May 1, 1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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of the Gotham National Bank, succeeding the late Dr. Thomas 

 Kelly. 



Harold H. Henderson, of F. R. Henderson & Co., crude rub- 

 ber importers, 111 Broadway, New York City, started last month 

 on a combined business and pleasure trip to the Far East. 



W. R. Robinson, manager for W. R. Grace & Co., crude rubber 

 importers, in Seattle, Washington, has been elected vice-chairman 

 of the Foreign Trade Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Com- 

 merce and Commercial Club. 



R. J. Devereaux is manager of the Bangor, Maine, store of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. 



plan for faithfulness and efficiency in all departments of his fac- 

 tories. He is highly respected in his community, is a member of 

 the Elks, Knights of Pythias, Masonic bodies, Y. M. C. A., Ro- 

 tary Club, Chamber of Commerce, and the Manufacturers' .As- 

 sociation. 



A PIONEER IN TIRE REPAIRING. 



TO have started business in a one-story shop, and, unaided by a 

 dollar of outside capital, develop a nation-wide business, em- 

 ploying hundreds of skilled workmen, is something of which one 

 may well be proud. This, in brief, is the record of Charles E. 

 Miller, proprietor of the Anderson Rubber Works, Anderson, In- 

 diana, where, in two big factories, he manufactures tire-making 

 machinery, tire-repairing equipment and tires. 



Mr. Miller claims to have designed the first tire-repair vul- 

 canizer, and to have done the first repairing job seven years be- 

 fore any other tire vulcanizer appeared on the market. He was 

 born in 1874, in Prairie, Ohio, and with his parents moved to 

 Huntington County, Indiana, where he worked on a farm while 

 acquiring what education the 

 country school afforded. The 

 purchase of a high-wheel bicycle 

 influenced his choice of a voca- 

 tion, and he secured employment 

 in a bicycle factory at Marion, 

 Indiana. Noticing the great 

 waste in consigning to the junk 

 heap so many burst tires, he con- 

 ceived the idea of a vulcanizer 

 to repair them. He made pat- 

 terns, and when the local 

 foundry declared it impossible 

 to make such castings, he made 

 the cores himself, and directed 

 the successful making of the 

 first steam-jacketed tire vulcan- 

 izer. Soon he was busy, outside 

 of his factory working hours, 

 repairing bicycle tires for the 

 people in his vicinity. Finally he accumulated $300 and with this 

 capital he opened a vulcanizing and bicycle shop, a little one- 

 story affair, at Anderson, Indiana. 



The business was successful from the start, and with the au- 

 tomobile came the demand for the repair, of larger tires for 

 which larger vulcanizers were built. In 1902 when the clincher 

 tire came into use, he designed a sectional vulcanizer for repair- 

 ing it. In 1911 he invented an adjustable vulcanizer, which per- 

 mitted adjustment for all sizes of tires. As needs developed, 

 machines and appliances were devised. Inventions and improve- 

 ments followed fast, for by this time the little repair shop had 

 given place to a big factory where everything needed in the 

 growing business of tire repairing was made and the business of 

 supplying repair shops all over the country was developing. Be- 

 sides tire repair outfits, he has added the manufacture of vul- 

 canizers for repairing and soling rubber footwear. 



Later the manufacture of tires was added, a new system being 

 perfected for making an improved "cog tread" tire, which is 

 neither a wrapped tread, nor a full molded tread, for which a 

 number of advantages are claimed. 



Mr. Miller is most democratic as an employer, and is idolized 

 by his employes. He has established an annual profit-sharing 



EMINW.W. 



FROM WAR SERVICE TO MOTOR ACCESSORIES. 



/^NE of the live wires in the rubber war work, Montie L. 

 ^-^ Heminway, has been honored b)' the appointment as 

 general manager of the Motor and Accessories Manufacturers' 

 Association. A brief outline of his 

 business career is therefore of interest. 



Mr. Heminway was bom in Somer- 

 ville, Massachusetts, December 11, 1877, 

 and educated in the Somerville public 

 schools. His early business experience 

 was gained in the shoe industry, first 

 with the Regal Shoe Co., Boston, where 

 he was general office manager and later 

 as sales manager for the Charles A. 

 Easton Co., a well-known shoe manu- 

 facturing concern in Brockton, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



His experience in the rubber business 

 began when he entered the sales depart- 

 ment of the Davidson Rubber Co., Charlestown, Massachusetts, 

 of which concern he was sales manager for seven years. 



When the War Service Committee of the rubber industry was 

 formed, Mr. Heminway was appointed its secretary, with offices 

 in Washington and New York, and the duties of this important 

 position were filled with ability and credit, until the work of 

 the committee ceased with the signing of the armistice. 



At this time L. M. Bradley, the general manager of the Motor 

 and Accessory Manufacturers' Association, was incapacitated by 

 illness, and M. Heminway was called to take the temporary 

 management of that association. Later, Mr. Bradley tendered 

 his resignation and Mr. Heminway was appointed his successor. 



Now that the scope of the association has been materially en- 

 larged, the position is assuming an added importance. The 

 association now has a credit department which is pronounced 

 the most complete and satisfactory source of credit information 

 in the motor and accessory industry, and plans are being formu- 

 lated for further extension of this department, as well as for 

 developing other features of trade association work, in all of 

 which Mr, Heminway's experience and ability will prove of the 

 greatest possible value. 



"DOLLAR EXCHANGE." 



That the United States has displaced England and all other 

 pre-war creditor countries in supplying long-time mimey for tlie 

 financing of industry and transportation was pointed out by 

 D. H. G. Penny, vice-president of the National Bank of Com- 

 merce, New York City, in an address on "Dollar Exchange" at 

 the convention of the Association of Reserve City Bankers at 

 New Orleans, March 31, 1919. 



Mr. Penny showed that, before the war, the volume of deal- 

 ing in various kinds of foreign exchanges in Buenos Aires would 

 rank in the following orders : Pounds sterling, reichsmarks, 

 Paris francs, Belgian francs, United States dollars. 



He showed that at the present time every bank of consequence 

 in foreign countries has one or more accounts in the United 

 States, whereas before the war many foreign countries had no 

 correspondents at all here. He declares that London's embar- 

 rassment is temporary and that Great Britain is still doubtless a 

 creditor nation. He cautions America that we should compete 

 with England by fair methods, never forgetting that "brave old 

 England has borne the heat and burden of the day." 



