February 1, 1920.] 



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facture of the Brunswick phoiiugraplis and phonograph records 

 were purchased in different cities during 1919, and ground will 

 be broken in the early spring for a large addition to the lire 

 manufacturing plant at Muskegon, giving a capacity of 5,000 

 tires per day. Sales for 1919 were $25,000,000 as against $12,- 

 416.000 in 1918. Estimates based on sales during January, 1920, 

 put the total sales for the current year at $45,000,000 exclusive of 

 the sales of the two lumber mills which the company owns in 

 upper Michigan. 



The Standard Four Tire Co., Keokuk, Iowa, held its annual 

 sales convention, January 6-10, 1920, at Keokuk. All salesmen 

 and branch managers were in attendance, talks by prominent 

 men were given and a dinner and dance was held January 7. 

 The close cooperation between the management and the em- 

 ployes is one of the features of this company and as one sales- 

 man remarked, "The whole company is like one large family, 

 less the usual family disputes." 



Robert J. Garrene, general manager of the New Ten Broeck 

 Tyre Co., recently entertained about five hundred employes and 

 their families at the plant with a vaudeville and cabaret "par 

 excellence." Walthcr Grote, factory superintendent and assist- 

 ant general manager, mystified the audience with a sleight of 

 hand performance. Allan Heine, advertising manager, next on 

 the program with a violin solo, was followed by a professional 

 interpretation of how they dance in Hawaii. After refreshments 

 were served, a jazz orchestra furnished music for a dance, which 

 was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. 



Inaugurating a new policy of establishing distributing centers 

 for its products in various sections of the country, the Republic 

 Rubber Co., Youngstown, Ohio, has opened a western distribut- 

 ing warehouse at First and St. George streets, St. Louis, Mis- 

 souri, under the management of Edgar Evans. The St. Louis 

 branch, which has just removed from 2020 Locust street to 1021- 

 1029 Arcade Building, will continue to be operated independently 

 under the management of L. N. Bartlett, who will conduct a 

 truck tire service department in the basement of the distributing 

 center building. 



Glenn H. Morris, formerly of Los Angeles, California, has been 

 appointed advertising manager of Thomas E. Wilson & Co., 

 Chicago, Illinois, dealers in sporting goods. 



Claude Piatt, who has been with The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee 

 Falls, Massachusetts, for fourteen years, of late having served 

 as special factory representative, has resigned to enter the retail 

 automobile trade in Chicago, Illinois, his home city. 



The Kerr Co., Fort Worth, Texas, has changed its address 

 from 1501^ to 207^ Main street. It expects to begin actual 

 construction of its plant in February and production about May 

 1. The officers are: A. H. Kerr, president and treasurer; J. A. 

 Dacus, vice-president and general manager; J. A. Smith, secre- 

 tary ; F. X. Schuler, consulting engineer. 



The Portage Rubber Co., Akron and Barberton, Ohio, has 

 established a distributing warehouse in Chicago, Illinois, in addi- 

 tion to several new factory branches in various parts of the 

 country. 



PACIFIC COAST NOTES. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 

 LOS ANGELES NOTES. 



THE E-XECUTiVE OFFICES of the Samson Tire & Rubber Corp. 

 have been removed from the factory at Compton to large 

 and commodious quarters at 333 West Pico street, Los Angeles, 

 where the service station has been located for several months. 

 The company, of which Adolf Schleicker is president, manufac- 

 tures cord tires. 

 William J. Kelly, dean of the rubber importers of the United 



States, of the firm of Poel & Kelley, Xew York City, spent a fort- 

 night in Los Angeles on his way to Honolulu with his daughter, 

 Miss Jeannctte Kelly. He also visited San Diego and San Fran- 

 cisco. During his Los Angeles sojourn he was a guest at the 

 winter residence of Henry C. Pearson, publisher of The India 

 RuBBFJt World, and passed several hours on the golf links of the 

 Brentwood Country Club. 



Steps to organize a Pacific Coast Cotton Exchange were taken 

 recently in Los Angeles when men identified with every phase 

 of this growing industry in California and Arizona met at the 

 Los Angeles Athletic Club. Leading cotton growers, shippers, 

 manufacturers and representatives of local banks were present. 



The Mohawk Rubber Co., of Akron. Ohio, has leased the 

 ground floor of the Flower Auditorium Building, Los Angeles, 

 where a factory branch in charge of Carl Laux will be established. 



B. F. Wade, operating as the B. F. Wade Tire Co., of 512 East 

 Eighth street, Los Angeles, has filed in the United States Court 

 an involuntary petition in bankruptcy. The creditors asking that 

 Wade be adjudged a bankrupt are the Canton-BIackstone Co., 

 with a claim of $17,516.93, the Tyer Rubber Co., of Andover, 

 Massachusetts, $13,675.43, and the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co., $2,000. W. H. Moore, Jr., was appointed receiver for the 

 concern under a bond of $4,000. 



Edward M. Snuffin, district manager of the Ajax Rubber Co. in 

 Los Angeles, has returned from a two weeks' tour of Arizona 

 during which he completed arrangements for the establishment of 

 a factory branch in Phoenix. 



What constitutes somewhat of an innovation in tire distribu- 

 tion methods has been inaugurated in southern California by the 

 Rubber Products Co., of Barberton, Ohio, manufacturers of 

 "Stronghold" and "Barberton" tires. As the result of recent 

 negotiations the Ralphs Grocery Co., Los Angeles, becomes the 

 distributer of these brands of tires and they will be placed 

 before the consumer through the chain of seven Ralphs retail 

 stores in Los Angeles and by other dealers in the surrounding 

 towns. 



J. B. Wood, distributor of Hewitt tires and tubes in Los 

 Angeles, is planning to bring the factory basket-ball team from 

 Buffalo to Los Angeles and is trying to arrange a series of games 

 for the event with some of the best teams on the Coast. 



H. G. Smith, manager of the Los Angeles branch of the Ajax 

 Rubber Co., Inc., for the past four years, has resigned to accept 

 a position in a different capacity. He was one of the best known 

 figures on automobile row. 



The Los Angeles branch of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 

 with a newly organized bowling team, has entered the first 

 national telegraphic tournament organized by that company, 

 scheduled for February 1. It is open to all branches of the com- 

 pany and will be rolled simultaneously on that night, the names 

 of the individual players and their scores being telegraphed to 

 .'\kron in code. A. G. Partridge, vice-president in charge of sales, 

 has donated a beautiful trophy cup as a prize to become the 

 permanent property of the team winning the title two years. E. 

 M. Barlow, of the sales department, is manager of the Los 

 Angeles team. The line-up is as follows: E. A. Douglas, cap- 

 tain; R. A. Guthridge, R. Y. Copelin, G. O. Fries, H. Johnston, 

 R. W. Irwin and H. V. Wilson. 



J. B. Linerd, president of the Globe Rubber Tire Manufacturing 

 Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, was a recent visitor in Los 

 Angeles. He is said to be the youngest head of a tire concern in the 

 United States. During his visit he was in conference with A. T. 

 Smith, Pacific Coast representative of the Globe company and W. 

 Reeve Gartzmann, manager of TTawlcy, King & Co., Southern 

 California distributors. 



