November 1, lfl3.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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PERSONAL MENTION, 



Fred. E. Dayton has been engaged by the Ajax-Grieb Rub- 

 ber Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, to manage its department 

 devoted to advertising Ajax tires and to assist in the manage- 

 ment of the sales department, which is in charge of J. C. 

 Matlick. 



T. H. McGiehan has been elected to the vice-presidency 

 of the Motz Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, of which con- 

 cern he has been general manager for the past year. 



Herbert P. Ziegler, former manager of the Goodyear Tire 

 & Rubber Co.'s sales department at Milwaukee, has been 

 transferred to a similar position with the Chicago branch. 

 W. W. Calahan has been promoted to the management of this 

 company's Milwaukee branch from a position in the sales 

 department which lie has occupied for the past six years. 

 T. A. Butler has become manager of the company's Phila- 

 delphia branch. He was previously connected with the 

 Diamond Rubber Co., for several years, both in New York 

 and Boston. 



H. D. Benner has been appointed manager of the Federal 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co.'s branch in New York, coming 

 to this position from a similar connection with the company 

 at Philadelphia. 



E. S. Kelly, lately employed at the Chicago branch of the 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., has accepted a position as tire expert 

 with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., at Akron, Ohio. 



Mr. C. A. Swinehart, the new general manager of the Vulcan 

 Rubber Co., ef Erie, Pennsylvania, formerly acted as manager of 

 sales for the Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron. 



The Meeley Rubber Co., Inc., of Philadelphia, has placed 

 William Fait, Jr., in charge of its selling branch at Washington, 

 D. C, and Edwin T. Howard in a similar position in its solid 

 tire department. 



A department to be devoted to its new "E. C. McGraw" Truck 

 Tire has been established by The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co. 

 of East Palestine, Ohio. This department will be managed by 

 Mr. A. Hanschild, former manager of the Polack Tire & Rubber 

 Co., who brings to the office a fund of practical knowledge 

 gained through his connection with the Polack company, both 

 in Europe and in this country. 



Mr. William A. DeLong returned to New York on Octo- 

 ber 13 after a five weeks' stay in London, where he was 

 engaged in some business matters concerning the New York 

 Commercial Co., for which he has acted as trustee during the 

 past eight months. Before his retirement from active busi- 

 ness about ten years ago, Mr. DeLong was one of the best 

 known men in the rubber trade. 



Mr. George Mills, the popular salesman at Bailey's Rub- 

 ber Store, 22 Boylston street, was pleasantly surprised on 

 October 17 when he was presented by Mr. C. J. Bailey with 

 a gold watch and scarf pin in recognition of twenty-one years of 

 faithful service. 



James Lawton, son of L. C. Lawton, president of the Chi- 

 cago Rubber Co., sailed about the middle of October for 

 Dutch Guiana, where he will be connected with The Dutch 

 Guiana Culture Co. This company has planted, altogether, 

 70,000 rubber trees, and 1,000 of these are old enough to be 

 tapped next year. Mr. Lawton has been on the plantation 

 before and is very enthusiastic over the company's prospects. 



W. H. Hildreth, a director of A. H. Alden & Co., Ltd., of 

 London, and Mr. Hambling, general manager of the London & 

 Southwestern Bank, of London, arrived in New York City on 

 the Lusitania on October 31. They will be in New York for 

 some time on business connected with the liquidation of the New 

 York Commercial Co, 



MB. C. 0. BRANDES. 



Mr. C. O. Brandes, whose portrait appears below, has been 

 engaged by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio, as 

 manager of its export sales and shipping departments — a position 



Mr. C. O. Brandes. 



created by the rapid growth of this branch of the company's 

 business. Mr. Brandes possesses a wide knowledge of both for- 

 eign and domestic trade conditions, which especially fits him for 

 this important and difficult position, having had years of expe- 

 rience in European markets previous to his connection with the 

 rubber trade of this country. He was born at Hamburg, Ger- 

 many, but has been in .America for the past eight years. 



THE TWO NEW DIRECTORS OF THE tmiTED STATES RUBBER CO. 



At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States 

 Rubber Co., held October 3, 1913. Nicholas F. Brady and James 

 C. Brady, sons of .'\nthony N. Brady, were elected directors of 

 the company, to fill the vacancies caused by the death of Fred- 

 erick M. Shepard and Anthony N. Brady. ' 



Reports made at the meeting show the business of the com- 

 pany for eight months of 1913 to be somewhat in excess of that 

 for the corresponding months of 1912, and notwithstanding 

 that there is a recent falling off in volume of sales, the indica- 

 tions are that for the entire year the sales will reach, if not 

 exceed, the volume of business done in 1912. The above state- 

 ment applies to the entire business of the company. The profits 

 of the year so far compare favorably with those of 1912. 



MR. FRANK EVANS. 



Mr. Frank Evans, acting director of the Department of 

 Agriculture of the Central Province, Southern Nigeria, re- 

 cently visited New York on his way south. He expects to 

 make a brief stop in Florida and then go on to Panama and 

 Cuba. 



AN AUSTRALIAN RUBBER MAN VISITS AMERICA. 



Mr. E. E. Glass, of the rubber firm of Barnet Glass & Co., 

 of Melbourne, .-Xustralia, is visiting .America for the first time. 

 He is very much interested in certain lines of rubber manu- 

 facture and has devoted considerable time to looking over 

 some of the big .American factories. He sails for home from 

 Vancouver late in November. 



The accepted authority on South American rubber — "The 

 Rubber Country of the .Amazon," by Henry C. Pearson 



