January i, ipog.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Obituary Record. 



CHARLES BILLINGS DICKINSON died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., where he was long identified with the rubber indus- 

 try, on November 29, in his eightieth year. He was born 

 April 7, 1829 at Savoy, Massachusetts, and when he was still a 

 boy his family removed to the nearby town of Conway, where 

 he attended school with the late Marshall Field and the late 

 William C. Whitney. The houses in which the two latter were 

 born, by the way, are still standing at Conway. Young Dick- 

 inson engaged for a while in business as a traveling salesman 

 for Yankee notions, in which he became widely known. 



The Late Chaiu-es B. Dickinson. 



Mr. Dickinson is understood to have become interested in 

 rubber manufacture in Brooklyn about 40 years ago. In 1870 he 

 bought the interest of Mr. Gray in the firm of Holton & Gray, 

 and in 1874 bought the interest of the other partner, Mr. Francis 

 H. Holton, who afterward became associated with The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., and who is still living at Akron, Ohio. Mr. Dick- 

 inson described his factory as the Brooklyn Rubber Works. 



For a number of years the business was located on Atlantic 



avenue, in premises shown in an accompanying illustration. The 

 output of the factory embraced druggists' sundries — many 

 articles in which line Mr. Dickinson patented in the years 1883 

 to 1886 — the lighter class of mechanical goods, mold work and 

 the like. In April, 1890, Mr. Dickinson having become financially 

 embarrassed, the premises described were dismantled and the 

 effects disposed of at auction. He resumed business later, how- 

 ever, and continued to market some of his specialties until within 

 the last three or four years. 



Just before the period mentioned Mr. Dickinson sustained an 

 accident in the streets of New York from the effects of which 

 he lost completely the use of an arm and finally became incapaci- 

 tated for business. The remainder of his life was spent mostly 

 among friends at Ashfield, Mass. His death occurred at the 

 home of his daughter, the wife of Charles R. Kearns, No. 830 

 President street, Brooklyn, whom she married in 1883. The 

 daughter is the only immediate survivor. 



Mr. Dickinson was a member of the Masonic fraternity and 

 of the Episcopal church. The interment was at Ashfield. 



Mr. Dickinson was really one of the pioneers in the druggists' 

 sundries business, and was a contemporary of such men as Henry 

 G. Tyer, Dr. Morris Mattson, and Francis H. Holton. He knew 

 the rubber business in the old-fashioned way very thoroughly, 

 and was the inventor of many specialties that were of consider- 

 able value. He was a bluff, hard-working, outspoken character 

 who hated his enemies and loved his friends with all the fervor 

 of a strong nature. His business was never a very large one — it 

 was before the day of large companies — but at its best it was 

 profitable and well conducted, and its founder was one who 

 Iiclpcd make the early history of the druggists' sundries business. 



E. F. C. YOUNG. 



Edward Faitoute Condict Young, regarded as the leading 

 financier of New Jersey, died on December 6 at his home in 

 Jersey City, in his seventy-fourth year. Primarily a banker, he 

 became active in promoting transit facilities in New Jersey, and 

 later was interested in numerous enterprises in New York. For 

 over 30 years he was president of the First National Bank of 

 Jersey City, and at the time of his death was an officer or di- 

 rector in twenty-four financial and industrial enterprises. He 

 was president of the Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. and the Amer- 

 ican Graphite Co. He is survived by his wife, a son, and a 

 daughter. His son-in-law, George T. Smith, is vice president of 

 the Dixon company. 



RUBBER SHOE OBJECT LESSONS. 



The Late C. B. Dicki.\-un 3 Kukiik Ivctory. 



RECENTLY the shoe trade in various parts of the country 

 have been visited by the representatives of the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co. for the purpose of demonstrating to the retail 

 merchant how rubber boots and shoes are made. Going to a 

 town where the company's goods are handled by a wholesale 

 house, the representatives of the company invited the local 

 retailers to attend a demonstration at which Mr. W. H. Palmer, 

 of Boston, made up a rubber boot and overshoe, while Mr. J. J. 

 Hawkins, also of Boston, delivered a lecture, not only descriptive 

 of the processes being carried out, but giving also a general idea 

 of the sources of rubber and processes through which the raw 

 material must go before it is ready for use by the shoemaker. 

 The material, of course, was cut out in advance of the demon- 

 stration, but all the processes of manufacture were carried out 

 except, of course, the vulcanization. The newspapers in the 

 various towns visited gave a liberal amount of space to these 

 unique exhibitions. 



