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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March. 1, l^U. 



THE GOODYEAR COMPANY BUILDS A WAREHOUSE NEAR NEW YORK. 



A new live-story t'lreproot building of brick-faced, reinforced 

 concrete has been erected at Jackson avenue and Honeywell 

 street, Long Island City, New York, for occupancy as a ware- 

 house by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron — this in 

 order to better care for the New York City business, which has 

 developed beyond expectations. The warehouse is close to the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and is expected to greatly facili- 

 tate the company's business in this section. 



NEW DISTRIBUTING AGENCIES FOR THE BEACON FALLS RUBBER 

 SHOE CO. 



The number of branch stores in operation by the Beacon I'alls 

 Rubber Shoe Co., of Beacon Falls, Connecticut, has recently been 

 enlarged by the addition of two new distributing agencies — one 

 located at 926-928 Broadway, Kansas City, and the other at 311- 

 315 First avenue. North, Minneapolis, Minnesota. These new 

 branches will carry complete lines of rubber footwear and tennis 

 goods and in addition will be able to draw on the large reserve 

 stock carried by the Chicago agency. The company now has dis- 

 tributing branches at Boston, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, 

 Kansas City and San Francisco. Necessary machinery for the 

 manufacture of uppers for tennis lines has been installed at 

 the factory, and this new department is in full operation. 



RUBBER BOOTS AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION. 



The importance of the shoe industry has been recognized by 

 those in charge of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 

 who have set aside adequate space in the Manufacturers' and 

 Varied Industries Building to be devoted to an exhibition of 

 boots and shoes, while in another section provision is made for 

 an exhibit of rubber boots and shoes and equipment and methods 

 used in the manufacture of India rubber and gutta percha goods. 

 Footwear for sportsmen and travelers and for all games and 

 sports will be shown in still another section. 



LAID IT ON THE GOLF BALL. 



The Travelers Protective Association of St. Louis has recently 

 been made defendant in an action for damages instituted at 

 Chattanooga. Tennessee, the plaintiff alleging that while playing 

 golf on the links in that city he was struck upon the ankle by a 

 golf ball, causing blood poisoning, which necessitated the ampu- 

 tation of the limb. In answer to complaint the association denies 

 liability, claiming lack of evidence that the golf ball actually 

 caused blood poisoning. 



GUM BOOTS AS LIFE SAVERS. 



A certain dairyman of Palo Alto, California, owes his life to 

 the fact that on his early morning routes he wears good, heavy 

 rubber boots. The two horses on the team he was driving on a 

 recent morning came in contact with and were shocked to death 

 by live wires which had been broken by a severe storm and had 

 fallen into the street, and, ignorant of the possibilities of elec- 

 tricity, he would undoubtedly, when unfastening the harness, 

 have shared their fate had he not been wearing rubber boots, 

 which served as effective insulation from the ground. 



THE LEE COMPANY'S NEW RUBBER. 



The Lee Tire & Rubber Co., of Conshohocken, Pennsyl- 

 vania, is now bringing to the attention of the public, as a 

 result of more than a quarter of a century of experience in 

 rubber manufacture and of three years of continuous experi 

 menting. a trade-marked brand of rubber known as "Vana- 

 dium," which is used only in Lee Regular and "Zig-Zag" tires 

 and in "Velvet" red inner tubes. This rubber is described 

 by the manufacturers as selected rubber, refined and chem- 

 ically treated with Vanadium — a process which invigorates 

 and refreshes the rubber, increases its resiliency, as well as 

 its density— by contracting the pores— and renders it tougher, 

 more elastic and longer-lived than the ordinary rubber of 

 commerce. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The William M. Gordon Rubber Co., of 85 Auburn street, 

 Chelsea, Massachusetts, do a general business as reclaimers and 

 general merchants in scrap rubber, buying and selling all kinds 

 of this material. 



The common council of Detroit. Michigan, has received a 

 petition signed by eighty-two motor truck owners asking that the 

 ordinance referring to the equipment of motor trucks with 

 fenders be rescinded — the protest being based on inability to 

 obtain the right kind of fenders rather than on the expense 

 their purchase would entail. 



Of the 554 patents issued in one week of this year by the 

 United States Patent Office, 92 were granted to residents of 

 other countries; which shows to what an extent that office is 

 patronized by foreign inventors. 



A list recently given out by the tax assessors of Naugatuck, 

 Connecticut, shows that of taxable property in that city 

 valued at $10,552,598, the Goodyear India Rubber Co. is 

 assessed for $1,009,650. Other rubber manufacturing com- 

 panies which contribute toward this total assessment are: 

 The Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Co., with property of an 

 assessed valuation of $899,839; the United States Rubber Co.. 

 $280,750, and the Rubber Regenerating Co., $200,000. 



The annual three days' conference of the store managers 

 of the Fisk Rubber Co. was held the middle of February at 

 the company's factory at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, 45 

 branches in all parts of the country being represented. On 

 the evening of the 13th an informal dinner was given at a 

 local hotel. 



Representatives of the Midgley Tire & Rubber Co., incor- 

 porated in January under the laws of the State of West Vir- 

 ginia, with a capital of $500,000, are reported as searching for 

 a location suitable for a tire plant, and with this in view have 

 recently made a visit to Columbus, Ohio, the former home of 

 Thomas Midgley, manager of the company. Most of the men 

 connected with this enterprise are located in Pittsburgh — -a 

 fact which it is thought may influence the choice of a plant 

 in that city. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has recently taken over 

 the business of the Meeley Rubber Co. at Washington, D. C, 

 which it will continue as a branch store. 



A site has been sought at Wheeling, West Virginia,, by a 

 large rubber concern now located at Akron, for a tire plant, 

 the requirements being a block of land embracing ten or 

 twelve acres, situated above the highest flood mark. While 

 it is believed that no options have yet been taken, several such 

 sites are offered. The transportation facilities of Wheeling 

 are all that could be desired, and the city hopes to secure this 

 new industry, which, as proposed, would be one of the largest 

 in that locality, employing between 500 and 600 men and being 

 capitalized at $500,000. Other rubber products would be in- 

 cluded in the output in addition to automobile tires. 



An order of exceptional size has recently been received by 

 the Manhasset Manufacturing Co., of Putnam, Connecticut, 

 manufacturers of tire fabrics. This order, which is from an 

 automobile tire manufacturing concern in Ohio, calls for 

 300,000 pounds of fabric. The Connecticut tire fabric industry 

 generally is in a prosperous condition. 



Information has come to us that a concern prominently identi- 

 fied with the rubber industry — in the various centers of which 

 it is well represented — is now prepared to market sulphurs, com- 

 pounds, substitutes and other generally used commodities, for 

 manufacturers of such articles who are not closely in touch with 

 the rubber trade. 



