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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



[January i, igia 



The present year has seen the birth of the Falls Rubbei ( o., 

 at i Falls, I 'lii. j. Their plant is now in operation, 



making rubber molded and dipped goods, as well as automobile 

 and bicycle tin 



GOODYEAR TIKE AND RUBBER ANNUAL. 



I he annual meeting of The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. was 

 held in their Akron offices on December 6. I he following of- 

 ficers were elected: F. A. Seiberling, president and general 

 manager; Charles V\ Seiberling, vice-president; G. M. Stadel- 

 maii, secretary; Frank 11. Adams, treasurer; and P. W. Litch- 

 field, superintendent. A new office was created, that of assistant 

 treasurer, to which W. E. Palmer was elected. The board of 

 directors chosen at the shareholders' meeting is composed of 

 F. A. Seiberling, Charles W. Seiberling, G. M. Stadclman, P. W. 

 Litchfield, Frank H. Adams, James P. Loomis and Henry B. 

 Manton. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. were successful in ob- 

 taining from the city council an order vacating Prune street, a 

 highway running through the company's property, and the im- 

 provements announced in the last number id' I he India Rubber 

 World are to be carried on without delay. The condition im- 

 posed by the council was the payment of $1,500 by the company. 

 This was agreed to. The Goodyear company have secured the 

 rights to the manufacture in America of the Doolittle detachable 

 demountable rim. It will be known as the "Goodyear-Doolittle" 

 detachable demountable. The advantages claimed for it are its 

 lightness and the ease with which it may be detached. It will lie 

 manufactured in the Akron factory of the company. 



GOODRICH COMPANY AFFAIRS. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. have made arrangements to buy from 

 the State of Ohio a strip of land in the rear of their plant, along 

 the Ohio canal and extending north to Exchange street. It 

 has been appraised at $20,000. It will afford considerable ad- 

 ditional room for expansion of the plant. To replace the land 

 the State has bought a piece from the property of the Adamson 

 Machine Co. across the canal. The latter company expect to 

 move into their new plant in the east end of the city, on Carroll 

 street in February. They are engaged largely in the manufacture 

 of rubber working machinery. 



The inside of a rubber factory was deemed sufficiently interest- 

 ing by picture film makers to make it the subject of a film 

 recently issued. Moving pictures of workmen in The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co.'s factory were taken early in December, one show- 

 ing the process of making a golf ball from start to finish. 



PERSONAL MENTION, 



Mb. Frank A. Seiberling. president of the Goodyear 'lire and 

 Rubber Co., was elected president of the Garfield Republican 



Club of the old Nineteenth Congressional district, at 11 ^ annual 

 meeting earh, m December. The club 1- one of tin- principal 

 Political organizations oi Ohio. Mr. Seiberling was not chosen 

 on account of his political activities, but through a desire of the 

 members to honor a manufacturer of Akron. 



Mr. A. II. Noah, treasurer of The Diamond Rubber Co., added 

 eight acres to his estate on Portage path recently by the pur- 

 chase of a part of an adjoining farm for $-><;,ooo. Mr. Noah's 

 home is now under construction. When it is completed he will 

 have one of the most beautiful COUntrj estates about the city. 



During the past month Mr. Harry W. lew, of Jamestown, 

 New York, visited Akron, staying with his son, Mr. James D. 

 low, of The Diamond Rubber Co. Mr. lew was associated 

 with the late Dr. B. F. Goodrich in the establishment of the first 

 rubber factor} in the city, in [869. He continued nine years in 

 that company and then left to enter the oil business, to which he 

 devoted tin rest of his business career. Mr. Tew is now seventy- 

 eight years old. While in Akron he went through the Diamond 

 and Goodrich factories. 



THE CITY OF AKRON. 



It will be good news to those who visit Akron to hear that the 

 project to build a new $350,000 hotel here has met with success. 

 During the last month the Akron Hotel Co. have completed the 

 subscription of the necessary amount of stock, have purchased 

 the property on which stands the old Empire Hotel and are ready 

 to let a contract for a seven story building to John Gill & Sons, 

 of Cleveland. The hotel will be leased for thirty years to a 

 syndicate which controls a chain of hotels in New York cities. 

 It will be named "The Portage," after the historic portage trail 

 west of the city which at one time marked the western boundary 

 of the United States. 



Akron was the only American rubber manufacturing town 

 mentioned in the recent quarter-centennial number of The India 

 Rubber Journal, of London. A short descriptic n of the city is 

 given, accompanied by a photograph taken on one of the main 

 streets. 



BREVITIES. 



A SMALL mill for the manufacture of dipped rubber goods was 

 recently started at Barberton, Ohio, by the Red Cross Rubber 

 Co. Melvin Swisher is managing the business. 



The Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co. have secured for their 

 sales department the services of Mr. Frank R. Talbot, formerly 

 in charge of the Los Angeles branch of the Firestone Tire and 

 Rubber Co. 



Mr R. G. Treitler, formerly chief clerk in the Boston office oi 

 The Diamond Rubber Co., has taken a position with The Good- 

 vear Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron. 



The Rubber Trade at Trenton, New Jersey. 



By a Resident Correspondent. 



TRENTON rubber manufacturers interviewed for The [ndia 

 Rubber World predict an unusually good condition of the 

 rubber industry for 1910. Their general statement is 

 that, considering the depression of 1907-08, the past year has 

 been a fair one. But through the fall there has been generally 

 a decided growth of business all over the country, and already 

 the rubber industry is responding to the rising tide of trade. 



A. Boyd Cornell, of the Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 and the Empire Tire Co., states that his concerns believe the 

 new year will be an exceptionally good ( ne for the rubber busi- 

 ness. He says the tire business is pretty certain to be good, and 

 the mechanical line also will doubtless show up exceedingly well. 

 Western buyers seem very anxious to get their orders in and 

 filled ; a very healthy improvement in trade is also manifesting 

 itself in the East. 



John S. Broughton, secretary and treasurer of the United and 

 Gl be Rubber Manufacturing Cos., is very confident that 1910 

 will bring good business to rubber goods makers. Considering 

 everything, including the financial slump, the past year has been 

 a fair one. The railroads are economizing less, and are planning 

 for big business. The general outlook is for very encouraging 

 trade for the coming twelve months. 



Officials of the Whitehead Brothers Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co. think trade conditions look good for the new season. They 

 have just closed a year that was all they could expect in view 

 of the commercial depression. During the year they have in- 

 stalled a new type of machine for weaving cotton hose. 



Harry L. Boyer, general manager of the Joseph Stokes Rub- 

 ber Co., is looking forward to a season of trade as good as any 

 they ever had. He says the prospects are exceptionally bright 



