August 1, 1919.1 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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property in Clearing, Illinois, on which it will build a new 

 plant at an early date. Although the Century company has 

 previously manufactured Ford tires exclusively, it intends to 

 mal<e other sizes in the new plant. 



The Quaker City Rubber Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is 

 building a two-story addition to its factory at Wissinoming. 

 which will add about 41,000 square feet of floor space to its 

 plant. The structure will be fireproof, of brick and concrete, 

 and will be devoted entirely to the manufacture of tires. The 

 cost, including machinery and equipment, will be about $250,000. 

 In addition, the company intends to build a cord-tire treating 

 structure, the location of which has not yet been decided upon. 

 The new addition now being erected will include modern con- 

 veniences and appliances for the health, safety and general 

 welfare of employes. 



The Advance Rubber Co., 8th avenue, between 17th and 18th 

 streets, Brooklyn, New York, is having plans approved by the 

 Building Department for the erection of a building 200 by 130 

 feet, to cost probably in excess of $50,000. The company- will 

 build both cord and fabric tires. This concern was incorporated 

 in 1912 and recentlv increased its capital from $150,000 to 

 $1,000,000. 



The business of Meyer & Brown, New York City, crude rubber 

 brokers, has been transferred to Meyer & Brown, Inc., a New 

 York incorporation noted in another column in this issue. The 

 management and control will remain the same. 



The Belden Manufacturing Co., 23d street and Western ave- 

 nue, Chicago, Illinois, manufacturer of "Beldenite" rubber-in- 

 sulated wires and cables, fiber and bakelite sheets, rods, tubing, 

 etc., is planning to build a four-story brick and concrete building. 

 90 by 160 feet, on the Van Buren street side of its property 

 in the block bounded by Van Buren, Congress and 47th streets 

 and the Outer Belt Line, on which it intends eventually to con- 

 solidate its manufacturing business. It is operating two one- 

 story concrete mill buildings, erected during the last three years. 

 The new structure will be known as No. 8. J. C. Belden is 

 president of the company. 



The Arrow Grip Manufacturing Co., Inc., Glens Falls. New 

 York, manufacturer of nonskid chains and lifting jacks, is com- 

 pleting a new factory of the Austin type, to cost approximately 

 $100,000. It will be equipped with modern machinery. The 

 company recently increased its capital stock from $100,000 lo 

 $500,000. 



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

 sin, manufacturer of electric controlling devices, has opened an 

 office at 905 Kresge Building, Detroit, Michigan, which is prac- 

 tically a branch of its Chicago office. H. S. Kinsley is in charge, 

 assisted by C. W. Greenman and M. Dugliss, all of whom were 

 formerly in the Chicago office. Mr. Kinsley was formerly with 

 the engineering department of the Milwaukee plant. 



The Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co. has recently built a 

 two-story addition to its factory at 12th street and St. Paul 

 avenue. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to be used for the manufacture of 

 a new compensator intended to be used for starting squirrel- 

 cage motors, for all commercial voltages. 



The Parker Collapsible Rim Corporation has removed its 

 offices to 605 Westminster Building, Chicago, Illinois. At the 

 recent annual meeting the concern reorganized and elected a 

 new board of directors. J. W. Hunt is president and W. H. 

 Sickinger, general manager. 



At a meeting of the directors of the Motor and Accessory 

 Manufacturers' Association it was decided to postpone the usual 

 midsummer convention until autumn, the date to be announced 

 later. 



E. O. Floyd has been appointed general sales manager of 

 the Rossendale-Reddaway Belting & Hose Co., Newark, New- 

 Jersey, to take effect August 1, 1919. 



Royer S. Hardy, crude rubber broker, 82 Beaver street, New- 

 York City, announces that he has formed w-ith William Mac- 



Arthur, formerly vice-president of J. T. Johnstone & Co., Inc., 

 the partnership of Hardy & MacArthur, to deal in crude rubber 

 and kindred products, and will open an Akron office at Central 

 Savings & Trust building, Akron, Ohio. 



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

 control 134 stores and expect to have 250 branches in operation 

 by the first of the year. The cooperative store system originated 

 with the Keystone company that operates a chain of stores ex- 

 tending from Maine to California and from Washington to 

 Panama. 



Smnh-Serrell Co., Inc., maker of flexible and rigid shaft coup- 

 lings, has changed its name to Smith and Serrell. 



A DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 



Dv THE ELECTION of Frank A. Vanderlip to that body, the 

 '-' United States Rubber Co. has materially strengthened its 



already efficient board of directors. Mr. Vanderlip is too well 

 known in financial and com- 

 mercial circles to need any in- 

 troduction, yet his entrance 

 into the rubber industry makes 

 it appropriate to record some 

 facts regarding his wonderful 

 career, rising from a country 

 machine shop to become one of 

 the highest financial authorities 

 of the day. 



He was born in Aurora, Illi- 

 nois, November 17, 1864, and 

 after a commercial education, 

 found work in a machine shop, 

 meanwhile spending his even- 

 ings in mastering stenography. 

 He then took a year's course 

 at the University of Illinois, at 

 Fk.WK A. \'axiii ki II' Champaign, that state, spe- 



cializing on finance and politi- 

 cal ecnncmy. He joined the staff of the "Chicago Tribune," re- 

 porting financial affairs, supplementing his education by attend- 

 ing lectures at the University of Chicago. Later he w-as made 

 nnancial editor of the "Tribune." He bought an interest in "The 

 Fconomist." in 1894, serving as associate editor until 1897. 



In that year Lyman J. Gage was appointed Secretary of the 

 Treasury of the United States of America, and he took Mr. 

 Vanderlip to Washington as his private secretary. Three m.onths 

 later the latter was appointed Assistant Secretary, in which posi- 

 tion he showed his rare qualifications by organizing the Treasury 

 forces for work on the loan needed by the Government to build 

 up our Army and Navy for the Spanish war. 



After four years in the United States Treasury, he resigned 

 to become vice-president of the National City Bank of New 

 York City, the largest institution of its kind in America. He 

 was a delegate to the International Conference of Commerce and 

 Industry at Ostend, Belgium, in 1902, and made an extended 

 tour of Europe, studying financial and commercial conditions of 

 Great Britain and the continental nations. In 1909 he succeeded 

 to the presidency of the National City Bank, a position he re- 

 signed last June. 



During the period when this country was at war Mr. Vanderlip 

 devoted his entire energies to assist Secretary McAdoo in the 

 Liberty Loan campaigns of that period. After the armistice 

 he made another trip of observation to Europe. He is prominent 

 in many financial and philanthropic organizations, has written 

 many important articles and several books on financial subjects, 

 and has delivered addresses before many prominent commercial 

 associations. His home is at Scarborough-on-the-Hudson. New 

 York. 



