THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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1920. 



have just been completed, and a third one is being started. For 

 over a year the company has been manufacturing inner tubes, 

 and now has begun to make cord and fabric tires of high quality. 

 The Hannibal Rubber Co., Hannibal, Missouri, has completed 

 its factory buildings at a cost of $150,000, and as soon as the 

 equipment is installed it will start operations. Both cord and 

 fabric tires will be manufactured under the name "Mark Twain;" 

 the inner tube is to be called "Indian Joe," after a Mark Twain 

 character who still lives in Hannibal at the age of 92. Hannibal, 

 it will be recalled, was the early home of the author. The officers 

 of the company are : William J. Richards, president ; H. M. Still, 

 vice president; A. E. Gibson, secretary, and S. O. Osterhout, 

 treasurer. Mr. Gibson will also serve as general sales manager 

 and advertising manager. 



Mason Scuddtr, a son of the founder and principal stockholder 

 of the Rawlings Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, has been 

 elected vice-president of the company. The company manufac- 

 tures game-balls of various kinds, including the "Ruko" which 

 was described in The Indi.^ Rubber World April 1, 1919. 



L. N. Burns, who recently became associated with the 

 Racme Autd Tire Co., Racine, Wisconsin, has been made head 

 of the Horse .Sli.ic Rubber Co. of Missouri, the distnbuting or- 

 ganization for Horse Shoe tires in 

 Kansas and Missouri. Mr. Bums, 

 until January IS, was vice-presi- 

 dent and general sales manager of 

 the J. I. Case Plow Works Co., 

 of Racine. The Horse Shoe Rubber 

 Co. of Missouri succeeds the Lind- 

 man-Funk Co., distributors, who 

 introduced the "Horse Shoe" tire 

 line in the two states. Offices are 

 already established in Kansas City 

 and St. Louis. Mr. Burns will be 

 directly in charge of all sales in 

 the two states. W. E. McClurg 

 will be vice-president of the new 

 organization and will be in charge 

 L. N. Burns. of the St. Louis office. 



Jacob Warner Culver, who has been promoted to the posi- 

 tion of central district manager of the Federal Rubber Co., 

 at Chicago, Illinois, is a native of that State. Born in Gales- 

 burg and a graduate of the high school, business college and 

 Knox College there, he first worked in the local postoffice for 

 four years. In 1899 he went to Chicago as a stenographer for 

 the Ayer & Lord Tire Co. For five years he was an account- 

 ant for railroad contractors, and for ten years he was a sales- 

 man and district manager for the Boston Woven Hose & 

 Rubber Co. Prior to his promotion he had for some time been 

 manager of the Federal company's mechanical rubber goods de- 

 partment. 



Mr. Culver is a member of the South Shore Country Club and 

 various tire and rubber trade associations. 



A. Daigger & Co., Chicago, Illinois, dealers in rubber ingre- 

 dients, have inaugurated a free rubber manufacturers' service as 

 an adjunct to their laboratory research department. At its head is 

 an expert chemist and rubber man who is prepared to take up 

 without charge or obligation any problems and technical difficul- 

 ties pertaining to chemicals, colors and oils submitted by the 

 trade. A market letter including technical notes will be issued 

 from time to time. 



The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., 623-633 South Wabash 

 avenue. Chicago, Illinois, is making extensive additions to its 

 plant at Muskegon, Michigan. One new group includes four 

 separate buildings in which the cord fabric is impregnated. These 

 buildings have been completed and the machinery installed, at the 



cost of $1,000,000, so they will soon be ready for occupancy. The 

 company has recently increased its capital slock from $12,000,000 

 to $56,000,000. 



The Athol Manufacturing Co., Athol, Massachusetts, is erect- 

 ing at Marysville, Michigan, a new plant consisting of main 

 building, store house and churn room, giving about 34,250 square 

 feet of floor space. The most modern ideas of factory building 

 and machine layout are utilized. A hundred men are to be em- 

 ployed. By the middle of August it is hoped that the com- 

 pany will begin the production of a high-class rubber-coated 

 fabric, for use in the manufacture of automobile tops. 



The India Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has placed its 

 southern Wisconsin territory under the supervision of Calvin F. 

 Troupe, former branch manager for the Fisk Tire & Rubber 

 Co., with headquarters in Milwaukee, where he will work in 

 direct connection with The Ramler Rubber Co., India distributer 

 in that city. 



Work has been begun on the new factory of The Wilson Rub- 

 ber Co., Des Moines, Iowa, and the accessory factory is already 

 in operation, manufacturing the Wilson "SlaPatch." This com- 

 pany was incorporated December 16, 1918, capitalized at $2,000,- 

 000, but active organization work did not begin until the spring 

 of 1919. The executive offices are at 402-403 Hubbell Building, 

 Des Moines,- and the plant on the outskirts of the city, at West 

 63d street, River to River Road, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & 

 St. Paul Railway. The officers are: W. E. Wilson, president 

 and general manager; S. S. Wilson, vice-president; W. G. Rich- 

 ardson, secretary and treasurer. R. A. Torrey is mechanical en- 

 gineer, and H. E. BeSaw is superintendent. 



Some of the leading commercial artists of the country have 

 prepared for the Standard Four Tire Co., Keokuk, Iowa, a series 

 of twenty-six paintings portraying Indian lore and legend, to be 

 used in an advertising campaign. The Indian Chief, Keokuk, 

 who is said never to have broken a promise, once lived in the 

 same locality, and the company has chosen his spirit and char- 

 acter to typify its own policy and aims. Consequently, Indian 

 subjects were chosen for these paintings and the company has 

 been to considerable expense for research work preliminary to 

 their production, in order that they should be accurate in detail 

 as well as characteristic portrayals of Indian life. They are said 

 to compare favorably with the famous Remington paintings of 

 Indians. 



The Essenkay Products Co., Chicago, Illinois, has acquired 14 

 acres of ground at 83d street and Wentworth avenue, on which 

 it will build a plant for the manufacture of its tire filler and 

 rubber substitute known as "Essenkay." The first building, to 

 be of concrete and steel, will be erected at an estimated cost of 

 $300,000. F. D. Mayer is president. 



The Hoosier Rubber Co., Mishawaka, Indiana, which manufac- 

 tures "Service" rubber heels, is a partnership consisting of Ted 

 Nicar and N. V. Robertson. Mr. Nicar was formerly with the 

 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



The Synthetic Rubber Products Co., Fort Branch, Indiana, has 

 been making plans for extracting rubber from cactus and expects 

 to have the first plant in operation August first. 



"FLEXYDE" FOR MEN'S BELTS. 

 A material adapted for use as a substitute for leather is called 

 "Flexyde" and is made of rubberized fabric pebbled on one side 

 to imitate the grain of seal leather. It comes in either black 

 or cordovan, but any special grain, color, or thickness can be 

 made on special order. The standard size is 1/32-inch in thick- 

 ness, in sheets 36 by 36 inches. One of the recent adaptations 

 of this material is for use in the manufacture of men's belts, 

 which are, of course, washable and therefore eminently practical 

 and entirely sanitary. (The Marathon Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.) 



