FEBRUARY 1. 1917. I 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



283 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



John Clinton, formerly connected with the Boston, Massachu- 

 setts, office of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, 

 has been given charge of the company's branch at Buffalo, New 

 York. 



G. K. Meeks has been placed in charge of the Wichita, Kansas, 

 branch of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



J. C. Withers succeeds W. I. Fornof as manager of the Nash- 

 /ille, Tennessee, depot of The B. F. Goodrich Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



John L. Butler has been appointed advertising manager of the 

 Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jeannette, Pennsylvania. 



John B. Maus. export manager of The Fisk Rubber Co., 

 Chicopee Falls, Massaciuisetts, recently returned from a trip 

 through Porto Rico during which he made a close study of 

 conditions there. He finds motoring on the increase, with 

 American cars used exclusively. City streets are narrow but 

 country roads excellent, although hard on tires. 



Jesse F.. LaDovv, of the Mansfield Tire & Rubber Co.. Mans- 

 field, Ohio, has been deeply impressed by the exceptional eco- 

 nomic and industrial conditions in Japan. Further observation 

 of the growing rubber industry there, its manifest advantages of 

 cheap labor, excellent shipping facilities and proximity to the 

 source of crude rubber, has again led him to write interestingly 

 to several American newspapers, this time from Osaka, advo- 

 cating an American import tax on all foreign manufactured rub- 

 ber goods based for each country upon the difference between 

 the cost of labor there and in the United States, plus the in- 

 creased cost of crude rubber here. This he believes would ef- 

 fectually protect both capital and labor in America. 



During the past month, Henry S. Marlor, general superintend- 

 ent of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.. at Williamsport, Penn- 

 sylvania, married Miss Mildred Sutton Ward, daughter of Mr. 

 and Mrs. James Henry Ward and great-granddaughter of Cor- 

 nelius Vanderbilt. 



C. A. Jessup has succeeded P. G. Frazier as manager of the 

 St. Louis, Missouri, branch of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. 



Richard H. Xewell, for the past six years connected with The 

 Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, as chemist, is 

 now superintendent of the Dreadnaught Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Baltimore, Maryland. 



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

 Springfield Tire Co., at Minneapolis, Minnesota. 



George C. Van Veen has been appointed manager of the 

 newly opened branch of The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Kent. Ohio, at 1732 Grand avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



FIRESTOKE PROMOTIONS. 



Dan C. Swander, formerly eastern district manager of the 

 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, and one of the 

 company's most energetic workers, has been appointed manager 

 of the Boston branch. L. G. Fairbank has succeeded him as 

 eastern district manager. 



C. E. Speaks, formerly manager of the cycle tire department, 

 has been made manager of truck tire sales, being succeeded in the 

 cycle tire department by Henry E. Haws, formerly assistant 

 manager. 



W. J. Slater, formerly manager of the sales promotion depart- 

 ment, is now special representative of the general sales depart- 

 ment, Sherman L. Lewis succeeding him as sales promotion 

 manager. 



Salesmen recently promoted to branch managerships are : M. 

 M. Whorley, Syracuse, New York; G. K. Meeks, Wichita, 



Kansas; Milton Van Keuren. Albany, New York, A. C. Searle, 

 Minneapolis, Minnesota; II. C. Buchanan, Charlotte, North Caro- 

 lina. 



NEW FISK APPOINTMENTS. 



Fred H. Ayers has been placed in charge of the sales organi- 

 zation of The F'isk Ruliber Co.. with headquarters at the general 

 offices at Chicopee Falls. Massachusetts. Mr. Ayers is well 



known in Eastern 

 tiredom, having 

 been with the Fisk 

 company since 1905. 

 In 1909 he became 

 manager of the Bos- 

 ton, Massachusetts, 

 branch, and when 

 the sales organiza- 

 tion was divided in- 

 to districts five 

 years later, he was 

 given supervision 

 of all the company's 

 branches in New 

 England and New 

 York State, east of 

 Buffalo, last July 

 becoming supervisor 

 of districts. George 

 T. Newton succeeds 

 Mr. Ayers. 



W. H. Barcus, 

 f- J^- -■^^■'=«s- for two years in 



charge of the Fisk branch at Cleveland, Ohio, has been appointed 

 manager of the newly created Cleveland district, which embraces 

 the company's branches at Cleveland. Toledo. Lima, Columbus, 

 ■S'oungstown .Dayton, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. 



E. J. McMartin, furmerly branch manager at Butte, Montana, 

 will have charge of tlie district about to lie created, which in- 

 cludes the branches at Butte. Great I'^alls. Billings, Salt Lake, 

 Rapid City. Minot and Bismarck. 



Roy L. .Sergeant, for the past two years in charge of The 

 Fisk Rubber Co.'s interests in the southern end of California, 

 has been placed in charge of the company's business for the 

 entire Pacilic Coast territorj-. with headquarters in San 

 Francisco. 



GOODYEAR CHANGES. 



I-". F. Tilden has been appointed- manager of the branch of the 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber C(j. at Columluis, Ohio, succeeding 

 W. W. Magill. 



W. S. Boone, formerly branch manager at the Scranton, Peim- 

 sylvania, branch, has been made supervisor of city sales at Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania. 



W. G. Starnes has been elected manager of the Atlanta, 

 Georgia, branch, succeeding J. E. Taylor, who has been trans- 

 ferred to the Dealers' Help division of the automobile tire de- 

 partment at Akron. Ohio. 



F". W. Nason, formerly Cioodyear manager at Rochester, New 

 York, has been transferred to the export department at Akron, 

 Ohio. 



F. N. Hammond, recently branch manager at Youngstown, 

 Ohio, has been made branch manager at Cleveland, Ohio, suc- 

 ceeding R. S. Hartzell, who has been placed in charge of manu- 

 facturers' business in Cleveland and vicinity, under the jurisdic- 

 tion of the Detroit. Michigan, district office. Mr. Hartzell's head- 

 quarters will continue at Cleveland. 



