J VNI \RV 1, 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



213 



ADJUTANT TRUMBULL WARREN. 



T-KTMBULL WARREN, president of the Gutta I'ercha & 

 * Rubber, Limited, of Toronto, Canada, is one of Un- 

 patriotic Canadians who are now at the front. As a youth 

 he received considerable military training, and, as lieutenant 

 in the Forty-eighth Highlanders, he was one of the first to 

 respond to England's call for men. On his arrival in England he 

 was at once appointed Assistant Ad- 

 jutant on the Headquarters Stafl 

 and detailed Eoi dutj it Salisbury 

 Plain. Mr. Warren, although in 

 reality an enthusiastic Canadian, is 

 verj nearly a Yankee. His father, 

 .the late H. D. Warren, was a New 

 Yorker who went to Toronto in 

 1887. There he at once took a 

 prominent part in the business and 

 social life of that busy city. He 

 brought up his three sons, not as 

 Canadians or Americans, but as 

 sturdy, self-reliant citizens of the 

 world. He also trained them in the 

 important rubber business that he 

 built, so that at the time of his pass- 

 ing the eldest son was able to take 

 his place as president of the com- 

 pany. When the call to arms came 

 he felt it "a duty" and at once re- 

 sponded. In the same spirit the 

 two younger sons, H. D., Jr., and 

 Frederic Alden, are working hard 

 to fit themselves for service 

 should the call come. 



A TREAD OF •VITALIZED'' RUBBER. 



The Yitalite Rubber Co., whose 

 offices are in the Woolworth 

 building. New York, is putting 

 •out a tire with a new "vitalized" 

 rubber tread, regarding which it 

 speaks as follows in a little 



booklet recently issued: "Our chemist has produced a tread 

 stock of a new compound in which nearly all the sulphur has 

 been eliminated. This compound will vulcanize before the duck 

 and friction are burned by the high heat, as perhaps you know 

 there is a limit to the time that duck can be left in the heat 

 without its being ruined. We have produced a tread that is very 

 much tougher than any other tire on the market." 



RUBBER COMPANY SHARE QUOTATIONS. 



The following market quotations of the shares of rubber manu- 

 facturing companies on December 28, 1914, are furnished by 

 John Burnham & Co., 31 Nassau street, New York, and 41 South 

 La Salle street, Chicago. 



Bid. 



Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., common 250 



Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., preferred 100 



Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., common 348 



Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., preferred 110 



The B. F. Goodrich Company, common 23 



The B. F. Goodrich Company, preferred .... 91 



Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., common 190 



Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., preferred 102 



Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., common 65 



Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., new 1st preferred.. 75 

 Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., new 2nd preferred 93 



Miller Rubber Co 160 



Portage Rubber Co., common 25 



Portage Rubber Co., preferred 80 



Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co <i ( > 



United States Rubber Co., common 51 



United States Rubber Co., 1st preferred 100 



Trumbull Warren. 



Asked. 



352 



112 



25 



95 



192 



104 



68 



79 



97 



30 

 8S 

 70 



53 

 102 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Thorn:. s O'Callaghan, Jr.. has been appointed New York branch 

 B< r oi the Empire Rubber & Tire Co., of Trenton, succeed- 

 '"'- ' B fodd, who recently resigned to become associated with 

 Marshall, Wood & Co., automobile supply dealers at Pitts- 

 burgh, New York. 



Richard F. Foote, factory manager and an officer of the In- 

 dependent Rubber Co., of Merritton, Canada, was recently in 



New York and reported conditions 

 as normal, with good prospects for 

 increased business in army foot- 

 wear. 



C. 1). Studebaker has been placed 

 in charge of the New York office 

 of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 

 Mr. Studebaker has been associated 

 with the tire industry for a number 

 of years, first with the Diamond 

 Rubber Co. and later with the Wal- 

 pole I ire & Rubber Co., joining the 

 Firestone forces about a year ago. 



J. J. Jordan, former manager of 

 the Firestone company's New York 

 branch, has gone to Europe with a 

 view to increasing the foreign sale 

 oi Firestone tires. 



R. W. White has been promoted 

 from the management of the Col- 

 umbus, Ohio, branch of the Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co. to a sim- 

 ilar position with the Chicago 

 branch. His successor at Columbus 

 is W. W*. Magil. 



A. A. Templeton, vice-president 

 of the Morgan & Wright Tire Co., 

 of Detroit, Michigan, has been 

 elected president of the Transpor- 

 tation Bureau of the Great Lakes 

 \\ aterways Conference. 

 ( harles Holden, of the Canadian 

 Con olidated Rubber Co., Limited, Winnipeg, Manitoba, has been 

 elected president of the Northwestern Commercial Travellers' 

 Association of Canada, for the year 1915. 



I.. Greenwold, of Ashland, Ohio, has been appointed to the 

 management of the Santiago, Porto Rico, branch of the Fire- 

 stone Tire & Rubber Co. 



At the annual meeting of the New England Shoe Whole- 

 salers' Association, held December 9, at Y'oung's Hotel, Boston, 

 Mr. Fred C. Hood, general manager of the Hood Rubber Co., 

 made an address on the contractual relations between shoe 

 wholesalers and rubber companies, incidentally referring to the 

 present condition of the crude rubber market and its principal 

 tendencies. 



Among those recently appointed by the Akron Chamber of 

 Commerce to local committees are — F. A. Seiberling, head of the 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., chairman of the street railway 

 committee and also a member of the water committee; I. R. 

 Bailey, department manager of the Goodyear company, municipal 

 committee; Francis Seiberling, chairman of the entertainment 

 committi e 



C. D. Studebaker has been promoted from the sales force of 

 the Firestone Tire X: Rubber Co. to the management of the New 

 Y'ork office. 



Henry Plow, at one time treasurer of the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co., of Hartford, Connecticut, and later associated with 

 the automobile industry, which he represented in London and 

 Paris, has become sales manager and second vice-president of 

 the Midgley Tire & Rubber Co.. of Lancaster, Ohio. 



