March 1. 1919.1 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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treasurer of the Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. and the Home Rub- 

 ber Co., head the rubber list. 



Lionel Emdin, the founder of the Delion Tire & Rubber 

 Co. plant at Trenton, announces that he will shortly break 

 ground at Asbury Park for the erection of a rubber plant for 

 the Victory Tire & Rubber Co. The factory will be located on 

 Third and Fourth avenues and will have a siding running to the 

 Central Railroad. The new plant will be of brick, two stories 

 high and about 80 by 175 feet, with a daily capacity of 200 tires 

 and tubes. Nothing but high-grade goods will be made, all 

 having 6,000-mile guarantee. The necessary machinery has 

 been ordered and it is expected that the new plant will be in 

 operation in June. 



Ensign George T. Oakley, naval aviator, son of CHfford H. 

 Oakley, president of the Essex Rubber Co., has been assigned 

 to inactive duty and has returned home from Pensacola, 

 Florida. Ensign Oakley enlisted April 25, 1917, as a second- 

 class seaman and was assigned to the U. S. S. Niagara. After 

 being in the service for several months he went into the avia- 

 tion section. United States Naval Reserve Force, and was traincil 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a pilot. Hr 

 was then sent to Pensacola for final flying work after training 

 at Bay Shore, Long Island. He was making a flight at Key 

 West when his airship fell into the ocean. He was rescued with 

 another aviator 



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William J. B. Stokes, president of the Thermoid Rubber Co., • 

 has been appointed chairman for Mercer County, this state, for 

 the Fifth Liberty Loan, which begins Easter Monday. He was 

 chairman of the last loan campaign and did splendid work. 



WELLMAN-SEAVER-MORGAN CO. ELECTS OFFICERS. 

 The Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co., Cleveland, Ohio, at its 

 annual meeting of stockholders on February 18, 1919, reelected 

 the following directors: Edwin S. Church (president and gen- 

 eral manager), F. E. Borton, W. H. Cowell (secretary and 

 treasurer), F. B. Richards, S. T. Wellman, E. H. Whitlock, S. H. 

 Pitkin (vice-president), Francis Seiberling, and F. A. Seiber- 

 ling. George W. Burrell was elected second vice-president and 

 will have charge of the company's works at both Cleveland 

 and Akron. 



CROSS COUNTRY TIRE CO., INC. 

 The Cross Country Tire Co., 343 Babcock street, Buffalo, Xew 

 York, manufactures rebuilt auto tires from select carcasses that 

 have been prematurely discarded. These are first repaired, then 

 relined and a new cushion, breaker, tread and side wall applied. 

 The line includes various non-skid tire designs. R. M. Loewen- 

 thal is president, and Jack Sider, secretary, of the company. 



That fair business dealing and American enterprise are pro- 

 ductive of commercial success is shown by recent developments 

 in the firm of F. R. Henderson & Co., crude rubber importers. 

 New York City and Akron, Ohio. 



Francis R. Henderson, the head of the concern, has recently 

 returned from a six months' business sojourn in the Far East, 

 having visited the Federated Malay States, Straits Settlements. 

 Java and Sumatra. 



Mr. Henderson spent three months in Singapore where he 

 acquired the property and business of the International Trading 

 Co., Limited, that was merged in the new firm of Henderson 

 Brothers Limited, Singapore, Straits Settlement. While in 

 Batavia he established the firm of Henderson & Kculemans, 

 Limited, (Handel Maatschappij Henderson & Keulemans.) 



Batavia. Java. The associate, G. J. M. Keulemans, is a Hol- 

 lander with broad experience in plantation rubber and well 

 known by planters in the Far East. 



1895. 



THE RUBBER ASSOCIATION'S EFFICIENT 

 SECRETARY. 



IX the last five years many men have accomplished much for 

 the good of the rubber trade. Of these successful workers 

 a prominent place belongs to t he secretary and treasurer of 

 The Rubber Association, Harry Stephen Vorhis. At this time, 

 therefore, a sketch of his career is of interest. 



Mr. Vorhis was born in Spencer, Xew York, in 1873. After 

 attending Spencer Academy and Franklin Academy at Pratts- 

 burgh. New York, he entered Vale University, graduating in 

 During his college life he worked on the staff of the 

 "Journal & Courier," a well-known 

 New Haven paper. He later 

 studied for a year at the New York 

 Law School. Newspaper work was his 

 ambition, however, and he served in 

 various news and advertising positions 

 previous to joining the staff of the 

 Xew York "Sun" in 19(X). Five years 

 later he left to work on various New 

 ■^'ork and Boston financial and trade 

 1 apers. 



Two years before the great war The 

 Rubber Association enlarged its scope 

 and leaders in the rubber trade felt 

 . that a competent secretary was needed 

 to carry out the plans they had for- 

 mulated. The choice fell upon Mr. 

 Vorhis and this selection has proved a wise one. 



-At the beginning of the European war complications regard- 

 ing rubber imports resulted in the Association becoming advisory 

 to the British Consul in New York Cit)-, to whom all crude rub- 

 ber entering this country was consigned, and later the entire 

 matter of receiving and allocating was turned over to the Asso- 

 ciation. How well this matter has been handled is too well 

 known in the trade to need comment here. The work required 

 the organization of a force of 50 or more employes, all under 

 Mr. Vorhis' direct charge. Mr. Vorhis does not belong to the 

 Secretaries' LInion nor does he know anything about the eight- 

 hour day. His office day over, he is usually to be found at the 

 Union League, the Yale, or the Lotus, or wherever important 

 rubber committees are to be found. There he answers questions, 

 produces documents and makes a careful record of discussions, 

 of suggestions, wise and otherwise, and of final decisions. Then, 

 when the rest sleep, he puts the matter into shape against the 

 demands of the morrow. He never rests, never complains, never 

 "leaks." As an earnest, tireless worker he is without par, and 

 has carried out the plans of the rubber committees, big and little, 

 with unvarying intelligence and efficiency. With it all he is 

 modest, likable and extremely popular. 



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RUBBER SUBSTITUTE FACTORY IN NORWAY. 



Det Tekniske Finansindustri, Christiania, has acquired the 

 sole right for Scandinavia to manufacture a ruliber substitute 

 from materials found in Norway. This is said to have been tried 

 for many years, and is expected to be of great importance to 

 Scandinavian rubber consumers, as it costs not more than a frac- 

 tion of the price of real rubber. Tlie company was started with 

 a capital of $134,000, and is now increasing it to $576,000. 



RUBBER IMPORTS INTO ST. PIERRE-MIQUELON. 



Ruliber footwear imports into St. Pierre-Miquelon, for 1917, 

 mounted to $16,076 from Canada, $14,930 from the United States 

 rid $183 from France. 



