August 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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TRL CAHLISIE COKD 1IRE. 



The Carlisle Cord Tire Co.. Inc., notice of whose incorpora- 

 tion ajipeared in the June, 1917, number of The India Rubber 

 WoRLU, will soon put upon the market a cord tire, the inven- 

 tion of F. B. Carlisle, not only novel in itself but made upon 

 equally ingenious yet simple machines designed and constructed 

 by the same inventor. The carcass is made from cotton cord 

 of large diameter, having a tensile strength of 235 pounds. Each 

 cord is surrounded v/ith rubber, which, it is claimed, almost 

 entirely eliminates internal friction. The tread is novel, con- 

 sisting of two parallel depressions resembling zigzag streaks 

 of lightning, which provide effective non-skid qualities. 



The company has secured an entire floor in the fine tire 

 factory of the Tyer Rubber Co., Andover, Massachusetts, where 

 the cord-laying machines are already at work. The vulcaniz- 

 ing is being done by the Tyer Rubber Co., but all other de- 

 tails of construction are entirely separate and distinct from the 

 latter named concern. 



The officers of the Carlisle company are : President J. S. 

 Bretz ; vice-president. F. B. Carlisle, the inventor: treasurer, 

 Frank Williams, president of the Broadway Central Bank, New 

 York City, and secretary, Frank A. Searles. Tlie general sales 

 manager is Charles A. Gilbert, formerly Pacific Coast man- 

 ager, United States Tire Co. The principal office is at 250 West 

 Fifty-fourth street. New York City. 



THE ROOF GARDEN OF THE COLORADO TIRE & LEATHER CO. 



On the evening of June 25 the new roof garden of the Colo- 

 rado Tire & Leather Co., Denver, Colorado, was opened by a 

 formal dance given by the Executive Club, which is composed 

 of department managers and their first assistants. Speeches 

 were made by officers of the company. 



The roof garden was constructed at a cost of appro.ximately 

 $15,000, and is intended primarily for the social entertainment 

 of employes of the company and their friends. It also affords 



an opportunity to obtain well-cooked food practically at cost. 

 Bert Rhoads, architect for the company, worked out the de- 

 sign. The entrance is surmounted by a glass canopy and a large 

 srmmer house, to be used as a banquet hall, ball room and 

 lunch room, is the principal feature of the scheme. Swings, 

 rustic benches and tea tables invite rcla,xation during the lunch 

 hour and also evening amusement if desired. 



NEW FISK BRANCH AT NASHVILLE. 



The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, is to 

 erect a handsome permanent branch in Nashville, Tennessee, on 

 Eighth avenue, north, and extending through to Ninth avenue. 

 The plans being prepared by Marr & Holman, architects, call 

 for a sales and stock room and also a service station, to he 

 equipped with all modern machinery necessary for repairing 

 tires. The building will be of tapestry brick and thoroughly up to 

 date in every particular. W. E. Cunningham is local manager 

 for the Fisk company. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



W. H. Taylor, of Chicago, has become resident manager of 

 the Peoria, Illinois, branch of the United States Tire Co. Mr. 

 Taylor was formerly engaged in specializing among jobbers for 

 United States tires. 



William Jameson, assistant superintendent of The Fisk Rubber 

 Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, has presented the Chicopee 

 Public Library with a magnificent mounted moose head which 

 has been placed in a prominent place in the children's room. 



Mark W. Roe, who has just resigned as mechanical and effi- 

 ciency engineer for the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East Pal- 

 estine, Ohio, to accept a similar position with the Republic Rub- 

 ber Co., Youngstown, Ohio, has been connected with the rubber 

 industry since 1906, when he became mechanical engineer for 

 the Diamond Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. He graduated from 

 Cornell University in 1896 and for two years was an assistant 

 instructor there, the next seven years serving engineering and 

 textile concerns, an experience well fitting him for his later work 

 in the rubber industry. 



.-\. T. Severs, formerly assistant manager of the Minneapolis, 

 Minnesota, branch of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, has been appointed manager of the Fargo, North Dakota, 

 branch, succeeding W. R. McCarthy resigned. 



R. T. Jollie, Jr., has been appointed supervisor of the Ajax 

 Rubber Co., New York City, in Ohio, West Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky. 



B. F. Wulff, formerly connected with the San Francisco and 

 later with the Chicago branch of The Kelly-Springheld Tire 

 Co., has severed his connection with that company to become 

 associated with the McCreary Tire & Rubber Co., Indiana, Penn- 

 sylvania, as manager of their sales department. 



Fiobert CartmeH, who has made an enviable record in the Los 

 .•\ngeles, California, branch of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., 

 New York City, has been placed in charge of the sales of solid 

 truck tires at the general sales offices of the company, Cleveland, 

 Ohio, where he will work with general sales manager Otis R. 

 Cook. 



Charles Schoneman, who has done excellent work in Hack- 

 ensack. New Jersey, and Baltimore, Maryland, also more re- 

 cently as division manager, for the Sterling Tire Corp., Ruther- 

 ford, New Jersey, has been appointed manager of the new Chi- 

 cago. Illinois, branch of that company. 



L. W. Santasiere, formerly with the New York branch of the 

 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., .\kron, Ohio, has been appointed 

 a foreign traveler for the company. He sails shortl\- l'>r the 

 West Indies, where he will do general sales promotion work. 



R. W. Brouse, formerly assistant manager of the Philadelphia 

 (Pennsylvania) branch of The B. F. Goodrich Co., has been pro- 

 moted to the managership of the company's branch at Buffalo. 

 .\'ew York. 



IMPERIAL BELTING CO. PROMOTIONS. 



Harry E. Dennie, for several years Pacific Coast manager of 

 the Imperial Belting Co., Chicago, llHnois. has been appointed 

 general manager of the company. 



W. S. Bloomer, formerly special representative throughout 

 the Western States, has been appointed general sales manager. 



Both were originally Chicago men who will be welcomed to 

 tlieir former fields of operation by many friends in the trade. 

 The transfers were made necessary by the rapid e.xpansion of 

 the business and the determination to render tlie same pains- 

 taking service- which their many satisfied customers have re- 

 ceived in the past. 



According to the "New York Sun" the Need of Rubber in 

 Germany for the uses of war has become so .great that even 

 billiard tables arc beuig stripped of their cushions. 



