I .1 J, 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



51 >7 



SUYDAM 



WITH THE GOODYEAR RUBBER COMPANY FIFTY YEARS. 



There are nol many men in the rubbei tradi or as a m 



of faci in any trade, who havi I ati faction of rounding 



a full 50 years oi association with om company, but this is the 



distinction thai has been achieved bi James Suydam, trci 

 and general managi r of the G i St. 



It was in 1865 

 that Mr Suydam 

 firsl entered the 

 employ of the 

 Good) eai 1 1 impanj 

 in New York City, 

 then known as the 

 Rubber Clothing 

 G lie began as 

 a bookkeeper but 

 was soon pro- 

 moted to the sell- 

 nig department 1 1 

 was given the 

 u estern territory 

 making bis head 

 quarters in Chi- 

 cago. He was thi 

 first rubber sali 

 man to visit the 

 Twin Cities Si 

 Paul and Minne- 

 apolis — going there 

 in 1867, when the 

 combined popula- 

 tion "i" the two places was onlj 50.000. In 1875 he was madi 

 manager of the Milwaukee branch, rema ning there 10 years, He 

 went to St. Paul in 1885 and opened n irthwestern branches for 

 the company in that city and in Minneapolis. I luting the last 

 2 years he has also had charge of the Milwaukee branch. 



Mr. Suydam says that he i> 73 years old, but this statement 

 rests purely on his own word as there are no physical proofs to 

 substantiate it. He looks like a man of 60 and is as full of 

 v and business capacity ih most men of 50. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Vlbert Waterhouse, president of I he Waterhouse Co., Limited, 

 Honolulu, and secretarj of the Pahang Rubber ( o., Limited, and 

 ilso of the Tandjong Olok Rubber Co., Limited, of the- Malay 

 Peninsula, nude a recent call at the office of The India Rubber 

 World, together with M. A. Cheek, the managei oi the Watei 

 house interests on the easl coasl of the Malay Peninsula. 

 Messrs. Waterhouse and Cheek are .in their waj from the East to 

 the company's headquarters in Honolulu. 



\rihur E. Friswell, who formerly was associated with a iiuiii- 

 ; tin companies, including th< ical Fabric Co., The 



Hartford Rubber Works Co, and the I lyeai Hre & Rubber 



1 in the capacity of tire superintendent, but who has been 

 spending the la - i few years in Bermuda, has returned to thi 

 United States and expects to ' gag again in tire manufacture. 



Dr. J. W. Lain', physician of Tin B. F. ii Irich I o., as well 



as chief of the city hospital staff, of Akron. Ohio, visited New 

 Y'ork, May 22. as representative oi the companj at a conferena 

 of physicians of 25 of the big factories oi the United States. 

 This is the first conference of its kind ever held here, iis pur- 

 pose being the exchange of information and suggestion on fac- 

 tory medical work. 



Otis R. Cook, sales manager of the Kelly-Springfield Tire i 

 of \kron, has been elected a director of that company. 



The Boston Woven Hose & Ru ' • ' is n pn i tited in Mis- 

 souri 1 is J. W Culver, with offices at Tenth and 01i\c streets, 



St Louis, in the Syndicate ["rust building. Mr. Culver is de- 

 scribed by a local newspaper man as one "who knows how to 

 ecializi ncentrate business methods." 



J. W. Davidson, whose death occurred on April 11, had been 

 employed for the past ten years in the Montreal office of the 

 olidated Rubber Co., Limited, as an artist and 

 th thousands ol mold- used by that company being 

 It of his work. 



MR. HERMESSEN ON HIS WAY TO JOIN THE ENGLISH ARMY. 



A recent visitor to New York, and also to the office of The 

 India Rubber World, was J. L. Hermessen, F. R. G. S. Mr. 

 Hermessen, who is a civil engineer, left England fourteen years 



i 'in ide oi the water. I [e spent abi iut a eai in the 



States and then went to Mexico, when- he became very much 

 interested in thi development of rubbei plan; Ithough his 



work piop, iis had to do with railroad construction in that re- 

 public lie was intimately acquainted with the late .1. C. Harvey 

 and spent some time on Ins plantation at La Buena Ventura and 

 became deeplj interested in Mr. Harvey's experiments both in 

 Castillo a and later in Hevea. When Mexi an a nditions became 

 such that no \iulo Saxon could remain there with comfort or 

 . Mr. Hermessen went I during the last 



yeai and a half he has been engaged in railroad surveys. It was 

 his intention to go from there into the rubbei country of the 

 Amazon, but the outbreak of hostilities changed his plans and 

 decided him to return to England. He sailed from New York on 

 the "Adriatic" May 27 and intends on reaching England to 

 i - rvices as an engineer to the military authorities. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Idle New Jersej Zinc Co., from its offices at 55 Wall street. 

 Mew York, gives iut a statement to the effect that it has no 

 intention ol operating a rubber tire plant in connection with its 

 factories at Palmerton and Millport as has been reported in 

 the dailj press 



On page 404 of our April issue mention was made of the pur- 

 chase b) I hi Midvale Steel & Iron Co. of equipment for a re- 

 claiming mill to be established near Voungstown, Ohio. This 

 ivas incorrect, the purchase referred to having been mad 

 Tin- \ew ( astle Steel & Iron Co., of New Castle, Pennsylvania. 



The Michelin Tire Co., of Milltown, New Jersey, through its 

 central representative, R. B. ["racy, at Chicago, has established 

 an agency with Brant Brothers, of Indianapolis, for the sale of 

 its product in that section. F. J. Potter has been placed in charge 

 of the company's new branch in Des Moines, Iowa. 



\s a result of tests recently made, the official league baseball 

 made by The Draper-Maynard Co., of Plymouth, New Hamp- 

 shire, has been adopted for use m the public schools of New 

 Y'ork City during the 1915 season. The rubber center and the 

 thread were both included in these tests and the ball was used 

 foi -' ine time in actual plaj . 



Work has been started on a three-story factory addition to 

 the plant of the St. Mungo Manufacturing Co. of America, at 

 Newark, New Jersey. This building, which will be devoted to 

 the maniii i balls, will occupy a space 50 x 7} feet 



and will cost in the neighborhood of $15,000. 



The 200-mile Southwest Sweepstake automobile race at Okla- 

 homa City on April 29 was W on by "Bob" Burman, who drove a 

 French Peugeot car, fitted with Nassau tires, made by the 

 Thermoid Rubber Co., of Trenton, New Jersey. His average 

 1 was 67.98 miles per hour. 



In a late Babson report on bu sued for 



distribution to manufacturers and jobbers. Akron is described 

 as a city which stands out from the rest and one which 

 should not be overlooked by salesmen. The report says that 

 Akron rubber mills "are paying unusually low prices for their 

 crude rubber and hence, with good orders on their books, 

 are in an lit gly favorable position." 



