OlTdHtR 1, 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



27 



JESSE E. LA DOW. 



WIIEK the Executive Committee of the Ruhber Chib of 

 America, Inc., at its last meeting, held September 16. 

 ek-ciid Mr. Jesse E. La Dow of the Manstieki Tire & Ruliber Co. 

 as a member of the Legislative Committee of the ch:b it did not 

 make the selection at random. Mr. La Dow was chosen for that 

 pi.siti. 11 ' vcarso, uliiU- a rii1il:cr nianiif:ictnrt-r, he is also a lawyer 

 of extended prac- 

 tice and experience 

 and because, fur- 

 ihermore, he has de- 

 voted a great deal 

 of time to the study 

 uf the tariff and 

 iitlier Iegislati\e 

 matters so far as 

 li'.ey afTect the rul- 

 er industry. 

 Mr. La Dow is 

 iMiical of the West 

 111 this regard at 

 kast— he is full of 

 mthusiasm and en- 

 < rgy and believes 

 Uiat if a thing ought 

 to be done it can 

 be done. He was 

 liorn in Ohio, his 

 ancestors bcin.u 

 among the early pi- 

 oneers to that State, 

 leaving the efifetc 

 civilization of New York State a luuidred years or so ago for 

 those remote western wilds. He attended the public schools of 

 Ohio, and when he graduated from the Ohio Northern Univer- 

 sity in 1}'84 he first took a plunge into business, but after a year 

 decided that the law was the more attractive and took up thai 

 study, with the result that three years later he was admitted t" 

 the Supreme Court of that Stale. He practiced law in Mansfield 

 many years but always found the appeal of business very strong : 

 so much so that in 1912, when the old Mansfield Rubber Co 

 had fallen into bankruptcy, lie bought it in and held it in trust 

 until the present Mansfield Tire & Rubber Co. could be organized 

 by himself and associates. He was chosen counsel and secre- 

 lar\ iif the new company and bis efforts, together with those of 

 the general manager. G. W. Henne. have been largely responsible 

 fur the company's present success. 



In the early part of the present year Mr. La Dow^ and his as- 

 sociates organized the Columbia Tire & Rubber Co. of Columlii- 

 ana. Ohio, for which he also acts as secretary and counsel. 



Mr. La Dow has exceptional aptitude for organization and he 

 is very enthusiastic in regard to the possibility of the organized 

 cooperation of all the rubber manufacturers and their workmen 

 in the way of legislative benefits for the industry. He believes — 

 and his own success in that direction gives him ainple ground 

 to stanrl on — that employers and employees should work together 

 for the common good and that in this connection the employer 

 should take the trouble to inform the employee in regard tu 

 legislative enactments proposed, pointing out to the workmen 

 whether they are beneficial or detrimental; and he believes the 

 same course should be pursued in relation to candidates for of- 

 fice, state or national— that their record and their promises should 

 be placed before the men in the factory so that they can vote 

 intelligently as regards their own interests. 



Mr. La Dow is thoroughly optimistic as to what can be ac- 

 complished through legislative activity for the good of the rub- 

 ber trade if the 400 members and over of the Rubber Club, rep- 

 resenting some 20 different states, will act together. 



JOSEPH M. GILBERT WITH THE GIBNEY COMPANY. 



At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Gibney 

 Tire & Rubber Co. held in I'hiladelphia, Septeiuber 7, Joseph 

 M. Gilbert was elected vice-president and director of sales. 



Mr. Gilbert is one of the best known men connected with 

 the tire trade, having been prominently associated with this 

 liranch of the rubber industry most of the time since 1900. 

 Fourteen years ago he was sales manager of the Firestone 

 Tire & Rubber Co. Later he went to the Continental Caout- 

 chouc Co., of which he became general manager; and when 

 in March, 1911. the Continental company was merged with 

 Morgan & Wright, the G. & J. Tire Co. and the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co. into a new corporation — the L'nited States 

 Tire Co. — Mr. Gilbert, was made general manager of the new 

 company. It was said at the time that he was considerably 

 instrumental in bringing about this consolidation of interests 

 and later in supplanting the four individual brands made by 

 these four companies with the Lnited States Rubber Co.'s 

 brand. 



In April. 1913. Mr. Gilbert resigned his position with the 

 United States Tire Co. to become president and general man- 

 ager of the Lozier Motor Co.. of Detroit. His acceptance of 

 the new position with the Gibney company indicates that Mr. 

 Gilbert intends once more to devote his energy, experience 

 and ability, which are of an exceptional order, to the tire 

 industry. 



MR, DltBOSr IN THZ UNITED STATES. 



The author of the excellent article ^n rubber substitutes 

 which appeared in the September number of The India Rub- 

 ber World, A. Dubosc. editor of "Le Caoutchouc & la Gutta 

 Percha," is at present in the United States; indeed he is at the 

 center of the rubber interest here — in Akron. Ohio. 



EUBBER CHEMIST DISAPPEARS. 



Dr. Herbert Lindener, chief chemist of the Braender Rubber 

 & Tire Co., Wallington, New Jersey, disappeared early in Sep- 

 teiuber; and though a diligent search has been made for him 

 by his friends and by the police, no trace has yet been dis- 

 covered of his whereabouts. As he was in the habit of carry- 

 ing a considerable sum of money on his person it is believed by 

 the authorities that he has met with foul play. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



A. D. Weber, for some years in charge of the footwear pro- 

 duction and sales at the head office of the Dominion Rubber Sys- 

 tem in Montreal, has been appointed general manager of the 

 Canadian Consolidated Felt Company, Limited. 



On the first of September Boris Bieley of New York was ap- 

 pointed American representative and agent of the lirm of Leonard 

 Morris, Manchester, England. Mr. Bieley has opened an office 

 at 59 Pearl street, New York. 



F. I. Reynolds, formerly tire sales manager of The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co., has been chosen as manager of the automobile tire de- 

 partment of the United States Tire Co., which is increasing its 

 executive personnel to handle the rapid growth of business. 



George H. Carnahan has been elected president of the Con- 

 tinental Rubber Co. of New York in place of Edward B. Aldrich, 

 who recently resigned. 



W. E. Hardy, for the past eleven years connected with the 

 Diamond Rubber Co., and The B. F. Goodrich Co., and lately in 

 charge of the sales of their mechanical rubber goods division, has 

 been appointed sales manager of the Boston Belting Co., Boston. 



Andrew Wightman, formerly of The Staunton Dielectrite Rub- 

 ber Co., Muskegon, Michigan, which is now the Vulcanized 

 Products Co., has resigned his position as superintendent of the 

 Vail Rubber Co., Chicago, and will make his home at San Diego, 

 California. 



