[arch 1, 1919.1 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Samuel P. Colt, chairman of the board of directors of the 

 United States Rubber Co., New York City, spent the month of 

 February in California. 



Guy E. Tripp, chairman of the board of directors of the 

 Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., New York City, 

 sailed for Europe early in February. 



R. Y'. Cooke, who has been connected with the Racine Rub- 

 ber Co., since 1912, has been promoted to the position of secre- 

 tary and general manager of the company at Racine, Wisconsin, 

 succeeding the late Mr. Severance. He has also been elected 

 a director of the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., New York City, of 

 which the Racine company is a subsidiary. 



Louis Rosenberg has been appointed director of advertising 

 and sales for the Keystone Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., New York 

 City. 



A. P. Gormully has been placed in charge of the export busi- 

 ness of the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., New York City. 



F. E. Kaeppel is now representing the mechanical department 

 of the Federal Rubber Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin, among the job- 

 bers of Chicago and the Middle West. He was formerly with 

 the United States Rubber Co. and for seven years was con- 

 nected with the Chicago plant of the Mechanical Rubber Co., 

 serving the jobbing trade. 



A. C. Eggers, manager of the crude rubber department of the 

 Mercantile Bank of the Americas, Inc.. 38 Pine street. New York 

 City, was formerly connected with Eggers Bros. & Co., crude 

 rubber dealers, and more recently was production expert in the 

 Signal Corps of the Army. 



-Mark L. Smith has identified himself as a salesman with 

 Stresen-Reuter & Hancock, Inc., manufacturer of and dealer 

 in colors, minerals, and chemicals for the rubber and allied 

 trades, Chicago, Illinois. He was formerly with the Commercial 

 Chemical Co. and is well acquainted with the chemical trade. 



R. J. CALDWELL HONORED BY LUNCHEON. 



R. J. Caldwell of R. J. Caldwell Co., Inc., manufacturer of 

 cotton duck and tire fabrics. New York City, was recently ap- 

 pointed a member of the United States Industrial and Economic 

 Commission and is now in Eu- 

 rope making surveys of the in- 

 dustrial situation. On January 

 24, the day preceding the sailing 

 of the commission, Mr. Caldwell 

 was the guest of honor al a 

 luncheon at the Lawyers' Club, 

 attended by many men prominent 

 in public life. The opening ad- 

 dress was made by Mr. Caldwell, 

 who dealt with industrial con- 

 ditions, especially with reference 

 to the more equitable treatment 

 of labor. He was particularly 

 emphatic in urging that ade- 

 quate provision be made to re- 

 tain workers in their employ- 

 ment in times of stress. r j Caldwell. 



.\mong the other speakers, all 

 of whom alluded in complimentary vein to the philanthropic 

 and useful work accomplished by Mr. Caldwell in the promotion* 

 of better working and living cond'tions for industrial employes, 

 were W. Bourke Cochran, John B. Stanchfield, George Gordon 

 Battle and Simeon D. Fess, Congressman from Ohio. John 

 Morgan, vice-president and treasurer of the McGraw Tire & 

 Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, and a recently appointed di- 

 rector of The Rubber Association of America, represented the 

 rubber trade. 



WEBSTER NORRIS, S. B. 



r^URING the early eighties, immediately following his gradua- 

 *-^ tion from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Webster Norris was an analyst in steel and sugar-refining 

 industries. A few years later, as chief chemist of the Chicago, 

 Milwaukee, and St. Paul Rail- 

 way Co., his attention was di- 

 rected to the technology of rubber. 

 Personal investigation revealed 

 the need of chemical standardiza- 

 tion of the rfiaterials, processes 

 and products of rubber manu- 

 facture. As result, he became 

 chemist of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co. in July, 1887, and equip- 

 ped a laboratory at their Maiden 

 plant. Thus, if not actually the 

 first. Mr. Norris is one of the 

 early chemists to be regularly em- 

 ployed on the factory staff of an 

 American rubber manufacturing 

 company. 



He was identified with the 





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Boston Rubber Shoe Co. as 

 chemist and assistant superin- 

 tendent for a combined period of eight years. In 1895, he 

 entered the mechanical goods division of the trade as chemist 

 of the Revere Rubber Co. Subsequently he has been identified 

 in a superintending capacity with several important companies, 

 among them the Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufacturing Co., 

 New York City; the Canadian Rubber Co., Limited, Montreal, 

 Quebec, Canada ; the Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown, Ohio, 

 and the New York Rubber Co., New York City. 



Mr. Norris has lectured on the technology of rubber at his 

 Alma Mater, and several patents have been granted on his im- 

 provements in rubber-working machinery and factory equipment. 



When The India Rubber Woru) was founded, Mr. Norris 

 promptly recognized it as a factor in advancing the development 

 of the industry, and especially its value to the rubber chemist 

 and superintendent. For many years he has contributed technical 

 articles to its pages and in 1915 became identified with its staff 

 in connection with the chemical department. 



Mr. Norris is an expert in rubber factory equipment, processes, 

 and operation. Throughout his career as a rubber technologist 

 he has specialized in scientific compounding, the development of 

 specification goods, and related problems in rubber goods manu- 

 facture. 



He is engaged in developing long-cherished plans for serving 

 as a consulting rubber technologist for American and foreign 

 rubber manufacturers. 



AERONAUTICAL EXPOSITION. 



The .\nnual Aeronautical Exposition of the Manufacturers' 

 -Aircraft Association, Inc., will be held March 1-15 in the Madi- 

 son Square Garden and the 69th Regiment armory, New York 

 City. This exhibit will show the remarkable development of 

 the flying machine from the first Langley and the original 

 Wright machines to the Navy's newest flying boat, with the 

 record carrying capacity of fifty passengers. 



The United States Army and Navy Departments, together 

 with tlie manufacturers, will display every type of airplane built 

 in America during the war, including a complete exhibition 

 illustrating the progress made in aerial ordnance, photography, 

 the use of wireless and other developments. A collection of 

 war trophies and captured German airplanes exactly as they 

 were brought down behind the Allied lines will be exhibited. 



