March 1, 1920] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



383 



E. Byles spoke in an interesting manner of the proposed New 

 York crude rubber exchange. 



It was decided that future meeinigs of tlie association will be 

 held on the second Tuesday of each month. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



THE United States Rubber Co., San Francisco Branch, has 

 moved its headquarters from the location it has occupied for 

 ten years at 50-60 Fremont street to its own building at 300-336 

 Second street, corner of Folsom. The structure is 137.6 by 275 

 feet, with two stories and basement, and is equipped in the most 

 up-to-date manner. There is frontage on three streets and a spur 

 track connects with the railroad. 



The front of the second floor will be occupied by the executive 

 offices of the Pacific Coast division which controls the operations 

 of the fourteen Pacific Coast branches and. through a branch of 

 the United States Rubber Export Co., Limited, the selling end of 

 the company's business in the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska. Japan. 

 India, Indo-China. the Federated Malay States, etc. 



The Miller Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has opened a new branch 

 in Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is under 

 the management of J. A. Hopkins, operating directly under the 

 San Francisco branch. The territory includes several adjacent 

 counties besides the City of Oakland. 



The American Rubber Manufacturing Co., 356 Market street, 

 San Francisco, manufacturer of mechanical rubber goods, is 

 building an addition to its plant near Oakland. The estimated 

 cost will exceed $100,000 when completed, which it is expected 

 will be about the middle of the year. 



The Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co., Cleveland, Ohio, which re- 

 cently discontinued its Seattle office, is taking care of business 

 in that territory through its San Francisco office at 201 Rialto 

 Building. 



The San Francisco team of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 

 recently won against 64 branches the A. G. Partridge champion- 

 ship trophy in the national telegraphic bowling tournament, by 

 bowling 2,758 pins. The same team also won the L. G. Fairbank 

 cup in the second game for the highest team score for a single 

 game. This is said to have been the first national telegraphic 

 bowling contest, but it is expected that it will become an annual 

 affair, so much interest having been show-n. 



L. R. Jackson has been promoted from the position of man- 

 ager of the Indianapolis branch to that of the Pacific Coast 

 district of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.. .\kron, Ohio, with 

 headquarters in San Francisco. 



LOS ANGELES NOTES. 



Burgess Darrow has been appointed head of the technical 

 service division of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Cali- 

 fornia, Los Angeles. 



The United States Compression Inner Tube Co.. a $5,000,000 

 corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will erect a $1,000,000 factory in 

 or near Los Angeles as soon as a site is decided upon and build- 

 ing materials are secured. It will be essentially a replica of the 

 main Tulsa plant, which gives employment to several hundred 

 workmen and has an annual capacity of 150,000 casings and 

 300,000 tubes. M. C. Hale, president of the company, is in Los 

 .Angeles perfecting plans for the project, and offices of the Pacific 

 Coast division of the company have been opened in the Citizens' 

 Xational Bank Building by C. R. Privett, distributor for Cali- 

 fornia, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico and 

 Arizona. 



SOUTHWESTERN NOTES. 



The Savage Tire Co. of San Diego, San Diego, California, has 

 changed its name to The Spreckels "Savage" Tire Co. The of- 

 ficers are: John D. Spreckels, president; Raymond V. Morris, 

 vice-president and general manager; Claus Spreckels, secretary 

 and treasurer; Read G. Dilworth. general counsel. L S. Cham- 

 berlain, former Pacific Coast manager, has been appointed sales 

 manager. 



Although automobile casings will be manufactured in the new 

 plant, the principal feature of production will be a patented 

 puncture-proof inner tube. 



The Miller Rubber Co.. .'\rkon, Ohio, has opened a branch at 

 Phoenix, ,\rizona, under the management of W. T. Smith. 



The New York Rubber Co., 84-86 Readc street. New York 

 City, has opened an office at 805 Franklin avenue, Houston. Texas. 



The Fisk Rubber Co. of New York, Chicopee Falls. Massa- 

 chusetts, has appointed C. C. Fletcher manager of its Texas dis- 

 trict which includes San .Antonio. Houston, Dallas and El Paso. 

 Mr. Fletcher was for several years manager of the Fisk com- 

 pany's Oklahoma City branch. 



For some years the Fisk Co. of Texas, now the Southern 

 Equipment Co., handled the distribution of Fisk tires, together 

 with accessories, in the State of Texas, but in December last The 

 Fisk Rubber Co. of New York assumed the tire division, the 

 Southern Equipment Co. taking over the accessory end. Prac- 

 tically the same persnnnel will be retained in the various Texas 

 branches. 



J. H. McDonnough, formerly district representative of the 

 central district of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, has been appointed manager of the southwestern district,. 

 with headquarters at Dallas, Texas. 



NORTHWESTERN NOTES. 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co.. New York City, has opened a 

 factory branch at 24-26 North Park street, Portland. Oregon, 

 under the management of C. H. Mead. It also maintains other 

 Pacific Coast branches at Seattle. Fresno, San Francisco and Los 

 Angeles. The branch at Bakersfield, California, has been closed 

 recently. 



CANADIAN NOTES. 



The United Shoe Machinery Co. of Canada, Limited. Mon- 

 treal. Quebec, has in process of building a four-story factory 

 addition. 60 by 120 feet. It is expected that the new building 

 will be ready for occupancy about the first of April. 



A million-dollar tire fabric plant, which will employ 1.000 

 hands, is to be built near Montreal by F. L. Jenckes, of the 

 Jenckes Spinning Co., Pawtuckct, Rhode Island, U. S. A., and 

 other cotton men associated with him. 



John Myles, general manager, and E. Larose, sales manager, 

 respectively, of The Columbus Rubber Co. of Montreal, Lim- 

 ited, recently spent a week in Winnipeg on company business, 

 with G. W. Barrett of the Winnipeg branch , and G. H. Connolly 

 of the Calgary branch. Arrangements have been made to in- 

 crease factorj- production to take care of the growing business 

 of the company's western branches. 



At the recent convention of the Shoe Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion of Canada, held in Quebec, an address on ".\ Freshman's 

 Survey of Our Industry" was made by Talmon H. Rieder, presi- 

 dent of Ames Holden McCready, Limited, Montreal, and one on 

 "Machinery in the Shoe Trade," by F. W. Knowlton, president 

 of the United Shoe Machinery Co. of Canada. Limited, Quebec. 



The employes of the Halifax branch of the Dominion Rubber 

 System had the first annual sleighing party and dance on the 

 evening of February 2, at the close of whicli a supper was served 

 with rubber terms cleverly substituted for possible French ones 

 in the menu. 



