

THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



RUARY I, I9IO. 



OTHER NEW FACTORY CONSTRUCTION. 



Leave has been granted by the secretary of state to the Sti in 

 Double Cushion Tire Co. to increase their capital stock from 

 $100,000 to $200,000. The 1 xpansion is intended to accommodate 

 the addition of automobile tires to the company's products. 

 New machinery has been purchased and installed to providi Eor 

 the manufacture of 100 tires of the "lap-li ck" type per day. 

 The company, it is reported, intend to put up an additional build- 

 ing nexl summer I be officers of the companj are 1' k. Sun- 

 shine, president, and M. M. Neuman, secretary and treasurer. 



In spite of lu.iv v mow and frozen ground a steam shovel was 

 put to work early in January en the excavations lor the additional 

 buildings planned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The 

 digging was started as soon as the final arrangements for the 

 vacation of Prune street were completed with the city. All 

 possible haste will be made in rushing the buildings to com- 

 pletion. 



Protests by property owners against the vacation of city streets 

 in the site of the new Firestone factory have delayed the prepa- 

 rations for construction. Negotiations are under way, however, 

 for the settlement of the disputes and Mr. H. S. Firestone says 

 he will be able to make a definite announcement as to the factory 

 plans by the middle of February. 



AEROPLANE TIRES. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. are about to place on the market as 

 a regular product an aeroplane tire. Several hundred have 

 already been manufactured in the Akron factory for the Herring- 

 Curtiss Co., of Hammondsport, New York, manufacturers of the 

 Glenn Ff. Curtiss flying machine. The company is expecting the 

 field to develop a business well worth getting. The construction 

 of the tire is a modification of the Palmer bicycle tire, which 

 has been manufactured by the Goodrich company for a number 

 of years. Buoyancy and strength are the qualities which have 

 been sought. The tires are smaller than bicycle tires, being 

 20 inches in diameter, while the tubes are thicker, being 2 and 

 2% inches in tube diameter, while the average bicycle tire is 

 lYi inches through. Orders are also being taken from other 

 aeroplane manufacturers. 



RETIREMENT OF MR. E0LGER. 



Mr. Walter A. Folger. who retired as treasurer of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. at the recent meeting, intends to leave active par- 

 ticipation in business altogether and will go with his family for 

 the Pacific coast, where they will spend several months. Mr. 

 Folger is 52 years old and has been treasure! of the Goodrich 

 company since 1894, leaving the position of cashier of the Second 

 Xational Bank of Akron to accept that office. Reared in a 

 nearby country town he worked his way up from a clerk's posi- 

 tion and in his years of efficient service for the Goodrich com- 

 pany has well earned the right to retire. Mr. Folger is succeeded 

 by William A. Means, who has been assistant treasurer. 



FIRE AT MANSFIELD. 



Fire of unknown origin destroyed one of the buildings of the 

 Mansfield Rubber Co., at Mansfield, Ohio, on January 12. The 

 structure, built of brick. 14 \ 84 feel in ground dimensions, was 

 used as a machine shop and storehouse. Crude rubber estimated 

 to be worth $10,000 was lost, and tin- entire 1"-- 1- placed at 

 $16,000. President 1-'. A. Wilcox, of Akron, says that the build- 

 ing will be restored at once and that the tire will not interrupt 

 the manufacture. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. I'.. G. Work was elected to succeed Mr. A. II. Marks as 

 president of the Portage Country Club at the annual meeting 

 early in January. Mr. Marks was made secretary and chairman 

 of the house committee. Mr. C. B. Raymond, Mr. A. H. Xoah, 

 Mr. W. B. Miller, and Mr. H. S. Firestone were elected to the 

 board of directors. During the spring extensive improvements 

 are to be made on the golf greens. The names mentioned are 

 thi se of prominent members of the Akron rubber trade. 



Mr. H. S. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire and Rub- 

 ber Co.. and Mr. F. A. Seiberling, president of the Goodyear 

 Tire and Rubber Co., were elected to the board of directors of 

 the Xational City Bank of Akron on January 11. 



A number of rubber manufacturers heard Dr. W. H. Tolman, 

 director of the New York Museum of Safety and Sanitation, 

 lecture on questions of safeguards for the workmen in factories, 

 in this city, under the auspices of the Akron Chamber of Com- 

 merce, January 13. 



BRIEF NOTES. 



While details of The Diamond Rubber Co.'s new footwear 

 department are being steadily worked out under the direction 

 of Mr. Charles P. Hart, the company are not yet ready to make 

 any definite announcement as to the personnel of the selling 

 department or the list of goods to be manufactured. They assure, 

 however, that the new department will turn out a very complete 

 line of footwear, ranging from tennis shoes to hip boots. 



The Akron Rubber Mold and Machine Co., the incorporation 

 of which was reported in the last India Rubber World (page 

 149,1, have made some important contracts for supplying molds 

 to rubber factories. 



S. G. Carkhuff, secretary of the Firestone Tire and Rubber 

 Co., spent January in a tour through the west, visiting the com- 

 pany's various branches and agencies in western and Pacific 

 coast cities. 



The Akron tire industry was well represented at the two auto- 

 mobile shows in Xew York in January. From the Goodrich 

 company went H. E. Raymond and A. J. Wills; from the Dia- 

 mond company. James A. Braden, Theodore Weigele and 0. J. 

 Woodard : from the Goodyear, G. M. Stadelman. W. D. bhiltz, 

 F. A. Seiberling, C. W. Seiberling and P. W. Litchfield ; and 

 from the Firestone, H. S. Firestone. R. J. Firestone. A. G. 

 Partridge and J. F. Singleton. 



The Rubber Trade at Trenton, New Jersey. 



By a Resident Correspondent. 



THE Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., following their rapid extension, 

 have just completed another addition to their factory, and 

 have also purchased a large plot of land for further growth. 

 The real estate purchased is a tract 600 x 200 feet, on Breunig 

 avenue, opposite the present main buildings. 



The building just completed measures 100 x 60 feet, and is 

 three stories high. It is a substantial structure with concrete 

 main floor, corresponding with the other main buildings. The 

 company have also installed a lot of new machinery, including a 

 battery of improved vertical hydraulic vulcanizers and a series 

 of the latest tire wrapping machines. 



The concern now have about 115.000 square feet of floor space, 

 including about 75.000 square feet in the new plant, and 40,000 

 square feet in the old Grieb plant and in the storehouses. In 

 connection with the splendid power plant the company have in- 

 stalled their own electric lighting outfit. The buildings erected 

 since the consolidation with the Grieb company are model struc- 

 tures and the equipment is the best that can be obtained. 



The company are very busy, the factories running night and 

 day. The outlook is that the rush will continue for at least six 

 months. Automobile tires form the main line of the company, 

 and in this department the trade is exceptionally brisk. The 



