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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1910. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



HENRY CLAY BURTON. 



THE sad announcement has to be made that Henry Clay 

 Burton, whose retirement from business affairs on account 

 of ill health was reported in the last issue of this journal, failed 

 to gain an} relief from his enforced rest, and on May 10 he 

 pa ed away, at Newfoundland, New Jersey, at the age of 56. 

 Mr. Burton resided in Brooklyn at No. 651 St. Mark's avenue, 

 and funeral services wen held on May 12 in that city at the 

 New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. 

 Burton was an active member of the official hoard. The services 

 were attended by the surviving members of the hoard and by 

 representatives of the rubber trade, including the officers of the 

 Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' Association, which organization 

 had Mr. Burton's loyal and helpful support from its foundation. 



WARNER ARMS. 



\\ u: .ii \i;\is. president of The Republic Rubber Co., of 

 Youngstowu, Ohio, died at his residence in that city on May 15. 

 Mr. Anns was horn in Youngstowu, November 30, 1851, being 

 the eldest son of Myron Israel Arms and Emmeline E. Warner, 

 the family being among the pioneers of Youngstown. His busi- 

 ness carter began at an early age, in connection with the iron 

 industry, in which he attained success. Purchasing an interest 

 in the Falcon Iron and Nail Co. (Niles, Ohio), he became in 

 time its president. When their mill was absorbed by the Ameri- 

 can Tin Plate Co., he became vice president of the latter cor- 

 poration, and took up his residence in Chicago, moving later to 

 New York with the main offices of the company. 



Meanwhile a rubber factory had been established in Youngs- 

 town — that of the present Republic Rubber Co. — and at the 

 annual meeting in February, 1003, Mr. Arms was offered the 

 presidency, to accept which he resigned his position with the tin 

 plate company. He at once entered actively upon the control of 

 his new business. The career of the company has been a very 

 successful one, and credit for it is due largely to the capacity of 

 Mr. Arms, and his unceasing attention to business. The funeral 

 occurred on May 20, and was attended by the sales agents of 

 the company from all parts of the country. 



Mr. Arms was married on February 17, 1875, to Fannie Will- 

 iamson Wick, daughter of the late Dennick Wick, of Youngs- 

 town, who survives, with a son and four daughters. One of 

 the latter is the wife of Leonard J. Lomasney, who for some 

 years has been vice president and general manager of The 

 Republic Rubber Co. 



A man who has the respect and love of all his employes 

 generally deserves it. This was notably the case with Mr. Arms. 

 lie was a singularly quiet and unassuming man. He was not in 

 the usual sense of the word a talker, hut what he said was so 

 clear and concise that it always carried conviction. His busi- 

 ness vision was very keen and his knowledge of men and affairs 

 most extensive. He loved accomplishment for its own sake 

 and worked out his business problems with the greatest care, 

 neglecting no details that bore upon them. While he was never 

 effusive, his sympathies were broad and deep, and in a quiet, 

 effective way, he extended many favors and did much good. He 

 was a type of man that the rubber, or indeed, any industry can 

 ill afford to los< 



FRANCIS W. VEAZIE. 



Francis W. Veazie died at Ins home in Chelsea, Massachu- 

 setts, late in the night of May 2, of heart failure, after an illness 

 of considerable duration. He had been for 40 years connected 

 with one of the large rubber companies, and his whole life, spent 

 in its service, was a record of quiet and unostentatious, but 

 efficient work. While known widely as the superintendent of 

 the Revere Rubber Co., he came into little personal contact witli 

 the trade, though a devoted member of the New England 

 Rubber Club. 



Mr. Veazie was born in the north end of Boston in 1848, 



and in early life removed with his Eamilj to Chelsea, where 

 he afterward lived. About the age oi to In- entered the employ 

 of the Boston Elastic Fabric Co., Ins immediate superior being 

 Charles McPurney. When he entered the company's employ 

 it was just beginning the manufacture of mechanical rubber 

 goods. Under McBurney and other capable managers young 

 Veazie developed rapidly, and in time became superintendent of 

 the works, which meanwhile hail become the Revere Rubber Co. 

 This position he held for 30 years, when he retired on account 



Francis W. Veazie. 



of ill health. Mr. Veazie always lived in Chelsea, after his first 

 settlement there, and became cne of the best known citizens. 

 He rarely left the city ; indeed, it is stated that he had been in 

 the employ of the company 19 years before visiting the Boston 

 office. 



While funeral services were in progress, on May 5, all work 

 was suspended at the Revere factory, and many of the employes 

 attended the services. Mr. Veazie was married March 16, 1871, 

 to Miss Emma Pratt, of Chelsea, who survives, together with 

 two married daughters and a son, Francis W. Veazie, Jr. 



FRANCIS FLYNN. 



Francis F'lynn, who died at his home in Providence, Rhode 

 Island, on May 12, at the age of 74, was during the greater part 

 of his life connected intimately with the rubber footwear in- 

 dustry. Born in County Leitrim, Ireland, lie moved to the 

 United States in [864 and at once entered the employ of the 

 Providence Rubber Shoe Co. — Governor Bourn's factory — where 

 he speedily acquired such a knowledge of the industry as led him 

 to be elected to take charge of the boot and shoe department 

 of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. when that concern was organized. 

 In time Mr. Flynn began to give his whole attention to the 

 manufacture of rubber boots, and when the Woonsocket com- 

 pany's boot mill at Millville was erected Mr. Flynn was put in 

 charge. When the Woonsocket Rubber Co. was amalgamated 

 with the United States Rubber Co., in 1893, Mr. Flynn resigned 

 his position and sold out his stock in the company. Mr. Flynn 

 was the inventor of several improvements in rubber boots, one 

 of which, the "Diamond Tap," brought to him a large sum in 

 royalties. Mr. Flynn is survived by a widow, two sons and two 

 daughters. 



ALBERT G. STARKE. 



The death of Albert G. Starke, secretary and treasurer and a 

 director of A. Schrader's Son, Inc., occurred on May 12, at his 

 residence in New York, in his thirty-third year. Representing 

 a company manufacturing tire valves so extensively, he had 

 gained a wide aquaintancc in the rubber trade. 



