March 1, 1913.] 



THE IliDIA RUBBER WORLD 



319 



OBITUARY RECORD. 



W. W. WALLIS 



SUDDENLY and without a note of warning came the death 

 of Walter W. Wallis, for 28 years the manager of the Good- 

 year Rubber Co.'s Milwaukee branch. Apparently in his usual 

 good health, he arose at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, February 9, 

 to bid goodby to a guest who had been visiting him for several 

 days and who was obliged to take an early train. When his 

 absence from the house was first noticed, it was thought he had 

 accompanied his friend to the station, but when it became evident 

 that he had not left the house a search was instituted and he was 

 found in the basement, whither presumably he had gone to look 

 after the furnace; but when discovered life had been for some 

 time extinct. 



Mr. Wallis was born in Milwaukee, November 18, 1852, and 

 lived there all his life. After graduating from the public school 

 he became connected with the Milwaukee branch, then just es- 

 tablished, of the Goodyear Rubber Co. and in 1885 was made its 

 manager, a position he occupied with marked success until the 

 day of his death. He was a man of exceptional energy and con- 

 scientiousness; his house enjoyed a fine reputation in the trade, 

 and for the year just closed showed the largest volume of sales, 

 if not the greatest amount of profits, in its career. 



Notwithstanding the time and thought and hard work that he 

 devoted to his business, he did not let that engross his entire 

 attention. He was an active member of the Merchants' and 

 Manufacturers' Association of Milwaukee, and was conspicuously 

 active in the philanthropic and religious life of the city. He was 

 for many years a trustee of the Y. M. C. A. and was especially 

 energetic in advancing its prosperity. He w'as also for many 

 years a trustee of the Park Place Methodist Church and superin- 

 tendent of its Sunday School. The esteem in which he was held 

 by those w'ho knew him best is shown by a statement made by 

 one of his life-long friends, which appeared in one of the local 

 papers the day after his death, which contained the following 

 tribute: 



"I knew Walter W. Wallis for nearly fifty years. We have 

 worked for many of the same causes. I knew him as a friend 

 and a companion, and the shock of his untimely death comes as 

 a benumbing blow. 



"He was one of God's true noblemen, a loving husband and 

 father, a loyal friend, a great-hearted, Christian gentleman, whose 

 hand was ever ready to help the fallen, whose every heart throb 

 was given for the betterment of life and living, whose purse W'as 

 ever open to every good cause, whose time was considered as a 

 gift from God, to be used for the benefit of his family, his friends 

 and the city of his birth." 



Mr. Wallis is survived by his wife, four children — Mrs. F. H. 

 Bennett, Baltimore, Mrs. Harold Detienne, Milwaukee ; Winifred 

 Wallis, at home, and John L. Wallis, a student at the University 

 of Wisconsin ; also by two sisters — Mrs. H. C. Graham, Mil- 

 waukee, and Mrs. G. L. Richards, Chicago — and two brothers, 

 John and Irving, St. Paul. 



The funeral was held at his home, February 11 ; the pastor of 

 the church to which he had been so long attached officiated. 



WALTER F. JONES. 



Walter F. Jones, assistant general manager of the Revere 

 Rubber Co., died at his home in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Tuesday, 

 February 11, after a somewhat prolonged sickness of typhoid 

 fever. Mr. Jones was a successful business man. Born in 

 Chelsea 37 years ago and educated in the public schools. He 

 entered the employ of the Revere Rubber Co. as clerk when 

 15 years of age. Quick to learn, active and efficient, promotions 

 came rapidly and he was made chief clerk of the business office 

 in Boston, then traveling salesman, afterwards factory manager 

 and later assistant general manager. 



The burial services were held at his late residence and were 

 attended by many men prominent in business and finance, in- 

 cluding also many of his associates in the Revere Rubber Co. 

 and representatives of the several Masonic bodies with which he 

 was affiliated. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. H. W. 

 .Slebbins, who performed the ceremony at the wedding of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Jones about ten years ago. The pall-bearers, all as- 

 sociates of the Revere Rubber Co., were : A. R. Taft, E. H. 

 Scribner, H. Z. Cobb, J. H. Learned, A. A. Learned, G. P. 

 Whitmore, A. Y. Tucker and H. L. Williamson. 



FHANCISCO I. MADERO. JR. 



Francisco I. Madero, Jr., who recently, under compulsion, re- 

 signed the presidency of the Republic of Mexico, was assassinat- 

 ed in the city of Mexico a short time before midnight on Febru- 

 ary 22. Up to three years ago the late president was known only 

 as a member of one of Mexico's oldest and most influential 

 families — a family which had amassed great wealth through real 

 estate holdings, and particularly through the fact that it owned 

 vast sections of land covered with the guayulc shrub. Not a 



Fr.\nxisco T. M.M)ero, Jk. 



little of the family s wealth cEmc from this source and from the 

 several guayiilc factories owned by the Maderos in different parts 

 of Mexico. W'hen Madero's grandfather, Don Evaristo Madero, 

 died in Los Angeles in the spring of 1911 it was estimated that 

 his wealth equaled $20,000,000 — an extraordinary figure for 

 Mexico. 



But the fame of Francisco I. Madero, Jr., as a figure in the 

 rubber world has been entirely eclipsed during the last three 

 years by reason of his political activities. While nature endowed 

 him with almost none of the qualities for the leadership of a 

 turbulent people, his revolt against the Diaz domination, which 

 occurred in March of 1910, came at the psychological moment, 

 and many Mexicans flocked to Madero's banner simply because 

 they sympathized with him in his opposition to Diaz. From that 

 time, three years ago, to the time of his death, his life was crowd- 

 ed with moving incidents. In June, 1910, he was thrown into 

 prison by Diaz, but a few months later escaped, recruited troops, 

 and in February, 1911. fought against the administration forces. 

 In the following May Diaz was compelled to resign, and Madero 



