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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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J. v. Mowe, lurnierly assistant general sales manager of tlie 

 Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., has been promoted to the position 

 of general sales manager, succeeding Otis R. Cook, who has 

 been connected with the company for the past nine years and 

 has been vice-president and general sales manager for the past 

 six years. Mr. Cook will remain in Geveland, Ohio, looking 

 after special work for the company as well as cooperating with 

 the financial interests in New York City, and will retain all of 

 his slock in the corporation and remain on the board of directors. 



W. H. Bell has been appointed assistant general sales manager 

 of ilic Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. 



Taking the five per cent reduction of a year ago into considera- 

 tion, the average increase in price for the two-year period of 

 1919-1920 is only fifteen per cent. 



EASTERN AND SOUTHERN NOTES. 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. is about to commence the 

 erection of a 16-story otfice building in New York City, to which 

 it will remove the general sales department which has been 

 located in Cleveland, Ohio, and where the executive offices of 

 the company will be established. 



The Beacon Tire Co., Inc., Beacon, New York, has completed 

 its three-story addition and equipped it with machinery of the 

 latest type. 



The Burnet-Webb Tire Corp., 518 South Clinton street, Syra- 

 cuse, New York, has taken over exclusively the Syracuse branch 

 of the Stcrhng Tire Corp., Rutherford, New Jersey, where, in 

 addition to the wholesale distribution of Sterling tires and tubes, 

 it will retail standard makes of tires, tubes, and accessories. 

 The officers of the company are : William E. Housel, president ; 

 Arthur E. Webb, vice-president in charge of territorial dealer 

 business ; J. H. Burnet, secretary and treasurer in charge of sales 

 and service. 



The Mutual Tire & Rubber Co., New York City, has opened 

 at Springfield, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut, 

 • retail and sporting goods departments in its branches in those 

 cities. The company operates a chain of automobile tire, acces- 

 sory, and supply stores. 



The Forrest Tire & Rubber Co., Shubert Building, Philadel- 

 phia, Pennsylvania, has been incorporated under the laws of 

 Delaware with 1,000,000 shares of fully paid and non-assessable 

 shares of common stock at a par value of $1, with the following 

 officers: R. E. Connor, president; Olie T. Alveberg, vice-presi- 

 dent Abraham Mitnick, secretary and treasurer. Rudolph Shlifer 

 is general manager and Samuel G. Grossley, engineer. 



The Archer Cord Tire Sales Co., Louisville, Kentucky, at 

 its recent annual meeting elected the following officers : W. F. 

 Bigelow, president (reelected); W. A. Bieter, vice-president; 

 Maurice Hessian, secretary and treasurer ; Frederick Graham, 

 chairman of the executive committee. 



The Dixie Rubber Co., 768-770 Randolph Building, Memphis, 

 Tennessee, recently incorporated under the laws of Mississippi, 

 expects to begin construction of its plant in Memphis in April. 

 Arrangements for the building and equipment have been com- 

 pleted and the company hopes to begin production of cord and 

 fabric tires and inner tubes in the autumn. 



FOOTWEAR PRICES INCREASE. 



Price announcements on footwear made on January 1 by the 

 United States Rubber Co. for the current year show an average 

 increase of approximately twenty per cent on the full line. 



On January 1, 1919, the company's footwear prices were re- 

 duced, the average cut for the whole line being about five per 

 cent. This price reduction followed closely the decrease in the 

 cost of materials that came soon after the signing of the armis- 

 tice. During the past year the cost of these materials mounted 

 to even higlier levels than during the war, and the increase in 

 footwear prices which has recently gone into effect is a result 

 of the higher cost of materials and labor. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN NEW JERSEY. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



TKENTON NOTES. 



T^HE M.\N.\GERS AND FOREMEN of the Thcrmoid Rubber Co., 

 ■*• Trenton, recently held their second annual banquet and 

 entertainment at Hildebrecht's. T. A. Welger, superintendent of 

 the factory, was presented with a handsome amethyst ring by 

 his foremen. Members of the committee in charge comprised 

 John Coleman, T. A. Welger, A. D. Nevins and E." L. Royal. 



The Trenton rubber manufacturers responded liberally to the 

 fund raised for the poor children of Trenton during the hoHday 

 season. The children were given an entertairunent in a local 

 theater and each one presented with pretty gifts. 



The recent round-up of "Reds" in Trenton and vicinity found 

 but a handful of radicals employed in the rubber plants, and 

 these men were finally released by the Government authorities. 



The Puritan Rubber Manufacturing Co., whose plant on Per- 

 rine avenue, Trenton, was recently destroyed by fire, has taken 

 out a building permit for the erection of new works on the old 

 site. The building will be one story brick, 28 by 128 feet in size, 

 and will cost $7,500. 



The Luzerne Rubber Co., Trenton, has purchased a tract of 

 land, 20O by 200 feet feet, opposite its works on Muirhead avenue 

 and intends later to enlarge the plant. 



The Joseph Stokes Rubber Co., Trenton, has contributed $250 

 to the police pension fund of Trenton. 



Alfred Whitehead, secretary of the Whitehead Brothers Rub- 

 ber Co., has been ill at his home in Trenton. 



The seventy caddies employed at the Trenton Country Club 

 were recently given a dinner at the club, where gifts were also' 

 presented. John A. Lambert, treasurer and general manago" of, 

 the Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co., acted as chairman of the 

 affair. 



William J. R. Stokes, treasurer of the Thermoid Rubber Co., 

 Trenton, has been apointed a member of the Trenton Sinking 

 F"und Commission. Mr. Stokes was formerly city treasurer of 

 Trenton. 



The Union Rubber & .-Vsbestos Co. has been incorporated and 

 has opened an office at 224 South Warren street, Trenton. The 

 company will deal in mechanical rubber goods and asbestos prod- 

 ucts of all kinds, especially the rubber goods used in the oil busi- 

 ness. The officers of the new concern arc : Donald W. Mackie, 

 president ; J. M. Shear, vice-president ; Charles E. Day, sales man- 

 ager ; Harry M. Prill, treasurer; Charles H. Swoger, secretary, 

 and D. M. Lovett, general manager. Mr. Swoger has been in 

 the rubber business for the past twenty years. The company 

 will soon employ a force of salesmen in Pennsylvania and the 

 southwestern oil districts, as well as in other parts of the country. 



Horace B. Tobin, secretary and treasurer of the United & Globe 

 Rubber Co., Trenton, has been made a director of the Standard 

 Fire Insurance Company. 



The Crescent Insulated Wire & Cable Co., Trenton, will build 

 on recently acquired property a one-story factory addition of 

 steel and concrete, SO by 125 feet, to cost, with equipment, about 

 $40,000. 



The Netherlands Gutta Pcrcha Co., Singapore, manufacturer 

 of rubber goods, has let a contract in Trenton for a large supply 

 of transfer patterns for the stamping of tubes and radiator hose. 



