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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



[December 1, 1910. 



AUTOMOBILE TIRES IN AMERICA. 



Whoever wishes to sec the best rubber tires in use, as The 

 India Ri-bber World has remarked before, need only to stand 

 on the sidewalks of the leading American cities, and watch the 

 unceasing procession of automobiles — and, if you please, of motor- 

 cycles and bicycles — and it is unnecessary to go inside the "shows." 

 It is true that while in motion one cannot always test the quality 

 of the rubber equipment of the constant procession of these 

 vehicles ; but the fact that they go on forever in one's view, with- 

 out giving out, is the best proof of their merit. What can one 

 tell of the merit of a tire exhibited on a vehicle in a state of rest 

 in one of the beautifully upholstered show places which New York, 

 Chicago, and other cities now provide for the average man ? 



And yet these shows persist, and it may be that many men, 

 women, and children will for the first time, become aware, under 

 cover, as it were, that the rubber tire is an essential of the un- 

 horse drawn vehicles which are now transforming local trans- 

 portation means to so great an extent. 



All the leading American makes of tires, of course, will be on 

 exhibition at the eleventh annual show of the Association of 

 Licensed Automobile Manufacturers — those recognizing the valid- 

 ity of the Selden patents — at the Madison Square Garden, on 

 January 7-14. But this will not be all, for the show referred to 

 will be continued for another week— January 14-21 — to afford a 

 demonstration of the still more modern application of the rubber 

 tire to the commercial motor truck. 



Still earlier in the calendar will be — on December- January 7 

 — the eleventh annual International Automobile Show, in the 

 Central Palace, in Xew York. 



Later will come, in Chicago, the tenth annual National Auto- 

 mobile Show, under the auspices of the National Association of 

 Automobile Manufacturers, Inc.. beginning January 28, and de 

 voting one week to pleasure vehicles and another to motor 

 trucks. 



A score or more of smaller cities will hold automobile shows 

 which will enable tlic average citizen to become acquainted with 

 the merits of the rubber tire, whether for automobiles or for 

 motor trucks. And finally, every man with a dollar in his pocket 

 to spend for goods of this kind, will have become so familiar 

 with the merits of rubber tires that such shows will be no more 

 necessary than wculd be public shows to demonstrate rubber 

 boots and shoes. 



RUBBER CLUB OF AMERICA. 



The Rubber Club of America are planning for their mid-win- 

 ter dinner, a "Pan American Banquet," to be held in New York 

 early in January. The executive committee have appointed, as 

 a committee of detail and arrangement, the president of the 

 Club and Messrs. A. W. Stedman, George B. Hodgman, E. E. 

 Wadbrook, and Robert B. Baird, the latter acting as secretary 

 for the committee. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The name of Colonel Samuel P. Colt having been mentioned 

 prominently in connection with the office of United States sena- 

 tor from Rhode Island, to be filled at the forthcoming session 

 of the legislature of that State, that gentleman has authorized a 

 statement that he is not to be regarded as a candidate, preferring 

 to devote his energies to the office of president of the United 

 States Rubber Co., which he has filled with success for so many 

 years. A brother of Colonel Colt, the Hon. Le Bai^n B. Colt, a 

 judge of the United States Circuit Court, has also been men- 

 tioned in connection with the senatorship, and has consented to 

 permit of the use of his name for this office. Judge Colt will be 

 remembered in the rubber trade by reason of his decision estab- 

 lishing the validity of the Tillinghast tire patent. 



Mr. E. E. Buckleton during a recent visit to the United States 

 went as far as the Pacific coast, and incidentally had a couple of 

 weeks' duck shooting. Mr. Buckleton returned to England on 

 November 30, sailing on the Alauretania. 



A testimonial in the form of a drinking fountain is to be set 

 up in memory of Colonel .Albert A. Pope, in the park which he 

 gave to the city of Hartford some years ago. Colonel Pope, who 

 died in 1909, gave a great impetus to the tire industry, both 

 through popularizing the bicycle and by his work in the promo- 

 tion of good roads. He was, as will be remembered, at one time 

 proprietor of the Hartford Rubber Works. The testimonial 

 fund, started by the Bicycling U'oild, has been turned over to 

 the Hartford board of trade. 



Mr. Elston E. Wadbrook — of Poel & .Vrnold, india-rubber im- 

 porters, New York, Boston, and .Akron — has been chosen as a 

 director of the British Schools and Universities Club, of New 

 York, to serve for three years. Mr. Wadbrook has long been an 

 active member of the Victorian Club, the leading British club 

 in New England, of which he served as president during the 

 year 1909. 



The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. have sold the Sanuiel E. Vaughan 

 Box Co.'s plant in Conmiercial street. Maiden, which they have 

 occupied hitherto for making boxes, and are removing the ma- 

 chinery to a new building constructed for this purpose within 

 their own plant. 



HARTfoRD 



rHE HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS CO. 



HE H.\RTFoRu's New Boston 



[No. 863 Boylston Street.] 



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