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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



[June i, 1910. 



William G. Grieb. 



thought in the selection of the company's brands is the adoption 

 of names suggestive of armor, such as "Defender" and "Pro- 

 tector," and as a trade mark, a reproduction of the suit of armor 

 warn by Charles the Bold, of Burgundy, encircled by a piece 

 of armored hose embellishes their literature. 



NEW PRESIDENT OF THE AJAX-GRIEB. 



The portrait herewith is that of Mr. William G. Grieb, the 

 new president of tin- Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. (Trenton. New 



Jersey), makers of 

 the "Ajax" automo- 

 bile tires and other 

 rubber goods. It was 

 back in 1873 that Mr. 

 Grieb first became 

 identified with rub- 

 lie r m the wholesale 

 rubber footwear busi- 

 ness of J. G. Grieb & 

 Sons, in Philadelphia. 

 By 1887 he had be- 

 come senior partner 

 of this firm. In time 

 they acquired a rub- 

 ber factory in Tren- 

 ton for making shoe 

 soles and other spe- 

 cialties for their 

 trade and this led to 

 the incorporation of 

 the Grieb Rubber Co. 

 in Xew Jersey in 

 1899 with Mr. \V. G. 

 Grieb as president. In 1906 the Ajax Standard Rubber Co., of 

 Xew York, was consolidated with the Grieb Rubber Co. and the 

 manufacturing of the two concerns combined at the Trenton 

 works, which were enlarged for the purpose. Mr. Grieb ac- 

 cepted the vice presidency of the consolidated company and has 

 now become president. 



CHANGES OF ADDRESS. 



G. Edward Habioh, broker in crude rubber in Boston, has 

 removed his offices to No. 229 Berkeley street. 



Joseph Cantor, dealer in rubber substitutes and rubber manu- 

 facturers' supplies, in New York, has removed his offices to Nos. 

 21-24 State street. Mr. Cantor is the American agent of Typke 

 & King, Limited, London. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. ( Xew York) an- 

 nounce new agencies as follows: In Seattle, Washington, Seattle 

 Hardware Co., at First and King streets ; in Portland, Oregon, 

 the Gauld Co., Nos. 69-75 North Twelfth street, corner Everett. 



Robert Badenhop, broker and importer of crude rubber, has 

 removed his office to No. 82 Beaver street. New York. Owing 

 to the death of a former factor he has transferred his financial 

 arrangement to Messrs. Frederick Probst & Co. 



The importance of the trade in Great Britain of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio) is indicated by our London con- 

 temporary giving a list of their travelling staff in that country, 

 and the territory allotted to each. 



The Wi tern Rubber Co. have awarded contracts for two 

 additional buildings, of brick and steel, each one story, and 

 respectively 45 x 125 and 45 x 85 feet, to cost, with their equip- 

 ment, $40,000 or more. G. B. Slate is general manager and C. 

 Edward Hyke general superintendent of the fact- 



Mr. George Louis Richards, long connected with the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co., and more than once mayor of Maiden, Massa- 

 chusetts, is one of the directors of the new Buffalo Shoe Co., 

 formed to take over the business of the Flex-I-Dura Co., of 

 Peppercll, Massachusetts. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Cattain Arthur F. Townsend., president and general manager 

 of the Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), has 

 gone to Fort Riley, Kansas, where he and other militia officers 

 will spend ten days in regular army drill under special order 

 of the United States government. 



An announcement has been issued of the marriage, to occur on 

 June 8, at Longwood, Massachusetts, of Mr. Ernest Jacoby 

 and Miss Alice Gardiner Hovey. Mr. Jacoby is in charge of 

 the Boston office of Messrs. A. T. Morse & Co., crude rubber 

 merchants, of New York. 



Mr. Charles A. Daniels, of the Quaker City Rubber Co. (Phil- 

 adelphia), returned recently from a six weeks' vacation, which 

 took him as far south as Havana. 



Mr. F. J. Maywald, of New York — a chemist extensively 

 known in the rubber industry — has been appointed by Mayor 

 Gaynor a member of the municipal explosive commission. This 

 body has charge of the regulation of the sale, storage, and so on, 

 of explosive and combustible substances in the city. 



Mr. D. Lome McGibbon, president of the Canadian Con- 

 solidated Rubber Co., Limited, was one of the principal speakers 

 at a well attended meeting of the Economic Club, in Xew York, 

 on the evening of May 18, when the topic of discussion was 

 reciprocity in trade with Canada. The manufacturers of the 

 Dominion, said Mr. McGibbon, were ready for a treaty of 

 reciprocity, but it remained for the government at Washington to 

 take the first steps. 



The Hon. L. D. Apsley, president of the Apsley Rubber Co. 

 (Hudson, Massachusetts), accompanied by Mrs. Apsley, sailed 

 about the middle of the month for Europe. 



Dr. John C. Willis, director of the royal botanic gardens in 

 Ceylon, since his return home has published an interesting ac- 

 count of his journey around the world, including notes on his 

 experiences in the United States. Dr. Willis is the author of an 

 important treatise on "Agriculture in the Tropics," reviewed in 

 The India Rubber World not long since. While in the States 

 Dr. Willis delivered a series of lectures on the same subject at 

 Harvard University. 



Mr. Ernest E. Buckleton, secretary and general manager of 

 Xorthwestern Rubber Co., Limited, of Liverpool, arrived in the 

 United States late in the last month for a brief visit. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. J. B. Stokes, of Trenton, New Jersey, have 

 announced the marriage of their daughter Mary Eleanor to 

 Mr. John S. Dunham, also of Trenton, on Wednesday, March 30. 

 Mr. Stokes is interested largely in the rubber industry. Mr. 

 Dunham is a merchant, his father being the founder of what 

 is now the largest retail store in New Jersey. The newly wedded 

 pair are now living in Trenton in the beautiful home given to 

 them as a wedding gift from the bridegroom's father and fur- 

 nished by Mr. Stokes. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Federal Rubber Co. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) announce 

 the change of their New York office to No. 211 West Fifty- 

 th street. 



Mr. J. W. Culver has been appointed sales agent in St. Louis 

 of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., in place of Mr. 

 1 \Y. Barrett, resigned. Mr. Culver was previously connected 

 with the Chicago branch of this company for several years. 



The business known as W. J. Williams Co., in Chicago, manu- 

 facturers of molded goods, gaskets and so on, have adopted the 

 name The Williams-Bowman Rubber Co., and moved into larger 

 premises, at Xo. 171 North Green street. They have put in 

 new molds and have otherwise enlarged their facilities. 



Gustave Kush, who is in the mechanical rubber goods trade, 

 announces the change of his location from No. 60 to Xo. 61 

 Beekman street. Xew York. 



