Afril 



1920. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



445 



EASTERN AND SOUTHERN NOTES. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE Rubber Trading Co., 9-15 Murray street, New York City, 

 announces that after March 22 it will do business under the 

 corporate name of Baird Rubber & Trading Co. The officers are : 

 William T. Baird, president and treasurer; Robert B. Baird, 

 chairman of board ; Collier W. and Robert D. Baird, vice-presi- 

 dents; William T. Baird, Jr., secretary. 



The Morse Chain Co., Ithaca, New York, has opened a new 

 office at 1402 Lexington Building, Baltimore, Maryland, in charge 

 of E. R. Morse, manager, and one at 302 Harrison Building, 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in charge of M. H. Rodd, manager. 



The Madison Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., has purchased the 

 building at 20 West 60th street. New York City, and is remodel- 

 ing it for a show-room and executive offices which it will 

 occupy after May 1. 



The Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co. will remove on 

 April 1 from 100 William street to more commodious quarters at 

 709-717 Sixth avenue, corner of 41st street, New York City. 

 Mail should be addressed to postoffice box No. 119, Times Square 

 Station. 



Mac Arthur & White, Inc., crude rubber brokers, with offices 

 at 150 Nassau St., New York City, and Guth-Otis Building, Ak- 

 ron, Ohio, is a recently organized concern, although the members 

 are well known crude rubber men. William MacArthur, who was 

 recently associated with Hardy & MacArthur, will be in charge 

 of the New York office, assisted by C. J. Lockhorn. A. R. White, 

 who was formerly with J. T. Johnstone & Co., will have charge 

 of the Akron office, and be assisted by Stuart Brown. 



Hummel & Robinson, New York City, exporters, importers, and 

 manufacturers of chemicals for the rubber trade, have appointed 

 W. R. Sturges their representative and agent in southern terri- 

 tory for the sale of dry colors and chemicals. Mr. Sturges has 

 been with Reichard-Coulston, Inc., New York City, in the same 

 line of business, for the last seven years. 



The Bargain Tire Co., incorporated in New York in 1917, to 

 repair tires, etc., at 200 West 111th street, has been dissolved 

 under the laws of that state. 



The world's largest manufacturer of lead pencils is the Eagle 

 Pencil Co. of New York City. The products of the company 

 include every variety of pencil known to the trade, as well as 

 rubber erasers, fountain pens, penholders and a multiplicity of 

 styles of steel pens for every requirement. In ordinary pencils 

 alone the daily output amounts to ten gross, practically 1,500 each 

 minute. The Blaisdell paper pencil company has recently been 

 acquired by the Eagle company and this line added to the output. 

 One of the many departments of the Eagle plant is that de- 

 voted to making rubber erasers in various forms and colors. 



The Henderson Tire Export Co., Inc., has opened offices at 

 17 West 42nd street, New York City, in addition to its new 

 factory at Columbus, Ohio. The officers are C. Bernard 

 SchmoUe, president; W. H. Queripel, vice-president and treas- 

 urer; C. O. Henderson, of the Henderson Tire & Rubber Co.. 

 vice-president, and P. A. Zizelman, secretary. They will con- 

 struct the Henderson millimeter tire, with special reference 

 to the foreign market. 



Under the auspices of the State and City of New York, the 

 Firestone film, "Careless America," was recently shown to more 

 llian 5,000 school children at the Capitol Theatre, New York 

 City, as the opening wedge in a nation-wide "Safety First" 

 campaign. 



The film was made by the Universal Film Co. for Harvey S. 

 Firestone, who is seeking to impress upon Youthful America 

 the dangers of careless pedestrianism, and upon automobilists, 



the evils of reckless driving. It depicted distressing accidents^ 

 and gave the A. B. C.'s (Always Be Careful) of "Safety First." 



Laidlaw, Kelley & Co., Inc., 14 Piatt street. New York City, 

 importer, exporter, and manufacturers' agent, has acquired a- 

 21-year leasehold on the seven-story and basement building at 

 the southwest corner of Thompson and Grand streets, and will 

 consolidate there its various departments now located in several 

 downtown buildings. 



The Century Rubber Stamp Works, Inc., 551 Pear) street. 

 New York City, has been formed from the partnership started 

 eight years ago by a number of men who had been in the rubber 

 stamp business from 18 to 30 years. Harry Heine is president- 



The National Aniline & Chemical Co., Inc., 21 Burling Slip, 

 New York City, has elected the following directors: Orlando F. 

 Wcher, H. H. S. Handy, W. N. Mcllravy, Dr. W. G. Beckers, 

 L. C. Jones, C. S. Lutkins, Henry Wigglesworth, W. J. Matheson, 

 T. M. Rianhard, Dr. R. C. Taggesell, and F. M. Peters. The 

 number of directors has been reduced to twelve. The directors, 

 in turn, have appointed the following officers : president, chair- 

 man of the board, and chairman of executive committee, O. F. 

 Weber; vice-presidents. Dr. W. G. Beckers, J. W. Newlean; 

 acting treasurer, William H. West ; secretary, H. F. Atherton ;• 

 assistant treasurers, H. S. Trott, T. S. Baines; assistant secre- 

 tary, R. V. Mahon. | 



The Katzenbach & Bullock Co., Inc., 100 William street, New- 

 York City, has bought the six-story and basement building at 

 440 Washington street, into which the company plans to move 

 about April 1. The first and second floors will be used for offices; 

 the balance for storage, laboratory, testing rooms, etc. 



The Rubber Industries Athletic League of New York City 

 held its first annual entertainment and reception at the Central 

 Opera House, 67th street and Lexington avenue. New York 

 City, March 23, which included a vaudeville performance and 

 a ball. More than fifteen rubber companies were represented 

 in the large attendance. 



The Rubber Products Co., Barberion, Ohio, has appointed H. 

 P. Harding eastern district manager. 



The Rubber Engineering Co., Akron, Ohio, has appointed Wl 

 S. Innes its representative, with offices at 72 Trinity Place, New 

 York City. 



Tlie Sydeman Rubber Co. has moved from 225 Fourth avenue 

 to 222 Fourth avenue, New York City. 



The Eckrode Rubber Co., Inc., Newark, New Jersey, has ap- 

 pointed Harold L. Pettingell its eastern and southern district- 

 manager. He was formerly with the .Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., New- 

 York City, as assistant manager for two years, and previou*- 

 to that was special representative of the Lee Rubber & Tire Co. 

 for four years. 



The General Electric Co., Schenectady, New York, will build 

 in that city a six-story addition to its plant, 54 by 219 feet, to 

 cost approximately $400,000. 



The plant of the former Kavanaugh Knitting Co., Waterford, 

 New York, has been acquired by the Beaver Mills, North .Adams, 

 Massachusetts. The latter manufacture yarn and tire fabric and 

 the new mill is being adapted for the manufacture of tire yarns 

 and will produce fabric the latter half of this year. 



The Achilles Rubber & Tire Co., Inc., Binghamton, New York, 

 has added another floor to its former three-story factory, en- 

 larged the vulcanizer room, erected a new one-story warehouse, 

 40 by 80 feet, and built a new structure, 60 by 100 feet, for the 

 storing of rubber, washing and drying rubber, cement mixing, 

 and spreading. A larger building for the manufacture of tires 

 and tubes is to be built as soon as the weather permits, to cost 

 $600,000. The present factory will then be used for the manu- 



