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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1916. 



Co., was one of the 11 men, nationally prominent, who were 

 chosen directors of the World Court League, with the object of 

 ending of war through arbitration. 



Ralph Upson, head of the balloon department of the Good- 

 year company, sailed for Europe on January 18, officially repre- 

 senting the Ohio National Guard as special observer of military 

 aeronautics. 



less, wlio has been in charge of the San Francisco territory, is 

 now manager of the northern district, including Oregon, Wash- 

 ington, Idaho and Wyoming. C. O. Mars has been given full 

 charge of the central district, comprising all the territory in Cali- 

 fornia lying north of Bakersfield, and R. L. Sargeant is pro- 

 moted to the head of the southern district, which comprises the 

 remainder of California and .Arizona. 



Walter W. Price, who is connected with The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., has been appointed a national deputy, with rank of major, 

 on the staff of General H. Oden Lake, national commander of the 

 Army and Navy League. 



John Ilerron is now associated with the .\kron office of Hen- 

 derson & Korn, assisting H. H. Henderson. 



H. .A. Price, formerly with the B. F. Goodrich Co., and the 

 Kelly-Springfield Tire Co.. has been appointed sales manager of 

 the tire division of the Rubber Products Co., Barberton, Ohio. 



H. T. Keating, representing \V. R. Grace & Co., dealers in 

 crude rubber, New York City, has recently opened an office in 

 Akron. 



W. Armour Johnston, Jr., until recently in charge of rubber 

 manufacture at the Staten Island factory of the S. S. White 

 Dental ^Manufacturing Co., has accepted a position with the 

 Miller Rubber Co.. Akron. Ohio. 



WESTERN TRADE NOTES. 



THE accompanying illustration shows the plant of the Dry 

 Climate Tire Manufacturing Co., Arvada, Colorado, men- 

 tioned in the November, 1915, issue of The India Rubber World. 

 At a recent meeting of the directors, E. A. Austin, of Boulder, 

 was chosen president in place of C. W. Clark, resigned ; A. L. 

 Davis, of Arvada, vice-president, and W. H. Davis, of Fort 

 Lupton, secretary and assistant treasurer. John F. White, of 



Factory of Dry Clim.\te Tire Manufacturing Co. 



the First State Bank of Arvada, 

 Kreuder factory manager. 



treasurer, and William J. 



The Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin, 

 has opened a direct factory branch in Seattle, Washington, at 

 1921 Fifth avenue. F. B. Bloom, well known in the tire business 

 on the Pacific Coast, is in charge of the branch. 



B. H. Pratt, known through the Pacific Coast territory as fac- 

 tory representative for the Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, 

 Massacllu^^■tt-. iia- Imn i 1. cted vice-president and general man- 

 ager of the 1 c^kral Rulilur Manufacturing Co., Cudahy, Wis- 

 consin, whose recent acquisition by the Fisk company was noted 

 in the January issue of The India Rubber World. D. E. Bay- 



Silas H. Jenkins 

 has become the West- 

 ern manager of the 

 New York Mackin- 

 tosh Clothing Co. Mr. 

 Jenkins will make his 

 headquarters in the 

 Lytton Building, Chi- 

 cago, Illinois. Be- 

 sides directing the 

 sales force in the 

 Western territory, he 

 will personally cover 

 the Central West, 

 Southwest, Northwest 

 and Pacific Coast. 

 Mr. Jenkins is widely 

 known throughout 

 this territory and the 

 South, where he has 

 a host of friends who 

 will no doubt help to 

 make his new posi- 

 tion a ii>"ofitable one. 



Irwin Reed, formerly manager of the Los Angeles branch of 

 the Republic Rubber Co., Y'oungstown, Ohio, has been appointed 

 president of the Republic Rubber Co. of California. 



Tom Wilkenson, formerly Los Angeles manager for the 

 United States Tire Co., New York City, has been made manager 

 of the San Francisco branch, which is the Pacific Coast head- 

 quarters of the company, and also controls the Hawaiian and 

 Oriental trade. H. A. Farr, who has been with the United 

 States Tire Co. for many years, will assume managership of the 

 Los Angeles branch. 



MOLDED OR FORMED INSULATION SECTION. 



The Molded or Formed Insulations Section of the Associated 

 Manufacturers of Electrical Supplies was organized on Decem- 

 ber 8, 1915, with the following officers : E. B. Hatch, Johns- 

 Pratt Co., Hartford, Connecticut, chairman; R. W. Seabury, 

 Boonton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Boonton, New Jersey, sec- 

 retary, and Joseph Steinberger, General Insulate Co., Brooklyn, 

 Xew York, treasurer. 



Standing committees were appointed witli the following chair- 

 men : 



Molded Rubber Insulation: Philip H. Campbell, American 

 Hard Rubber Co. 



Fibre Insulation : E. M. Grant, .American Vulcanized Fibre 

 Co. 



Suspension and Third Rail Insulation : Louis Steinberger, 

 Electrose Manufacturing Co. 



High-Heat Molded Insulation: J. G. Miles, Westinghouse 

 Electric & Manufacturing Co. 



Molded Composition Insulation : C. F. Siemon, Siemon Hard 

 Rubber Co. 



Miscellaneous Insulation: H. S. May, General Bakelite Co. 



At a meeting held on January 12 at the Biltmore, the follow- 

 ing subcommittee on Molded Rubber Insulation was appointed : 

 R. W. Seabury, Boonton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Boonton, 

 New Jersey; McConnell Shank, The B. F". Goodrich Co., Akron, 

 Ohio; and C. D. Wilson, Luzerne Rubber Co., Trenton, New 

 Jersey. 



