November 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



97 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



JOHN H. DONT. 



WH. SALISBURY & CO., INC., Chicago, Illinois, have 

 • sent to the trade a card announcing the death, on Sep- 

 tember 19, of John F. Dony, who for 30 years had been connected 

 with the rubber department of that company. His work con- 

 sisted largely in looking after the rubber requirement of the 

 brewery trade, among the members of which he was long known 

 and held in high esteem. 



WILLIAM R. PIERCE. 



William R. Pierce, who for several months had been sales 

 manager of the Mechanical Rubber Company, Cleveland, died 

 October 5 of enlargement of the heart at the home of his mother 

 in Newton, New Jersey. Mr. Pierce was formerly the Western 

 sales manager of the Revere Rubber Company, located at San 

 Francisco, California. A widow and one child survive him. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Houston M. Sadler, who for many years was connected with 

 the United States Rubber Co., first as cashier and later as assist- 

 ant treasurer, acting treasurer and acting general manager, was 

 recently elected secretary of the Computing-Tabulating-Record- 

 ing Co., No. 25 Broad street. New York. This company is com- 

 posed of the International Time Recording Co., the Computing 

 Scale Co. of America, the Tabulating Machine Co. and the 

 Bundy Manufacturing Co. These companies were not com- 

 peting companies, but the different articles manufactured by them 

 supplemented one another so well that the combination was 

 formed to effect economy of administration and to exploit the 

 various products with a greater degree of efficiency. 



M. H. Parsons, who has been assistant manager of the St. 

 Louis branch of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, has 

 recently been appointed manager in place of C. H. Gray, who has 

 been made district manager for the company. 



John S. Goodell, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Amherst, recently sailed for Hawaii with the intention 

 of starting a rubber and tobacco plantation in one of those 

 islands. Quite a number of recent graduates from this insti- 

 tution are now at work in the Hawaiian Islands. 



What Cheer Lodge, No. 21, A. F. and M., of Providence, 

 Rhode Island, recently observed "Fraternity Night," at which 

 time members of the craft for 50 years were awarded medals. 

 Among them was ex-Governor August O. Bourn of the Bourn 

 Rubber Co. 



A recent visitor to the United States was Ernest E. Buckleton, 

 of the Northwestern Rubber Co. Limited, Litherland, Liverpool, 

 England. Mr. Buckleton is delightfully optimistit about the 

 future of the rubber business here and abroad. By the time 

 this is in type he will have returned to Europe. 



W. B. Hardy, formerly of the Diamond Rubber Company, has 

 recently sold his fine estate, Sheffingham Hall, in Norfolk, Eng- 

 land, and has taken up his residence in Paris. 



Max Loewenthal, of the United States Rubber Reclaiming 

 Works, is in New York for a short stay after a year in Europe. 



W. J. Glendenning, who has had 18 years' experience in the 

 rubber and balata trade in England and France and who has 

 recently been connected with Turner Bros., Limited, asbestos 

 and belting, Rochdale, England, has come to this country to 

 start the factory for the Manheim Manufacturing & Belting Com- 

 pany, Manheim, Pennsylvania, which will manufacture the Veelos 

 brand balata belting. 



H. H. Holland, who has charge of the London office of the 

 United States Rubber Company, recently spent several weeks in 

 this country visiting the different factories where the footwear 

 he handles is made. He sailed from New York on the steamship 

 Celtic, October 19. 



E. H. Huxley, formerly assistant superintendent at the factory 

 of the National India Rubber Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, 



and who recently changed to take a similar position with the 

 Phoenix Cap Company, New York, has removed his family from 

 Bristol to Englewood, New Jersey. 



William Hillman resigned, on October 26, the position of 

 general manager of the Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. 



Frank L. Byrne, who has been recently added to the staff of 

 the New York Commercial Co., bears a name that should be of 

 value to him in rubber circles. He is the son of the late Frank 

 L. Byrne, who through his connection with the crude rubber 

 business of Lawrence Johnson & Co., Philadelphia, was favorably 



known to the whole trade. 



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TEASE NEWS NOTES. 7 



A REPORT in one of the New York dailies recently stated that 

 the United States Tire Co. had lost $20,000 worth of tires 

 through the unethical activities of some of its employes. The 

 company learned, it is said, that most of the tires disappeared 

 between its storehouses and its retail store. Transfer slips, it 

 is charged, were made out by certain of their employes, but 

 the tires, instead of being taken to the retail store, were trans- 

 ported to another distributing agency, where they were dis- 

 posed of at a reduced rate. Detectives were put on the matter, 

 and as a result five men have been arrested, three on charges 

 of grand larceny, one for receiving stolen goods and the fifth 

 for being the go-between. 



Excavations are now in process for the new addition to the 

 reclaiming plant of the United States Rubber Co., Naugatuck, 

 Connecticut. It is stated that when this addition is completed 

 there will be employment for 100 more hands. 



The Vulcanized Rubber Co., Morrisville, New Jersey, is erect- 

 ing a sizeable addition to its present plant. 



The Metropolitan Coal Company, of Boston, recently pur- 

 chased the' wharf property of the old Boston Rubber Co., located 

 between Chelsea Ferry and the East Boston Bridge, Chelsea, 

 Massachusetts. 



The Underwriters' Laboratories have approved "Sternoid," 

 made by the Dickinson Manufacturing Co., Springfield, Massa- 

 chusetts. This is a molded composition with non-absorptive, non- 

 combustible and insulating qualities for use in electrical fittings 

 where mechanical strength and durability are required. K. R. 

 Sternberg, the treasurer and general manager of the company is 

 the inventor of this composition. 



The Empire Tire Co., Trenton, New Jersey, has recently been 

 making shipments of tires to Australia, where it has established a 

 branch office in Sydney. This company did an effective piece of 

 advertising during the summer by sending a big touring car 

 equipped with a calliope attachment through the Sandwich 

 Islands. 



The mileage record for tires for the past season is claimed 

 by E. J. Hicks, of Indianapolis, who writes to The Diamond 

 Rubber Co., that two Diamond tires on the rear wheels of his 

 car have been on the wheels for four years, and have run 40,000 

 miles. He attributes this phenomenal record to continuous per- 

 fect inflation ; but if all owners of cars, by keeping their tires 

 fully inflated, could use them for four years, and get 40,000 

 mile out of them, the pneumatic tire output would drop from 

 4,000,000 tires a year to about 400,000. 



The Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has been 

 making some unusually large tires lately for one of the New 

 York motor truck companies. The tires range as large as 

 38 X 6 inches, and 48 x 6 inches. Large tires have quite a num- 

 ber of advantages. They do not feel the inequalities of the 

 roadway nearly as much as smaller tires; in this way reducing 

 the jar and the vibration. And of course they have a larger 

 wearing surface, as they revolve a lesser number of times in 

 covering any given distance. 



At a meeting of the directors of the Standard Rubber and 

 Cable Co., Bridgeport, Connecticut, held on October 27, a 5 per 

 cent, dividend was declared, payable November 15, 1911. 



