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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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FERJONAX MENTION. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, prosident of the United States Rubber 

 Co., New York City, lias returned from an extended motor trip 

 v-liich included visits to the Canadian plants affiliated with the 

 company 



The Pail ,\nierican Society of ;lic United States held a largely 

 attended ui formal luncheon on September 11 in honor of His 

 ]"xcelleiicy. Dr. Lauro Severiano Miiller, Minister of Foreign 

 Relations of Brazil, who sailed the next day for South America. 



Frank Poel. formerly of the crude rubber importing iirni 

 of Poel & .Arnold, returned from Europe the juiddle of last 

 month. 



Jose Siniao Da Costa, of Rio de Janeirt>. Mrazil. inventur 

 of the Da Costa coagulating machine, is now visiting in Xcw 

 York City. 



H. Stuart Itotchkiss, vicc-|)residcnt of the General Rubber 

 Co., New York City, who is now in .Sumatra, is expected to 

 return next month. 



Raymond H. Price, vice-president of the I niled Stale? 

 Rubber Co.. who is at present in Europe, is expected to 

 arrive home in November. 



George VVil.son has been appointed transportation manager of 

 the Dominion Rubber System, with headquarters at the Canadian 

 Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, Montreal, Canada. 



David S. Shearman, president of the Oldtown Rublier Co., 

 Xenia, Ohio, is an heir of the estate of Mrs. Hetty Green, being 

 a direct descendant of Sylvia Ann Howland, Mrs. Green's aunt, 

 who left a trust fund of about $2,500,000. Mr. Shearman and 

 his five brotliers will receive the share from the Howland estate, 

 which would have been the portion of their father, who died in 

 1895. 



Charles H. Roth, formerly vice-president and saies manager 

 of the American Tire & Rubber Co., has been engaged as sales 

 manager of the newly organized Iowa Rubber Tire Co., Betten- 

 dorf, Iowa 



Arthur Jackson Wills, whose portrait and biographical 

 sketch appeared in the September 1 Indi.x Rubber World. 

 writes tkat a misstatement appeared therein, as he is not 

 a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology, all hough lie 

 attended that institution. 



Harry L. Miller has been made manager of the Fisk Co. of 

 Texas, at San Antonio, Texas, and was also elected secretary 

 and a director of the company. 



W. M. Doucette succeeds E. F. White as manager of the New 

 Y'ork City branch of the Portage Rubber Co., at 1924 Broadway. 



Clarence R. Bollinger has been appointed an adjuster of the 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, and will take charge 

 of that department in the Goodyear branch at Buenos Aires, 

 Argentina. 



G. B. Overeynder, Rotterdam, Holland, managing director 

 Surinam Batata Co., passed through New York last week on his 

 wav to Paramaribo, British Guiana. 



G. A. PIRELLI IN NEW YORK. 



G. A. Pirelli, of the well-known lirm of Pirelli S: Co.. Milan. 

 Italy, was in New York last month on business for his company. 

 He reports unprecedented activity in the various plants con- 

 trolled by the Pirelli interests, due to the large government and 

 domestic orders. Building extensions and new plants are being 

 erected to meet the requirements of the increasing business. 



NEW "USRUBCO" PURCHASING AGENT. 



RAN.MOND S. WILLIS, who has just been ai)pointed pur- 

 chasing agent of the United States Rubber Co., New York 

 City, brings to this iiosition a liroad and varied business experi- 

 ence, lie was a mcmlier of the class of 1898 in the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of 

 Technology. On leav- 

 ing this institution at 

 the end of. his junior 

 year, lie went ranch- 

 ing in Texas, Ari/ona 

 and New Mexicn. In 

 1900 he went to Mex- 

 ico, where he be- 

 came interested in 

 rubber. From 1908 

 to 1910 he was con- 

 nected in an execu- 

 tive capacity with the 

 National Paper & 

 Type Co.'s oflicf in 

 .Mexico City. In 1911 

 Mr. Willis became 

 secretary and |)nr- ' 

 chasing agent in 

 llarcelona, Spain, for 

 the Barcelona Trac- 

 tion, Light & Power 

 Co. This work was under the direction of the Pearson Engi- 

 neering Corporation, Limited. New York City, which had previ- 

 ously built street railways in Mexico City and Rio Janeiro, and 

 had charge of the engineering work of the Mexico Northwestern 

 Railroad. Naturally, in connection with a project of this size, 

 Mr. Willis had many invaluable experiences, and his work as 

 purchasing agent in Spain opened his eyes to the possibilities 

 afforded by tlie war for the extension of American markets 

 Consequently Mr. Willis resigned from the Barcelona Traction, 

 Light & Power Co. to open his own export office in New York 

 City. 



Mr. Willis has been remarkably successful here and still retains 

 an interest in the export business, although his entire time in the 

 future wmU be devoted to his duties as purchasing agent for the 

 United States Rubber Co. 



R.w^ioNn S. \\ ii.i.is 

 liis work was under the 



Replete with iiiformatiiiii for rubber manufacturers. — Mr. 

 Pearson's 'Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients." 



SON OF A RUBBER ENGINEER. 



lose])h .-V. Dcniiison, who, with his wife was lost in the moun- 

 tain wilderness of New Hampshire, and rescued in an exhausted 

 condition by a search party, was the son of John Dennison, for 

 manj' years engineer at the works of the Tyer Rubber Co., 

 Andover, Massachusetts. Several of the old engineer's children, 

 too, found employment in the factory, while they were building 

 up the family fortunes and getting the wherewithal to pay for 

 their education. Joseph A. Dennison is a prominent and success- 

 ful lawyer, a self-made man. After attending the public schools 

 and Phillips .Academy in Andover, he went to Dartmouth College, 

 but left to take up newspaper work in Boston, Massachusetts, 

 meanwhile studying law, and later graduating from Boston 

 University Law School. He was Assistant District Attorney 

 in Boston in 1905-1906, resigning in the latter year and resuming 

 his law practice. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dennison are recuperating 

 from the e-xhaustion caused by exposure and hunger during their 

 wanderings in the trackless forest. A somewhat pathetic inci- 

 dent connected with this misadventure was the detention in Con- 

 cord. New Hampshire, several days afterward of two Massa- 

 chusetts boys who ran away from home to search for the Denni- 

 sons, hoping to secure the reward ofifered. They had not heard 

 of the rescue of the missing couple. 



