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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 1. 1912. 



store is under the management of Mr. Gilmer of that city. It 

 is located at 328 East Third street, in a rapidly growing busi- 

 ness center. 



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George Dodge, now of the Mineralized Rubber Co., of New 

 York, is now in San Francisco visiting his brothers, who are 

 connected with the Western Belting and Hose Co. of this city. 



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B. S. Gibbs, representing the Manhattan Rubber Co., is now 

 making a visit in San Francisco. 



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C. A. Wilhoft, manager of the packing department of the New 

 York Belting and Packing Co., of New York, is spending a few 

 days in San Francisco, visiting the company's local branch. 



W. J. Gorhani, of the Gorham-Revere Rubber Co., has just 

 completed a combined gasoline engine and pump which will 

 prove most efficient and successful in the fire service. He has 

 reduced the weight and increased the efficiency to such an ex- 

 tent that he has now an engine and pump which can be carried 

 on an automobile truck and which will do the work of the best 

 steam engines, without danger of breaking or stalling, which 

 has heretofore been the objection to gas engine pumps. The 

 pump vifas completed several months ago, and the best engi- 

 neers report that its efficiency surpasses anything of its kind. The 

 difficulty was to get a light engine of the desired power. He 

 adopted the multiplex compressor system to provide the engine 

 with a steady pressure whenever the streams were shut off. The 

 engine weighs only 2,600 pounds and has 136 horsepower. Mr. 

 Gorham does not claim any new invention, but he has used the 

 best modern ideas to get an engine that was good and at the 

 same time light. The ordinary engine to do the same amount 

 of work will weigh nearly 20,000 pounds. 



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M. Sawyer, of the Sawyer Oil Clothing Co., was a recent visi- 

 tor in San Francisco. 



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Mr. Spadone, manager of the Eastern offices of the Gutta 

 Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co., has just returned East 



after a visit to the coast branch. 



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A new portable hose rack has been invented by some of the 

 boys at the offices of the Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co., which promises to be a success. 



E. G. Bernthal, special representative of the Goodyear Tire 

 and Rubber Co., has been on an extended trip, visiting the 



branches and agencies throughout the Northwest. 



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Thomas Wilkenson, manager of the local branch of the United 

 States Tire Co., recently called together a meeting of the sales- 

 men fbr tliis concern, located on the coast. The occasion was 

 the visit of R. R. Drake, manager of the service department of 

 the firm at New York. Mr. Drake presided over the meeting 



and gave all present the benefit of his experience. 



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The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of California is the name 

 under which this company has incorporated in this State. The 

 officers are: N. B.. Taylor, president; L. Lingenfelder of Los 

 Angeles, vice-president ; J. F. Wise, secretary-treasurer. The 

 board of directors will be N. B. Taylor, J. F. Wise and E. Lin- 

 genfelder, all California men, and H. B. Ball, of Akron, Ohio. 

 The headquarters are in San Francisco. J. C. Weston, who has 

 been district manager of this concern, has moved from San 

 Francisco to Chicago to take charge of the Central district. C. A. 

 Gilbert has gone from New York to San Francisco to take Mr. 

 Weston's place. While here, H. B. Ball, who has charge of the 

 company's clearing and auditing departments, spent some time in 

 auditing the accounts here. He also looked after completing ar- 



rangements for the company's new-quarters-on Van Ness avenue ■, 

 and Sutter street. 



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The Acme Machine Co. of this city is meeting with excellent 

 success with the air pocket tire which it recently patented. 



The Standard Tire Protector Co., of Akron, has opened a 

 branch office in San Francisco at the branch of the Goodyear 

 Tire and Rubber Co. on Golden Gate avenue. E. C. Newbauer 

 is the new coast manager. 



A new corporation, known as the W. B. Guyton Tire and Rub- 

 ber Co., has recently been organized in this city. 



The Republic Tire and Supply Co. is the name of a new cor- 

 poration just organized in San Jose by G. L. Fish, C. N. Hill, 

 O. M. Fish and S. G. Thompkins, with a capital stock of $25,000, 

 fully paid up. 



The Plant Rubber and Supply Co. has been incorporated in 

 San Francisco. The names of the incorporators are E. H. Pierce, 

 A. A. Cailleaud, F. L. Fenton, H. C. Allen and J. V. De Laveaga. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



By a Resident Correspondent. 

 'T'HE employes of the Empire Tire Co. have formed an or- 

 *■ ganization known as the A. R. Williams Social Club. The 

 officers are : President, William J. Harney, Jr. ; vice-president, 

 W. Masterston ; secretary, J. E. Childers ; treasurer, A. W. Wil- 

 liams ; trustees, N. Moncrief, W. Schultz, F. Taft, John Prince 

 and William K. Ryan; sergeant-at-arms, Martin Burgess. 



The Weldon Roberts Co., of Newark, New Jersey, has been in- 

 corporated in the Secretary of State's office with an authorized 

 capital of $100,000. The concern is authorized to manufacture all 

 kinds of rubber, but it is understood that its activities will be 

 principally in pencil erasers, ink erasers and other stationers' 

 rubber supplies. 



Weldon Roberts is known to the trade as a high-grade rubber 

 eraser maker of long experience. In December, 1910, Mr. Rob- 

 erts disposed of his interests in the C. Roberts Rubber Co. (of 

 which he was president, and which his uncle, Christopher Rob- 

 erts, founded in the early fifties) to the Eberhard Faber Co., of 

 New York City. He traveled for a year in Europe and saw 

 much of rubber manufacturing conditions in France, Germany, 

 Russia and England. He proposes to make good use of his ex- 

 perience gained in observation on the other side. 

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The Empire Rubber Co. has awarded contracts for the erec- 

 tion of three buildings to replace the buildings damaged last 

 month by fire. The new buildings will be of brick and frame 

 and will cost about $10,000. The buildings will be used for stor- 

 age purposes. 



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The Crescent Belting and Packing Co. has installed a number 

 of new braiding machines. This company is working day and 

 night shifts in the effort to keep pace with the flood of orders 

 sent in by the traveling men. The demand for the product man- 

 ufactured by this progressive concern is increasing every month, 

 and to handle the growing business it will be necessary m the 

 near future to enlarge the plant, which now covers many acres 

 in East Trenton. 



C. H. Semple, president of the Empire Tire Co., has returned 

 to Trenton after a two months' visit to Cuba, Bermuda, Palm 

 Beach, Daytona, Florida ; Camden, South Carolina, and other 

 Southern points. President Semple returns much benefited in 

 health. While in Havana he looked over conditions in the new' 

 Republic and got an insight into the methods of doing business 

 in tli'e island which will doubties"s-Be*of material benefit to^is- 

 company. 



