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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



PERSONAL MEKTION. 



William S. Gordon, general representative of the General Rub- 

 ber Co., New York City, returned last April from the Far East, 

 and after a short visit to the home office, sailed on the 26th of 

 that month for Manaos, Brazil, where he will relieve D. S. W. 

 Aimers, the general representative there. The latter will leave 

 for England on Mr. Gordon's arrival to join a British regiment 

 and proceed to the front. 



William A. Eden, secretary of the Canadian Consolidated 

 Rubber Co., Limited, Montreal, married on April 20 Miss 

 Mabel Spencer Henderson of that city. His friends and 

 office associates presented to him a purse of gold on this occa- 

 sion. The wedding trip was to southern cities. 



R. C. Ritchier has been transferred to the main office of the 

 Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, Penn- 

 sylvania. He was formerly in charge of the office of the auto- 

 mobile equipment sales service station of this company at Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



STEDMAN IN NEW YORK. 



Henry G. White, formerly with the Panhard Oil Co., is now 

 representing the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., covering the territory 

 of New Hampshire and Vermont, with headquarters at the Bos- 

 ton, Massachusetts, branch, 735 Boylston street. 



Russell Ward Earle, whose retirement from the firm of Earle 

 Brothers, crude rubber dealers, was mentioned in the April issue 

 of The India Rubber World, was married May 9, the bride 

 being Evelyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Beavers, of 

 New York City. The marriage ceremony was at the Church of 

 the Heavenly Rest, and the wedding reception at the Ritz-Carlton 

 Hotel, New York City. 



Theodore Hofeller, president of Theodore Hofeller & Co., 

 Buffalo, New York, has recently returned from California, where 

 he and Mrs. Hofeller have spent over three months. 



Warren MacPherson, proprietor of the Cambridge Rubber Co., 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, had a curious experience on the Fall 

 River Line boat between Fall River and New York one day last 

 month, having been attacked by a negro who broke into his 

 state-room. Mr. JMacPherson was obliged to pass several days 

 at the Stillman Inlirmary, Cambridge, nursing cuts and bruises 

 received from the negro's blackjack. It is thought that no very 

 serious results will follow. 



Arthur C. Kingston has been appointed general sales manager 

 of the Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co., New York City. 

 Mr. Kingston was formerly connected with the Revere Rubber 

 Co. for 23 years, the greater portion of that time in the sales 

 department, at Boston, Chicago, and the home office. Chelsea, 

 Massachusetts. 



The Barrett Co., New York City, is notifying its customers 

 that owing to the greatly increased cost of drums, charges on 

 100 to 110 gallon drums have been advanced to $15 each and 

 on 50 to 55 gallon drums to $8 each, and calls attention to the 

 necessity that the drums be emptied and returned promptly. 



Harrison Bros. & Co., Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

 manufacturers of chemicals, acids and pigments, have re- 

 moved their New York office to 80 Maiden Lane, to better 

 serve the chemical trade. 



In a recent decision upholding the decision of the commis- 

 sioner of patents refusing registration to the word "Ford" as 

 a trade-mark for rubber tires, the District of Columbia Court 

 of Appeals held that a word which forms a part of a corporate 

 name, even though written or printed in a peculiar and distinc- 

 tive manner, is unregistrable as a trade-mark. 



ALTHOUGH l>y birth, training and residence a Boston man, 

 after the tirst of the present month, Arthur VV. Stedman be- 

 comes a New Yorker. As manager of the crude rubber depart- 

 ment of the Hagemeyer Trading Co., he will be found at 17 Bat- 

 tery place. For a ridit-hnnd m.in he has selected Lewis C. Duffy, 

 who was with him 

 for 14 years, a part 

 of the time at the 

 Manaos branch. 

 The whole trade 

 know Mr. Stedman, 

 as he has been an 

 active factor in rub- 

 ber for more than 

 25 years. At vari- 

 ous times he has 

 visited South Amer- 

 ica and Europe and 

 lias thus gained 

 knowledge, friends, 

 and established con- 

 nections that are of 

 !jreat value. It will 

 lie recalled that at 

 the great rubber ex- 

 inn in New 

 \ork Mr. Stedman 

 not only handled 

 the crude rubber 

 from Brazil, for 

 which he was made 

 an honorary member of the Commercial Association of Manaos, 

 but he also took over all the plantation rubber that was sent in 

 by the British Rubber Growers' Association and by many Far 

 Eastern planters. His wise and businesslike handling of this 

 brought him in intimate touch with the most important planta- 

 tion interests, a connection that he has since kept up. 



The Boston business Mr. Stedman has sold to the Rubber 

 Importers' Selling Co., which will continue it at his aforetime 

 offices on Atlantic avenue. 



Stedm.' 



BATAVIA KUBBER CO. 



At the annual meeting of the Batavia Rubber Co., Batavia, 

 New York, May 9, the following directors were elected : George 

 W. Hodges, William H. Remick, W. P. Berrien, C. M. Marvin 

 and S. J. Bailey. The directors then elected the following offi- 

 cers: George W. Hodges, chairman of the board; W. P. Berrien, 

 vice-president; C. M. Marvin, treasurer; S. J. Bailey, secretary; 

 William S. Whitman, assistant treasurer. 



Plans are under way for the erection of a new office building, 

 the present office space of the Batavia company being needed 

 for factory purposes owing to increased business. 



The Lancaster Tire & Rubber Co.. Lancaster, Ohio, is adding 

 additional tire building equipment and will manufacture an im- 

 pression tread tire as well as its present "Wiregrip' tire. 



HALIFAX RUBBER CO. TAKES OVER PREKZEL COMPANY. 



The Halifax Rubber Co., Halifax, Pennsylvania, has taken over 

 the business of the A. H. Prenzel Rubber Co.. of Halifax, with 

 the intention of continuing the manufacture of surgeons' gloves 

 and finger cots carried on by the latter company, and possibly 

 branching out in other lines later on. The personnel of the Hali- 

 fax Rubber Co. is as follows: John H. Klingman (president 

 Halifax Chair Seat Co.. Millersburg, Pennsylvania), president: 

 A. M. Smith (Grain & Coal merchant, Halifax, Pennsylvania, 

 and vice-president Halifax National Bank), vice-president; P. S 

 Hill (cashier Halifax National Bank), secretary and treasurer: 

 James E. Neitz, manager. A. G. Bashoar, president Alvord 

 Reamer Works, Millersburg, Pennsylvania, and controlling fac- 

 tor in the Millersburg Fifth Wheel Co.. is also interested. 



