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PERSONAL MENTION. 



An AiiK-ricaii CDntcinporary speaks thus pleasantly of the edi- 

 tor of this paper: -Henry (.'. Pearson, editor of The India 

 Rubber World, has heen elected a Fellow of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society, London, an honor to which he is fully en- 

 titled, for the many investigations he has made in rubber-pro- 

 ducing countries on four continents. Mr. Pearson well deserves 

 this distinction, though, being a modest man, it is probable that 

 he will refrain from adding F.R.G.S. to his signature." 



B. T. Morrison, formerly at the head of the Reading Rubber 

 Mills, Reading, Massachusetts, who has been quite ill, has so far 

 recovered that he has gone to his winter home in Pasadena. 

 California. 



On Tuesday, December 28, Clarence H. Low. secretary of 

 the U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Co., Inc., was married to Miss 

 Madeline Mayer at the home of the bride's parents, the 

 Hotel Blackstone, Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Low is the daughter 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Levy Mayer, a graduate of Smith College 

 (T4) and an enthusiast in outdoor sports. Her father is a 

 prominent corporation attorney. The happy couple will 

 tour California and Hawaii, after which they will make their 

 home in Westchester County, New York. 



L. K. Rittenhouse, who has been connected with the Dia- 

 mond and Goodrich rubber companies for the past ten 

 years, in charge of a number of their branch- houses, resigned 

 as manager of the St. Louis. Missouri, branch of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. on December 31. It is stated that he is re- 

 turning East. 



R. J. Evans has resigned as president and general manager 

 of the Franklin Manufacturing Co., Franklin, Pennsylvania, 

 to become vice-president of the Perfection Tire & Rubber Co.. 

 Fort Madison, Iowa. 



L. H. Taylor, formerly salesman at the Denver, Colorado, 

 branch of The B. F. Goodrich Co., has been appointed West- 

 ern manager for the Xew Jersey Car Spring & Rubber Co., 

 with headquarters at Denver. 



F. Haskell Smith, for the past four years factory superintendent 

 of the plant of the Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co., Milwau- 

 kee, Wisconsin, has severed his connections with this company. 

 He has not as yet announced his plans for the future. 



.\ntonio Parra, vice-president of the Venezuela Trading Co.. 

 Ciudad Bolivar, was in New York recently and reported that 

 1,200 men were employed by his company in gathering balata and 

 gum chicle from the Bajo Orinoco and the river Yuruari, 

 Venezuela. 



George S. Miller, formerly connected with the .American Rub- 

 ber Co., has been appointed manager of the footwear department 

 of the United States Rubber Export Co., Limited. 



Edgar B. Davis, vice-president, in charge of the General 

 Rubber Co.'s plantations in Sumatra, recently presented to 

 Colonel Samuel P. Colt an ivory tusk taken from an elephant 

 killed on one of the company's estates. The tusk has been 

 beautifully polished and bears a gold cap with tile following 

 inscription : 



Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt, Serbangan Estate, H.A. P.M., 

 1914. 



The other tusk taken from this same elephant was presented 

 to one of the native sultans of Sumatra. 



Commodore E. C. Benedict, on his yacht "Oneida," with 

 a party of friends reached Havana, Cuba, on December 17. 

 Next day the "Oneida" party, as guests of President Menocal of 

 the Cuban Republic, went on a fishing trip along the north coast. 

 Dr. Frederic Daimerth, well known to the rubber trade, is now 

 in California on a business trip. Me uill remain at the Coast 

 a month or more. 



Charles Howard Xewnian will represent Pell & Diiniont. crude 



rubber brokers; 68 Broad street, Xew York, as salesman, after 

 January 3. 



Bertram G. Work, president of The B. F. Goodrich Co., re- 

 turned from Europe December 22, 1915, on the Rotterdam. 



A. G. SPALDING Ic BROS.' NEW OFFICEHS. 



A. G. Spalding & Bros., New York, have elected Fir,st Vice- 

 President J. Walter Spalding, president, to succeed the late .\1- 

 bert G. Spalding. He is succeeded by Second Vice-President J. 

 W. Curtis. H. B. Spalding, son of the newly elected president and 

 formerly counsel to the company, and G. A. Phelps, who has for 

 years had charge of the firm's Eastern branches, have been elected 

 vice-presidents. C. S. Lincoln, formerly in charge of the com- 

 pany's Western branches, with headquarters in Chicago, is now 

 secretary, and W. T. Brown, for many years treasurer of the con- 

 cern, has been re-elected to that office. 



GROWTH OF A RUBBER MILL SUPPLY BUSINESS. 



WHEN S. J. HOGGSON started in business in New Haven, 

 Connecticut, as a die-sinker and engraver in 1849, he prob- 

 ably had no idea that his enterprise would develop into an im- 

 portant rubber mill supply business. But his work was in demand 

 by rubber goods manufacturers, and his trade grew with the rapid 

 expansion of that industry. In 1879 he formed a partnership 



with George C. Pettis, with the firm name of Hoggson & Pettis, 

 which, as it continued to expand, was incorporated in 1882 as 

 The Hoggson & Pettis Manufacturing Co. The firm has always 

 made a specialty of engraving and die-sinking for rubber manu- 

 facturers, and of the supply of such small tools as they use, and 

 the business has grown to large proportions, as the accompanying 

 illustration of the Xew Haven plant will show. 



