointed to take charge 

 of the Diamond company's branch at Minneapolis, Minn. Mr 

 C W. Simpson, who was in charge as manager tff the solid tire 

 department of the local branch, has been placed in full charge of 

 the new branch. Mr. Tozier's departure from Cincinnati, was 

 greatly regretted by the rubber trade here, as well as in the 

 automobile trade, in which he was well and favorably known. 



Mr. J. W. Jamison, manager of the Cleveland branch of The 

 Fisk Rubber Co., was a visitor to this city during the past month 

 in the interest of his company. Mr. Jamison was attracted to this 

 city by reason of the fact that recently several of the large com- 

 panies have opened branches here. It is understood that The 

 Fisk Rubber Company are looking on Cincinnati with consider- 

 able favor as a city to open another branch, and shortly after 

 the first of the year this may come to pass. 



According to an announcement made by John S. McMillan, 

 vice-president and general manager of the Dayton Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co., an order for 50,000 airless tires, to be used for 

 automobiles, taxicabs, and light delivery cars, was received by that 

 company on November 14 from the Dayton Airless Tire Co., of 

 Chicago. The order involves $2,500,000, and it covers five years' 

 time. It was also announced that the company's Canadian patents 

 have been sold to Montreal capitalists for a cash consideration of 

 $30,000, and a royalty of lYz per cent, of the gross sales ; and 

 that a London firm will take over the British patents. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



■ I 'HIS being the time of year when most of the work of the 

 ■*• rubber establishments is finished, except for rainproof gar- 

 ments, there is but little for them to report, other than that they 

 have concluded a year which, generally speaking, has been satis- 

 factory. Waterproof clothing has been moving very briskly, 

 when it is taken into consideration that there has been prac- 

 tically no rainfall so far this season throughout the state. There 

 has been less rain than for many years, but it seems that dealers 

 lowered their stocks considerably last year, and have been order- 

 ing freely in anticipation of the demand later on. 



Trade conditions generally in San Francisco are improving. 

 So much money has been authorized by the city and state, as 

 well as by individual subscription, that there is no room for 

 doubt but what this city will get the Panama Exposition for 

 1915, and the prospects of the busy times which the fair will 

 engender are already having a beneficial effect on business. 

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The B. F. Goodrich Co. are proceeding with their plans to get 

 • established in San Francisco and the coast. The big Market 



street quarters are being put in shape to be occupied by the first 

 of the year for their San Francisco headquarters. At No. 560 

 Golden Gate avenue the foundations are being laid for a new 

 building which will also be occupied by this company. The 

 Golden Gate store will be for the convenience of automobilists 

 who might not otherwise come down town, and only tires will 

 be carried at this retail branch. 



The Pacific Coast Rubber Manufacturers' Association held its 

 regular monthly meeting and banquet on November 14 at the 

 Palace Hotel. The banquet was held in honor of Mr. C. C. Case, 

 of Boston, general manager of the Revere Rubber Co., and Mr. 

 Spencer, of New York, the comptroller of the United States 

 Rubber Co. These gentlemen responded with addresses regard- 

 ing the favorable impression which the Pacific coast and its peo- 

 ple had made upon them, and gave some enlightenment as to con- 

 ditions and the ways of doing things in the East. Messrs. W. F. 

 Bowers, of the Bowers Rubber Works, and W. J. Gorham, of 

 the Gorham Rubber Co., made the principal remarks for the local 

 merchants. Mr. W. R. Pierce, the president of the Association, 

 was in charge. It was intended to have Mr. Garrettson, the gen- 

 eral manager of the Electric Hose and Rubber Co., among the 

 guests, as he is now visiting the Pacific coast, but he found it 

 necessary to be in Los Angeles, and could not attend. 



Mr. Pierce states that the Association is now making it a point 

 to so time its monthly meetings, when possible, that they may 

 have as guests at the banquet eastern men who may be visiting 

 on the coast. In this way the eastern merchant has an oppor- 

 tunity to meet the local rubber goods men in a body, and the 

 local merchant has a rare opportunity of learning much from the 

 views of the men fresh from the manufacturing centers of the 

 eastern states. 



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Mr. J. E. French, the Pacific coast manager for the Penn- 

 sylvania Rubber Co., has returned from a six weeks' trip to the 

 factory, and states that he has come back with a new "vacuum 

 cup" tread which he believes is going to show the people here 

 that he has the best non-skid rubber tire going. The Pennsyl- 

 vania Rubber Co. had Mr. French superintend the opening of 

 three new branch stores on his return — namely, at Salt Lake 

 City, Ogden, and Denver. 



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Mr. W. a. Daggett, representative of the Eureka Fire Hose 

 Manufacturing Co., expects to make a trip to New York imme- 

 diately after Thanksgiving. He is showing at his salesrooms, in 

 the Postal Telegraph building, a large chart display which very 

 effectively brinngs out the good points of the line of hose which 

 he represents. It is a sort of pictoral map, showing all of his 

 company's branch stores, the factory, and all of the materials, by 

 actual samples, which go into the manufacture of the hose, from 

 the crude material on up throughout the various stages of per- 

 fection. 



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The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have de- 

 cided to discontinue their factory branches on this coast, and 

 have placed their lines instead into the hands of a local firm to 

 act as their agents for California, Nevada, and Arizona. Mr. 

 A. F. Osterloh, representing the factory, was here to arrange 

 the change. The firm which has the agency is the W. D. Newerf 

 Co. Mr. A. Leonard, manager of this company, states that they 

 will be able to give it better attention than in the old way. 



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H. D. McCoy, secretary of the Chanslor and Lyon Motor Sup- 

 ply Co., with large headquarters on Golden Gate avenue, has re- 

 turned from Portland, Oregon, where he assisted in opening the 

 firm's new branch store. The Portland store is under the man- 

 agement of Philip Lyon, vice-president of the company. This 

 new branch makes the sixth now operated by this company on the 

 Pacific coast. 



