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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



IjANl-AKV 1, 1917. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



John Kearns has been elected general manager of the Lee 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, in full charge 

 of manufacturing, and plans are being made for a material in- 

 crease in the production and capacity of the plant under his 

 management. Formerly Mr. Kearns was vice-president of The 

 Kisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls. Massachusetts, and previous 

 to that he organized the British Dunlop Co. of Australia, with 

 which he was connected for 12 years. 



\V. M. Pound succeeds Millard Ritter as local manager of 

 the Charlotte (North Carolina) depot of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., Akron, Ohio. 



E. Duffy has joined forces witli the Kelly-Field Co., selling 

 agency for the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., Conshohocken, Penn- 

 sylvania, and hereafter will devote his experienced attention to 

 the merchandising of Lee tires. lie was formerly sales mana- 

 ger of the Midgeley Tire & Rubber Co., and prior to that was 

 connected with the Hartford Rubber Works Co. 



H. R. Piatt, recently with the Batavia Rubber Co., has been 

 appointed assistant superintendent of the tire department of 

 The Gordon Tire & Rubber Co., Canton, Ohio. 



J. F. Thompson has been appointed general district manager 

 of the New York branch of the Sewell Cushion Wheel Co., 

 Detroit, Michigan. 



J. D. Gary has been promoted to the position of southern dis- 

 trict manager for the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New York 

 City. Mr. Gary was formerly manager of the Atlanta (Georgia) 

 branch, where he is succeeded by Amos W. Whaley. 



George M. Martin is in charge of the new branch of the Kelly- 

 Springfield Tire Co. at Minneapolis, Minnesota. For the past 

 eight years Mr. Martin was connected with the Firestone Tire 

 & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, as manager, respectively, of its 

 Omaha, St. Louis and Minneapolis branches, and therefore 

 brings a wealth of experience to his new position. 



R. W. Llewellyn has been placed in charge of the branch store 

 and wholesale depot recently opened at Columbus, Ohio, by the 

 Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. 



R. C. Bubb, of Grimley, Limited, agents for the Firestone 

 Tire & Rubber Co., at Sydney, Australia, recently returned from 

 an extended visit to the United States for the purpose of study- 

 ing factory and export conditions. Mr. Bubb states that, 

 although a part of the British Empire, Australia buys most of 

 its automobiles, tires and motor car accessories from the United 

 States. 



A. E. Hertzig has been made manager of the Washington, 

 D. C, branch of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 

 He was formerly employed as manager of the Baltimore branch 

 and will now take charge of both territories. L. J. Gemmil, 

 former manager of the Washington branch, will devote his time 

 to looking after the government business. 



George M. Stadelman, vice-president of the Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, is now in South America with his 

 family. While the trip is taken mainly for recuperation, Good- 

 year interests in that region will doubtless claim a share of his 

 attention. 



G. W. Henne, general manager of the Mansfield Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Mansfield, Ohio, has recently decided to turn over five acres 

 of the company's ground to be devoted to garden purposes for 

 the benefit of the employes. The company will plow, irrigate 

 and supply seed for each employe who may desire to raise his 

 own food stuffs. 



Henry C. Plow, at one time treasurer of the Hartford Rubber 

 Works, and more recently vice-president and sales manager of 

 the Midgely Tire & Rubber Co., has purchased and will operate 

 the Automobile Owners' Accessory Co., Limited, of Montreal. 

 Canada. The company will be renamed and reincorporated. 



E. A. Jacob has become manager of the Portage Rubber Co.'s 

 Des Moines (Iowa) branch. He succeeds J. W. Wildman, who 

 has been transferred to the Chicago offices. 



James G. Budd, of The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Mas- 

 sachusetts, recently completed an 11 months' tour in the Far 

 East, in the interests of the company's export and service de- 

 partment. Mr. Budd's successful mastery of about 20 ditferent 

 tongues and dialects peculiarly fits him for such an undertaking. 



C. M. Folger, Pacific Coast manager of the Marathon Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, has been spending the last 

 few weeks in the Hawaiian Islands, visiting Marathon distrib- 

 uters and gathering information on conditions in that territory. 



WESTINGHOUSE TO INCREASE CAPITAL. 



The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, will increase its capital by the addition of 

 $15,000,000 of common stock, provided the recent resolution of 

 the board of directors is authorized by the stockholders at a 

 special meeting called for February IS. All plants of the com- 

 pany are doing capacity business and many profitable contracts 

 have had to be declined. The new issue of stock will permit the 

 immediate erection of a much needed plant at Essington, Penn- 

 sylvania, just outside of Philadeliihia. at an expense of $5,000,000 

 to $7,000,000. 



A WELL-KNOWN INVENTOR AT WORK. 



■ I ■ O see men in their offices is almost as interesting as to meet 

 ■'■ tliem in the flesh, and it is a pleasure occasionally to have 

 an opportunity to show the daily surroundings of those who have 

 contributed materially to the advance of rubber manufacture. 

 The accompanying illustration shows Arthur Jackson Wills, the 

 well-known inventor, in his office at North Brookfield, Massa- 

 chusetts, explaining the model of one of his recent inventions 

 to Mr. Lindholm of the Pneumatic Scale Corporation. Mr. 

 Wills is a mechanical engineer of exceptional ability, and since 

 his association with the B. & R. Rubber Co., of North Brookfield, 

 Massachusetts, has devoted himself with marked success to the 



Okfke 0I-- .'Xrthuk J.vcKsoiV Wills. 



design and manufacture of special rubber machinery. Keen 

 insight and a first-hand knowledge of the needs of the industry, 

 coupled with a positive creative ability, have brought forth 

 several time and labor-saving devices which have been adopted 

 by leading rubber manufacturers in Europe as well as America. 

 His automatic, carton filling machine was soon followed by a 

 rubber overflow trimmer for rubber heels and other molded 

 goods — his most widely known invention — while the device 

 just recently placed upon the market is a rubber edging plaiter. 

 It is known that more patents are pending, and it is reasonable 

 to assume that in his future work Mr. Wills will round out a 

 much broader sphere of helpfulness to the rubber trade. 



