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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I May 1, 1919. 



TRADE NOTES. 



The New York Rubber Co., 84 Reade street, New York, has 

 removed its mechanical goods factory from Matteawan to Bea- 

 con, New York. 



The Belmont Packing & Rubber Co., Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 

 vania, has removed its New York office and stock room to 99 

 Chambers street, New York City. 



The Burdick Tire and Rubber Co., Noblesville, Indiana, is 

 building a reinforced concrete three-story factory, 100 by 200 

 feet, and a power plant 100 by 100 feet, in which it will manu- 

 facture its shingle-construction patented tire. A temporary plant 

 is being operated until the permanent one is ready for occu- 

 pancy. The officers of the company are : John P. McKinley, 

 president; A. S. Burdick, vice-president; R. H. Mather, secre- 

 tary and counsel. The Chicago office is in the Consumers 

 Building. 



The Triple Tread Tire Co., a Delaware corporation with its 

 business office at 1442 South iVIichigan avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 

 has been granted authority to do business in Plattenville, Wis- 

 consin, where it has appointed James F. Gibson its agent. H. 

 C Lund is president of the company. 



The Super Tread Tire Co., Cedar and Emerick streets, South 

 Bend, Indiana, manufacturer of tires and repair material, has 

 increased its capital stock from $5,000 to $100,000. C. L. Smith 

 is president of the company. 



The Washington Rubber Co. of Pennsylvania, Washington, 

 Pennsylvania, manufacturer of tires and inner tubes, has elected 

 the following officers and directors for the current year: J. L. 

 Lockhart, president; Dr. S. L. McCurdy, vice-president; B. F. 

 Mevay, secretary and treasurer; John Warrick, T. W. D. 

 Heiber, and Burt S. Shafer. T. R. McKennan is general 

 manager. 



The International India Rubber Corp., manufacturer of "South 

 Bend" tires, South Bend, Indiana, has elected the following offi- 

 cers for the ensuing year: G. W. Odell, president and treas- 

 urer; Peter E. Studebaker, vice-president; J. A. Bennett, secre- 

 tary: directors, C. W. Truxell and J. W. Ridge. The company 

 is to extend the length of its main factory building to 967 feet, 

 in which additional equipment will be installed to increase the 

 output of the plant to double its present volume. 



The Rawlings Manufacturing Co., Lucas avenue and 23d 

 street, St. Louis, Missouri, manufacturers of the "Ruko" game 

 balls and other athletic goods, has opened an office at 28 Broad- 

 way, New York City, in charge of J. G. Smith. Richard Jack- 

 son, Jr., will represent the concern in the West, with headquarters 

 in San Francisco. 



The Allen Machine Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, manufacturer of 

 rubber mill machinery, has elected the following officers: E. E. 

 Allen, president; J. A. Himrod, vice-president; A. G. Scheiden- 

 helm, secretary; and P. A. Himrod, treasurer. 



T. A. Desmond & Co., 949 Broadway (Flatiron Building), 

 New York City, is a new firm formed by Thomas A. Desmond 

 and Herbert S. DeLanie to deal in crude rubber. Both partners 

 were formerly in the employ of Robinson & Co., New York 

 City, importers of crude rubber. 



F. A. Reichard, Inc., and J. W. Coulston & Co., New York 

 City, importers and dealers in rubbermakers' colors and chemi- 

 cals, have consolidated and will conduct their business, after 

 May 1, 1919. under the name of Reichard-Coulston, Inc., at 303 

 Fifth avenue. The business management and policy will remain 

 the same. The officers are : J. W. Coulston, president ; A. Paluel 

 de Marmon, vice-president; J. W. Bossert, treasurer; and W. I. 

 Coulston, secretary. 



The Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wiscon- 

 sin, manufacturer of electric controlling devices, has transferred 

 E. C. Cherrington and T. R. Cooley from the sales service de- 

 partment of the Milwaukee office to the Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 

 vania, office of the central district, as office manager and engi- 

 neering correspondent, respectively. 



Morgan & Wright, Detroit, Michigan, arc building a seven- 

 story warehouse extension, 140 by 170 feet. 



The Federal Rubber Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin, has just com- 

 pleted a six-story building 443 by 145 feet, the construction of 

 which was delayed during the war. It is being used for increased 

 production of mechanical rubber goods, including hose, pack- 

 ing, heels and soles, and molded goods. 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New York City, has increased 

 its common stock from $5,029,900 to $10,000,000 and decreased its 

 preferred stock from $3,990,300 to $3,900,300. Accordingly, 900 

 shares of the preferred stock have been purchased by the com- 

 pany for its special surplus account and duly cancelled, which out 

 of the increase in common stock a quarterly dividend of three 

 per cent on the common stock, in addition to the cash dividend 

 of $1 per share, has been declared, beginning May 1, 1919. 



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

 elected the following officers : L. Walter Lissber,gtr, president ; 

 Sydney Bernheim, vice-president; Walter Loewenthal, secre- 

 tary, and Joel Jacobs, treasurer. 



The Prospect Tire & Rubber Co., 225 Delaware avenue, Buf- 

 falo, New York, a newly incorporated concern for the manu- 

 facture of cord tires to be sold direct to the consumer, will lo- 

 cate its factory at Prospect, Chautauqua County, New York. 

 The officers are : James T. Barnes, president ; J. H. Prender- 

 grast, vice-president, and J. L. Rosenblatt, secretary and 

 treasurer. The company is capitalized at $500,000, of which 

 $300,000 is common stock and the balance preferred. 



The Quality Tire & Rubber Co., 1101 Main street, Anderson, 

 Indiana, is installing machinery in the newly completed addi- 

 tion to its factory in which it will start manufacturing automo- 

 bile tires and tubes about June 1, 1919. C. J. Hodges is gen- 

 eral manager. 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New Y'ork City, has taken 

 over the business of the Boss Rubber Co. in several western cities, 

 where it will operate Kelly-Springfield branches as follows: 

 1550 Broadway, Denver, Colorado, H. E. Gabriel, manager; 27 

 West Fourth South street, Salt Lake City, Utah, George V. 

 Porter, manager, and 120 West Broadway, Butte, Montana, C. 

 D. Cole, manager. 



The Fort Wayne Tire and Rubber Manufacturing Co., Fort 

 Wayne, Indiana, has increased its capital from $500,000 to 

 $1,000,000. 



The Lee Rubber & Tire Corporation, 61 Broadway, New York 

 City, at the annual meeting of the company on March 27, 1919, 

 increased the number of its directors from nine to eleven and 

 elected officers as follows : H. C. Coleman, J. Carl DeLaCour, 

 John M. Dettra (assistant secretary), James A. Fayne, S. B. 

 Fleming, Albert A. Garthwaite (vice-president and treasurer), 

 Walter H. Herrick, Horace C. Jones. Samuel H. Miller, John 

 J. Watson, Jr. (president), and Joseph Wayne, Jr. Henry Hop- 

 kins, Jr., is secretary of the company. 



The Newman Tire & Rubber Co. has removed its general 

 office and warerooms to 244-246 West 54th street. New York 

 City, and is making this the distributing point for merchandise 

 to its several stores in New York and out of town. Both retail 

 and wholesale business is conducted. 



The Quabaug Rubber Co., North Brookfield, Massachusetts, 

 has recently made a number of changes in the personnel of its 

 organization. The officers are : Thomas G. Richards, president 

 and sales manager; C. A. Evans (Merchants National Bank, 

 Worcester), treasurer; directors, in addition to the foregoing — 

 Frank A. Drury (Merchants National Bank, Worcester), Henry 

 Drew (National Union Bank, Boston), Frank Smith (attorney, 

 Worcester), Walter T. Bucklin (Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 

 Boston), and William Edmunds (investments, Boston). Charles 

 Burgess has resigned from his positions as director, treasurer, 

 and sales manager of the company, as have also Eugene de 

 Rozier as chief chemist and F. W. Tingley as engineer. 



