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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1906. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



EUGENE DOHERTY. 



EUGENE DOHERTY, who had been engaged in the rub- 

 ber industry over a half century, died at his home in 

 Brooklyn, New York, on March 14. He was born in Ireland 

 and at an early age was brought by his parents to Boston, 

 Massachusetts, where he found employment in a rubber 



works. Later he 

 lived at New- 

 town, Connecti- 

 cut, where he was 

 employed in the 

 factory of the 

 New York Belt- 

 ing and Packing 

 Co. He went into 

 business in a 

 small way in 

 Brooklyn in 1865, 

 in the manufac- 

 ture of rubber for 

 dental uses, un- 

 der a method of 

 preparation of his 

 own invention. 

 The first location 

 of this business 

 was in Kent ave- 

 nue, near North Ninth street. The business grew steadily 

 under his personal management and close attention until, 

 in 1884-S5, he built at North Eighth and Kent avenue the 

 large factory in which his business was thereafter carried on. 

 Mr. Dohertj^ was engaged throughout his business career 

 mainly in the manufacture of dental rubbers, and the busi- 

 ness will be continued under his name bj- his widow, his 

 sole survivor and the inheritor of the estate, which includes 

 the home near the factory, which he had occupied for more 

 than a quarter century. 



Mr. Doherty was unassuming in character and affable. 

 His charities were numerous though little advertised. He 

 was a liberal contributor to the Roman Catholic church, be- 

 longing to the parish of Saint Vincent de Paul, and one of 

 the fine memorial windows of the parish church was his gift. 

 He was a member of the society of St. Vincent de Paul, the 

 Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society, and various social 

 organizations. He was a director of the North Side Bank of 

 Brooklyn. In politics he was a Democrat, but was never a 

 candidate for office, though at one time he was talked of for 

 the office of mayor of Brooklyn. 



Funeral services were held at the late home of Mr. Doherty 

 on Saturday morning, March 17, followed by a solemn re- 

 quiem mass at church, celebrated by the Rev. Father Carroll, 

 and the interment was in Calvary cemetery. 



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Thk rubber town of Bristol was saddened by the sudden 

 death, on Sunday morning, March 4, of N.\th.\n W.vrren Mc- 

 C.\RTV, son of Terrence McCarty. He was supposed to be in 

 his usual health and was preparing for church when he b came 

 unconscious and soon expired, the trouble being an unsus- 

 pected abscess in the head. He was born in Bristol August 

 16, 1883, attended the public schools, and later was gradu- 



ated from a private school in that town. After leaving 

 school he assisted his father in the Byfield Rubber Co. 

 \Vlien the Consumers' Rubber Co. was organized, with his 

 father as president, he became secretar}- and general man- 

 ager, a position which he filled to the day of his death. He 

 had man^- friends and had shown much business ability. 



A ST. LOUIS FAIR SOUVENIR. 



THK medal, here illustrated, was given to the Editor ol 

 Thl-: Ini>i.\ Rukhkr Would in recognition of his ser- 

 vices to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and in behalf of 

 industrial progress generally. On the medal the dolphins, 

 pictured on one side, represent the two seas, with the Amer- 

 ican eagle spreading his wings over all. Of the two figures 

 on the other side, the taller represents Columbia, while the 



other is the young Louisiana, throwing off her French rai- 

 ment to receive the cloak of statehood. The design is by 

 Adolph A. Weinman and was approved by the eminent ar- 

 tists J. Q. A. Ward, Daniel C. French, and Augustus St. 

 Gaudens. 



The Editor of Tin-; Ini)i.\ Rubber World was secretary 

 and acting chairman of Jury 11. which was made up of ex- 



perts from all of the great manufacturing countries of the 

 world, and had for its work the examination of some 400 ex- 

 hibits under three groups, namely : Articles for Traveling 

 and Camping ; India-Rubber and Gutta-percha Industries ; 

 Toys ; Leather, Boots and Shoes, Furs and Skins, Fur Cloth- 

 ing, etc. 



