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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1. 1915. 



Antonio di Piano, head of the rubber concern, said business 

 would be resumed as soon as possible in a new building. The 

 company was rushed with orders and the lire could not have 

 come at a worse time. The concern makes rubber soles, mats 

 and kindred articles. 



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The Delion Tire & Rubber Ci>.. though just starting business, 

 has found its machinery inadequate to care for incoming orders. 

 \ new tire machine and a new vulcanizer are to be installed at 

 mice, doubling the present equipment. O. S. liatton, who was 

 with the Thermoid people for 5 years, has become office manager 

 for the 1 lelion company. 



Arthur Colvin, formerly with the Globe company, lias taken 

 ition as factory superintendent with the Delion company. 

 He succeeds V \. Peterson, who has taken a position at Akron, 

 Ohio. 



The prize of $25, offered for the best slogan submitted for 

 advertising the Delion tire, has been awarded to a Trenton girl, 

 who suggested "Delion tires for particular buyers." 



Samuel J. McDonald and M. William Murphy, under the firm 

 name of McDonald & Murphy, have opened a wareroom at 112 

 North Warren street for the sale of Delion tires and tubes. Mr. 

 McDonald was for 9 years a road salesman for the Acme Rub- 

 ber Co. 



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William J. Swick has opened a wareroom at 203 East State 

 strict, where he will handle Acme. Century, Congress and Pull- 

 man tirc^. 



The Zee Zee Tire & Rubber Co. has bought a factory building 

 .ii x i ardville. just below Trenton, to make rubber specialties for 

 the automobile trade. 



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Elbert Hubbard, the sage of East Aurora, made an inspection 

 of the plants of the Empire Rubber & Tire Co. and the John A. 

 Roebling's Sons Co. this week. He was in Trenton as the guest 

 .it" the Chamber of Commerce. He promised to write his im- 

 pressions in the near future in an article entitled "A Little Visit 

 tn Trenton." C. H. Oakley, of the Essex Rubber Co., was one 

 of the Chamber of Commerce commiteee named to pilot Fra 

 Elbertus about the city. 



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The Globe Rubber Tire Manufacturing Co., has increased 

 rce within the past five weeks from 160 to 350 men. The 

 concern is now running 21 hours a day. Owing to pressure of 

 it lias become necessary to provide more room at the 

 plant. Work will be commenced shortly on a new- building 

 which will accommodate the offices, machine shop and shipping 

 room. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN AKRON. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 

 OTOCKS of rubber on hand in the rubber storehouses of this 

 *~-^ city are said to be worth at the present time close to 

 $10,000,000. Unusual buying has been going on as a result of 

 war uncertainties, and never before has so much raw material 

 been on hand at one time. 



Some of the larger Akron factories are small cities within 

 themselves, with populations of from 5.000 to 12,000, provided 

 with all the appurtenances of the modern city — libraries, hos- 

 pitals, pi lice and fire departments, restaurants, dance halls, etc. 

 All the plants an busy, running full time. The output is larger 

 than ever before and the companies are advertising in outside 

 papers for additional help. Good Strong men of reliable char- 

 acter are in demand. 



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Charles DeWoody, former Akron man. now one of the 

 western representatives of the federal department of justice, has 

 reported to his department, after an investigation of the Akron 



rubber industry, that there is not the slightest foundation for the 

 report that a "trust'' exists here. His reports show, on the con- 

 trary, that the competition is unusually spirited. 



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As the result of a bill which has passed the Ohio General As- 

 sembly, The B. F. Goodrich Co. has been enabled to purchase 

 land along the Ohio canal adjoining its factory buildings. A 

 new addition to the plant, costing approximately $500,000 is to be 

 erected this year — not, it is stated, on this property. 



According to a decision handed down recently by Federal 

 Judge John II. Clark, of Cleveland, the patent for reclaiming 

 crude rubber by what is known as the alkali process, held by 

 A II. Marks, of the Goodrich company, is invalid. The de- 

 cision was given in a suit brought against the Portage Rubber Co., 

 of Barberton, Ohio, by the Philadelphia Rubber Works Co., which 

 operates a reclaiming plant here. The claim was made that the 

 Portage company infringed on the Marks patent. Marks was 

 granted the patent October 17, 1899. The case will be carried to 

 a higher court. 



A. H. Marks, vice-president of the Goodrich company, has 

 denied reports current in Boston and New York that dividends 

 on common stock of the company are to be resumed. 



This company has ready for distribution three booklets on 

 California for automobile tourists who expect to visit that 

 country during the coming summer. These show with detailed 

 maps and road logs all the best highways as well as the most 

 interesting scenery along the route. 



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An injunction to restrain the Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co., 

 of Akron, from selling a type of non-skid tire on which the 

 complaining company claims a patent, has been filed in the fed- 

 eral court at Cleveland by the Keaton Tire & Rubber Co., of 

 San Francisco. Damages are also asked. The petition claims 

 that the tire was invented in 1910 by Robert Keaton and that 

 the Swinehart company has sold tires infringing on Keaton's 

 patent for a profit of at least $50,000. 



Work on a $50,000 three-story factory and office building has 

 been started by the Swinehart company. 



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The Firestone Tire &• Rubber Co. has added a new wing 200 

 feet long and four stories high to its office building. 



Service men of the Firestone company closed a three-day con- 

 vention in Akron Saturday, April 17. 



"The best safety device known is a careful man." is a sign 

 that greets workers everywhere in the Firestone factory. Robert 

 E. Lee is director of safety and welfare for the company. 



Members of the Firestone Tennis Club, recently organized, 

 are M. E. Ake, assistant superintendent ; L. G. Fairbanks, as- 

 sistant advertising manager; E. M. Slater, of the engineering 

 department: F. B. Dodge, of the branch efficiency department; 

 A ( i. Roberts, of the purchasing department; H. G. Polhamus, 

 of the credit department, and W. G. Manley, of the branch effi- 

 ciency department. Courts are being built at Portage Path and 

 Crosby street. 



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One of the finest herds of cattle owned in this part of the coun- 

 try is that on the estate of A. H. Marks, of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co. Mr. Marks spends much of his spare time on his Flmcourt 

 farm. 



Messrs. W. H. Allen, of the Goodrich: Y. E. Hale and E. R. 

 Hall, of the Goodyear; C. C. Carlton, of the Firestone, and J. 

 1 1 Wagenhorst. of the United Rim companies, have been made 

 members of the S. A. E. Standards Committee. 



T. W. Blackwell, who has been associated with the Goodrich 

 Indianapolis branch for more than 12 years, has resigned to 

 organize a company at Wichita, Kansas, for the manufacture of 

 tires. 



I. R. Bailey, a former Diamond employe, is now manager of a 



