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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1908. 



The annual meeting of shareholders of The Motz Clincher Tire 

 and Rubber Co. was held on July 6. The directors chosen 

 were Charles Motz, Gus F. Burkhardt, Nicholas H. Sell, Will- 

 iam Wolf, Paul E. Bertsch— all reelected— E. J. Alderfer, and 

 Howard Haupt. The officers were reelected, as follows : C. 

 Motz, president ; G. F. Burkhardt, vice president ; N. H. Seil, sec- 

 retry and treasurer; P. E. Bertsch, manager. 



Akron Rubber companies were well represented in the Glidden 

 tour. The B. F. Goodrich Co. had H. C. Miller, general tire 

 representative of the company, and W. O. Rutherford, manager 

 of the Buffalo branch, with the tour, following the route by 

 rail and looking after the interests of the company. N. E. 

 Oliver, manager of the Buffalo branch of the Diamond Rubber 

 Co., represented that concern on the tour, traveling by auto- 

 mobile. For the first time in a Glidden tour the demountable 

 rim was used, two cars being equipped with the Diamond de- 

 mountable him. W. C. State, of Akron, represented the Good- 

 year Tire and Rubber Co. He drove in a Rapid truck, which 

 carried Goodyear air bottles for the free use of tourists in 

 inflating tires. 



[The fifth annual tour of the American Automobile Associa- 

 tion for the Glidden and Hower trophies started from Buft'alo, 

 New York, on July 9 and ended at Saratoga Springs on July 23, 

 the route taking in seven states, including Maine. The tourists 

 had to cross five mountain ranges and innumerable streams, and 

 travel roads ranging from common dirt roads to the best maca- 

 dam and asphalt. While primarily this is a contest between dif- 

 ferent makes of automobiles, the tire results also were watched 

 with interest. There were 29 entries for the Glidden trophy and 

 14 for the Hower trophy.] 



The spread of the taxicab system to Washington city has 

 brought with it another order for solid tires for the Goodyear 

 Tire and Rubber Co. Within the last two months the Terminal 

 Taxicab Co. has been organized in the capital and an initial order 

 for the equipment of 50 cabs with pneumatic tires has been 

 placed with the Akron concern. The tires are furnished on 

 practically the same basis as were those for the New York Taxi- 

 cab Co. and the New York Transportation Co., that is, the tires 

 remaining the property of the manufacturer and the users pay- 

 ing by the mile for the service. An equipment of Goodyear 

 air bottles goes with the order. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. are mailing to their patrons copies 

 of the annual vacation picture. It portrays a number of Goodrich 

 salesmen in a balloon on the way to Mars. The balloon is shaped 

 like an elephant and labelled "The Biggest in Rubber." Below is 

 seen the plant of the company. 



Mr. B. G. Work, president of The B. F. Goodrich Co., re- 

 turned from Europe the last week of June. He was across the 

 water over two months. Mr. H. E. Raymond, sales manager of 

 the same company, is expected to return not later than August i. 



O. S. Hart and I. R. Bailey, respectively cashier and salesman 

 for The Diamond Rubber Co., with their wives, spent a week on 

 the great lakes in the middle of July. J. E. Argus, salesman 

 for the Diamond Rublier Co., located in San Francisco, spent 

 a week in Akron early in the month. 



A. B. Jones, formerly engineer of maintenance of way with 

 the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus railway, resigned his posi- 

 tion with that company on July I and took a position with The 

 Diamond Rubber Co., becoming connected with their reclaiming 

 plant in South Akron. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. are building an addition to their 

 machine shop — a tile building over 100 feet square, and located 

 south of the present plant. It will be connected with the main 

 buildings by a bridge over Jackson street. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. established a branch office 

 and store in Cleveland, Ohio, on June i. It is located at No. 

 2005 Euclid avenue and is in charge of C. C. Hammerlc, for- 

 merly of Akron. 



The Boston branch of the Diamond Rubber Co. has been 



moved from No. 174 to No. 223 Columbus avenue, where a large 

 part of the Pope building has been leased. The change is to 

 take effect on August i. 



A conference of the branch managers of The Goodyear Tire 

 and Rubber Co. was held in Akron, on June rj. 



The first large exclusive contract for 1909 automobiles has 

 been awarded to The Diamond Rubber Co. It is an order for 

 2500 Marsh rims for the Chalmers-Detroit Motor Co., manufac- 

 turers of the new Chalmers-Detroit cars. This concern was 

 formerlv the E. R. Thomas Detroit Motor Co. 



THE JOHN A. ROEBLING STATUE. 



A STATUE of the late John A. Roebling was unveiled at 

 *»• Trenton, New Jersey, on June 30, the occasion being 

 made a public holidaj-. Mr. Roebling was born in 1806 at Miil- 

 hausen, Saxony ; he studied engineering and philosophy, and at 

 the age of 25 years came to America well equipped for the 

 important career which opened before him. Incidental to the 

 development of his wire rope, his method of suspension for cable 



The Roebling St.mue. 



bridges, and other important inventions, came the organization 

 of the great factory and industries at Trenton, operated now un- 

 der the style of John A. Roebling's Sons Co., by worthy represen- 

 tatives of the second and third generations of the family in Amer- 

 ica. The Trenton works cover 35 acres, employ 6,000 hands, and 

 have an annual output valued at $20,000,000. The coming of the 

 electrical era opened the way to a development of the Roebling 

 industries not contemplated by the founder, but the efficiency of 

 the management has been shown by its success in placing the 

 company in the forefront among the manufacturers of wires and 

 cables for electrical equipment. The use of rubber for insulation 

 by the Roebling firm is so extensive as to make of that department 

 an important rubber manufacturing plant. The Roebling statue 

 is of bronze, on a granite pedestal, and reaches a height of 16 

 feet from the ground. On the pedestal are bronze panels with 

 inscriptions and reliefs showing the Brooklyn and Niagara 

 bridges, etc. It was designed by William Couper, an American, 

 and stands in Cadwalader Park, Trenton. 



