THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1916. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Samuel Norris, secretary of the United States Rubber Co., 

 recently underwent an operation, from which attending phys- 

 icians state recovery is a practically assured fact. 



Edgar B. Davis, in charge of the Sumatra plantations of the 

 United States Rubber Co., and H. Stuart Ilotchkiss, vice-presi- 

 dent of the General Rubber Co., recently left New York for the 

 Sumatra district on a tour of inspection of the properties which, 

 it is estimated, will consume about six weeks. They expect to 

 return to New York early in November. 



Arthur VV. Stedman, manager of the crude rubber department 

 of the Hagemeyer Trading Co., New York City, returned from 

 an important and successful trip to England on July 20. 



Grant Lambright, formerly superintendent of the Bucyrus 

 Rubber Co., has recently assumed the management of the Marion 

 Rubber Co. He is succeeded by John Field, formerly assistant 

 superintendent of the Bucyrus plant. 



D. P. Harris, head of the Harwaco Rubber Works, New 

 York City, and of the D. P. Harris Hardware Co., returned 

 from a trip to the Pacific Coast recently, and superintended 

 the removal of these two concerns to their new building, 

 corner of Church and Chambers streets. 



William H. Wellington, of the coitimission house of Wel- 

 lington, Sears & Co., has been elected a director of the 

 Hamilton Woolen Co., to fill the vacancy cai'sed by the 

 death of Charles B. Gookin. 



Maurice Horowich, of the Double Tread Tire Co., Binghamton, 

 New York, has secured the agency of the Northland Rubber 

 Co., of Buffalo, and will distribute Northland tires in Bingham- 

 ton and vicinity. 



B. C. Swinehart, for three and a half years manager of the 

 Philadelphia branch of the Republic Rubber Co., has been called 

 to the factory at Youngstown, 0hio, where he will have charge 

 of the solid tire department. He is succeeded by H. S. Worth- 

 ington, who has been connected with the Philadelphia branch for 

 the past five years as assistant manager. 



R. W. Pharis recently resigned as director and manager of 

 the Columbus branch of the Pharis Tire and Rubber Co., New- 

 ark, Ohio, to assume the management of the International Tire 

 Co., a distributing concern handling factory seconds, located at 

 187 Gay street, Columbus, Ohio. 



E. P. Logan, formerly district manager of the St. Louis branch 

 of the Federal Rubber Co.^ has recently assumed charge of the 

 central district, with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. 



Edward C. Strayer, who has been the office credit man for the 

 McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, for the past 

 two years, left for St. Louis, Missouri, during the past month, 

 to take charge of the McGraw office there. 



Fred H. Ayers, formerly New England district manager and 

 for 13 years connected with the Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, 

 Massachusetts, has been appointed supervisor of districts, with 

 charge of the entire outside organization of the company. 



A. J. Pennington, formerly with the Dryden Rubber Co.. 

 Chicago, has been appointed genera'i superintendent of the tire, 

 tube and automobile accessories plant of the Brunswick-Balke- 

 Collender Co., at Muskegon, Michigan. 



J. L. Wacksmuth has been appointed local manager of the 

 Washington depot of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. 



B. F. Hochschild has resigned the office of treasurer and 

 general manager of the Gordon Tire & Rubber Co., Canton, 

 Ohio, and will announce later his new connection. 



G. J. Bates, for the past ten years prominently identified 

 with the tire business, has relinquished a prominent position 

 with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. to accept the newly- 

 created office of commercial manager of the King Motor Car 

 Co., Detroit, Michigan. 



G. F. Farasey, formerly with the Boston and Cleveland 

 branches of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., has been made 

 office manager of the local branch at St. Louis, Missouri. 



I. B. Rohrer has been appointed general manager of the 

 Fisk Rubber Co. branch at Council Bluffs, Iowa. 



H. B. McMaster, general manager of branches of the 

 Berger Manufacturing Co., Canton, Ohio, has resigned to 

 become vice-president and general manager of the Gordon 

 Tire & Rubber Co., of the same city. 



PREPAHEDNESS PARADE AT MILWAUKEE. 



Preparedness parades are in order all over the country, and 

 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July IS, the rubber trade was well 

 represented in an enthusiastic gathering undaunted by the rainy 

 weather. The Federal Rubber Co. representatives numbered 

 583, and each man and girl wore a white felt hat with a ribbon 

 band on which the words, "Federal Rubber Co." were printed. 

 The Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co., whose devices are so- 

 largely used in rubber factories, had 1,074 representatives in the 

 parade. The following companies having branch stores m Mil- 

 waukee were also represented : Fisk Rubber Co., United States 

 Rubber Lo., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. The Wisconsin State 

 Rubber Co. also had a file of representatives in the parade. 



THE GERMAN SUBMARINE AND THE BRITISH 

 BLACKLIST. 



AN event of interest in the rubber trade, last month, was the 

 arrival at Baltimore of the German submarine "Deutsch- 

 land," and the taking on of a cargo to carry back to Germany. 

 Great secrecy was maintained as to the character of this cargo, 

 but that it comprises, in part, approximately 150 tons of Upriver 

 fine rubber is a practical certainty. 



It is considered quite probable that in the sale and shipment 

 of this rubber some American rubber brokers and dealers were 

 concerned. Soon after the arrival of the "Deutschland," and the 



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Loading Rubber on the "Deutschland" .\t Baltimore. 



reports of its intention to carry to Germany contraband materials, 

 came the announcenu-nt by the British Government that over 80 

 firms, corporations or individuals in the United States had been 

 placed on the "black list" under the "trading with the enemy act" 

 which prohibits persons domiciled in the United Kingdom from 

 dealing with these parties. Among these 80 houses are several 

 connected with the crude rubber business and some of these feel 

 that their business will be severely restricted if they cannot 

 purchase rubber in any British home or colonial market, or 

 secure transportation of goods from any port in British vessels^ 



