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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1919. 



charge of J. G. Smith, recently retiinied from overseas wliere he 

 served as a lieutenant in Germany. 



The Kelly-Springlield Tire Co., New Vork City, has leased 

 for ten years the six-story and basement building at 212-214 East 

 8th street, Cincinnati, Ohio, where the Cincinnati branch will be 

 established. 



Announcement has been made by the Rubber Products Co., at 

 Barbcrton, that its output of tires will be doubled williin the ne.Kt 

 si.xty or ninety days. A large factory addition was recently com- 

 pleted and is now being equipped with machinery. This concern 

 is comparatively new in the tire business, having first engaged 

 in it only two years before the war. Previous to that time it 

 specialized on rubber sundries only. 



The vice-president and factory manager of The Master Tire & 

 Rubber Co.. Dayton. Ohio, George H. Wilsaman, has had 18 

 years' active experience in the tire indus- 

 try. He was with The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., Akron, from 1901 to 1908, being the 

 sixth man in its employ to build automo- 

 bile tires. From 1908 to 1915, Mr. Wit- 

 sanian was with The Dayton Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., Dayton, as super- 

 intendent, and from 1917 to June 1, 1919, 

 as factory manager. In the interim from 

 1915 to 1917 he was experimental and 

 construction engineer in the experimental 

 department of The Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron. Mr. Witsaman re- 

 mained with the Dayton company until 

 June 1 of the present year when he resigned to assist in the 

 formation of The Master Tire & Rubber Co. 



A convention of managers and salesmen including the export 

 manager of The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio, was held 

 October 9-10, for the purpose of going over in detail the policies 

 of the company for the coming year. Branch managers from all 

 over the country were present. 



The Steele-Alderfer Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, manufacturer 

 of woolen crates for transporting tires, hose reels, etc., has in- 

 creased its capital stock from $85,000 to $250,000, to take care 

 of in increasing business. Ground has been broken for the erec- 

 tion of a number of fireproof buildings, and the present main 

 structure will be enlarged by a two-story addition, 60 by 100 

 feet. The new buildings will include a two-story one, 40 by 100 

 feet, to accommodate a new large band sawmill; a new office 

 building; a garage; and a dry kiln. Electrical machinery will 

 be installed and a traveling crane to replace the present derrick 

 system for handling logs. The officers of the company are: 

 T. A. Steele, president; Charles McCuskey, vice-president; 

 W. H. Schnabel, secretary; F. R. Steele, treasurer. 



Charles J. Hazen has been appointed advertising manager of 

 The Marathon Tire and Rubber Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. ^ 



The Perfect Rubber Co., Mansfield, Ohio, plans to begin the 

 manufacture of rubber novelties, water bottles, and druggists' 

 sundries in the near future. 



The De Vilbiss Manufacturing Co., Toledo, Ohio, manufacturer 

 of atomizers, etc., has increased its capital stock from $700,000 

 to $2,000,000 for the purpose of carrjTng on its increased business. 

 It has also purchased the plant of the Lenk Wine Co., in West 

 Toledo, to provide a new factory for its Aeron system. This in- 

 cludes seven brick buildings and four of wood, with a total floor 

 space of 75,000 square feet. These will be remodeled and modern- 

 ized. 



The East Palestine Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, at its 

 adjourned annual meeting, elected an entirely new board of di 

 rectors, namely: C. F. Adamson, J. F. Stoddard, J. H. Whitten- 



berger, Wjlliam G. Morris, C. F. Woods, S. B. McClure, and 

 P. H. Murphy. The following officers were elected: C. F. Adam- 

 son. i)resident and treasurer ; S. B. McClure, vice-president ; and 

 J. F. Stoddard, secreary. 



JOHN YOUNG, FIRESTONE'S CHIEF CHEMIST. 



JOHN Young, chief chemist of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Aknm, Ohio, was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1886 and ed- 

 ucated at Perth .Academy and the Royal Technical College at 

 (ilasgow, taking degrees with hon- 

 ors in organic chemistry. 



Mr. Young started as assistant 

 chemist with Thomas de la Rue & 

 Co., London, England, his investi- 

 gations being principally on gums 

 and mucilages, printing inks and 

 I)aper, and hard rubber for foun- 

 tain pens. Later he proceeded to 

 British Guinea, being appointed 

 assistant chemist on a rubber and 

 sugar plantation, and during his 

 two years' stay there, he had 

 charge of all the scientific work 

 in connection with the rubber 

 production, including collection 

 and setting out of seeds and seed- 

 ings, fertilization experiments, in- 

 JoHN Young. vestigation of plant diseases, col- 



lection and coagulation of latex. 

 In 1911 he went to Akron, Ohio, to work in the research lab- 

 oratory of the Diamond Rubber Co., under Dr. Spence, and while 

 there he published several papers, in collaboration with Dr. 

 Spence, on the theory of vulcanization. 



In January, 1916, Mr. Y'oung was appointed assistant chief 

 chemist of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., and later in the 

 same year was promoted to the position of chief chemist, in this 

 capacity having charge of the general and research laboratory, 

 and all compounding work and factory control. Early in 1917 

 it was found necessary to enlarge the department, and a new 

 set of laboratories was equipped to take care of the growing 

 needs of the department which now has a staff of 45 well 

 trained men. 



Mr. Young passed examination for associateship of the Insti- 

 tute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland in 1909 and was 

 elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry in 1914. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Chemical Society of London and a mem- 

 ber of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1910. He is also a 

 member of the American Chemical Society. 



MID-WESTERN NOTES. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 

 'T'he Portage Rubber Co., Akron and Barberton, Ohio, has ap- 

 *■ pointed the following new branch managers in the Middle 

 West : Chicago — J. V. Wedgewood, succeeding J. W. Wildman, 

 resigned ; Minneapolis— W. R. McCarty, succeeding L. T. Ware, 

 resigned; Detroit— S. R. Waller, succeeding L. T. MacGregor, 

 resigned. 



The Victor Rubber Co., Springfield, Ohio, has opened a branch 

 at 1720 South Michigan- avenue, Chicago, Illinois, with F. A. Rich- 

 ards as branch manager and George Hoff as office manager. Mr. 

 Richards was formerly with the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co.,. 

 Cleveland and East Palestine, Ohio, and Mr. Hoff comes from 

 the Detroit office of the Victor company. 



The Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeannette, Pennsylvania, has 

 appointed Daniel McAvoy in charge of its branch at Omaha, 

 Nebraska. 



