July I, I -: : 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



555 



The collision iccurred during a dense fog, the bowsprit of the 



' \ in i is" crashing into li i s stateroom ami killing him almost 

 instantly. 



Mi Kendricl was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, 45 years ago 

 and was well known in the eastern mechanical goods and mill 

 supply trade- He was at one time associated with the II. W. 

 Johns-Manville I o., later becoming manager of the Boston office 

 of the Crandall Hacking Co., of Palmyra. New York. This po- 

 sition he held for live or six years, retiring a few months ago 

 to form the !'.• >1 i Packing X Belting Co., with offices at 141 

 Milk - i- survived by his wife and one child, a daughter 



ten ye i 



ELIJAH KENT HUBBARD. 



Elija Hubbard, formerly president of the Russell 



Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of lire hose of Middletown. 



Connecticut of heart disease in that city, June 27, in his 



eighth'! He is survived by three sons and two daughters. 



TRIBUTE TO THE LATE JOHN D. VERMEULE. 



Ai a meeting of the board of directors of the United States 

 Rubber Co., held June 17, President Samuel P. Colt called at- 

 tention to the death on May 18 of John D. Vermeule, director 

 of the company. On motion of Vice-president James B. Ford, 

 seconded bj Henry L. Ilotchkiss, the following minute was 

 unanimous!; adi ipted : 



John D. Vermeule, whose death occurred on May 18, 1915, 

 had been a director of this company since May 18, 1897, and 

 for three ye li -. i ommencing May 20, 1898. he was a member 

 of the Executive Committee. 



Mr. Vermeule became connected with the Goodyear's 

 India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co. in 1870, and in 1882 

 was elected president of that company. It thus appears that 

 his relation to the rubber footwear business and to one of 

 the most successful of the subsidiary companies of this com- 

 pany had extended for a period of forty-five years. 



He was a man of sterling character, fair minded, kind and 

 unselfish, and he endeared himself to his fellow directors 

 and to his employees. His associates on this Board will 

 ever remember him with high respect and warm regard. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Ernest E. Buckleton, president of the Northwestern Rubber 

 Co., of Liverpool, in a personal letter to a friend in the United 

 States, says. "I am still looking after Belgian refugees and in- 

 tend to as I n - as I can, although funds are very low. The 

 Rubber Club's donation was a Godsend and the Belgians often 

 .-peak of tlu- goodness of the Club." 



K. E. Kersten has been appointed Chicago branch manager 

 for the Boston Belting Co., located at 172 West Randolph street, 

 where an assortment of all the well known brands of belting, 

 hose and packing made by the company is carried. 



Pedro Demoraes-Sarmento and wife, of Para, Brazil, arrived 

 in Xew York last month on the steamship "Sao Paulo." Mr 

 Demoraes-Snrmento is an active member of the firm of l'ahua & 

 Sarmento, . of Para. 



E. II. Clapp, of the E. H. Clapp Rubber Co., Boston, has beer. 

 elected a member of the Legislative Committee of the Rubber 

 Club 



Samu i oot, who has been connected with the druggist 



sundry business, a* salesman, buyer and manager, for the last 24 

 years, ha; become associated with McKesson & Robbins, Xew 

 York, 



J"hn J. Boyle, who for the last 5 years has been connected with 

 the Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufacturing Co.. of New York, 

 has joii I -ales force of the New Jersey Car Spring & Rub- 



ber Co. 



The June number of this publication contained an obituary 

 notice of the late Arthur R. Foley one of the victims of the 

 sinking of the "Lusitania," who had been connected as a salesman 

 with the Home Rubber Co., of Trenton, Xew Jersey, for a long 

 time. Tlte traie in the particular territory covered by Mr. Foley 



will be interested to know that his son, J. B. Foley, also one of 

 the Home companj salesmen, will visit the customers to whom 

 hi- latin i was So long a familiar figure. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Honorable Victoriano Huerta, ex-provisional president of 

 Mexico, who has established his summer home at Forest Hills, 

 on Long Island, Xew York, has selected Ajax tires, the product 

 of the Ajax Rubber Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, for the equip- 

 ment ■ if his auti imobiles. 



The Scrap Rubber Division of the Xational Association of 

 \\ i ite Material Dealers held its quarterly meeting June 14 at 

 the Hotel Astor, Xew York. Paul Loewenthal, of The Loewen- 

 tbal Co., 37 West Thirty-ninth street, Xew York, is chairman of 

 this di\ ision 



The Steel Pneumatic Tube & Tire Co. has removed its sales 



i ns, Eormerlj located at 1853 Broadway, to its factory at 146 



West Fifty-second street, Xew York. 



\i the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Quality Tire 

 & Rubber Co., of llartville, Ohio, held May 29, it was decided to 

 increase the capital stock from $75,000 to $500,000. The subject 

 of plant enlargement was also considered, but it was decided to 

 ilefer the commencement of this work until next spring. The 

 pn nt plant, which has been in operation since last Fall, has 

 a capacity of 2(X) tires a day. 



At this meeting John C. Harmony was elected president and 

 C. E. Bair secretary and treasurer. The board of directors in- 

 cludes Oliver Brumbaugh, Hiram Carper, John C. Harmony, M. 

 E. Herr, G. F. Munk, Frank Schumacher (former president), 

 and William Wagner. 



At a meeting on June 15. of the directors of the Standard Tire 

 & Rubber Co., of Willoughby, Ohio, it was decided to increase the 

 capitalization of that company from $100,000 to $500,000. The 

 work of installing machinery at the factory recently acquired 

 by this concern, and which was formerly ocupied by the American 

 Fork & Hoe Co., has commenced, five carloads of new equipment 

 arriving in Willoughby on June 15. 



The plant of the Century Rubber Co. at Plainfield. New- 

 Jersey, has been sold at public auction to Leon Jaffess, of 

 Xew York and Harrison, New Jersey, for $29,000. 



The Portage Rubber Co., of Akron. Ohio, has added a new- 

 tire tread to its line, under the registered name "Safegrip." 



The Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Milwaukee, 

 Wisconsin, has moved its Detroit branch — of which A. L. 

 De Vault is manager — from 846 Woodward avenue to 247 

 Jefferson avenue, east. 



The D. L. Davis Manufacturing Co., which manufactures 

 tire pumps and other accessories, with plants at Chicago and 

 Milwaukee, is reported to have received a site at Fort Madison. 

 Iowa, for another factory. C. W. Tarbet. president of this com- 

 pany, is also president of the Perfection Tire & Rubber Co. 



The Kansas City Tire & Rubber Corporation has been 

 formed at 22 William street. Xew York, with $335,000 capital 

 stock, by Leopold M. Lehr. Ralph Atkins and Joseph A. 

 Arnold, to manufacture tires and other rubber goods. 



The Miller Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, has established 

 an agency for its tires at Des Moines, Iowa, with the 

 Schooler Rubber Co., at 1020 Locust street. 



The Kansas City Tire & Rubber Co., with offices at 1111 

 Commerce building. Kansas City, Missouri, is among the new 

 western rubber companies. The manager is W. W. Wuchter, 

 formerlj of the Swinehart Tire & Ruber Co., Akron, and more 

 recently factory manager at the Gibney Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. 



The Schelp-Budke Tire & Rubber Co., St. Louis, Missouri, has 

 recently taken the agency in the territory adjacent to that city 

 for the tires made by the Gibney Tire & Rubber Co.. of Con- 

 shohocken, Pennsylvania. 



