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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



vulcanizers. The officers of the company are : A. M. Pearce, 

 president and general manager ; Charles L. Foster, vice-president ; 

 M. H. Sullivan, assistant genera! manager, and \V. E. Wilkins, 

 secretary. 



The Toledo Auto Fabrics Co., Toledo. Ohio, has increased 

 its capital from $150,000 to $225,000. 



The Tubeless Tire and Rubber Co., Millersburg, Ohio, has 

 elected the following officers: W. A. Miller, president; G. B. 

 Helmuth, vice-president; O. J. Hicks, second vice-president, 

 and G. A. Jordan, secretary-treasurer. 



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The Security Tire & Rubber Co., Wellington, Ohio, manu- 

 facturer of the "Security" no-air tube, elected the following 

 directors and officers at its annual meeting: Edwin L. Camp, 

 president; R. B. Mclnerny, vice-president; George J. Quay, 

 secretary and general manager; S. Sudro, William H. Hill, 

 Harry Gresham and W. W. Parker. The company is now in 

 its third year of operation, having been incorporated in Dela- 

 ware, in 1916, with a capitalization of $1,000,000. 



The Monarch Rubber Co., Carrollton, Ohio, recently 

 bought the plant of the BeSaw Tire & Rubber Co., at Hart- 

 ville, including real estate and materials on hand, at an ap- 

 proximate cost of $200,000. The plant has been remodeled 

 and new machinery installed. Additional building equipment 

 is planned to increase the capacity of the plant. 



The BeSaw company has no connection with the Monarch 

 concern and will continue to operate its present plant at Ard- 

 more, Oklahoma. ^ ^ ^ 



The Lancaster Tire and Rubber Co.. Columbus, Ohio, has 

 increased its capital from $500,000 to $800,000, of which $200,- 

 000 is original preferred and $600,000 common stock. 



The Mansfield Tire & Rubber Co., Mansfield, Ohio, has 

 approved plans for the construction of an addition to its 

 present plant, to be of steel, brick and glass, four stories 

 high. Additional ground has been purchased north of the 

 present plant, making a total holding of nine acres. 



The Fidelity Tire & Rubber Co.. Massillon, Ohio, has 

 leased the plant of the Kendall Tire & Rubber Co. in that 

 place and will manufacture Ford-size tires. 



The Erie Tire & Rubber Co., Sandusky, Ohio, is having plans 

 prepared for an addition to its factory. 



The Henderson Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., Bucyrus, Ohio, 

 nas increased its capital from $200,000 to $350,000. 



NEW MAXOTIRE FACTORY. 



The K & W Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio, one of the pioneer 

 manufacturers of tire reinforcements, has purchased more than 

 ten acres of land alonir the Big Four tracks in Delaware. Ohio, 

 and erected a modern 

 factory for the manu- 

 facture of the "Maxo- 

 tirc," a successful in- 

 side tire. The accom- 

 panying photograph 

 shows the new build- 

 ing, which is devoted 

 exclusively to the making of tire reinforcements. The company 

 has moved its general offices and equipment into the new quar- 

 ters, and machinery is rapidly being installed with which to 

 run all kinds of rubber stock needed. 



JOHN MORGAN, McGRAW'S VICE-PRESIDENT. 



JOHN Morgan, who was elected a director of The Rubber Asso- 

 ciation of America at the annual meeting, was born in 

 London, England, in 1880. Educated privately, he was later 

 graduated from the City of London 

 College with honors and completed his 

 education by travel in the diflferent 

 countries of Europe. 



He became secretary to a leading 

 member of the European Diplomatic 

 Corps, with headquarters in Paris, 

 ■"ranee, during which association ex- 

 tensive travels throughout Europe en- 

 abled him to make a very broad study 

 of the customs and languages of the 

 European nations. 



Coming to America in 1905, he be- 

 came interested in the importation of 

 high-grade foreign automobiles, and 

 perceiving the possibilities of the Amer- 

 ican automobile industry, he was instrumental in introducing the 

 Kempshall tire into America in 1906. This connection led to his 

 association with The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East Pales- 

 tine and Cleveland, Ohio, with whom he has spent his time 

 exclusively for the past ten years. He was elected treasurer of 

 the company in 1913, and vice-president the following year, 

 which office he now holds. Mr. Morgan has interests also in 

 large textile industries and the manufacture of electrical ap- 

 pliances. 



j'OHN MORC.\N. 



F.^CTOEY OF K & W Rubber Co. 



A SPECIALIST IN RUBBER CHEMICALS. 



R.\LPH L. Fuller, of Ralph L. Fuller & Co., Inc., Cleveland, 

 Ohio, is well known throughout the rubber and chemical 

 trades of the United States and Canada. 

 His introduction to chemicals dates back to the summer of 

 1880. when he took temporary 

 work with the well-known 

 wholesale drug house of 

 Strong, Cobb & Co., Cleve- 

 land, continuing to do so each 

 vacation for five years. In 

 this way, he became familiar 

 with the various chemicals 

 and at the same time ac- 

 quiring a knowledge of 

 chemistry in school and sub- 

 sequenth- at college. 



Having finished his college 

 course he returned to Messrs. 

 Strong, Cobb & Co., and was 

 assigned to the order de- 

 partment, then to the position 

 of keeping costs, and finally 

 Ralph L. Fuller. y^^ ^.^j given a permanent po- 



sition in the sales department. Later he with others formed the 

 Cleveland Commercial Co., of which he was secretary. The suc- 

 cess of this business was such that it became necessary to in- 

 crease the organization and in 1892, the Harshaw, Fuller & Good- 

 win Co. was organized and succeeded the Cleveland Commercial 

 Co. 



Soon after the present war started, it occurred to Mr. Fuller 

 that with the advent of a large number of new manufacturing 

 concerns, particularly of chemicals, a further change in business 

 methods could be adopted to the advantage of manufacturers 

 and consumers of those products, and accordingly, with some 

 of his associates he qrganized Ralph L. Fuller & Co., Inc., to act 



