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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1916. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



George B. Hodgnian, president of the Hodgman Rubber Co., 

 Tuckahoe, New York, is planning a three weeks' trip to Ber- 

 muda early in March. 



George H. Pickerell, consul-general at Para, Brazil, is in the 

 United States on a three-months' leave of absence. He can be 

 seen in New York City at the United States Customs House, 

 room 409, Department of Commerce and Labor, mornings be- 

 tween 11 and 12. 



Charles B. Whittelsey, vice-president and secretary of the 

 Hartford Rubber Works Co., Hartford, Connecticut, was a 

 passenger on one of the New York, Kew Haven & Hartford 

 Railroad trains wrecked on February 22, near New Haven, 

 Connecticut, but fortunately escaped injury. 



Matthew Hawe, for many years treasurer of the Gutta Percha 

 & Rubber Manufacturing Co., New York City, has retired from 

 the company. The board of directors on February 5 elected to 

 the vacancy, George B. Dickerson, formerly vice-president of the 

 New Jersey Car Spring & Rubber Co., Jersey City, New Jersey. 



Henry L. Arbogast, chief chemist of the Portage Rubber Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept a similar position with the 

 Alliance Rubber Co., Alliance, Ohio. 



Thomas G. Richards, president of the B. & R. Rubber Co., 

 North Brookfield, Massachusetts, has been elected a member of 

 the local school board. He has previously served on the town's 

 board of selectmen. 



C. H. Williams has been made manager of the Chicago 

 branch of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, and 

 J. A. Leatherman has been appointed manager of the Portland, 

 Oregon, branch. 



N. L. Jones, of the Peerless Seamless Rubber Co., Richmond, 

 Surrey, England, was in New York early in February, buying 

 machinery. 



Charles R. Haynes has been appointed superintendent of the 

 factory of the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Co., at Nauga- 

 tuck, Connecticut. 



S. P. Woodward, formerly tire sales manager of the New 

 Jersey Car Spring & Rubber Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, has 

 been appointed vice-president and sales manager to succeed 

 C. B. Dickerson, resigned. 



F. E. Titus, branch manager of The B. F. Goodrich Co. at 

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been appointed general man- 

 ager of the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse branches of that 

 company. Mr. Titus' headquarters will be in Buffalo, where for 

 eight years he served as assistant manager of the Buffalo 

 branch, leaving here a year and a half ago to assume charge 

 of the Pittsburgh organization. The Buffalo territory com- 

 prises thirty-one counties in western New York and nine in 

 Pennsylvania, as well as the Province of Ottawa in Canada. 



Wilson C. Dold, who for the past five years has been con- 

 nected in an important capacity with the Kansas City branch 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, has been appointed 

 manager of the St. Louis, Missouri, branch. 



G. W. Pritchett has been placed in charge of the North and 

 South Carolina territory of the Morse Chain Co., Ithaca, New 

 York, with headquarters at 805 Ashboro street, Greensboro, 

 North Carolina. 



A. J. Fox has been made manager of the Toledo, Ohio, branch 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, succeeding H. W. L. 

 Kidder, who was promoted to the Cleveland district. 



On February 2 Otto Basten was elected a director of the 

 Rutherford Rubber Co., Rutherford, New Jersey. 



H. T. Richards, although with The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, less than a year, has been appointed branch manager at 

 Memphis, Tennessee. 



D. LORNE McGIBBON. 



D. Lome McGibbon, who retired last spring from the presi- 

 dency of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, Mon- 

 treal, Canada, is now interested in the formation of a syndicate 

 to exploit Canadian industries. 



Starting his career as a salesman, he had risen above the 

 salesman stage in the rubber business and was accumulating 

 a modest little fortune when lung trouble developed. Determined 

 to fight the disease before it was too late, he went to live in 

 a camp at Saranac Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains. Find- 

 ing life there dull and lonesome, he had a special wire run up 

 from Albany and began to watch the stock market. There was 

 no one around to influence him, no one to divert his attention 

 at critical moments. He played the market as his reason dic- 

 tated, and won, becoming worth several millions. Also, his 

 lungs were entirely cured in less than a year and he is now 

 in perfect health. The popular term "a good mixer" aptly de- 

 scribes Mr. McGibbon's social qualities, and he possesses count- 

 less friends. 



THE BUILDINGS OF THE LOEWENTHAL CO. 



The new warehouse building of The Loewenthal Co., dealer 

 in scrap rubber, at 23 Heyward street, Brooklyn, New York, is 

 seen in the accompanying illustration. This shows the group of 



The Buildings of the Loewenthal Co 



buildings used for the handling of material. With large facili- 

 ties and with all conveniences for work the company feels that 

 with the office now joined to the warehouse, even better service 

 will be rendered to customers than when the office was located 

 in Manhattan. 



ANNtTAL MEETING OF RACINE RUBBER CO. 



At the annual meeting of stockholders of the Racine Rubber 

 Co., Racine, Wisconsin, on January 25, the following directors 

 were elected to serve for the ensuing year : L. B. Patterson, 

 Chicago, Illinois ; J. W. Bate, H. L. McClaren, J. Weissembach, 

 L. T. Vance, Stuart Webster and H. C. Severance, all of Racine. 



A meeting of the newly elected directorate immediately fol- 

 lowed, at which H. L. McClaren was elected president and ad- 

 visory manager ; Stuart Webster vice-president, general manager 

 and treasurer, and H. C. Severance secretary and general sales 

 manager. 



The Kansas City Tire & Rubber Corporation, Kansas City, 

 Missouri, which recently acquired the property, plant and business 

 of the Chester Rubber Tire & Tube Co., Chester, West Virginia, 

 announces it w-ill continue the operation of the Chester plant in 

 conjunction with the rubber tire factory now being built and 

 equipped in Kansas Cit}', where the general offices of the corpora- 

 tion are located. W. W. Wuchter, as factory manager, will have 

 charge of all manufacturing departments and Philip Freshwater, 

 former general manager of the Chester company, becomes as- 

 sistant general manager. 



On February 15 an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was 

 filed against the American Tire Co., Saugus, Massachusetts, as- 

 signment being made for the benefit of creditors to Arthur P. 

 French. 



