February 1, 1914.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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TRADE NEWS NOTES. 

 T!ie Pennsylvania Kul)ber Co., of Jeannette. Pennsylvania, has 

 formally opened its Xew York branch al 1889 Broadway, vvhere 

 commodious and attractive quarters have been provided for the 

 <li.iplay and distribution of its product. This branch store has 

 a frontage of 35 feet on Broadway and extends through the 

 lilock to Columbus avenue. It is under the management of 

 C. C. McCuUough. 



A company known as the Consumers Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Limited, has been incorporated at St. Catherines, Ontario, with 

 a capital stock of $800,000, to manufacture rubber goods. 

 Among the incorporators are A. \V. and VV. M. Marquis. 



The Werner & Prteiderer Co., of Saginaw, Michigan, which 

 manufactures rubber mill machinery, is to erect a new factory, 

 plans for which have already been completed, altho construc- 

 tion w-ork i.s not to commence until early Spring. 



A new building is lieing erected at Kansas City for occupancy 

 by a branch of the Fi.sk Rubber Co.. of Chicopee Falls, Massa- 

 chusetts. This building, for which it is said a long lease has 

 been, signed by the Fisk company, is to be four storjes high, 

 of reinforced concrete, will be located at Grand avenue and 

 Tw'cnticth street, and is to be completed not later than July 1 

 next. 



.\ new schedule of hours wont. into effect in Connecticut rub- 

 ber factories on January 1. to comply with the requirements 

 of the law which limits the number of hours jicr week that 

 women may lie employed to tiftylive. Work will hereafter 

 commence at these factories at 7 o'clock and end at 5:10. with 

 an intermission of one hour at noon, making the working day 

 r.ine hours and ten minutes long instead of ten hours as here- 

 tofore. 



The Batavia Rubber ( d.. of liulTalo. Xew York, has estab- 

 lished a branch for the distribution of its "Security Tread" 

 tires at 844 Xurth I'.rn.ul street, Philadeli)hia. witli E. M. Stim- 

 son as manager. 



The corporate name of the Consolidated Rubber Tire Co., of 

 Xew 'S'ork. has been changed to the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. 



.\ tire which lasted for a1]out an hour and did damage esti- 

 mated at $2,500. occurred recently at the plant of the Housatonic 

 Rubber Works at Bridgeport. Connecticut — caused by an at- 

 tempt on the part of employes to thaw out a frozen water pipe 

 with a torch, the blaze from the torch spreading to liales of 

 rubber and paper. 



Tile Barnard-Michael Tire Co.. Inc., has been formed at 

 Buffalo. X'ew York, and duly incorporated, for the exclusive 

 distribution in that section of Kelly -Springfield tires. The offi- 

 cers of the new company are Robert S. Barnard, president, 

 and S. M. Michael, secretary and treasurer, and the office is 

 located at 912 Main street. 



.•\ motion picture lilm company has recently produced a film 

 showing the process of tire making, from the preparation of the 

 crude rul)ber to the linal testing of the finished product. This 

 film is from pictures taken at the plant of the Pennsylvania Rub- 

 ber Co. at Jeannette. Pennsylvania, and besides licing unusually 

 interesting and instructive, is remarkably clear. 



The Voorhees Rubber Mfg. Co., of Jersey City, New Jersey, 

 has opene<l another branch store at 41 Seventh street. Philadel- 

 phia. 



H0LME3 PACKING & SUPPLY CO. OPEN RUBBER STORE AT PEORIA. 



The Holmes Packing & Supply Co.. of 12-14 South Jefferson 

 street. Chicago. Illinois, is opening a store in Peoria for the 

 wholesale and retail distribution of rubber goods exclusively. 

 This store, which is to handle every article made of rubber, and 

 will be known as the Peoria Belting & Rubber Works, is located 

 at 506 -Adams street. The company is now. we understand, in 

 the market for all kinds of ruliber goods. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



William F. Berrien, for a number of years manager of the 

 Philadelphia branch of the Dayton Motor Car Co. and an active 

 member of the Trade Association of that city, has been ap- 

 pointed sales manager of the Batavia Rubber Co. at Batavia, 

 New York. 



A. T. Carnahan, formerly with the Firestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, is now the New Y'ork district representative 

 of the Vulcan Rubber Co., of Eric Pennsylvania. 



F. S. Wilson, vice-president of the Thcrmoid Rubber Co., of 

 Trenton, New Jersey, has, with his family, taken up a residence 

 in San Francisco and will make that city his future home. 



C. E. Ames has been appointed general sales manager for the 

 Divine Tire Co., of Utica, New York, with headquarters at 

 Chicago. 



Edward Gallagher, who was with the Boston Woven Hose & 

 Rubber Co. for 24 years — in charge of the testing and inspec- 

 tion departments and later as foreman of the brass foundry and 

 brass finishing departments — io now with the B. F. Goodrich Co. 

 at its Boston branch. 



George S. Atwater, of Boston, has been engaged by the Cen- 

 tury Rubber Co.. of Plainfield, New Jersey, as sales manager. 



A. Pi. Alden, of the New Y^ork Commercial Co., sailed from 

 New York on the Minnewaska on January 24, for Europe. He 

 will join Mrs. Alden and his son Victor, who are now in Bristol. 



E. Stevenson, director of .\. M. .\lden & Co., Ltd., of Lon- 

 don, arrived in New York on the Canminiu February 1. 



CHESTER J. PIKE, JR., BECOMES •HUBMARK" PRESIDENT. 



The presidency of the "Hubmark' Rubl)er Co., Boston, has 

 been conferred upon Chester J. Pike. Jr.. who is also its man- 

 ager. Mr. Pike's business career has been confined exclusively to 

 the rublier business, having been divided, prior to his as.socia- 

 tion with the "Hubmark" company at the time of its formation in 

 May. 1912. between the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., the Con- 

 verse Rubber Co. and the Congress Ruliber Co. 



NEW MEMBERS OF THE RUBBER CLUB OF AMERICA. 

 .\t a recent meeting of the executive committee of The Rubber 

 Club of America the following new members were elected : 

 E. C. McGraw, representing the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co.. 

 of East Palestine. Ohio : Robert Badenhop. of 67-69 Wall street, 

 New Y'ork and D. A. Cutler, representing the Acushnet Process 

 Co., of New Bedford, Massachusetts, were elected firm members. 

 Edward B. Aldrich, vice-president of the Continental Rubber 

 Co.. of New York, was elected active member ; and W. F. 

 Gillespie, of the Stamford Rubber Supply Co.. Stamford, Con- 

 necticut : and Mr. R. E. Tyson, of Tyson Brothers, Inc.. of 

 Carteret. New Jersey, were elected associate members. 



DR. DANNERTH RECALLS HIS CONFERENCE SUGGESTION. 



In the columns of this issue devoted to interesting news from 

 foreign cjuarters there will be found an article entitled "The 

 Standardization Connuittee's Report." which gives a brief sum- 

 mary of the report submitted by the committee of the Rubber 

 Cirowers' Association of London, aiipointed to consider the topic 

 of standardization. The committee recommends the establish- 

 ment of a testing station and an experimental factory so that 

 plantation rubber can be standardized and sold under proper 

 classifications. In connection with this action of the London 

 association. Dr. Frederic Dannerth. the consulting rubber chemist, 

 who acted as honorary secretary at the International Rubber 

 Conference held in New York in September. 1912. recalls the 

 proposal that he laid before that conference that a central testing 

 laboratory for the rubber industry shouUl be established by 

 .American manufacturers at their joint expense and for their 

 mutual benefit. Tho the English planters have got the start in 

 this respect, Dr. Dannerth still believes that the American manu- 

 facturers will find it so much to their interest to have such a 

 testing and experimental plant that its establishment will not be 

 verv much longer delaved. 



