THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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1916. 



MR. SCHLOSSER VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NA- 

 TIONAL INDIA RUBBER CO. 



AT a n-.cetiiig of the directors of the Xational India Rubber 

 Co., Bristol, Rhode Island, last month, Gcorj-e Schlosser 

 was elected vice-president, to till the vacancy caused l)y the death 

 of Le Baron C. Colt. 



Mr. Schlosser has been connected with the rubber industry 

 more than a third 

 of a century. He 

 entered t h e em- 

 Iiloy of the New 

 Jersey Rubber Co. 

 as office boy in 

 18 8 2. Advanced 

 from one position 

 to another, he was 

 assistant superin- 

 tendent in 1895, 

 when he was made 

 superintendent of 

 the Xational India 

 Rubber Co. Six 

 \ ears later he w'as 

 chosen superin- 

 tendent of the Alice 

 Mill of the Woon- 

 socket Rubber Co., 

 and still later he 

 was made general 

 superintendent of 

 the Woonsocket 

 Rubber Co. mills 

 at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and Millville, Massachusetts; 

 the L. Candee & Co. plant at New Haven, Connecticut, and the 

 Lawrence Felting Co. at Millville, Massachusetts. 



Mr. Schlosser has had a wide experience in the manufacture, 

 not only of rubber footwear, but also of mechanical rubber 

 goods, and is eminently fitted for the still broader responsi- 

 bilities which are likely to be added through his recent election. 



Schlosser. 



ARTHUR F. TOWNSEND VOLUNTEERS. 



.'\rthur F. Townsend, president of the Manhattan Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., has been appointed assistant to Colonel Stern- 

 berger. Chief of the Quartermaster's Corps, N. G. N. Y., with the 

 rank of lieutenant-colonel. Colonel Townsend resigned from the 

 position of Chief Quartermaster last January and was placed on 

 the reserve list. His long and varied experience in the National 

 Guard made his services invaluable to the state and he promptly 

 responded to the call. 



THE GUNN RUBBER INTERESTS. 



The Gunn Rubber Co., whose incorporation is noted elsewhere 

 in this issue, is located at 61 East Main street. New Britain, 

 Connecticut. The officers are as follows : A. P. Gunn, presi- 

 dent and treasurer ; Edward F. Gunn, vice-president ; Albert E. 

 Kilby, secretary. 



The president, A. P. Gunn, was also interested in the Todd 

 Rubber Co., of Waterbury, New London, and Pittsfield, Massa- 

 ■chusetts, and also the E. J. Todd Rubber Co., Hartford, Con- 

 necticut, but has relinquished his holdings in the various com- 

 panies with the exception of the E. J. Todd Rubber Co., at 

 Hartford, of which he has purchased the entire stock. The new 

 officers of this latter concern are as follows : A. P. Gunn, presi- 

 dent and treasurer ; M. E. Gunn, vice-president ; Edward F. 

 Gunn, secretary. Edward F. Gunn formerly held a one-quarter 

 interest in the Todd Rubber Co., of Pittsfield, and was secretary 

 of that company up to -August 31, 1915. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



.Vrthur \V. Stedman, whose recent association with the Hage- 

 mcyer Trading Co., New York City, as manager of its crude 

 rubber department, w-as mentioned in The Indi.\ Rubber World 

 last month, sailed for Europe on the "Finland," on June 14. He 

 expects to be away about six or eight weeks. 



C. Berlage, rubber and tobacco broker of Amsterdam, Holland, 

 has opened offices at Medan, on the East Coast of Sumatra, and 

 at Soerabaya, Java. With a view of extending his brokerage 

 br:siness and purchasing for .■\merican houses, he has arranged 

 with the Hammesfahr Co., 68 Broad street. New York City, to 

 represent him in this country. 



W. J. Proctor, general manager of the Dunlop Rubber Co. of 

 Australasia, Limited, Melbourne, Australia, was in this country 

 last month and called on the machinery and supply houses and 

 also visited several tire plants. 



W. L. Wadleigh, for many years prominent in the rubber 

 trade in Boston, Massachusetts, and now the head of Wadleigh 

 Co., Limited, Singapore, Straits Settlements, returned from that 

 city early in June, after an absence of nearly seven months, 

 during which he accomplished a most satisfactory amount of 

 business. One of the first things he did upon his return to this 

 country was to go trout fishing in New Hampshire. 



H. J. Morehead has been promoted to managership of the 

 -Xevv York City branch of The B. F. Goodrich Co., .\kron, Ohio. 

 Mr. Morehead has been manager of the Detroit, Michigan, 

 branch since 1908. Paul T. Opper, formerly assistant manager 

 of the Detroit branch, succeeds Mr. Morehead as manager. 



The Denver depot of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, at 

 1422-1424 Court place, Denver, Colorado, is now in charge of 

 C. A. Cotter, formerly chief adjuster at the St. Louis, Missouri, 

 branch. H. E. White, whom Mr. Cotter succeeds as manager, has 

 been transferred to a factory position. J. K. Laird, formerly 

 Kansas City adjuster, is the new assistant to the local manager 

 of the Denver depot, and C. L. Harding is new chief clerk. 



I. L. Miller, secretary and manager of the foreign depart- 

 ment of the Faultless Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio, has recently 

 returned from a fishing trip in Michigan. 



Collier W. Baird, assistant treasurer. Rubber Trading Co., 

 9-15 Murray street, New York City, is a member of Essex 

 Troop. N. J. N. G., that was ordered to the Mexican border 

 June 26. 



M. F. Hall has been placed in charge of the Louisville, Ken- 

 tucky, depot of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, relieving 

 W. H. Sheehy, who will be assigned to other duties. 



Wilmer Dunbar will sever his connection with the Greensburg 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Greensburgh, Pennsylvania, July 1. 



E. E. Fay, sales manager of the Boston Woven Hose & 

 Rubber Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts, is at present on a six 

 weeks' trip to the Pacific Coast, visiting the Company's branch 

 offices and distributers in the principal western centers. 



M. H. Whipple, formerly branch manager of the Fisk Rubber 

 Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, at Fresno, California, is now 

 manager of the San Francisco branch, succeeding E. N. Merguire. 

 R. W. Carter, in charge of the Sacramento branch, goes to Fresno 

 and C. H. Francee assumes charge in Sacramento. 



Rubber bands have been put to a new use by the proprietor of 

 a barber shop in a western city, who suspends Japanese fani 

 from the ceiling, over his chairs, by rubber bands. The fans are 

 all kept constantly in motion by the draft from one electric fan 

 at the end of the room. The rubber band gives sufficiently to 

 enable the barber, when he has finished a shave, to use the sus- 

 pended fan to dry the customer's face. 



