AuccsT 1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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A WIDELY KNOWN FACTORY MANAGER. 



IOHN Kearxs, manager of the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., Con- 

 shohocken, Pennsylvania, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 

 1 IS/^, mid was educated in the public schools of that city, 



graduating later from Comer's 



Commercial College. His first em- 

 ployment was with the Boston Car 

 Spring Co. in 1879. In 1891 he 

 joined the Overman Wheel Co., 

 where he had charge of the rubber 

 departments until 1898, when he 

 went to the India Rubber Co., of 

 Akron, Ohio. 



Three years later he went to 

 Melbourne, Australia, to join the 

 Dunlop Rubber Co. forces, where 

 he remained until 1913, when he be- 

 came associated with the Fisk Rub- 

 ber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachu- 

 setts. In 1916 he went to the Lee 

 Tire & Rubber Co. and is at pres- 

 ent its manager. 



Mr. Kearns has had an excep- 

 tionally varied e.vpcricnce in the rubber business. He is almost 

 as well known in England and the British Colonies as in Amer- 

 ica. In Ceylon he is interested in a rubber plantation and has 

 many acquaintances throughout the Far East. He is a member 

 of several fraternal orders and president of the Tuberculosis 

 Relief .Association of Springfield. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



-A post card from Raymond B. Price, one of the directors 

 of the United Stales Rubber Company, dated Singapore, Straits 

 Settlements, May 25, reports him visiting the Sumatra planta- 

 tions of the company on the way to Japan. 



Bushnell Bigelow, who for some time has been manager of 

 eastern sales for The New Jersey Zinc Co., Inc., 116 Front 

 street, Xew' York City, now is assistant general sales manager 

 for the company. Walter L. Hess takes Mr. Bigelow's place as 

 manager of eastern sales. 



Murray S. Bierer has entered the rubber brokerage business, 

 with offices at 299 Broadway, New York City. 



A. L. Viles, of The Rubber Association of America, has been 

 honored by appointment upon the recently created New York 

 Terminal Committee, to represent the shippers' interests. 

 The other members are A. J. Miller, of the Delaware, Lackawanna 

 & Western Railroad Co., representing the carriers; James May- 

 bury, Jr., of the Public Utilities Commission of New Jersey, 

 and Alfred M. Barre<tt, of the Public Service Commission, First 

 District, New York. 



The duties of the committee are somewhat similar to those 

 of the terminal committees which served while the Government 

 was operating the railroads. Their primary object is to bring 

 about the greatest measure of cooperation among all the ele- 

 ments connected with the transportation situation. 



Charles Mulier, general manager of the Standard Emarex 

 Co., Chicago, Illinois, has severed his connection with the com- 

 pany and will engage in the mineral rubber business for himself. 

 He has been identified with the company since its inception and is 

 largely responsible for its success. During an experience of four- 

 teen years he has studied the requirements of rubber manu- 

 facturers and has made many friends in the trade. 



Edward J. Brown, formerly a salesman in the employ of the 

 Acme Rubber Manufacturing Company, Trenton, New Jersey, and 

 now connected with the Hood Tire & Rubber Company, of Pitts- 



burgh, Pennsylvania, was recently married to Miss Mae St. 

 Clergy, of Rockford, Illinois. The wedding took place at Erie, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Henry C. Pearson, Editor of The Indi.-\ Rubber World, New 

 York City, has accepted an invitation to join the Honorary Ad- 

 visory Council of the Fifth International Exhibition of Rubber, 

 Other Tropical Products and Allied Industries and of the Inter- 

 national Conference to be held in connection therewith in London 

 in June, 1921, under the chairmanship of Dr. Joseph Torrey, 

 A.M., Ph.D. 



FACTORY MANAGER, SYRACUSE RUBBER CO. 



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LLiAM E. Greer, factory manager and third vice-president 

 of the Syracuse Rubber Co., Inc., Syracuse, New York, is 

 tive of .-Xkron, Ohio, where he was born April 24, 

 1884. He attended the 

 grammar and high 

 schools in that city and 

 in 1898 entered the em- 

 ploy of The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co., with which firm 

 he remained until 1906, 

 the first four years in 

 the druggists' sundries 

 department and the last 

 four in the automobile 

 tire department. 



Going to the Firestone 

 Tire & Rubber Co. for a 

 year as inspector of 

 automobile tire casings, 

 he then took a position 

 with The Miller Rubber 

 Co.. starting its automo- 

 bile casing and inner 

 tube departments and re- 

 maining in charge for 

 ten years. In 1917 he 

 went to the Mid-Conti- 

 nent Tire Manufacturing 

 Co., Wichita, Kansas, as 

 factory superintendent, 

 and on June 1, 1919, became factory manager and third vice- 

 president of the Syracuse Rubber Co., Inc. 



Mr. Greer's wide experience in some of the leading tire fac- 

 tories of the country and his specialized knowledge of cord tire 

 construction well fits him for the task before him with this 

 flourishing young company. 



Mr. Greer is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Elks 

 and Rotariaiis. 



WiLLi.\M E. Greer. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN THE EAST AND SOUTH. 



By Our Rcqiilar Corrrsfoiulmt. 

 NEW YORK NOTES. 



THE Electric Storage Battery Co. has removed its New York 

 office from 100 Broadway, where it had been for the last 

 twenty-two j-ears, to the Xalional .Association building, 23-31 

 West Forty-third street. 



The Hohmann, Nelson Co., Fan Claire, Wisconsin, manu- 

 facturer of a complete line of temperature, time and condensate 

 controllers, recording and indicating thermometers, steam pres- 

 sure regulators, etc., has opened an eastern sales office and 

 sample room at 1599 Nostrand avenue. Brooklyn, New York, in 

 charge of B. O. PalHn. 



