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I Febru \kv 1, 1915. 



WILLIAM T. COLE. 



A/\ l< ''■■''■ r. COL] | Rubbi i I 



*»1 Vssociation I until December 10 last, ami now 



i Group" "i the Rubber Club, is 

 ' live wire." The brief of his bu 

 sketched by himself, i- so well dont thai we quote: 

 "M\ i rather leaflet ami 1 will tell 



the little story in the first person, leaving it to your ac- 



William T. Cole. 



knowledged editorial skill to make it readable. Do not accuse 

 me of trespassing, as you took down the bars and invited me in. 



"I was born in Paterson, Xew Jersey (1863). where my father 

 was engaged in building locomotive frames for the Cooke, 

 Rogers & Gratit Locomotive Works, located in that city. (I 

 chuckle t.. recall that Colonel Colt also admits being born in 

 Paterson. ) 



"I enjoyed an academic education supplemented by a business 

 course ami technical training; all of which more or less quali- 

 fied me to enter (as an employe) the First National Bank of 

 Paterson immediately after my graduation. I remained with 

 the bank for several years, and the recollection of that asso- 

 ciation is the grandest of my business life, on account of the 

 magnanimity of the broad-minded man composing the Hoard of 

 Directors and constituting the official staff, in permitting me 

 to engage in outside business to occupj the time before 9:00 

 A. M. and after 3 :30 P. M., and thus keep in check the youthful 

 energy with which I was imbued. I accordingly, in conjunction with 

 two of my closest friends, organized a stock company, of which 

 I was treasurer, for the purpose of manufacturing silk ribbons 

 and broak silk. After two years the business was so well estab- 

 lished that I resigned from the bank ami merged myself into 

 the firm of Cole & Kuett, with manufacturing plants at Paterson 

 and Sterling. New Jersey. 



"The emancipation of women began in 1893, with the advent of 

 tailor made suits, and the silk business was consequently demor- 

 alized to an alarming extent, so I said farewell to the fickle 

 Queen dc Soie and swore allegiance to King Cotton (with a 

 rubber lining) and established myself in the domain of the 

 Fabric Fire Hose Co. I am now, and have been for several 

 years, president and general manager of the Fabric Fire 

 Hose Co." 



Mr. Cole is very much of a stickler for the rights of the 

 individual manufacturer. He therefore led in the fight that the 

 Mechanical Rubber Goods Manufacturers' Association made 



against the demands of the Insurance Laboratories as to fire 

 1.- e. In this work he showed himself not only a clear and 

 logical reasoned but possessed of a trenchant wit and a 

 happj facultj tor statue.' fact that i pli isanl as it is rare. 

 Somi "i ln.s essays on the rubber i n position in not 



willing to turn over their factories to outsiders and pay 

 them fi ir the privilege, are i '• 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Following the resignation on January 23 of C. I. Wilson, pur- 

 chasii of the Boston Woven Nose & Rubber Co., of 



I'.. si, ,n. j. B. McMahon, who has held the position of assistant 

 purchasing agent, wa- promoted to the im ■ . M. G. Hopkins 

 ning assistant. 

 1 Esmond Bailey, son of C. J. Bailey, 22 Boylston street, 

 Boston, is now associated with his father in promoting the sales 

 of the Bailey "Won't Slip" heel. 



G. II. Elliman, chemist for the King Rubber Co., of Clarendon 

 Hills, Massachusetts, has developed a special compound for use 

 in rubberset brushes. Mr. Elliman was previously employed as 

 chemist by the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co., the B. & R. 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., and the Davidson Rubber Co. Mr. 

 Elliman recently joined the King organization. 



E. L. Hill, formerly superintendent of the insulated wire and 

 power cable plant of the American Steel & Wire Co., at 

 Worcester, Massachusetts, is now consulting engineer of the 

 Hazard Manufacturing Co. at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 



Edward C. Southwick, who for the past three years has been 

 traffic manager of the Revere Rubber Co. at Providence, Rhode 

 Island, was elected January 1 to a similar office with the 

 Providence Chamber of Commerce. 



John V. Mowe, for a long time identified with the sales forces 

 of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and the Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co., of Akron, has been appointed assistant sales man- 

 ager of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. branch at Detroit, Michigan. 

 D. C. Hathaway has also associated himself with the Kelly- 

 Springfield company, at Cleveland, Ohio. He is well known to 

 the trade of that section, where for a number of years past he 

 has represented the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 



The Republic Rubber Co., of Voungstown, Ohio, is about to 

 open a branch in London, of which Frank V. Springer, who 

 has been head of the eastern sales department, with offices in 

 New York, will be manager. Mr. Springer will be succeeded 

 in New York by Herbert W. Bixler, formerly assistant general 

 sales manager of the company at Youngstown. 



Walter W. Macdonald informs us that he has severed his con- 

 nection with the Patterson Rubber Co., Lowell, Massachusetts, 

 to accept the position of superintendent of the Century Rubber 

 Co., Plainfield, New Jersey. 



A. O. Holroyd, who will be recalled as the pioneer in the in- 

 troduction of the Dunlop tire in the United States, is now a 

 resident of Daytona. Florida. He is one of the owners of the 

 Prince George Hotel. 



Frederic H. Sanford, formerly of Manaos, Brazil, where he 

 was manager of the Adelbert H. Alden Co., Limited, is at 

 Miami, Florida. Mr. Sanford, wife and son had settled in 

 Switzerland, but came to the United States at the outbreak of 

 the war. 



C. Gehring. manager of the Paris branch of The Philadelphia 

 Rubber Works Co., manufacturers of reclaimed rubber, of 

 Akron, Ohio, is now in this country, where he expects to remain 

 until the close of the war and resumption of business on a large 

 scale in France. 



L S. McChirg, formerly of Akron, has with others reor- 

 ganized The S. & M. Rubber Co., of Coshocton, under the name 

 of The McChirg Rubber Co.; authorized capital stock. $250,000. 



