December 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



163 



A PUNCH BOWL FOR MR. RODENBACH. 



The Rubber Kcclainicrs' Club held ils annual meeting on Xo- 

 vember 7. at the Hotel Belmont, New York. All but three of 

 the members were present. 1 he officers of the preceding year 

 were re-elected for the coming year; they are as follows: 



President — F. H. Appleton. 



Treasurer — R. W. Seabury. 



Secretary — J. .A. Norman. 



The annual meetings of this club are always highly enjoyable 

 occasions; this was particularly so by reason of the presenta- 

 tion of a Paul Revere punch bowl to Mr. W. T. Rodenbach. 

 general manager of the United States Rubber Co.'s reclaiming 

 plant, at Naugatuck, Conn. The presentation speech was made 

 by President .\ppleton in the happy manner which is his habit. 

 The following jiaragraph shows its general tenor: "It is surely 

 a part of your nature," lie said to Mr. Rodenbacli. "to aid and 



W. r. Ki riENB.\CH. 



uplift mankind, apparently without distinction, and as far as I 

 have been able to see, I have found you ready to help even a 

 competitor whenever the opportunity has presented itself to 

 you. You have ever been, and are, the father of this club, for 

 without your aid. in my opinion the club would not liave existed, 

 but with your wise council all members have been benefited, so 

 that today the club is in a flourishing condition, with a kindly 

 feeling e.xisting among all its members." 



Mr. Rodenbach. like Mr. W'oodrow Wilson — who was a pro- 

 fessor before he undertook the reclaiming of politics — was a 

 professor before he reclaimed rubber, and enjoys an exceptional 

 facility in the expression of his ideas, -\ccordingly, while taken 

 totally by surprise, he acquitted himself most creditably. 



After the lunch had been adequately analyzed, the club pro- 

 ceeded to the discussion of the question of old tires, which, with 

 not a few of the reclaimers, have now become the chief source 

 of their old rubber supply. 



BOSTON RECEIVES BIG RUBBER SHIPMENT. 



On the 11th of November a British freight steamer from the 

 Far East arrived at Boston with a general cargo valued at more 

 than $2,000,000, which is said to be the most valuable cargo of 

 merchandise brought into that port in recent years. -Among the 

 interesting items that constituted the cargo was a consignment 

 of 3.000 large cases of rubber. 



PERSONAL MENTIONS. 



According to an interview which a reporter secured with the 

 American Consul at Para, Mr. George H. Pickerell, Commodore 

 E. C. Benedict, one of the directors of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co., has secured a rubber plantation not far from the city 

 of Para and has already planted 50,000 trees. 



Mr. Lester Leland, vice-president of the United States Rubber 

 Co., has been made a director of the Second National Bank of 

 Boston. 



Mr. Frank M. Hale, who has been in the service of the Woon- 

 socket Rubber Co., as chemist, for the past three years, has 

 given up that position to accept a similar one with the Whitall- 

 Tatum Co., of New York. He will be located at their factory 

 at Keyport, New Jersey. 



Mr. W. T. Walker, formerly with the Oldsmobile and Mathe- 

 son companies and other automobile concerns, has been appointed 

 New England branch manager of the Kelly-Springfield Tire 

 Co., with headquarters in Boston. 



A. E. Williams, formerly manager of the advertising depart- 

 ment of the Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, re- 

 cently resigned to accept a position as district sales manager of 

 the Stevens Motor Car Company of Chicago, Illinois. 



•Among the many visitors to Akron rubber mills during No- 

 vember was R. J. Caldwell, of R. J. Caldwell Co., of 374 Broad- 

 way, New Y'ork. Mr. Caldwell is among the well known and 

 successful operators in tire fabrics. The Caldwell Co. control 

 the output of several large mills. 



T. F. O'Brien, formerly identified with a prominent rubber 

 culture company is now a partner in a well known Canton, 

 Ohio drug house, as well as being a successful operator in oil 

 lands. 



Mr. Guy W. Parsons, assistant treasurer of the United States 

 Rubber Co., was recently called to Kansas City, Mo., by the 

 illness of his mother. Her death occurred in that city on Mon- 

 day, November 18. 



Mr. A. Bamberger, manager of the New Y'ork office of Meyer 

 Cohn, of Hanover, Germany, expects to sail for Europe in a few 

 days in the interest of his constantly increasing American trade. 



MR. GOUGH CHANGES HIS OFFICE. 



Mr. Wallace L. Gough announces a change in location of his 

 office from 108 Water street, to 2 and 4 Stone street. New York 

 City. The new telephone number is 1480 Broad. Cable address 

 "^\■allagough." 



MR. MANDEES THANKS HIS AMERICAN FRIENDS. 



^Ir. A. Staines Manders, the organizing manager of the 

 International Rubber Exposition recently held in New York, 

 and Miss D. Fulton, the secretary of that Exposition, sailed 

 from New York for England on the steamship Caronia, 

 November 16. They arrived in New Y'ork early in April last, 

 and the intervening months were devoted exclusively to the 

 big rubber show. Mr. Manders had also made several pre- 

 liminary visits to this country in connection with this enter- 

 prise. Many friends were at the dock to see them off and to 

 wish them a pleasant voyage. Mr. Manders expressed himself 

 as very much gratified, not only v\'ith the success of the enter- 

 prise to which he has devoted so much time and work, but 

 with the way in which he had been received by the American 

 rubber trade: and he said that he wished to thank the 

 hundreds of friends he had made in this country, both for their 

 assistance in making the Rubber Show so successful, and for 

 the many agreeable recollections that he carries away of his 

 six months in .America. 



