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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1. 1915. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The '■' ubbei Manufacturing Co., on or about May 



1, will remove its New York office from 18 Vesey street to the 

 sixteenth the Equitable building, 120 Broadway. 



Johnstone, Whitworth & Co.. importers of crude rubber, have 

 8 from 130 Pearl street, New York, to 22-24 

 William street, in the Farmers' Loan >v ["rust building. 



The Del rich of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., of Jean- 



nette, Pennsylvania, bus removed from 864 Woodward avenue 

 to 254 Jefferson avenue. 



The Warner Chemical Co., ol Carteret, New Jersey, which 



manufactures sulphur chloride, letra-chloride of carbon and 



other chemical for the rubber trade, has moved its New York 



- and sales department from 141 Broadway to 52 Vander- 



bilt avenue. 



Three of the men formerly connected with the Knight Tire 

 & Rubber Co., of Canton, Ohio, have recently joined the Mc- 

 Xaull Tire & Rubber Co., of Toledo, Ohio. They are Ole 

 Hilner. formerly sales manager for the Knight company, who 

 now occupies the same position in the McXaull company; 

 P. P. Parker, who was formerly assistant manager of the 

 Knight company, and who now becomes Eastern district man- 

 ager of the McXaull company, and Thomas Gray, who was 

 Southern district manager for the Knight company, and who 

 has taken a similar position in the McXaull company. 



A new tn-car chemical tire engine has just been brought out 

 in New York by the \\ oodhouse Manufacturing Co. This ma- 

 chine is supplied with Dayton airless tires and carries 200 feet 

 ! 



NILES & GOODELL INCORPORATE. 



The partnership of Niles & Goodell, under which business was 

 formerly at 84 Reade street. New York, has been 



taken over by the firm 'if N'iles & Goodell, Inc., with offices at 

 142 Duane street. The officers of the new firm — which was in- 

 orated April 6, with a capital stock of $10,000, and which 

 act- a- selling agents lor the Converse Rubber Shoe Co., of 

 Maiden, Massachusetts, in eastern New York and Pennsylvania, 

 Xew Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and W r est Virginia — are: F. 

 R (I [ell, president; C. W. Niles. Jr., vice-president and treas- 

 urer, and H. M. .Alexander, secretary. 



AN IMPROVED HOME EXERCISER. 



Among the apparatus recommended by experts as a prac- 

 tical and effective form of physical exercise, by means of 

 which the entire muscular system is subjected to healthful 



exertion, the striking 

 bag holds a conspicuous 

 place. 



The objection made 

 to its use in the home 

 is the noise and vibra- 

 tion it causes and it is 

 in these respects that 

 improvements arc- 

 claimed for the striking 

 bag platform patented 

 by a boxing instructor 

 in Brooklyn. As the 

 illustration shows, it is 

 equipped with an ar- 

 rangement of spring 

 arms or buffers, which 

 obviates the drum ef- 

 fect of the ordinary 

 form of construction. 

 This platform is also reversible, the disposition of the steel 

 arms, which can be directed upward or downward, making 

 it a : 1 bag. without changing the inflation. 



The ease with which it can be installed or removed is also 



ui ged by the inventor, who is also the manufacturer. [George 

 \ oi rg( r, Brooklyn, Xew York. J 



LATE RUBBER CUSTOMS RULINGS. 



1 he Board of General Appraisers passed on two questions of 

 rubber customs on April 28, which will be of interest to the 

 tra le. I he first case bad to do with the importation of "rubber 

 thorns'' intended for use in making artificial flowers. The col- 

 bad decided that these were dutiable at 60 per cent, ad 

 valorem as parts of artificial flowers. The importers, the 

 irds & Riodan Co., contended that they should come in at 

 10 per cent, as manufactures of rubber, but the board overruled 

 contention and sustained the Collector. 



The other protest was made by the Hanover Vulcanite Co., 

 which imported rubber bulbs. The Collector had returned this 

 merchandise at 15 per cent, ad valorem. The importers con- 

 tended that the rate should be 10 per cent, under the rubber 

 manufactures' division. This contention was allowed and the 

 Collector reversed. 



MR. ROCKEFELLER RELIES ON RUBBER. 



TO be sure the average American has reached the philosophic 

 plane where mere money, even when measured by millions, 

 makes no perceptible appeal. Still, when a man is reputed 

 to be the richest man that ever lived, one cannot help but 



feel something 

 of a friendly 

 interest in him. 

 Now here is a 

 photograph of 

 the man who 

 e n j o y s that 

 reputation. 

 There are two 

 noticeable fea- 

 tures about this 

 picture. One is 

 that, while en- 

 joying an in- 

 come of, let us 

 sa} . fifty m i 1- 

 lions a year — 

 which would 

 enable him to 

 have a "Ford" 

 and even a 

 chauffeur — he 

 still clings to 

 the bicycle for 

 his daily out- 

 ing, which 

 wholesome en- 

 joyment would 

 be denied him 

 were it not for 

 the rubber 

 pneumatic tire around the wheel. The other noticeable feature of 

 this interesting photograph is the fact that Mr, Rockefeller has 

 his feet well protected in a pair of storm rubbers, though at the 

 time the snap shot was taken there does not appear to have 

 been any storm. But undoubtedly the grass was wet; hence 

 the richest man in the world, using in personal matters the same 

 exceptional sagacity which he has employed in business affairs, 

 duly protected his feet. 



So this momentary glimpse into the intimate life of a bil- 

 lionaire shows how much he relies upon rubber both for his 

 enjoyment and for the preservation of his health. 



John I (, Ro( kefeller. 



