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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1. 1915. 



SAMUEL M. NICHOLSON, DIRECTOR OF THE 

 UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 



MR. SAMUEL M. NICHOLS< iN is one of the comparatively 

 in additions to the United States Rubber Co.'s board 

 oi directoi He was elected for a second term at the last annual 

 meeting held on March 16. Hut he is by no newcomer 



in tin- world oi bu iness, lor there art- verj few men in the 



country, certainly 

 few in New 

 England, w here 

 M r. X icholson 

 comes from, who 

 have a wider cir- 

 cle of business in- 

 terests. Manufac- 

 turing, banking, in- 

 surance, lighting, 

 ads, lumber, 

 publishing — lie's in 

 them all. 



Mr. Nichol 

 was born Febru- 

 ary 25, 1861, in 

 Providence, Rhode 

 Island, which has 

 always been his 

 home. Eight of his 

 ancestors were Co- 

 lonial go\ ci nors of 

 Rhode Island, so 

 that before he was 

 born he had a fine 



record in his favor. He hurried through his Latin and Greek 

 and logarithms and at 18 was ready to go to work— which he did 

 in the mills of the Nicholson File Co., founded by his father. He 

 familiarized himself with the manufacturing of files, then he 

 slicnt some time in the office to see how the business end was 

 conducted and then traveled extensively in the United States 

 and Europe , n the interests of the company. In this way, the 

 fa< tory. the office and the market all became familiar subjects to 

 him. In 1891 he was made vice-president of the company and 

 two years later elected president and general manager — two po- 

 sitions he has held ever since. 



He is also president of the American Screw Co. and a director 

 in nearly a score of companies, including the United States Rub- 

 1 o., the Industrial Trust Co. of Providence, the Union Trust, 

 arragansett Electrical Lighting Co.. the Norfolk Southern 

 Railway Co., the John I. Roper Lumber Co., the Providence 

 Tribune Co.. and others and more, besides seven insurance com- 

 panies. Hut even so, he has never allowed business to get the 

 upper hand — he extracts a great deal out of life besides line an- 

 nual reports. lie is much devoted to yachting and belongs to the 

 New York Yacht Club, besidi - several in Rhode Island. He is a 

 member of a number of social clubs in his home section, besides 

 the Union League and other clubs in New York City. He has 

 also played quite a part in politics— as a member of the Provi- 

 dence Common Council, as Colonel on the Governor's staff; and 

 in 1904 he was one of the presidential electors who voted to give- 

 Mr. Roosevelt four years in the White House 



Samuel M. Nicholson. 



'I he Schacht Rubber I o., of Huntington, Indiana, is preparing 

 plans for the enlargement of its plant. 



The Whitall latum Co., which manufactures rubber sundries 

 lie drug store trade, is making extensive additions to the 

 equipment of its factory at Keyport, New Jersey, the press de- 

 partment equipment being more than doubled. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Horace L. Dawson has been promoted to the district sales 

 management in the Chicago territorj for The Cutler-Hammer 

 Clutch Co., of Milwaukee, manufacturers of the magnetic 

 clutch-brake equipment for rubber mills. Mr. Dawson be- 

 c.inic associated with the Cutler-Hammer company in 1907, 

 immediately after his graduation from Cornell. When the 

 company opened its I incinnati office, in 1913, he was placed 

 in charge. 



Nicholas F. Brady, a member of the board of directors of 

 the United States Rubber < o., is one of the eight members 

 of the Finance Committee of The National Security League, 

 Inc., an organization formed to promote plans to adequately 

 prepare the United States for defence. Membership in this 

 League — which is located at 25 Fine street. New York — is 

 divided into three classes, life, contributing and annual, with 

 dues of S25, $5 and $1, respectively. 



S. I'. Woodard has been appointed sales manager of the 

 Xew Jersey Car Spring & Rubber Co.. of Jersey City, New 

 Jersey. 



C. E. Speaks has been appointed manager of the motor- 

 cycle tire department of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., of 

 Akron, Ohio. 



Benjamin F. Hochschild, of Chicago, was elected on March 

 1 to the office of president and general manager of The 

 Gordon Rubber Co., of Canton, Ohio, formerly held by A. E. 

 Gordon. 



Joel Mann Martin, for the past five or six years Atlanta mana- 

 ger for the Banner Electric division of the General Electric Co., 

 on April 5 entered the employ of the Walpole Tire & Rubber Co., 

 of Walpole, Massachusetts, as Southern representative, handling 

 Walpoie tapes and insulating varnishes. 



Jacques Reismann. of Manaos, Brazil, arrived in Xew York 

 \pnl 12, by the Lloyd Brazileiro steamship "Sao Paulo." Mr. 

 Reismann. wdio is a prominent merchant and importer of sup- 

 plies, numbering among his customers some of the best-known 

 rubber men of the Upper Amazon and the Acre district, expects 

 to remain in the United States for two or three months. 



Henry H. Holland, manager of the London office of the United 

 States Rubber Co., is paving his annual visit to the United 

 States. 



C. E. Siegfried has established offices in the Hamilton build- 

 ing. Akron. Ohio, where he will act as Western agent for George 

 E. Pell, crude rubber broker, of Xew York. 



E. D. Hartman has been entrusted with the management of 

 the branch just opened in Washington. D. C, at 1313 Xew York 

 avenue, by the Fisk Rubber Co., with whose Baltimore branch 

 he was connected for several years. 



Thomas A. Bennett, for the past five years in charge of the 

 conveyor and elevator belt sales of The B. F. Goodrich Co., at 

 Akron, has become associated with the Xew Jersey Zinc < i i., in 

 New York, as assistant to the general sales manager. 



Frederick J. Redemann has been promoted from the manage- 

 ment of the Worcester, Massachusetts, branch of the Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co., to the position of manager of the branch at 

 Hartford, Connecticut. He is succeeded in Worcester by E. T. 

 Ramey. 



J. 1!. Fry, who was for live years in the employ of the United 

 Stans Navy, as a rubber expert, has been appointed manager 

 of the Detroit branch of the Empire Rubber & Tire Co.. of 

 Trenton. Xew Jersey, with an office at 842 Woodward avenue. 



The latest handicap list of the Metropolitan Golf Association, 

 d April 10, includes among its 553 names that of Russell G. 

 i oil 



i harles A. Cde, manager of the Boston office of the United 

 States Rubber Co.. has had an attack of pneumonia but, it is 

 pleasant to record, is now convalescing. 



