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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May i, 1910. 



Henry Clay Burton. 



RETIREMENT OF MR. BURTON. 



No information of a personal nature that has been reported 

 in these columns of late has been of wider or more real interest, 

 perhaps, than the announcement, now to be- made, of the retire- 

 ment from all active business connection of Mr. Henry C. Bur- 

 ton, identified so long with the house of Parker, Stearns & Co. 

 It must be now some thirty-four years since Mr. Burton, a 

 native of Brooklyn and a graduate from the Brooklyn Poly- 

 technic Institute, became connected with the rubber druggists' 

 sundries business, conducted in Gold street, New York, by 

 Francis H. Holton. Mr. Holton, by the way, was one of the 



pioneers in this line, 

 and later became super- 

 intendent of the sun- 

 dries department of the 

 Goodrich factory, at 

 Akron, from which he 

 has now retired. Two 

 years later Mr. Barton 

 was to be found with 

 the Mattson Rubber 

 Co., in New York, 

 founded by another no 

 table pioneer in the 

 branch of the drug- 

 gists' sundries. Next 

 he conducted a busi- 

 ness in New York for 

 awhile under the name 

 Para Rubber Co. 

 Mean w,h i 1 e Parker 

 Stearns & Sutton had 

 entered the field, and 

 were widening their 

 scope rapidly. In 1889 they incorporated in Canada the Alpha 

 Rubber Co., establishing a sundries factory at Montreal. He 

 was one of the incorporators and he was manager of the Mont- 

 real factory. Four years later he was called to New York by 

 his firm, and the Montreal factory was disposed of. Since 1893, 

 therefore, Mr. Bvrton has been in New York, connected in an 

 important way with this firm — established 1879, incorporated 

 1892, and reincorporated in 1905 under the style Parker, Stearns 

 & Co. Since the latter date Mr. Burton had been secretary of 

 the corporation. 



When, in the fall of 1898, the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' 

 Association was formed, no one manifested a deeper interest 

 in its objects and its success than Mr. Burton. Possessing a 

 thorough knowledge of the sundries business and a wide per- 

 sonal acquaintance with the trade, he recognized the benefits 

 possible from cooperation, with the motto that to work for one's 

 trade as a whole is a good way to promote one's own indi- 

 vidual part in that trade. Mr. Burton was an active member 

 of the executive committee of the association from the beginning 

 and two years ago he was elected to the office of president. At 

 the annual meeting last month he declined reelection, feeling the 

 need of more careful attention to the condition of his health 

 than he had been able to give in recent years. 



Every now and then, into this modern civilization of ours, 

 with its secret admiration for the brilliant rogue, and its dis- 

 trust of the righteous, is born a man capable, energetic, intel- 

 lectual, absolutely free from "manly vices," who unconsciously 

 and perpetually gives the lie to man's idea of men. Such was 

 and is Henry C. Burton. A tireless, intelligent, purposeful 

 worker, modest in his estimate of himself, broadly sympathetic 

 in his attitude toward all men, thoroughly good because he was 

 too busy and too wholesome to have even a speaking acquaintance 

 with evil, a cheerful optimist even when shattered by ill health, 

 he numbered his friends by hundreds and deserved them all. 

 Through his retirement the rubber sundries' trade loses one it 



can ill spare. May the rest and relaxation which he has so 

 tardily allowed himself strengthen his hands, restore his health, 

 and give him years full of content and comfort. 



BIRTHDAY OF MR. MARKEY. 



The seventy-sixth birthday of Mr. Isaac B. Markey, vice- 

 ; 1 ident of the Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Co. (New 

 York), was celebrated on April 14. During the day many 



friends visited him at his 

 office, with expressions of 

 good wishes. At his home, 

 in the evening, he was pre- 

 sented with a large vase 

 containing 76 American 

 Beauty roses. Mr. Markey 

 is known throughout the 

 United States as the "Nes- 

 tor" of the fire hose busi- 

 ness, with which he has 

 been connected for nearly 

 40 years. During 25 years 

 he has held various execu- 

 tive positions in the Eureka 

 Fire Hose Manufacturing 

 Co., and in this period he 

 has attended every annual 

 convention of the Inter- 

 national Association of Fire 

 Engineers, with the excep- 

 tion of a single year in 

 Isaa< B. Markey. which he was ser j usly ill. 



At the New York office the staff presented Mr. Markey with a 

 handsome red morocco covered mahogany arm chair, with the 

 wish that he might be able to fill the same for many years to 

 come. 



TRADE AND PERSONAL NOTES. 



Mr. Frederick C. Hood, of the Hood Rubber Co., sailed from 

 New York on April 14, for his yearly visit to Europe. He 

 was accompanied by Mrs. Hood. On the same steamer sailed 

 Charles W. Randall, of C. W. Randall & Co. (London), rep- 

 resentatives of the Hood company in the British trade, after a 

 very brief visit to the States. 



After a very successful year in giving public demonstrations 

 to the shoe trade of how rubber footwear is made — which took 

 him over most of the United States— Mr. W. H. Palmer, of the 

 United States Rubber Co., has gone to Europe, where he will 

 repeat his lecture and demonstration, particularly in those cen- 

 ters where his company maintain agencies. 



Hon. L. D. Apsley has returned to his home in Hudson, 

 Massachusetts, after a business visit to the west and a vacation 

 at Hot Springs, Arkansas. 



Mr. H. W. Smith, for thirteen years manager of the F. C. 

 Howlett Co. (latterly operated as the Iroquois Rubber Co.), at 

 Buffalo, New York, has resigned to embark in a new line of 

 business. The employes presented him with a beautiful gold 

 watch and fob as a token of appreciation. 



Mr. C. D. Garretson, treasurer and general manager of Electric 

 Hose and Rubber Co. (Wilmington, Delaware), on April 27, 

 sailed for Bermuda on a month's rest from business cares. 

 Unlike many young men in the discharge of their administrative 

 duties, involving much responsibility and the formulating of 

 plans that adapt a large growing business to changing conditions, 

 lie takes needed rest while his balance to the credit of health 

 account is yet good. Mr. Garretson was accompanied by his wife. 



The death is announced at Boston, under date of April 5, of 

 Mrs. Susan Ada Balderston, widow of the late John C. Balders- 

 ton, who was connected for so long with the rubber footwear 

 trade and who was the father of Frank D. Balderston, now of 

 the United States Rubber Co. 



