June 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



491 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. W. J. B. Stokes, of the ThcrmoitI, Home and Joseph Stokes 

 rubber companies, arrived from Europe, June 1 — having visited 

 the European agencies of the companies named. 



Mr. E. E. Wadbrook is back at his place in Arnold & Zeiss' 

 office, fully recovered from his recent indisposition, 



Mr. Charles E. Stokes, general manager of the Home Rubber 

 Co., Trenton, \ew Jersey, has been elected a director in the 

 Trenton Life Deposit and Trust Co. 



Mr. I. W. Penniman, formerly with the Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co.. has become New England sales manager, with offices 

 at 757 Boyleston street, Boston, for tlie \\'alpole Tire & Rub- 

 ber Co. 



Mr. Herbert P. Choate, formerly connected with the Empire 

 Rubber & Tire Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, has recently be- 

 come sales manager of the Star Motor Car Co., of Ann Arbor, 

 Michigan. 



Mr. George Campbell, representing the Mcllroy Belting & 

 Hose Co., of Hammond, Indiana, manufacturers of Rubber-lte 

 Fibre fire hose, left recently for a business trip to European 

 cities, with a view of establishing agencies for the sale of their 

 new style of fire hose. 



Mr. .A.rthur L. Kelley, wlio. in addition to being a director in 

 the United States Rubber Co., has also for some time been a 

 director in the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., resigned from 

 that position at the last annual meeting of the company, owing 

 to considerations of health. 



MR, PEARSON LECTURES AT YALE. 



Mr. Henry C. Pearson, Editor of The Inuia Rubber World, 

 delivered a lecture on May 27 before a body of students of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School — the scientific department of Yale 

 University — on his travels up the Amazon. He delivered this 

 lecture by special request of Professor Hiram Bingham, who has 

 a class which is making a study of South America, its products. 

 development and commercial possibilities. 



This lecture was arranged for through Mr. H. Stuart Hotch- 

 kiss. vice-president of L. Candee & Co., and himself a Sheffield 

 graduate. Mr. Hotchkiss is deeply interested in this particular 

 class and has favored it with several talks on his travels through 

 ru1)1]er countries. 



ME. BROADWELL BACK WITH THE FISK CO. 



Mr. E. H. Broadwell, who was formerly connected for cjuite 

 a long time with the selling department of the Fisk Rubber Co. 

 of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and who later went with the 

 Hudson Motor Car Co., of Detroit, has returned to the Fisk 

 Co. and has been elected to the position of vice-president. He 

 will have full charge of the sales of the company. 



ALFRED SLACK. GLOBE-TROTTER. 



Mr. Alfred Slack, who has been connected with the foreign 

 department of the Tyer Rubber Co. for the last 20 years, with 

 headquarters at San Francisco — but devoting the greater part of 

 his time to traveling over the world at large — arrived in New 

 York May 21 on his way to Andover, after a 13 months' absence, 

 during which he visited practically all the trade centers of the 

 Orient. While Mr. Slack is a selling man and visited the Middle 

 East and the Far West to place orders for tires and the other 

 products of the Tyer Co., he managed to acquire a vast fund of 

 most interesting information regarding the plantations in that 

 part of the world. Incidentally it might be mentioned that Mr. 

 Slack speaks German, French. Spanish, and Portuguese — not to 

 mention several minor languages — as fluently as he does Eng- 

 lish ; and his English is exceptionally fluent. 



ALGOT LAN6E TO REMAIN IN BRAZIL. 



Mr. Algol Lange, author of the book "In the Amazon Jungle," 

 which came out about a year ago and attracted a vast amount of 

 attention, and who also will be remembered for the entertaining 

 lectures which he delivered last fall at the Rubber Exposition, on 

 his travels up the tributaries of the Amazon, has been appointed 

 to a position in the civil service of Brazil, by Dr. Pedro de 

 Toledo, the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture. Mr. Lange was 

 at one time associated with the expedition sent out by the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania to explore the Upper Amazon, but he 

 resigned from that enterprise some months ago and expects to 

 devote his energies particularly to the "Defesa da Borracha." the 

 imiKirtant work recently undertaken by the Brazilian government. 



MR. JOHN C. COLE IN EUROPE. 



.Mr. John C. Cole, one of the vice presidents of the Fisk 

 Rubber Co. of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and one of the 

 most popular of the New England rubber men, sailed, with his 

 wife on the "Cedric," May 1, for a two or three months' visit to 

 England and the continent. He will divide his time between 

 advancing the business interests of his company and sight-seeing. 



A WELL-KNOWN RUBBER MAN. 



The subject of this sketch, W. G. Brown, of W. G. Brown & 

 Co.. Cincinnati, Ohio, brokers and dealers in rubber manufac- 

 turers' supplies, is one of the best known men in his line, west of 

 Pittsliurgh. Mr. P.rnwn has had extensive and successful ex- 

 perience, having 

 started in 1880, with 

 Bart & Hickox, Cin- 

 cinnati agents of the 

 Pxiston Belting Co., 

 with whom he re- 

 mained until 1885. 

 in which year he 

 became connected 

 with the Globe Rub- 

 ber \\'orks, of Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey. 

 ."Subsequent to this 

 Mr. Brown was 

 identified with the 

 Cleveland Rublicr 

 Co., as Cincinnati 

 sales agent. In 

 1893 he became 

 affiliated with the 

 Mechanical Rubber 

 Co., of Cleveland. 

 Ohio, where he 

 opened and man- 

 aged a branch store 

 coverin.g ( )lii<>, Indiana. \\"est \'irginia. and Southern States. In 

 1902 Mr. Brown discontinued this connection to take charge of 

 the rubber department of Whitman & Barnes Manufacturin.g Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, and during the last two years of his stay with this 

 house became its general sales manager. In 1905 Mr. Brown 

 organized the Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, and became its vice-president and general manager, which 

 position he occupied until 1908, when he started the present suc- 

 cessful house of W. G. Brown & Co. Mr. Brown is considered 

 an expert judge of crude rubber, and is frequently called upon 

 as an appraiser in the adjustment of crude rubber difficulties. 

 He is also a recognized expert in rubber compounding. Per- 

 sonally. W. G. Brown is of a genial and helpful disposition, and 

 has a host of friends, not only in the trade but in his home city, 

 where he is a prominent member of the Business Men's Club, and 

 until recently was the chairman of the well-known Cincinnati 

 Santa Claus Committee. 



W , G. Brown, 



