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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1917. 



TRADE NOTES. 



At tlie annual meeting of The Gutta Percha & Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co., New York City, held on April 4, the old officers 

 were reelected as follows : Henry Spadone, president ; Walter 

 W. Spadone, vice-president; Alfred A. Spadone, secretary; 

 George B. Dickerson, treasurer. 



The Raw Products Co., New York City, will move on May 1 

 to 78-80 Wall street, the new quarters comprising a suite of 

 four rooms on the ninth floor. 



The general offices of the Republic Rubber Co. of New York, 

 including the mechanical sales department, railroad sales, export 

 sales, and accounting departments, are now located on the fourth 

 floor of tlie Singer Building, 149 Broadway, New York City, 

 the pneumatic tire sales department and storage rooms remain- 

 ing at 229 West Fifty-eighth street. 



I. J. Cohen & Co., wholesale dealer in rulibcr, scrap iron and 

 metals, Kansas City, Missouri, has recently moved into a new 

 building at 1,406 West Ninth street. 



Work has begun on a new office building for the Republic 

 Rubber Co., Youngstown, Ohio, which will be a duplicate of the 

 present office building, with a connecting link comprising the 

 new entrance, elevator and stairway. The construction will be 

 of reinforced concrete, designed to carry another story when 

 further expansion becomes necessary. It is planned to have this 

 new structure the center unit of a series of three buildings, all 

 to be used for general offices, accounting, etc., including a well- 

 equipped hospital. 



The selling corporation, Mullpr & Phipps (Asia), Limited, 

 ^hose headquarters are at Englewood, New Jersey, with branch 

 offices in a large number of Asiatic cities, has incorporated its 

 Singapore branch as Muller, Phipps & Sellers, Limited. H. A. 

 Sellers, who was for several years associated with United En- 

 gineers, Limited, is managing director. 



Byron C. Dowse, former president of the Federal Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, and Cudahy, Wisconsin, and for- 

 merly one of the chief owners of the G. & J. Tire Co., Indian- 

 apolis, Indiana, has formed a new tire manufacturing concern 

 under the name of the Dowse Rubber Co., a certificate of whose 

 incorporation was filed at the office of Secretary of State at 

 Dover, Delaware, with an authorized capital stock of $2,500,000. 

 The general offices and one factory will be in Chicago, Illinois, 

 with another factory in prospect. 



The Eagle-Picher Lead Co. announces the removal of its 

 offices to the Architect's. Building, 101 Park avenue, New York 

 City. 



The Turner. Vaughn & Taylor Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, is 

 extending its factory to meet the requirements of a remarkably 

 increased trade in the rubber business, and when the additions 

 to the machine and foundry departments are completed this 

 summer the company will have practically a new foundry, with 

 the floor space about doubled. A new office building is also 

 being erected. 



After May 1 the offices of Yglesias & Co., Inc., will be located 

 at 29 Broadway, New York City. 



The Red Cross Rubber Co., to be located at Norwalk, Ohio, 

 is the name of a new rubber manufacturing concern which pro- 

 poses to make rubber novelties. The men interested are Claude 

 Martin and G. M. Switzer, both of Ashland, Ohio. 



The Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co., Lawrenceville, Illinois, 

 and the Petroleum Products Co., Independence, Kansas, have re- 

 cently merged, and the combination will be known as the Sarco 

 Petroleum Products Co. There will be no change in the man- 

 agement or interests identified with the new name. 



The Electric Hose & Rubber Co., Wilmington, Delaware, has 

 taken out a $300,000 blanket policy covering the lives of its 

 several hundred employes. 



JOHN W. MAGUIRE. 



DRIEF mention was made last month of the appointment of 

 *-' John W. Maguire as general sales manager of tires and me- 

 chanical rubber goods of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., 



of Chicago, Illinois 

 and Muskegon, 

 Michigan. Mr. Ma- 

 guire is well known 

 in the rubber busi- 

 ness, having been 

 associated with it 

 since 1894, when he 

 entered the business 

 as salesman for the 

 Trenton Rubber Co. 

 Six years later he 

 became sales man- 

 ager for the Lake 

 Shore Rubber Co., 

 Erie, Pennsylvania. 

 In 1906 he associ- 

 ated himself with 

 The Republic Rub- 

 ber Co., Youngs- 

 town, Ohio, as gen- 

 eral salesman, and 

 since 1911 has been 

 sales manager of 

 the Chicago branch 

 establishment of that company, resigning recently to assume his 

 new position. 



Mr. Maguire is a "live wire," as is shown in his work for the 

 rehabilitation of the Chicago Automobile Club, of which he was 

 recently elected vice-president. He is also a director in the 

 Chicago Automobile Trade Association, and is president of the 

 Gym Knights, an active organization in the gymnasium life of 

 the Chicago Athletic Association. 



It will thus be seen that Mr. Maguire brings to the Brunswick- 

 Balke-Collender Co. not only a ripe experience peculiarly fitting 

 him for his new position, but a wide acquaintance and popularity 

 which must conduce to still greater distribution of the lines for 

 which he assumes the sales management. 



Maguire. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Harry E. Dennie, formerly connected with the Salt Lake City 

 branch of the Imperial Belting Co.. of Chicago, Illinois, has been' 

 appointed Western manager, with headquarters at 525 Market 

 street, San Francisco, California. 



Alfred Smith, Manchester, England, dealer in rubber chemi- 

 cals and compounding ingredients, has opened offices at 98 

 Maiden Lane, New York City, under the management of 

 E. H. Watson. 



Herman Gossen, formerly affiliated with the Bothamley Chem- 

 ical & Extract Co. and the Casella Color Co., is now associated' 

 with J. Early Wood, Inc., New York City, having been appointed 

 manager of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, office of that well- 

 known chemical house. 



Ralph M. Loewenthal, for the past six years sales manager for 

 The Loewenthal Co., at the Brookljm, New York, office, has re- 

 cently resigned. Mr. Loewenthal's future plans are as yet un- 

 formed, but he will undoubtedly continue in some branch of 

 the rubber industry. His activities when with The Loewenthal 

 Co. included charge of warehousing operations, facilities, system, 

 and supervision of special gradings, manipulations, etc. 



A. F. Peterson has been appointed manager of the San Fran- 

 cisco, California, branch of The Fisk Rubber Co., of Chicopee 

 Falls, Massachusetts, succeeding M. H. Whipple. 



