THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[DlXKMBKR 1, 1915. 



PRESIDENT J. NEWTON GUNN. 



/^OLON'EL SAMUEL P. COLT has always possessed the rare 

 ^ faculty of selecting lieutenants specially fitted to assist him 

 ill the administration of the great corporation of which he is the 

 head. Now, to the able trio, Messrs. Sawyer, Williams and 

 Price, all "right hand men." he has added as a fourth the well- 

 known production engineer. J. Newton Gunn. 



Mr. Gunn was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1867. His boyhood 

 and youth were .spent in that charming middle western city, and 

 the beginnin.gs of his education were in its excellent public schools 



.•\fter graduation there, he took special 



courses in the sciences, mathematics and 

 languages, under private tutors. His first 

 essay at business was with the Library 

 Bureau of Boston, where he developed the 

 uiie of commercial card inde.xes and invent- 

 ed the tab system. 



.^s lecturer on industrial organization at 

 Harvard College he was the first to define 

 the field of industrial and production en- 

 gineering. Indeed, he was the creator not 

 only of the name "production engineer," but 

 of the profession itself. 



In 1901 Mr. Gunn organized the firm of 

 Gunn & Richards, production engineers and 

 certified public accountants, which after- 

 wards became a corporation, and as its 

 president was brought in contact with many 

 of the great industrial organizations of the 

 United States and Canada. In 1895 he was 

 so impressed with certain organization fea- 

 tures abroad that he spent 12 months on the 

 continent studying industrial conditions. On 

 his return to the United States, his services 

 were at once in demand. He surrounded himself with able as- 

 sistants, capable of handling the ordinary problems of accounting 

 and efficiency, but in later years arranged his own work so that 

 he could devote his entire time to one corporation. To do this 

 he sometimes stood in the background and planned, and at other 

 times took over the management in person and staid with it until 

 the business was placed upon a sound, systematic, producing 

 basis. Such a case as this was his administration of the aflfairs 

 of the great Studebaker Corporation. After the amalgamation 

 of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Co. and the Everitt- 

 Metzger-Flanders Co., he became general manager for two 

 years, and systematized the great business on an efficiency basis. 



The fact that Mr. Gunn had so brilliantly proved the value, or 

 rather the necessity, for the production engineer in modern in- 

 dustry, brought him first to the attention of the officials of the 

 United States Rubber Co. Negotiations, begun early last sum- 

 mer, finally resulted in the election of Mr. Gunn to the presi- 

 dency of the United States Tire Co., and also to the office of 

 assistant to the president of the United States Rubber Co. 



For both of these positions Mr. Gunn is singularly fitted. A 

 tireless worker, he never shows signs of hurry, worry or irri- 

 tation. His desk is always clear, and most of his work is "done 

 the day before." 



In spite of his busy life, Mr. Gunn has time for club and social 

 affiliations. For years he was one of the directors of the Lotos 

 Club, New York ; he is a fellow of the American Association 

 of Public Accountants, a member of innumerable clubs, such as 

 the Engineers, Midday (New York), etc. His home in the winter 

 is in New York, and in the summer at his country seat, Braemore, 

 Litchfield, Connecticut. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Van II. Cartmcll, president of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., 

 returned on November 8 from an extended tour of the Pacific 

 Coast, in the course of which he visited the E.xposition and also 

 every prominent agent of his company from San Diego to Van- 

 couver. 



J. T. Rose, formerly vice-president of the Atlanta Steel Co., 

 .Atlanta, Georgia, has recently been elected president of the 

 Midgley Tire & Rubber Co., Lancaster, Ohio. 



W. V. Logan has joined the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East 

 Palestine. Ohio, as assistant sales manager. Mr. Logan has been 

 identified for many years with the tire 

 business, and recently returned from a 

 tri|) to Russia on behalf of one of the large 

 tire companies. 



H. D. Palmer has been appointed New 

 NDrk State representative of the Knight 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Canton, Ohio, succeed- 

 ing E. J. Conifif, who has resigned. 



M. S, .Azulay, formerly a salesman for 

 the Derby Rubber Co., Derby, Connecticut, 

 and more recently manager of the Nearjiara 

 Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, has 

 been engaged by the Akron Tire Co., Inc., 

 New York, to represent them in the South- 

 ern States. 



E. S. Williams, president of the United 

 States Tire Co., has resigned and will de- 

 vote his exclusive attention to the mechan- 

 ical rubber business of the United States 

 kuhber Co. J. Newton Gunn, assistant to 

 C<.loiK-l Samuel P. Colt, president of the 

 UnitLMl States Rubber Co., has been made 

 licail iif tlie tire company. 



Frank Waldo, of the firm of E. M. & F. 



nded business trip through the Middle West 



Mr. Waldo is chairman of the membership 



Paint, Oil & Varnish .^ssociation, 



well as 



J. Newton Gunn 



Waldo, is on an e> 

 and Pacific Coast, 

 committee of the Nationa 



and while at the Coast he worked for that committee, 

 attending to business matters for his firm, and also visited the San 

 Francisco and San Diego expositions. He is now returning by 

 way of Tacoma, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and Chicago, and 

 expects to arrive in New York about Christmas-time. 



Raymond G. Wells, who formerly specialized as an expert on 

 electrical installation for the rubber trade for the Westinghouse 

 Electric Co., has resigned his position and accepted one with the 

 Alexander Hamilton Institute of New York. Mr, Wells' present 

 effort is in the line of securing students for the reading course on 

 business, which is now being used by ambitious young rubber men. 



The retirement is announced of W. C. Hendrie, as manager of 

 the W. C. Hendrie Rubber Co., Torrance, California. R. Ahrens 

 is his successor. The retirement of W. F. Hackett, the company's 

 .superintendent, who is succeeded by E. W. Snyder, is also 

 announced. 



G. B. Witliers, a pioneer planter of Hcvca in Britisli Guiana, 

 who is located at "The Hills" Estate, Bartica, some forty miles 

 up the Essequibo River, was a recent visitor to New York. 



Charles A. Besam, formerly of the Knight Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Canton, Ohio, has recently acquired control of the 

 Quality Rubber Co., Hartsville, Ohio. 



Charles R. Keiser, formerly connected with The B. F. Good- 

 rich, McGraw Tire & Rubber, and Gordon Rubber companies, 

 has accepted the position of factory superintendent of the Double 

 Fabric Tire & Rubber Co., at Auburn, Indiana. 



NEW TIRE LINER. 



From Cleveland, Ohio, comes another addition to the in- 

 numerable inventions for prolonging the life of pneumatic tires. 

 The new tire life-saver consists of a heavy rubber inner tire or 

 liner encasing three resilient spring steel ribbons that protect 

 the tread and. side walls of the casing. The extra thickness 

 of this liner tire is overcome by using smaller inner tubes and 

 inflating at less than normal pressure. [National Pneumatic 

 Safety Inner Tube Co.. Cleveland, Ohio.] 



