December 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



143 



AN AERONAUTIC SHOW. 



The Aero Club of America is a decidedly live organization. At 

 its annual meeting, held on November 13, in its clubhouse at 

 41st street and Madison avenue. New York, it was stated that 

 a comprehensive aeronautic show would be held at the Grand 

 Central Palace, in New York, from May 9 to 20, 1912. The club 

 also has under consideration an aeronautic competition on a very 

 large scale. The club has grown rapidly during the past year, the 

 membership increasing from 320 to 540. There are now 24 clubs 

 affiliated with it. At this meeting a new class of membership was 

 added, for commissioned officers of the army and navy, and it 

 was decided to increase the resident membership to 750. The 

 initiation fee for the non-resident member was reduced from $50 

 to $25, only those residing more than fifty miles from New York 

 being eligible to this list. The annual election of officers resulted 

 as follows : 



Allan A. Ryan declined re-election to the presidency and Robert 

 J. Collier was elected to succeed him. Resolutions of thanks were 

 passed, eulogizing the services of Mr. Ryan. In the other offices 

 James A. Blair, Jr., succeeds Cortlandt Field Bishop as first vice- 

 president. Major Samuel Reber, U. S. A., becomes second vice- 

 president in place of Dave Hennen Morris, and Harold F. Mc- 

 Cormick, of Chicago, succeeds Mr. Blair as third vice-president. 

 For the office of additional vice-president Henry A. Wise- Wood 

 was elected. 



E. G. STEARNS GOES WITH BANNER RUBBER CO. 



E. G. Stearns, who has been connected with the United States 

 Rubber Co. ever since its formation, for the last two years as its 

 Chicago agent, and before that time as manager of its Chicago 

 branch store, has left that company to go with the Banner Rubber 

 Co., of St. Louis. This company is to be reorganized, and Mr. 

 Stearns, as president of the newly formed Stearns Rubber Co., 

 Chicago, will have charge of the sales of the Banner goods. 

 Walter F. Roth is associated with him as secretary and treasurer. 



C. H. OAKLEY ACQUIRES THE ESSEX RUBBER CO. 



Clifford H. Oakley, of Trenton, who for some time has owned 

 the majority of the stock of the Essex Rubber Co., has now 

 acquired the entire capital stock. The executive staff of the com- 

 pany remains unchanged and Mr. Oakley continues as president 

 and A. E. Moon as vice-president. 



Mr. Oakley has been active in the rubber manufacturing busi- 

 ness for the past twenty years, entering the service of the Cleve- 

 land Rubber Co. as a mechanical engineer in 1892 and later 

 became its superintendent. 



For eight years Mr. Oakley was associated with the Cleveland 

 Rubber Co. In the year 1900 he removed to Trenton becoming 

 connected with the Grieb Ritbber Co. In his seven years' associa- 

 tion with that concern, as general manager and secretary, Mr. 

 Oakley greatly extended the business of the company and then 

 brought about the formation of the Ajax-Grieb Co. 



Four years ago Mr. Oakley retired from the Ajax-Grieb Co. 

 and formed the Essex Rubber Co. This concern manufactures 

 numerous rubber articles and engineering supplies, including 

 rubber specialties for the shoe trade, automobile accessories, 

 sporting goods, asbestos and rubber packings, tubing, valves, 

 horseshoe pads and the new well-known Essex rubber rug. 



The business, under the personal direction of Mr. Oakley, has 

 grown rapidly and at the present time steps are being taken 

 toward providing more adequate facilities in the matter of both 

 land and buildings for the company. 



The November number of The Auto Era, published by the 

 Winton Motor Car Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), contains, together 

 with a great variety of interesting matter relative to motors, a 

 paragraph on the shifting of tires, advising the occasional chang- 

 ing of tires from wheels on one side of a truck to the oppo- 

 site wheels, so that the wear may be equalized and maximum 

 service be secured. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Apropos of a recent New York Supreme Court decision regard- 

 ing the liability of the directors of corporations, absolving them 

 from responsibility for losses "in small every day transactions," 

 it is interesting to note that the "Directory of Directors in the 

 City of New York" contains the names of several United States 

 Rubber Co. directors who are on the directorate of a large num- 

 ber of corporations. Among them are Colonel Samuel P. Colt, a 

 director in 30 corporations; Francis L. Hine, a director in 26; 

 W. H. Truesdale, a director in 33, and Lester Leland, a director 

 in 34. 



R. J. Wilkie, who has been treasurer and manager of the Wilkie 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., has resigned from both positions. 

 The company has been reorganized, and in addition to the manu- 

 facture of hard rubber and moulded goods, has recently added 

 druggists' sundries and soft rubber and rubber covered rolls. 



J. S. Waddell, treasurer of the Springfield Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Portland street, Boston, Massachusetts, started on November 6 

 on a long trip, covering the Pacific coast and the Hawaiian 

 Islands, with the intention of establishing a number of agencies 

 for the distribution of the company's output. 



Mrs. Francis Burroughs Mulford, wife of Timothy Mulford, 

 for many years manager of the Goodyear Rubber Co., Kansas 

 City, Missouri, died recently at her home in that city of pneu- 

 monia, which followed close upon a long siege of typhoid fever. 

 Mrs. Mulford was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1851. 



Mrs. S. D. Baldwin, wife of the treasurer and general man- 

 ager of the Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Co., died on Sun- 

 day evening, November 19, after a very brief illness. 



WORSHIPFUL MASTER W. H. PALMER. 



William H. Palmer, advertising manager of the United States 

 Rubber Co., has been signally honored by his fellow Masons at 

 his old home in Maiden, Massachusetts. The Maiden Nezus of 

 November 3 contains the following paragraph : 



"Mt. Vernon Lodge of Masons elected its twenty-sixth wor- 

 shipful master last night when William H. Palmer took the 

 chair. During the past few years he has been a resident of 

 New York City, as he holds a responsible position with the 

 United States Rubber Co. His devotion to his lodge work, how- 

 ever, has never waned and he makes special trips to Maiden 

 to be present at meetings. He has served in the Common Coun- 

 cil of Maiden and had he remained here would have continued 

 to be honored." 



Which goes to show that the good don't all die young. 



COMMODORE BENEDICT AGAIN TO VISIT THE AMAZON. 



Commodore E. C. Benedict, equally famous in the rubber in- 

 dustry and in yachting circles, is reported to have planned for 

 another trip to the Amazon. He is said to have chartered the 

 ocean-cruising steam yacht Alvina, owned by Thomas F. Cole. 

 The yacht is 214 feet over all, and the commodore will, as usual, 

 take a party of friends with him. He expects to have with 

 him Colgate Hoyt, James McCutcheon, a few old yachting 

 friends and, in addition, his daughter, Mrs. Harmon, whose hus- 

 band is well known in aviation circles, and two or three of her 

 friends. He expects to sail on December 15, going to the Ama- 

 zon and as far up the river as Manaos. 



This will be the commodore's third cruise to those waters, 

 his first cruise, when he took a large number of rubber men, in- 

 cluding several connected with the United States Rubber Co., 

 occurring about six years ago on his own yacht Virginia, 

 his second cruise taking place on the same yacht last winter, 

 when he was accompanied by James B. Ford, vice-president of 

 the United States Rubber Co. 



