September 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



633 



A NEW PRESIDENT OF THE INTERSTATE BOBBEB 



Mr. William McAtlam, who has been connected for .he last 

 nine years with the Duck Brand Co. of Chicago, being in charge 

 of its rubber boot and shoe departmenf during the last four 

 years, has been elected president and treasurer of the Interstate 

 Rubber Co. of Omaha, Nebraska, the place tilled for so many 

 years by the late Z. T. Lindsay. 



THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL STAMP MANUFAC- 

 TURERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Gus. A. Meyer, junior, a member of the lirm of Meyer & 

 W'cnthe, is the new president of the International Stamp Manu- 

 facturers' Association, elected at its recent convention. Mr. 

 Meyer is one of the most popular of the younger members of the 

 stamp trade, and this, combined with his excellent business 

 ability and training, especially tits him for the presidency of so 

 important an association. 



THE NEW SECRETARY OF THE RUBBER CLUB OF AMERICA. 



Here is a photograph of Mr. Harry S. \'orhis. recently elected 

 secretary of the Rubber Club of America. He is a Yale man, 

 having left that famous institution under the elms some dozen 

 or fifteen years ago. After graduating he made straight for a 

 newspaper office in Xew York — which shows his penchant for 

 work. For some time he wrote for the financial papers of the 

 metropolis, and then did the same kind of work in Boston. The 



H.\RRV S. \uRHJS. 



goal of every young newspaper man's ambition is the office of 

 the "New York Sun," and Mr. Vorhis made it early in his career. 

 He was on the staff of that brilliant journal for six years, leav- 

 ing to take up the publishing and editing of technical publica- 

 tions, in which work he has been engaged very successfully for 

 several years. 



He has not been associated hitherto with the rubber trade, but 

 his general knowledge of financial and industrial cimditions in 

 this country, together with his all-around capacity, marked him as 

 a very desirable man for the secretaryship of the club in its 

 ambition to carry out a number of important undertakings for 

 the benefit of the rubber trade at large. Mr. Vorhis expects to 

 devote a very considerable part of his time and energy to the 

 work of his new position, and the plans which the officers of 

 the club have had in mind for some time to make the club help- 

 ful in a large way to the trade, and which have not hitherto 

 matured because no one had sufficient time to devote to them, 

 w-ill now undoubtedlv be carried to a successful issue. 



CHARLES E. WOOD. 



Mr. Charles E. Wood, who was with the Xew York Commer- 

 cial Co. for nineteen years, is now operating as a broker with 

 officers in the Importers' & Traders' building. 24 Stone street. 

 New York, where he has already developed a considerable 

 clientage. Mr. Wood was born at Piermont-on-Hudson, in 1876, 

 and received his early education in the public schools, finishing 



Charles E. Wood. 



at Trinity school, after which he entered the employ of the Xew 

 York Commercial Co.. with which house he remained until its 

 assignment, w-hen he commenced on his own account as above 

 stated. He is regarded as an excellent judge of the various 

 gums, and his many friends in the trade are giving him gratify- 

 ing support. 



Mr. Wood has established several important connections. 

 aiTiong them being the agency of the Derby Rubber Co., Derby, 

 Connecticut. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. George B. Hodgman, president of The Hodgman Rubber 

 Co., and also president of the Rubber Club of .America, spent 

 the greater part of August on a canoeing trip in the wilds of 

 Maine. 



Mr. .-X. L. Comstock, superintendent of The American Rubber 

 Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts, returned the middle of August 

 from a trip to Europe, taken for rest and pleasure. 



W. H. Elenbeck, fornxer special representative of the 

 United States Tire Co., is the new manager of the company's 

 Worcester branch, L. E. Hevaner. who formerly had charge 

 of this station, having given up the sale of tires in favor of a 

 motor car agency. 



Mr. Frederick A. Smith, who for the last 18 years has been 

 .superintendent of the United States Rubber Co.'s reclaiming 

 plant at Xaugatuck. Connecticut, and who has been connected 

 with the rubber interests in that city for a quarter of a century, 

 has resigned his position, to take charge of the reclaiming plant 

 of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. of Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. 



THE VULCAN COMPANY DOUBLES ITS CAPITAL STOCK. 



The Vulcan Rubber Co., which was organized in Erie. Penn- 

 sylvania, a year ago with a capital stock of $100,000, has decided 

 to double this amount and to make extensive additions to its 

 plant and equipment. The company's chief product consists of 

 solid and pneumatic tires. 



