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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1901. 



LESTER LELAND, 

 Second Vice-President. 



COL. SAMUEL P. COLT, HOMER E. SAWYER, 



President. Manager of Sales. 



THE LEADING NEW OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 



g. Robert M. Gallaway, New York city [20] 



10. Henky L. Hotchkiss, New Haven, Conn. [lol 



11. Charles L. Johnson, New Haven, Conn. [10] 



12. Lester Leland, Boston, Mass. [3] 



13. Frederick C. Sayles, Providence, R. I. [3] 



14. Frederick M. Shepard, East Orange, N J. [10] 



15. John D. Vermeule, New York city (5] 



The first meeting of the newly elected board of directors was 

 held at the office of the company in New York, on May 24, and 

 the following officers were elected : 



President — SAMUEL P. CoLT, Providence, R. I. 

 Vice President — James B. Ford, New York. 

 Second Vice-President — Lester Leland, Boston. 

 Treasurer — Charles R. Flint, New York. 

 Secretary— SAUMtx NoRRis, Jr., Bristol, R. L 

 Assistant Treasurer — H. M. Sadler, Jr , New York. 

 General Manager — CHARLES L JoHNSON, New York. 

 Assistant General Manage! — H. M, Sadler, Jr. 

 Manager 0/ Sales — HoMER E. Sawyer, Boston. 

 Attorney — SAMUEL Norris, Jr. 



The executive committee consists of Samuel P. Colt, James 

 B. Ford, Lester Leland, Charles R. Flint, and Charles L. 

 Johnson. 



THE NEW OFFICERS. 



There is little doubt that the election of directors and officers 

 chronicled above marks a most important change in the ad- 

 ministration of affairs of the United States Rubber Co. The 

 records of the gentlemen who have come to the front are well 

 known, as they have long been prominent in the rubber busi- 

 ness. It is nevertheless interesting to review their character- 

 istics. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, the new president, is a man of wide 

 experience in law and in matters industrial. Politic, full of 

 physical and mental vitality, broad gage, in every sense a man 

 of the world, he is likely to carry his honors easily and be the 

 active head of the great corporation of which he is now chief 

 executive. 



Lester Leland won his spurs as far as the rubber trade is con- 

 cerned as general manager of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. 

 His record there was clean, wholesome, and brilliant. Very 

 close to the veteran founder of the company, his schooling was 

 of the best, and, as the load settled upon his shoulders, he not 

 only made no mistakes, but handled the great business easily 



and wisely, winning the loyalty of the exceedingly able corps 

 of officers and assistants that administer the details of the 

 various departments. Young, vigorous, capable, a close stud- 

 ent of business, conservative but with ample courage, his posi- 

 tion as vice president, director and member of the executive 

 committee, are deserved, and promise the best in all things. 



Homer E. Sawyer, the new manager of sales, is one of the few 

 marketers of rubber goods who has had a thorough factory ex- 

 perience, and who knows every detail of the manufacture of 

 rubber shoes " from the forest to the foot." His leading char- 

 acteristic is a friendliness that is wholly genuine, coupled with 

 a business alertness that wins instant respect. 



NOTES. 



It will be noted that the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. have now 

 five representatives on the board 01 directors — or six, if there 

 be included Colonel Colt, who is now a director in the Boston 

 company. The election of C. C. Converse, vice president of the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co.. and president of the Revere Rubber 

 Co., as director will be viewed with much satisfaction by the 

 stockholders. 



= E. L. Corning, the other new director, is one of the larger 

 shareholders in the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. He is a warm 

 personal friend of President Converse, and has long been inter- 

 ested in the rubber business. Mr. Coming's father, the late 

 H. K. Corning, was a rubber importer in New York as early as 

 1850, and the Corning firm at one time occupied a commanding 

 position in this trade. Mr. E. L. Corning, for several years 

 past, has spent a considerable part of his time in Europe. 



=The new officers are men in the prime of life, and have 

 been for years actively engaged in the rubber industry, insuring 

 an active and vigorous policy under a complete organization 

 with the most modern methods. 



= Samuel M. Williams, who retires from the board, it is re- 

 ported, is to be elected president of the Lycoming Rubber Co. 

 (Williamsport, Pa.), of which he long has been treasurer and 

 general manager, to succeed William Howard, who died in Flor- 

 ida in March. 



= At the annual meeting the by laws were so amended that 

 deposits of moneys of company with banks, bankers or trust 

 companies, in foreign companies or pertaining to company's 

 /^ctories, may be drawn upon order of such officers, agents, or 



