April 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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PERSONAL MENTION. 



Charles R. Sargent, formerly connected with Innis, Speiden 

 & Co., has severed his connections with that concern an'd en- 

 tered the tirm of Stresen-Reuter & Hancock, Inc. The latter 

 company has opened offices and a warehouse at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 where Mr. Sargent will maintain headquarters. 



R. J. Parkell, formerly connected with the Hoffman-La Roche 

 Chemical Works, is now associated with the St. George Chem- 

 ical Co., Inc., 99 John street. New York City, as manager of the 

 chemical department. 



Frank A. Mayo, for 18 years manager of the rubber shoe 

 department of Clark-Hutchinson Co., wholesale shoe merchants. 

 Boston, Massachusetts, has tendered his resignation, to become 

 vice-president and treasurer of H. B. Hanford & Co., leather 

 and rubber footwear wholesalers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



W. F. Enright, manager of the Minneapolis branch of the 

 United States Rubber Co., New York City, was a speaker at the 

 first annual convention of the Minnesota Retail Shoe Merchants' 

 Association at Minneapolis last month. J. J. Hawkins, president 

 of the Standard Shoe & Rubber Co., another speaker, gave an 

 interesting talk on the rubber trade and explained the process of 

 manufacture of rubber footwear, exemplifying this process by 

 making a rubber boot before his audience. 



Earle Brothers. New York City, announce that Russell W. 

 Earle has become a member of the firm. 



F. Y. Horn has been appointed district manager for the 

 .\mazon Rpbber Co., .'Vkron, Ohio, in the Central West, with 

 headquarters at Chicago, Illinois. 



Harry T. Dunn, president of Tlie Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee 

 Falls, Massachusetts, has resigned his position of vice-president 

 of the Willys-Overland Co., of Toledo, Ohio, to give his attention 

 solelj- to the tire business of the Fisk company, and of the 

 Federal Rubber Co., of Cudahy, \^'i5consin, of which he is also 

 president. 



John W. Majiuire. for several years Chicago branch manager 

 for the Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown, Ohio, has resigned 

 that position to become general sales manager of the Brunswick- 

 Balke-CoUender Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



A. W. Senz, manager of the Chicago, Illinois, branch of The 

 Gordon Tire & Rubber Co., has been transferred to the main 

 office of the company at Canton, Ohio, as manager of sales of 

 the tire and tube department, and is succeeded by C. H. Kenyon, 

 late with the Ajax Rubber Co.'s Chicago branch. 



A. I. Butler, formerly with the Batavia Rubber Co., Batavia, 

 New York, succeeds W.- A. Young, former manager of the New 

 York City branch of The Gordon Tire & Rubber Co. Canton, 

 Ohio. 



W. H. Batcheller, president of the Akron Tire Co., Inc., of 

 New York City, has been touring through the South by motor 

 car, spending most of the winter in Florida. He speaks highly 

 of the excellent roads now t^.nished and o'hers being built and 

 resurfaced in that State. 



Percy W. Rairden has been appointed sales manager for the 

 Savage Tire Corp., of San Diego. California. Mr. Rairden 

 brings to the Savage company a broad business experience, in- 

 cluding first-hand knowledge of conditions in the foreign rubber- 

 producing centers. 



McGRAW COMPANY APPOINTMENTS. 



Changes in the personnel of the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., 

 East Palestine, Ohio, are as follows : R. G. Nelson has been 

 made assistant sales manager, with headquarters at East Palestine. 

 W. V. Logan, former district manager at St. Louis, Missouri, 

 is now district manager of the New York territory, being suc- 

 ceeded in St. Louis by C. E. Pumphrey, former district manager 

 of the Atlanta, Georgia, territory. Former representative, T. J. 

 Harris, succeeds Mr. Pumphrey. 



CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED BOKD ISSUE. 



At a special general meeting (jf shareholders of Canadian 

 Consolidated Rubber Co.. Limited, held at tlie head office, 

 Montreal, on February 14. the directors were authorized to 

 issue first and refunding mortgage gold bonds to the amount 

 of $8,000,000. This issue is to retire debentures amounting 

 to $2,500,000, which fall due in 1918. to liquidate bank ad- 

 vances and to provide funds for further expansion of business. 



The Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co.'s business has ex- 

 panded far beyond the ideas entertained when the first finan- 

 cing was carried out in 1906. This expansion necessitated 

 temporary financing measures from time to time. The present 

 issue of bonds consolidates this financing and permits con- 

 tinued growth. _,: 



ADDITION 10 STANDARD UNDERGROUND CABLE CO'S PLANT. 



The Standard Underground Cable Co. of Canada, Limited, 

 is making an addition to its factory at Hamilton, Ontario, which, 

 when completed and equipped with the i;iecessary macliinery. will 

 represent an investment of $50,000. 



The new structure will be devoted exclusively to the uses of 

 the wire drawing department and consists of one story Witii 



basement huilt of brick and concrete and is 125 oy 120 feet in 

 dimensions, which gives a total increase in floor space of 30,000 

 square feet. It is most modern in type and equipped to secure 

 the lighting, heating and ventilation necessary to tlie '..est working 

 conditions. Ample fire protection apparatus is also provided for, 

 whicli includes a complete automatic sprinkler system. 



CROMPTON & KNOWLES ELECTIONS. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Crompton & Ivnowles 

 Loom Works. Worcester, Massachiisetts, Charles H. Hutchins 

 retired as president of the concern and Lucius J. Knowles was 

 elected to succeed him. 



Other officers and directors elected are: Vice-presidents, Earl 

 E. Howard, Irving H. Verry and Frederic W. Howe; treasurer, 

 Edward F. Green ; assistant treasurer, Fred J. Bowen ; clerk, Earl 

 E. Howard; general manager, John F. Tinsley ; general counsel, 

 Charles M. Thayer. 



KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE CO. 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New York City, has purchased 

 the Northland Rubber Co. plant at Bufifalo, New York. The 

 Kelly-Springfield company is to build at Cumberland, Maryland, 

 liut the purchase of the Buffalo plant will enable an immediate 

 increase in production for the present season, pending the com- 

 pletion of the Cumberland plant. 



.'Kt the annual meeting of the company held on March 13, at 

 15 Exchange place, Jersey City, New Jersey, directors were re- 

 elected as follows: Van H. Cartmell, Stephen Peabody, Arnold 

 L. Scheur, Jacob Oppenheim. Gustavus Maas, .'Austin M. Poole, 

 Frederick A. Seaman, and Otis R. Cook. 



