June 1, 1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



503 



EDWARD V. PETERS, GENERAL SALES MANAGER. 



Coward V. Peters, the newly appointed general sales manager 

 '-' of the New Jersey Zinc Co., New York City, though born 

 in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1881, is virtually a New Yorker, having 

 moved East with his family and 

 finished his education at Green- 

 ville Academy, Greenville, New 

 York. His first business experi- 

 ence was in the electrical depart- 

 ment of the Manhattan railway 

 system, and within a year he was 

 placed in charge of electrical pur- 

 chases. In 1903 he organized a 

 purchasing department for J. G. 

 White & Co., engineers and con- 

 tractors. New Y'ork City, where 

 he remained in charge until Au- 

 gust, 1906, when he accepted a 

 position in the purchasing depart- 

 ment of the New Jersey Zinc Co., 

 soon rising to assistant purchasing 

 agent. In 1913 he was made pur- 

 chasing agent, thereafter becom- 

 ing assistant sales manager, and, 

 H. G. Clopper, resigned, as general sales manager. 



During the war the New Jersey Zinc Co. was active in serving 

 the Government and also the allied nations, and much of Mr. 

 Peters' time was spent in connection with this work. 



Mr. Peters is a man of excellent business judgment, a great 

 believer in cooperation and organization, and has been a potent 

 force in upbuilding the units of the sales staff of the company 

 into an energetic selling organization. He is fond of sports, and 

 in his younger days played baseball and tennis. In the last few 

 years he has confined his recreation mainly to golf and motoring. 

 He is president of the Flushing Country Club, Flushing, Long 

 Island, New York. 



Edw.ard V. Peters. 

 few weeks ago, succeeded 



CLOPPER GOES TO EAGLE-PICHER CO. 



HERBERT G. CLOPPER, for thirty years connected with 

 the zinc industry, and identified with the New Jersey 

 Zinc Co. since its formation in 1897, has resigned as general 

 sales manager of that company to 

 accept the position of vice-presi- 

 dent of the Eagle-Picher Lead 

 Co., Chicago, Illinois, corroders 

 and manufacturers of lead prod- 

 ucts. 



Mr. Clopper was born in Cam- 

 den, New Jersey, .'\ugust 12, 1873, 

 and was educated in the public 

 schools of that city. In his six- 

 teenth year he entered the employ 

 of the Lehigh Zinc & Iron Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as of- 

 fice boy. Eight years later, when 

 the Nevt^ Jersey Zinc Co. was 

 formed he was made assistant 

 bookkeeper. In May, 1899, he 

 me a clerk in the purchas- 

 ing department, and steadily ad- 

 vancing, he was appointed pur- 

 chasing agent five years later. He made a thorough study of 

 purchasing sysiems of industrial corporations, and in 1912, 

 when a general purchasing department was established, with 

 branches in different sections of the country, he was selected as 

 head, with the title of general purchasing agent, in which position 



he was enabled to create one of the largest and most effi- 

 cient purchasing organizations in the country. In June 1913 on 

 the retirement of W. W. Melvin, who for nearly half 1 century 

 had been with the company, and for much of this time its sales 

 manager. Mr. Clopper was appointed to this important position 

 and although this change from purchasing to selling required a 

 complete reversal of point of view, his success in the new posi- 

 tion IS a matter of record, and the Eagle-Picher Lead Co. is to be 

 congratulated upon securing his services. ' 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



G. H. Hamilton, formerly special representative of The 

 Federal Rubber Co. of Illinois, Cudahy, Wisconsin, has been 

 appointed export manager, with offices at 38-40 West 62d 

 street. New York City. 



G. R. Lundane has been placed in 

 charge of the newly established New 

 York City office of The Black & 

 Decker Manufacturing Co., Baltimore, 

 Maryland, manufacturer of portable 

 electric tools, compressors, and special 

 machinery, with headquarters at 

 Room 2920, Equitable building. Mr. 

 Lundane will include the State of 

 Connecticut in his territory as well as 

 New York City and the surrounding 

 territory. .The Black & Decker com- 

 pany have branches in Philadelphia, 

 -•Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, 

 Buffalo and Boston, as well as foreign corn- 

 France, Norway, Sweden and Japan. 



Arthur J. Peebles has been appointed general sales man- 

 ager of The Armstrong Rubber Co., Inc., 2 West 61st street 

 New York City. 



J. S. McClurg has been elected to the board of directors of 

 The Carlisle iCord Tire Co., Inc., New York City and Andover, 

 -Massachusetts. 



Martin K. Whalen, formerly special representative of the 

 Century-Plainfield Tire Co., Plainfield, New Jersey, has been 

 appointed manager of the southern district of the Interna- 

 tional India Rubber Corp., South Bend, Indiana. 



C. G. Hill, who for two years was assistant manager of the rec- 

 ord department of The Rubber Association of America, and 

 later in charge of the Association's Pacific Coast office, is 

 now with Charles T. Wilson Co., Inc., New Y^ork City, crude 

 rubber importers. 



Frank Waldo, of the firm of E. M. & F. Waldo, New York 

 City, dealers in colors and compounding ingredients for the 

 rubber trade, recently returned from Europe where he has 

 been military attache at The Hague. 



W. J. Cromie, formerly with the Belmont Packing & Rubber 

 Co., 139 North 2d street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has be- 

 come associated with the Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing Co., 

 1021 Filbert street, in the same city. This concern manu- 

 factures mechanical rubber goods, belting, packing, hose, 

 etc. 



F. K. Starbird has been appointed northwestern district 

 manager for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., .Akron, Ohio, 

 and will cover Minneapolis, Great Falls, Minot, Far.go and 

 Des Moines branches. 



G. R. LUND.'VNE. 



Columbus (Ohio), 

 ill England, 



Herbert 



The Gillette Rubber Co., Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has taken 

 over the plant and business of the Eau Claire Manufacturing 

 Co. for manufacturing machinery and equipment for the tire 

 trade. A new machine shop has been built and the company is 

 producing a bead-making machine of its own design, as well 

 as tire-building and portable tire stands, tire cores and molds, 

 and other specialties. 



