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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1914. 



attached to each of which was an order entitling the possessor, 

 when presented at the store, to some article sold by the com- 

 pany — these prizes ranging all the way from a baseball to a 

 bicycle. Under the circumstances it is not surprising that im- 

 mense crowds came together. While rather an e>cpensive form 

 of advertising, this idea as carried out is said to have been very 

 effective and to have established the popularity of the new store 

 not only with those who captured balloons and prizes, but also 

 with their less successful competitors. 



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At the retail store of the Hcndrie Rubber Co., on Pico street. 

 Los Angeles, a tire accessory department has been installed, in 

 charge of Duke Ainslie, a veteran rubber man, where a com- 

 plete line of tire and rubber repair supplies will be carried for 

 distribution in that vicinity and in Arizona. This company, 

 whose factory at Torrance, California, was formally opened on 

 August 16 last, has already established branches in San Fran- 

 cisco, Denver, Salt Lake and Colorado Springs. 



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The Savage Tire Co., of San Diego, has closed a contract with 

 J. C. O'Gorman, of Portland, giving him the exclusive agency 

 for Savage tires in Oregon. Mr. O'Gorman is president of the 

 O'Gorman Rim Co., of Portland, a large automobile supply and 

 accessory concern, which has carried Savage tires for several 

 months, and the success he has met with in their distribution 

 among local users has been very gratifying. 



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The competition for a cup awarded annually by the United 

 States Tire Co. to the branch which makes the largest net gain 

 in sales pro rata during the year has been awarded this year 

 to the Portland, Oregon, branch, of which C. H. Mayer is 

 manager. 



STANDARD HOSE COUPLING. 



The history of fire-fighting in this country is intimately con- 

 nected with the development of hose couplings. Tracing the sub- 

 ject back for more than forty years, it will be found that the un- 

 questionable importance of a national standard hose coupling was 

 clearly demonstrated by the great conflagration at Boston of 

 December 9 and 10, 1872. On that occasion the differences in 

 thread prevented most of the thirty neighboring cities from 

 assisting in extinguishing the fire through their inability to con- 

 nect with the hydrants or engines. In consequence a number of 

 these surrounding cities, taking to heart the lesson taught by 

 the big fire, adopted the coupling used in Boston and known as 

 the Roxbury coupling, which now practically forms the national 

 standard. 



Chief John S. Damrell, who had been at the head of the 

 Boston fire department at the time of the conflagration, became 

 a zealous advocate of the standard coupling, particularly at the 

 conventions of fire engineers lield at Baltimore in 1873 and St. 

 Louis in 1874. A special committee appointed at New York in 

 1875 made a recommendation of eight threads to the inch at 

 Philadelphia in 1876, which was found impracticable and was 

 followed by another from a new committee appointed at Qeve- 

 land in 1876. 



This committee recommended at the Washington convention 

 of 1879 a coupling with six threads to the inch, which standard 

 was unanimously adopted as ensuring freedom from clogging. 

 This action was confirmed by a resolution adopted at Boston in 

 1880, and the next step was the report presented at Springfield, 

 Massachusetts, in 1891 by ex-Chief Landy of Elmira, Xew York, 

 recommending a change from six threads to 754 threads. At the 

 Chattanooga convention of 1904 still another committee was 

 appointed, which reported at Duluth in 1905 for si.K threads; its 

 •opinion being, however, finally overruled by the convention in 

 favor of the Landy lyi threads coupling. This has since been 



the standard coupling of all fire departments and water works 

 associations through the country. It is practically the Roxbury 

 coupling as used in Boston in 1872 and has been adopted by 

 several hundred cities and towns of the United States and 

 Canada. The Ro.xbury standard is one of the oldest in existence. 

 Much of the credit for the introduction of the standard hose 

 coupling is due to F. M. Griswold, chairman of the committee 

 on standard hose threads of the National Fire Protection 

 Association. 



A WHEEL WHOSE SPOKES ARE SPRINGS. 



The rubber heel men are always eulogizing their goods on 

 the ground that they "take the jar off the spine." Now that is 

 exactly what the people busy on the invention of wheels and 



tires for motor vehi- 

 cles are trying to do, 

 get something that 

 will take the jar off 

 the motor's spine — 

 that is, keep its ma- 

 chinery from vibra- 

 tion, and thus insure 

 it long life and dura- 

 bility. The manufac- 

 turers of the South 

 Bend Wheel, which 

 is illustrated here, 

 claim that they have 

 succeeded in this un- 

 dertaking, that their 

 wheel — which substi- 

 tutes coiled springs 

 for straight spokes — 

 when equipped with 

 a cushion tire, minimizes vibration, relieves the jar, greatly in- 

 creases the life of the mechanism in the car and the service of 

 the tires. Tliis wheel can be applied to the hub of any make 

 of car with very little mechanical difficulty. (South Bend 

 Spring Wheel Co., South Bend, Indiana.) 



South Bend .'Firing Wheel. 



INDIA RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. 



/^FFICIAL statement of values of exports of manufactures of 

 ^^ india rubber and gutta percha for the month of January, 

 1914, and for the first seven months of five fiscal years, beginning 



July. 



Belting, Boots All 



Months. Packing and Other Tot.\l. 



and Hose. Shoes. Rubber. 



January, 1914 $175,268 $57,244 $463,778 $696,290 



July-December, 1913.. 1,254,589 697,823 3,842,106 5,794,518 



Total 1913-14 $1,429,857 $755,067 $4,305,884 $6,490,808 



Total, 1912-13 1,583,069 973,423 4,695.696 7,252.188 



Total, 1911-12 1,297,422 1,076,492 3,987,743 6,361,657 



Total, 1910-11 1,215,134 1,600,041 3,397,718 6.212,893 



Total, 1909-10 1,096,459 1,371,199 2,739,953 5,207,611 



The above heading, "All Other Rubber," for the month of Jan- 

 uary, 1914, and for the seven months of three fiscal years, be- 

 ginning July 1, includes the following details relating to tires: 



For All 



Months. Automobiles. Other. Total. 



January, 1914 $137,889 $35,891 $173,780 



July-December, 1913 1,744,792 303,499 2,048,291 



Total, 1913-14 $1,882,681 $339,390 $2,222,071 



Total, 1912-13 2,050,843 366,761 2.417,604 



Total, 1911-12 1,374,337 291,460 1,665,797 



