October 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 

 By a Resident Correspondent. 

 VV/ILLIAM NEVVEITH, superintendent of the factory of the 

 •' Gorham-Revere Rubber Co., was drowned in the Rus- 

 sian River a short time ago, as the result of an accident in 

 which he was thrown from a motor boat, struck by the pro- 

 peller, and so rendered unable to save himself. Mr. Ncweith 

 had been with \V. J. Gorham since his boyhood and was recog- 

 nized as one of the brightest men in the business on this coast. 

 He was held in high respect and esteem by his many friends, 

 and his death came as a shock to all. He was thirty-two years 

 of age, unmarried, and leaves a father, mother and sister. 



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The machinery of the .-Xcme Rubber Co. has liecn purchased 

 by Mat. Byrne, for the factory of the Goodyear Rubber Co., in 

 this city. The Acme company was established a short time 

 ago for the purpose of manufacturing articles of trade from 



a new substitute for rubber which it controlled. 



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Mr. C. C. Case, vice-president of the Revere Rubber Co., is 

 now on the coast, looking over the company's affairs here. 

 Certain plans are being perfected whereby the wholesale stock 

 of the United States Tire Co. will be brought down to the 

 Gorham-Revere headquarters on Fremont street: and other 

 changes are under consideration which will be decided upon 

 and given out later in the month. 



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The United States Tire Co. is laying in a big supply of non- 

 skid tires for the coming season. The supervisors of San 

 Francisco are trying out a plan on their asphalt streets intended 

 to prevent slipping during wet weather. About an inch of the 

 asphalt is scraped off, heated over again, and mixed thoroughly 

 with a coarse-grained sea beach sand, which seems to give a 

 very satisfactory, non-slipping surface. 



J. S. Wiese, manager of the Los Angeles branch of this com- 

 pany was a recent visitor in San Francisco. Ed. Fleming, for- 

 merly of the San Francisco branch, has been transferred to 

 Seattle, to succeed R. E. Dougherty as office manager there. 



The Ralphs-Pugh Co. expects to move into its new quarters 

 at 562 Howard street by the first of October. Here it will 

 have a two-story reinforced concrete building, and every facility 

 for handling its increased business. A stock of footwear has 

 been received and business is reported as moving along satis- 

 factorily. 



The Western Belting & Hose Co., at 518 Mission street, has 

 secured the contract for supplying the fire equipment for the 

 big fair which is to be held at San Diego, California. These 

 fixtures are novel, being finished in gun metal. This same lirm 

 is also supplying the fire equipment for practically every build- 

 ing which w-ill stand in the world's fair grounds at the Panama 

 Exposition, to be held in San Francisco in 1915. 



C. W. Martin, Jr., manager of the motor truck tire depart- 

 ment of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., reports that his de- 

 partment is kept constantly busy and he looks forward to a big 

 year. 



The American Rubber Manufacturing Co.. of 408 Mission 

 street, is now installing additional machinery, new calenders and 

 mills, at its factory at Emeryville. 



Rice & Davis, who have been conducting a tire establishment 

 at Petaluma, California, have filed a voluntary petition in bank- 

 ruptcy. 



The Burton-Rounsaville Tire Co., of Los Angeles, has dis- 

 solved partnership, R. W. Burton giving a bill of sale of his 

 interest to L. S. Rounsaville. 



The Western Tire Co. has recently been incorporated at Oak- 

 land, California. 



THE NEW HOME OF THE RUBBER CLUB OF 

 AMERICA. 



THE new home of the Rubber Club of America is in the 

 Hess Building, 354 Fourth avenue, New York, a photograph 

 of which is reproduced herewith, the arrow pointing to its offices 

 on the sixteenth floor. It will be noted that they are situated 



on the corner of tlie building, from which a magnificent view of 

 the city and East River to the north and east is obtained. 



This new building is a twenty-story structure on the southwest 

 corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, and is one 

 of the largest as well as handsomest of the buildings in the 

 new uptown business district, of which Fourth avenue is the 

 main artery. 



The Rubber Club offices are in charge of the secretary, H. S. 

 Vorhis, and ample facilities are available for carrying out the 

 work that is being outlined by the Executive Committee. 



THE 1913 YEAR BOOK OF THE RUBBER CLUB. 



■ I 'HE Year Book of The Rubber Club of America for the 

 •*■ present year has just been issued by Secretary Vorhis. It 

 is by far the most pretentious piece of literature that the club 

 has yet put out. 



It contains about three times as much matter as has hitherto 

 appeared in the modest little annuals of the club, which have been 

 content to give the constitution and by-laws, the board of direct- 

 ors, members of the various committees and the list of the club's 

 membership. This new book — which is 4 x 9^< inches in size and 

 contains 48 pages — in addition to the matter hitherto published 

 in the club's annual book, contains the proceedings of the last 

 annual meeting, held April 21, 1913, the address of President 

 Frederick C. Hood at the annual banquet last January, and a 

 membership list divided under the new classification of firm, 

 active and associate. 



The firm members are entered first under an alphabetical ar- 

 rangement of the names of the firms, and then under an alpha- 

 betical arrangement of the names of the representatives of the 

 firms. This list is followed by the roll of active members and 

 that by the list of associate members. At the time of compilation 

 of the membership lists— in July last — there were 60 firm, 208 

 active, 64 associate and 4 honorary, making a total of 336 

 members. 



The book contains two interesting photographic illustrations. 



