May 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



273 



The Obituary Record. 



GEOEGE PICKERING EUSTIS. 



THE death of George P. Eiistis, treasurer of the American 

 Rubber Co., Boston, which occurred on the morning n{ 

 April 4, removes anollier of the well-known figures that 

 were instrumental in building up that very successful company. 

 Mr. Eustis was born in Bangor, Maine, where he received the 

 usual common school education, coming to Bcston to seek his for- 

 tune when he was twenty years of age. He tried his hand at 

 many things, incidentally becoming an expert accountant and in 

 the 70's came with the .American Rubber Co. under Robert B. 

 Evans as bookkeeper, auditor and general financial man. Later 

 he became both secretary and treasurer of the company, and 

 made a record as a painstaking, capable and thoroughly reliable 

 official. 



In his quiet wax . he made many friends ;n d even when the 

 burden of years and increasing ill health, began to press upon him, 



THOMAS T. STEVENSON. ^. 



The period of the early expansion of the rubber manufactur- 

 ing business will be vividly recalled to many of the readers of 

 The Indi.v Rubber World by the decease on the evening of 

 April 20, at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., of Thomas F. 

 Ste\enson. Deceased, who had been ailing for about ten months, 

 and whose death was due to a complication of ailments, had 

 attained the ripe age of seventy-two years. 



When some twenty years ago the rubber manufacturing busi- 

 ness showed its first real expansion, one of the first effects of 

 the development was the demand for the complete new and 

 mechanical equipment of a large number of factories. In these 

 changes Mr. Stevenson took a prominent part, as a dealer in 

 machinery, a business in which he was actively engaged for a 

 nmnher of years, including a connection of upwards of thirty 

 years with the Birmingham Iron Foundry. In arranging for 



he never complained, but met all with the same mcdest cordial- 

 ity and forgetfulness of self tliat was one of his chief charms. 



His wife, who was Miss Emma Rolfe of Boston, died several 

 years ago, since when Mr. Eustis made his home at the Hotel 

 Wadsworth until his death. He belonged to several fraternal 

 organizations as well as to Massachusetts Lodge F. & A. M., 

 St. Andrew's Chapter and Bostcn Commandcry, K. T., and the 

 Rubber Club of America. Mr. Eustis left im innncdiate family, 

 his nearest relatives being a sister and fuur nephews in Bangor, 

 Maine, and one nephew in Waterbury, Conn. 



Interment services were in Mt. Auburn Chapel, the burial 

 being in the family lot in that cemetery. Services were con- 

 ducted by the Reverend Edward Cunmiings, pastor of the South 

 Congregational Church, the music being under the direction 

 of Albert W. Snow, of the Church of the Advent. Many rela- 

 tives and friends were in attendance, including prominent busi- 

 ness men from Boston ; representatives of Masonic bodies ; 

 officials of the American Rubber Co., and members of the Rubber 

 Club of America. 



the installatif.n of calenders, grinders, etc.. of increased capa- 

 city, his knowledge of the requirements of the different manu- 

 facturers, his extensive acquaintance in rubber trade circles and 

 the confidence reposed in him, enabled him to place the super- 

 seded machinery with smaller and less ambitious concerns, to 

 the mutual advantage of both parties to the transaction. 



.\ native of Brooklyn, having passed all his life in the city of 

 his birth, with the exception of some ten years spent in Shang- 

 hai, China, and having lived for upwards of thirty-seven years 

 in one locality, deceased enjoyed the widespread esteem and 

 respect of his neighbors and fellow citizens. This was revealed in 

 the number and beauty of the floral tributes with which the 

 house was fairly filled, on the occasion of the funeral services, 

 conducted by the Rev. T. C. McClelland, pastor of the Memorial 

 Presbyterian Church, of which deceased was for many years a 

 member. He was likewise a veteran Free Mason and one of the 

 older members of that organization in Brooklyn. He leaves a 

 son and daughter, his wife having died several years ago. The 

 interment took place in Greenwood cemetery, on .\pril 22. 



