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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1915. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



I II. Peaty has opened an office at 38 Vesey street, New- 

 York, where he will engage in the crude rubber business 

 This is a line with which Mr Peaty is quite familiar, for, 

 with the assistance of Samuel Kubie, then a member of 

 Kubie, Herman & I o., he founded the Raw Products Co., one 

 of the leading crude rubber concerns of the city, and continued 

 active in the affairs of that company until two years ago, when 

 he retired bei ause of ill health. 



William Perrett ha ippointed Detroit branch mana 

 of the Republic Rubber Co., of Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. Per- 

 rett is not only thoroughly a d with the tire business, 

 having had 20 years' experience in this field, but is equally 

 familiar with the trade of Detroil and vicinity. He is promi- 

 nent in M sonii circles, being Grand Master for the State of 

 Mich Potentate of the Shriners al Detroit. His head 

 quarters will be at 1001 W Iward avenue. 



E. O. Hoopengarner has recentlj associated himself with the 

 'i - lire & Rubber Co., oi East Palestine, Ohio, in < : 



ii rial w^rk in New York City, where he was previously in 

 charge of a branch of the Swinehart Tire cc Rubber Co. 



F. II. Mcggett, well known in the New England footwear 

 trade, is now representing the Enterprise Rubber Co. in Rhode 



and ' onnecticut, carrying Candee and Federal lines of 

 rubber boots and shoes. 



William A. Inwood, for many years connected with The Rub- 

 ber Regenerating Co. in the capacity of New York City repre- 

 sentative, with offices in Grand Central Terminal building, re- 

 centlj severed Ins connection with the company, which has dis- 

 continued its' New York office. The affairs of the Regenerating 

 company will he administered from the Naugatuck plant. Mr. 

 Enwood anil his wife have left for California, where they will 

 spend several months. 



I R. Branston, special representative of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., of Akron, is now making a trip through the Far East, where 

 he expects to spend about si\ months, visiting Ceylon, the Malay 

 States, Java, Sumatra and parts of India and Africa. 



Horace C. Pratt, for several years president and general man- 

 ager of tin Amsterdam Rubber Co., one of the wholesale foot- 

 wear distributing houses of the United States Rubber Co. in 

 Xew York, has removed to Cleveland. Ohio, where he bis as- 

 sumed the management of the Adams & Ford Co., engaged in 

 similar distribution 



A. A. Templeton, for the past 16 years connected with Morgan 

 & Wright, has resigned from that concern to become president 

 of the Detroil Seamless Tubes Co. 



Herbert V (iithens, vice-president and -ales manager of the 

 Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Milwaukee, is spending a 

 six weeks' vacation at Jamaica and other Southern points. 



B. H. Wcibel has been appointed manager of the Firestone 

 Tire & Rubber Co.'s Cincinnati branch. 



II. J. Woodward, of the Knight Tire & Rubber Co. sales 

 i transferred from the Boston office to the branch 

 at 215 West Fifty-first street, New York. 



J. M. Ward, for the past two years a factory representative of 

 the United States Tire Co., has been appointed manager of the 

 branch at Indianapolis, Indiana. 



C. D. Studebaker has been promoted from a position as sabs- 

 man I irestone Tire & Rubber Co. to the managemi 



the New York branch. 



Thomas O'Callaghan. Jr., has been appointed manager of the 

 Empire Rubber & Tire Co.'s branch at 240 West Fifty-fifth 

 street, New York, succeeding J. B. Todd, whose recent resigna- 

 tion terminated seven years' association with the company. 



COMMODORE BENEDICT MAKES A RESCUE AT SEA. 



Commodore Benedict, who sailed on bis yacht, the 

 "( ineida." on January J, lor his usual midwinter cruise in 

 southern waters, rescued the crew and eleven passengers 

 from the dismantled sloop "Southern Cross" early in Feb- 

 ruary. He towed the sloop into Monserrat, Leeward Islands. 



TWO LIFE SAVERS GONE TO THE WAR. 

 Reader- oi X i w York papers will recall the wonderful feat 

 oi lifi saving that occurred off Sandy Hook last winter, 

 when the oil tanker "Oklahoma" buckled and broke and thi 

 Booth line steamship "Gregory" rescued five of the crew. 

 This rescue was effected only after an exhibition of daring 

 rarely witnessed. The wreck occurred during a terrific storm. 

 and the crew from the ill fated tanker were struggling to save 

 themselves on an overturned life boat I hey were being 



-wept by the "Gregory" when tw the officers — Second 



r J. S. William- and Third Officer F. D. Roberts- 

 leaped into the water, with their heavy, clothes and sea boots 

 on. and pulled the exhausted men to tin- life lines. Five out 

 of the i rew of eleven were saved in ibis way. These two 

 officers, Williams and Roberts, known to many rubber men 

 who have visited the Amazon, have joined the British army. 

 KEMPSHALL TYRE CO. REDUCES CAPITAL STOCK. 



The Kempshall Tyre Co. of Europe, Limited, has reduced 

 its capital stock from £175,000 to £2,-100, the application for 

 this reduction explaining that the original vendor sold patents 

 at a large price and £120,000 had been written off these patents. 

 The company was registered in London in December, 1906, 

 with an authorized capital of £45,000, to adopt an agreement 

 with Eleazar Kempshall to acquire certain patent rights relat- 

 ing to automobile tires and to carry on the manufacture of 

 tires, Mr. Kempshall to be a director so long as he should hold 

 shares to a value of £20,000. 



Eleazar Kempshall is an American, well known to the rub- 

 ber manufacturers in this country because of his many inven- 

 tions ami patents relating to rubber. In the July, 1902, issue 

 of this publication mention was made of 77 patents, with 874 

 claims, that bad up to that time been granted him on golf and 

 other balls, and many others were later allowed him on similar 

 inventions. He also invented a golf club, to thoroughly pro- 

 tect which would involve 76 patents comprising 863 claims. 

 Other of his inventions were the Kempshall hose hand, illus- 

 trated mi page 150 of The India Rubber World of February, 

 1893, and the Kempshall non-skid tire shown on page 363 of 

 the issue of July, 1909. His first patents here were assigned 

 to the Kempshall Manufacturing Co. He later withdrew from 

 that company, becoming interested, in this country, in the Per- 

 fect (.oil 11. ill Co. and the Kempshall Tire Co lie recently 

 assisted in organizing the Globe Golf Ball Co., incorporated on 

 January 13 of the present year, under the laws of Delaware, to 

 make and -ell golf halls and rubber or gutta percha article-. 



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