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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[NOVKMBER 1, 1918. 



GEORGE E. HALL. 



AT the annual meeting of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber 

 ■*»• Co., held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 7. 1918, 

 George E. Hall, for- 

 merly vice - president 

 and general manager 

 of the company, was 

 tmanimously elected 

 president and general 

 manager, 'succeeding 

 Henry B. Sprague, 

 treasurer, who served 

 as president during a 

 portion of the year 

 pending the annual 

 election. Mr. Sprague 

 continues as treasurer 

 and assumes the addi- 

 tional duties of vice- 

 president. 



Mr. Hall has been 

 associated witli the 

 company eleven years, 

 having previously 

 been identified with 

 the paper manu- 

 facturing industry. 

 Coming to the Boston 

 Woven Hose & Rub- 

 ber Co. in 1907 as general manager, although unacquaint' 



Gkorce E. H.\m 



with 



the rubber industry, he quickly mastered the details and ha 

 practically rebuilt the plant, and increased the annual busin<>- 

 froni $2,000,000 to $10,000,000. 



Mr. Hall's election to the presidency comes as a fitting tribiii 

 to the irrepressible energy and enthusiasm with which he h.i 

 led his organization in the upbuilding of a business which m,i 

 easily rank as one of New England's leading industries. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 

 Seneca G. Lewis has been elected vice-president and gener. 



Rubber Co., Jeannette, Penns\ 1 

 e-president with Major C. M. 1 >u 



manager of the Pennsylvar 

 vania, sharing tlie oflSce of 

 Puy, now in France. 



H. L. Parmenter has been appointed manager of the Chicag-. 

 branch of the General Asliestos & Rubber Co., Charleston, South 

 Carolina. He has been in the employ of the company for four 

 years and was previously identified with the manufacturing of 

 packing in the East. 



Robert A. Suffern has been appointed manager of che textile 

 department of G. Amsinck & Co., importers of crude rubber 

 and other products, 90 Wall street. New York City. The textile 

 department will handle cotton goods for foreign export. 



George H. Carnahan, president of the Intercontinental Rubber 

 Co., New York City, has been appointed vice-president and a di- 

 rector of The Bayer Co., Inc., 117 Hudson street, the same city, 

 by the Alien Property Custodian who now controls the latter 

 organization. 



WiUiam Pfeiffer, president of the Miller Rubber Co., F. H^ 

 Adams, ex-treasurer of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., C. I. 

 Bruner, president of the First-Second National Bank, all of 

 Akron, Ohio, and Captain Ernest E. Buckleton, president of the 

 Northwestern Rubber Co., Litherlands, Liverpool, England, have 

 recently returned from a hunting and fishing trip north of 

 Quebec. 



J. H. Fenton, who was some time ago appointed industrial 

 division manager of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 

 Co., East Pittsbu"q;h, Pennsylvania, in Los .\nge1es, California, 



is rcsiJonsiblo for the activities of the industrial salesmen for 

 the district comprising Southern California, Arizona, New 

 Mexico, and western Texas. 



W. H. Hildreth, managing director, Aldens' Successors, Lim- 

 ited, London, England, arrived in New York City last month 

 on a business trip. 



A. Powell succeeds H. von Briesen, resigned, as purchasing 

 agent for The Savage Tire Corp., San Diego, California. 



J. N. Dine, for five years manager of the Omaha, Nebraska, 

 branch of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has 

 been promoted to the assistant managership of the Chicago 

 branch. He is succeeded in Omaha by C. A. Cramer. 



(ieorge H. Brush has been elected second vice-president of the 

 Sterling Tire Corp., Rutherford, New Jersey. 



Julius Oppenheim is now manager of The Loewenthal Co., rub- 

 ber scrap dealer, 23 Heyward street, Brooklyn, New York, suc- 

 ceeding Paul H. Loewenthal who has enlisted in the Tank Corps. 



J. E. Allen, formerly a salesman for the Braender Rubber 

 & Tire Co., Rutherford, New Jersey, operating out of Chicago, 

 has been made sales manager with headquarters at Rutherford. 



George W. Gibbs, formerly advertising manager, is now pur- 

 chasing agent of the Hodgman Rubber Co. Tuckahoe, New 

 York. F. H. Whitney, who had held this position for fifteen 

 rears, has retired to his farm in Florida. 



IRVING B. FERGUSON. 



IK\ ING B. FERGUSON, whose name has become familiar to 

 ^ the American rubber industry through his work in connection 

 witli the Government's statistical requirements, is a certified pub- 

 lic accountant of note. 



Ferguson. 



His name and address will be 



^^^ ^"""^^ fi'und on all questionnaires sent 



^^ ^\ nut to the rubber trade by the 



^■L \ W ar Trade Board, as the Gov- 



^^^^^^ ^»» W criinient's accredited agent in 



I^BP^ ^^ ^ cliarye of the compilation of these 



^H|^ & _ statistics. He has recently re- 



^^■fc^^^^^ ciivfil a commission by virtue of 



^^H|fc^ which he has taken over some 



^^B^^^ ini|>i)rtant auditing departments of 



^1 ^^^ ^ t, tlic War Trade Board. 



^^^k^R|^i^|^k^ Mr. Ferguson is a native of 



^^^^KflpESH^^^^^^ X' w York City and received his 



^^^^^Pr'i ^'^n^^^^H schooling in Paris, Switzer- 



^^^^^^ ^^^^^1 laud Italy. His 



^ ^^^^^SJ however, was completed in this 



country, he having graduated 

 from Yale in 1893. 

 He is a member of the New York Society of Certified Public 

 Accountants and the American Institute of Accountants. His 

 home is in Pelham, Westchester County, New York, and as a 

 member of the Pelham Country Club and the Wykagyl Country 

 Cltib he tiij..ys tennis aii.l l;o1i. 



AMERICAN COTTON FABRIC FOR AIRPLANES. 

 At the outbreak of the war, linen was considered the only 

 material satisfactory for covering airplane wings, but after the 

 imported stock now on hand is exhausted, only cotton fabric 

 will be used for the purpose on American airplanes. Two fabrics 

 were adopted, the specifications calling for a strength of not less 

 than 80 pounds per inch, in both warp and filling. The first 

 contracts were placed by the Government in September, 1917. 

 In October and November, 1,480,000 yards were ordered. In 

 January, 1918. the production was 173,000 yards. It is now 

 1,200.000 yards monthly. Contracts have now been let for 

 11.513.084 yards of fabric, made of long-staple cotton. 



