October 1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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freight department of the last-mentioned railroad and since 

 1918, chief of the tariff bureau with headquarters in New York 

 City. 



John I). Carberry, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer 

 of the United States Rubber Co., has returned from a month's 

 vacation spent at his farm in Vermont and at various points in 

 New England. 



Dr. M. L. Axelrod, rubber technologist of the Synthetic Prod- 

 ucts Co., Cleveland, Ohio, called on the eastern rubber trade last 

 month. 



John Young, chief chemist of the h'irestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, was in London, England, last month mi a 

 business and pleasure trip. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN THE EAST AND SOUTH 



By Our Regular Corrcsl'ondt-nt 



HEW yORK NOTES 



THE ANNU.-kL Electric.m. Shovv will be held in Grand Cen- 

 tal Palace, New York City, October 6-16. George F. Parker, 

 who is manager, is confident this year's exposition will surpass 

 any of previous years. 



The Compression Tube & Tire Corporation, 31.S West 39tli 

 street, is the New York City branch of the U. S. Compression 

 Tube & Tire Co., of Tulsa, Oklahoma. 



The Auto Pedal Pad Co., Inc., has removed its offices 

 from 794 Seventh avenue. New York City, to 318-20 West S2d 

 street. At a recent meeting, Daniel Sinclair was elected presi- 

 dent; Charles Willsmore, vice-president: James Lovegrovc,' 

 treasurer ; and Jessie J. Sinclair, secretary. 



The Mesta Machine Co., West Homestead, Pennsylvania, has 

 opened an office in the Singer building. New York City, from 

 which point all its foreign business will be handled. ."Ml foreign 

 correspondence should be addressed to the company at the New 

 York office, which will also be the sales office for the New York 

 and Eastern States territory. M. M. Moore, the export sales 

 manager, who has just returned from a several months' Euro- 

 pean trip, will be in charge. 



Dtmlop America Limited, Buffalo, New York, has changed 

 its name to Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corporation of .America. 



The officers of the County Seat Tire Co., Inc.. 174 Mar- 

 tine avenue. White Plains, New York, are Fletcher Brush, pres- 

 ident and secretary, and Charles Rosenberg, treasurer. During 

 the past ten years Mr. Brush has been tire salesman with the 

 Michclin Tire Co. Ajax Rubljer Co., Inc., and Pennsylvania 

 Rubber Co. Mr. Rosenberg is proprietor of the Standard Guar- 

 antee Tire Co.'s store at Mt. Vernon, New York. 



The Regent Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., 8 Stuyvesanl street. 

 New York City, is officered by Henry O. Kahan. president and 

 treasurer; Joseph M. Saunders, secretary; Irving L. Jacobson, 

 vice-president. The company deals in tires, tubes and accessories. 



Only the approval of stockholders and completion of the organ- 

 ization work is now required to make effective the merger of the 

 General Chemical, Solvay Process, Semet-Solvay, Barrett and 

 National .Aniline & Chemical Companies, live of the country's 

 largest chemical concerns, under the name of the .Mlied Chemical 

 & Dj'e Corporation. The outstanding capitalization of the new 

 company is estimated at $175,000,000. 



F"rench & Handy, Inc., becomes estalilished October 1 in the 

 business of crude rubber brokers at 347 Madison avenue, New- 

 York City, with a branch office at 513 Second National Building. 

 Akron, Ohio. The members of the company are Harold W. 

 French and John L. Handy. 



Gove & Co., Inc., will be established October 1 as a brokerage 

 concern dealing in crude rubber, at 25 Beaver street, New York 



City, by Frederick G. Gove, William Liddell, Jr., and Frank L. 

 Byrne. 



The former partnership of Duffy & Sears, crude rublx^r brok- 

 ers, 133 Front street. New York City, has been dissolved, S. H. 

 Sears withdrawing from the i)artnership September 20, 1920. 

 The bu.'incss will be carried on by Louis A. Duffy under the 

 name of L. A. I>uffy, Inc., at the saine address. Officers of the 

 new company are I^uis A. Duffy, president and treasurer ; Fer- 

 dinand A. Bonstedt, .Xkron, Ohio, vice-president; Guy (.'. Par- 

 sons, Greenwich, Connecticut, secretary. 



An attractive and useful desk ruler showing the calendar 

 for 1920 and 1921 on one side and the name of the donor on 

 tlie other is supplied to the trade by George W. Kavanaugh, 

 Inc., 346 Broadway, New York City, dealer in cotton goods 

 for rubber manufacturers. 



PENNSYLVANIA NOTES 



The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has promoted 

 C. D. Robinson, former manager of tire accessory sales at the 

 Philadelphia branch, to the position of manager of tire sales of 

 the Philadelphia branch territory, covering part of New Jersey, 

 Pcmisylvania and Delaware. Mr. Robinson has been connected 

 with the tire industry since 1912, when he became tire salesman 

 with the Diamond Rubber Co. He was successively district 

 representative for the Southern States, the New England terri- 

 tory, and in 1919 took over the position which he relinquished at 

 his recent promotion. 



Charles S. Smith, Inc.. Philadelphia, Pa., has been appointed 

 distributer for the Amazon Rubber Co., .^kron, Ohio. 



TIic 1"". J. Stokes Machine Co., Seventeenth and Cambria streets, 

 Philadelphia, maiuifacturcr of therapeutical and chemical ma- 

 chinery, was incorporated in July with a capital of $200,000. .\ 

 new shop, 90 by 300 feet, independent of the original plant, has 

 been erected at Cedar Grove near Philadelphia and soon will 

 begin manufacturing heavy machinery. 



The H. H. Robertson Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has elect- 

 ed C. D. Mercer, vice-president in charge of sales. W. S. Tall- 

 man vice-president in charge of operations, and D. W. j'aspcr 

 ])urchasing agent to succeed William E. Coe, who has resigned 

 to enter the railroad supply business with the Biick-llill Cor- 

 poration, of New York City. 



To facilitate the handling of its business, the Fawcus Machine 

 Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has consolidated all departments 

 in its new office building at 2818 Stnallman street, adjoining the 

 Pittsburgh works. A downtown office for meetings by appoint- 

 ment will be maintained in suite 1501, Peoples Savings Bank 

 building, where its allied company, the Schaffer Engineering & 

 Equipment Co., is located. 



The new officers of the New Castle Rubber Co., New Castle, 

 Pennsylvania, are: W. ]■'.. Ducrsten, president and general 

 manager; H. H. Crosby, secretary; II. W. Smith, treasurer; 

 L. C. Sturgis, general superintendent; W. J. Russel, comptroller. 

 The Lehigh Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., of the same place, operates 

 as sales organization of the New Ca.stle Rubber Co. 



Willson Goggles, Inc., fonnerly named T. A. Willson & Co., 

 Inc., Reading, Pennsylvania, has recently acquired the patents, 

 good will, etc., of Walter Soderling Inc., which manufactured the 

 "Dustte" respirator. This will now be manufactured at the 

 Willson company's plant at Reading under the personal charge 

 of Mr. Soderling. 



SOtJTHERN NOTES 



The Du Bois Rul)l)cr & Tube Co., Chattanooga, Tennessee, has 

 increased its capital stock to $2,000,000. The directorate was in- 

 creased to 15 members to allow stockholders outside the city 

 more direct representation. Plans for the erection of a nmilcru 

 plant are being furthered rapidly. 



