Jl NK 1. 1915. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



505 



CLIFFORD H. OAKLEY. 



ULROADING is a verj good apprenticeship for any sort 



1 »■ oi active life, especially when the railroading consists of 

 actual road construction. This means habits oi hard work, at- 

 tention to detail and a life in the open Ml this fell to the lot 

 oi I lifford II. Oakley, between thi ages oi 17 and 22. It might 



be in iiiti (i ii c d in 

 passing thai Mr. 

 i '.ii Ii y as born in 

 October, 1869, in 

 I li vi l.iii.l. \t 16 he 

 had started to woi k. 

 At 17 he entered 

 the employ of the 

 Erii i aili i >ad as a 

 drafting room ap- 

 i'i enl ii i in the mo- 

 tive power depart- 

 ment. Soon he was 

 transferred to the 

 maintenance oi waj 

 department, as rod- 

 man, and later be- 

 came an assistant 

 engineer of the 

 n >ad Mr. i >akley 

 looks back with 

 pleasure and satis- 

 faction to his stren- 

 uous experiences in 

 t b e open during 



Clifford II. Oaklei 



those 5 >iais of exacting but interesting railroad work. 



In 1891 Mr. Oaklej entered the service of the Cleveland Rub- 

 ber Co. and within a year had become assistant superintendent 

 of that plant. When that company was consolidated with the 

 New York Belting & Packing Co. and others to form the 

 Mechanical Rubber to. he was sent to Passaic, New Jersey, as 



superintendent of the planl of the New York Belting & Tacking 

 Co at that place. Two years later he returned to i levcland to 

 ne superintendent of the Cleveland Rubber Works, which 

 position he held for 5 years. He then associated himself with 

 ih. Grieb Rubber Co. at Trenton, New Jersey, as factory mana- 

 ger, and helped to shape the destinies of this concern for seven 

 years, during which time he induced the Ajax Rubber Co. of 

 Xe\\ Vork t.. move t>> Trenton and consolidate with the Grieb 

 company, thus forming the well-known ^jax-Grieb Rubber Co. 



In 1907 Mr. Oaklej decided t.. enter upon the manufacture oi 

 rubber goods on his own account. He founded the Essex Rubber 

 Co., whose business, starting in a small way, has ^r.mn to its 

 present proportions under his leadership as president and general 

 mar.agei I Ins companj makes a varied line of mechanical spe- 

 cialties, a hard molded insulating material known as "Essex Con- 

 densite." automobih accessories, asbestos brake lining, packings. 

 sporting goods, horseshoe pads and numerous other specialties. 

 The company is credited with a very large production of rubber 

 soles, and the reputation thus gained has contributed largely to 

 its success in placing on the market the Essex rubber heel. It 

 enjoys sales of close to a million dollars a year and has recent!) 

 completed extensive additions to its plant in Trenton 



Mr. Oaklej is vice president of the Trenton Chamber of Com- 

 merce and chairman of its Manufacturing Committee, trustee 

 and director t>i the New Jersey Manufacturers' Association and 

 an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers. 



THE MARRIAGE OF MR. APSLEV. 



Ex-Con .an 1.. I). Apsley, president of th< Vpsley Rubber 



and Mis Abigail Black were married at Mr ^psley's rcsi- 



i in Mud-. m. Massachusetts, on the evening oi \pril 30. 

 The ceremony was performed by thi Ri erend Newton Bl 

 rector of Christ I piscopal I hurch, of Needham, Massachu 

 a brother in law of the bride. 



MR. CUTLER CONTINUES HIS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORK. 

 II. II. Cutler, vice-president of th( I utlei Hammer Clutch 

 which manufactures rubber mill devices, has moved his residence 

 n . .in Milv in, « here the homi i loi ated, 



i" i '" isti 'ii Ins ini, mi, m beii I ■ ■ ■■■ age in scienti i ch in 



the Massachusetts Institute pi ["echnology, oi which he is a 

 graduate. Mr. i utler, to whom is credited mon patents on 

 trie i .mi rollini i ices than havi granted 



person in iln I mud Si. lies, ., everal war- ago from ac- 



tive management of the Cutler Hammer (dutch and Manufactur- 

 ing i ■ "ili . ,i which he founded. 



The accepted authority on South American rubber — "The 

 Rubber Country of the Amazon," by Hcnrv C. Pearson. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Roberl B. Baird, of the Rubber Trading , is on bis way 



to the Pacific coast, his itinerary embracing C • Pasa- 

 dena, San Diego and the San Francisco Fair. 



W ord has bi i n rei eived thai i aptairi I Ian oi thi Montreal 



manager of the Dunlop lire & Rubber G ods I 0., Limited, and 



formerlj connected with the Canadian Consolidated Rubbei I -. 

 Limited, who weni to the front with the Canadian troops some 

 months agi i, has b< en wounded in battle. 



Mr. and Mrs Wilmer Dunbar — the former vice-president and 

 genera! manager of the Dreadnaught Tire & Rubber Co.. of 



Baltimore, and of the Greensburg lire & Rubber ( ... of Greens- 

 burg, Pennsylvania— on May 14 celebrated the twentj fifth anni- 

 versary of their marriage with a dinner to their friends at the 

 Greensburg Country Club. 



II T. Dunn. ]. resident of the bisk Rubber Co., of Chici 

 Falls, Massachusetts, 1ms acquired an interest in the Willys- 

 Overland automobile manufacturing company and will in 

 the future devote a portion .1 his time to the interests of 

 that company, being it- vice-president and a member of its 

 board of directors. The Willys < Iverland plant is located at 

 Toledo. Ohio. 



C. W. Wacker has been promoted from the management 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co.'s branch at Toledo to a similar 



position at Cleveland. Ohio, bein ded in the former 



city by H. W. L. Kidder. 



The Republic Rubber Co., of Youngstown. Ohio, is being 

 sented in Utah by Rudolph Orlob, with offices in the 

 Walker Bank building, Salt Lake City. 



W. O. Dttrrell. formerly connected with the Diamond 

 Rubber Co., has been appointed Boston branch manager for 

 the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., of Jeannette, Pennsylvania, 

 succeeding Graham Laurie, who will devote bis attention 

 hereafter to an accessor) concern in which he has purchased 

 an inti 



J. S. Watterson, formerly manager of the Iroquois Rubber 

 Co "i Buffalo, New York, has become pn sident of that con- 

 cern, an office made vacant by the resignation of Edward T. 



Smith to assume the presidency of the Chicago Rubber I 

 of ( hicago. Illinois. 



James Pfeiffer, president of the Miller Rubber I ... of Akron, 

 arrived in New York from Bermuda, May 19, on the "Bermu- 

 dian" oi the Quebec line. 



R. E. Smith, formerly Providence branch manager for the 

 United States ["in Co., has been appointed manager of the 

 branch at Worcester, Massachusetl eeding John R. W hit- 



in vc-r. 



