July 1, 1911'.] 



THE INDIA RUBBEiR WORLD 



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ments are made in those branches and the tire experts in charge 

 of them are there to give the people the benefit of their experience 

 and to instruct them how to lower tire expense. It doesn't mat- 

 ter what make of tire is used, the managers are instructed to give 

 advice and assistance to all motorists. In the San Francisco 

 store the publicity department is now under the management of, 

 A. S. Rhoades, who has taken the place formerly held by Lee 

 Ijams. 



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As far as any statistics show, the order for the largest single 

 belt ever made has just been placed with the firm of Squires & 

 Byrne, No. S6S Mission street, by the Leona Chemical Co. of 

 Oakland. It is to be delivered at Melrose, California, for 

 use in the company's quarries near there. The belt, which is 

 the largest in the- United States, is 1,490 feet in length; 24 inches 

 wide, 6 ply, and weighs 6J4 tons. It stands 9j4 feet high. 



W. D. Squires, of the Squires & Byrne Co., is expected back 

 shortly from his five weeks' visit to the large rubber manufac- 

 turing plants in the East, where he has been particularly looking 

 up new specialties in tlie niacliinery line for the engine room, 

 and he will undoubtedly bring home some new ideas, as that 

 has been his usual custom. 



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The Inter State Tire Co., at No. Ill Golden Gate avi-nue, is 

 now looking for a new location. 



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VV. D. Newerf, now of Los Angeles, has recently been visiting 

 in San Francisco. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT AKRON. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



■ I 'HE B. F. Goodrich Co. has recently constructed and is now 

 ■^ operating an experimental plant on their property near 

 Exchange street. This consists of three steel buildings, the 

 largest of which is about 100 feet x 150 feet, and is u.sed as a 

 factory building. It has a turret 30 feet x 30 feet wdiich is 

 presumed to be used for a laboratory, a boiler and engine room 

 40 feet X SO feet, a mixing and stock room 40 feet x 20 feet, and 

 a building about 35 feet x SO feet in process of construction. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, has declared quartely divi- 

 dends of 1J4 per cent, on preferred and IJ/4 per cent, on common 

 stock, payable July 15. 



The Toledo Tire and Repair Co., Nos. 241-243 Erie street, 

 Toledo, Ohio, has been given the general agency for the com- 

 plete line of Firestone rims and tires. 



Frank H. Martin, former manager of the Chicago branch of 

 the Firestone Co., has been made special representative, with 

 headquarters at the factory. A. \V. Moore succeeds him. 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. has bought property at 

 the corner of Commonwealth and Beacon streets, Boston Massa- 

 chusetts, and will erect a six story building for their exclusive 

 use. They expect to conduct a fully equipped tire establishment 

 and to occupy the same by January 1, 1912. 



R. E. Glass, formerly with the Michelin Tire Co., has accepted 

 a position in the auditor's office at the Firestone Co. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. has asked the city of 

 Akron to vacate two streets which are needed for another large 

 factory building which the company expects to erect before long. 



The new building the company is about to erect will be 300 x 

 60 feet and five stories high. 



By a vote of 6 to 3, the municipal council of Akron has passed 

 an ordinance vacating Prune street, in East Akron, to enable the 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. to build a si.x-story factory build- 

 ing across the end of it. This long-disputed question has thus 

 been linally decided in favor of the company. 



J. A. Swinehart, of .Akron, Ohio, bought The Goshen Rubber 

 Works, of Goshen. Indiana, and sold the machinery to various 

 rubber factories and the plant to Tlie Stephenson Underwear 

 Co., of South Bend, Indiana, llie report that Mr. Swinehart 

 has interested himself in an Oklahoma rubber company and 

 expects to move to Oklahoma is unfounded. 



J. A. Thompkins, formerly of the Detroit branch of the Hart- 

 ford Rubber Works Co., has taken charge of the Philadelphia 

 branch of the Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co., located at 

 No. 120 Broad street. 



W. J. Kruder, formerly of the Goodyear Rubber Co., is now 

 factory superintendent of the Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co. 



C. A. Besaw, formerly of the Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co., 

 is now with the Canton Rubber Co. 



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The Miller Rubber Co. is building another addition, 60 x 150 

 feet, to their tire department. The company has been running 

 day and night since the first of the year. 



The new Diamond electric sign can be seen four or five miles. 

 The company is also placing large signs 40 feet x 45 feet on its 

 Pittsburg and Philadelphia stores. 



The Akron plant is carrying one of its 30 feet x ISO feet 

 l)uildings from two stories to five stories in height. 



11, C, Miller, manager of the St, Louis branch, will be identified 

 with the New York Diamond office. He is succeeded l)y H, E. 

 Larrick, who was formerly witli the Pittsliurg Rulibcr and 

 Leather Co, 



Tile Diamond Rubber Co, picnic will be held July 29. 



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Miniature 4 incli tires made l)y the Oakland .\dvertising Co. 

 are being sold broadcast as souvenirs of Akron, 



Various rubber companies have sent notices to the tire agents 

 and dealers guaranteeing to them no change in the price of 

 tires before August 31, and if there should be a reduction they 

 agree to rebate the difference between the present and the 

 reduced price in favor of the dealer. 



The item in a recent number of The Indi.^ Rubber World 

 from Setauket, Long Island, which claims to be a strong com- 

 petitor of Akron as a rubber center, we do not understand, but 

 nevertheless, with charity for all, we wish them infinite success, 

 a fair division of the profits, happy homes, and a spirit free from 

 envy, covetousness and jealousy. 



Jones & Kuhlke, manufacturers of drums and rolls, have 

 trebled the size of their plant within the last three years. 



Glenn Curtiss, of hydro-aeroplane fame, recently spent a week 

 in .Akron. The rubber and fabric parts of his aeroplane are 

 being made by Akron factories, and he spent some time inspect- 

 ing them. 



Patrick Kelly, State Automobile License Inspector of Ohio, 

 reports 1,500 automobiles for Akron, or one automobile for 

 every nine families. 



S. E. Allen, chemist, .\krnn. Ohio, has a new process of de- 

 vulcanizing rubber, which he claims will cost the factory but 

 one-fifth of the cost of crude rubber and that a firm having it 

 can put the price of goods so low that a company not having it 

 would suffer greatly. It is said that he claims to have sold the 

 secret to tlie "rulibcr frust" for $400,000, 



The Associ.\c.\o Commerci.m, do .Am.^zon.xs ha\c sent tweiitv- 

 hve tons of their best rulibcr to the International Rubber Exhi- 

 bition in London. Messrs. W. Stuart Gordon (Gordon & Co., 

 Manaos), and Eniil Zarges ( Dusendschiiii, Zargcs & Co., 

 Manaos), are appointed a special committee to go to the exhi- 

 liition and report to the association on their return. The> 

 journeyed by way of New York and will pmlialily return direct. 



.A BOOK f. ir rubber planters — Mr. Pearson's "Rulibcr Count\- of 

 the .Amazon," 



