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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1914 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE XJNITED STATES TIEE CO. 



'I'hc United States Tire Co. has tiled with the Massachusetts 

 secretary of state a statement of its linancial condition, dated 

 March 31, 1914, compared with the previous year, wliich is as 

 follows : 



ASSETS. 



1914. 1913. 



Real estate and investments $91,953 $330,474 



Merchandise, etc 6,192,380 9,395,452 



Cash and debts receivable 5,475,129 4,193,728 



Total $11,759,462 $13,919,654 



LIABILITIES. 



Capital stock $500,000 $500,000 



Accounts payable 11,158,978 12,925,511 



Reserve 100,484 494,143 



Total $11,759,462 $13,919,654 



TIRE PRICES. 



In a recent number of an automobile journal mention was made 

 of a new tire list issued by the Packard Motor Car Co., of New 

 York, in which the prices of Ajax, Batavia, Fisk, Kelly-Springfield 

 and Republic tires had been advanced, while the "Xobby" tread 

 type had been reduced over $3 in price. This was an error, the 

 prices of these various tires remaining unchanged. It seems that 

 the Packard company recently issued a tire price list to owners in 

 which the mistake was made of quoting dealers' prices, and that 

 later the new and corrected list of retail prices was sent out, 

 which showed the changes mentioned in the paragraph referred to. 



The Wood-Milne Co. Ltd., of Leyland, near Preston, Lan- 

 cashire, has revised its prices on solid rubber tires, the latest list 

 showing a reduction. 



THE CHEMISTS' CLUB. 



With a membership grown from 89 in 1898 to its present num- 

 ber of 1,187. the Chemists' Club has ground for claiming to be 

 a national institution. Originally located at 108 West Fifty-fifth 

 street, the expansion of its usefulness called for larger quarters. 

 In 1911, through the magnanimous action of many friends, it 

 was housed in its present location, at 52 East Forty-first street. 

 where it occupies the lower five floors of an eleven-story fire- 

 proof structure. The upper six floors are let to chemists for 

 offices and laboratories. 



The auditorium, known as Rumford Hall, has a seating capacity 

 of 310, while the library contains 16,000 volumes, including 

 sets of 800 journals. The users of the library have increased 

 from 82 in the month of June, 1911, to a monthly average of 

 347 during 1914. Guest rooms occupy two floors and have the 

 best hotel service. 



Going beyond the ordinary functions of a library, that section 

 of the institution has special services at the disposal of members, 

 by which the staff can make searches, compilations and trans- 

 lations on any given chemical subject. The Department of 

 Research carries this idea still further. 



Another feature of the club's usefulness is the employment 

 bureau, which aims to provide employers with chemists and 

 chemists with positions. This branch has placed upwards of 500 

 chemists within the last 8 years. 



The officials are : President, Charles F. McKenna : vice-presi- 

 dents, EUwood Hendrick and K. P. McElroy; secretary. John E. 

 Teeple; treasurer, Laurence Hutton Hendricks. 



Such are the principal features of the club as shuwn by the 

 year book for 1914. In a bright pamphlet William L. Dudley, 

 of Vanderbilt L'niversity, Xashville, Tennessee, has told the 

 story of the rise of the institution to its present importance; 

 giving an interesting account of the advantages it places at 

 the disposal of its members. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The capital stock of the R. J. Caldwell Co., commission mer- 

 chants and large dealers in cotton duck and special fabrics, of 

 15 Park Row, New York, has recently been increased to $200,000. 



The Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co. is again adding to its 

 factory at Cudahy, Wisconsin, and by the end of the season the 

 already extensive plant will be considerably increased in size 

 and capacity. 



.A company has lately been incorporated in Boston, with a 

 capital stock of $50,000, by Harry A. Clapp, Lester M. Bacon 

 and Frank O. White, to be known as the Eastern Inter-Rim Co. 



The new home of The B. F. Goodrich Co.'s Detroit branch, 

 located at Hancock and Woodward streets, is not only a very 

 attractive, but a very substantial structure, of reinforced con- 

 crete, and contains approximately 80.000 square feet of floor 

 space, of which an area comprising 6,000 square feet is devoted 

 to the service station, while the tire storage space will take care 

 of 200.000 tires, without mentioning mechanical goods and sun- 

 dries. 



The plant of the Mexican Crude Rubber Co., at Detroit, de- 

 stroyed by fire on May 15, as mentioned in our June number, 

 page 491, is said to have been fully insured and will probably 

 be rebuilt. 



The Hazard Manufacturing Co., of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- 

 vania, which manufactures rubber covered wires and cables for 

 light, power, telephone and railroad signal work, wire rope, 

 etc., has removed its New York offices frotn 50 Dey street to 

 533-541 Canal street. 



Automobile tires will constitute the product of the Saugus 

 factory of the American Tire Co., of .\von, Massachusetts, re- 

 cently purchased from the Sagamore Rubber Co. 



The Xenia Rubl)er Manufacturing Co., of Xcnia, Ohio, which 

 in the past has manufactured only mechanical rubber goods, is 

 said to have plans under way for the erection of a factory at 

 Dayton. Ohio, where automobile tires will be manufactured. 



Among the exhibitors at the thirty-seventh convention of the 

 Xational Electric Light Association, held at Philadelphia, early 

 in June, were the Standard Underground Cable Co., of Pitts- 

 burgh, whose exhibit included various kinds and sizes of in- 

 .lulated wire, and the John A. Roebling's Sons Co., of Trenton, 

 which showed samples of a similar line of production. 



October 17 to 24 has been fixed as the date of the .Automobile 

 Show at Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, to be held under the auspices 

 of tlie Automobile Dealers' .Association of that city. 



A rubber-tired six-ton electric truck which has been put in use 

 at Galveston, Texas, for carrying bales of cotton between the 

 compress and the docks, is said to be performing more econo- 

 mically, speedily and satisfactorily the work formerly done by 

 six mules. 



If present plans are successfully executed, a modern plant 

 will soon be in operation at San Antonio. Texas, for the manu- 

 facture of tires and rims for automobiles and other vehicles. 

 This company, not yet incorporated but stock in which is offered 

 for sale by J. A. Walsh. Moore Building, that city, is known as 

 the Luck Tire & Manufacturing Co. and is intended to manu- 

 facture tires under patent granted to John J. Luck, of 119 Hicks 

 avenue, San .Antonio. 



The Delage car whicli. driven by Rene Thomas, won the 

 Memorial Day automobile race at Indianapolis, will be driven 

 by Billy Knipper in the race to be held at Sioux City on July 4; 

 and in this event it will be equipped with Firestone tires. This 

 is also true of the car to be driven by Barney Oldfield. 



Mr. E. W. Snyder, for some time superintendent of the .Ameri- 

 can Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron. Ohio, has severed his connec- 

 tion with that company. 



