February 1. 1915. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



283 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Canadian-Connecticut Cotton Mills, Limited, manufac- 

 turers of fine Sea Island, Egyptian and Peeler cotton fabrics, 

 have recently placed orders for additional looms and preparatory 

 machinery. (). Butler, secretary-manager of the company, was 

 elected at a recent meeting managing director of the Connec- 

 ticut Mills Co. at Danielson, and will hereafter be identified with 

 Imth companies. Mr. Fittz retains his connection as secretary 

 of the Danielson plant. The general agent of this company is 

 R. J. Caldwell, well known to the rubber trade of this country 

 and Canada. 



The Knight Tire & Rubber Co., of Canton, ( )hio, have 

 engaged Lester I. Rice, formerly with the Republic Rubber 

 Co., to manage their new branch at 215 West Fifty-first street, 

 New York, lie will supervise the company's sales in eastern 

 New York. New Jersey and the western section of Con- 

 necticut. 



The Tire Sales Co., of Buffalo, New York, have a branch 

 at 827 Main street, that city, which will be known as the 

 Motor Tire Supply Co., with A. Greenbaum as proprietor. 

 They will deal, at wholesale and retail, in factory seconds 

 and low-priced guaranteed tires. 



The Racine Rubber Co., of Racine, Wisconsin, reports a 

 gratifying result of their last business year, during which 

 they made net earnings sufficient to pay. thirty times over, 

 their preferred dividends, besides a l'/ 2 per cent, cash dis- 

 tribution on their common stock and a 50 per cent, stock 

 dividend in November. They have arranged with the Manu- 

 facturers' Supplies Co., Philadelphia, to take over the entire 

 distribution of Racine tires, throughout Pennsylvania. New 

 Jersey and the Southern States. J. A. Winter will be in 

 charge of the sales end, with headquarters at 1336 Race street, 

 Philadelphia. 



The Gibney Tire & Rubber Co., Conshohocken. Pennsyl- 

 vania, have engaged the services, for their Detroit branch, of 

 G. W. Tiffany, formerly with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co. in that city. 



The Kansas Pure Shoe Law will be on trial as to its con- 

 stitutionality on February 3, when argument will be heard in 

 the Supreme Court of that State on a motion to advance the 

 case of the Payne Shoe Co. against the attorney-general. 



The National India Rubber Co., Bristol, R. I., started its mills 

 on January 4 on full time and the 2,200 employes received the 

 welcome news that sufficient orders were on hand to insure full 

 time for at least six months. 



A new tire factory is to be located at New Castle, Penn- 

 sylvania. F. N. Ohl, J. S. Rhodes, A. B. Berger and W. H. 

 Schoen, all of Pittsburgh, are interested, and $260,000 has been 

 subscribed as capital. Large orders have already been given 

 for machinery for the new plant. 



The Savage Tire Co., of San Diego, California, recently re- 

 organized its selling department, with H. W. Miller, formerly of 

 the Knight Tire & Rubber Co., as sales manager; Lee Ijams as 

 assistant sales manager, and R. R. Etichus in charge of credits. 

 B. F. W'ulff, Jr.. has been appointed manager of the distributing 

 branch at San Francisco, which includes in its territory northern 

 California, Oregon, Nevada and the Hawaiian Islands. 



At the annual meeting of stockholders of the Chicago Rubber 

 Clothing Co.. held at Racine. Wisconsin, on January 23, the 

 following were elected members of the Board of Directors: 

 David G. Janes. George G. Bryant. E. V. Laughton, James 

 Murphy. F. M. Knapp and C. E. Wells. The affairs of the 

 company were reported to be in good condition, and the out- 

 look for 1915 to be most promising. The directors elected the 

 following officers for the ensuing year: D. G. Janes, president; 

 George G. Bryant, secretary and general manager ; E. V. Laugh- 

 ton, treasurer. 



THE RUBBER CLUB EXPANDS. 



One of the busiest offices associated with the rubber trade 

 is that occupied by the Rubber Club of America, at 17 Madi- 

 son avenue, New York. What with embargo work, the ac- 

 tivities of the new divisions and the need of committee meet- 

 ing rooms, it has been found necessary to add to the offii e 

 force and to secure additional space. 



A NEW PAPER WRAPPING MACHINE. 

 This machine is for wrapping bales of finished hose, tires 

 or wire. It has a sliding table which is raised and lowered 

 by a hand lever. The bale to be wrapped is placed on the table, 



which is pushed backward into 

 proper position under the slid- 

 ing head and then lowered so 

 that it rests on the four re- 

 volving cones, automatically 

 operated by a friction drive. 

 This has an adjustable feed 

 for any overlap desired. 



A roll of paper is placed 



between the two sprocket 



chains and is carried down 



through the inside of the bale 



and up around the outside, 



thereby wrapping the paper 



strip around it as it is rotated 



by the cones. When the bale 



has been completely wrapped. 



the head is lowered by a hand 



wheel, which slackens the sprocket chain so that it can be mi 



hooked. The table is then raised, pulled forward and the bale 



removed, ready for shipment. 



The actual time required to wrap a bale of garden hose 24 

 inches high with an inch and a half overlap is a minute and a 

 half. One man is capable of running 3 machines, which ac- 

 complish as much as t. men wrapping with burlap in the old 

 way. [Terkelsen & Wennberg, Boston.] 



MOTZ TAKEN OVER BY THE GOODYEAR. 



The business of the Motz Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron. 

 Ohio, 50 per cent, of whose stock is owned by the Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co., will, after February 1, be conducted as a 

 department of the latter concern. 



The Motz company was incorporated in April, 1905, with a 

 capital stock of $50,000, to manufacture tires. In our issue of 



Motz Cushion Tike. 



December. 1913. page 142, a dual tire of the Motz cushion 

 type was shown, and the accompanying cut illustrates the 

 single tire of the same type. These tires have been made for 

 the Motz company in the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s 

 cushion tire department. 



