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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1912. 



Obituary Record. 



LEONARD J. LOMASNEY. 



LEONARD J. LOMASNEY, first vice-president and sales 

 inanager of the Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown. Ohio, 

 died at his home in that city on April 9. His funeral was 

 held on Friday afternoon, April 12. 



Mr. Lomasney was born in June, 1870, in Nashville, Tennessee. 

 He became identified with the rubber trade in 1896, when he took 

 the position of- traveling salesman in the South with the Peerless 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., of New York city. Two years later, 

 because of his marked ability, he was made sales manager of the 

 mechanical department of the Peerless company, and in that 

 position became intimately associated with the late Charles H. 

 Dale. He remained with the Peerless company until 1904, when 

 he joined the Republic Rubber Co. as sales manager and first 



Those who were present on that occasion will regret to hear 

 of Professor Rotch's death, which occurred on April 8, in Bos- 

 ton, after an operation for appendicitis. Professor Rotch was 

 51 years old. He was a graduate of the Institute of Technology, 

 but had been connected with Harvard for a number of years. 

 He founded and directed, up to the time of his death, the fa- 

 mous Blue Hill Observatory. He was the first one in this coun- 

 try to take atmospheric observations several miles above the 

 earth by means of instruments attached to kites and balloons. 

 He was a member of many scientific societies, and many for- 

 eign orders of distinction had been conferred upon him. He was 

 a member of an old Milton family and the son of Benjamin S. 

 Rotch. He left a wife and three children. 



Under the provisions of Professor Rotch's will, the Blue Hill 



Thomas McIlroy, Jr. 



Leo.nard J. Lomasney. 



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vice-president, having the year previous married. Miss Arras, the 

 daughter of the late Werner Arms, at that time president of 

 the company. ," 



He was a man of very attractive personality and unremitting 

 in his efforts to advance the interests of his company, .and under 

 his management the work of the sales department was carried on 

 with signal success. During the last few months of his life his 

 health had been greatly undermined ; he had been confined to his 

 room since last November and his death had been expected for 

 some time. He is survived by a widow and three children — two 

 sons and a daughter. 



PBOFESSOR A. L. ROTCH. 



The members of the Rubber Club of America, who were pres- 

 ent at the Aeronautic Symposium, held by the club on December 

 13, 1909, in the rooms of the Algonquin Club, Boston, will re- 

 member very distinctly the first speaker of the evening, Professor 

 A. Lawrence Rotch, of the Meteorological Department of Har- 

 vard College. He gave an exceedingly interesting talk on the 

 various kinds of kites and balloons which he used, to carry 

 recording instruments into the upper atmosphere, by which he 

 recorded the temperature, pressure and currents to a height of 

 ten or twelve miles. He pointed out at that time how this in- 

 formation, when put in tabulated form, would result eventually in 

 producing reliable charts of the upper air for the use of the 

 aeronaut. 



Meteorological Observatory, its equipment, and all the build- 

 ings connected with it, will become the property of Harvard 

 University. Professor Rotch also bequeathed to the university 

 $50,000, the income of which is to be used for the maintenance 

 of the observatory. 



THOMAS McILROY, JK. 



T. Mcllroy, Jr., for forty years a well-known figure in rub- 

 ber circles in this country and Europe, died in San .'\ntonio, 

 Texas, April 6, and was buried in Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, 

 April 11. 



Mr. Mcllroy was born in Brampton, Ontario. Canada, on 

 July 23, 1854. His parents moved to New York in 1863 and he 

 was educated in the public schools of that city. He entered the 

 employ of the Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufacturing Co. of 

 New York when he was about 17 years of age. At 18 he was oil 

 the road for that company, introducing and selling their rubber 

 fire hose. He later established a branch warehouse for that com- 

 pany in Toronto, Canada, and a few years later erected a large 

 factory for the Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufacturing Co. at 

 Parkdale, a- suburb of Toronto. That factory later became one 

 of the largest of its kind in the world. 



After twenty-five years' continuous service with the Gutta 

 Perclia & Rubber Manufacturing Co. lie organized his own com- 

 pany under the name of the Toronto Rubber Co., and built works 



