THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



The Obituary Record. 



nfVENTOR OF IMPORTANT RUBBEIt MACHINERY. 



JOHN H. PF.ARCK. at ..ne time superintendent of The L. 

 Candee & Co.s plant at Xew Haven, Connecticut, and an 

 inventor of note in ruMier machinery, died at his home in 

 Xew Haven. Connccticnt. June 12, aged 61 years. Mr. Pearcc 

 was a native of 

 -Montreal, Canada, 

 wliL-re he spent the 

 early part of his life, 

 starting in business 

 with the Canadian 

 Ruliber Co. Eight 

 \oars later he en- 

 tered the employ of 

 tlie Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co. at Maiden, 

 -Massachusetts, and 

 from there went to 

 the Lycoming Rub- 

 ber Co., Williams- 

 port, Pennsylvania, 

 and in 1884 was 

 transferred to The 

 L. Candee Co.'s 

 plant, where he rose 

 to the position of su- 

 perintendent. Some 

 years ago he went 

 back to ^Montreal to 

 J. M. Pe.vrcf.. occupy a prominent 



position with the 

 Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. Two years ago he returned 

 to Xew Haven and arranged for the formation of a new com- 

 pany, in connection with E. E. Carll, to manufacture footwear, 

 soles and heels, as well as tennis and sporting goods, and he had 

 made considerable progress towards securing the capital for this 

 purpose at the time of his death. Early in the present year he 

 submitted to a surgical operation which was supposed to have 

 resulted successfully, although he had not been in the best of 

 health since that time. On the date mentioned he was seized 

 with hemorrhages and, in spite of prompt measures taken for 

 his relief, his death occurred the same evening. He was well 

 known in the rubber business through his connection with these 

 prominent rubber companies and for the inventions of the auto- 

 malic mixer and feeder bearing his name, and several styles of 

 calenders, used mainly in the manufacture of shoes and sheeted 

 goods, while several minor inventions of value in the manipu- 

 lation of rubber are recorded to his credit. Mr. Pearce was a 

 thirty-second degree Mason. He is survived by a wife and 

 three sons, all of Xew Haven, and by one brother, Richard X. 

 Pearce, of Boston. 



AN ELECTRICAL EXPERT. 



James T. Phelps, for many years associated with the Na- 

 tional India Rubber Co.'s plant at Bristol, Rhode Island, 

 died at his home. 100 Franklin street, that town, on the 

 night of Friday, June 16, from a complication of diseases, 

 including a hurt he received three weeks previously, in a 

 fall at his home. He was born in Bristol in 1840 and served 

 with distinction in the Civil War in the Seventh Rhode Island 

 Volunteer Infantry, enlisting as a private and rising to First 

 Lieutenant, after being severely wounded at Petersburg, Vir- 

 ginia, on September 20. 1864. He removed to Bristol from 

 New York City in 1870 and took charge of the electric de- 



partment of the Xational India Rubber Co., where he re- 

 mained many years. He introduced the first electric street 

 lights in Bristol at the time of the town^s bicentennial in 

 1880 and also installed the first telephone system in that 

 town. He is survived by his wife and one son. 



A FAITHFUL AND EFFICIENT AUDITOR. 



James T. Halland, of the auditors' office of the United States 

 Rubber Co., New York City, died recently at his residence on 

 Staten Island, New York. He was born in St. James' Parish, 

 London, England, December 8, 1851. Upon completing his edu- 

 cation at St. Marks' College in that city, he trained for an 

 accountant, and at the 

 age of 25 went to Xew 

 Zealand, where he fol- 

 lowed that vocation, and 

 after ten years returned 

 to England. Later he 

 decided to come to 

 America, and he entered 

 tlie employ of George 

 Watkinson, at Colches- 

 ter, Connecticut, in Xo- 

 \ember, 1892. Two years 

 :iter he went to Provi- 

 dence, and in 1895 was 

 transferred to the Xew 

 York offices of the 

 United States Rubber 

 Co., to take charge of 

 the work in the auditing 

 di\ ision, remaining there 

 with steadily increasing 

 responsibilities up to the 

 time of his death. 

 Mr. Halland married Fanny Lavarart, of London, in 1872, who 

 survives him. He was a member of 'the Episcopal Church and 

 occupied the office of vestryman in All Saints' Church, Orange, 

 and later in Grace Church, Nutley, New Jersey. He was a solo 

 singer for nine years in the first mentioned church and was also 

 president of the Mendelssohn LTnion of East Orange. He was a 

 Master Mason and a member of the Royal Arcanum. Mr. 

 Halland possessed a genial disposition, was popular among his 

 business associates, and leaves a wide circle of friends to mourn 

 his loss. 



HEAD OF AN IMPORTANT DEPARTMENT. 



Otto P. Huebon, head of the wire department of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co.. Akron, Ohio, died suddenly in East Orange, New 

 Jersey, on May 13, at the age of 45 years. Mr. Huebon contem- 

 plated undergoing an operation within a few days after return- 

 ing to Akron. He was born in Germany. His wife died last 

 December and he was buried in the same plot with her in Yon- 

 kcrs, Xew York. 



EXPLORED IN RUBBER PRODUCING COUNTRIES. 



F'rank \'incent, author of "Through and Through the 

 Tropics." "Around and .Vbout South America," ".Vctual 

 Africa," and "The Land of the White Elephant," died June 

 19 at Woodstock, Xew York. He was 69 years old. Mr. 

 Vincent was a noted explorer and traveler, particularly in 

 India, but other explorations were in Brazil, Congo Free 

 State, Lapland and Indo-China 



J. T. H 



