January 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



221 



TRADE NOTES. 



Tlie Keaton Tire & Rubber Co. has moved into larger quarters 

 at 636 Van Ness avenue, San Francisco, California, the new 

 two-story and basement quarters having three entrances and 

 affording every convenience for proper service. 



The Meyer Rubber Co. is erecting a plant at Ma.ssillon, Ohio, 

 for the manufacture of automobile tires and tire accessories. 



The Gillette Safety Tire Co., Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has 

 increased its capital stock to $1,000,000. Work is progressing 

 rapidly on the plant, and it is expected that by March or April 

 the capacity will be more than doubled. C. G. Race, formerly 

 general manager of the Chicago branch, is now general sales 

 manager at Eau Claire. 



The Estabrook-McGravv Tire Co., 1646 Broadway, Denver 

 Colorado, is a new distributing agency for McGraw tires in Colo- 

 rado and extensive adjacent territory in the Rocky Mountain 

 region. 



The Marathon Tire & Rubber Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 

 has opened a new department for the manufacture of rubber 

 and composition soles and heels, with Frank B. Rickaby in 

 charge. 



The Hester Tire & Rubber Co. has acquired a three-acre 

 site in Delphos, Ohio, on the Fort Wayne division of the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad and the Clover Leaf Route, and will there 

 erect a series of modern two-story factory buildings, of brick 

 and concrete construction. Each unit will be 50 by ISO feet and 

 will contain approximately 15,000 feet of floor space. It is ex- 

 pected that part of the plant will be in operation by spring. 



To facilitate the shipment and storage of its tires, the Savage 

 Tire Co., San Diego, California, has added to the group of its 

 factory buildings a warehouse of brick and steel construction. 

 It is erected on the tracks of the San Diego & Arizona Rail- 

 road and will handle all the carload shipments, besides being 

 used as a supplementary storehouse for raw materials and an 

 overflow storehouse for finished tires. 



The Good-Wear Rubber Co. has purchased for $30,000, prop- 

 erty comprising Ij/ acres oi ground centrally located in Elyria, 

 Ohio. The existing buildings on this property, having a floor 

 space of 25,000 to 30,000 square feet, will be remodeled very 

 shortly, the company expecting, to manufacture tires in the late 

 spring or early summer. 



The Porter Rubber Co., Salem, Ohio, has raised its capital 

 stock from $125,000 to $250,000, because of increased business, 

 the new stock to be taken by present stockholders. This com- 

 pany already has a new, modern factory with a capacity of 350 

 tires and a like number of tubes per day. 



The Watson Suspension Wheel Co., Franklin. Pennsylvania, 

 has raised its capital stock from $50,000 to $150,000. This com- 

 pany holds the patents for the Triple Airless tire, which is made 

 under contract. The officers are as follows : J. M. Martin, Grove 

 City, Pennsylvania, president; A. C. Hileman, vice-president; 

 Fred W. Daugherty, secretary and treasurer. 



The Fox-Senior Tire Co. has decreased the amount of its 

 authorized capital of $20,000 to $10,000. 



The assets and liabilities of The McClurg Rubber Co., Coshoc- 

 ton, Ohio, have recently been taken over by the Midland Tire 

 & Rubber Co., which will operate in the old McClurg company's 

 building at Coshocton. Three tires of different grades, includ- 

 ing a cord tire, and also tubes, will be manufactured. Wilmer 

 Dunbar will act as general manager. 



The Batavia Ruliber Co.. Batavia. New York, has liled com- 

 plaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission cliarging the 

 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and connecting lines, with dis- 



crimination in rates with respect to its articles of manufacture 

 on shipments meant for so-called Southern Classification terri- 

 tory by way of Ohio River crossings. The complaint alleges that 

 this discrimination extends to classes of tires as follows : First 

 class, on pneumatic tires, in any quantity ; second class on solid 

 tires, any quantity; and, third class, on all others, such as tires 

 in steel casings. The complainant asks the commission to order 

 rates which will cause "a larger spread" between the carload and 

 less than carload lots. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has also filed 

 a petition for reclassification of freight rates on tires shipped 

 via the Atlantic Coast Line and other railroads in the South. 



The Mutual Film Corporation will equip all of its motor cars 

 with a specially constructed non-skid tire which will write the 

 name of Charlie Cliaplin in the dust of the road three times 

 for each wheel revolution. Between imprints of the name will 

 be footprints of the world's champion foot-worker, on the shoe 

 of the tire. 



The Iowa Rubber Tire Co., of Bettendorf, Iowa, has recently 

 purchased the plant formerly occupied by the American Can Co. 

 for $70,000. It is claimed that the company has signed three 

 tire experts from Akron, Ohio. 



The Good-Wear Rubber Co.. Elyria, Ohio, is said to have 

 commenced operating. It is estimated that the company will 

 employ 150 men and make 300 tires and 2(X) tubes daily. 



It is understood that the contract for erecting the Kelly- 

 Springfield Tire Co.'s plant at Cumberland, Maryland, has been 

 let for $2,500,000. Building will commence March 1. 



Production has begun in the newly-built pneumatic tire factory 

 of the J. & D. Tire & Rubber Co., at Charlotte, North Carolina. 

 George Knowles, a scientific rubber man with 16 years' practical 

 experience in tire manufacturing, is superintendent. 



At the annual sales conference of The McGraw Tire & Rubber 

 Co.. East Palestine, Ohio, December 6 to 9, S. L. Warner was 

 appointed assistant sales manager, and R. J. Delavan, special 

 representative. C. K. Whittaker, former Pacific Coast district 

 manager, was made Pacific Coast district manager, with head- 

 quarters at San Francisco, California. There was a full attend- 

 ance of district managers at the conference, and C. E. Miley, 

 general sales manager, presided. 



A certificate of authority to do business in Illinois has been 

 issued to The Gordon Tire & Rubber Co., an Ohio corporation 

 with a capital stock of $600,000. The principal office in Illinois 

 is located in Chicago. 



EMPIRE RUBBER & TIRE CO.S NEW PHILADELPHIA OFFICE. 



The new hduie of tlic- Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) branch of 

 the Empire Rubber & Tire Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, is a 

 large four-story and basement building centrally located at 810 

 North Broad street. One of the main reasons for erecting this 

 new building was to improve the service end of the company's 

 business, and the rear portion of the fir.st floor, 20 by 86 feet, is 

 given over to the service station, allowing plenty of room to run 

 cars inside. Experts will be in charge of this department, capable 

 of giving advice to patrons wbicli will insure the greatest pos- 

 sible service from the tires. 



The entire second floor is used for the stock room. It is 

 equipped with four rows of tire racks, each 160 feet long and 

 extending to the ceiling, three tiers high, and with accommoda- 

 tions for at least 10,000 tires, everything being arranged to 

 facilitate the quick handling of stock. The storage room for the 

 many varied products of tlic company i.s on the third floor, and a 

 ccjmpletely equipped repair shop in charge of expert tire men 

 occupies the entire fourtli floor. .Xn electric elevator runs from 

 tlic first to the top floor. 



