July i, 1908. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



349 



HR. WILLIAM F. BASS. 



The news that Mr. William F. Bass, general manager of the 

 General Rubber Co. (New York), has been reelected to that 

 office and also made second vice-president will be taken by the 

 trade as an appreciation of very excellent work in that com- 

 pany, with which for some five years past he has been connected. 

 Mr. Bass is by training and experience a thoroughly expert crude 

 rubber man. Beginning with the house of W. R. Grace & Co., 

 he handled all of their Para business right on the docks, thus 

 laying a foundation for a very important part of crude rubber 

 knowledge. Later he connected himself for a time with A. T. 

 Morse & Co., and when the Crude Rubber Co. was formed was 



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selected by Mr. Charles R. Flint as one of his right hand men. 

 In the liquidation of that company, Mr. Bass handled all of the 

 accounts with the banks to whom rubber had been pledged. As 

 this meant some 25 or 30 national banks and some 10 or a dozen 

 sterling banks the work was e.xceedingly difficult, but Mr. Bass 

 handled it with exceptional brilliancy. When that work was 

 finally finished he was secured by the General Rubber Co. as 

 assistant general manager, and was later appointed general man- 

 ager, and to that office now adds that of second vice-president. 

 Mr. Bass was born in Petersburg, Virginia, and is about 40 

 years old. He is not only an enthusiastic tennis player, but is 

 manager of the Crescent-La Crosse Club of Brooklyn, which 

 is notable as being the champion team of the L^nited States and 



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NEW ENGLAND RUBBER CLtTB. 



A MEETING of the executive committee of the New England 

 Rubber Club was held on June 23 at the office of President Ar- 

 thur W. Stedman, in Boston, to perfect arrangements for the 

 mid summer outing. 



The mid-summer outing will occur on Wednesday, July IS- 

 In the forenoon of that day those who desire can make entries 

 for golf at the Country Club, Brookline ; prizes will be awarded 

 for the best scores. At I p. M. the members and their guests will 

 start on a special steamer trip down the harbor and if the 

 weather permits landing will be made at Paddock's Island, 

 Fort Andrews, where the Club will be the guest of United 

 States army officers until s :30. Weather permitting, a ball 

 game will be played on the island between the Importers and 

 Manufacturers. It is planned to invite the army officers to ac- 

 company the Club on the steamer for Point Shirley, where a 

 fish dinner will be served about 6:30 p. m. After a social eve- 

 ning at Point Shirley the steamer will be taken to Boston, ar- 

 riving about 10 p. M. 



At the same meeting it was voted that the president of the 

 Club write to Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, suggesting 

 that he use his influence toward having the governors of all the 

 New England states meet to confer on such matters of com- 

 mon interest to New England as forestry, agriculture, and im- 

 provement of transportation. It is understood that a movement 

 is on foot in all the business clubs in New England in behalf of 

 such a conference. 



Mr. Henry C. Pearson, vice president, has been appointed a 

 delegate to represent the Club at the International Rubber and 

 Allied Trades Exhibition to be held in London in September. 



At a meeting of the executive committee of the New England 

 Rubber Club, held on Tuesday, June 2, the following committees 

 were appointed : 



Dinner. — Francis H. Appleton, chairman ; John Patterson, W. 

 E. Barker, E. H. Clapp, T. J. Skinner. 



Sporls.—W. E. Farrington, chairman ; Henry G. Tyer, F. D. 

 Balderston, F. C. Hood, R. L. Chipman. 



Entertainment. — George H. Mayo, chairman; Roy L. Dorr, 

 C. J. Bailey, James H. Learned, William H. Palmer. 



Resolutions. — George P. Whitmore, chairman ; E. E. Wad- 

 brook, A. M. Paul. 



Auditing. — J. Frank Dunbar, chairman ; George P. Eustis. 



NEW INCORPOEATIONS. 



The Courtney Rubber Co., June 15, 1908, under the laws of 

 New York state; capital, $100,000. Incorporators: W. J. Court- 

 ney and T. M. Johnson, No. 15 Wall street, and John G. Phiel, 

 No. 52 Broadway, New Y'ork. The company will manufacture 

 automobile tires and tubes ; also mechanical rubber goods, more 

 particularly for railway use. The plant of the new company, 

 at Plainfield, New Jersey, is the first rubber works in that town. 

 Mr. Courtney has been connected for a number of years with 

 one of the leading mechanical rubber goods companies. The 

 office, for the present, is at No. 15 Wall street. 



Peerless Leather Tire Co., May 2, 1908, under the laws of 

 California; capital, $20,000. Incorporators: S. Folmer Swain, 

 Cecil H. Stone, H. R. Newbauer, Marcus Weinberger, and Ed- 

 ward W. Gunther, all of San Francisco. 



Malaysian Rubber Co., June 18, 1908, under the New Jersey 

 state laws ; capital authorized, $3,000,000. Incorporators : William- 

 Mason Smith, Armin W. Riley, and Clarence E. Sterreth, all of 

 No. IS Exchange place, Jersey City, N. J. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Frederick N.ath.-\n Hamerstrom, general manager of 

 The Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co., and Miss Helen 

 Harper Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Davis, 

 of Germantown, Pennsylvania, were married at the home of 

 the bride on June 16. After September I, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Hamerstrom will be at home at No. 850 Carteret avenue, 

 Trenton. 



The marriage is reported of Mr. Richard Croker, Jr., of 

 New York, and Miss Mary Brophy, of Providence, Rhode 

 Island. Mr. Croker, at the organization of the International 

 Automobile and Vehicle Tire Co., was elected vice presi- 

 dent and manager. Later he joined a banking firm in New 

 York, and he is now secretary of the Roebling Construction 

 Co., a subsidiary concern of John A. Roebling's Sons & Co. 

 The bride is referred to as a niece of the late Joseph Bani- 

 gan, the rubber manufacturer, and heiress to a portion of 

 his estate. 



Mr. George S. Andrus, manager of the Apsley Rubber Co. 

 (Hudson, Massachusetts), stopped work long enough in the 

 middle of June to go to the Clinton Hospital, at Clinton, 

 Mass., and get rid of a somewhat troublesome appendix. 

 The operation was in every way successful and he made a 

 very rapid recover}'. 



Mr. H. O. Canfield (Bridgeport, Connecticut), of the rubber 

 company that bears his name, has been quite ill of ptomaine 

 poisoning, but his many friends will be glad to know he is up and, 

 out and fuUv recovered. 



