May 1, 19 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



443 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



A ; 200 to be imposed on any person convicted of 



placing glass, tacks or other sharp substances mi the roads for 

 the purpose of injuring tires is provided for in a lull recently 

 introduced in the Ohio General Assembly. 



The.- Imperial Government of Germany offers a cash prize 

 of 100.000 marks ($25,000) to the inventor of a satisfactory proc- 

 tor regenerating rubber, [t also offei a prizi I i a material 

 suitable for truck tires. It must, at least to a considerable 

 extent, be immune against oil, water and acids, and for traction 

 must possess a co-efficient of friction approaching very near 

 to thai ol rubber. Solid tires alone are concerned. 



The American Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, which recentl) 

 reduced its capital stock from $500,000 to $250,000, as mentioned 

 on page ,1.54 ut our March issue, is now manufacturing automo- 

 bile tires, its plant being equipped for a capacity up to 500 tires 

 and 1.000 inner tubes daily. At present only the smaller sizes are 

 being turned out, but expectations include the production of all 

 m/i-s before the close of the season and the manufacture of a 

 type of tire carrying a 4,000 mile guarantee. 



The cost of the solid tire equipment necessary for the proper 

 maintenance of a motor truck is placed by the Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber I i at S175 a year. 



The Simplex Wire & (.'able Co., of Boston, has recently tilled 

 an order for 2.900 feet of three-conductor, 250,000 C. M. double 

 armored cable, placed by the J. G. White Engineering Corpora- 

 tion fi ■ I mi Town Mines Co., of Leadville, Colorado. 



The David Feinburg Co., formerly trading as D. Feinburg Co., 

 and dealing in rubber scrap of all kinds, has given up its offices 

 .„ '.1S-40 Watts street. New York, and 168 A street. Boston, 

 the present address of the company being 11 Broadway, Chelsea, 

 Massachusetts 



The Excell Rubber Co. has purchased 3 acres of land at 

 Wadsworth, Ohio, as a site for a tire manufacturing plant, work 

 on which will soon be started. 



The Pneumatic Tire Co., a Kentucky corporation, is soon to 

 establish a lire factory at Madisonville, a suburb of Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. J. i ). Keith and Carl E. Glascock are the stockholders 

 chiefly interested, and the concern is capitalized at $100,000. 



The Franklin Auto Shoe Co. has been incorporated at Pendle- 

 ton. Indiana, with a capital of $10,000. by S. W. Featherngill, 

 William Featherngill and Thomas M. Hardy, to manufacture 

 non-skid casings for automobile tires. 



The Michelin Tire Co., of Milltown. Xew Jersey, has 

 opened a branch at 1109 Walnut street. Des Moines, Iowa. 

 R. B. Tracy, under whose direction the Chicago, Minneapolis, 

 St. Paul and Detroit branches of this company are conducted, 

 will also have charge of the new branch. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, reports 

 a 26.6 per cent, increase in pneumatic tire output during the 

 past year, with almost 1.500,000 tires made and sold in that 

 period. Expectations are for a production of 2,000,000 tires 

 during 1915. Figures showing increase in this line are given 

 as follows: 1909, 102,669; 1910, 207,442; 1911, 332,458; 1912, 

 883,224; 1913, 1,139,869: 1914. 1,478,396. 



This company has given its endorsement to the movement 

 to secure a State armory for Akron by announcing that it 

 will pay regular wages to employes who may join the Na- 

 tional Guard, for the two weeks each year spent at encamp- 

 ments. The announcement states: "We consider it an ex- 

 ample of good citizenship on the part of any man to join this 

 body and believe he should have the moral support of all 

 other good citizens." 



The William Beckers Aniline & Chemical Works has recently 

 purchased a tract of about 15 acres of land near Jamaica Bay, 

 Xew York, for the erection of a new plant which will consist of 



not less than 23 buildings. The construction w.irk has already 

 .-tarti'd. 



THE RUBBER SUNDRIEi ASSOCIATION MERGES WITH THE RUBBER 

 CLUE OF AMERI04. 



\t the fifteenth annual meeting of the Rubber Sundries Manu- 

 facturers' Association, held on April 8, it was voted to dissolve 

 the association as a separate organization and to make it a 

 division of The Rubber Club of America, Inc. Mr. Russell 

 Parker, of Parker, Stearns & Co., and Mr. ( harles J. Davol, of 

 the Davol Rubber Co., who served last year as .president and 

 vice president of the association, were elected chairman and vice 

 chairman of the new Division. Mr. II. S. Vorhis, secretary and 

 treasurer of the Rubber Club, was elected to the same office in 

 the Sundries Division. 



CERTAIN HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES EXEMPTED FROM RUBBER 

 AGREEMENTS. 



To an inquiry under date of March 24 by Acting Secretary of 

 State Robert Lansing, at the suggestion of the Merchants' Asso- 

 uan. in of New York, as to whether the agreements under which 

 rubber is now allowed to leave British ports for the United 

 States, are intended in their application to restrict the export ol 

 products, such as clothes wringers and carpet sweepers, where 



rubber of a i r quality plays a necessary though minor part, 



the British ambassador has made the following reply: 



"So far as I am aware, the restriction to which you refer does 

 not apply to the exportation to neutral countries of household 

 utensils such as those mentioned in your letter, of which rubber 

 forms "iily a fractional part." 



S. SCHEIN & SONS' NEW YORK OFFICE. 



S. Schein & Sons, who for the last 14 years have done a 

 large business in waste rubber and gutta percha, with head- 

 quarters at 21 Finsbury street, London, England, and with 

 branches in Antwerp, Paris and Cape Town, South Africa, 

 decided, because of their increasing American business, to open 

 branch offices in Xew York. Their first office in that city was 

 opened in November, 1914, at 621 Broadway, but about the middle 

 of April their headquarters were moved to 140 Nassau street, 

 in order to get larger room and better facilities and for the 

 additional purpose of getting nearer to the crude rubber and 

 waste rubber center of the city. Their Xew York offices arc- 

 in charge of Mr. J. S. Schein. 



MR. BABCOX DELIVERS AN ADDRESS. 



Edward S. Babcox, advertising manager of the Firestone 

 Tire & Rubber Co., delivered an address at a joint banquet held 

 by the St. Louis Accessory Association and the Advertising Club, 

 on the evening of April 13. It was an able address, full of in- 

 teresting information and valuable in its many suggestions. Mr. 

 Babcox said that the big problem in any industry is not the 

 question of manufacturing but of economic distribution. The 

 work of distribution lie divided between the advertising depart- 

 ment and the traveling salesman, the efficient co-operation of 

 these two forces being necessary for satisfactory distribution. 

 He believed that inefficiency had been more successfully eradi- 

 cated from factory management than from sales departments. 



Y an illustration lie cited an instance. "Recently." he said, "I 

 was talking with a salesman of a certain company who told me 

 that if he could not do all the work expected of him in two 

 hours a day so he could have the rest of the day for his own 

 pleasure, he would count himself no good. He was soldiering 

 on bis job and had been for months. Yet. the drag-net of the 



all department in that organization had never caught him. 

 How long would this kind of thing go on in the big factories 

 represented here tonight?" 



It would be worth while for any salesman, particularly for 

 sales managers, to get a copy of this address, which undoubtedly 

 the Firestone company will be glad to send on request. 



