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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1912. 



PERSONAL MENTION, 



Miss Carolyn Stokes, daughter of William J. B. Stokes, presi- 

 dent of the Home Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, was mar- 

 ried on the 24th of April, to Harold Franklin Blanchard. The 

 ceremony took place at the State Street Methodist Episcopal 

 Church of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard will make their 

 home at Maplewood, New Jersey. 



Andre Cremazy, president of the Chamber of .Agriculture, 

 Cochin China and representative of that colony at the London 

 International Rubber Exhibition 1911, and also a member of the 

 European advisory committee to the New York exhibition 1912, 

 has written an interesting pamphlet on Para Rubber and Cocoa- 

 nut in Cochin China, which he dedicates as follows : "To Mr. A. 

 Staines Manders in remembrance of his kindness to the French 

 delegates, at the last London International Rubber E.xhibition 

 and in high appreciation of his services rendered to the rubber 

 question." 



Charles W. Harris, lately with the Chicago office of the Swine- 

 hart Tire & Rubber Co., has become connected with the Kelly- 

 Springfield Tire Co. and will have charge of a branch store for 

 the company in Seattle, Washington. Mr. Harris was connected 

 with the Kelly-Springfield company ten years ago, when it was 

 manufacturing solid rubber tires. 



Frank A. Seiberling, president of the Goodyear Tire and Rub- 

 ber Co., had engaged passage for himself, wife and daughter 

 for the return trip on the Titanic. Undismayed by the disaster, 

 they sailed April 19 for Europe on the George Washington. 



William H. Palmer, of the advertising department of the 

 United States Rubber Co.. was called to Tewksbury, Massachu- 

 setts, by the fatal illness of his father, who died on .\pril 22, in 

 his eighty-second year. The funeral was held at that place on 

 April 24. 



Charles I. O'Neil, who has been connected with the New York 

 office of the United States Rubber Co. for ten years (for five 

 years holding an important position in the selling department), 

 resigned from his position early in April. As an indication of 

 his popularity among his associates, he was presented when he 

 left with a very handsome scarf pin and tie clasp by the other 

 members of the office staff. Mr. O'Neil did not announce his 

 future plans, but inasmuch as he devoted his spare time for some 

 years to the study of the law, it is highly probable that he in- 

 tends to follow- in the footsteps of Choate and Root and the other 

 leading luminaries of the legal profession. 



F. H. Peaty, of the Raw Products Co., importers of crude 

 rubber, balata and gutta-percha, New York, is enjoying a two 

 months' vacation trip, visiting the interesting scenes on the 

 continent. 



COMMODCEE E. C. BENEDICT RETURNS. 



Commodore E. C. Benedict, one. of the directors of the United 

 States Rubber Co., arrived home- on April 17, after his four 

 months' South American trip. He sailed from New York on De- 

 cember 19, on the steam yacht Alvina, and visited various West 

 India islands and South American ports, going up the Amazon to 

 his rubber plantation, and' then retracing his course down the 

 river, coasting southward as far as Buenos Ayres. where he left 

 his yacht and boarded the Bluecher for a trip through the straits 

 of Magellan and up to Valparaiso on the Pacific. Thence he 

 crossed the Andes and returned by train to his yacht. He was 

 accompanied on the voyage by Colgate Hoyt, Edward Beers, 

 Legrand Benedict, his daughter, Mrs. Clifford B. Harmon; Miss 

 Mary Hoyt and Miss May Bird, with Dr. .\rnold. of New York, 

 as ship's surgeon. 



!K book for everybody interested in tires — "Rubber Tires and 

 All About Them"— this office. 



MR. MEASURE GOES TO FEDERAL. 



'1 he appointment of Charles Measure as manager of the 

 carriage and motor truck tire department of the Federal Rub- 

 ber Manufacturing Co., of Milwaukee, will be of interest to 

 the vehicle rubber trade. Mr. Measure was connected with 

 Morgan & Wright for eleven years, first as salesman in New 

 England, and then as manager of their auto tire department 

 from 1903 to 1906, leaving that position to accept the management 

 of the Goodyear branch in New York City, .'\fter serving for 

 five years in this latter capacity, he was transferred to Akron 

 as manager of the solid tire department of that company, re- 

 signing on March first to join the Federal company in the 

 capacity noted. It is expected that under the aggressive man- 

 agement of Mr. Measure, Federal carriage and motor truck 

 tires will rapidly take rank among the most satisfactory and 

 pupuku- lirands on the market. 



SOME GOOD ADVERTISING BY THE H. F. TAINTOH MFG. CO. 



The value of advertising cannot always be judged by its cost. 

 The H. F. Taintor Manufacturing Co., for instance, has recently 

 been distributing some advertising that is not particularly ex- 

 pensive, but is nevertheless very effective, as it possesses a 

 permanent interest. This advertising is in the shape of two blot- 

 ters, one a small-sized 6-inch blotter, which, on the coated side, 

 has an exceedingly good half-tone reproduction of a photograph 

 of lower New York as seen from the North River. This picture 

 shows a number of the extraordinary buildings that have gone 

 up within the last few years in that part of the city, the Singer 

 and City Investing buildings being in the center, w-ith the Hud- 

 son Terminal and the Park Row showing to the north, and the 

 West Street. American Surety and others to the South. The 

 larger blotter, 9-inch size, shows on its coated side a very good 

 map, printed in five or six colors, of New York City and its 

 environs. While both of these blotters will undoubtedly 

 he used for blotting purposes, they are more likely to be pre- 

 served for their useful pictorial information. The larger blotter 

 has a small cut of the Taintor Company's large works at Bay- 

 onne. New Jersey, where the French chalk and English cliff- 

 stone, from which the Taintor whiting is manufactured, can 

 be brought right to the factory's dock on the largest ocean 

 steamers, and delivered with the least waste of time and expense. 



THE KNICKERBOCKER SPRAYBRUSH BUSINESS CHANGES HANDS. 



The Knickerbocker Manufacturing Co., 211-15 West Schiller 

 street, Chicago, has taken over the entire Knickerbocker Spray- 

 brush business, formerly owned by the Progress Compan\'. The 

 new company will concentrate its whole attention upon the man- 

 ufacture and sale of appliances for the bath, shampoo and mas- 

 sage. The management states that the sale of the Knicker- 

 bocker Spra^-brush, which has been extensively advertised, w-ill 

 be pushed more vigorously than ever before. This fact will be 

 of interest to "Spraybrush" dealers throu.ghout the L^nited States, 

 as indicating the co-operation which it will be the policy of the 

 new company to extend. 



T, H. LANE & CO. MOVE UPTQ-WN. 



On May 1, J. H, Lane & Co., whose offices for a long time 

 have been located at 110 Worth street. New York city, took 

 possession of their new quarters at Fourth avenue and Twenty- 

 fifth street, where they have spacious and most attractive offices. 

 They are the first of the large selling agents for cotton mills to 

 move uptow-n, but undoubtedly there will soon be others, as the 

 general trend of busmess in many lines is tow-ards the uptown 

 section in the neighborhood of the large hotels. The superior 

 convenience and accessibility of this section to out-of-town buy- 

 ers is obvious. 



The Walpole Rubber Co., whose headquarters are at 185 Sum- 

 mer street. Boston, Massachusetts, has acquired the business of 

 the Consumers' Rubber Co., Bristol, Rhode Island, manufacturers 

 of rubber covered insulated wire and tennis shoes. Terrence 

 McCarty will be retained to operate the plant. 



