September 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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burgh — both in Pennsylvania; M. Howells. Orrville, Ohio. The 

 office of the corporation within the State of Delaware is with 

 the Capital Trust Co. of Delaware, Dover, Delaware. To manu- 

 facture and deal in automobile tires and tubes, and goods manu- 

 factured from rubber. 



Wheeler Rubber Co., The, July 16 (Nebraska), $25,000. A. E. 

 Wheeler, M. Wheeler, R. E. McLeester. Principal office, Omaha, 

 Nebraska. 



LEE TIRE COMPANY IN NEW YORK OFFICES. 



The general offices of the Lee Tire (S: Rubber Co., including 

 all branches of the company's business except the production 

 department, are to be moved from present quarters at the Con- 

 shohocken, Pennsylvania, factory to New York City. By Octo- 

 ber 1 the sales, e-xecutive and accounting forces will be installed 

 in New York headquarters and the opening in New York of a 

 large branch service station for the convenience of dealers in 

 the vicinity and New England is also contemplated. These im- 

 portant changes will aid in the greatly increased output of Lee 

 tires promised for next season. 



LAUNCHING OF LONG. WEAR TIRES AND TUBES. 



The new factory of The Long-Wear Rubber Co., Elyria, 

 Ohio, is now completed and most of the machinery installed, 

 the total cost being $100,000. Within another month the com- 

 pany's product — automobile tires and tubes — will be on the mar- 

 ket. At the last meeting of the board of directors, officers were 

 elected as follows: William Seher, Lorain, Ohio, president; J. 

 E. Murbach, Elyria, vice-president ; L N. Barber, Chicago, Illi- 

 nois, secretary; W. E. Brooks, Elyria, treasurer; Charles J. 

 Hodges, Elyria, general manager. Other directors are Henry 

 B. Kishman, Vermilion, Ohio ; J. J. Dauch, Sandusky, Ohio ; C. 

 H. Whitney, Oberlin, Ohio. B. W. Rote, Akron, Ohio, is factory 

 manager. 



CONVEYOR BELTING STRONGER THAN STEEL CABLE. 



About the middle of June there were stored at the docks at 

 St. John, New Brunswick, thousands of cases of shells waiting 

 to be shipped for use abroad in the present war. So great was 

 this weight that the wharf collapsed, not toppling over but simply 



Rubber Convi 



Holding Immense Weight. 



dropping straight down under the load. Over this warehouse 

 was a grain conveyor having a rubber conveyor belt. When the 

 warehouse collapsed this grain conveyor remained suspended in 

 the air by the strength of the belt, which carried the weight of 

 the conveyor, and when the second tide caused a further crash 

 this tower slid along the belt until it reached Shed No. 5, as 

 shown in the photograph. The authorities did not consider the 

 belt sufficient to hold this great weight, and provided heavy steel 

 cables to prevent further collapse. After these cables were placed 

 the belting was cut, but when the next tide came in the cables 

 broke and the conveyor came down with a crash. Rarely, if ever, 



has there been a more severe test for a belt of this kind, or, in 

 fact, almost any kind of a belt, and that it stood the test speaks 

 volumes for the quality and workmanship of the manufacturer, 

 the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, of Montreal, 

 Canada. 



TRADE NOTES. 



Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has 

 made the gift of a fellowship of $400 for research work in 

 physics to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 



The Canton Rubber Co., Canton, Ohio, has surrendered its 

 certificate of authority to do business in the State of New York 

 as a corporation, and the products of the company will in future 

 be handled in that section exclusively by Lloyd P. Jones, 240 

 Broadway, New York City. 



The United States Rubber Co. has bought 40,000 shares of its 

 own stock and turned them over to employes on a profit-sharing 

 plan. 



The Federal Rubber Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin, held its annual 

 picnic on August 18 at Waukesha Beach. There was an at- 

 tractive program of athletic events and a flag-raising ceremony. 



The Rubber Regenerating Co., Mishawaka, Indiana, has em- 

 ployed a number of women to take the places of men expected 

 to be called under the draft law. It is said that the services of 

 the women, who are doing regular routine work, are proving 

 highly satisfactory. 



To the McCoy-Nolan Supply Co.. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has 

 been awarded the contract to supply the local fire department 

 with 5,000 feet of 2^-inch double-jacketed fire hose; also the 

 contract for 1,000 feet of 3H-inch fire hose. 



The semi-annual style conference of the clothing department of 

 the United States Rubber Co. was held at Grand Pacific Hotel, 

 Chicago, Illinois, the first part of August, when a wonderfully 

 attractive line of clothing, was shown for the examination of 

 the buyers of the branch stores. 



The United States Rubber Co. of California arranged a very 

 attractive display of druggists' sundries at the recent convention 

 of the California Pharmaceutical Association in San Francisco, 

 this being the only exhibit of druggists' rubber goods. Mr. Van 

 Inwagen, manager of that department, reports that the druggists 

 evinced much interest in the display. 



While the word "Substitute" has a definite and well-under- 

 stood meaning in the rubber manufacturing industry, the 

 term is undoubtedly suggestive of adulteration. The Stam- 

 ford Rubber Supply Co., Stamford, Connecticut, has therefore 

 adopted for its vulcanized vegetable oil products the term 

 "Rubber Factice." 



The Traun Rubber Co. has recently removed its offices to 239- 

 243 Fourth avenue. New York City. 



The Rubber Regenerating Co., Naugatuck, Connecticut, is 

 erecting a new three-story brick warehouse, 320 by 66 feet, which 

 will be used for manufacturing as well as warehouse purposes. 

 The company is also building a 200- by 62-foot warehouse at its 

 factory at Mishawaka, Indiana. 



S. Birkenstein & Sons, scrap rubber dealers, Chicago, Illinois, 

 have recently purchased from fifty to sixty thousand square feet 

 on North avenue and Hawthorne street. No definite plans for 

 building on this property have yet been formulated. 



The Keystone Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., New York City, is 

 now operating 32 stores and at its annual meeting on August 1 

 the board of directors resolved to continue opening stores until 

 a maximum of 100 is reached. There were no new elections. 



St. Louis, Missouri, appears to be on the very threshold of 

 industrial opportunity. The "St. Louis Chamber of Commerce 

 Bulletin" of late has an unusually optimistic tone and may prove 

 an inspiration to new manufacturing business seeking a promis- 

 ing site. 



