M \i« ii 1. 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



339 



MR. BERTRAM G. WORK. 



'TMIE foundations of the Goodrich compam wen laid by Dr. 

 * B. F. Goodrich and Alanson Work. The former was an 

 energetic creator of the promotei type, the latter a prac- 

 tical, clear-headed factory organizer with genuine mechanical 

 genius. It was nat- 

 ural, therefore, that 

 the present head of 

 the company, Ber- 

 tram ( .. \\ ork, after 

 his graduation at 

 Harvard, should 

 take an interest in 

 the company for 

 which his father 

 had done so much, 

 and in which he was 

 a large stockholder. 

 He began at the 

 bottom. and, in 

 course of time, 

 be ame superintend- 

 ent. As a persistent 

 worker few of the 

 scores of enthusias- 

 tic young men that 

 made up the Good- 

 rich staff were in 

 his class. He was 



at the factory often Alanson Work. 



before light, and 



stayed far into the night. He studied men and methods, created 

 machines, experimented and organized, and his associates, rec- 

 ognizing his loyalty and ability, gave him a free hand. His 

 vacations were spent in Europe, visiting and comparing notes 

 with the leading rubber men in England, Germany and France. 



Dr. Goodrich passed away; H. C. Corson retired; and when 

 i ol. Perkins gavt up the presidency of the company, then grow- 

 ing great, Mr. Work of necessity took the reins. Under his 

 i ship the company has continued and continues to expand. 

 Always interested in golf, he recognized the value of the 

 rubber-cored ball when it was but a crude beginning. He- 

 financed the Haskell 

 company, perfected 

 the ball, and inci- 

 dentally saw to it 

 that the inventor 

 was abundantly re- 

 warded, and that the 

 Goodrich company 

 profited largely. 



1 1 i s ability t< 

 recognize capacity, 

 and willingness to 

 accord to rivals 

 their due meed 

 o f appreciation, 

 brought him into 

 close friendship 

 with Arthur II. 

 Marks when he 

 came so wondet- 

 fully to the front in 

 building up the Dia- 

 mond Rubber Co., 

 and it was largely 

 his influence that 

 eventually brought 

 both Mr. Marks and the Diamond into the Goodrich fold. 

 Personally, Mr Work is sturdily built, fond of horseback rid- 

 ing, golf and travel. He is not much of a talker, is never out- 

 wardly enthusiastic, but fond of his friends and absolutely indif- 

 ferent to his enemies — if he has any. 



Bertram G. Work. 



MR. DAVOL TO HAVE A MODEL YACHT. 



The yacht designed by A. L. Swasey for Charles J. Davol. 

 president of the Davol Rubber Co., of Providence, which 

 is being built at Robert Jacobs' yards at City Island, 

 New York, is nearing completion. It will be a notable addi- 

 tion to the pleasure craft of the coming season. It is built 

 of steel. Its general dimensions are 120 feet over all, 118 

 feet 6 inches on the waterline, 14 feet 4 inches extreme beam. 

 4 feet 9 inches draught and 8 feet 9 inches depth of hull. 

 with a speed of 20 miles an hour. Power will be supplied by 

 two of the largest size Winton motors. The accommoda- 

 tions are large and roomy for a yacht of the size, including 

 owner's stateroom and several guests' staterooms, besides 

 very spacious accommodations for the crew. The yacht also 

 has a large cruising capacity of gasolene and water. 



AN AMERICAN RUBBER PLANTER IN MEXICO. 



George M. Havice. an American, formerly a resident of San 

 Francisco and lately of Playa Vicente, Mexico, vice-president 

 and general manager of the Playa Vicente Rubber & Develop- 

 ment Co., Inc., recently submitted to a special correspondent of 

 the New York "Herald" an affidavit sworn to before the Ameri- 

 can consul at Veracruz, containing a brief statement of in- 

 dignities and atrocities perpetrated by Mexican soldier bandits, 

 with Americans and other foreigners, as well as respectable 

 representatives of their own race, as the victims. Mr. Havice 

 states that he has lost everything on his plantation, the bare 

 land alone being left him. and that may be confiscated any day. 

 He describes raids made upon his plautati'>v jtl one of which 



five men, calling themselves "Villistas," demanded, under threats 

 of shooting, 3,000 pesos (about $1,500). As he had only 300 pesos, 

 they took that, returning later to demand 4,000 pesos more. On 

 being told that he did not possess this amount, he was struck 

 over the head with their revolvers, knocked down, bound with 

 a rope and dragged around the room. He states this is not un- 

 usual treatment and is only a small part of the things that many 

 Americans are now suffering iii Mexico. 



MR. IVINS ON THE GERMAN VIEWPOINT. 



Mr. William M. Ivins, who for several years was president 

 of the General Rubber Co., contributed a half-column letter to 

 the New York "Times'" of January 29 on the attitude that 

 Germany has maintained for a number of years past in regard 

 to some of her smaller neighbors. He quotes from an article 

 on Holland and Germany that appeared in "Die Grenzboten" 

 in 1902, in which the writer, referring to Holland, makes this 

 statement: "Her guaranteed neutrality is no more than a scrap 

 of paper, which would prove worthless in war," then going 

 on in an attempt to prove that Holland's only rational course 

 was incorporation with the German empire. The particular 

 interest of this article lies in the fact, as discovered by Mr 

 Ivins. that the expression "scrap of paper" as referring to in- 

 ternational guarantees was used in German publications twelve 

 years before the breaking out of the war. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients: Rubber Country of the Amazon; 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



