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per cent ; number holding first place. 10.2 per cent ; number of 

 aliens, 8.6 per cent. Nearly all are of English speaking stock. 



The Athol Manufacturing Co., Althol, Massachusetts, manu- 

 facturer of pneumatic rubber goods, announces that a new com- 

 pany will soon be formed to conduct the business of its Metro- 

 politan Air Goods Department. Richard A. Whall, formerly 

 secretary and treasurer of the Metropolitan Air Goods Co., orig- 

 inally at Reading, Massachusetts, is air goods manager of the 

 Athol Manufacturing Co., and many new articles of his de- 

 sign have been placed on the market. 



The Taunton Rubber Co., Taunton, reports that its 1919 busi- 

 ness, notably in "Peerless" heels, was double that of 1918. .^ 

 new high grade heel under the brand "Columbia" will soofi be 

 placed on the market. Three salesmen are introducing these 

 goods to the trade, namely, W. Gomberg, Frederick Eppler and 

 Harry Grossman. The officers of the company remain as in the 

 past, William L. Gifford, president ; Joseph L. Gifford, treasurer. 



Several hundred delegates from the National Shoe Retailers' 

 Association convention in Boston were entertained at a luncheon 

 given by M. M. Converse, president of the Converse Rubber 

 Shoe Co., Maiden, at the factory restaurant on January- 13. They 

 were afterward shown through the plant and displayed much 

 interest in the processes of rubber shoe manufacture. 



The new five-story storage addition to the south end of the 

 shipping room is nearly completed. The four-story addition 

 to the north end of the building is also well along. The first 

 floor will enlarge the mill room for Converse tires, while the 

 floors above will be occupied by the receiving department, its 

 former quarters providing needed expansion in the shoe factory. 



An oil burning system is being installed at the plant of F. H. 

 Appleton & Son. Inc., at Franklin, Massachusetts, to overcome the 

 coal shortage. 



REORGANIZATION OF THE BOSTON BELTING CO. 



W. E. Hardy, F. H. Rice, H. H. Whitesel and associates, 

 who have been operating the Boston Belting Corp., so far as 

 production and sales are concerned, have purchased and taken 

 over all assets of the corporation which relate to the mechanical 

 rubber goods business. The Boston Belting Co., whose major 

 assets had been transferred to the Boston Belting Corp. some 

 two years ago, had never been dissolved. Consequently, on 

 November 6, when Thomas A. Forsyth and J. H. D. Smith re- 

 signed as directors and as president and treasurer, respectively, 

 their positions were filled by the election of W. E. Hardy, 

 president and general manager ; F. H. Rice, treasurer, and 

 H. H. Whitesel, director and sales manager. Therefore, the 

 business is continued without break, inasmuch as the new officers 

 had operated the company for two years prior to its sale, under 

 the management of Mr. Forsyth. 



The Boston Belting Co., incorporated under the laws of the 

 State of Massachusetts, was originally established in 1828, in- 

 corporated by State Legislative Grant in 184S as the Good- 

 year Manufacturing Co., the firm name being changed in 1847 

 to Boston Belting Co. The present capitalization is $1,015,000; 

 $S1S,000 preferred issue; $500,000, common. .-Ml stock has been 

 issued. Over one-third of all employes are shareholders. 



H. H. WhilescI, who grew up in the mining fields of Colorado 

 and Missouri, was engaged in the supply business at Joplin, 

 Missouri, some fifteen years ago. He became identified with 

 the Diamond Rubber Co. in 1908, as field salesman, later becom- 

 ing St. Louis branch manager and then general mining represen- 

 tative, continuing with the Diamond Rubber Co. until 1915. he 

 then took up the western sales of the Boston Belting Co. and 

 in January, 1918, became general sales manager. 



F. H. Rice was an Ohio farmer boy. After spending six 

 years in the machine tool department of the Warner & Swasey 



Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in cost accounting, he be- 

 came identified with the treasury and accounting departments 

 of the Diamond Rubber Co. in 1908, continuing in this position 

 for four years, then joining the organization of the Firestone 

 Tire & Rubber Co. for three years. In 1915 he became assistant 

 treasurer of the Boston Belting Co. 



W. E. Hardy, upon his graduation from Buchtel College — now 

 Akron University — spent a few years mining in Arizona and Old 

 Mexico. After a year with the Brown Hoisting Machine Co., of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, he got a "job" operating a belt press with the 

 Diamond Rubber Co. at Akron, Ohio, in 1903, later becoming 

 successively assistant sales manager. New York manager of 

 mechanical sales and general mechanical sales manager at Akron. 

 He joined the Boston Belting Co. organization in 1915. 



PORTAGE WORKS MANAGER. 



JuHx T. JoHxso.x, works manager of The Portage Rubber Co., 

 of .\kron, Ohio, is working out production plans that en- 

 tail the building of a large new unit to the Portage factory at 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^ =1 Barberton, Ohio, to be devoted almost 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^H exclusively to the production cord 



^^^^^*^^^^^B tires. Work will be started soon on the 

 ^^B|. ^^^B new structure which is to comprise a 



HHr ...^^ ^^^^B header building with three wings, each 



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^^1 ^ ^^H eral stories in height. 



|V\ '^S^^B ^^'^' J°'i"son is a graduate of the 



^^L J^I^^^B mechanical engineering college of Cor- 

 ^^^ 'iii^^^H "'^" ^'"'^^""^''y' was for many years 

 ^^^^ a^^^l "'^'^ '^^^ ^' ^- ^oo"^^'^"^^ C°- 3( Akron. 

 ^^^^^ ^al^H Starting in the cord tire department, he 

 became manager of that department and 

 later was placed in charge of the Good- 

 rich tire experimental department. For a short time he was works 

 manager of the Cord Tire Corp. at Chester, West Virginia, leav- 

 ing that position to come to the Portage company. He is a 

 keen student of industrial relations and an enthusiastic sup- 

 porter of athletics for both men and women. 



John T. Johnson. 



McGRAW'S BALTIMORE BRANCH MANAGER. 



T L. McAx.^XEV, who has been appointed manager of the 

 ^' Baltimore branch of The McGraw Tire & Rubber Com- 

 pany, Cleveland. Ohio, is one of the best known tire men 

 in the country, having been identified with the industry for the 

 past seventeen years. 



Mr. McAnaney's position in the tire 

 business is an enviable one, as he by 

 no means started at the top of the lad- 

 der. Starting as a stenographer in the 

 factory of The B. F. Goodrich Co. at 

 .\kron, Ohio, he was next made a sales- 

 man, working the territory around Bos- 

 ton for the Goodrich company. The 

 marked ability of Mr. McAnaney soon 

 won for him another promotion — that of 

 manager of the Goodrich company's 

 Cleveland branch. In Cleveland he was 

 a big success and became one of the L. L. Mc.\n.\xev. 

 most popular tire men in Ohio. For over nine years he man- 

 aged the Goodrich branch, while for over four years previous 

 to his connection with the McGraw company he served as man- 

 ager for the Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown, Ohio. 



Mr. McAnaney's pleasing personality, his energv-, and his 

 ability as a tire expert, are certain to win for him and the 

 McGraw company a host of new friends in the Baltimore terri- 

 tory. 



