April 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Obituary Record. 



HEAD OF A GREAT WIRE CONCERN. 



'ERDINAND W. ROEBLIXG, treasurer and general man- 

 ager of the John A. Roebling's Sons Co., Trenton and Roeb- 

 ling, New Jersey, died at his home in the former city March 



16, aged 75 years. 



Mr. Roeblina; was 

 born February 27, 

 1842, at Saxonburgh, 

 Pennsylvania, where 

 his father. John A. 

 Roebling, established 

 tlie tirst wire rope 

 mill in tlic United 

 States. Six years la- 

 ter, this business was 

 removed to Trenton, 

 and the family has 

 resided there ever 

 since. Ferdinand W. 

 Roebling graduated 

 from the Polytechnic 

 College and imme- 

 diately became asso- 

 ciated with his 

 father, becoming la- 

 ter treasurer and 

 general manager of 



F. W. Roebling. 



the company, which under his direction he saw grow from small 

 beginnings to one of the important industries of this country, 

 employing 7,000 hands. 



Foreseeing the importance of electrical progress, he developed 

 the insulated wire and cable branch of the business to its present 

 proportions, and cables made by this concern carry messages 

 under every ocean on the globe. 



But Mr. Roebling was also actively identified with a number 

 of other industries. He was treasurer of the New Jersey Wire 

 Cloth Co., president of the Union Mills Paper Manufactur- 

 ing Co., vice-president of the Syracuse, Rochester and East- 

 ern Railway Co., director of the Mechanics National Bank of 

 Trenton, of the National Copper Bank of New York, of the Mer- 

 chants and Metals National Bank of New York, of the Mercer 

 Automobile Co., of the Otis Elevator Co., of the Trenton Street 

 Railway Co., of the Interstate Railways Co., of the Trenton Brass 

 and Machine Co., of the Standard Fire Insurance Co., of Tren- 

 ton.' Mr. Roebling's influence in the world of finance was nation- 

 ally recognized. Several years ago he was selected as a director 

 of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. 



Mr. Roebling, though politically influential, never sought pub- 

 lic office. He was a delegate to several Republican National 

 Conventions, but he held no important office except as president 

 of the Trenton Free Public Library, and as a member of the 

 commission which built the Trenton City Hall. It was through 

 Mr. Roebling's influence that the Free Public Library was insti- 

 tuted and built, and his interest in that institution continued up 

 to the time of his death. 



He had many hobbies. He was an enthusiastic hunter and 

 fisherman. He won many prizes as a marksman. He was fond 

 of automobiling. He conducted a chicken farm, and later inter- 

 ested himself in raising blooded cattle. He was one of tlie 

 moving spirits in organizing the Trenton Country Club. 



He was a man of strong likes and dislikes. His predon'inat- 

 ing characteristics were reserve and energy. He was a deep 

 thinker and a man of few words. He loved companionship of 



those in whom he was interested. He had decidedly individual- 

 istic ideas about all things, and he applied this trait in many 

 striking ways. He used his wealth freely for the advancement 

 of causes which appealed to him, but while some of his charities 

 are known, he helped many causes, while enjoining secrecy. 



Mr. Roebling was a member of the Union League of Philadel- 

 phia, the Engineers' Club of New York, the Lotus Club, the 

 Trenton Country Club and of the Carteret Club of Trenton. 



He is survived by two sons and two daughters, also by his 

 mother, three brothers and one sister. His wife died several 

 years ago. 



KNOWN IN THE RUBBER STAMP TRADE. 



Mrs. Margery S. Stewart, president and treasurer of R. A. 

 Stewart & Co., Inc., New York City, dealers in hand stamp sup- 

 plies, and president of the Hill-Independent Manufacturing Co., 

 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died in the latter city, after a long 

 illness, March 6. She was born in New York City in 1863, was 

 a graduate of Hunter College, and had been connected with the 

 stp.mp trade as far back as 1881, and actively engaged in the 

 business since 1900. She was an able business woman, personally 

 directing the concerns with which she was connected, and be- 

 sides this, was actively engaged in practical philanthropic work, 

 in which she made many friends who deplore her loss. 



FORMERLY IN THE RUBBER TRADE. 



William Dwight Shattuck died at Boston, Massachusetts, 

 March 19, aged 55 years. He was born in Roxbury, now a 

 part of Boston, and for a number of years was connected with 

 the boot and shoe business there and in Newburyport. Later, 

 for a number of years, he was with Parker, Stearns & Co., manu- 

 facturers of druggists' and surgical sundries, Brooklyn, New 

 York, leaving their employ about four years ago to locate at 

 Spoff'ord, New Hampshire, to superintend the interests of E. 

 Ward Stearns, of the above named firm, who owns a hotel at 

 that place. Mr. Shattuck was a member of several Masonic 

 bodies. He is survived by a sister. Interment was at SpofFord, 

 New Hampshire. 



FORMERLY A RUBBER STAMP MANUFACTURER. 



George Moss, for several years a rubber stamp manufacturer 

 in New York City, died at his residence in Brooklyn, New York, 

 March 21, aged 58 years. He was a member of several Masonic 

 bodies, and had attained to the thirty-second degree. He left 

 a widow, three sons and a daughter. 



RED OXIDE OF IRON COMING FROM SPAIN. 



Notwithstanding the great production of red oxide of iron in 

 the Marquette region of Lake Superior, so heavy has been the 

 demand that a steady increase is noted in imports of this mineral 

 pigment from Spain. The beginning of this movement was a 

 single shipment, in 1901, to the value of $52.50. In 1905 the figures 

 had grown to $870, and in 1910 had increased to $5,186. Since 

 then, shipments have rapidly increased, and in the first nine 

 months of 1916 shipments of this substance to the value of 

 $55,588 had been made, and a far greater record would have been 

 shown for the year had there been normal shipping accommo- 

 dation. 



This enormously increased demand is caused by its being sub- 

 stituted for red oxide of lead, not only for paint manufacture 

 but also in many industries. Red lead is quoted at about $350 a 

 metric ton, while Spanish red oxide of iron is sold around $27 

 per metric ton. Malaga is the principal port of export. 



