October 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



29 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. William A. Dc Long, who has devoted most of his time 

 during the last two months to adjusting the affairs of the New 

 York Commercial Co., sailed for England on the "Lusitania" on 

 September 3, to be gone six or seven weeks on business in con- 

 nection with the settlement of the company's affairs. 



Mr. Beach L. McClaren, formerly connected with the United 

 States Rubber Co., and for the past year vice-president and 

 general sales manager of the Racine Rubber Co., has recently 

 been elected president and general manager of the Mitchell-Lewis 

 Motor Co., a corporation of Racine, Wisconsin, with a capital 

 stock of $10,000,000. 



Mr. John L. Hamilton has been appointed manager of the 

 Boston branch of The Endurance Tire & Rubber Co., of New 

 York City, from which point the New England trade is to be 

 supplied. 



Mr. Edward J. McCaffrey is to act as manager of the Federal 

 Rubber Co.'s business at Philadelphia. ■' ' 



Mr. George Bcnninger, who claims the record for the number 

 of tires mounted in one day, with 310 to his credit, has been 

 connected for the past five years with one of the Studebaker 

 plants in Detroit, as foreman of the repair department, ami 

 during that time is said to have mounted a quarter of a million 

 automobile tires. 



Mr. E. F. HoUiday has assumed the management of tlie 

 Chicago Tire & Supply Co., located at 2129 Michigan avenue. 

 Chicago, coming to this position from a previous connection 

 with the Federal Rubber Mfg. Co. 



Mr. Stafford H. Pratt, lately graduated from the rubber school 

 of the Northern Polytechnic Institute, Holloway, London, re- 

 cently arrived in America with the expectation of associating 

 himself with one of the large rubber manufacturing plants. He 

 will probably locate in the west. 



Mr. Anton Berg returned to New York on September 16 from 

 Christiania, Norway, where he has been passing the last two 

 months. The August issue of this paper made mention of the 

 work that Mr. Berg has been doing in Akron during the last 

 two years in the installing of machinery for making balata belt- 

 ing and packing — in which line he is a recognized authority. He 

 returns with the expectation of continuing this work in other 

 parts of the country. His address is care the Norwegian Con- 

 sulate General, New York City. 



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

 Co., and also president of The Rubber Club of America, has been 

 chosen as a delegate to represent the club at the Fourth Interna- 

 tional Rubber Exposition to be held in London next July. 



Mr. E. H. Cutler, known to a great many rubber men because 

 of his former connection with the industry, is now acting as 

 agent for The Scribner Music Club, New York. 



A VALIANT CHAMPION OF GOOD ROADS. 



The cause of good roads finds a valiant cliampion in F. A. 

 Seiberling, president of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of 

 Akron. Mr. Seiberling states it as his belief that if every state 

 would set aside one or two days each year for this cause, and 

 if the citizens would contribute liberally, splendid results might 

 be achieved, of benefit not only to those who use the roads for 

 pleasure automobiling, but to suburbanites generally and to the 

 farmer in particular, affording him better and correspondingly 

 quicker marketing routes. 



THERMOID RUBBER BUMPERS. 



The Thermoid Rubber Co., of Trenton, N. J., makes a 

 great variety of rubber bumpers for motor cars. They are made 

 in any width, to fit the different width of springs, and in any 

 shape that may be desired; and in order to fit the different 

 economic tastes and pocketbooks, they are made in five different 

 grades, ranging from a high-priced bumper to one of extremely 

 low price, the quality naturally varying with the price charged. 



George B. Dkvde.n. 



GEORGE B. DRYDEN. 



This is an excellent likeness of George B. Dryden, president 

 of the Dryden Hoof Pad Co., making a general line of molded 

 specialties, with offices and factory at 1014 South Forty-third 

 avenue, Chicago, Illinois. 



Mr. Dryden started in the rubber business in February, 1897, as 

 salesman for Kelly, 

 Maus & Co., at 

 Chicago, who had 

 the agencies of a 

 number of stand- 

 ard tire concerns. 



In 1898 Mr. Dry- 

 den, in conjunction 

 with H. S. Fire- 

 stone, formed the 

 Imperial Rubber 

 Tire Co., taking 

 over the rubber 

 tire business of 

 Kelly, Maus & Co., 

 and was the secre- 

 tary and treasurer 

 of that organiza- 

 tion until it was 

 acquired — two 

 years later — by the 

 Rubber Wheel Co., 

 later known as the 

 Consolidated Rub- 

 ber Tire Co., 

 which concern -Mr. Dryden represented as Chicago manager 

 for several years. Subsequently he acquired this business, which 

 he operated under the name of the Dryden Rubber Tire Co. 

 In 1901, the Dryden Hoof Pad Co. was formed as a selling or- 

 ganization, and eight years later it developed into a manufac- 

 turing business ; and last year saw the organization of the 

 Peerless Rubber Horse Shoe Co. At the present time, Mr. Dry- 

 den is president of the Dryden Rubber Co.. president and treas- 

 urer of the Dryden Hoof Pad Co., treasurer of the Peerless Rub- 

 ber Horse Shoe Co., and is recognized as an aggressive and 

 efficient member of the western rubber trade. Personally, he is 

 courteous and exceedingly companionable, having a host of 

 friends throughout the trade. 



MR. L. p. DESTRIBATS GOES ABROAD. 



Mr. L. P. Destribats, vice-president of the Aja.x-Grieb 

 Rubber Co., sailed Wednesday, September 10, on the "La 

 France" for France, where he expects to spend a vacation of 

 about two months. Altho Mr. Destribats was born in France, 

 this is his first visit to that country since he left twenty years 

 ago. He has been connected with the .Ajax-Grieb company 

 since its formation in 1905. 



MR. BACON BECOMES A PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT. 



Mr. Oliver Bacon, who was connected with Geo. A. Alden & 

 Co. for more than tw-enty years — for the last ten years of that 

 time acting as chief accountant and general auditor — has opened 

 an office as a public accountant at 220 Devonshire street, Boston. 

 If there is any virtue in experience, Mr. Bacon, after his twenty 

 years of acquaintance with rubber accounts, ought to be par- 

 ticularly well qualified to do this sort of work for anybody in 

 the rubber trade. 



A HEEL WITH TWO KINDS OF RESILIENCY. 



S. L. Kelly, of Grand Junction. Colorado, has taken out a 

 patent for a heel-seat to be used on a shoe with a leather heel, 

 consisting of a rubber cushion between two ahnninum plates, 

 the peculiarity of the cushion being that it contains three holes 

 in which are inserted coiled springs, the spring co-operating 

 with the rubber to relieve the jar in walking. 



