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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



IDecember 1, 1913. 



Besides the pebble mill process cited above, Mr. Lawrence 

 patented a dozen or more machines and processes both for ex- 

 traction and deresination. Today at eight}' he is still active, still 

 interested in rubber, and still at work experimenting and 

 inventing. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



At a meeting of the board of directors of the United States 

 Rubber Co., held November 6, Mr. Nicholas F. Brady was 

 elected a member of the executive committee, to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of his father, the late Anthony N. Brady. 



Mr. J. Simao da Costa, of Rio de Janeiro, and one of the best- 

 known rubber men in all South America, has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the board of directors of the Goodyear Tire &■ Rubber Co. 

 of South America. 



Mr. Algot Lange. explorer along the upper tributaries of the 

 .•\mazon, author of the book, "In the Amazon Jungle." and lec- 

 turer on South .American topics at the International Rubber Show 

 held in New York last fall, has been engaged to deliver a series 

 of lectures on Brazil at the International Rubber Show to be held 

 in London next June. 



Mr. John Hopewell, one of the proprietors of the Reading 

 Rubber Mills of Reading, Massachusetts, gave his neighbors and 

 fellow club members an unusual entertainment on November 1. 

 when he invited them to an old-fashioned New England dinner, 

 held in the new barn just finished on his estate in Newton. The 

 table, decorated with vegetables and autumn leaves, was set 

 between two long rows of cow .stalls. The toastmaster regu- 

 lated the events of the evening with a particularly large cov,- 

 bell, and the speeches, given by some of the best-known wits 

 around Boston, had to do with such farm subjects as "Melons, 

 and How to Cut Them." 



E. F. Thompson, formerly a department manager for the 

 Motz Tire & Rubber Co. at Akron, has been promoted to the 

 position of sales manager. 



Dr. Baylor, former vice-president of the Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co.. Limited, of Canada, has been given charge of the 

 business of this concern in Great Britain and on the Continent, 

 and headquarters for the handling of this extensive trade are 

 to he established by him in London. 



H. B. Beattie has established at 719 North Broad street, Phila- 

 delphia, a firm known as H. B. Beattie & Co., for the sale of 

 automobile tires of all kinds and of accessories. Previous to 

 engaging in this enterprise Mr. Beattie was connected with 

 the L. S. Hall Rubber Co., also of Philadelphia. 



R. P. Dowse, lately representing the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co. from headquarters at Akron, and previously with the De- 

 troit branch of that company, has been transferred to the terri- 

 tory east of Buffalo. 



Herbert L. Severance, well known in both tire and automobile 

 selling fields, has been appointed sales manager of the Racine 

 Rubber Co. of Racine, Wisconsin. 



John V. Harding, for some time past in charge of the Detroit 

 branch of the Motz Tire & Rubber Co., is to extend his field of 

 operations in the interest of this company to cover the whole 

 of the United States. 



Mr. C. B, McKay, who for many years has been in Manaos, 

 connected with the rubber importing house of .\delbert H. Alden, 

 Limited, has accepted a position with an important .American 

 rubber manufacturing company. His plan is to leave Manaos 

 shortly and spend the winter visiting the islands of the Caribbean 

 and some of the countries on the mainland, such as Costa Rica, 

 arriving in New York in the spring. 



E. L. Dale, formerly employed as a salesman by the 

 Mishawaka Woolen Mfg. Co., manufacturers of rubber foot- 

 wear, has gone into the automobile business at .Anna, Illinois. 



The Brazilian congress at Rio de Janeiro has voted a special 

 appropriation of 1,500 contos of reis — equal to $813,000 gold — 

 to be used at the San Diego and San Francisco expositions in 

 1915. the two expositions to share equally. This means that the 

 Brazilian Tropical Products Exhibition, with its great rubber 

 adjunct and its out-of-door Hevea plantation, with $400,000 to 

 expend upon it, will be a very notable and unique exposition. 



Mr. Warren Trumbull, president of the Gutta Percha and 

 Rubber, Limited, Toronto, Canada, was a recent visitor to New 

 York. 



MR. STEARNS WITH THE CONVERSE COMPANY. 



Mr. Edgar ti. Stearns, who for nearly twenty years rep- 

 resented the United States Rubber Co. in Chicago and the middle 

 west, leaving that company two years ago to become associated 

 with the Banner Rubber Co. of St. Louis, has recently taken the 

 management of the Chicago agency of the Converse Rubber Co. 

 at 323 Jackson Boulevard, west. 



MR. ARMSTRONG GOES TO BOSTON. 



The Loewenthal Co., of New York, announce that in order 

 to keep in closer touch with their New England trade Mr. H. G. 

 .Armstrong — who has been connected with their selling depart- 

 ment for several years — is now located in Boston, his head- 

 quarters for the present being at the warehouse recently opened 

 by the company at 246 Second street, Chelsea. Before going 

 with the Loewenthal Co. Mr. .Armstrong was associated for a 

 number of years with the selling department of the L^nited States 

 Rubber Co., and is very well known in the rubber trade both 

 east and west. There are quite a good many exceedingly high 

 grade people in Boston, and Mr. Armstrong will add one to 

 that number. ^^^ ^ ^ george RESIGNS. 



Mr. -A. B. George has resigned the position which he has held 

 iojr many years as president and treasvirer of the Des Moines 

 Rubber Co., his resignation to take effect December 31 next. 

 He will be succeeded by Mr. T. J. Needham as president, and 

 Mr. .A. D. Skinner as treasurer — men well qualified with long 

 experience in rubber salesmanship to conduct the affairs of this 

 company successfully. Mr. George built up a very substantial 

 business in Des Moines many years ago and has maintained it, 

 and added to it year after year by his industry, good judgment 

 and personal popularity. 



THE RUBBER RECLAIMERS DINE. 



The Rubber Reclaimers' Club held its anua! meeting on Novem- 

 ber 6 at the Belmont. New York. Mr. F. H. .Appleton, of F. H. 

 -Appleton & Son, Boston, was re-elected president, the other 

 officers elected being: Treasurer, Mr. R. W. Seabury, Boonton 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., Boonton. New Jersey, and secre- 

 tary, Mr. J. A. Norman, New York Rubber Reclaiming Co., New 

 York. The meeting was followed by an elaborate luncheon at the 

 hotel, which was greatly enjoyed by the members of the club. 



DIVIDENDS. 



.\ regular annual cash dividend of 12 per cent, has been paid by 

 the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. on common stock of record 

 on November 1. 



The Hood Rubber Co. paid on November 1 a regular quar- 

 terly dividend of 1}4 per cent, on its preferred stock of record on 

 October 31. 



The directors of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. have 

 declared a semi-annual dividend of $3.00 per share on the pre- 

 ferred stock, and a quarterly dividend of $3.00 per share on the 

 common stock, both payable December 15, 1913, to stockholders 

 of record December 5, 1913. 



The exports of tires from the United States for the first eight 

 months of 1913 amounted to $2,922,200, an increase of $681,374 

 over the corresponding period of 1912. The tire exports for 

 August were valued at $377,031. a decrease of $28,750 from the 

 .August. 1912. exports. 



