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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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connected with the Excelsior General Supply Co., of this 

 city, and who put Knight tires on the market in Chicago for 



this concern. 



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At the annual meeting of the stockholders and directors 

 of W. H. Salisbury & Co., 107 South Wabash avenue, which 

 was held I-'ebruary 3. all of last year's officers were re-elected. 

 They arc: President, C. K. Ulanchard; vice-president and 

 treasurer, iM. V. Salisbury; secretary, Richard H. Geier. The 

 usual 6 per cent, dividend was declared. Last year was a 

 satisfactory one. according to the secretary's report. 



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One of the schools of automobile instruction recently con- 

 ducted a class of twenty-six men through the repair depart- 

 ment of the Goodrich company's Chicago branch to witness 

 practical demonstrations in tire repairs. These demonstra- 

 tions took in every operation in the repair of a tire shoe, 

 from cutting away of the old rubber and worn out fabric to 

 the application of the new material and the final cure in the 

 vulcanizer, and were supplemented by a talk by the head of 

 the <lepartment on tire abuses, after which questions were 

 asked and answered and a set of illustrated pamphlets on the 

 care of tires, issued by the Goodrich company, was pre- 

 sented to each member of the class. 



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The subject of the Lincoln Highway is one especially in- 

 teresting to the tire trade, as the carrying out of the project 

 for a system of good roads across the entire continent could 

 not fail to tempt the automobilist to greater use of his car 

 and consequently more extended use of tires. .At present 

 the Chicago newspapers are besieged with questions concern- 

 ing this highway and if questions may be used as a measure 

 of interest, the highway without a doubt will prove the most 

 po|)ular of all tourist roads. Many tourists coming from the 

 west have been heard to remark, "Yes, I enjoyed my trip 

 through the several states, but from Iowa to Chicago I was 

 more than pleased with the markings on the telegraph poles. 

 placed there by the order of the officers of the Trans-conti- 

 nental Highway .Association. Not once did 1 find it neces- 

 sary to look at my route book or inquire my way. .\ com- 

 plete trans-continental system thus marked would be ideal." 



The dream of sucli an ideal system is about to be realized 

 in the Lincoln Highway. By the time the auto season opens 

 the entire route, from coast to coast, will be marked with the 

 association's letter L, between hands of blue and red — gener- 

 ally on telephone or telegraph poles. 



There has been much curiosity manifested concerning the 

 identity of the originator of this scheme. Carl G. Fisher. 

 of Indianapolis, head of the motor speedway, was the origin- 

 ator of the Lincoln Highway project, and the Lincoln Highway 

 Association was later formed and now has offices in Detroit. 



The Highway Commissioners' Good Roads Association of 

 Cook County (in which Chicago is situated), the organization 

 which grew out of the convention called last December by 

 the country members of Cook County Board, played its first 

 l)art in the development of the good roads movement in the 

 county February 13, when it entertained at a banquet the 

 delegates to the National Conference on Concrete Road 

 Building. This national conference was held in Chicago 

 February 1417, the first day being given to the Cook County 

 organization with a view to increasing local interest in the 

 subject of hard roads. 



The following is a brief outline of the present county road 

 system and the plan proposed for its development : There 

 are 1..300 miles of country roads in Cook county. 325 miles 

 being old state roads extending in all directions from Chi- 

 cago. The commission claims that these 325 miles Cfinstitutc 

 a sufficient road system, 90 per cent, of the rural population 



being located either directly on one of tin > ;■ ,n or within one 

 mile of the system. .X road having a harder surface, of 

 either brick or concrete, is advocated, the ordinary macadam 

 or gravel road having proved unable to stand up under the 

 automobile traffic of today, and heavy travel, including large 

 motor trucks, is bound to increase. The width of the road 

 a<lvocated is from IS to 24 feet, and the estimated cost is 

 from $12,000 to $18,000 per mile, the total 325 miles approxi- 

 mating $4,000,000. 



The jjrogram advanced by the association proposes the 

 study of scientific building and maintenance of roads, the 

 efficient and economic expenditure of all funds devoted to the 

 construction, repair and maintenance of country roads, and 

 the establishment of a lixed plan of building a system of 

 permanent roads throughout the coiuur\ towns of the county. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



liy a J'iesidciil Correspondent. 



THI". rubber business throughout the state is showing a gen- 

 eral imiirovement and all of the plants are receiving more 

 orders than a month ago. The reports all show that the out- 

 look is much improved. The factories, as a rule, are working 

 lull time, and some are operating certain departments on over- 

 time schedules. 



The manufacturers of automobile tires report orders that will 

 soon have their factories working up to the mark which was set 

 in the summer and fall of last year. 



The reduction in prices of footwear by the L'nited States Rub- 

 ber Co. together with the advent of snow, ice and bad weather 

 conditions during the past month had a stimulating effect upon 



this line of trade, 



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Flans for the erection of a new dairy barn to cost $50,000 on 

 the farm of Col. Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States 

 Rubber Co. on Papoosesquaw Point at P.ristol. have been com- 

 pleted and work on the structure will be commenced as soon 

 as the spring opens. It will be fini.shed on the interior in white 

 enamel brick, four feet from the concrete floor, and above that 

 the walls will be of plaster. It will contain sixty stalls for milch 



cows with additional boxes for young stock and bulls 



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Clarence H. P>rolcy, George Kirk, Elizabeth E. UroKy and 

 Mark Kirk are the incorporators of the Cataract Tire & Garage 

 Co.. a concern which is authorized to carry on a general auto- 

 iiioliile business in Providence with a capital stock of $20,000. 



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The plan of working a five-day-a-week and four-day-a-week 

 schedule alternately has been abandoned by the .Alice Mill of the 

 W'oonsocket Rubber Co., and instead a five-day week is now be- 

 ing followed. It is reported, however, that prospects look more 

 satisfactory and that full time may be resumed at an early date. 



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The Goodby- Rankin Co. was incorporated under the laws of 

 Rhode Island early in February with a capital stock of $40,000 

 to deal in automobile supplies and automobiles. The incorpo- 

 rators are .-Mbert E. Goodby, who started in the bicycle business 

 in Providence in 1893 and who has auto, supplies stores on Wash- 

 ington street and Prairie avenue ; William (J. Rankin, for the past 

 12 years in charge of the automobile supplies dejiartment of the 

 Belcher & Loomis Hardware Co., and Thomas P Himes. of 

 Cranston. 



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The Cataract Rubber Co. has removed its salesrooms from 200 

 Washington .street to more commodious quarters at 69 Broad 

 street. Providence. 



The salesrooms of the Decker Rubber Co. have been removed 



