THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1919. 



L. A. Duffy. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



DiitYy and Sears, who have recently opened offices at 133 Front 

 street, Xevv York, as crude rubber brokers, are progressive 

 young men who have grown up in the 

 crude rubber business. 



L. A. Duffy began his rubber career 

 with the New ^'ork Commercial Co. in 

 1902 and was transferred from New 

 York in 1907 to Manaos where he re- 

 mained two years with A. H. Alden & 

 Co.. the parent concern of the New York 

 C o m m e r c ial 

 Co. From 1913 

 to 1916 he was 

 connected with 

 W. R. Grace 

 & Co., New 

 York City, re- 

 signing to go with the Hagemeyer Trad- 

 ing Co. as assistant manager of the crude 

 rubber department. Here he remained 

 for two years and after a few months 

 with J. Frank Dunbar, New York City, 

 resigned to form the partnership with 

 Mr. Sears. 



S. H. Sears also served his apprentice- 

 ship with the New York Commercial 

 Co., from 1903 to 1911, when he went to the Firestone Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, as a crude rubber expert, and in 1916 

 was sent to the Far East, visiting the Malay Peninsula, Java, and 

 Sumatra, in the interest of the Firestone company. Mr. Sears 

 was assistant manager of the Firestone crude rubber department 

 when he resigned to engage in business with Mr. Duffy. 



The following appointments have been made by The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co., Akron, Ohio : Edward H. Fitch, for three years manager 

 of Philadelphia branch, promoted to the position of manager of 

 manufacturers' sales for the entire Goodrich line, with head- 

 quarters at Akron ; C. H. Smith, for twenty years in charge of 

 Diamond sales in Chicago and the mid-west district, promoted 

 to managership of Chicago branch, in charge of both Goodrich 

 and Diamond tire sales and the entire Goodrich line of prod- 

 ucts ; N. E. Oliver, for some years in charge of Diamond sales 

 in the New York district, appointed manager of the New York 

 branch, supervising sale of all Goodrich products and retaining 

 supervision of Diamond sales ; E. P. Rowen, for fourteen years 

 manager of Chicago branch, appointed manager of Diamond 

 tire sales for the United States, with headquarters at Akron ; and 

 H. J. Morehead, for four years manager of the New York branch. 



promoted to manager of Philadelphia branch, in charge of sale 

 of both Goodrich and Diamond tires and the entire Goodrich 

 line of products. 



F. K. Stephenson has been appointed export manager of The 

 Portage Rubber Co., Akron and Barbcrton, Ohio, with head- 

 quarters in New York City. He was formerly export manager 

 for the Republic Rubber Co. in the same city. 



B. C. Swinehart has resigned as general manager of the United 

 & Globe Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, and will return to 

 Akron. Ohio, where for six years he was with the Swinehart 

 Tire & Rubber Co. 



L. G. Chase, formerly efficiency engineer of the Rosemary 

 Manufacturing Co , Rosemary, North Carolina, has been ap- 

 pointed mechanical engineer of the Yarnall-Waring Co., Chest- 

 nut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



E, V. Peters, general sales manager of The New Jersey Zinc 

 Co., New York City, will spend a month in the West, accom- 

 panied by R. M. Neumann, of the Chicago office, manager of 

 western sales, and will visit among other cities, Denver, San 

 Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland (Oregon), and Seattle. 



C. T. Anderson has been appointed manager for The Portage 

 Rubber Co., Akron and Barberton, Ohio, succeeding B. Ander- 

 son-Smith, resigned, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



S. B. Woodbridge has been made director of sales of the 

 lithopone, dry colors and pigment division of E. I. du Pont de 

 Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Delaware. He had been identi- 

 fied with Harrison Bros. & Co., Philadelphia, for ten years prev- 

 ious to the taking over of that concern by the Du Pont company, 

 and was also sales manager for the Beckton Chemical Co., manu- 

 facturer of lithopone and allied with the Harrison company at 

 the time both were taken over by the Du Pont company. 



Leslie E. Freeman has been appointed resident representative 

 of the American Chamber of Commerce for Brazil in the United 

 States, with offices at 37 Liberty street. New York City. 



Curtis L. Moody, for the past four years with The Fisk Rubber 

 Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and manager of the schedule 

 and mold engineering department since its establishment two 

 and one-half years ago, has resigned to accept an executive posi- 

 tion with The Perfection Tire & Rubber Co., Fort Madison, Iowa. 



E. T. Peterson has been appointed manager of the Buffalo, 

 New Vork, branch of tlic Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeannette, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Captain Harry B. Tuttle has been appointed special representa- 

 tive for bicycle and motorcycle tires and tennis balls manufactured 

 by the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., with headquarters at Jeannette, 

 Pennsvlvania. 



H. T. Morehead. 



