THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



fabrics and 



jfact 



Port VVaslnngton, Wisconsin. To rubber 

 rubber cement. 



Vacuum Rubber Heel Corp., May 24 (New York), $50,000. M. Dusel, 

 45 Gesl street; F. X. Mullcr, 26 Lyth street; E. J. Whisscl, 685 Utica 

 street— all of Buffalo, New York. Principal office, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Vulcweld Tire & Rubber Co., April 19 (Pennsylvania), $100,000. W. C. 

 Walsh, president and purchasing agent ; E. W. Potteiger, vice-president ; 

 J. A. Maney, secretary: E. Smith, treasurer. Principal office, Pottstown. 

 "Pennsylvania. To rebuild tires. 



Wa.'isworth Sales Co., Inc., May 28 (New York), $20,000. E. J. 

 Wadswoith, president; W. T. Leonard, vice-president; W. J. McDonald, 

 trea.-iiircr; P. F, Acer, secretary. Principal office, 16 Court street, 

 Brooklyn. New Y'ork. To distribute automobile tires, tubes and ac- 



Warne'r-Johnson Tire Co., The, .-Vpril IS (Ohio), $15,000. S. B. 

 Warner, president ; W. T. Richards, vice-president ; C. E. Lytic, secre- 

 tary; S. E. TohnsLn. treasurer: W. H. Tohnson. general manager. Prin- 

 cipal office. Canton. Ohio. To distribute Pennsylvania Vacuum cup tires. 



Weartex Rubber Co., March 31 (Pennsylvania), $25,000. E. J. Hugo; 

 G. R. Saleman, both of Philadelphia; I. Schulhoff, Uniontown— both in 

 Pennsylvania. 



Voungstown Rubber Products Co., The, April 3 (Ohio), $10,000. J. T. 

 Harrington: U. C. Deford: T. P. Huxley; N. A. Emery; D. J. Lynn. 

 Principal office, 617 Market street, Y'oungstown, Ohio. To distribute 



Ze'glen Tire & Rubber Co., Inc.. January 16 (Illinois), $500,000. J. P. 

 Drish, acting president and vice-president ; F. J. Kolodzinski, secretary and 

 treasurer. Principal office. 706 Oxford Building, 118 North La Salle 

 street. Chicago, Illinois. To manufacture tires. 



A SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZER OF RUBBER 

 COMPANIES. 



WiLLi.xM W.^LLACE WiLDMAN, the well-known organizer and 

 manager of successful rubber companies, was born in 

 Zanesville, Ohio, February 11, 1872. During his youth in Zanes- 

 ville he attended the common and high schools, and after leaving 

 school he worked in his father's 

 furniture store. Later he became 

 a member of the firm of J. B. 

 Wildman & Sons. In 1891 he 

 moved to Chicago, and was for 

 six months in the wholesale house 

 of Marshall Field & Co. His next 

 connection was with the National 

 Tube Works in Chicago until that 

 company was consolidated with 

 the Crane Company. He then 

 went with James B. Clow & Sons 

 in the same line of business, and 

 nmained with that firm for five 

 vcars. 



In 1897 Mr. Wildman entered 

 the rubber field, joining the firm 

 William W. Wiliimax. t)f Morgan & Wright as assistant 

 superintendent of the mechanical 

 rubber goods department in the Chicago factory. Three and a 

 half years later he took charge of the sales of mechanical rubber 

 goods, the compilation of catalogs, and the training of traveling 

 salesmen in those lines. He was employed in that capacity for 

 about four and a half years. When Morgan & Wright were then 

 taken over by the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company, Mr. 

 Wildman resigned and went with the Milwaukee Rubber Works 

 Co. When that company became involved in financial 

 difficulties he conducted the business under the receivership for 

 two years. After the first three months he made money for the 

 company, and later organized the Federal Rubber Co., which 

 purchased the assets of the old concern. Mr. Wildman 

 was made general manager of the Federal company. After the 

 plant had Ijeen in operation about a year he resigned and went 

 to .\kron. 



Having developed and perfected a patented process for de- 

 vulcanizing rubber scrap, he organized at Akron, in 1908, the 

 United Rubber Co.. which bought the plant of the old Aladdin 

 Rubber Co., located in West Barberton, for the purpose of manu- 

 facturing reclaimed rubber. 



When Mr. Wildman engaged in rubber reclaiming it was with 

 the idea that as soon as the business was firmly established a 

 larger and separate company should be formed for the manu- 

 facture of rubber goods. Thus he brought about the incorpora- 



tion of The Portage Rubber Co. in 1910. Mr. Wildman was 

 general manager from the start and subsequently was chosen 

 president. He remained with the company unlil the fall of 1919, 

 when he resigned and formed the Wildman Rubber Co. of De- 

 troit, of which he is president. It is capitalized at $10,000,000, 

 and is building a big plant at Bay City, Michigan, preparing to 

 lurn out 2,500 tires and 5,000 tubes a day. 



Mr. Wildman is a 32nd-degree Mason, resides in Detroit and is 

 a member of the Akron and Barberton Chambers of Commerce 

 and the Detroit Board of Commerce, the Akron City Club, and 

 the Fairtown Heights Golf Club. In Detroit he is a member of 

 the Fellowcraft Club and the Birch Hill Country Club. Three of 

 his brothers, Banks J. Wildman, Theodore T. Wildman and Jo- 

 seph W. Wildman, are, respectively, secretary, assistant sales 

 manager and Chicago district manager of the Portage Rubber Co. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Howard H. McGee was born in Hartford. Connecticut, and in 

 he early eighties his father, the late C. Thornton McGee, pur- 

 chased the druggists' sundry business of 

 the John W. Gray Co., whose factory 

 ■' '* -fci^ subsequently became the Hartford Rubber 



JBI Works Co. In 190O Mr. McGee entered 



xj^^'aMJI^Hk the employ of the Seamless Rubber Co., 



'_ ^^^B New Haven, Connecticut, starting in the 



^S^^t factory and after two years' inside ex- 



^^^r^^ perience he represented the firm in the 



y^^^^^^ ^'ew England territory. In 1905, he was 

 ^^^»k -^^^^M made manager of the Chicago office. Two 

 mKjBtt^^^^^M yell's later, the Seamless Rubber Co. sent 

 ^H^BB^BBBI him to Europe to investigate trade con- 

 HowARD H. McGee. .ditions. After representing Davol Rubber 

 Co. for several years in the south, Mr. 

 McGee accepted the management of the druggists' sundries de- 

 partment of Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., and for the last five years 

 he has been connected with the United States Rubber Co. 



Dr. Frederic Dannerth, the well-known rubber chemist, who 

 last winter gave a series of lectures in Newark on corporation 

 chemistry, has again established his office as consulting chemist 

 in Newark, New Jersey. 



S. V. Norton, for fifteen years with The B. F. Goodrich Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept the position of service man- 

 ager of the General Motors Truck Co., Pontiac, Michigan, effec- 

 tive July 1, succeeding H. L. Beckwith, resigned. 



R. L. Armstrong has been appointed manager of the Omaha 

 branch of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeannelte, Pennsylvania. 

 He succeeds Dan McAvoy, resigned. 



K. H. Watson, 98 Park Place, New York Citv. American rep- 

 resentative of Alfred Smith, Limited, Manchester, England, 

 manufacturer of chemicals for the rubber trade, is at present in 

 England but expects to return to New York ybout the middle of 

 July. 



John H. Mills has been elected vice-president of the Hilo Var- 

 ni.sh Corporation, Brooklyn, New York, which manufactures a 

 flexible varnish for rubberized fabrics. Mr. Mills has been with 

 tlie Hilo company for thirty-five years and for some time has been 

 a member of the board of directors. 



C. H. Connelly has been appointed southwestern manager of 

 The Rubber Products Co., Barberton, Ohio, with headquarters at 

 Kansas City, Missouri. He will control the territory from Ne- 

 braska to the Gulf and from St. Louis to Denver. 



George B. Kretsinger has been appointed office manager of the 

 Kansas City branch of The Rubber Producls Co., Barberton, 

 Ohio, eflFective July 1. 



Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt and party of guests left Provi- 

 dence June 4 for Camp Colt in the Maine woods to enjoy a 

 three weeks' fishing trip. The camp is located on Kidney Point 



