THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



The H. H. Robertson Co., First National Bank Building, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, dealer in building products, is now supply- 

 ing Robertson "M. R." (mineral rubber) to the trade in different 

 grades. The company has secured the services of H. B. Pullar 

 and J. S. Ervin, formerly with the Pioneer Asphalt Co., Law- 

 renceville, Illinois, to take charge of the production department. 



The Inland Rubber Co., La Salle and 27th streets, Chicago, 

 Illinois, expects to complete by the middle of July the two-story 

 extension which it is now building, 87 by 112 feet at a cost of 

 $50,000. 



The United States Rubber Co. is transferring its store in Bur- 

 lington, Vermont, from Cherry street to 109 College street where 

 two store? will be occupied. 



The Service Tire & Rubber Co. has opened a store at 70 Maine 

 street. Auburn, Maine, under the ownership of Mitchell Zelmer 

 and Maurice Leavitt who have recently been discharged from the 

 Navy. This is the only store serving Lewiston and Auburn which 

 makes a specialty of tires of exclusive makes. 



The Hohmann-Nelson Co., Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has recently 

 been incorporated to manufacture automatic temperature, pres- 

 sure and time controllers, also thermometers, recorders, etc., and 

 in several months will be ready for active operations. The offi- 

 cers of ihe company are: A. B. Hohmann, president; A. J. 

 Nelson, vice-piesident and secretary; Edward Hutchens, treas- 

 urer. These men are well known to rubber manufacturers, hav- 

 ing specialized in the development of automatic control as applied 

 to all methods of vulcanization and personally supervised many 

 of the larger installations of such systems. 



The Kalzenb.^ch & Bullock Co., Inc., 100 William street. New 

 York City, has been appointed sole selling agent for the products 

 of the Nevin Chemical Co., St. Louis, Missouri, manufacturer of 

 high-grade barium products and chemicals for the rubber trade. 



The Braender Rubber & Tire Co., Rutherford, New Jersey, will 

 remove its export department from 315 Fourth avenue to 32 

 Broadway, New York City, on May 1, 1919. It has also appointed 

 the Ryan & Hughes Co., Inc., 1698 Broadway, distributer of 

 Braender tires and tubes in New York City and on Long and 

 Staten Islands. 



The Climax Rubber Co., manufacturer of a line of dress shields, 

 sanitary aprons, baby pants, and rubber novelties, has moved to 

 520 Broadway, New York City. 



The plants of the American Rubber Products Co. and the New- 

 castle Rubber Co. have been taken over by a group of Akron and 

 Cleveland rubber manufacturers. Automobile tires are made at 

 the Newcastle plant and the output will be considerably increased. 

 The new company is headed by F. E. Harmon of the Universal 

 Rubber Co., Cleveland, and Fred E. Seiberling, Akron, Ohio. 



F. R. Henderson & Co., crude rubber importers, have removed 

 their New York City offices from 82 Beaver street to the Trinity 

 Building, 111 Broadway. 



The Gates Rubber Co., Denver, Colorado, is building two new 

 factory units, one of two stories and one of four, and a four- 

 story warehouse. 



The Rubber Tire Supply Co., Inc., 420 St. Louis street, Spring- 

 field, Missouri, has increased its capital stock from $10,000 to 

 $20,000. The officers of the company are : C. E. Randall, presi- 

 dent; F. S. Bauersfeld, secretary, treasurer, and manager; J. L. 

 Hines and D. J. Landers, vice-presidents. 



The Automatic Safety Tire Valve Corp., 199-203 Eighth street, 

 Long Island City, New York, has opened executive and sales 

 offices at 1765 Broadway, suite 605, New York City. The 

 officers of the company are: G. H. Crossan, president; S. X. 

 Newman, vice-president; H. A. Tremaine, treasurer; and C. R. 

 Tock, secretary. 



Albert V. W. Tallman, crude rubber broker, has removed from 

 54-56 Stone street to 280 Broadway, New York City. 



LESTER LELAND. 



AN important new cffice. created at a recent meeting of the 

 ^*- directors of the United States Rubber Co., was that of 

 vice-chairman of the Executive Committee. To that office Lester 

 Leland, vice-president of the company was elected. Associated 

 with the great rub- 

 ber company in im- 

 portant capacities al- 

 most from its incep- 

 tion, Mr. Leland's 

 career affords an in- 

 teresting study. 



He was born in 

 Boston, Massachu- 

 setts, July 20, 1864, 

 the son of Lester 

 and Mary (Bab- 

 cock) Leland. Edu- 

 cated in the public 

 schools of that city, 

 he graduated from 

 the English High 

 School, and after a 

 course at a busi- 

 ness college, he en- 

 tered the office of 

 C. A. Richards, pres- 

 ident of the Metro- 

 politan Street Rail- 

 way, Boston. Some 

 elected treasurer of the Boston 

 vas appointed superintendent of 

 agent of the Metropolitan 



Lester Lel.\ne 



years afterward, he was 

 Heating Co., and later 

 buildings and purchasin 



Telephone Co. of New York City, which position he held until 

 1893, when he was made assistant treasurer of the Boston Rub- 

 ber Shoe Co., advancing to the treasurership two years later. 

 When this company was purchased by the United States Rubber 

 Co. in 1898, he became identified with the management, serving 

 on the board of directors, and filling the office of vice-president 

 for many years, and assuming his present position and title a 

 month or two ago. 



Mr. Leland is a man of many interests. In addition to his 

 connection with the United States Rubber Co. and its subsidiaries, 

 he assists in the management of the American Trust Co., Rub- 

 ber Mutual Liability Insurance Co., Rubber Manufacturers' 

 Mutual Insurance Co., Industrial Mutual Insurance Co., Cotton 

 and Woolen Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Co., Arkwright 

 Mutual Fire Insurance Co., all of Boston, Massachusetts; The 

 Atlantic Coast Lumber Corp. and United Timber Co. of New 

 York City, the Oneida Timber Co.. Georgetown, and the Pacific 

 & Idaho Northern Railway. 



Mr. Leland served several years in the Massachusetts Volun- 

 teer Militia, reaching the grade of Captain and Provost Marshal 

 of the Second Brigade. He enlisted in the war with Spain as 

 Second Lieutenant in C Company, Fifth Massachusetts Infantry. 

 His two sons are at present in service, having enlisted in the 

 present war. 



Mr. Leland is fond of outdoor sports, his favorite pastimes being 

 riding, tennis, and golf. He is a born organizer and adjuster of in- 

 dustrial difficulties. Quiet, tactful, unassuming, a man of few words, 

 and of keen judgment, he has the confidence and respect of all. 

 In the company with which he has so long been identified, he 

 has done much to bring it to its present condition of greatness 

 and efficiencv. 



Replete with information for rubber manufacturers— H. C. 

 Pearson's "Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients." 



