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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1914. 



JOHNS-MANVILLE BRANCH CHANGES. 



The Baltimore. Maryland, branch of the 11. VV. Jolins-Man- 

 ville Co. lias been compelled by increase of business to secure 

 additional space for its operations, and its removal is announced, 

 to a location at 207-213 Kast Saratoga street, a modern six- 

 story building in the center of the business district. The com- 

 pany has now not only attractive offices, stores and warehouse 

 accommodations, but a railroad switch rimning into the building 

 affording convenient means for the receipt and shipment of 

 merchandise. The Cleveland, Ohio, branch of the company has 

 also been obliged to provide larger quarters for several of its 

 subsidiary offices as well as additional warehouse space, another 

 building, now- being remodeled, having recently been leased for 

 storage purposes. Other company branches in Ohio have also 

 removed to new quarters, present locations in the various cities 

 being: .-Mcron, 717 Second National liank building; Columbus, 

 oflicc and contract department, 45 West I-ong street— warehouse 

 half a block distant ; Dayton, 259 Fourth street arcade : Toledo, 

 213 Water street: Voungstown, 502 Stambaugh building. The 

 branch at Toronto, Ontario, has removed to larger quarters in 

 the center of the wholesale district, its present location being 

 19 Front street, east, the store and warehouse having a combined 

 lloor space of about 35,000 square feet. 



The Johns-Manville concern has recently closed a deal whereby 

 it is to market, during a period of ten years, the complete output 

 of the Jones Speedometer Co. of Xcw York City. 



MH. PEARSON SAILS SOUTH. 

 Mr. licurv L. FearsDU sailed on the "Commewijne." of the 

 Royal Dutch West India Mail, for the Spanish Main, on De- 

 cemlicr 19. It is his plan to resume his winter travel stories in 

 rul)ber lands verv soon. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Headquarters have been opened at 1019 .Main street. Buffalo, 

 Xew York, for the sale of Knight tires in that city and vicinity, 

 with J. C. Carter in charge. 



The capital stock of the Century Rubber Works of Chicago 

 has been increased from $50,000 to $100,000. 



The Boston Batavia Rubber Co. has taken offices in the new 

 buildin.g of the. Overland company in Boston, on Massachusetts 

 avenue. 



The Fmpire Rubber & Tire Co., of Chicago, has changed its 

 location on Michigan avenue from Xo. 1305 to Xo. 1627. 



The Cleveland, Ohio, office of the Portage Rubber Co. — of 

 which C. E. Ball is manager — has been removed to 1816 Euclid 

 avenue, in the center of the motor car district. Besides afford- 

 ing ample and much finer office space, a portion of the new 

 quarters is used for the storage of tires, a complete line of 

 which is carried in stock. 



The consolidation of the Diamond and Goodrich rubber com- 

 panies has been followed by the consolidation of the branches 

 of the two companies in various cities, among otiiers those of 

 Portland, Oregon, and Indianapolis, Indiana. .\t tlie latter 

 point. H. A. Little, former manager of the doodricb liranch, 

 is to be in charge of the combined agency. 



The Allen .'\uto Specialty Co. has removed its Chicago sales- 

 room from 1436 to 1627 Michigan avenue. This company manu- 

 factures tire cases and gauges and is shortly to extend its 

 operations by the opening of a San Francisco branch to take 

 care of thE trade on the Pacific coast. 



The Vancouver Vulcanizing Co. has secured the agency for 

 Diamond Rubber Co. products in Vancouver. British Columbia, 

 and the surrounding territory. 



.■\n agency has been established at Seattle to handle the sale 

 of Savage tires in King and Pierce counties. Washington, the 

 firm with which this agency has been placed lieing composed of 

 H. D. C. Chetlln, C. R. Maybury and E. F. Tawney. 



The tire duck factory of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.. 

 at Williamsville, Connecticut, now in process of enlargement, 

 will be operated overtime when completed. The manufacture 

 of automobile tire duck is quite an important industry in eastern 

 Connecticut, this Goodyear plant and the three other mills en- 

 gaged in similar production in Putnam and Danielson, all 

 having sufficient orders on hand to make overtime operation 

 necessarv for some weeks. 



MR. WADLEIGH SAILS FOR SINGAPORE. 



Mr. "W. L. Wadleigh has spent approximately one-half of the 

 I'ifty years that have elapsed since he had the privilege of being 

 born in Boston, as a commission merchant, placing with American 

 consumers various products from foreign markets. In this work 

 he has come into active association with the rubber importing 

 business, and liecame extremely interested in this line many years 



W. L. Wadleigh. 



ago, so much so that about ten years ago he went to Mexico and 

 spent a great deal of time there for five years, working out the 

 Castilloa problem. On returning to Boston to devote his time 

 as formerly to his commission business, he sold a great deal of 

 Mexican rubber, taking the product of some eighteen different 

 plantation companies and private estates, which he distributed di- 

 rectly to the consumer. But he states that he realized several 

 years ago that the great rublier mart of the future would be 

 Singapore, and so he determined to make connections with the 

 Middle East. With this in view he will sail on the steamship 

 "Princess Irene" on January 8 for Xaples. and connect with a 

 steamer which he expects will land him in Singapore on Feb- 

 ruary 14. He intends to remain there during the winter in order 

 to eft'ect the proper association with Eastern planters, and then in 

 the early summer will return to this country and locate his of- 

 fice in Xew York City, where he will act as a commission mer- 

 chant for the planters and sell direct to American consumers. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



H. G. Moesta, for the past year in charge of the Louisville, 

 Kentucky, branch of the L'nited States Tire Co.. has been trans- 

 ferred to the company's New York office, being succeeded in 

 the management of the Louisville branch by F. S. Cropley. 

 former district manager with headquarters at Minneapolis. 



John D. Ertel, employed for some time past as traveling 

 auditor for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.. of Akron, is now- 

 associated with the Philadelphia branch, as assistant to W. R. 

 Walton, the general manager. 



W. E. Cameron has been appointed sales manager of the Motz 

 Tire & Rubber Co. of .Akron, a position for which he is well 

 qualified by reason of his previous connection with the company 

 as western sales manager. 



