THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 



Empire Rubber l\: Tire Co., and Alfred Wbitehead, of the White- 

 head Brothers Rubber Co. 



WESTERN NOTES. 



Tlir-. Macandaruba Elastic Tire Filler Co., Inc., a .f25,00O 

 corporation manufacturing a patent tire filling composition, 

 is building a factory at Oakland, California, 40x111 feet in 

 dimensions. With the present equipment tires can be filled for 

 20 cars per day. This company has its main factory at 1722 

 Fairmount avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is now operating 

 in the Central Western States, Illinois and Indiana, and intends 

 entering Oregon and Washington also, J. H. Copeland is the 

 inventor and patentee of this tire filler, which is claimed to be 

 a panacea for tire evils such as punctures, blow-outs and rim 

 cuts. 



The Peters-Tucker-Hay Rubber Co., Denver, Colorado, whose 

 incorporation was noted in the May issue of The Indi.\ Rubber 

 World, has the exclusive agency for the Knight and Blackstoiie 

 tires manufactured by the Knight Tire & Rubber Co., Canton, 

 Ohio. H. G. Peters, president, was formerly treasurer of the 

 Boss Rubber Co., Mr. Hay and Mr. Tucker also being connected 

 with that company. 



The St. Louis Rubber Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 

 has changed its name and location and will hereafter be known 

 as the Bunker Hill Rubber Works, Bunker Hill, Illinois. 



The Portage Rubber Co., Barberton, Ohio, has established a 

 new branch on the Sheridan Road, corner of Broadway. Chicago, 

 Illinois, a point passed by practically every automobile going 

 out of Chicago to the north, and therefore a convenient location 

 for many users of its tires. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, has established a whole- 

 sale stock depot at 406 Myrtle avenue, El Paso, Texas, which 

 will be a dealers' service station, designed to facilitate delivery 

 of supplies and to work for the dealers' interests. C. K. Chapin 

 will be in charge. 



The United States Rubber Co. of California, Los Angeles, has 

 recently moved into a new building at 923 South Los Angeles 

 street, which allows space for carrying and handling a much 

 larger stock than in the old location. The new building is three 

 stories high, with 90 feet frontage and 175 feet depth. In addi- 

 tion, the company has a separate building, approximately 40 x 75 

 feet, devoted exclusively to solid tires. 



Richard Leigh, a well-known Eastern rubber man and tire ex- 

 pert, has been made general manager of the Dry Climate Tire 

 Manufacturing Co., Denver, Colorado. 



AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT OF BRAZILIAN 

 PRODUCTS. 



DR. El'GEXH) D.VHNE is a man of action. He gen- 

 erally accomplishes what he plans to do or knows the 

 reast)n why. His remarkable work in exploiting Brazil and 

 its products at world's fairs and rubber exhibitions is well 

 known to our readers, as is also the exhibit he has arranged 

 at the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego. Men- 

 tion was made in our April issue of the departure of Dr. 

 Dahne for Brazil to secure more exhibits, and the prediction 

 made that he will come back with much rubber, coffee and 

 a great variety of interesting Brazilian products. 



It must not be inferred, however, that the Brazilian exhibit 

 at San Diego is not already a well-arranged and important 



SAVAGE TIRE CO. EXPANSION. 



The Savage Tire Co., San Diego, California, has been growing 

 very rapidly during the last year, and is now- manufacturing about 

 250 tires per day, as compared with 75 a year ago. The capital- 

 ization has recently been increased to $5,000,000, and it is pre- 

 dicted that within a short time the output will be 700 to 1,000 

 tires daily. 



The Savage company is also planning for distribution of its 

 tires all over the United States. Branch stores have been 

 opened in Chicago and New York, the former branch con- 

 trolling the middle West, distributors having already been 

 appointed at Kansas City and St. Paul, while the New York 

 branch will look after the distribution in the Western and New 

 England states. A number of additional distrilnition points will 

 also be arranged for through the South. 



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one. Some pictures of the exhibit, as arranged at the open- 

 ing, were shown by us in September, 1915, and certainly 

 these gave a good idea of its size, scope and seeming com- 

 pleteness. Dr. Dahne, however, was not satisfied, and plans 

 even more comprehensive exhibits. The picture on this page 

 gives an excellent idea of the products of Northern Brazil, 

 exhibiting rubber, forestry and game. The approach to this 

 department is through a long aisle, on one side of which 

 are shown the products of Central and on the other those 

 of Southern Brazil. The main attraction of this department 

 is a representation of a rubber gatherer's house. This is 

 decked with trophies of the hunt, skins, clubs, bows and 

 arrows, while behind and above is a large map of the Republic 

 of Brazil and the columns are festooned with national flags 

 of the Republic, At the other end, but not showing up well 

 enough to reproduce in this picture, is a representation of 

 a South American jungle with growing plants brought from 

 the tropics, this natural verdure being backed by a huge 

 painting of a Brazilian forest. Here also is a rubber gather- 

 er's hut, with the usual tools and implements used in the 

 gathering and smoking of rubber. There are specimens of 

 every kind of rubber produced in the country, cases of rubber 

 seed, and small rubber trees growing in pots, and the walls 

 are covered with large photographs illustrating the various 

 steps from gathering the latex to shipping the crude rubber. 

 It will thus be seen that this department and the exhibi- 

 tion of some five tons of different varieties of rubber w-hich 

 are arranged at the approach to this special department well 

 represent the rubber industry of Brazil, and that if Dr. 

 Dahne brings with him on his return still further additions, it 

 would seem as though this exhibit would be the most com- 

 plete of any ever shown of Brazilian rubber. 



