THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



77 



PEESONAL MENTION. 



One of the most interesting lists of names published in the 

 New York papers in some time was that which appeared early in 

 ( )ctober showing the assessments on personal property made by 

 the Tax board. The first two names on that list, as everyone 

 might imagine, were John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. 

 The fifth name was James B, Ford, vice-president of the United 

 Slates Rubber G,. 



.■\n International 'I'rade Conference will lie held under the aus- 

 pices of the Foreign Trade Department of the National Associa- 

 tion of Manufacturers, December 6 to 8, at the Hotel Astor, 

 New York City. On the general committee of arrangements are 

 -M. A. Oudin, manager of the foreign department of the General 

 I'.lectric Co. ; Edwin C. Shaw, vice-president of The B. F. (Good- 

 rich Co., and George E. Long, vice-president of the Joseph Di.xon 

 Crucible Co.. Jersey City. 



.\\ the annual meeting of Wright & Ditson, dealers in athletic 

 Koods, Boston, recently held, W. H. Cook was elected to the posi- 

 tion of secretary in place of Temple F. Craige, deceased. 



T. Frank Manville. of H. \V. Johns-Manville Co., has been 

 elected president of tlie Wright Aeroplane Co.. recently organized 

 with $1,000,000 capital to take over and develop the aeroplane 

 patents purchased from Orville Wright. 



Chester J. Pike, for many years connected with the sales depart- 

 ment of the United States Rubber Co.. and more recently inter- 

 ested in advertising — especially in the preparation and placing of 

 advertising relating to rubber footwear — was elected director of 

 tlie Advertising .^gents' .Association at their annual meeting held 

 recently in Boston. 



Mr. J. B. Linerd, who joined tlie Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. 

 two years ago, having charge of their New York office, has 

 now been appointed the company's general sales manager. 



John H. Kelly, vice-president, and Frank V. Springer, manager 

 of the export department of the Republic Rubber Co.. returned 

 recently from a month's visit to Europe in the interest of the 

 company's foreign trade, which has been especially active in truck 

 tires. This was Mr. Springer's third tri]i to Europe durint; tin- 

 present year. 



Morton L. Paterson. who has been continuously connected witli 

 tlie footwear business since 1887 — largely in the rubber shoe 

 specialty — has recently assumed management of the Converse 

 Kuliber Shoe Co.'s business at Chicago. 



Charles R. Sargent, formerh- manager of the Cleveland 

 liranch of Innis. Speiden & Co.. importers and commission 

 merchants in chemicals and colors, Chicago, has been put 

 in charge of the company's Chicago branch. He will still 

 retain general supervision of the Cleveland office. 



Joseph T. Mahon. of the Henderson Rubber Co., Baltimore, 

 recently visited New York City and northern New Jersey 

 in the interests of his company. He reports an active inquiry 

 for "Rub-Hide." an ingredient manufactured by the Hender- 

 son company for the ])urpose of strengthening and preservinj.; 

 rubber. 



William E. Barker, manager of sales of the United States 

 Kubber Co., who sailed for Europe late in September on im- 

 I'ortant business in England and France, embarked for home 

 on October 22 and is expected to arrive in New N'ork about the 

 I'lrst of November. 



E. H. Sprague, for many years president of the Omalia Rubber 

 Co., Omaha. Nebraska, has resigned from that position and Will- 

 iam McAdam, formerly manager of the Interstate Rubber Co.. 

 has been elected to succeed him. J. L. Eastman, for many years 

 a salesman for the Interstate Kuhber Co., has been elected man- 

 ager to succeed Mr. Mc.^dam. 



E. W. Rutherford, lately su|)erintendent of the W'ales-Goodyear 

 rubber shoe factory at Naugatuck, Connecticut, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant to (General Footwear Factory Manager Myron 

 H. Clark, of the United States Rubber Co., and Charles R. 



Haynes has succeeded Mr. Rutherford as superintendent of tlie 

 Wales-Goodyear mill. 



The annual meeting of the Western .Association of Shoe 

 Wholesalers, held in Chicago late in September, was attended 

 by George H. Mayo, merchandise manager of branch stores of 

 the United States Rubber Co.. and also by Charles .\. Coc, the 

 Eastern selling agent of the same company. 



ME. WADLEIOH SAILS FOE SINGAPORE AGAIN. 



The issue of The Indi.\ Rubbkr World for January, 1914, con- 

 tained a brief account of the activities of W. L. Wadleigh, of 

 Boston, in the importation of crude rubber and its distribution 

 to the manufacturers of that city and vicinity. .After being en- 

 gaged for a number of years in the distribution of various grades 

 of rubber from Mexico, be determined to inake a visit to Singa- 

 pore with a view to forming associations there for the distribu- 

 tion of plantation rubber in this country; and in carrying out 

 this project he sailed for Singapore in January of last year, re- 

 maining in the East for a number of months, and establishing 

 the Wadleigh Co., Limited, of Singapore. 



After a year or more in the United States he has sailed again 

 for Singapore, embarking on October 24 on the steamship "Fin- 

 land," via London and Marseilles, where be will transfer to a 

 P. & O. steamer for the East. He plans to return to this country 

 next May. Before sailing he announced that The Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co. had arranged with the Wadleigh Co., Lim- 

 ited, of Singapore, to purchase crude rubber for The Goodyear 

 Company in the Far East. The Wadleigh Company will also 

 act as special selling agent for the Goodyear products throughout 

 the Straits Settlements and the Malav Peninsula. 



EDISON AND THE ELECTRIC INCANDESCENT 

 LAMP. 



pDISON DA^•. October 21. commemorated tlie thirty-sixth 

 '—' anniversary of the invention of the electric incandescent lamp 

 and was celebrated in honor of its inventor, Thomas A. Edison. 

 On December 21, 1879, just two months to a day after Mr. Edison 

 lirst successfully made a carbon lilament glow in a glass bnlb 

 from which the air had been exhausted, the news of the great 

 invention was given to 

 the world. 



This was before Edi- 

 son had successfully de- 

 termined and chosen 

 carbonized bamboo, the 

 only substance used for 

 about ten years, in 

 making filaments for 

 commercial lamps, 

 which was followed by 

 the "squirted" filament 

 employing carbonized 

 cellulose in one form or 

 another. Next the niet- 

 alized carbon filament [_ 

 was used, then the 

 liressed tungsten fila- 

 ment, and finally the special form of drawn tungsten wire used 

 in modern Edison Mazda lamps. 



How much the rubber industry owes to Thomas A. Edison 

 becomes instantly evident when we consider how extensively 

 rubber is used in the electrical industry. It enters into almost 

 innumerable forms of insulation for electric wiring, switchboards 

 and general apparatus. As a matter of fact, without rubber it 

 would be impossible to construct the many types of existing elec- 

 trical apparatus, the many forms of transmission and control of 

 electrical energy that are now in practical operation. 



Edison — 36 Ve.xrs .\t;o. 



