December 1. 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



99 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



GOODRICH GOODS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



AN important movement on tlie Pacific coast is to be made on 

 January 1, 1911, by The B. F. Goodrich Co. Heretofore their 

 entire line has been handled on the coast by the Gorham 

 Rul)ber Co. This agency will be discontinued in its entirety on 

 the above date. The Goodrich company have leased a large five- 

 story and basement building at Nos. 341, 343, 345 and 347 Market 

 street, San Francisco, in the heart of the wholesale district, where 

 a full and heavy stock of their goods will be carried. There is 

 being built for the company a one story and basement building, 

 25 X 165 feet, on Golden Gate avenue, where they will serve 

 dealers and the general trade with automobile tires. A complete 

 repair department will be installed in this building. Both these 

 are San I-"rancisco locations. In Los Angeles a two story and 

 basement building, 50 x 155 feet, is being erected for the Goodrich 

 company. They will carry and sell from this branch tlieir full 

 line — mechanicals, tires, and druggists' sundries. In Portland 

 they have leased a ground floor and basement, 40 x 80 feet, and 

 will sell the full line. In Seattle they have leased No. 700 Pike 

 street — a large corner store and basement — for automobile tires, 

 and are negotiating for a large store on First avenue, in the 

 wholesale district, in which to carry the balance of their line. 

 The present locations decided on under this comprehensive coast 

 branch plan number six, and it is understood that at least four 

 other cities in the territory assigned to the company's coast busi- 

 ness will be opened up with branches during the next year. This 

 will give to the Goodrich company ten stores through wliich to 

 market their products in that part of the country. 



BAILEY'S TWENTY-FIEST ANNIVEESAHY. 



C. J. Bailey & Co., No. 22 Boylston street, Boston, on No- 

 vember 14 celebrated the twenty-first anniversary of the opening 

 of their business at that location. In addition to conducting one 

 of the largest retail rubber goods stores in the country, the head 

 of this business, Mr. Charles J. Bailey, has found time to develop 

 a number of useful inventions in relation to rubber, for which 

 he has taken out no less than seventy patents, some of them cov- 

 ering articles which are known to the rubber trade throughout 

 the world. Included in these are his patented rubber brushes and 

 the "Won't Slip" automobile tires and boot heels. 



OXFORD RUBBER CO, 



The Oxford Rubber Co. (No. 17 Beach street, Boston) manu- 

 facture rubber coats in single and double texture. They have 

 opened, in Cambridge, a factory for proofing their clotli. on a 

 scale which will call soon for about 120 employes. 



BOSTON BELTING CO. CONFERENCE. 



The annual conference of the Boston Belting Co.'s western 

 and southern agents was held in Boston on November 16 and 

 17 at the company's offices. The affair was very successful 

 from start to finish, and a great deal of interest and enthusiasm 

 was manifested by the company's selling representatives as to the 

 outlook for desirable business in 1911. The affair was brought 

 to a pleasant and successful conclusion by a banquet at the Bos- 

 ton Athletic Association on the evening of November 17, when 

 interesting and optimistic remarks were made by nearly all the 

 gentlemen present at the table. 



RUBBER GOODS EXHIBIT AT MIDDLETOWN. 



There was an industrial exhibit at the town hall in Middle- 

 town, Connecticut, under the auspices of Twentieth Century 

 Club, during the second week in November, which was largely 

 attended. One of the most interesting exhibits was that of the 

 Goodyear Rubber Co., who have a factory in the town. There 

 were shown miniature boots, contrasted with boots of enormous 



size made by the company especially for the Alaskan trade. 

 There were rubbers worn in the Greely arctic relief expedition 

 in 1883, and others worn by rubber gatherers in South America. 

 Among the special types of rubber footwear were articles manu- 

 factured for the Chinese and for the Russian trade. Boots worn 

 by copper miners have leather soles with nails driven through 

 them. 



A SHOE MANUFACTURING SHOW. 



A NOVEL advertising campaign is being conducted by The 

 Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls, Connecticut), who 

 are lending to shoe dealers throughout the United States an 

 exhibit of Rubber Shoe Manufacturing for the interest of their 

 patrons. In this exhibit is included a good sized piece of Para 

 rubber, sheets of rubber in the different stages of manufacture, 

 cross sections of boots and shoes, photographs of factory 

 processes, and so on. It is stated that these exhibits have drawn 

 many people to shoe stores, and that in some cases school rooms 

 have been closed that the pupils might see the displays. 



NEW RUBBER STORE IN NEW YORK. 



A STORE has been opened in New York by United and Globe 

 Rubber Manufacturing Cos., of Trenton, at No. 126 Chambers 

 street. It is stocked with a full and complete line of mechanical 

 rubber goods, of their own manufacture. In charge of the new 

 store is Mr. George C. Penboss, manager. 



THE SHOE TRADE AT LYNCHBURG. 



Ax miportant consolidation is taking place in the shoe trade 

 in Lynchburg, Virginia, which has become one of the most im- 

 portant distributing centers for leather shoes in the south. Two 

 leading houses in that city for a number of years have been the 

 Craddock-Terry Co. and the George D. Witt Shoe Co., both 

 firms being both manufacturers and wholesalers, and both main- 

 taining extensive rubber footwear departments. The Craddock- 

 Terry company, founded about twenty years ago, and incorpo- 

 rated December 1, 1898, were capitalized at latest reports at $1,- 

 250,000. At the beginning of the new year this company will 

 assume control of the George D. Witt Shoe Co., in connection 

 with which change there will be a material increase of capital. 

 John W. Craddock will continue as president. The corporate 

 name of the Witt company will be retained. While Mr. Witt re- 

 tires from active management, it is understood that he will leave 

 his money in the business, to be represented by preferred stock. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The factory of the recently organized Kelly-Racine Rubber 

 Rubber Co.. at Racine, Wisconsin [see The India Rubber 

 World, October 1, 1910 — page 31], will be operated entirely by 

 electricity. The most improved types of generators and motors 

 will be included in the power plant, together with Corliss engines. 



The B. & R. Rubber Co. (North Brookfield, Massachusetts), 

 are mentioned as having made a recent shipment of three tons of 

 rubber heels to Buenos ."Mres. 



The Consumers' Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), have 

 opened a salesroom at their factory. No. 228 Wood street, where 

 their different lines of rubber footvi-car will be offered at retail 

 for the local trade. 



The Progress Co. (Chicago), manufacturers of the "Knick- 

 erbocker" spray brushes and fountain rubber sponges — which 

 have had attention from time to time in The India Rubber 

 World — have opened a New York office in the Metropolitan 

 Tower, in charge of Mr. H. L. .\ltshuler. 



Mr. Goodman C. Mandleberg, of J. Mandleberg & Co., Lim- 

 ited, Manchester, England, spent several weeks in the United 

 States recently. 



