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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1914 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



liy Our Regular Correspondent. 



TIllC Savage Tire Co., of San Diego, is about to establish a 

 hrancli distributing house at San Francisco, California. 

 It will be recalled that in the July number uf The 1nui.\ Rubber 

 World mention was made of the holding up of a large shipment 

 of rubber and materials belonging to the Savage company 

 through the seizure by the Federals of a section of Mexican 

 railroad. These supplies have since been received in good con- 

 dition, but the delay occasioned no curtailment of production, 

 for the company, in anticipation of such an event, had telegraphed 

 their Eastern agents to duplicate the shipment, which they did, 

 by fast freight, thus keeping in- 

 tact the large reserve stock of 

 ruliber and other materials con- 

 stantly maintained at the Savage 

 factory. 



Mr. L. C. Miles, formerly as- 

 sociated with the rubber industry 

 at Akron, Ohio, died of apoplexy 

 on June 26 at the Agnew Hospital 

 in San Diego. He was 56 years 

 old and had removed to that city 

 five years ago. 



R. V. Terry has been appointed 

 manager of the San Diego sales 

 branch of the Republic Rubber 

 Co., of Youngstown, located at 

 1070 Third street. 



Charles R. Sargent has joined 

 the sales force of the Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co., at San 

 Francisco. 



R. L. Sergeant, local sales man- 

 ager of the Fisk Rubber Co.. of 

 Chicopec Falls, Massachusetts, 

 and I... M. Jones, northern repre- 

 sentative, have recently returned 

 from a seven-day automobile trip 

 through northern California and 

 .southern Oregon. 



LIEUT.-COL. ARTHUR F. TOWNSEND. 



The Colonel Caught Napping, 



An association comprising an initial membership of sixty tire 

 men was formed at Oakland, California, on July 9. Among the 

 officers elected at the meeting on that date were A. L. Dexter, 

 of the Fisk Rubber Co., vice-chairman, and W. L. Little, a Dia- 

 mond tire dealer, secretary, while the installation ceremonies 

 were conducted by "Bob" Maitland, a Pennsylvania tire man. 



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A new distributing agency for Kelly-Springfield tires has been 

 estalilished in Oakland, California, through the opening of the 

 Oakland Speedometer Service Station Co. by L. G. Reno, well 

 known to the trade of that section on account of his previous 

 connection with the Stewart-Warner Co. 



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The W. D. Newerf Rubber Co., of Los Angeles, which is to 

 distribute the entire product of the Panama Rubber Co.. of 

 Comjiton, California, is understood to be at present arranging 

 for the establishment of agencies through the Imperial Valley. 



A natural advantage enjoyed by the Panama company in the 

 production of its tires is the possession in connection with the 

 plant of an artesian well, worth to the company thousands of 

 dollars annually in supplying the large volume of water used 

 in tire manufacture. This well is capable of supplying 81 miners' 

 inches of water through a 12-inch pipe, the pressure being suffi- 

 cient to throw a 6-inch stream 100 feet liigh. Its value as an 

 asset is placed at $50,000. 



THE news that Colonel A. F". Townsend has departed for a 

 tropical trip — this time to the rublier planting sections of 

 the Middle East — will not come as a surprise to those who 

 know him. They will quickly recall his many trips to Central 

 .America and the West Indies, as well as his rapid journeys 

 through the United States and Europe. For such a live, ener- 

 getic, wide-awake personage to be caught napping is, to say the 

 least, unusual ; yet the proof is produced in the accompanying 

 illustration made from a photograph taken by the editor of 

 The I.NiiiA RuniiER World off the coast of Nicaragua. Speak- 

 ing of that boisterous little re- 

 pulilic, it will be remembered that 

 Colonel Townsend some years 

 ago established a fine rubber 

 plantation there. As an adjunct 

 to it he formed a trading com- 

 pany. Then when, for the first 

 time in a century, a hurricane 

 blew the rubber trees away, he 

 sold the land and the trading 

 company, and gave back to the 

 stockholders their original in- 

 vestments. Then he started a 

 plantation in the Middle East, of 

 Herea, and that is what he is at 

 present visiting. 



A Boston Latin School boy, and 

 later a student in the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, he 

 began his rubber career with the 

 New York Belting & Packing Co. 

 in 1884, first at the factory, and 

 later at the New York office. His 

 energj' and ability carried him 

 rapidly to the front in that im- 

 portant organization. In 1896 he 

 resigned his position, and together 

 with Mr. Frank Cazenove Jones 

 and others formed the Manhattan 

 Ruliber Manufacturing Co., of 

 which he became vice-president, 

 lu 1902, on the resignation of Mr. Jones, Colonel Townsend was 

 elected president, and it is largely owing to his wise and energetic 

 direction that the company now holds its enviable position in 

 the rubber trade. 



Besides being successful as a business man. Colonel Town- 

 send is prominent in military affairs. He served for several 

 years in the Seventh Regiment of New York, and later joined 

 Squadron A, one of the most famous bodies of troopers in the 

 country. He found the association extremely congenial, and it 

 was not long before he was elected captain of one of the troops. 

 In this position he displayed abilities which soon took him out 

 of Squadron A, and made him Quarter Master General of the 

 Stale of New York, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, which 

 position he now holds. 



Colonel Townsend traveled East via the Pacific with Mr. H. 

 U. True, of The Manhattan's Boston agency. They are making 

 a fast trip as far as Singapore, and from there expect to visit 

 Java and inspect the Manhattan plantation. From Singapore 

 they will continue on via Ceylon to England, and thence home. 



Mr. E. F. McGovern of the Stoughton Rubber Co.. Bos- 

 ton, left for Europe on July 9 by the "Carpathia" of the 

 Cunard Line. During his trip through Great Britain and the 

 Continent he will make a careful study of raincoats. He ex- 

 pects to return the latter part of August. ' ' 



