April i, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



257 



The Late Harry D. Warren. 



THE rubber trade tliroughout the world will learn with pro- 

 found grief of the death of Mr. Harry D. Warren, 

 president and treasurer of the Gutta Percha and Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. of Toronto, Limited, which occurred at his 

 residence, "Red Gables," in Toronto, on March 5. He had been 

 ill for some time, and had undergone two operations, but his 

 recovery was confidently looked for. 



Mr. Warren was born May 8, i860, in Brooklyn, New York, 

 being the son of Dorman T. Warren, who is now a resident of 

 New York City. His education was completed at Princeton 

 University, after which he accepted a position with The Gutta 

 Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co., of New York. Forty 

 years ago Dorman T. Warren and the late Amedee Spadone 

 were both engaged in the jewelry business in New York in the 

 same building, No. 4 Maiden lane, though not associated. They 

 became friends, however, and both joined the board of directors 

 of the rubber company last named. 

 Later Mr. Spadone was elected pres- 

 ident of the company, which position 

 he held for 36 years. The company 

 organized a selling agency in Canada, 

 which was followed by the estab- 

 lishment of a branch factory at 

 Toronto, the business of which, in 

 1887, was incorporated in Ontario as 

 The Gutta Percha and Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. of Toronto, Lim- 

 ited. Harry D. Warren had mean- 

 while gone to London to represent 

 there the Otis Elevator Co., in which 

 his father was a director, but in 1887 

 he returned to America, to accept the 

 management of the Toronto business. 

 In time the New York and Toronto 

 companies became entirely distinct, 

 Mr. Spadone relinquishing all inter- 

 est in the one, and the Warrens in 

 the other, and Harry D. Warren was 

 thereafter the head and guiding 

 spirit of the Toronto business until 

 his death. 



Mr. Warren was for several years 

 a director of the Canadian Bank of 

 Commerce, and associated in an offi- 

 cial capacity with various other com- 

 panies and organizations. He was a 



member of the leading clubs of Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. 

 For many years he occupied a high position in social and finan- 

 cial circles in Toronto, where he was most highly esteemed, and 

 his death is a loss to the rubber industry generally, the city in 

 which he lived, and the country in which he chose to make hi^ 

 home and in which his large interests were centered. 



Mr. Warren was a member of St. Simon's Anglican Church, 

 and is survived by a widow and five children. His will provides 

 that the business of the rubber company, in which he held a con- 

 trolling interest, is to be continued precisely as heretofore. Mr. 

 Charles Newton Candee, the secretary of the company, long asso- 

 ciated with Mr. Warren, also began his business career with the 

 Gutta Percha company of New York. 



The following tribute penned by one who was associated with 

 Mr. Warren in business and had long known him well illustrates 

 the appreciative regard in which he was held : 



"When Mr. H. D. Warren died there went from among us a 

 generous heart, a keen and kindly mind, a merchant and citizen 



of high ideals. It is not given to many to possess his quick 

 insight and rare individuality, still less to establish for them- 

 selves such a lofty interpretation of commercial ethics. His 

 manifold interests brought him in touch with all sorts and con- 

 ditions, and to all he was fair and courteous. A perfectionist 

 in mode and manner, he added to other gifts a personal and dis- 

 tinctive magnetism, which impressed itself alike upon his social 

 equals and his dependents. His business, and it was a large one, 

 was governed by standards which are too often deemed in- 

 compatible with financial success, standards of rigid integrity, 

 not only of action, but of thought. The progress made by the 

 undertakings which he guided did but reveal to him an ever 

 increasing degree his responsibility to his fellowman for his 

 stewardship. 



"Like the leaven in the loaf, he revivified and permeated what 

 he touched, a personality too unique not to be recognized and 

 felt. Impatient and scornful of cant 

 or humbug, his deeds testify to his 

 deep regard for the welfare of his 

 city and its inhabitants, and into 

 many a mind on hearing of this most 

 untimely death will come the mem- 

 ory of good acts performed in modest 

 silence." 



The Late Harry Dorman Warren. 



rer of the Gutta Per 

 anufncturing Co. of 

 Limited.] 



[President and '1 rcasu 

 cha and Rubber M 

 Toronto, 



i 4 TUBING MACHINES. 



J, 



HE principle on which the first 

 rubber tubing machine was con- 

 structed is still followed, nothing su- 

 perior having ever been found, says 

 a little book on the subject lately 

 published ; but the application of this 

 principle is so much better under- 

 stood and so many changes in detail 

 have been made that the latest tubing 

 machines, though following the gen- 

 eral lines of the earlier type, so far 

 excel them in productive capacity and 

 general usefulness that the change 

 from the old machine to the new is 

 of more economic importance than 

 the first radical change from hand 

 work to machine manufacture. 



The modern machines in this line 

 have been given wide range and 

 adaptability. It is pointed out, for example, that with a single 

 perfected tubing machine, and a limited amount of extra equip- 

 ment, it is possible to make plain, corrugated and soap-stoned 

 tubing, solid cords, rods and special forms, wagon tires, multiple 

 tubes, and wire and fabric insulation. 



The book referred to, "Tubing and Insulating Machines," 

 comes from John Royle & Sons (Paterson, New Jersey), whose 

 business was established in i860 in the manufacture of machinery. 

 Gradually one line after another was added, and in i88l they be- 

 gan the building of rubber tubing machines, which has now be- 

 come one of their most important branches. This book describes 

 the various styles of such machines, including the numerous 

 items of equipment to fit them for various products. Another 

 department is the manufacture of insulating machines, which 

 they carry out on a large scale. Likewise they manufacture 

 circular looms for the weaving of hose jackets, which is closely 

 associated with the manufacture of rubber hose lining. 

 This is a handsomely bound volume of 195 pages. 



