November i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



51 



The Obituary Record. 



HORACE H. TYER. 



HORACE H. TYER, president of the Tyer Rubber Co. 

 (Andover, Massachusetts), died at his summer home, 

 Pigeon Cove, Mass., on Friday, October 4, at the age 

 of 63. Mr. Tyer was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 

 1844, at the time that his father, one of the pioneers in rubber, 

 was engaged in business there with Horace H. Day. Indeed, 

 the son was christened Horace H. Day Tyer, although he never 

 used the full name. 



.\bout 1856 or 1857 Henry George Tyer, the father, l)egan the 



HoR.^CE H. Tyer. 



Rid. a. Zietz 



manufacture of rubber goods, first in Ballardvale and then in 

 Andover, Mass., making the latter town his home. Here his 

 son Horace attended Phillips Academy, from which institution 

 he was graduated and at once entered his father's factory to 

 learn the business. On the death of his father, which occurred 

 in 1880, he became treasurer of the company, and in 1882 was 

 elected to the presidency of the company, which office he filled 

 up to the time of his death. Mr. Tyer married Miss Katherinc 

 L. Buss, of Medford, Mass.. who survives him, together with 

 two daughters and a son. The latter, Henry G. Tyer. who was 

 named after his grandfather, is at present connected with the 

 factory end of the Tyer Rubber Co., and is learning the business. 



The funeral services were held at Christ Episcopal Church, 

 .Andover, the Rev. Frederick Palmer, rector, officiating, music 

 being furnished by the vested choir of boys. The honorary pall- 

 bearers were the Hon. John N. Cole, speaker of the Massachu- 

 setts house of representatives ; Natharwel Stevens, Frederick H. 

 Jones, Frank T. Carlton, the Rev. F. R. Shipman, and T. Dennie 

 Thompson. The bearers were the superintendents and heads of 

 departments of the Tyer Rubber Co., and were eight in number. 

 The interment was in the family lot at Christ Church Cemetery, 

 Andover. 



Mr. Tyer was a director in the Andover National Bank, trustee 

 of the Andover Savings Bank, trustee of the Punchard Free 

 School, president of the Andover Press, and senior warden of 

 Christ Episcopal Church. 



Although he was not widely known in the rubber trade, those 

 who did know him appreciated fully what a sterling character 

 his was. It was difficult for him to mix with men because of a 



natural reserve that amounted to almost a shyness. At the same 

 time he never shirked public duties, and in a quiet, unostentatious 

 way proved himself a friend to scores and was ever a champion 

 of the right in town and business affairs. Not possessed of the 

 pioneer spirit of his father, the founder of the company, he very 

 wisely became a conservative, but one who never strove to handi- 

 cap or lessen the enterprise or energy of those with whom he 

 was associated. To those who knew him best he showed a char- 

 acter simple, wholesome, and lovable, and his death at a com- 

 paratively early age is a calamity. The New England Rubber 

 Club, of which he had long been a member, 

 at a special meeting passed the following 

 resolutions : 



Whereas. The sad news of the sudden death of 

 our friend and fellow member, Horace H. Tyer, 

 lias come as a great shock to the members of the New 

 England Rubber Club — the son of one of the honored 

 l>ioneers in his particular branch of the rubber in- 

 dustry, and himself intimately connected with our 

 Hade during his entire business career, and presi- 

 dent uf his own organization for the part quarter 

 nf a ctntury, his loss will be most keenly felt by all 

 w ho have had the privilege of personal or business 

 .issociations with him. 



Resolved, That this Club extend to his family its ' 

 sincere and most heartfelt sympathy. 



Resolved. That these resolutions b^ spread upon 

 tlie records of the Club, and copies engrossed and 

 sent to his family and to his business associates. 

 GEORGE P. WHITMORE, Chairman, 

 ELSTON E. WADBROOK, 

 ALEX.\NDER H. PAUL, 



Committee en Resolutions. 



Resolutions of regret were adopted also by 



the Tyer Rubber Co., the Rubber Sundries 



Manufacturers' Association, the Andover 



Club, and the directors of the Andover Press. 



RUO A. ZIETZ. 



RriioLPH .\rGUST Zietz, long engaged prominently in the rub- 

 trade at Para, died suddenly in New York on September 11, in 

 his fifty-ninth year. He had suffered an apoplectic stroke on the 

 preceding day, and his last hours were spent in a hospital. Mr. 

 Zietz was born January 22, 1849. in Pernambuco, Brazil, where 

 his father, Rudolph Zietz, was engaged in business. His mother 

 was Louise Ackerman. When the son was about five years old 

 the family returned to Germany, to the free city of Liibeck, of 

 which the father became a senator. Rudolph Zietz acquired his 

 education there, and discharged his military obligation to his 

 country. On reaching the age of 21, and having been supplied 

 with some capital by his father, he went to the West Indies. His 

 mercantile career began in Trinidad, leading him successively to 

 China. Manila, and, finally, to Para, where he became interested 

 in tlie rubber trade. 



It was in 1884 that Mr. Zietz became established at Para, and 

 for about twenty years he was an important factor in rubber, 

 under the registered firm name of Rud. A. Zietz. His transac- 

 tions are reported to have amounted in some years to £300.000 

 or £400,000. Incidentally, he served for a long term as the Danish 

 consul at Para. During much of this time IMessrs. G. Amsinck 

 & Co.. of New York, were his bankers and his correspondents 

 in the United States, and when he retired from business he took 

 up his residence in New York, where he possessed a number of 

 friends in the trade. Mr. Zietz was unmarried and without rela- 

 tions in America. His body was cremated and the ashes sent to 

 Liibeck, to the grave of his mother. Mr. Zietz was held in the 

 highest esteem by all with whom he came into contact, on account 

 of his sterling qualities, both as a business man and as a 

 friend. 



