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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1919. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



John H. Lane, for many years wilh The N'ew York Belling 

 & Packing Co., 91 Chambers street. New York City, has been 

 appointed manager of its advertising department. 



Frank C. Risselt, well known in the rubber trade, has been 

 appointed manager of the new office of the Cameron Machine 

 Co., New York City, at 503 First Na- 

 tional Bank Building, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. 



W. E. Byles has reestablished his 

 brokerage and commission business 

 in crude rubber and general Eastern 

 produce at 59 Broad street. New 

 York City. 



Guy E. Tripp, until recently a 

 brigadier-general, has resigned from 

 the Ordnance Department of the 

 .-\rmy and resumed his former posi- 

 tion as chairman of the board of di- 

 Frank C. Risselt. rectors of the Westinghouse Elec- 

 tric & Manufacturing Co., 165 

 Broadwav, New York City. Alfred W. Sewell, formerly branch 

 manager' at Buffalo, New York, for the Sewell Cushion Wheel 

 Co., Detroit, Michigan, has been appointed manager of the De- 

 troit branch, with headquarters at the factory. 



Owen M. Prvor has been appointed distributer of the prod- 

 ucts of the Sewell Cushion Wheel Co., Detroit, Michigan, for 

 the State of Florida, with headquarters at 1827 Pearl street, 

 Jacksonville. ' 



W. M. Burrell has been appointed efficiency man to study 

 trade conditions and sell merchandise in various sections of 

 -.the country for the Foster Rubber Co., 105 Federal street, Bos- 

 ton, Massachusetts. . 



John A. Fowler has been appointed a trade commissioner ot 

 the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and will visit 

 the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya for the purpose of 

 extending American trade in the Far East. 



Prescott C. Ritchie, Western representative of the automobile 



Frank A. Sharpe has been appointed district manager of the 

 Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, in Detroit, Michi- 

 gan, with offices in the Kresge Building. 



M. A. PEARSON JOINS THE ALLEN MACHINE CO. 

 After January 1, Morris A. Pearson will be associated with 

 the Allen Machine Co., Erie, Pennsylvania, in connection with 

 the design and nuuuifacture of a complete line of machinery 

 for rubber goods manufacturers. 

 Mr. Pearson's experience covers 

 Dver 20 years, practically all of which 

 lias been connected with the rubber 

 trade, where he has many valued 

 friends. He was formerly with the 

 Farrel Foundry & Machine Co., 

 wliich he served 14 years, resigning 

 bis position in 1912 to gain a more 

 practical knowledge of the me- 

 chanical needs of the trade, for 

 \*hich purpose he located in the 

 Akron, Ohio, district. Through the 

 offices of a prominent Akron manu- 

 facturer, he accepted a position 

 with the Turner, Vaughn & Taylor Co., the well-known manufac- 

 turer of rubber machinery. Within the last six years he has de- 

 signed the complete mill and calender equipment for over 20 new 

 tire factories, requiring frequent increases of manufacturing 

 facilities. He has contributed articles of interest to The India 

 Rubber World, and was recently elected a member of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 



equipment department 



of the Westinghouse Electric & Manu- 



facturing Co., East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvani; 



has transferred 

 his "he'adqirarterrfrom Indianapolis to the Conway Building, 

 Chicago, Illinois. 



John B. Livingston, engineer of the storage battery department 

 of" the Eagle-Picher Lead Co., New York City, in Cleveland, 

 Ohio, and Miss Irene Arthurs, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were 

 married in Chicago, Illinois, on November 27, 1918._ 



L E. Schumacher, for the last eight years chief inspector of 

 the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pitts- 

 burgh Pennsylvania, has been promoted to the position of works 

 manager of the Krantz Manufacturing Co., one of the company s 

 subsidiaries, at Brooklyn, New York. ^ 



William Keane has been promoted from the position ot as- 

 , sistant manager to that of manager of the Pittsburgh Pennsyl- 

 vania, branch of the Sterling Tire Corp., Rutherford. New 

 Jersey. r . r, i, 



C D Cortright has been appointed manager of the Kocli- 

 €ster New York, branch of the Sterling Tire Corp., Rutherford, 

 New' Jersey. He succeeds William E. Housel who recently was 

 appointed a first lieutenant in the Army. , , -a , 



■ G B Corrigan has been appointed manager of the Boston, 

 Massachusetts, branch of the Sterling Tire Corp., Rutherford, 

 New Jersey, succeeding Elmer Benny who was recently trans- 

 ferred to the Brooklyn, New York, office. 



H J Smith, an American rubber engineer and general man- 

 ager of the Neumaticos Nacional Sociedad Anonima (National 

 Pneumatic Co.), Barcelona, Spain, is in the United States for 

 the purpose of purchasing solid-tire and boot-and-shoe equip- 

 0ient. 



Pearson. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



SPENT HIS LIFE IN THE RUBBER BUSINESS. 



HERBERT C. SEVERANCE, secretary and general manager 

 of the Racine Rubber Co., Racine, Wisconsin, died of pneu- 

 monia, induced by influenza, at his home in that city on No- 

 vember 21. 



Mr. Severance was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 

 28, 1878. He attended the public schools in that city, graduating 

 from the Cambridge Manual Training School in 1897, and 

 entered the employ of the Reading Rubber Tire Co., maker of 

 bicycle tires. The ne.xt few years saw him affiliated with other 

 tire concerns, his progress steadily upward. In 1900 he went 

 to the Hartford Rubber Works Co., Hartford, Connecticut, as 

 a salesman, and in this capacity was transferred to Minneapolis, 

 Minnesota, as branch manager. Afterwards he managed the 

 Detroit, Michigan, branch, and when the Hartford company was 

 consolidated in the United States Tire Co., he remained in 

 Detroit as branch manager, and in 1912 became manager 

 of the Chicago branch of the United States Tire Co. In 1913 

 he resigned this position to become general sales manager of 

 the Racine Rubber Co., and in 1914 was elected secretary, both 

 of which positions he held at the time of his death^ 



He is survived by his widow, his father and mother, and two 

 sisters. He was affiliated with Masonic bodies in Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, and Racine, Wisconsin, and was also a member 

 of the B. P. O. Elks. Charitable, yet unostentatious, of a quiet, 

 unassuming, and democratic character, he had many business 

 and personal friends who deeply mourn his loss. 



THE BULL'S EYE RUBBER CO. 



Extensive alterations and improvements in the Long Island 

 City plant of the Bull's Eye Rubber Co. have been completed 

 and operations will start at full capacity early in January. Vul- 

 canized sheet work, rubberized cloth specialties, unvulcanized 

 tire and tube repair stocks, heels, soles, hat-bags, dash-pots and 

 friction rings are the products. The factory is under super- 

 vision of -\rthur C. Squires, and Harry W. Doherty has charge 

 of the business management. 



