THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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July 1. Cord tires and tubes will be added to the present line 

 of fabric tires and by-product horse-shoe pads. L. M. Kaplan 

 is secretary of the company. 



Thos. E. Wilson & Co., Chicago, manufacturer of sporting 

 goods, has purchased the factory of the National Base Ball 

 Manufacturing Co., Schenectady, New York, and will continue 

 in charge John H. Grady as director of the baseball manufactur- 

 ing division of the Wilson company. 



At its annual meeting held recently, the General Electric Co., 

 Schenectady, New York, reelected the former directors and 

 officers. 



Among the exhibitors in the permanent International Exposi- 

 tion of Industries, which the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Ex- 

 change of New York is operating at the Grand Central Palace, 

 there are many whose exhibits will interest the rubber trade. 

 We note : New York Rubber Co., SchaefTer & Budenburg Man- 

 ufacturing Co., McNutt Can Sales Co., Portable Machinery Co., 

 Spadonc Machine Co., Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., Converse 

 Rubber Shoe Co., The Raybestos Co., Revere Rubber Co., Taglia- 

 bue Manufacturing Co., Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur- 

 ing Co. 



Mitsui & Co., Limited, Japanese importer, has appointed M. 

 Kobayashi its New York representative, with headquarters at 

 65 Broadway, the New York City office. 



CONNECTICUT NOTES. 



The Seamless Rubber Co., New Haven, has entered into a 

 sales arrangement with Adolph Perlroth, a real estate dealer, 

 whereby the latter will take its old plant and cut it up into smaller 

 divisions for selling purposes. The Seamless company expects 

 to move into its new plant at an early date. 



The Carlisle Tire Corporation, 250 West 34th street. New 

 York City, and .■Xndover, Massachusetts, has purchased all the 

 assets of the Carlisle Cord Tire Co., Inc., and early in June had 

 completed approximately 85 per cent of the new factory now 

 building at Stamford, Connecticut. It expects to have the new 

 plant in operation about the middle of July. Cord tires and truck 

 tires will be manufactured exclusively. The concern is incor- 

 porated for $3,000,000 preferred stock and 300,000 shares of com- 

 mon without par value, under the laws of Delaware. J. S. Mc- 

 Clurg is production manager. 



PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. 



The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, has elected the following directors for the 

 ensuing three years: Guy E. Tripp, chairman of board; j'oseph 

 Marsh, H. H. Westinghouse, and Albert H. Wiggin. George W. 

 Davison, president of the Central Union Trust Co., New York 

 City, was selected by the board of directors to succeed James 

 N. Wallace, deceased, and was elected by the stockholders for 

 the term expiring June, 1921. 



The Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, 

 and not, as reported, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 

 Co., has acquired ownership and control of the Westinghouse 

 Union Battery Co., Swissvale, Pennsylvania. 



The Vulcan Rubber Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, has just completed 

 a two-story building, 76 by 123 feet, in which it is installing ma- 

 chinery for the manufacture of cord tires. It also plans to in- 

 crease its production of fabric tires, for which it has purchased 

 additional equipment. 



The .Mien Tire & Rubber Co., 510 Hamilton street, .Mlentown, 

 Pennsylvania, has completed the organization of its $2,500,000 

 company and expects to start production of tires and tubes in 

 September in the factory which is now under construction. The 

 officers of the company are : Wilmer Dunbar, president ; H. F. 

 Clemmer, vice-president; T. S. Johnson, secretary; J. T. Leathers, 

 treasurer. A. C. Leathers and Fred Leathers are sales agent and 

 fiscal agent, respectively. 



"The Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeannette, Pennsylvania, has 

 leased for the summer season a commodious cottage at Put-In- 

 Bay, Ohio, for the purpose of providing vacation quarters for 

 the young women in its offices. Twelve can be accommodated 

 at once, and each girl will have a two weeks' vacation. A com- 

 petent chaperone will be in charge. 



Blakey & Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been appointed 

 distributers for the product of The India Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Akron, Ohio. 



The U. S. Compression Inner Tube Co., Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma, 

 has bought the property of the Kaltanning Plate Glass Co., Kat- 

 tanning, Pennsylvania, and will remodel the buildings at once 

 for an eastern factory. A new structure will also be built in the 

 spring. This factory will take care of the company's business 

 east of the Mississippi river. 



The Black & Decker Manufacturing Co., Towson Heights, 

 Baltimore, Maryland, has moved its Philadelphia office, of which 

 W. C. Allen is branch manager, to more spacious quarters at 

 318 North Broad street. 



-At the organization meeting of the Industrial Cost Account- 

 ants' Association at Chicago, on June 18, M. K. Simmons of the 

 General Electric Co., Schenectady, Ne.w York, was elected presi- 

 dent; C. H. Smith of the Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Wil- 

 merding, Pennsylvania, was elected first vice-president and A. 

 -A. Alles, Jr., of the Fawcus Machine Co., and the Schaeffer En- 

 gineering and Equipment Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was 

 chosen secretary-treasurer. Headquarters of the Association 

 will be in Pittsburgh, at the office of the secretary-treasurer, 

 1501 Peoples' Bank Building. 



SOUTHERN NOTES. 



C. F. Batton, who has been with the -Atlanta and Birmingham 

 branches of The Fisk Rubber Co. for the last four years, has been 

 made manager of the new branch office 

 recently opened at Jackson, Mississippi. 

 Mr. Batton served nine months in the 

 army during the war and was a second 

 lieutenant in the Sixth Pioneer Infantry 

 at Camp Sherman, Ohio, when dis- 

 cliarged. The Jackson branch is the 

 IJSth to be established by the Fisk com- 

 pany in this country. 



The McCIaren Rubber Co., Charlotte, 

 Xcirth Carolina, has appointed Charles 

 G. Miller chief chemist. He was for- 

 merly assistant chemist of the Racine 

 Rubber Co., Racine, Wisconsin. 

 The India Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has given the dis- 

 tribution rights for its products in Baltimore, Maryland, and the 

 surrounding territory to Frank G. Schenuit. 



Tlie Kentucky Tire & Rubber Association, 502-503 Realty 

 Building, Louisville, Kentucky, will begin excavation and con- 

 struction on its new factory as soon as its railroad switch, now 

 being laid, is completed. It expects to have the factory com- 

 pleted, also, in about four months. 



R. H. Brown, formerly with the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., 

 •n .Akron and the Ideal Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio, ha.s 

 been engaged as superintendent of the new factory to be built 

 by The Kentucky Tire & Rubber .Association, Louisville, 

 Kentucky. 



The DuBois Rubber & Tube Co., 315-318 Volunteer State Life 

 Building, Chattanooga, Tennessee, recently incorporated for the 

 purpo.sc of manufacturing a compression inner tube of the type 

 that does not leak air when punctured, will also make the ordi- 

 nary inner tubes and tire casings. It intends to increase its capi- 

 tal to $2,000,000 in the near future. The officers are: J. D. 

 DuBois, president; L. H. Lightfoot, vice-president; P. B. Whit- 



