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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



1919. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



C. S. Putnam has been appointed branch manager of the 

 United States Tire Co., New York City, at 245 Jefferson avenue, 

 East, Detroit, Michigan. He has been with the company since 

 1911, advancing from the position of stock record clerk to city 

 sales manager. 



John B. Maus, export sales manager of The Fisk Rubber Co., 

 Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, has recently been elected chair- 

 man of the Foreign Trade Division of the Springfield (Massa- 

 chusetts) Associated Interests. 



A. F. Hill, for nine years with the \ew York Commercial Co. 

 and for five years subsequently with the Rubber & Guayule 

 Agency, has opened an office at 290 Broadway, New York City, 

 where he will operate as a broker in crude rubber and allied 

 gums. For the last year and a half Mr. Hill has been stationed 

 at Camp Mcrrilt as a government auditor. 



A. G. Langher, former central district manager for the Dia- 

 mond Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has been made central district 

 manager of the Carlisle Cord Tire Co., Inc., Andover, Massa- 

 chusetts, with headquarters at Chicago, Illinois. 



Lee Anderson, formerly supervisor of wholesale branches, 

 sales manager, and general manager, successively, of the Hupp 

 Motor Car Corp., Detroit, Michigan, has become associated with 

 Theodore F. McManus, Inc., a well-known advertising agency 

 of the same city, which handles a number of automobile and 

 rubber company accounts. 



Miss Alice Nash, the well-known golf specialist, has become 

 associated with the New York City office of Thos. E. Wilson 

 & Co., Chicago, Illinois, manufacturers of sporting goods, game 

 balls, etc. 



W. G. Westlake has been appointed eastern sales manager of 

 the motor truck tire department of The McGraw Tire & Rubber 

 Co. of New York, Inc., 1891 Broadway, New York City. 



R. S. Hardy has opened an office at 82 Beaver street, New 

 York City, as a broker in crude rubber and allied products. 

 He was formerly with J. T. Johnstone & Co. 



C. F. Troupe has succeeded Frank M. Lee, resigned, as Mil- 

 waukee branch manager of The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, 

 Massachusetts, with headquarters at 452 Milwaukee street, 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His territory covers twelve counties of 

 the State of Wisconsin. He has been in the employ of the Fisk 

 company nine years as special representative in different 

 localities. 



W. T. Gallagher, managing director of the L'nited States Rub- 

 ber Plantations, Inc., is returning from a visit to Ireland with 

 his wife, and will go on to the company's plantations in Sumatra 

 via the Pacific after a short stay in New York City. His re- 

 cently elected executive assistant, George H. Seybold, left early 

 in March for the plantations, bv way of Liverpool from New 

 York City. 



David M. Figart, manager of the Singapore office of the 

 United States Rubber Plantations, Inc., sailed with his wife late 

 in February for the plantations after a visit in the States. 



Philip Bclford, manager of the Singapore ofiice of the General 

 Rubber Co.. is visiting New York City. 



L. J. D. Healy, for three .years chief chemist and director of 

 development work at the plant of the Federal Rubber Co., 

 Cudahy, Wisconsin, has been placed in charge of the construction 

 of the new "Horseshoe" cord tire and the new "Re-Cord" inner 

 tube of the Racine Auto Tire Co., Racine, Wisconsin. 



Myron H. Clark, general footwear factory manager of the 

 United States Rubber Co., sailed recently for an extended busi- 

 ness trip abroad in the interests of the company. His plans are 

 to visit England, France and Italy. 



Frank C. Thompson has been appointed purchasing agent for 

 the Indianpolis plant of the Link-Belt Co., Chicago, Illinois, suc- 

 ceeding John E. Shideler. 



Fred Stadelman. with the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co., Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, has been elected a director of the newly formed 



Material Handling Machinery Manufacturers' .Association, which 

 has offices at 35 West 39th street. New York City. 



C. W. Johnson has been appointed assistant manager of works 

 of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, in whose employ he has been since 1907, 

 Ijrst as chief inspector of works, and later as general superin- 

 tendent. Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society of 

 Mechanical F.nginecrs, American Institute of Mining Engineers, 

 and the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania. 



\V. J. Glcndenning, consulting engineer and rubber, asbestos 

 and balata expert, recently installed a department for the manu- 

 facture of asbestos high-pressure packing for the Plant Rubber 

 & Asbestos Co., 537-539 Brannon street, San Francisco, Cali- 

 fornia. 



C. D. Studebaker has been appointed Ne\v York district man- 

 ager for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, to which 

 position he has risen froin that of credit manager for the New 

 York branch seven years ago, subsequently becoming office man- 

 ager and branch manager. 



E. P. Jones succeeds C. D. Studebaker as New York brancli 

 manager of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron. Ohio. He 

 was formerly branch manager of the same company at Newark, 

 New Jersey. 



FREDERICK J. MAYWALD, F. C. S. 



ONE of the best equipped laboratories in New York devoted 

 to general analytic and chemical consulting work may be 

 found in lower Manhattan not far from the "Swamp." Here, 

 in fact, is a very interesting series of laboratories which occupy 

 ^^^^ four floors of an old- 



^^W^Hjj^ time brick structure 



^ ^JL where the owner, 



^L .jBk Frederick J. May- 



n^ -"^jy ^W wald, and his corps 



f^ r^ of assistants conduct 



investigations on the 

 chemistry of many 

 manufacturing pro- 

 cesses, specializing in 

 problems relating to 

 rubber. 



Mr. Maywald is a 

 native New Yorker, 

 born June. 25, 1870. 

 His education was 

 obtained in the New 

 York public schools 

 and Cooper Union 

 ^ ., ,, from which he grad- 



FrEDERICK T. M.WWALD. , . -oon J 



uated m 1889, and 

 promptly opened at Bartow, Florida, a laboratory in connection 

 with the development of the land pebble phosphate mines, of that 

 section. In 1893 and 1894 he was a private student of the late 

 Doctor Peter T. Austin at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute 

 and conducted a general analytic and consulting laboratory in 

 New York City. In 1894, Maywald joined Professor Austin in 

 consulting work in the latter's laboratory and succeeded to the 

 business on the death of Professor Austin. December 30, 1907. 

 He has since conducted the laboratories on an enlarged basis. 

 They are now equipped with facilities unsurpassed in New York, 

 for practically every line of manufacture and test. 



Among the laboratory departments should be noted the tech- 

 nical library of 4,000 volumes, and special departments for 

 electro-chemical work, ultra-violet ray tests, underwriters' 

 hydraulic tests on hose, spraying apparatus for study of air- 

 conditioning and drying problems, and a complete rubber- 

 manufacturing plant including machinery for washing and 



