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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1917. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. PROMOTIONS. 



t)n July 2 an announcement was sent out l)y the United 

 States Rubber Co.. New York City, stating that W. E. Barker 

 had resigned as manager of sales of the footwear division in 

 order to take up other important duties for the company. The 

 following changes were also announced in the footwear division : 



George H. Mayo is appointed manager of sales of this division 

 of tlie company's activities. Charles W. Barnes becomes general 

 selling agent, and R. F. Spencer is now manager of credits. 



Mr. Barker has been connected with the rubber trade during 

 his entire business life, starting with Charles M. Clapp & Co., 

 Boston. Massachusetts, in 18.S2, and advancing steadily to the 

 position of manager of sales. In 1889 he became selling agent 

 for the Para Rubber Shoe Co., Boston. Three years later he 

 organized the Enterprise Rubber Co.. Boston, and for over 20 

 years was its president. When the office of merchandise manager 

 of branch stores was created by the United States Rubber Co. 

 in 1S09 he was the first to fill that position. Four years later 

 Mr. Barker was appointed to the office of manager of sales when 

 that position was made vacant by the death of E. R. Rice. It is 

 from this position that Mr. Barker has just resigned to take 

 up other duties for the company. Tliat he is fully equipped for 

 any service to which he may lie called is evidenced by this brief 

 sketch of his experience in the rubl)er business. 



George H. Mayo, who succeeds Mr. Barker as manager, though 

 a younger man, can boast of nearly a quarter century in the 



work to do, his immediately previous position being assistant to 

 manager of sales, from which he has just been called to the 

 office of general selling agent of the footwear division. 



Richard V. .Spencer's business life has always been asso- 

 ciated with merchandising. Starting in a general store in 1867, 

 he secured a position nine years later in the wholesale dry 

 goods house of Crow, Hargadine & Co., St. Louis, Missouri. In 

 1S81 he joined the force of Hamilton, Brown & Co., wholesale 

 shoes and rubbers, St. Louis, and in 1888 was elected secretary 

 and treasurer of the Hamilton- Brown Shoe Co., resigning from 

 that position in 1910 to go with the United States Rubber Co. 

 as comptroller, which office was a stepi)ing stone to his new 

 position. 



NEW U. S. EUEEEH COATED FABRIC FACrCItY. 



Tile United States Ruliber Co., N'ew York City, has taken 

 over the plant of the Milford Straw Hat Works, at Milford, 

 Connecticut, for the manufacture of coated fabrics, and articles 

 made therefrom. The company has been making a variety of 

 these fabrics, some so closely resembling leather that they are 

 being used extensively for automobile tops and upholstery work. 

 The new factory is now being equipped with mills, spreaders, 

 vulcanizers. etc., and also with machinery and appliances for 

 the manufacture of traveling bags of this new fabric. It is 

 contemplated that the company will also make liere army 

 blankets, ponchos and other equipment for the United States 

 Government. The factory has a floor area of nearly 75,000 



\\iLLi.\ii E. B.\RKER. Geo. H. M.a,vo. 



Offici.xls Recexti.v Promoted in Footw 



rnblier footwear business. Starting at tlie age of 19 in the 

 wholesale house of Wm. H. Mayo & Co., of which his father 

 was the head, he became a junior partner five \ears later, just 

 about the time when this firm discontinued its leather footwear 

 business and devoted its entire attention to the sales of the 

 imperfect and out-of-date goods of the United States Rubber 

 Co. He succeeded Mr. Barker as merchandise manager of 

 branch stores in 1913. and following closely, he now succeeds 

 him as mana.ger of sales. His steady, upward climb is the best 

 proof of his fitness for his new position. 



Charles W. Barnes has been connected with the United States 

 Rubber Co. interests throughout his entire business life. On 

 bis graduation from the English High School of his native city, 

 Boston, in 1885, he entered the employ of the American Rubber 

 Co., then an independent company. When this company became 

 a part of the United States Rubber Co., in 1893, he took an 

 important position in the Boston office, giving special attention 

 to the goods made at the American factory. Ten years later 

 he was called to the New York office, where he has had special 



Ch-\rles W. B.\r.ves 



I!r;H.\RD T, Spencer. 



E.'^R Division, United St.\tes Rubber Co. 



square feet, and there is cnoiigh adjacent land to allow expan- 

 sion. About 400 to 500 hands will be employed, the work to 

 be under the supervision of the Goodyear's Metallic Rubber 

 Shoe Co.. Xaugatuck,' Connecticut. J, Wallace Harney, formerly 

 with the L. Candee & Co.. New Haven, Connecticut, is the local 

 superintendent of the new factory. 



GLOBE RUBBER TIRE M.^NUFACTURING CO. 



J. B. Linerd. general sales manager of the Globe Rubber Tire 

 Manufacturing Co.. New York City, is planning an intensive 

 national sales campaign f.ir its hand-made tires. The plant at 

 Trenton. New Jersey, was originally a part of the United & 

 Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos. of Trenton. New Jersey, but 

 was purchased in its entirety by the Globe Rubber Tire Manu- 

 facturing Co., and since has been entirely independent of and 

 has no connection whatever with the former company. Harry 

 B. James was elected president. Henry L. Joyce, vice-president, 

 and J. P. Hall, secretary and treasurer. The executive offices 

 are at 1851 Broadwav. 



