J \M \KY 1. 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



215 



PURCHASING AGENT ROSWELL C. COLT. 



Till' da) of infallible prophecj beini past, it is. quite hazardous 

 ■ now what will take place some years from now. 

 h would be venturesome, for instance, to predict that Mi 

 well C. Colt, recently made purchasing agenl of the Canadian 

 Consolidated Ri ei Co., Limited would some daj occupy the 

 position now graced by his distinguished father, who is presi- 

 dent of tin- largest rubber manufacturing c pany in the- u 



But it would 

 i 

 predict that young 

 Mr l '..It will arrive 

 ome highlj de- 

 i ill goal in the 

 'ir: factur- 

 ■ 1 1 1 1 mi 



hre. ■ i rea- 

 sons : He has a fine 

 start : he is hi 

 the right way, and 

 he is going strong. 

 I [e g r a d n a t <■ d 

 from Harvard in 

 1910. It i- safe to 

 -a\ that he might 

 have stepped into 

 something quite 

 comfortable, with a 

 mahogany desk and 

 office boy with but- 

 tons, if he had ap- 

 plied for it, but he 

 RoSWEli C. Coi.t. didn't. He went to 



Canada, bought a 

 pair of overalls and got a job with the Canadian Consolidated 

 Rubber Co., Limited. He started for Winnipeg and began to 

 hustle cases in the company's big warehouses at that place. 

 This kept his muscles hard and incidentally gave him a chance 

 to get acquainted with the system of distribution employed by a 

 large manufacturing concern. 



Four months later, after having mastered the distribution 

 problem, he returned to the factory to learn how goods were 

 made. The most important and one of the most difficult articles 

 to make in a rubber factory is the automobile tire, so he got 

 another pair of overalls and began tire making, working from 

 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. When he had reached the point where he 

 could make as good a tire as anyone he began to look around 

 to see what material was used in the factory, and why, and how 

 much, and what it cost and where it came from ; and in due 

 time he was equipped to drop tire making and take up the buy- 

 ing of supplies, so they have made him purchasing agent. 

 All this in less than four years' time. Xot a bad start! 



S. A. E. MEETING JANUARY 5-7. 



The annual meeting of the Society of Automobile Engineers 

 will be held in the auditorium of the Engineering Societies' build- 

 ing, at 29 West Thirty-ninth street. January 5-7. The program 

 includes papers on a number of interesting subjects, among 

 which is <me, scheduled for Wednesday evening, January 6. by 

 C. B. Whittelsey. secretary and factory manager of the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co., of Hartford. Connecticut, on "Pros and Cons 

 of Correct Tire Inflation." This paper and the discussions it 

 leads to are expected to assist in tin solution of the problem of 

 proper tire inflation as associated with tire loads and sizes, which 

 has been en'grjjs^mg the attention of the standards committee of 

 the association for some time. 







TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



J lie new offices "i the Rubber Trading Co. in the Postal I 



graph building, corner oi ly and Murraj ire a 



•■■■II ; that is, they are mori und 



1a the tradi rhi nil. ling is modern and the customers' room 



apartment adjoining a large sample room. Not 



only that, but in the top of the building is the famous Hardware 



Club, where so man) oi the downtown rubber men ate wont to 



lunch. 



The S. A. P. i ... 327 Produce Exchange, New rms 



[ndia'Rui in that in its in table 



oil., used in rubbei mam reat differences in purity are 



Foi tins reasi m I tablished a <i. 



in. in i . . minal on, which is in charge of an experl chi 

 SO lb" 1 I', pure oil 50rt can be assured. 



'I he New \..ik agency "i tin Ri sian French I iber. 



Guttapercha & relegraph Works, Riga, Russia, advises The 

 Rt iimi; World that it ha unpletely cut ofl 



pri .Hi I In. agency informs us that 

 the factorj is running fully, the output being required for gov- 

 ernment use It is hoped soon, however, to have government 

 permission for the continuation of rubber goods from 



Russia 

 i m December 1 there was in bonded warehouses in New York 

 74 pounds oi chicle, valued at $117,903; manufactures of 

 gutta percha to the value oi $91,419; india rubber manufactures 

 worth $70,878, and of elasticon $606. The records for December 

 1, 1913, give the value of chicle in bond on that date $63,976; 

 manufactures of gutta percha. $86,750; manufactures of india 

 rubber, $45,440. 



The Vulcanized Rubber Co.. of Morrisville, Pennsylvania, 

 which manufactures hard rubber goods, is increasing its plant by 

 the addition of a building for the storing of scrap rubber. 



The Canadian government has forbidden the export of rubber 

 from Canada to any country other than part of the British em- 

 pire. The commerce of Canada in rubber goods has in the past 

 amounted to about $4,500,000 annually, of which amount exports 

 have represented approximately $500,000. 



On December 1 the Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co., of 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, announced a reduction in price on its 

 rugged tread tire casings, in sizes from 30x3 inches to 36x5 

 inches, amounting to from $4.40 to $7.95 per tire. 



Fire recently damaged the storehouse of the Converse Rubber 

 Shoe Co., of Maiden, Massachusetts, to the extent of about 

 $10,000. a loss fully covered by insurance. 



The Gibney Tire & Rubber Co.. of 250 West Fifty-fourth street, 



Xew York, has reduced its capital stock from $100,000 to $50,000. 



The offices of the New York Shield Co., which manufactures 



the "Amolin" shield, were removed on December 1 to 19-25 East 



Twenty-fourth street. New York. 



Some good-sized contracts for fire hose have recently been 

 awarded in western cities. The B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, 

 Ohio, having secured an order for 9,000 feet from the fire de- 

 partment of Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Manhattan Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., of Passaic. Xew Jersey, a contract for 5,000 

 feet from the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, and the C. C. C. Fire 

 Hose & Rubber Co., of Canton Junction, Massachusetts, an order 

 for 1,000 feet to equip the department at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 

 The Habirshaw Wire Co. has removed its sales office to its 

 general headquarters at Yonkers. New York. 



The Franco-American Rubber Cloth Co. has opened a factory 

 at Como, N'ew Jersey. 



On and after January 4. 1915. The Charles T. Wilson Co., 

 Inc., of Xew York City, will maintain an office at Room 507, 

 Second National Building, Akron, Ohio, in charge of Henry Per- 

 lish, vice-president of the company. 



