April 1, 1920] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



451 



A. HUETTER. 



The AlUteel Ridewell Tire & Rubber Co., 513 Lindsey Build- 

 ing, Dayton, Ohio, has purchased a factory site of 34 acres on 

 the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and the Miami river, and is 

 having plans and specifications prepared for a three-story and 

 basement factory with three wings. This 

 will be built of structural steel with 

 brick facing and have 125,000 square 

 feet of floor space. The company will 

 manufacture a patented cord tire to be 

 called the "Artyr," besides inner tubes 

 and battery jars. 



The president of the concern is A. 

 Huetter who, in the summer of 1918, 

 was elected vice-president and general 

 manager of the Premier Rubber & Insu- 

 lation Co., Dayton, previous to which 

 he was for two years the head of the 

 Bakelite department of the Dayton 

 Engineering Laboratories Co. 



Innis, Spciden & Co., Inc., New York City, announce the 

 moval of its branch in Cleveland, Ohio, from 641 Long 

 to 1913 Orange avenue on April 1, where a full line of chemicals 

 for the rubber trade will be carried. 



THE ERIE TIRE & RUBBER CO. 



An enviable record of accomplishments is that made by The 

 Erie Tire & Rubber Co., Sandusky, Ohio. This company was 

 organized at Cleveland, Ohio, in March, 1919. Within six months 

 their securities were fully sold, and the following November 

 the factory began the manufacture of cord tires and inner 

 tubes. 



The officers of the company are: Peter F. Wills, president and 

 general manager; H. H. Forrest, vice-president and general 

 superintendent; F. W. Hildebrand, secretary, and H. M. Learned, 

 sales manager. 



The company's plant at Sandusky is being enlarged by the 

 addition of new buildings now under construction, which will 

 increase the capacity of the plant to 1,500 cord tires a day. The 



The Erie Tire & Rubber Co. 



manufacturing policy of the company is to concentrate output 

 exclusively on cord tires and tubes. 



Appreciating that the realization of the plan to produce a 

 strictly first-class product depends, in large degree, on able and 

 efficient workmen, every effort is being made by the management 

 to enhance that efficiency in ways that will contribute to the 

 contentment of the operating force. The welfare activities are 

 planned on the latest ideas and include a medical department 

 under the direction of a physician, recreation grounds and a 

 cafeteria. Special ?.ttention has been given to housing conditions, 

 and several modern homes have been erected near the factory. 



Through August, 1919, Trinidad and Tobago had shipped 

 24,673 pounds of rubber, as compared with 18,809 pounds for 

 the same period in 1918, 12.102 pounds in 1917 and 5,063 pounds 

 in 1916. 



DIRECTOR OF GOODRICH MECHANICAL SALES. 



Clarence Edwards Ccok, director general of mechanical sales 

 for The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, is well fitted for 

 this important position by long and varied experience with the 

 (Goodrich organization. Mr. Cook was 

 born in Cleveland, Ohio, and received 

 liis education in the grammar and high 

 schools of that city, graduating in 1895. 

 Tliat year he entered the freight office of 

 the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 

 K'ailway as a clerk, where he remained 

 lour years. Attracted by the rubber in- 

 dustry, he was in the employ of The 

 B F. Goodrich Co. for two years, but 

 rclurned to the railroad in 1901 for an- 

 other year. In 1902 he went to the 

 People's Hard Rubber Co., and the fol- 

 lowing year took a position as traveling 

 salesman in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky 

 for the Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufacturing Co., New York 

 City. In 1905 he accepted a traveling position with The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., and five years later found him Pacific Coast mana- 

 ger. From this position in 1917 he was promoted to the post of 

 director of branch operations in charge of 120 branches and 

 stores selling Goodrich products throughout the country. On 

 June 1. 1919, he was again advanced to director of mechanical 

 sales, which position he now holds. 



Mr. Cook has an extensive acquaintance in the rubber trade 

 and elsewhere. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner. 



MID-WESTERN NOTES. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE KoKOMO Rubber Co., Kokomo, Indiana, is one of the old- 

 est industrial organizations of its kind. It made the first 

 pneumatic automobile tires in the United States, and since the 

 days of the high-wheeled bicycle it has supplied the bicycle trade 

 with tires. The original pneumatic automobile tires are still 

 part of the equipment of the Elwood Ilaynes' first American 

 automobile, a famous industrial landmark on exhibit at the 

 .Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C. 



J. W. Culver has been appointed manager of the central dis- 

 trict offices and warehouse of The Federal Rubber Co. of Illi- 

 nois, Cudahy, Wisconsin, with headquarters at 1434 Michigan 

 avenue, Chicago, Illinois. He was formerly manager of the 

 company's mechanical rubber goods department. 



E. T. Fisher has been appointed manager of the Denver, Colo- 

 rado, branch of The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland and 

 East Palestine, Ohio. 



C. A. Jessup, formerly manager of the St. Louis, Missouri, 

 branch of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New York City, has 

 been appointed manager of the company's branch at 294 Jeffer- 

 son avenue, Detroit, Michigan. 



A new building for the Detroit branch is being erected at the 

 corner of Cass avenue and .Antoinette street. 



The Yarnall-Waring Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, manu- 

 facturer of "Yarw^y" power plant devices, has opened a branch 

 office in the Builders and Traders' Exchange, Penobscot Build- 

 ing, Detroit, Michigan, in charge of Walter G. Heacock, branch 

 manager. 



The Portage Rubber Co., Barberton, Ohio, has opened a branch 

 at 450 Jackson street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to take care of in- 

 creasing business in that territory. P. S. Manley has been ap- 

 pointed branch manager and six salesmen will work from this 

 center. 



The Mason Tire & Rubber Co. of .\'cw York, Inc., 450 Jack- 

 son street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been granted a Wisconsin 



