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THE INDIA RUBBER Vv'ORLD 



[November i, 1904. 



has performed, or to go into details in explaining his success. 

 The best evidence of his business capacity lies in the un- 

 adorned statement of what he has accomplished. Against 

 strong competition to have maintained and constantly strength- 

 ened the position he has so long held in commercial circles; 

 to have successfully met and been equal to the many changing 

 conditions of trade, exhibit better than words of adulation, 

 however merited, the strength of character and forceful nature 

 of the man." The solidity of the business which he established 

 is suggested by the fact that, although the loss incurred from 

 the great (ire of 1880 amounted to $100,000, it caused no em- 

 barrassment. 



Personally Mr. Alden was of medium height, compactly 

 built, with an alert air, and possessed of an exceptionally pleas- 

 ant manner. He was an exceedingly sound and capable man 

 of business, and kept in touch with the markets of the world 

 almost to the day of his death. One of his most distinguish- 

 ing traits was his courage, which did not desert him even when 

 stricken the third time, in July last, and partially paralyzed — 

 but which led him constantly to talk and plan for the time 

 when his recovery should be complete and his daily round at 

 his offices, at bank meetings, and at the " rubber manufactur- 

 ers' table " at the Trade Club luncheons, be resumed. 



Mr. Alden was a member'of the Algonquin Club of Boston, 

 the Merchants' Club, Temple Club, Country Club, Boston Art 

 Club, Pine Tree Club, Trade Club, Exchange Club, the Society 

 of Mayflower Descendants of Massachusetts, and the Alden 

 Kindred of America, besides being a life member of St. An- 

 drews Royal Arch Chapter and DeMolay Commandery, Knights 

 Templar. 



Mr. Alden married April 21, 1S56, Harriet J., daughter of 

 Elijah Hadley, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, who survives 

 him, together with two sons — Adelbert Henry, already men- 

 tioned, and George Edwin. For many years Mr. Alden resided 

 in Cambridge, but latterly his summer residence was at Welles- 

 ley, where he owned what was formerly tjie Baker estate, con- 

 taining S50 acres. He accumulated many relics of historic in- 

 terest, including the carriage in which Washington rode on his 

 visit to Boston, and the coach presented to Daniel Webster. 

 The winter months the family spent at the Hotel Vendome in 

 Boston. 



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Funeral services were held at Arlington Street Church, Bos- 

 ton, at 12.30 p. M., on October 14, and were largely attended by 

 the former business associates of Mr. Alden, by representatives 

 of many associations and societies with which he had been iden- 

 tified, and by the public generally. The ushers were employes 

 of Mr. Alden's firm — ]. Frank Dunbar, G. Edward Habich, R. 

 L. Chipman, F. L. Moses, Harold W. French, and F. G. Phillips, 

 all of Boston— and Robert B. Baird, of New York, who former- 

 ly was in the employ of the firm. Daniel B. Stedman was the 

 head usher. The services were conducted by the minister of 

 this church, the Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham. The music 

 was rendered by Mr. Lewis S. Thompson, organist ofthe church, 

 and several hymns were sung by a quartet. The following 

 named acted as honorary pall bearers: Congressman J. J. 

 Myers, ex-Congressman L. D. Apsley, president of the New 

 England Rubber Club ; Robert D. Evans, Henry C. Morse, 

 George H. Hood. Henry M. Rogers, and Arthur W. Stedman 

 (a partner of Mr. Alden) ; and ex-Governor Augustus O. Bourn, 

 of Rhode Island. The burial, which was in the Alden family 

 lot at Forrest Hills Cemetery, was private. Among those in 

 attendance, including representatives of other associations 

 mentioned in this paper, was a delegation from the Rubber 

 Druggists' Sundries Association. 



TRIBUTE OF THE NEW ENGLAND RUBBER CLUB. 



A I' a special meeting of the executive committee of the New 

 England Rubber Club, in Boston, on October 12, to take action 

 on the death of Mr. Alden, the following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



Whereas. Our Honorary Vice President, counsellor, and friend, 

 George Adelbert Alden, has been stricken by death and removed from 

 our midst, we, the executive committee of the New England Rubber 

 Club, in recognition of our gieat loss, record the following resolutions : 



Rtsolveit : That althoi;gh the deceased was ripe in years and had 

 accomplished more than falls to the lot of most men. his youthful spirit, 

 energy, and sympathetic interest in all that pertains to our industry kept 

 him before us as one always young and active, and we mourn him as one 

 to whom death came most untimely. For fifty years a notable figure in 

 the rubber trade, of old Puritan stock, in every sense a founder of his 

 own fortunes ; capable, forceful, true, the soul of courtesy ; full of kind- 

 liness and good fellowship, his name will ever be held by us in loving 

 remembrance. To the business community at large has come a great 

 bereavement in the passing of this honored manufacturer, merchant, 

 banker, and citizen ; nor may his place in the community be filled. 



Ktsolvtd: That we extend to his family and to his business associates 

 our deep and sincere sympathy. 



Kesolvdd : That these resolutions be spread upon the records of the 

 Club, and copies engrossed and presented to his family. 

 L. D. ArsLEY, President, 

 Henry C. Pearson, Secretary, 

 George P. Whitmore, Treasurer. 

 E. E. Wadbkook, Assistant Secretary. 



The executive committee of the Club, as a further mark of 

 respect to its late honorary vice president, attended in a body 

 the funeral services at the Arlington Street Church. 



ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FIRM. 



It is with deep regret that we announce the death on this day of our 

 respected senior partner, Mr. George A. Alden. 



Out of respect to his memory our offices will be closed on Friday, the 

 fourteenth instant, the day of the funeral. 



Under the terms of the copartnership Mr. Alden's interest remains in 

 the firm, and the business will be continued by the surviving partners, 

 and with the same responsibility as heretofore. GEO. a. alden .1 CO. 



Boston, October ii, 1904. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



CHARLES MORTON HAUTHAWAY, who died at his 

 home in Brockton, Massachusetts, on September 29, was 

 born in Plymouth, in that state, September 17, 1839. After 

 serving in the civil war, he joined his father, the late C. L. 

 Hauthaway, in the manufacture of rubber cements and shoe 

 blackings, in which business he displayed great ability, and 

 aided in making the house the largest in its line. A brother 

 of the deceased, E. M. Hauthaway, was also admitted to the 

 business, which is now carried on in Boston under the style of 

 C. L. Hauthaway & Sons, Incorporated, with the surviving 

 brother as the senior member. About 15 years ago the subject 

 of this sketch retired from business and was succeeded by his 

 son, Frank M. Hauthaway, who is now treasurer of the house. 

 Mr. Hauthaway was a member of the Grand Army of the Re- 

 public and the Commercial Club of Brockton. Besides the son 

 above mentioned, he Is survived by a widow. 



Charles Y. Yeaton, who died in New York on September 

 29, in his sixty-ninth year, was a native of Portsmouth, New 

 Hampshire, and descended from an old New England family. 

 He is mentioned as having come to New York in the early 

 fifties, when he was employed by Horace H. Day, the rubber 

 manufacturer. Later he patented several inventions — includ- 

 ing, it Is said, the first type-writer machine ever oflered for 

 sale — and became wealthy, but died poor. 



