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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1914. 



street — both in Brooklyn, New York — and Max Hirsch, 2056 

 Ryer avenue. New York City. To manufacture ruliber goods, 

 etc. 



Rubber Refining Co.. Inc., March 25, 1914; under the laws of 

 New York ; authorized capital, $20,000. Incorporators : Richard 

 A. Silbcrhorn. 443 East Third street, Mt. Vernon, New York ; 

 John J. Hanrahan, 69 Morningside avenue, Yonkers. New York, 

 and Alfred R. Bunnell. 60 State street. East Orange, New Jersey. 



Tire Supply Association, Inc., The, P'ebruary 25, 1914; under 

 the laws of Minnesota; authorized capital, $50,000. Incorpora- 

 tors: Mose J. Rosenstein, Louis S. Rosenstein, Louis Rosenthal 

 and Abe W. Juster — all of Minneapolis, Minnesota. To carry on 

 a general automobile tire and accessory business. 



Trautwein Tire & Repair Co., Inc., .-Vpril 22. 1914; under the 

 laws of New York; authorized capital. $10,000. Incorporators: 

 Walter Trautwein and Otto Trautwein — both of 567 Morgan 

 avenue — and Frederick Trautwein. 569 Morgan avenue — all in 

 Brooklyn, New York. 



United Anchor Tire Co., Inc.. .^pril ,5, 1914; under the laws 

 of New York; authorized capital, $2,000. Incorporators: Robt. 

 C. Schlesinger. 155 West Seventy-Third street; Frank H. Gross, 

 King Edward Hotel, and (ieorge Roots, 1650 Broadway^all in 

 New York City. .\uto tires, etc. 



United Tire and Rubber Works, Inc., The, .-Vpril 18, 1914; 

 under the laws of New York; authorized capital, $5,000. Incor- 

 porators : Aram Saraydarian, 177 East Seventy-Fifth street. 

 Vincent Yardum, 65 West Ninety-First street, and Henry J. 

 O'Connor, 1517 Avenue A — all in New York City 



TO FLY AROITND THE WORLD. 



The most interesting enterprise in aviation yet undertaken 

 will be inaugurated in May, 1915, at the exposition grounds in 

 San Francisco. This is nothing less than a flight around the 

 world, an enormous prize — $300,000 — going to the airman who 

 completes the trip and gets back to San Francisco first. In 

 order that those who enter the competition may fly over land 

 as much as possible, the flight, starting at San Francisco, is 

 straight across the continent to New York, thence northeast to 

 Labrador, to Greenland, where the longest jump over the water 

 occurs in the flight from Cape Farewell to Iceland. From Ice 

 land the course is southeast to England, thence to Paris, Berlin, 

 Warsaw and St. Petersburg. Then comes the long stretch over 

 the steppes of Siberia to Harbin and Vladivostok ; then across 

 to Japan, up to Kamchatka, across to .Alaska and down the 

 Pacific coast to San Francisco. There will be 26 stations where 

 the aviators must stop and report, and where they can get 

 necessary supplies and equipment. 



THE chesieu rubber company ready to start. 



The Chester Rubber, Tire & Tube Co., of Chester, West Vir- 

 ginia, has installed its machinery, and is ready to begin opera- 

 tions at once, with George E. Knowles as general manager. 

 The John E. Thropp system of making wrapped tread tires has 

 been put in, and in addition to that the factory has an equip- 

 ment for making inner tubes and re-liners, tubing and mold 

 work. It will begin with about 70 employes, but it e.xpects to 

 increase this number I)y 100 within a short time. The capital 

 stock is held by residents of Chester, and their expectation is 

 that that town will soon be well known among tire consumers. 



TIRES BY parcel POST. 



By a new ruling of the Post Office Department it is now pos- 

 sible to send automobile tires by parcel post. Former measure- 

 ments of a pneumatic tire amounted to practically three times 

 the diameter of the tire, whereas according to this latest ruling, 

 in the cases of tires simply wrapped, with an open space in the 

 center, the outside diameter shall be considered the length, and 

 the circumference ot the tubing as the girth; while in measuring 

 tires packed solidly, without clear space in the center, the diameter 

 of the parcel shall be considered the length and twice the di- 

 ameter and thickness as the girth. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The India Rubber Wijri.d has always prided itself on the ac- 

 curacy of the statements appearing in its columns, but of course, 

 with a large number of correspondents scattered around over 

 the world — all human — occasionally some inaccuracy will creep 

 in, the only remedy for which is an early correction. In the 

 letter from Akron in our April issue there was a statement to 

 the effect that a trustee in liankruptcy had been appointed for 

 the .Xkron Rubber Mold & Machine Co. This item, we are very 

 glad to say, was untrue, the correspondent liaving a totally dif- 

 ferent company but with a somewhat similar name in mind. The 

 .Akron Rubber Mold & Machine Co., according to all advices, 

 is in an exceptionally prosperous condition and is rapidly extend- 

 ing its business and its factory facilities. 



Gove & French, Inc., crude rubber brokers, have moved 

 their New York Office to the new .Arcade Building 25 Beaver 

 street. 



The New York Mackintosh Co.. of Mamaroneck, New 

 York, is making extensive additions to its factory. 



The report of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Ltd., 

 shows, for the year ended December 31. 1913. an operating 

 profit of $910,770. on net sales of $6,788,858, the profit and 

 loss surplus being given as $2,129,639, and the surplus after 

 dividends $139,742. 



The Thermoid Rubber Co., of Trenton, has opened a factory 

 branch in Indianapolis, Indiana, which will carry a complete line 

 of "Nassau" casings and tubes and Thermoid brake lining. 



H. Muehlstein & Co. have removed their New York offices 

 and warehouse to their new building. 391-395 Washington street, 

 and 31-33 Hubert street. 



The X'ermont Tire & Rubber Co. — Fred A. Millan manager — 

 lias established a sales room and repair department at Barre. 

 Vermont, where, in addition to Diamond tires, for which it has 

 secured the state agency, a complete line of United States. Good- 

 rich and Goodyear tires will be carried in stock. 



The George W. Moore Co.. manufacturers of elastic fabrics, 

 have recently purchased land adjoining th> property now occu- 

 pied for this purpose and formerly owned y the Westerly Nar- 

 row Fabric Co.. on Beach street, Norwalk, Connecticut, increas- 

 ing the holdings of the company to ten acres. It is understood 

 that this property is soon to be improved, not only in the way of 

 factory development but also by the erection of homes for the 

 factory workers, this course having been suggested as a possible 

 solution of the problem that confronts this company's employes 

 in their search for suitable near-by homes. 



Bids submitted on fire hose have resulted during the past month 

 in the follow'ing awards : Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co.. 500 

 feet (Urbana. Ohio) ; Eureka Fire Hose Co.. 1.000 feet (Le Roy. 

 N. Y.) : 300 feet (Miners Mills. Pa.) ; Fabric Fire Hose Co.. 1.500 

 feet (Clarksburg. W. Va.) ; 500 feet (Chestertown, Md.) ; 300 

 feet (Glenville. W. \'a.) ; 300 feet (Red Lion. Pa.) ; 200 feet 

 (Miners Mills. Pa.) : Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co.. 3.200 

 feet (Peoria. 111.); United & Globe Rubber Cos.. 5.000 feet 

 (Pittsburgh. Pa.). 



J. W. Johnson, of New Brunswick. New Jersey, formerly vice- 

 president of the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., of Conshohocken, Penn- 

 sylvania, has been elected to the presidency of that company, suc- 

 ceeding J. Ellwood Lee, who died on April 9. Arthur A. Gaith- 

 waite. son-in-law of the late Mr. Lee. succeeds Mr. Johnson as 

 vice-president. 



The .American Can Co.. 435 West 14th street. New York, is 

 making a small compact adding machine, called the American 

 adding machine, which it sells at a very moderate figure. It is 

 simple and accurate and of course a great time saver. 



