March I, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



339 



The Obituary Record. 



RICHARD S. SATTERLEE, vice-president of the HabirshaW 

 Electric Cable Co., Inc., of New York City, died at his 

 home in that city February IS, aged 56 years. 

 Captain Satterlee was born in New York City, June 6, 1860, 

 son of the late George B. and Sarah Satterlee. He was 



educated at St. 

 Paul's School in 

 Concord, New 

 Hampshire, and at 

 Holbrook's Military 

 Academy, Ossining, 

 New York, after- 

 wards studying at 

 the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, 

 New York City, 

 where, however, he 

 did not complete his 

 course. He served in 

 the Seventh Regi- 

 ment, New York 

 National Guards, 

 and for several years 

 was engaged in cattle 

 raising on a ranch in 

 Wyoming. After his 

 return to New York 

 C-\rT. R. S. S.\TTSRLEZ. City he entered 



the real estate busi- 

 ness and was appointed Deputy Tax Commissioner by Mayor 

 Strong, serving four years. 



He went around the Horn in a sailing vessel in 1898 and on 

 arriving in San Francisco. California, he heard of the declaration 

 of war with Spain and immediately joined the First New York 

 Volunteers and started for the Philippines. Typhoid fever broke 

 out and the regiment got no further than Honolulu. Later he 

 received a commission as First Lieutenant in the Twelfth New- 

 York Infantry, and saw service with this regiment in Cuba. After 

 the Spanish war he became connected with the Habirshaw Wire 

 Co., in which his brother, Hon. Herbert L. Satterlee, was in- 

 terested. He was president of the company at the time it became 

 associated with the Electric Cable Co., and the name was changed 

 to the Habirshaw Electric Cable Co.. Inc., Mr. Satterlee becoming 

 vice-president, a position he retained up to the time of his death. 

 At the time when it seemed probable that this country would 

 have war with Mexico, Mr. Satterlee offered his services to the 

 State, although he was past military age, and his offer being 

 accepted, he was appointed Captain of Ordnance and attached to 

 the Division Staff. 



On the 10th of last month, in company with Major L. Reagan, 

 Division Adjutant, Captain Satterlee began a tour of inspection 

 of the aqueduct at points where guards had been stationed. The 

 long exposure to severe weather caused a sudden illness, which 

 resulted in his death. 



Captain Satterlee is survived by his widow, his mother, a 

 sister and a brother. 



and after graduation from the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, became assistant secretary of the J. Elwood Lee Co., 

 Conshohocken, and in 1911, when the Lee Tire & Rubber Co. 

 was formed, was appointed secretary, resigning about a year ago 

 to become associated witli the Philadelphia Rubber Works Co. 

 He was also treasurer and general manager of the Acushnet 

 Process Co., Inc., of New York City, a corporation formed to 

 handle the New York City business of the Acushnet Process Co., 

 of New Bedford, Massachusetts. 



Mr. Wright was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, and 

 a member of the Loyal Legion, the Rubber Association of Amer- 

 ica, and the Merion Cricket Club of Philadelphia. 



HEAD OF THE GERMAN RUBBER MANUFACTURERS. 



The death is announced of Louis HoiY, chairman of the Central- 

 Verein Deutscher Kautsckuk-Waren Fabriken (German Rubber 

 Manufacturers' Association) since. 1904, and general director of 

 the United Harburg-Vienna India Rubber Works. He was also 

 prominently associated with the Kolonial-Wirtschaftlichen Kom- 

 mittee. 



A WELL-KNOWN RUBBER RECLAIMER. 



Samuel Wright, prominently connected with the crude and 

 reclaimed rubber business, died of pneumonia January 18 at his 

 home in Yonkers, New York. 



He was born in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1875, 



LONG PROMINENT IN CRUDE RUBBER TRADE. 



Herman Reimers, well known in the crude rubber trade, died 

 at his home, "The Elms," Spaniards' Road, Hampstead Heath, 

 London, England. February 11. in his sixtieth year. 



Mr. Reimers was 

 born in B r e m e n, 

 i-iermany, and when 

 a young man came 

 to this country in 

 1876 and was con- 

 nected with the 

 crude rubber house 

 "f Charles Loewen- 

 thal & Co., later be- 

 coming a member 

 of the firm. He 

 represented the 

 ciimpany in Boston, 

 Massachusetts, for 

 several years and 

 when the partner- 

 ship expired by limi- 

 tation. December 31, 

 1891. a new partner- 

 ship of Reimers & 

 Meyer was formed, 

 afterwards becoming 

 Reimers & Co. In 

 1902 this tiriT) was succeeded by Poel & .\rnold. Mr. Reimefs 

 remained out of business for about si.x years, during which time 

 he made his home at Honnef, Germany, but traveled extensively 

 in Europe, and then he became a partner in the parent house of 

 Heilburt, Symons & Co., London, England, where he remained 

 until the time of his death. He was at one time chairman of 

 the board of the Anglo-French Mercantile and Finance Cor- 

 poration, Limited, a il. 000,000 corporation for financing, buying 

 and selling rubber plantations, and was director in several rub- 

 lier plantation companies in the Far East. 



Mr. Reimers was of strong personality, a man of exuberant 

 spirits and tremendous vitality. It is said that he had several 

 times been mistaken for .Sandow, the wrestler, both on account 

 of his physical build and facial resemblance. He visited the 



H. Reimers. 



