January 1. 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



THE NEW UNITED STATES TRUCK TIRE. 



After thorough tests, iiiuler the most severe wurking condi- 

 tions, on trucks of all kin<ls and roads of all descriptions, a new- 

 truck tire is offered by the United States Tire Company to truck 

 owners as affording the maximum wear under heaviest loads and 

 a degree of resiliency that is not only lasting but which affords 

 the greatest protection to the mechanism of the truck. A new 

 type of hydraulic press is used in vulcanizing this tire, under 

 a pressure of 800 tons, which forces all gas and every atom of 

 moisture out of the rubber. The extreme depth of the dove- 

 tailed serrations in the steel base into which the hard rubber 

 compound is forced,, and there vulcanized, makes an inseparable 

 union between the rubber foundation and the steel rim. 



These advantages, combined with a rubber compound of ex- 

 ceptional toughness and in larger volume than in most truck 

 tires, are features impressed on the truck owner as insuring 

 longer life to tires — the most expensive item in his truck 

 equipment. 



The sectional form of the tire is likewise claimed as an im- 

 provement on previous patterns, insuring the retention of the 

 shape until the tire is quite worn out, side stripping of the tread 

 being impossible. [United States Tire Co., Xew York.] 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Jesse E. La Dow, as representative of the Mansfield Tire 

 & Rubber Co., Mansfield, Ohio, has been appointed chairman 

 of the press and publicity committee of the Ohio Manufac- 

 turers' Association. Mr. La Dow presented a report at the 

 fifth annual meeting of the association held at Columbus. 

 Ohio, on December 14. 



John W. Conway, superintendent of the Bridgeport. Con- 

 necticut, branch of the Polack Tyre & Rubber Co., New 

 York, is making an extended trip abroad, to investigate con- 

 ditions as related to the English and German factories of the 

 Polack company. 



Charles E. Ross has been made manager of the Columbus 

 branch of the Midgley Tire & Rubber Co., Lancaster, Ohio. 



At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States 

 Tire Co., New York, held December IS, Ernest Hopkinson, patent 

 counsel of the United States Rubber Co., was elected vice-presi- 

 dent and a member of the executive committee of the United 

 States Tire Co. 



George B. Hendrick. of Winthrop. Massachusetts, has been 

 appointed manager of the newly established publicity depart- 

 ment of the Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. 

 In addition to publicity matters, he will have charge of print- 

 ing and will edit the company's house organ, but the new depart- 

 ment will have no connection with the advertising department, 

 the management of which remains unchanged. Mr. Hendrick is 

 well known among newspaper and advertising men of the East, 

 having been, successively, advertising manager of the Boston 

 "Traveler and the Pittsburgh "Post" and "Sun," and sales man- 

 ager of the A. Mugford Corporation, of Hartford, and of the 

 George H. Ellis Co., of Boston. He goes to the Fisk company 

 from the latter concern. 



.Arthur E. Friswell, who returned to the United States early 

 last summer after several years' stay in Bermuda, as recorded 

 in The 1ni)I.\ Rubber World of June 1, 1915, is to engage again 

 in the tire manufacturing business. He has accepted a position 

 with the Northern Rubber Co.. Retford. Nottinghamshire, Eng- 

 land, to reorganize and extend the business of its Sheffield branch 

 in the engineering machinery and colliery districts of the North 

 of England. 



The Michelin Tire Co., Chicago. Illinois, informs us of the ad- 

 vancement of R. B. Tracy, formerly central manager, to the posi- 

 tion of factory representative, with supervision over the follow- 

 ing branch territories : Philadelpliia, Cleveland, Chicago, St. 

 Louis, Dcs Moines. Kansas City and .Miiuicapolis. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



In a circular letter, dated December 1, 1915. Ewart M. Brunn 

 announces the dissolution, by mutual consent, of his partnership 

 with Paul Bertuch, under the firm name of Hagemeyer & Brunn, 

 and that the business will be continued by him. at the same ad- 

 dress, 9 Stone street. New York, under the same firm name. Paul 

 Bertuch, under the same date, announces his intention to con- 

 tinue in business as a rubber merchant, under his own name, at 

 25 Beaver street. New York. 



A meeting of the American Society for Testing Materials, 

 Committee D-11 on standard specifications for rubber products, 

 was held in New York, December 14, 1915. 



The directors of the Canadian Connecticut Cotton Mills, Lim- 

 ited, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, have authorized a large addi- 

 tion in the equipment, doubling the production of the mill. Addi- 

 tional buildings will also be erected. Although the consumption 

 of tire fabric in Canada has heretofore been insufficient to war- 

 rant this expansion, evidence of an era of better times now leads 

 the company to anticipate conditions and prepare for more eco- 

 nomical operation. 



Fire broke out in the plant of Julius Schmid, manufacturer 

 of druggists' sundries at Long Island Cit>', New York, on the 

 night of December 10, 1915, the three-story frame building and 

 entire contents being totally destroyed, with a loss of $20,000, 

 fully covered by insurance. The flames spread to the residence 

 of C. F. Schmid, secretary of the company, adjoining the fac- 

 tory, and this, with its contents, was also destroyed. 



The L. H. Butcher Co., San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia, will act as selling agent on the Pacific Coast for Katzen- 

 bach & Bullock Co., New York, Chicago and Trenton. The lat- 

 ter concern imports and deals in chemicals, colors and com- 

 pounding ingredients, making a specialty of supplying the re- 

 quirements of rubber manufacturers in these materials. 



At a meeting of the board of directors of the Rubber Goods 

 Manufacturing Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, held on December 

 1. 1915, the regular quarterly dividend of IM per cent on the 

 preferred stock was declared, payable December 15 to stock- 

 holders of record December 10. 



The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.. East Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, announces the payment on January 1, 1916, 

 at the office of the Guaranty Trust Co., of New York, 140 Broad- 

 way, of the convertible sinking fund five per cent gold bonds of 

 the company, issued and outstanding, under the trust indenture 

 of March 30, 1906. Holders of the bonds who wish to anticipate 

 said date of redemption, may surrender them for cancellation at 

 the above address and will receive, in cash, the face value of 

 their bonds, with a premium of five per cent and interest on such 

 face value at the rate of five per cent per annum, from July 1, 

 1915. to the date of surrender. 



The Converse Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden, Massachusetts, has 

 established a western sales department in Chicago. Illinois, with 

 Morton L. Paterson, well known in shoe trade circles, as man- 

 ager. Premises at the corner of Peoria street and West Jackson 

 Boulevard have been leased for the purpose. 



ROBERT BADENHOP, RUBBER DEALER. RETIRES. 



The firm uf Rnlxrt Badenho]), dealers in crude rulibcr, at 67-69 

 Wall street, New ^'ork. enters into liquidation January 1. 1916, 

 the head of the firm, Mr. Badenhop seeking rest and recuperation 

 of his health, overstrained by close attention to business. The 

 interests of the firm will he transferred to a new corporation, 

 organized for this purpose, of which 11. W. Holcombe and Sloan 

 Lamont, Jr., will have the active management. They have both 

 been associated with Mr. Badenhop for several years and are well 

 known in the trade. The title of the new concern will be the 

 Robert Badenhop Co. The offices will remain at the same addres.s 

 and the branch office in the Second National Building, .Akron, 

 Ohio, will also be maintained 



