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both, and the most cheery of counsellors and most faithful of 

 help-meets in the vicissitudes inseparable from a life so busy 

 and full of varied risks and interests. She shares with me our 

 well-earned repose in our cosy home in Stroud green." Mr. 

 Hyatt suddenly became very feeble, a few weeks before his 

 death, which resulted from exhaustion due to old age. At his 

 bedside was his son, Edgar S. Hyatt, of Plainfield, New Jersey, 

 who had lately arrived on a visit. 



|AMES A. WILSON. 



[AMES A. Wilson, proprietor of the Housatonic Rubber Co., 



at Bridgeport, Connecticut, died at his home in that city on 



August 6, after a brief illness. He was born in New York city, 



September 13, 1837, and in time became a resident of Newtown, 



Conn., where he 

 practised law, be- 

 sides representing 

 the town in the 

 state legislature 

 several terms. Fif- 

 teen years ago he 

 removed to 

 Bridgeport, where 

 he became inter- 

 ested in the rub- 

 ber reclaiming in- 

 dustry, carried on 

 by the company 

 above named. Mr. 

 Wilson served in 

 the Civil war in 

 the Fifth regiment 

 of Connecticut 

 volunteers, and at 

 the time of his 

 death was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the 

 Fairfield county bar, and of the Algonquin Club (Bridgeport), 

 and was a thirty-third degree Mason. For many years he was 

 high priest of Pyramid temple, Nobles of the Mystic.Shrine. Mr. 

 Wilson was an exceedingly genial man, and very popular both 

 in business and social circles. The interment was at New- 

 town, on August 8. Mr. Wilson is survived by his widow and 

 a daughter and three sons, all the sons having at some time 

 been engaged in Bridgeport journalism. One of them, Justin 

 Wilson, will be actively connected with the Housatonic Rubber 

 Co., which will continue in business. 



GEORGE JAGER. 

 GEORGE Jager, of the Liverpool Rubber Co., Limited (Liv- 

 erpool. England), passed away at his home on July 9, the inter- 

 ment taking place at Lindall Claughton. Mr. Jager was the 

 surviving partner in the firm of George Jager & Sons, sugar 

 refiners ol Liverpool and Leith. Some fifty years ago his 

 father came from Hanover Germany, started a refinery in Liv- 

 erpool, and established a very large and successful business. 

 His son, whose death we announce, was born in Liverpool and 

 educated at the Liverpool Institute. He took hold of the man- 

 agement of the sugar business about thirty years ago, and until 

 the establishment of the foreign sugar bounties, carried it on 

 with conspicuous ability. He joined the board of the Liver- 

 pool Rubber Co., Limited, about ten years ago, and was a most 

 attentive and useful director, particularly good at grasping 

 new suggestions and lending them his energetic support. He 

 was a man of great decision of character, most energetic, and 

 in private life one of the most genial of friends. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Liverpool Reform Club, a moderate Liberal in pol- 



itics, and much interested in athletic sports, being at one time 

 captain of the Wallassey Golf Club. He leaves three sons, his 

 eldest, Harold, a barrister at law, and Bertram and Arthur 

 carrying on the business of George Jager & Sons, sugar refiners. 

 Mr. Jager visited the United States in the latter part of 1895, 

 with Manager Tippet, in connection with the purchase of rub- 

 ber machinery for the Liverpool company. 



THE ORIGINAL GOODRICH FACTORY. 



YEARS ago, when Dr. Benjamin F. Goodrich was just start- 

 ing in the rubber business, he struck up a friendship 

 with that veteran rubber man, Mr. Wheeler Cable. In the 

 course of the correspondence that followed, the Doctor referred 

 to the little factory that he had established in Akron, Ohio, 

 and enclosed in one of his letters a photograph of it — probably 

 the only one ever taken. Later this building was raised two 

 stories, other buildings were erected near it, and the plant so 

 changed that the identity of the original factory was entirely 

 lost. Then later came the tremendous expansion of the busi- 



ORIGINAL FACTORY OF THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. 



ness, the tearing down of the old buildings, and the construc- 

 tion of the present aggregation of huge brick structures. 



Occasionally during this growth some of the older mem- 

 bers of the company regretted that no picture of the Goodrich 

 beginning was in existence. A few months ago, however, Mr. 

 William J. Cable came across an old photograph, which he 

 fancied might interest the Goodrich company. He sent it to 

 Akron, and it was recognized as a picture of the original plant. 

 The Goodrich company are to be congratulated on securing 

 this most interesting reminder of the past. It is now thirty- 

 three years since Dr. Goodrich went out from the East and 

 established the rubber industry at Akron. 



A PIONEER IN AFRICAN RUBBER. 



SIR JOHN KIRK, G. C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S., of England, is 

 spoken of by the Zanzibar Gtizette as having " practically 

 created the rubber trade of the east coast of Africa." His exper- 

 ience with that region began in connection with the first expe- 

 dition of Dr. Livingstone, 45 years ago. Later he was British 

 consul general at Zanzibar, and recently he has served on the 

 government commission for the construction of the Uganda 

 railway, the completed line of which he has been inspecting. 

 Sir John is best known, however, as a botanist and naturalist, 

 and an important rubber species. Landolphia Kirkii, is called 

 after him. 



