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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1915. 



to give it an appearance of naturalness, and through this trench, 



down >ping lawn to the swimming pool and the lake, 



water at the rate of -'-',000 gallons an hour will he pumped, 



and pumps having been installed to keep the 



ion. 



pre ident of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 



Co., was er at the first banquet of the Men's Alumni 



Buchtel College on June 12 at Young's hotel. 



The attendance numbered 200, including some of the city's 



m,-i prominent officials. 



W. I Pfeiffer, secretary and general manager of the Miller 

 Rubber Co., with Mrs. Pfeiffer, is now in the West on a vaca- 

 tion trip that will include San Diego and San Francisco. 



F. I. Reynolds, who has been for several years associated 

 with the Diamond and Goodrich companies, has resigned his 

 position as manager of automobile tire sales for the latter corn- 

 lie has given out no plans beyond those for the present 

 summer, which is to be ipent in rest and recreation. 



The Goodyear Aero Club, an organization composed of about 

 40 factory and office employees of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co. — most of them graduates of technical schools and interested 

 in ballooning as a sport — recently elected E. R. Preston president 

 for the coming year. The club has the use of the balloon ''Good- 

 year,'' in which, it will be remembered, Ralph Upson and R. 

 A. D. Preston made a winning flight from Paris in the inter- 

 national balloon race of 1913. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 

 By Our Regular Corrcspo)idcnt. 



A .Mi ING the eastern exhibitors at the Panama-Paciiic Inter- 

 national Exposition now being held at San Francisco, one 

 whose line of manufactures is well known and of special in- 

 terest to the rubber trade is the General Electric Co., of 

 Schenectady. Xew York. This company, which maintains a San 

 Francisco office in the Rialto building, has two exhibits at the 

 show, one of home electric equipment, in the Palace of Manu- 

 factures, and the other a railway exhibit, in the Palace of 

 Transportation. 



Another eastern concern wdiose product finds a place among 

 the features of interest at this exposition is the Voorhees Rub- 

 ber Manufacturing Co., of Trenton. Xew Jersey. The accom- 

 panying illustration shows an enormous typewriter roll manu- 

 factured by the Voorhees company for the $100,000 Underwood 

 typewriter being displayed and demonstrated at the exposition. 



Rubber Roil for a Mwim ith Typewriter. 



This typewriting machine is 1,728 times larger than the standard 

 machh eighs 14 tons. Some idea of the platen, or roll, 



may be obtained by a comparison with the standard sized ma- 

 chine p of the large roll in the illustration. This 

 illustratioi demonstrates the calls made on the ingenuity 

 f the rubber manufacturer, who must be prepared for 



any emergency in the use and adaptation of materials for the 

 thousands of requirements of ever increasing diversity. 



* * * 



The Western Auto Sub-Casing Co., of Los Angeles, has in- 

 stalled a new machine built to demonstrate the advantages of 

 tires equipped with sub-casings. This machine is intended to 

 impose on the tire the same strain encountered in ordinary use. 

 It consists of two wheels, one a rasp 

 wheel to produce friction, and the other 

 equipped with an inflated tire, which is 

 applied to the rasp with a degree of 



pressure equal to the weight of a car. 

 * * * 



A new durable tread is now being 

 made by the Colorado Tire & Leather 

 Co., of Denver, Colorado. While this 

 tread is built along the lines of the 

 treads previously made by this company, 

 being applicable over ordinary tires and 

 having steel studs, it is also new in 

 some respects. In principle the tread 

 resembles the ordinary pneumatic casing, 

 being held on the rim in the same way, 

 without hooks or other fastenings. It 

 is built up of several layers of rubberized 

 or frictioned fabric, with a tread portion 

 consisting of chrome tanned leather car- 

 rying steel rivets. The entire tread fits 

 tightly over the tire, without wrinkles, 

 excluding water, sand, etc., and eliminating possibility of creep- 

 ing or chafing. 



San Francisco is now fully abreast of the times in the matter 

 of transportation, possessing every type of car and motor bus 

 best adapted for this purpose. In addition to the '"jitney" and 

 motor car service in the city, an interurban line has been estab- 

 lished between San Francisco and San Mateo, and intermediate 

 points. Specially built coaches, equipped with "Nobby" tread 

 tires, are in use in this service. 



The tire companies generally report excellent business The 

 Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., which only a few months ago made 

 a central distributing agency of its San Francisco branch, is 

 reported to have increased its sales over 60 per cent, during the 

 first three months of the reorganization, with excellent prospects 

 for the future. B. F. Wolff, formerly connected with the 

 Savage Tire Co., has recently become identified with the sales 

 force of this branch of the Kelly-Springfield company. 



The Republic Rubber Co., of Youngstown, Ohio, through its 

 coast selling organization, the Republic Rubber Co. of Cali- 

 fornia, has established a direct branch at Spokane, Washington, 

 taking over the stock of tires, belting and hose of the Interstate 

 Rubber Co. cf that city, formerly agent for the line. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron. Ohio, has ap- 

 pointed James E. Power San Francisco agent for its truck 

 tires, and a service station has been established in connection 

 with the salesroom at this point. 



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M. L. O'Brien, who joined the forces of the Savage Tire Co., 

 of San Dieg i, the first of the year, after four years' representa- 

 tion of the Diamond and Goodrich companies on the coast, fol- 

 ig three years spent in Akron rubber factories, has been 

 promoted from the management of the factory branch to a posi- 

 tion as assistant to the secretary of the company, in charge of 

 sabs at the home office. H. H. Eitzen, wdio also joined the com- 

 pany in January, after several years' work in various branches 

 of the tire trade, has been appointed branch manager to succeed 

 Mr. O'Brien. 



