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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



| \l'KIL 1, 1915. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Ralph W. Ashcroft, manager of the publicity department of the 

 Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, of Montreal, whose 

 clever work in bringing the product of his company to thi 



adian buyers has been mentioned from time to time 

 in this publication, paid New Vork a brief visit earl) in March 

 Mr Ashcroft states that the war made such a demand on Ins 



any for 1 ts and heavj g I- thai .ill thi i com- 



ing under these two heads was cleared out from their storehouses 



where in Canada. The reclaiming business of the company 



has also received a great impetus, partly because of the em- 



bargo laid upon all rubber scrap in Canada, forbidding its ex- 



ition anywhere outside the British Empire. 



Marshall I> Wilbur, i ;o, secretary .if tile Blodgetl 



er Co., of St. Joseph, Michigan, i- said to lie negotiating 

 for the purchase of a hydro-aeroplane, For use between the two 

 the saving of tune effected by this means being two hours 

 nip, which by train takes three hours. 



M. I". Baird, secretary and treasurer of the Bi-Lateral Fire 

 , of Chicago, made a recent brief visit to Daytona, 

 Florida, stopping off for a day on his way from Beresford to 

 C hicago. 



\Y. E. Anderson has been appointed manager of the Chi- 

 branch of the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co.. of 

 Dayton. Ohio, with headquarters at 2012 Michigan avenue. 



R. K. Sheppard, of The B. F. Goodrich Co.. elected presi- 

 dent of The Associated Manufacturers of Electrical Supplies. 

 formed on March 9, was presented on that occasion with a 

 handsome silver loving cup by fellow members of the com- 

 mittee on organization, in appreciation of his services in the 

 interest of the association's formation. 



Edward T. Smith has been elected president and manager 

 ie Chicago Rubber Co., to fill the office recently vacated 

 by tin- resignation of L. C. Law-ton. 



I). M. Culwell has been appointed district manager of the 

 Goodyear I ire & Rubber Co., for the southern district, which in- 

 cludes all the Southern states and has factory branches in Jack- 

 sonville, New Orleans, Birmingham, Charlotte, Atlanta, Mem- 

 phis and Nashville. His headquarters are at Atlanta. Georgia. 

 Mr. Colwell has been with thi Gi ear company fur the past 

 live years, first working in the factory and becoming familiar 

 with the manufacturing processes, and later, successively, as 

 road representative, sales instructor and assistant manager '>f 

 the -ales department 



Arthur 1' Mosby, formerly connected with the Knight Tire 

 & Rubber Co., of Canton, Ohio, at its Baltimore branch, has 

 secured sales rooms at 204 St. Paul street, Baltimore, and taken 

 the sab of Midglej tire- in and around that city. 



William J. Slater, who has just joined the sales organization 

 of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., at \Kr.iti. Ohio, was at one 

 time advertising manager for the company, later occupying a 

 similar position, in addition to that of sales manager, with one 

 of the automobile concerns. 



W. Howard Barcus, fur the past 14 years traveling repre- 

 sentative of the "Carriage Monthly," first in the Eastern states 

 and later in Ohio. Indiana and Kentucky, has given up his work 

 with that publication and become branch manager for the Fisk 

 Rubber Co., nf Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. He will have 

 charge ..f Fisk tire sabs in the State of Ohio, with headquarters 

 at Cleveland. 



J. A, Moroney has been appointed sales manager of the car- 

 tire department of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron. 

 ceed M E. Morris, transferred to a position as manager 

 of the Pa i district. 



H. Arnold, of the firm of Arnold & Zeiss, Xew 



York, who is convalescent from a severe attack of pneumonia, is 

 spending a few week-, in Daytona, Florida. 



Nicholas F. Brady, a director in the Tinted States Rubber 

 Co., i- a stockholder in the newly formed Peoli Aeroplane 

 ( orporation, which has as its object the construction of 

 armored war aeroplanes 



MR, BURRILL NEW UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. DIRECTOR. 

 \t the last annual meeting of tin- United States Rubber Co., 

 field ou March lo, Mr, Middleton S. Burrill was elected a di- 

 rector. Mr. l'.urrill has not been the subject of a- much pub- 

 licit) as usuallj falls to tin lot ,,i leading financiei but be is 

 known in Wall street as a man of ample resources, wide in- 

 formation and of large and successful operations. Me is prob- 

 ably one of the best-informed men on general conditions to be 

 found in the financial district, and bis many successes prove 

 him to be a man of exceptionally sound judgment, lie cannot 

 fail to add strength to the company's directorate. 



SOME RUBBER MEN ON A SOUTHERN TRIP. 

 A party consisting of the directors and guests of the \tl.nti 

 Coast Lumber Corporation, the United Timber Corporation 

 and The Georgetown & Western Railroad To. left Xew York, 

 March 18, for a live days' tour of inspection of these prop- 

 erties, which are located in South Carolina. The company 

 included the following well known rubber men connected 

 with the United States Rubber Co.: Colonel Samuel P. (Alt. 

 Francis Lynde Stetson, James B. Ford. Nicholas F. Brady, 

 Lester Leland, Walter S. Ballou and Henry L. Hotchkiss — - 

 all of whom are directors of the United States company. In 

 addition there were Samuel Norris and John D. Carberry, 

 the company's secretary and assistant secretary. Other 

 members of the party were United States Senator LeBaron 

 B Colt, of Rhode Island; Herbert L. Satterlee, of J. P. Mor- 

 gan & Co., Raymond S. Farr, M. J. Quinn, R. J. Clifford and 

 Frank J. Saxe. 



ALG0T LANGE TO EXPLORE SOUTH AMERICA AGAIN. 

 Most men interested in the great rubber COUntrj of the Ama- 

 zon are familiar with the explorations in that part of the world 

 of \lgot l.ange, as be has written two hooks on the subject. 

 besides many newspaper articles, and in addition has lectured 

 quite extensivel) on what he has seen in his various Amazon 

 visits IT expects to return to the lower Amazon next June to 

 spend two or three years in a house-boat, visiting the waters of 

 the triangular section of territory northwest from Para, in- 

 cluding a part of Brazil and a corner of British Guiana. 



THE ARREST OF A P3EUD0 RUBBER MAN. 



The New York dailies oi March 4 contained the stor> of a 

 raid made the day before on an apartment on Riverside Drive, 

 that city, and the arrest for alleged cocain and opium smug- 

 gling of Tonko L. Milic. described as the "vice president of the 

 Tetuvian-Cbamayro Rubber Co." The "Times" account con- 

 tained this paragraph : 



"Mih. ha- traveled in South America, (hi bis arrival in 

 this country he established, the Federal authorities say. the 

 Peruvian-! hamayro Rubber I orporation, ami managed to -ell 

 -..hi, of it- stock, although the District Attorney's office a- 

 that his interest in the plantations the company was supposed 

 to own consisted merely of an option. The company until re- 

 cently had offices at 60 Wall street." 



The Peruvian-Chamayro Rubber To. was incur] orated, tinder 

 the laws of Delaware, December 19, 1912, with an authorized 

 capital of $700,000. The incorporators were Tonko L. Milic. 60 

 Wall street; George R. Allison, '4 Riverside Drive — both in 

 New York — and Andrew E. Sanborn, Wilmington, Delaware, 

 and the object of the company was to purchase, own, develop and 

 sell lands and timber rights in the Republic of Peru. South 

 America. 



