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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE UNITED STATES TIRE CO. HAS NEW MANAGER 



Mr I I) Vnderson, who has been identified with the manufac- 

 ture and sale oi tires for the last twentj years, has resigned as 

 general sales managei of the United States Tire Co., his successor 

 being Mr Joseph C Weston, the Central District managei foi 

 the company, who lias later) been ailing as general sales man 

 ager in Mr \nderson's protracted absence in Europe. 



Mr Weston is also a veteran in the tire trade, having been 

 secretary of the Morgan & Wright Co for man; years. Later. 



on the formation of tlie United States Tire Co., he bee; il 



Western District manager, with headquarters in San Iran 

 From this position he was promoted to the Central District man- 

 ship 



HARRY N. TOWNER 



Harry N ["owner, president of ["owner & Co., oi Memphis, 

 Tennessee, died at his home in that cit) September -'-' He "as 

 stricken with apoplexj on September 10 and owing to the tact 

 that he had been in impaired health for the last five years he 

 was not able to rally from the att: 



Mi ["ownei was born in Connecticut \pnl 3, 1851. His boy- 

 hood uas spent in the cit) of Baltimore, but he was educated 

 in the I piscop 1 college in Cheshire, Connecticut. While still 

 a young man he be ociated with his father in the tirm 



of Towner. Landstreel & I o., of Baltimore, in the mill supply 

 business He went to Memphis in 1879 and established the 

 firm of Xpwner & I o. for the wholesale distribution of all kinds 



of rubbei g Is, and when the tirm uas incorporated in 1905 



he became it president, his son. R. Paul Towner, being secre- 

 tary an ' • r< asurer. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Jin- ["oledo Rubber Co., which deals in rubber g Is of all, 



kinds for the vehicle, hardware, railroad, shipping, drug and 

 clothing trade,, under the brand name "Torco," has recently en- 

 larged its offices and sales rooms at 428-30 Summit street. Toledo. 

 Ohio. The company now occupies a modern five-story rireproof 

 building 40 feet wide and with a total floor space oi 24.000 

 square feet. 



An analysis by chemists of the St iti I 1 Department of the 



chewing gums being offered the public discloses the fact that 

 four of the brands labeled "pepsin gum" contain no pepsin what 

 ever The manufacturers have been notified that they must dis- 

 continue the sale of this misbranded gum or prosecution to the 

 full extern ol the law would follow. 



More than 4ml ..inductor miles of wire for distributing electric 

 energj md light service have already been called for in specifi- 

 cations for 'he new Equitable building under construction in 

 New York. This wire will he supplied by the Simplex Wire & 

 ( aide ' o . if Boston. 



The second International Safety Exposition will be held from 

 December 12 to 19 at the Grand Central Palace. New York, 

 when a large number of foreign and government exhibits will 

 Ic ,hown in addition to those of industrial enterprises. Awards 

 will he made in live grades to exhibitors in every branch of in- 

 dustry. 



That the war in Europe has had no serioii- effect on the 

 automobile trade of the United States, or on the buying ca- 

 pacity of the public, is shown by the fact that during August 

 tin Ford Motor Co. sold 20.638 cars. This company sold dur- 

 ing the year to August 1. 221.S88 cars, an average of about 

 18,500 a month. 



The Loewenthal Co., 37 West Thirty-ninth street, Xew York, 



well-known operators in scrap rubber, have taken the agency 

 of 1 M R, a popular mineralized rubber which has been on the 

 market for many years. The reputation of this product, sup- 

 plemented bj the progressive methods and extensive connec- 

 tions of the Loewenthal Co., would seem to assure large sales 

 M R in the rubber trade. 



The annual meeting of the Intercontinental Rubber Co. will 

 be held in Jersey City on October 5. Proxies have been dis- 

 tributed by the company in the names of Edward B. Aldrich and 

 Willard B Smith 



The Midgeley Tire Co. is now operating lis plant at Lan- 



th( pn "lin tton oi the M idgclcv I lead tire. 



tracts have been let for the erection of a $5,700 addition 

 factor) of the American Rubber Reclaiming Co. at 406 

 East Rittenhouse street, Philadelphia. 



\ decrease of the capital stock of the Asbestos & Rubber 

 Works of America, of Xew York, from $75,000 to $40,000, was 

 authorized on September 23. 



Ih. Morgan ,\ Marshall Co., which manufactures the M. & 

 M. ure. has recently made quite a generous contribution to- 

 ward the Lincoln Highway, purchasing fifty memberships in 

 the a il cost of $250. 



Fire Commissioner ^damson, of Xew York, who believes 



that efficiency and economy in the purchase of hose may be 



ted by having specifications occasionally reviewed by busi- 



ness experts acting with th< artment heads, is to ap- 



pi lint a Ci aim ' posed of repre- 



sentatives of the Board of lire Underwriters, the ( hamber 

 of Commerce, the Merchants' Association, the Board of 

 Estimate and Apportionment and the Fire Department The 

 work of a similar committee appointed three years ago re- 

 sulted in a revision of specifications which reduced the price 

 of 2'..-inch hose from $1.20 to 68 cents a loot. 



\ well known rubber man who has become identified with 

 the house of Charles E. Wood i~ Mr. W. C. Belts, formerly 

 of DeLong Betts company. Mr, Betts has had a long and 

 successful career in the rubber trade and i~ probably one of 

 the best known crude rubber men in the United States His 

 present location will afford an excellent opportunity for him 

 to renew his large acquaintance in the trade. 



Lyman M. Bourn, for live years chief chemist and manager of 

 the materials department of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Akron, has severed his connection with that company to accept 

 a position as manager of the Double Fabric Tire Co., Vuburn, 

 Indiana 



WHERE RUBBER HOSE TAKES THE PLACE OF FIRE 



Taking it all in all, a piece of rubber hose can be put to more 

 uses than almost anything else in the world. \ dweller in a 

 city apartment house with an active mind has devised a new 

 use to which a piece of hose can be put with great benefit. 

 Like many other unfortunates, he lives in a house having steam 

 heat but no hot water supply, being obliged to depend for his 

 hot water on the kitchen range, which requires time to do its 

 w i i k But having a steam radiator in his bath room, he took 

 out the piece of pipe between the radiator and the standard 

 pipe, inserted a T with a short projecting piece of iron pipe, 

 which contained a valve. The rest was easy. To this short 

 piece of pipe he attached a rubber hose long enough to reach 

 well into the tub. Then to the tub end of the hose he attached 

 a large open wire bulb around which be wrapped a cloth. He 

 then filled his tub. dropped the end of the hose with the bulb 

 into the water, turned the valve in the short piece of iron pipe 

 and let the steam into the hose, through which it rushed, pass- 

 ing in a quiet and orderly manner through the cloth around 

 the bulb and soon heated the water to a comfortable tempera- 

 ture — thus saving time and gas bills. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients ; Rubber Country of the Amazon : 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



