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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1 1919. 



The Dura) Ruliber Co., Flemiiiglon, New Jersey, is now dis- 

 tributing its products through dealers in Denver and Salt Lake 

 City. Edward R. Novak has recently been appointed the com- 

 pany's representative in charge of sales in the Central Western 

 States. Floyd R. Biggs, formerly with The Fisk Rubber Co., 

 Chicopce Falls, Massachusetts, is in charge of Western sales 

 for the Dural company. 



The Bclden Manufacturing Co., 23d street and Western ave- 

 nue, Chicago, Illinois, has let the contract for Building No. 8, 

 four stories high, on West Van Buren street, to be 90 by 114 

 feet and contain approximately 10,000 square feet of floor space. 



West \ . 



■RE.N .StREEI 



Belijen Meg. Cv. 



The structure will be of reinforced concrete, entirely fireproof, 

 trimmed with red brick. Machines will be driven by individual 

 motors as in the presem factory, thus eliminating line shafts 

 and belts. 



The A. J. Stephens Rubber Co., 15th street and Chestnut ave 

 nue, Kansas City, Missouri, has increased its capital to $1,500,00(1 

 for the purpose of manufacturing tires and tubes as well as its 

 tire accessories and fabric products. A. J. Stephens, founder 

 of the business three years ago, becomes president and general 

 manager of the enlarged corporation. 



RACINE AUTO TIRE CONFERENCE. 



More than 200 branch managers, salesmen and department 

 managers of the Racine Auto Tire Co. attended the sales con- 

 ference at Racine, Wisconsin, September 23-25, which was pre- 

 sided over by Clarence H. Wright, 

 ihe secretary-treasurer and gen- 

 eral manager of the company. 



This conference also marked 

 I lie tenth anniversary of Mr. 

 Wright's connection with the com- 

 pany, which in 1909 was manu- 

 facturing a leather-covered steel- 

 studded tire. This tire was dis- 

 continued and through the efforts 

 of Mr. Wright the "Horse-Shoe" 

 tire was evolved and placed on 

 the market. This year the com- 

 pany has added a cord tire to its 

 ine. 



At the conference many plans 

 were discussed for the further en- 

 largement of the business. The 

 Racine Country Club was taken 

 over for the week of the conference, and golf, bowling and 

 tennis were included in the schedule of entertainment. 



Clarence H. Wright. 



ROSENWALD & WEIL SALESMEN VISIT KINZIE RUBBER PLANT. 



The Kinzie Rubber & Manufacturing Co., Chicago, 111., enter- 

 tained the business heads and salesmen of Rosenwald & Weil, 

 clothing manufacturers, that city, on .\ugust 28, on the occa- 

 sion of the si.x-dav sales convention of the latter mentioned con- 



cern. The party, to the number of 50 or 60, was conducted 

 through the Kinzie factory, where the various processes were 

 explained and the manufacture of rubberized fabrics and cloth- 

 ing demonstrated, .^t noon a substantial lunch was served and 

 in the afternoon H. T. Kessler, general manager of the Keinzie 

 Rubber & Manufacturing Co., gave a talk on "Rubber Goods 

 and How They Are Made," and L. J. Ulber told "Why I Took 

 Up the Selling of Kinzie Products." 



The Friday session of the convention was devoted mainly to 

 a golf tournament at the Harlem Golf Grounds, when trophies 

 provided by Max Magnus, manager of sales of Rosenwald & 

 Weil, were competed for. 



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PACIFIC COAST NOTES. 



By Our Rc;^ular Correspondent 

 F. Osterloh, secretary of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co., has been elected vice-president and general manager 

 he new Goodyear company in Los Angeles, California. He 

 started as a salesman in the Chicago 

 territory four years after the organiza- 

 tion of the Goodyear^ company and sub- 

 sequently became branch manager and 

 then manager of the western division 

 of the sales department. He was brought 

 lo .\kron as assistant secretary and in 

 1915 was made secretary. 



It is expected that a large number of 

 men from the Akron factory will be 

 taken to Los Angeles as soon as the 

 plant there is ready for operation. 



The Advance Rubber Co., Brooklyn, New York, has opened 

 a branch at 721 South Olive street, Los Angeles, under the 

 management of William J. Hartman, who has been with the 

 company for a number of years, both in the factory and as a 

 salesman. 



The Dural Rubber Corp., Flemington, New Jersey, is now 

 distributing its products through dealers in Los Angeles, San 

 Francisco, Portland. Seattle, and Spokane. E. H. Wilson, presi- 

 dent and general manager of the company, has just been visiting 

 the Coast, where he found business particularly good. 



The Huntington Rubber Co., Los .\ngeles, has taken tlie 

 agency of the Miller .\d-On-a-Tirc of the Miller Rubber Co., 

 .\kron, Ohio. 



M. G. Haines. Pacific Coast representative of the Polack Tire 

 & Rubber Co.. recently paid a short visit to Los Angeles. Dur- 

 ing the war he was a lieutenant in the quartermaster's depart- 

 ment. 



The annual get-together business meeting of the Los .Angeles, 

 San Diego and .Arizona branches of the United States Rubber 

 Co. was held recently in the general offices of J. B. Magee, man- 

 ager of the Southern California division. Plans were mapped 

 out for the fall drive and the progress that has been made by 

 the company in the Southern California territory was shown in 

 the figures submitted by Mr. Magee. The thirty-five members 

 of the conference lunched at the Los .\ngeles Athletic club and 

 wound up at one of the beaches. 



Elmer S. Firestone, Los .\ngeles representative of the Fire- 

 stone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has purchased a home 



