May 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



465 



The Obituary Record. 



MANY TEAHS IN HECIAIMING BUSINESS. 



EDWARD MORTIMER MUNDY, treasurer of the Philadel- 

 phia Rubber Works Co., died on March 6 of pneumonia, 

 at the advanced age of 81 years. 

 Mr. Mundy became associated with the late Colonel Nathaniel 

 Chapman Mitchell, founder of the Philadelphia Rubber Works 

 Co., in 1881, and for 30 years held the office of treasurer of the 

 company. 



The following resolution was adopted at the last board meet- 

 ing of the company : 



Resolved : That in the death of our treasurer, Mr. Edward 

 Mortimer Mundy, this company has lost a highly valued and faith- 

 ful officer of unswerving integrity, whose line qualities of loyalty 

 and kindliness greatly endeared him to all those who had the 

 privilege of being associated witli him. The' board of directors 

 extend to*Mrs. Mundy and to his family the most profound ex- 

 pression of sympathy. 



Mr. Mundy was interred at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 

 New York. He is survived by his widow and a daughter, Mrs. 

 WiHiam G. Davies. 



AU EXPERT IN TIRE MANUFACTURE. 



James E. Tourtellotte, who died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

 March 5, was for 21 years connected with the rubber tire business. 

 For 15 years he was superintendent of the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co., Hartford, Connecticut, and later became general 

 factory manager. At the time of his death he was connected 

 with the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., at Trenton, New Jersey. He was 

 born at Thompson, Connecticut, September S, 1857, and was a 

 graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, 

 Massachusetts. A widow and one son survive him. 



MANY YEARS WITH ONE COMPANY. 



William Volz, assistant secretary of the Eureka Fire Hose 

 Manufacturing Co., New York City, died on April 2, after a 

 brief illness. He entered the employ of the company as office 

 boy 22 years ago, and steadily advanced in usefulness and 

 efficiency, finally reaching the position he held at the time of 

 his death. He is survived by a widow, two children and his 

 motlier. 



A PIONEER TIRE MAN. 



Alexander O. Holroyd, formerly manager of the Prince George 

 Hotel, Daytona, Florida, died in that city the middle of last 

 month. Mr. Holroyd came to this country from England, being 

 identified with the American Dunlop Tire Co. from its begin- 

 ning, later joining the forces of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., 

 in charge of the automobile tire department, and in 1907 going 

 to Columbus, Ohio, as vice-president of the Midgley Manufac- 

 turing Co. In 1909 he left the latter concern to enter the hotel 

 business. 



He was a man of pleasing personality and left many friends 

 in the automobile business, and was also popular with tourists 

 wintering in Florida. 



FORMERLY A RUBBER SALESMAN. 



Elias E. Cox, a veteran of the Civil War, and for more than 

 thirty years identified with the manufacturing rubber industry, 

 died at his home in East Providence, Rhode Island, March 24. 

 He was in his 72nd year and was born at Mount Tabor, Vermont. 

 During the Civil War he served four years in' the Seventh Ver- 

 mont Regiment. He was associated with several rubber con- 

 cerns in Connecticut and Massachusetts and finally entered the 

 sales department of the National India Rubber Co. at Bristol, 

 about AS years ago. At the time of tlie Exposition at Philadel- 



phia, in 1876, Mr. Cox was in charge of the National Rubber Co.'s 

 working exhibit. In recent years Mr. Cox had carried on a 

 laundry business in Providence, but his health had been very 

 poor since last September. He leaves a widow, a son and a 

 daughter. 



WELL KNOWN IN THE WEST. 



Leland E. English,' for 16 years special representative of the 

 \'oorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Jers^- City, New Jer- 

 sey, died suddenly of apoplexy at Joplin, Missouri, on April 2. 



Mr. English was 



born at Sacramento, 

 California, October 

 17, 1860. He began 

 his career in the 

 trade with the wes- 

 tern branch of the 

 Revere Rubber Co., 

 Chelsea, Massachu- 

 setts, first as trav- 

 eling salesman, and 

 then, successively as- 

 sistant manager and 

 manager of the Chi- 

 cago branch estab- 

 lishment of that 

 company. He joined 

 the force of Voor- 

 hees Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co. 16 

 years ago, becoming 

 its special repre- 

 sentative in the 

 West. He made his 

 headquarters in Joplin, Missouri, but he was one of the best- 

 known men in the trade in every city of the West and Middle 

 West. He was a man of striking appearance, had a broad tech- 

 nical knowledge of the trade, was an indomitable worker, and 

 his wonderful capacity of remembering names and faces was 

 combined with a happy faculty of making friends wherever he 

 traveled. He leaves one son, Drummond English, of Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



L. E. English. 



AN OLD AND VALUED EMPLOYE. 



Samuel Gould, for many years in tlie employ of the Ameri- 

 can Hard Rubber Co., at its Butler, New Jersey, plant, died at 

 his home in that town recently, aged 63 years. 



OZOKERITE IN UTAH. 



Ozokerite, which is largely used in insulating compounds and 

 in the manufacture of hard rubber articles, until the> present 

 European war, came mainly from Galicia, Austria. Some domes- 

 tic ozokerite was found in Utah, but not until recently has the 

 American product assumed importance. A deposit in Wasatch 

 County, Utah, which approximates two miles wide and 12 miles 

 long, has been developed within the last year or so. The refining 

 plant at Soldier Summit has a capacity of treating 10 tons of raw 

 material per day, yielding 400 pounds of ozokerite. Changes are 

 contemplated in the process of extraction which it is estimated 

 will enable the plant to handle 1,000 tons of crude material, and 

 proportionately enlarge the output. It is expected that this in- 

 dustry will result in preventing the profitable importation of the 

 Galician product should an attempt be made to do so after the 

 war is over. 



