THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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1, 1920. 



at the base of Mount Katahdin. amid beautiful scenery, some 

 thirty-tive miles up the Penobscot river from Norcross. Trout 

 and bass fishing is unexcelled. 



John W. O'Bannon, head of the International Rubber Co., car- 

 riage cloth manufacturers, and of the O'Bannon Corporation, 

 manufacturers of a leather substitute, who has been committed 

 to a sanitarium since the middle of April, has been declared by 

 a sheriff's jury to be incompetent to manage his own affairs and 

 a committee is to be appointed. Mr. O'Bannon's career has been 

 a remarkable one. Starting on a shoestring, he built up his busi- 

 ness to corporations in which he has a $15,000,000 interest. Al- 

 though declared mentally incurable by several alienists, he retains 

 a wonderful mind and memory. He is still a young man of fifty 

 and his friends in the rubber trade believe he will come back. 



SALES MANAGER, SYRACUSE RUBBER CO. 



FRANK G. M.\UTHE, general sales manager of The Syracuse 

 Rubber Co., Inc., Syracuse, Xew York, brings to that position 



an extensive and varied 



sales experience obtained 

 with several prominent 

 firms. 



Born in North Claren- 

 don, Pennsylvania, in 

 1883, he attended the 

 grammar schools and 

 from his boyhood until 

 1904 was engaged with 

 his father in the mer- 

 cantile business. There- 

 after, for three years, he 

 was store manager for 

 the Vulcan Trading Co., 

 then for two years de- 

 partment manager for 

 the M. O'Neil Co., when, 

 in 1910, he became an 

 adjuster, office manager, 

 and salesman for the 

 Diamond Rubber Co. In 

 1912 he became identi- 

 fied with The Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co. as 

 branch manager, which 

 position he occupied 



tintil 1916, when he was appointed special factory representative 

 of the Marathon Tire & Rubber Co., holding this office for three 

 years. When the Syracuse Rubber Co. was organized in 1919 

 he accepted his present position as genera! sales manager. 



Mr. Mauthe is a member of the Kiawanis Club, St. Albans 

 No. 68 F. & A. M. and Branch Brook Chapter No. 47 Royal Arch 

 Masons, both of Newark, Xew Jersey. 



Frank G. Mauthe. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN THE EAST AND SOUTH. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



KIW YORK NOTES. 



THE Hudson Tire & Rubber Corporation has been incorporated 

 under the laws of New York with a capital of $1,000,000. 

 The offices are at Yonkers, New York, where a twenty-acre tract 

 of land has been acquired and a modern factory will be erected 

 for producing cord and fabric tires, tubes, solid truck tires, and 

 other rubber goods. The officers of the company are : W. M. 

 Doucette, president and general manager, and H. B. Seymour, 

 vice-president and treasurer. Mr. Doucette has been in the tire 

 business for a quarter of a century representing manufacturers 



in this country and abroad, and he was lately eastern district 

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

 Seymour, who has been editor and business manager of "The 

 Rubber Age and Tire News" and "Tire Trade Journal," entered 

 the rubber business seventeen years ago with the Boston Woven 

 Hose & Rubber Co. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later wa3 

 with the Davidson Rubber Co. of Charlestown and the Plymouth 

 Rubber Co. of Canton, Massachusetts. 



Leslie & Knoke is the firm name of a new copartnership of 

 crude rubber brokers, at 60 Stone street. New York. One of 

 the partners is Charles S. Leslie, who started as an office boy 

 23 years ago with Reimers & Meyer and stayed through the suc- 

 cessive changes in that house until it became Poel & Kelly. About 

 a year ago he began business by himself. The other partner is 

 Edward J. Knoke, who began twenty years since with Eggers & 

 Heinlein, then went to Robinson & Co. and later to Constantino 

 P. Dos Santos. When that firm was reorganized he went with 

 Albert V. Tallman and three years ago became an independent 

 broker. 



The National Association of Corporation Schools, which in- 

 cludes some of the largest employers of labor in the United 

 States, held a five-day convention at the Waldorf-Astoria, New 

 York, the first week in June. The committee making a report 

 on unskilled labor and Americanization included C. S. Coler, 

 Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. ; S; H. Renton, 

 American Hard Rubber Co.; and B. N. Rohrer, The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. 



The Rubber Corporation of America, recently organized, has 

 its general offices at 240 West S5th street. New York City. The 

 officers are: F. I. Reynolds, president, also vice-president and 

 director of sales of the Empire Tire & Rubber Corporation, 

 Trenton, New Jersey; Charles Austin Bates, vice-president, in 

 charge of advertising, also vice-president of the Sterling Tire 

 Corporation. Rutherford, New Jersey; W. A. Reynolds, J. Baker 

 Taylor, Ralph V. Dickinson, and William D. Harris, vice-presi- 

 dents in charge of sales ; W. M. Pepper, chairman of the board, 

 a member of the New York banking firm of Campbell, Heath & 

 Co.; A. W. Fargo, secretary; directors — F. I. Reynolds, C. E. 

 Murray, Sr. and Jr., C. A. Bates, J. A. Miller, W. T. Baird, W. 

 M. Pepper, and Charles Austin Bates. 



The company will maintain warehousing facilities in eight ^r 

 ten of the principal cities in the United States where the goods 

 of manufacturing companies will be warehoused and thence dis- 

 tributed. The selling organization will be much under the same 

 direction and will perform for the manufacturing companies an 

 economical selling and distribution service. 



The Watson-Stillman Co., New York City, manufacturer of 

 rubber machinery, packing, etc., has elected the following officers : 

 E. A. Stillman, president, supervising sales ; Carl Wigtel, vice- 

 president and chief engineer; J. D. Brooks, treasurer; and A. 

 Parker Nevin, secretary. LeRoy T. Brown has been appointed 

 works manager, j. W. Delano, assistant works manager, and 

 W. H. Martin, purchasing agent. The board of directors in- 

 cludes E. A. and A. F. Stillman, Carl Wigtel, A. Parker Nevin, 

 W. L. Wright, George T. Ordway, and F. A. Hutson. G. D. 

 Kershaw and J. F. Lary are no longer with the company and 

 the positions of general manager and superintendent have been 

 discontinued. 



The Majestic Sales Corporation, 1834 Broadway, New York 

 City, will distribute in the eastern and northeastern states the 

 products of the Majestic Tire & Rubber Co., Indianapolis, In- 

 diana, maker of Majestic cord tires and tubes. G. W. Chapman, 

 formerly with The Fisk Rubber Co., is New York district mana- 

 ger, and S. J. Anderson, formerly with the Brunswick-Balke- 

 Collender Co., is in charge of sales in the New York territory. 



The Advance Rubber Co., Brooklyn, New York, is completing 

 its new plant, 200 by 130 feet, and expects to occupy it about 



