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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1914. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



-Mr. George B. Hodgman, president of the Hodgman Rubber 

 Co. and also president of the Rubber Club of .\merica, was 

 recently elected a member of the committee on arbitration of 

 the Chamber of Connnerce of the State of New York. 



.Mr. F'Aigene llofeller, secretary and treasurer of Theodore 

 Hofeller & Co., well-known scrap rubber and waste material 

 dealers of Buffalo, and Mr. h'innigan. of the Empire Smelting 

 Co., of Depew, New York, have purchased the plant and equi])- 

 ment of the New Columbus Buggy Co., at Columbus, Ohio, and 

 will engage in the manufacture of a full line of electric and gaso- 

 lene automobiles as well as high grade buggies. Mr. Hofeller 

 will devote only a small part of his time to the new business, 

 continuing his interest in and association with the Hofeller 

 company. 



Mr. Hermann Reimers, for many years known by the whole 

 of the .American rubber trade as the head of Reimers & Co., New 

 York, but now a partner in the important rubber importing house 

 of Heilbut, Symons & Co., of London, was a visitor to the United 

 States this spring. His tarry was so brief that few of his many 

 friends had an opportunity to see him, much to their regret. 



J. A. Mendes. of Para, the inventor of the Mendes process for 

 smoking Para rubber, is in New York. 



Charles B. Whittlesey, secretary of the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co., of Hartford, Connecticut, and president of the Hart- 

 ford Board of Trade, was married about the first of May, at 

 New Britain, to Miss Grace A, Moore. 



Mr. Plulip Cabot, of White. Weld & Co., of Boston, has been 

 elected a director of the Hood Rubber Co. 



H. E. Raymond, second vice-president and sales manager 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co., has moved his offices from the 

 factory at Akron to New York City, where the president of 

 the company, B. G. Work, has for some time been located. 

 The general direction of all affairs at the plant at Akron is 

 in charge of A. H. Marks, vice-president and manufacturing 

 manager of the concern. 



Mr. B. F. Goodsell, the original inventor of Goodsell packings, 

 has. in association with a few other men, incorporated the Good- 

 sell Packing Co., with offices at 31 West Lake street, Chicago, 

 Mr. Goodsell assumes the presidency and management of this 

 nc« company. 



H. C. Ross, formerly Pacific Coast manager for the Knight 

 Tire & Rubber Co., of Canton, Ohio, has been promoted to 

 the position of general sales manager, with headquarters at 

 Cancon, to fill the vacancy created by the recent resignation 

 of Ole Hibner, former general sales manager. 



P. P. Parker, who in January of this year was appointed 

 eastern district manager of the same company, in charge of 

 its Boston branch, is now assistant sales manager, with head- 

 quarters at the factory in Canton. Mr. Parker's experience 

 in charge of the Boston branch especially fits him for his 

 new work of overseeing the company's various United States 

 distributing houses. 



Edgar Storms, Jr., who for some time past has been man- 

 ager of the New Y'ork branch of the Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., 

 of Trenton, has resi,gned his position with that company, to 

 become president and .general manager of the Racine Rubber 

 Tire Co. of New York. Inc., located at Seventh avenue and 

 Fifty-fourth street. 



Henry E. Jacoby. of New York, announces the removal on 

 May 1 of his offices to larger quarters at 95 to 97 Liberty street, 

 where he will continue to specialize on chemical machinery and 

 equipment of all kinds, including a much larger line of vacuum 

 drying apparatus. 



John L. Gibncy, who has been in charge of the New York 



City branch of the Gibney Tire & Rubber Co., of Conshohocken, 

 Pennsylvania, will in future look after this company's interests 

 among the big truck users and manufacturers, while F. F. Phillips 

 has been appointed to the New York management. 



George J. Bates, formerly credit man for a number of years 

 with another large Akron tire company, and ft r the past y.ar 

 head of the Firestone Tire & Rub';er Co.'s pneuinatic tire sales 

 department at .Akron, is now looking after the company's in- 

 terests in this partic.lar I ne among the automobile factories 

 throughout Michigan, with headquarters at the Detroit branch, 

 corner Canlield and Woodward avenues. 



MR. WATSON VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE LEE TIRE Ic RUBBER CO. 



Mr. John J. Watsun, Jr., well known to the rubber trade 

 because of his former connection with the United States Rubber 

 Co. — of which corporation he was the treasurer for several 

 years — has, together with several other eastern capitalists, be- 

 come interested in the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., of Conshohocken, 

 Pennsylvania. At the meeting of the company held on May 4 

 he was elected first vice-president. The board of directors 

 elected at that time include : J. EUwood Lee, A. A. Garthwaite, 

 John J. Watson, Samuel Wright, H. C. Coleman, ^L O'B. Hal- 

 lowell, Charles Heber Clark, J. Carl De la Cour, H. C. Jones 

 and John M. Dettra. One of the local papers, referring to the 

 advent into the management of the company of this new element, 

 speaks as follows: "In securing Mr. Watson and his associated 

 interests the company has made a great business stroke which 

 will bring it into a stronger and larger position in the rubber 

 manufacturing world. Mr. Watson is a young, active business 

 man of great experience in big enterprises and is one of the best- 

 known men in the ruliber trade. The acquisition of Mr. 

 Watson and his associates will bring great strength to the com- 

 pany, which is now doing a very large business and has many 

 orders on hand." 



MR. GEORGE B. WILSON. 



Mr. George B. Wilson, president and general manager of the 

 Racine Rubber Co., of Racine, Wisconsin — formerly the Kelly- 

 Racine Rubber Co. — has recently been visiting some of his 

 friends in the East. Mr. Wilson assumed his present position 

 with the Racine company a year and a half ago and the pros- 

 perous condition of the company today shows the result of his 

 executive ability. Mr. Wilson originated in the East, having 

 lived as a boy in Dedham, Massachusetts, and getting his pre- 

 liminary education at the Boston Latin School, finishing up at 

 Harvard ; whither he goes later in this month to attend the 

 twentieth anniversary of his graduation. For a number of years 

 he was connected with the mining industry in Nevada and Ari- 

 zona, but about four or five years ago, he went to Racine and 

 became president of the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co., a position 

 from which he was promoted to the one he now occupies. 



A YOITNG BRAZILIAN IN NEW TORK, 



A young Brazilian — son of one of the most eminent officials 

 in Para — has recently come to New York with the hope of 

 associating himself with some commercial concern, preferably 

 with some rubber company. He is a good deal of a linguist, 

 speaking English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Ger- 

 man — which would seem to qualify him very well to act as 

 foreign secretary handling the foreign correspondence of some 

 importing or exporting house. He is quite willing, if such a 

 position should offer, to return to South America as representa- 

 tive for some American company. In fact he is willing to do any 

 work where his qualifications will make him particularly useful. 

 He is well educated, has had some experience in banking and 

 cotrmercial affairs, has traveled extensively, is well vouched 

 for both in New York and in Para, and ought to fit into some 

 .\7nerican commercial organization. This office will be very 

 glad to furnish his address. 



