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Show Goodrich mm TO MM. ORIENT F. R Carroll to Make Exhaustive Ex-haustive 5tudy of Far-East Far-East Conditions. , 0 P. R. Carroll, district manager of the B. P. Goodrich Rubber company, 401 Mission Mis-sion street, leaves March 24 for'lhe Orient on a special mission for the biff corporation. corpora-tion. , j He will he gone several months and will make an exhaustive study of tuade conditions con-ditions In connection with the 'sale not only of tires, but of all rubber goods. Mr. Carroll is especially qualified for uch a mission, as this isn't his first trip to the far east. He saw military ljserice in the Philippines during' the Spanish-American Spanish-American war and also duiing the Philippine Philip-pine insurrection and was 'With the first contingent of American tiroops sent to China during the Boxer rebellion. At the expiration of his term of service in the army, Mr. Carroll engaged in business, busi-ness, in China and the Philippines fur several sev-eral years, before returning to this country. coun-try. His experience both In tbe army and in civil life has made him fajniliar with trade conditions, not only in the United States' overseas possessions, butf aJso with the peculiar needs of the Asiatic trade.. W. T. Powell will be acting , manager, in charge of both Goodrich ana. Diamond interests in San Francisco during Mr. Carroll's absence. Mr. Powell is well known to the trade on the Pacific coast, having been fora number of yealrs manager man-ager of Diamond tire sales in tltis territory, terri-tory, and his choice as active manager Is a popular one, not only to the Goodrich and Diamond sales organizations, ' but to the entire automobile fraternity as well. |