August 1, 1914.| 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



613 



COLONEL COLT INTERVIEWED IN PARIS. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, prosidciit ot the United States 

 Rul)l)ur Co., accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Gross, 

 sailed for Europe on the "Aquitania" July 1. Colonel Colt 

 expects to he absent until about September 1, and will visit 

 London, Paris, Amsterdam and Aix-les-Bains, combining 

 business with pleasure. The daily papers of recent date con- 

 tained an interview which Parisian reporters obtained from 

 Colonel Colt when he arrived at that city. According to this 

 account he predicted that crude rubber would ,i;(i still lower 

 in price. 



"The rubber trade," he continued, "is satisfactory. Our 

 company has always been conservatively run; we have trans- 

 gressed no law, therefore fear no Federal prosecution. It is 

 regrettable that American statesmen have not yet attacked 

 the trust problem scientifically. President Wilson is very 

 disappointing in this respect." 



MR. HERMESSEN LEAVES MEXICO FOR ECUADOR. 



The readers of The Inmu.v RunnER World will remember the 

 many exceedingly interesting letters contriliuted to the columns 

 of this publication by Mr. H. S. Hermesscn, for many years 

 resident in Mexico. Owing to the disturbed condition of affairs 

 in that republic, which has interfered so much with every line of 

 industry, Mr. Hermessen has left Mexico and gone to Guayaquil, 

 Ecuador, where he has taken a position as chief engineer of 

 the survey of the Trans-Amazon Railway of Ecuador — a line des- 

 tined to run from Puerto Bolivar, on the Gulf of Guayaquil, to 

 the .Amazon, via Zarunia and Loja. This railroad is being built 

 by a French syndicate. 



RUBBER MEN IN A NEW FOREIGN TRADE CLUB. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States Rublier 

 Co., and Mr. Elisha F. Williams, one of the vice-presidents of 

 that company, arc both members of the organization committee 

 of the "Indian House." a new club located at 1 Hanover Square, 

 New York, organized for the purpose of extending .\merican 

 foreign trade, .\mong the other members of the organization 

 committee are Lloyd C. Griscom, E. P. Thomas. Charles A. 

 Schieren and Albert H. Wiggin. The officers of the club are 

 as follows : James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel 

 Corporation, president ; J. P. Grace, president of W. R. Grace 

 & Co., treasurer ; Willard Straight, of J. P. Morgan & Co., sec- 

 retary ; Edwin N. Hurley, president of the Machine Co. of 

 Chicago, and James R. Morse, of the American Trading Co.. 

 vice-presidents. 



MR. MACMILLAN CHAIRMAN OF THE RUBBER GOODS SECTION. 



Everybody has heard of the Rotary Club. It is a great inter- 

 national organization with a clul) in every considerable city. These 

 individual clubs are composed of representative men in the differ- 

 ent professions and lines of business, no profession or business l)e- 

 ing permitted more than one representative in a club. The organiza- 

 tion held an international convention in Houston, Texas, late in 

 June, and Mr. John A. MacMillan, general manager of the 

 Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., served as chairman of the 

 rubber goods section and presided over the discussions held by 

 the rubber men attending the convention. 



DEATH OF e. 0. CURRIER. 



Mr. George Odin Currier, who died, at the age of 71, at 

 his residence in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on June 27. had 

 never been directly engaged in rubber manufacture or distribu- 

 tion. He, however, played an important part for a great many 

 years in the development of the rubber industry of New Eng- 

 land as a note broker ; and during the last forty years of his life 

 he had made a specialty of the notes of the large New England 

 rubber companies. In this way he had an extensive acquaintance 

 not only among financiers but .among the leading rubber men of 

 that section. 



PRESIDENT SCHAFFER OF THE GLOVE COMPANY. 



There is notliing in the old adage that "All things come to those 

 who wait." They don't. Things come to those who work. And 

 that has been proved again by the experience of Mr. Frederick 

 F. Schaffer, who has just been elected president of the Goodyear's 



Frederick F. Sch.\kker. 



India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co. There never was an 

 honor more deserved. 



Mr. Schaffer began his career as a manufacturer of rubber 

 when he was a young boy, l)ack in the late 60's, in the factory of 

 the New Brunswick Rubber Co., situated in the town of that 

 name in New Jersey. After acquiring a little experience in this 

 factory he changed, in 1870, to the New Jersey Rubber Co., 

 located in the same town, where he soon was appointed foreman 

 of the shoe making department. Six years later, in '76, the 

 Goodyear Glove Co., Naugatuck, concluded to add a shoe de- 

 partment to its plant and Mr. Schaffer was invited there to 

 take charge of it ; and he has been with this company for 

 thirty-eight years, during which time "glove" footwear has become 

 famous the world over. After acting as foreman of the shoe de- 

 partment for nine years he was made superintendent — in '85 — of 

 the entire plant ; and not very long after that he was handed the 

 Wales-Goodyear factory, situated in the same town, to super- 

 intend, additionally. A few years later he was made secretary 

 of the Glove company, and still later became its treasurer; and 

 now he succeeds to the presidency. 



He has given up the superintendency of the two mills, his son, 

 Frederick W. Schaffer, becoming superintendent of the Glove 

 company plant, and Myron H. Clark, of the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co., becoming superintendent of the Wales-Goodyear mill. 



One might imagine from his long career in rubber manufacture 

 that Mr. Schaffer was fairly along in years, but it must be 

 recalled that he got to work when the other boys of his age were 

 still droning over their First Readers. There are two proofs 

 that he is still in his prime— one is his great capacity for work, 

 and the other is this cut of a photograph which was taken of 

 him very recently. 



The S. & S. Automatic Tireaze Co. has been incorporated 

 in Marysville, Kansas, with a factory at Frankfort in that 

 state, for the purpose of manufacturing an automatic jack for 

 automobiles. 



