February 1. 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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GUTTA PERCHA & RUBBER, LIMITED, CHANGES. 



W. G. Fowler has been made manager of the Pacific division 

 of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Limited. Toronto, Canada, and will 

 have his headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. 

 Fowler has been with the company for about 25 years, acting 

 as manager of the Alberta division, with headquarters at Calgary, 

 ever since that branch was opened. 



W. R. Wayman has been appointed manager of the Calgary 

 branch. 



H. R. Hamilton, formerly manager of the Eastern division, 

 with headquarters at Montreal, has been transferred to the head 

 oflfice at Toronto and appointed assistant manager of the shoe 

 department. R. B. Reid succeeds Mr. Hamilton as manager 

 of the Eastern division. 



H. D. McWhirter, former manager of the Central division, 

 with headquarters at Winnipeg, has been appointed manager 

 of both the Central and Alberta divisions, and C. N. Larsen, 

 assistant manager of these divisions. 



George Tait, who has completed 25 years of service with the 

 company and who, for many years past, has been manager of 

 the fire hose department, recently celebrated his seventy-third 

 birthday. Mr. Tait has now retired from business on pension. 



STUNGO-RADIUM RUBBER CO. BUYS PLANT. 



The Stungo-Radium Rubber Co. has purchased a plant at 

 Washington, Pennsylvania, which afifords a practically new fac- 

 tory building, 500 feet long and 125 feet wide, with the entire 

 ground floor of steel and concrete construction, and a separate 

 power house, equipped with two 300-horsepower Erie boilers 

 with patent stokers and Sturtevant blowing system for pure air 

 and proper ventilation. 



The company will manufacture rubber goods of all kinds, but 

 will specialize in pneumatic automobile tires and solid and cush- 

 ion truck tires. United States patents have been acquired for 

 the Stungo Special Automobile Tires constructed upon a secret 

 system for which exceptional merits are claimed. 



Joseph Stungo, widely known in England and Scotland as a 

 tire expert and technical engineer, will have direct supervision 

 of the entire mill. Employment will be given to 500 mechanics. 



BRUNSWICK COMPANY BUILDS WORKMEN'S HOMES. 



The large factory of the Brunswick-Balke Collender Co., at 

 Muskegon, Michigan, is rapidly nearing completion and will 

 bring a thousand new workmen from all parts of the country, 

 increasing Muskegon's population by about 4 per cent. The 

 Brunswick company is planning houses for its workmen and to 

 provide for immediate necessities 48 double houses, each of a 

 different pattern, are now being built. Each separate unit will 

 have a large porch, six rooms and a bathroom, and the homes 

 will be sold to the workmen at actual cost, on the easiest terms. 



THE NATIONAL RUBBER CO. 



James A. Murray is to become president and general manager 

 of the National Rubber Co., Pottstown, Pennsylvania, having re- 

 signed his office as vice-president and general manager of the 

 Seamless Rubber Co., New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Murray 

 will locate in Pottstown permanently in March. In his new 

 position he succeeds Jacob G. Feist, who at the reorganization of 

 the board of directors in February will be named as treasurer. 



This change is necessitated by the rapid growth of the National 

 company and is intended to relieve Mr. Feist and allow him more 

 time for outside management. Operations have already begun in 

 the new concrete building of the company and a business of ap- 

 proximately $4,000,000 is anticipated during the year 1917. There 

 will be no changes in the working force, William C. Walsh be- 

 ing retained as superintendent. 



CRUDE RUBBER BROKER EXTENDS ACTIVITIES. 



Charles E. Wood, crude rubber broker, with headquarters at 

 24 Stone street, New York City, has recently had occasion to 

 increase his office space, not only in New York, but in the Ham- 

 ilton building, Akron, Ohio, as well. 



He has also augmented his staff at both points, the new acqui- 

 sition on the New York end being Drew McKenna, for 15 years 



D. McKenna. 



W. M. KoRHAMMER, Jr. 



connected with The B. F. Goodrich Co. Mr. Wood feels that 

 this addition to his organization will not only promote the de- 

 velopment of an already progressive enterprise, but will enable 

 him to increase the efficiency of his service to his clients. 



The new member of the Akron staff is W. M. Korhammer, 

 Jr., who for a number of years has been in the electrical busi- 

 ness, and has severed his connections with the Western Electric 

 Co., of New York City, to accept the position with Charles E. 

 Wood. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



J. A. McKenzie, manager of the Victoria, B. C, branch of the 

 Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited^ Montreal, Canada, 

 recently returned from a six months' trip in Australia and New 

 Zealand. 



At a meeting of the Rhode Island Shoe Retailers' Association 

 in Providence, Rhode Island, early last month, E. B. Pearson, 

 manager of sales of the Converse Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden, 

 Massachusetts, was the speaker of the evening, discussing the 

 cost of rubbers and the reasons for tlie advance in prices. 



A. J. Pennington is in charge of the tire plant of The Bruns- 

 v/ick-Balke-Collender Co., Muskegon, Michigan, and M. J. 

 Whalen is in charge of the hard rubber department. 



J. R. Gemmill is now in charge of the Chicago, Illinois, branch 

 of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeannette, Pennsylvania. 



E. W. Openshaw, for several years connected with the molded 

 goods department of The B. F. Goodrich Co., New York City, 

 is now with the Hewitt Rubber Co., Buffalo, New York. 



M. B. Clarke has resigned as superintendent of the druggists' 

 sundries department of the Gordon Tire & Rubber Co., Canton. 

 Ohio, and the duties of C. W. McKone, superintendent of the 

 tire and tube department have been extended to include the 

 druggists' sundries department. 



E. M. Waldo, of the firm of E. M. & F. Waldo, colors for 

 rubber compounding. New York City, is in England for several 

 weeks arranging for supplies of certain products sold by his 

 firm. 



