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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1915. 



MR. DANIELS THANKS THE RUBBER COMPANIES. 



niels of the Navy sent complimentary letters on 



i large industrial companies 



>atriotism by encouraging their 



em p] militia, including the naval reserve. 



S retary thanked them for their assistance towards in- 



;ing the national defense. Among those who 



i the United States Rub- 

 nd Elisha S. William-, president of the Rubber Goods 

 Manufactui md of the Hartford Rubber Works Co. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



'ell and L. W. Dumont have funned a partnership, 

 dealers and brokers in crude rubber and gums, under thi 

 name of Pell and Dumont, with offices at 66 and 68 Broad street. 

 New 



Bertram G. Work, president of The B. F. Goodrich Co., is 

 on his way to the Pacific Coast, where he will visit the San 

 Francisco fair. He plans to be absent from his office until Sep- 

 tembi ■ 



Frank A. Seiberling, president of the Goodyear Tire & Rub- 

 1 n., has been made a member of the board of directors of 

 the American Society of Aeronautic Engineers, of which 1 hofnas 

 A. Edison is chairman. 



E. de Kruyff, of Buitenzorg, Java, representative of the 

 Netherlands East Indies at the Panama-Pacific International 

 Exposition, spent a number of days in Xew York prior to em- 

 barking, on July 17, on the return voyage to Java. Mr 

 de Kruyff was vice-president of the International Rubber Con- 

 and Exposition held at Batavia last fall and is prominent 

 in rubber matters in the Far East. 



S. M. Evans, vice-president of the Pitcher Lead Co., has re- 

 cently been elected a member of The Merchants' Association of 

 Xew York City. 



S. P. Thatcher, formerly chemist of the Peerless Rubber Co., 

 has recently assumed charge, as chemist, of tin New Y'irk labora- 

 tories of the United States Rubber Co. 



The Simplex Wire & Cable Co.. of Boston. i~ now represented 

 in New York Citj by William K. Sparrow, with an office at 

 30 Church strei I 



Joseph II. Liston succeeds J. E. Duffield as manager of the 

 I hicago branch office of the Thermoid Rubber Co. of Trenton. 

 Xew J cr- 

 ib W. L. Kidder has recently been appointed manager of the 

 Toledo, Ohio, branch of the B. F. Goodrich Co.. succeeding 

 C W. Wacker. who has been appointed to the management of 

 ■ land branch. 



II. C. Gentry represents tin \cmc Rubber Manufacturing 

 i Trenton jer of that company's tire and mechanical 



les in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. 



The yacht "Invader" owned by C. W. Baird, assistant treas- 

 urer of the Rubber Trading Co., of Xew York, recently won the 

 silver cup ..tiered by the Columbia Yacht Club in the speed 

 -t. The "Invader" has a maximum speed of 35 miles an 



1.. C. I.:. rmerly president and general manager of The 



218 West Madison street, Chicago, is now 

 located in the Hub building in that city, exploiting The Dutch 

 Guiana Culture Co., of which be is president. 



A PROTEST FROM MR. MULLER'S BROTHER. 



The July number of this journal contained a brief paragraph 

 ition by the British government of a man 



le name of F. Robert Midler, convicted of being a German 



spy. It was stated that it bad been thought that this was the F. 



•t Miiller, who once was connected for a brief time with the 



trade, but that a letter bad been received in 



' that the former rubber man, so far from being 



i private in the British army. 



\ letter has been received in this ,, H. Christie- 



Miller, of London, protesting against the impression existing in 

 .|iiartirs that the convicted spy was his brother. F. Robert 

 Muller. He writes: "Xo more loyal Scotsman ever drew the 

 breath of life, ami he i~ the descendant on his mother's side of a 

 very ancient Scottish family." The friends of the former Boston 

 rubber man will he \cr\ glad to know that be is a distinct person 

 from the man who recently received SO much unhappy publicity. 

 The name not being a common one. it was perhaps natural, though 

 unfortunate, that this confusion of identity should have occurred. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Faultless Rubber Co., of Ashland, Ohio. . . ■ dinner on 

 July 8 to its traveling men and heads of departments, the party 

 journeying to LeRoy in the private car of F. E. Myers. Ad- 

 dresses were made by various members of the group and views 

 expressed, the consensus of which was that a great business can 

 only be built up by mutual interdependence between the manu- 

 facturing and selling departments. 



The Gryphon Rubber & Tire Corporation, recently organized 

 with a capital of $600,000, has secured a plant at Mt. Vernon, 

 New York, where it expects to manufacture pneumatic tires 

 under a patent by I. S. McGiehan. of London. The plant is 

 65 x 135 feet. 3 stories high, and will be equipped to produce at 

 the start 250 tires daily. 



The United States Tire Co. has opened a direct factory 

 branch at Columbia, South Carolina, in charge of J. E. Doyle, 

 also a sales branch at Macon, Georgia, with J. P. Xewsome 

 manager. 



In connection with the forty-third annual meeting of the 

 Carriage Builders' National Association, at Cleveland. Ohio. 

 September 20-25, there will be held an exhibition of parts of 

 vehicles and of new models and inventions, with the mate- 

 rials used in their construction. 



Reports on conditions at the plant of the Kelly-Springfield 

 Tire Co., at Akron. Ohio, indicate a large gain in this company's 

 business over last year, the increase for the year, if proportionate 

 with that made up to the present time, being esimated at 

 $3,000,000. with total sales of $8,000,000. The company is now 

 operating full time, day and night, putting out 1.000 tires a day. 



The Monarch Stitched Tire Co., a concern incorporated in 

 Maine in December. 1914. with a capital stock of $500,000. is re- 

 ported to have purchased a plant at Seymour Park, near Xew 

 Britain. Connecticut, where it will engage in the manufacture of 

 a newly patented tire which, it is claimed, is proof against blow- 

 outs. Operations are expected to commence within the next 

 leu weeks. 



The Fisk Rubber Co. has opened a branch service station in 

 I. -I... at 233 Twenty-first street, in charge of G. C. Wilcox. 

 A two-story brick building has been erected to afford room for 

 an adequate service department and a largi of tires. 



A new vulcanizer has been installed at the factory of the Inter- 

 national Rubber Co. at West Barrington. Rhode Island, which 

 considerably increases the capacity of the mill for the manufac- 

 ture of sheeting and carriage cloth. Another calender is also 

 soon to be added to the equipment of this plant. 



The Brooklyn Shield & Rubber Co., Inc., Sumner avenue, 

 Brooklyn, which is an amalgamation of the Brooklyn Shield Co., 

 The Brooklyn Rubber Co. and H. P. Rindskopf. is making bathing 

 cap stocks and is about to put a new bathing cap on the market. 

 The company lias in contemplation the addition of a plant for 

 the manufacture of mechanical goods. 



A recent product of the Dryden Rubber Co.. of 1014-22 Four- 

 teenth street. Chicago, is the Dryden Endless Inner Tube. This 

 tube is in the shape of the tire and the valve is attached by a 

 special method. It is said to be something entirely new and is 

 attracting the attention of the tire trade. 



