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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1911. 



HOOD KUBBER COMPANY— DIVIDEND. 



The Hood Rubber Company, Boston, Massachusetts, declared 

 and paid its regular quarterly dividend of 1J4 per cent, on its 

 preferred stock on August 1. 



B. & B. RUBBEB CO IMCB£AS£D MANUFACTURING FACILITIES. 



The addition of three new boilers and a tamden compound 

 engine, with various new machines in the manufacturing depart- 

 ments, will enable the B. & R. Rubber Company, North Brook- 

 field. Massachusetts, to increase its working force by about 40 

 men and keep a double shift working day and night. 



PERSONAI, MENTION. 



Judge LeBaron Colt, Mr. Russell G. Colt, and his gifted wife, 

 Ethel Barrymore, recently had a very narrow escape through the 

 breaking of the front axle of the touring car in which they were 

 riding. 



F. E. Stockwell, Philadelphia manager of the Boston Wover 

 Hose and Rubber Company, spent August at Holly Beach, New 

 Jersey, and incidentally proved himself an expert salt water 

 fisherman. 



C. A. Emerson, purchasing agent of the United States Rubber 

 Company, is now on the "Adriatic" on his way back from a 

 two months' trip in Europe, devoted to rest and relaxation. 



Prof. Rusby, the expert pharmacologist and authority on 

 guayule, palo amarillo, etc., who has become involved, through 

 a red tape entanglement in the imbroglio that threatens to de- 

 prive the Department of ."Vgriculture of the valuable services of 

 Prof. H. W. Wiley, the eminent chemist and analyist, will be 

 remembered as one of the speakers at the last New York dinner 

 of the Rubber Club of America. 



Edgar B. Davis, of the General Rubber Company, was taken 

 sick in Sumatra the latter part of June, the result of too hard 

 work in the tropics, and went into the mountains of Java to re- 

 cuperate. The doctors there advised him to go to Neuenahr, 

 Germany, to get the benefit of the baths. He stayed there five 

 weeks and was greatly benefited. He is now spending a short 

 time at San Moritz, Switzerland, but expects to return to this 

 country about the first of October. 



Mr. F. H. Sanford, of A. H. Alden, Limited, Manaos, Brazil, 

 after a summer spent in England and the United States, re- 

 turned to Brazil by the Booth Line August IS. Mrs. Sanford 

 and son will remain in the United States until October, when she 

 will join her husband. 



W. F. Bass, General Manager of the General Rubber Com- 

 pany, returned about the middle of August from a month's visit 

 in Europe, where he devoted himself to crude rubber problems, 

 spending considerable time in the offices of the General Rubber 

 Company in London and Liverpool, and also in the crude rubber 

 markets at Antwerp and Rotterdam. 



To commemorate his retirement as sales-manager of the Dia- 

 mond Rubber Company, in New York, the fellow-salesmen of 

 Harvey J. Woodward, gave a dinner in his honor at the Hotel 

 Cadillac. The company at the same time extended a welcome to 

 Norman E. Oliver, his successor. 



Elisha S. WilUams, president of the Rubber Goods Manufac- 

 turing Company, is expected in New York within the next few 

 days after a two months' absence in Europe. 



Homer E. Sawyer, general manager of the United States 

 Rubber Company, who has been passing the greater part of the 

 summer at the Mt. Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, is ex- 

 pected back at the New York office immediately after Labor Day. 



J. Simoa Da Costa, of the firm of the Alves Braga Rubber 

 Estates and Trading Company, Limited, Para, is spending the 

 month of September in the United States. 



Lester Leland, Vice-President of the United States Rubber 

 Company has spent the summer at his fine estate in Manchester- 

 by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. 



TRADE NOTES. 



It is very rarely that an advertising expert forsakes his par- 

 ticular field to take up literary work. In the case of Mr. John 

 P. Lyons, who has left the United States Rubber Company 

 to accept a position on the editorial staff of The India Rubber 

 World, it is simply a case of returning to one's first love. For 

 many years Mr. Lyons was a newspaper writer and editor in 

 Boston, and literary work has always appealed to him more 

 strongly than has work in commercial lines. Mr. Lyons engage- 

 ment with The Indi.\ Rubber World begins with September of 

 this year. 



The Western Rubber & Supply Company, Kansas City, 

 Missouri, are installing a complete, solid tire rebuilding plant. 



The Toledo Tire & Repair Company, Toledo, Ohio, have the 

 distributing agency for the Firestone pneumatic motor truck, and 

 carriage tires and rims. 



The Feglcy Tire Chain Company, of Philadelphia, Penn- 

 sylvania, and the Pearsall-Traver Manufacturing Company, New 

 Y'ork, New Y'ork, have united to form one company, the Reliance 

 Tire Chain Company, with offices and factory in New York. 



The Fisk Rubber Company, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, re- 

 cently ordered thirty Brush light-delivery trucks shipped to the 

 leading cities of the country. They will be used by salesmen to 

 carry supplies and repairs. 



'I he South Bend Tire & Rubber Companx'. South Bend. Indiana, 

 will establish a factory in that city for the manufacture of auto- 

 mobile tires. The company is financed by Akron and Mansfield 

 capitalists. 



K. L. Horst, formerly a foreman in the factory of the Conti- 

 nental Tire Company, Hanover, Germany, has opened a repair 

 shop and garage at Springfield, Ohio. 



The Western Tire & Specialty Company has commenced busi- 

 ness at Wichita, Kansas. It will deal in tires and accessories 

 exclusively. 



The Republic Rubber Company, Youngstown, Ohio, has erected 

 a store for its Pacific Coast branch in San Francisco. It is a two- 

 story and basement, pressed brick structure, 70x137 feet, and is 

 in charge of Mr. M. E. Murray. 



The Lake Shore Tire shop has been established at Sheboygan, 

 Wisconsm. It will repair and market automobile tires. 



The Federal Rubber Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wis- 

 consin, have installed a branch in Chicago. This is one of the first 

 established by the new tire company and is in line with its policy 

 to have branches and agencies in all of the principal cities of the 

 country. Mr. George W. Stephens, formerly with the American 

 Tire & Rubber Company, is manager, and Mr. Frank Loofbourrow 

 has severed his connection with the United State Tire Company 

 to become assistant manager. The new quarters at 1434 Michigan 

 avenue are commodious, and the company enters the Chicago 

 market particularly well fitted to get business, both because 

 of its desirable location and the personnel of the people in 

 charge. The territory covered by the Chicago branch will be the 

 entire States of Illinois and Iowa and the northern portion of 

 Indiana. 



The McEwen Vulcanizing Company, of Long Island City. New 

 York, advise The India Rubber World that they have sold their 

 gas vulcanizers recently to the following : Kelly Springfield 

 Tire Company, J. Ellwood Lee Company, Quaker City Rubber 

 Company, A. Delfruge (on Forty-first street, only French tires), 

 Republic Rubber Tire Company, Twentieth Century Tire Com- 

 pany, Gillette Tire Company, Seamless Rubber Company, 

 United States Motor Tire Company. 



Arrangements are completed to reopen the rubber factory at 

 Setaukct, L. I., which has been closed for the last three years. 

 The buildings have been thoroughly overhauled and much new 

 machinery has been installed. The new company is known as 

 the Co-operative Rubber Company, and will manufacture rubber 

 shoes, boots and tennis shoes. Joseph Elberson, as usual, will 

 be in charge of the factory. 



