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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1910. 



CHANGE AT THE GOODRICH BUFFALO BRANCH. 



Mr. H. B. Niblette, for 12 years past connected with The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., and latterly with their New York branch, 

 has been appointed manager of the Goodrich branch at Buffalo. 

 New Yorlr. and has taken charge of his new position. The Buf 

 falo branch, which has grown steadily since its establishment seven 

 or eight years ago, is now among the most important of their 

 selling establishments. Mr. W. O. Rutherford, whom Mr. Nib- 

 lette succeeds at Buffalo, has returned to the factory, at Akron. 

 The staff of the New York branch gave Mr. Niblette a dinner 

 on the evening of June 2$. 



LIEUTENANT FRANCIS H. APPLETON. 



One of the best known club men in Boston is Mr. Francis H. 

 Appleton, who, with his son, owns a rubber reclaiming factory 

 at Frankin, Massachusetts. In addition to prominent official po- 

 sitions that he holds in such clubs as The Rubber Club of Amer- 



LlEUTENANT FRANCIS H. APPLETON. 



ica, the Rubber Reclaimers' Club, the Point Shirley Club, and 

 such societies as Boston Commandery, Knights Templar, the 

 Governor of Massachusetts recently presented him with a docu- 

 ment which makes him a lieutenant in that famous and abstemi- 

 ous body, The Ancient and Honorary Artillery of Boston. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Detroit Airless Tire and Rubber Co., June 7, iqio, under the 

 laws of Michigan; authorized capital, $1,500,000. Incorporators: 

 George C. Clark, George E. Stevenson, F. G. Van Dyke 

 (trustee), Detroit, Michigan, and J. A. MacMillan, Dayton, 

 Ohio. This company succeeds the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co., of Dayton, Ohio, incorporated May 17, 1905, following a 

 reorganization of a business established at Dayton several years 

 previous. Of late the company have taken an active interest 

 in the "Airless" clincher tire, patented by J. A. MacMillan, who 

 has been general manager. Mr. MacMillan will sustain the 

 same relation to the new company. The Ilooven interest will 

 be represented in the Detroit enterprise. The Hoovens are con- 

 nected with an important manufacture of steam engines, and 

 have been represented on the board of the Dayton company from 

 the beginning. 



Hudson Mechanical Rubber Co., June 15, iqto, under the laws 

 of New Jersey; authorized capital. $25,000. Incorporators: 

 William A. Harding, No. 918 Lincoln place, Brooklyn, New 

 York; J. Harrington Sickel and Welling S. Kat clinch. 1 > ■ 1 1 1 

 of Trenton. New Jersey. The two gentlemen first named are 

 respectively president and secretary-treasurer. The New Jersey 

 address is No. 2. West State street, Trent v.. They will have 



an office and storeroom at No. 48 Dey street, New York, where 

 they will sell mechanical rubber goods. Mr. Harding for some 

 years has been the New York representative of the United and 

 Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos. Mr. Sickel is the son of 

 Welling G. Sickel, former president of the United and Globe. 



Leicester Rubber Co., June 17, 1910, under the laws of New 

 Jersey ; capital authorized, $50,000. Incorporators : Anthony De 

 Piano, William II. Maher, and George B. La Barre. To take 

 over the manufacture of mechanical rubber and molded goods 

 carried on for some years at No. 53 Paul avenue, Trenton, 

 under the same name. [See The India Rubber World, March 

 1. 1908 — page 197.] 



Puncture Proof Spring Tire Co., June 1, 1910, under the 

 laws of Delaware; authorized capital, $100,000. Incorporators: 

 E. J. Forhan, G. F. Martin, and H. P. Jones, No. 154 Nassau 

 street, New York city. 



Rubberoline Manufacturing Co., June 7, 1910, under the laws 

 of New Jersey; authorized capital, $125,000. Incorporators: 

 Ferdinand C. von Heydebrand, No. 35 Washington place ; Henry 

 Mielck, No. 122 Palisade avenue; and John Karh, No. 32 Passaic 

 street — all of Garfield, N. J. Mr. Karh has been elected presi- 

 dent of the company. Further details appear in another column, 

 and the office of the company is at his address as given. 



Ferromatic Tire Manufacturing Co., June 7, 1910, under the 

 laws of Wisconsin; capital, $11,500. Incorporators: Charles F. 

 Wren, Stella Theresa Wren, and Conrad Werra. Location : 

 Manitowoc, Wisconsin. 



Perfect Tire Co., June 8, 1910, under the laws of Ohio; cap- 

 ital, $50,000. Incorporators : M. J. Kirby, W. A. Moyer, Frank 

 L. Smith, and Jacob Boepple. 



Michelin Tire Co., February 10, 1910, under the laws of Mis- 

 souri, to cover the business in that state of Michelin Tire Co. 

 ( Milltown, New Jersey). Capital invested in Missouri: $10,000. 

 Incorporators: M. A. Wilson, E. M. Gough, J. O. Wilson. H. L. 

 Dyer, and A. J. Goodbar. 



City Auto and Rubber Co., April 28, 1910, under the laws of 

 Tennessee. To engage in tire repairs. Location: Memphis, 

 Tennessee. 



Amherst Manufacturing Co., May 25, 1910, under the laws 

 of Massachusetts; authorized capital, $45,000. Incorporators: 

 Edwin D. Marsh, Mason A. Dickinson, and David Barry, all of 

 Amherst, Massachusetts. E. D. Marsh is president and M. A. 

 Dickinson treasurer and clerk. The company are referred to as 

 intending to engage in manufacturing. 



Rio Tambo Rubber Co., May 31, 1910, under the laws of Illi- 

 nois ; capital. $60,000. Incorporators : John Henry, Marie Hahn, 

 and Alexander Smictanka. Location: Room 901, No. 120 Ran- 

 dolph street, Chicago. 



Horseshoe Auto Tire Co., April 29, 1910, under the laws of 

 New York ; capital, $25,000. Incorporators : Walter E. Hollo- 

 way, No. 249 West 123d street, New York City, Henry D. Foster. 

 Tompkinsville, Staten Island, and William Huber, No. no Worth 

 street, New York City. This company has been formed to 

 market in the eastern United States the special form of tire 

 controlled by the Racine Auto Tire Co. (Racine, Wisconsin), 

 recently incorporated. The special feature of this tire is a tread 

 protected with renewable metal washers. The officers of the 

 New York company are D. R. Van Vechten, president and gen- 

 eral manager; H. D. Foster, vice-president; Walter E. Hollo- 

 way, secretary and treasurer. The headquarters of the com- 

 pany for the present are in the Produce Exchange Annex, in the 

 offices of Mr. Holloway, who is retiring from the crude rubber 

 trade, t<> become connected with the new company. 



L. Candee & Co. are among the larger manufacturing estab- 

 lishments of Xew Haven, Connecticut, with extensive sidewalk 

 frontages who will be obliged shortly to pave new sidewalks to 

 conform to the recent specifications adopted by the board of 

 aldermen. 



