July 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



525 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. James B. Dunlop, who invented the first pneumatic 

 tire, about 25 years ago, recently arrived in America with a 

 number of British engineers who came as guests of the 

 Society of Automobile Engineers. 



Mr. Fred J. Wagner, long identified with the automobile 

 business, has been elected vice-president of the Ajax-Grieb 

 Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, manufacturers of .Ajax 

 tires. 



Mr. Arthur E. Friswell, formerly connected with the Me- 

 chanical Fabric Co. and later with the Goodyear Tire and Rub- 

 ber Co., after a year's vacation in Bermuda is back in the States 

 with the thought in mind of again entering the tire field. Mr. 

 Friswell's experience and capabilities are such that it goes witli- 

 out saying that he will not long remain idle. 



Mr. Fred Moses, formerly with George A. Alden & Co., of 

 Boston, is now operating on his own account as a broker in 

 crude rubber at 220 Devonshire street, Boston. 



COLONEL COLT'S CAMPING PAETY. 



The summer camp of Colonel Colt, president of the United 

 States Rubber Co., called "Camp Colt," and located at Kidney 

 Pond, Maine, is one of the most attractive spots in that state. 

 It has been the Colonel's custom for a number of years to 

 take quite a party of guests to his camp during June. Con- 

 tinuing this custom, he started from Providence on June 1st 

 with a party of about fifteen guests, including his brother, 

 Senator LeBaron B. Colt, Mr. Walter S. Ballou and Mr. 

 Nathaniel Myers, of the United States Rubber Co. The other 

 members of the party were : Dr. Calvin S. May, Colonel and 

 Mrs. Harold J. Gross, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Barrows, Rev. G. 

 L. Locke, Miss Beatrice Colt, Hon. Mrs. William Beresford, 

 Miss Gertrude Barrows, Miss Ruth Anthony. 



The party broke camp and returned home on June 14th. 



COMMODORE BENEDICT BACK FROM HIS CRUISE. 



Commodore E. C. Benedict arrived at his home in Greenwich, 

 Connecticut, on June 5th, after a six weeks' cruise, including 

 a long trip up the .Amazon river. This is the Commodore's 

 fifth sail up the Amazon, in which he has a double interest. 

 for, being a director of the United States Rubber Co., he is 

 interested in the supply of crude rubber from the Amazon, and, 

 in addition, he installed on that river a few years ago a system 

 of wireless telegraphy. The trip was made on the Commodore's 

 yacht "The Oneida," which has an over-all length of 199 ft. 

 and carries a crew of 36 men. The Commodore was accom- 

 panied by a party of friends, including Mr. and Mrs. Colgate 

 Hoyt. 



ME. COE AND MISS PIKE MARRIED IN JAPAN. 



The consummation of a little romance which will interest many 

 of the rubber footwear trade, was a marriage at the American 

 Consulate in Yokohama, Japan, the latter part of June, when 

 Mr. Kersey Fell Coc and Miss Louise G. Pike became husband 

 and wife. 



Charles A. Coe. the Eastern selling agent of the United States 

 Rubber Co., is a resident of Medford, a suburb of Boston. 

 Chester J. Pike, for many years with that company, and now 

 managing the advertising campaign for the Hub-Mark rubbers, 

 also resides in Medford. Here their children received their pre- 

 collegiate education, and Kersey Coe and Louise Pike were 

 schoolmates. Mr. Coe graduated from Williams College, and 

 later entered the employ of the Standard Oil Co., and three years 

 ago was sent to Japan. 



But before starting on his long journey the young folks be- 

 came engaged, and it was finally decided that as Mr. Coe could 

 not come to America for his bride, she should go to him. 

 Miss Pike started from Boston on Wednesdaj', May 28, for San 

 Francisco. She was met by friends in Chicago, and in San 

 Francisco embarked on the "Shimyo Narii" on June 4. 



Mr. Cue met her on the arrival of the steamer at Yokohama, 

 where the wedding took place, after which the couple proceeded 

 to Otaru on the Island of Hokkaido, the northernmost of the 

 large islands which compose the Japanese Empire, where Mr. 

 Coe will be in charge of the local office of the Standard Oil Co., 

 a position to which he has just been promoted. Many hand- 

 some gifts went forward on the same steamer, for both the 

 young people have hosts of friends in Medford and Boston. 



THE NEW TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 



Some men seem to get through life without ever being visited 

 by the consequences of their own acts, but not all men escape. 

 Some men get caught with the goods, and have stern justice 

 meted out to ihem. To the latter class belongs Mr. W. Guy 

 Parsons, who has just got what he richly deserves. He has 

 just been made treasurer of the United States Rubber Co. after 

 an even twenty years of service in the financial department of 

 that big corporation. 



Mr. Parsons was born approximately forty-five years ago, in 

 a little town in Kansas, but when he reached the reflective age 



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of five he became convinced that while Kansas was a fine place 

 for raising corn and cyclones, it was no place for future treasur- 

 ers of $120,000,000 corporations— so he left for Chicago. That 

 town did well enough until he was 19 years of a,ge. when he 

 concluded that though Chicago was the literary center of the 

 Western Hempishere, large affairs of finance were arranged in 

 New York : consequently he removed to the metropolis. That 

 was in 1885. Eight years later, when the United States Rubber 

 Co. was formed, he took charge of the bookkeeping department. 

 Evidently his work was not so badly done, for very soon he was 

 promoted to the cashiership ; thence to the assistant auditorship : 

 another promotion and he was made auditor; still another 

 boost and he became assistant treasurer. .\nd now. having 

 climbed every round on the ladder — at least all the upper rounds 

 — he has reached the top rung in the financial department, and 

 has been made treasurer — a job of no small dimensions when 

 you consider the size of the corporation, its various ramifica- 

 tions and its multitudinous interests. Here is a clear case where 

 efficiency has come into its own. 



Incidentally it might be mentioned that personally he is a 

 thoroughly likable man. perfectly genial even though living in 

 Brookljn; and a few years ago, when he weighed somewhat less 

 than now and used to play on the Rubber Company's nine, he 

 could be relied upon to hammer out a five-base hit almost every 

 time he came to bat. 



