June I, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



455 



Francis H. Appleton 



FRANCIS H. APPLETON MEETING THE KING. 



When the Ancient and Honorable Artillery goes to England 

 this summer, it will be under the command of First Lieutenant 



Francis H. Ap- 

 pleton. The com- 

 pany will sail 

 from Boston on 

 the steamer "Ara- 

 bic"' July 2. and 

 is due to arrive in 

 Liverpool on July 

 10. It will pro- 

 ceed immediately 

 t o London, re- 

 maining there un- 

 til July 30. On 

 Monday, July 

 15. the company 

 will be reviewed 

 by King George 

 at Bucking- 

 ham Palace, The 

 return trip will be 

 made on the 

 steamer "Celtic," 

 leaving Liverpool 

 August 1, arriv- 

 ing in New York 

 August 8. and reaching Boston the next morning, where the 

 returning warriors will be received with appropriate honors. 



A. S. Funk, treasurer of the La Crosse Rubber Mills Co., La- 

 Crosse, Wisconsin, who also has general charge of the plant 

 (which makes a full line of rubber footwear and specializes in 

 tennis goods) has recently been making a tour of the rubber 

 centers in the east. He states that the business of his company 

 has increased SO per cent, during the past year. 



Ernest E. Buckleton, general manager of the Northwestern 

 Rubber Co., Ltd., Litherland. Liverpool, England, who has re- 

 cently crossed the United States on his way home from a visit 

 to Japan, sailed from New York on the "Lusitania," May 28. 



R. L. Baird, of the Rubber Trading Co.. New York, who spends 

 much of his time traveling among rubber mills, is doing an 

 increasingly satisfactory business and becoming a marked favorite 

 with many purchasers. 



William J. Golden, who was foreman of the mechanical fabric 

 and sundries departments at the plant of the National India Rub- 

 ber Co., Bristol, for a number of years, until they were recently 

 removed to Cleveland, has accepted a similar position with the 

 Vulcanized Products Company at Muskegon, Michigan. 



Arthur E. Friswell, who will be remembered as having been 

 one of the most expert pneumatic tire producers, and who was 

 connected with the Mechanical Fabric Co., Providence, Rhode 

 Island, for a number of years, and later with the Goodyear Tire 

 & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has bought a home in Bermuda 

 and intends to make that his permanent residence. 



Leon Ekert, of the firm of Ekert Brothers, Hamburg, Germany, 

 sailed from New York for Hamburg on May 14, on the North 

 German Lloyd steamer, the Kronprinsessin Cecilie. Mr. Ekert 

 was in this country about three weeks and visited, among other 

 points of interest, the mills of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., at 

 Maiden, Massachusetts, and of the Candee company at New 

 Haven, Connecticut. His firm has been distributing the footwear 

 of these two factories, particularly the Candee brand, for the 

 last IS years. The firm of Ekert Brothers is known on the 

 continent as a particularly enterprising concern, advertising gen- 

 erously and distributing a large quantity of goods. 



William Keyes has recently taken a position as sales manager 

 of the Chicago Rubber Clothing Co., of Racine, Wisconsin. He 

 is already very well known to the rubber trade, as he hss had 

 many years' experience as a jobber and a manufacturer. He 

 formerly had a controlling interest in the firm of Prescott 

 Brothers, general distributors of rubber goods in Boston, Mass- 

 achusetts. He has charge for the Chicago Rubber Clothing Co. 

 of all the territory east of Omaha. 



Frank L. Byrne, who is very well, and favorably known to 

 rubber manufacturers in the United States, and is a member of 

 the staff of the New York Commercial Co., is assisting Harold P. 

 French, the Akron agent of the company, during the illness of 

 Mr. French's assistant, Mr. Baldwin. 



I. W. Easton, who for a number of years was connected with 

 Noyes Bros. & Cutler, St. Paul, Minnesota, has resigned and 

 taken the position of first assistant in the sundries depart- 

 ment of Lehn & Fink. New York, succeeding W. J. Cathcart. 

 Mr. Easton has had many years' experience in the druggist sun- 

 dries line, and carries w'ith him to his new position the good 

 wishes of the trade. 



Thomas W. Harmer, who founded the Harmer Rubber Re- 

 claiming Works at East Millstone, New Jersey, has left that 

 company, and no longer has any connection with it. 



MR. MANDERS RETURNS TO NEW YORK. 



A. Staines Manders, the organizer of the Rubber and Allied 

 Trades Exposition, to be held in Grand Central Palace. New 

 York City, next September, arrived in New York on the 

 "Olympic" on May 22, after six weeks' stay in London, devoted 

 to advancing the interests of the exposition in the English and 

 Continental fields. 



Mr. Manders will remain in New York continuously until 

 after the exposition. His efforts abroad have been attended with 

 signal success, and the number of foreign exhibits will be ex- 

 tremely large. This does not mean, however, that it will be 

 chiefly a crude rubber show, for while the planters will make a 

 generous exhibit, only one-third of the exposition will be de- 

 voted to crude rubber — the other two-thirds being divided equally 

 among rubber manufactures and the allied trades. 



The exposition will bring to New York a large number of 

 people interested in the rubber industry from foreign countries, 

 including a great many buyers of manufactured goods. This 

 will give an opportunity to American manufacturers profitably 

 to exploit their products, that they have not been slow to ap- 

 preciate. As a result a great number of the leading manufac- 

 turers of the United States have already contracted for space. 



SUPERINTENDENT COLT ENTERTAINS SALESMEN. 



The traveling salesmen of the wire department of the National 

 India Rubber Co. were given a May-day outing and Rhode 

 Island clam-bake by Superintendent LeBaron C. Colt, at Poppa- 

 squash — the famous farm belonging to his uncle — Colonel Samuel 

 P. Colt, president of the United States Rubber Co. On the pre- 

 vious evening they had been given a reception by Superintendent 

 Colt at his own home in Bristol, 



PROMOTION FOR CAPTAIN TOWNSEND. 



The first appointment made by Major General John F. O'Ryan, 

 who was recently given chief command of the New York State 

 National Guard, was that of Captain Arthur F. Townsend of 

 Squadron A, to the position of Gen. O'Ryan's quartermaster. 

 Captain Townsend, who is president of the Manhattan Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., has had 2S years' experience in the New York 

 National Guard, beginning as a private in the Seventh Regiment 

 in 1887. and becoming a member of the famous Squadron A in 

 1901. 



