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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



KNOWN THE COUNTRY OVER, 

 Benjamin P. Klson, wlio a few years ago ended a term of 25 



years' service with the Boston Belting Co., died at his home in 



Brookline, Massachusetts, on the nineteenth day of October, 1918, 



at the age of sixty-one. 



He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son ol' Julius and 



Rosalie Elson, and was 



educated in the public 



schools of that city. His 



first business experience 



was in the bookkeeping 



department of a whole- 

 sale woolen house, but 



he entered a similar de 



partment of the Boston 



Belting Co. about 35 



years ago, becoming a 



salesman later. Naturally 



ambitious, he left the 



company to form a part- 

 nership with Warren 



Salisbury, of Chicago, to 



deal in rubber goods in 



that city. The firm of 



Salisbury & Elson lasted 



but a year or two, and 



Mr. Elson returned to 



the Boston Belting Co. 



as its representative in 

 New York City, which position he held until 1906. when he came 

 to the home office to assume the duties of sales manager. On 

 the death of J. B. Forsyth, in 1909, Mr. Elson was appointed 

 assistant general mana,",cr, which position lie retained until two 

 or three years ago, when a paralytic shock incapacitated him 

 from further active business. 



Mr, Elson was well known in the rubber trade throughout the 

 country. He was an able salesman, ambitious and aggressive, 

 and an earnest worker in the interests of the company. He was 

 a member of the Brae-Burn Country Club, the Boston City 

 Club, the Boston Athletic Association, and the New York Re- 

 publican Club, He is survived by a widow and two brothers. 



FORMER DIRECTOR OF HOOD RUBBER CO, 

 Eugene Jerome Fabens, prominent in banking circles in Kostou, 

 and at one time a director of the Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, 

 Massachusetts, died at Salem in that stale, on September 26, 

 1918, from pneumonia. He was born in Salem, September 15, 

 1883, and early became connected with the banking interests. 

 At the age of 23 he was elected president of the Naumkeag Trust 

 Co., and was the youngest bank president in New England. At 

 the time of his death he was a member of the banking firm of 

 Blake Bros, & Co,, devoting a part of each week to managing 

 the New York offices of that concern. He occupied the position 

 of trustee or director in several manufacturing, banking, and 

 insurance companies. He leaves a widow and three children, 



SECRETARY OF THE CRESCENT INSULATED WIRE & CABLE 

 CO., INC, 



Edgar T, Phillips, secretary of The Crescent Insulated Wire 

 & Cable Co., Inc., Trenton, New Jersey, recently died at his 

 home in the same city. 



Mr. Phillips was born near Lambertville, Hunterdon County, 

 New Jersey, on March 30, 1877. He attended the local public 

 schools and also the Lambertville high school, later attending 

 the Stewart Business College of Trenton, completing the com- 

 mercial course Deceinber 20. 1894. and the stenographic course 



on JiMU- 14. !,Xt,.s, He shortly afterward accepted his first position 

 with the Crescent company and was elected secretary in 1902, 

 which position he had continued to hold. 



SOLD FOOTWEAR IN MAINE. 

 . Charles B. Reynolds, salesman for the Converse Rubber Shoe 

 Co. in Maine, died at Bangur, that state, the middle of October, 

 aged 28 years. He formerly occupied a similar position with the 

 Banigan Rubber Co., of Boston, joining the Converse force when 

 the Banigan company's business and that of other branches were 

 ccnsolidatcd with the United States Rubber Co. Mr. Reynolds 

 is survive<l by his widow and infant daughter. 



A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY. 



I harles (;usia\us Koeliling died .if Kri.nht's disease, at the 

 age of 69, at his home in Trenton, New Jersey, on October 5, 1918. 



He was president of John A. Roebling's Sons Co., of Rocbling 

 and Trenton, New Jersey, and 

 of the New Jersey Wire Cloth 

 Co.. Trenton, as well as vice- 

 liresident of John A. Roebling's 

 Sons Co., New York City, be- 

 sides being a director of the 

 Mercer .'\utomobile Co. 



He was the third son of the 

 late John A. and Johanna 

 I Herting) Roebling, and was 

 born in Trenton on December 

 9, 1849. After graduating from 

 Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute in 1871, he became identi- 

 fied with his father's firm, which 

 was already becoming famous 

 through the construction of the 

 Brooklyn bridge. Charles G. 

 Roebling was the engineering 

 genius of the Roebling com- 

 pany, of which his brother Ferdinand W. Roebling was the fiscal 

 genius. At the death of their father the Roebling business was 

 worth $150,000 and gave employment to 150 men, today the 

 book value of the company's property is $50,000,000, and 8,000 

 men are employed. It was the genius of Charles G. Roebling 

 that gave his company its leading position in the world ; it was 

 he who designed all the intricate, special and costly machinery 

 needed to pass from one to another of the wonderful develop- 

 ments in the steel and insulated wire business. 



Notable monuments to the ability of the deceased are the Oil 

 City suspension brid.ge at Oil City. Pennsylvania, the cables of 

 the Williamsburg suspension bridge in New York, and the erec- 

 tion of "Cleopatra's Needle" in Central park. New York. One 

 of his greatest accomplishments is the town of Roebling, New 

 Jersey, his own idea. Up to the present the town has cost 

 $15,000,000 and the end is not yet. 



Charles G. Roebling was an accomplished pianist and violinist, 

 a great lover of automobiling, of books and of paintings. He- 

 was the owner of the greatest private collection of orchids in 

 the world and made an amazing success of hybridizing. His 

 health was much impaired by the loss of his only son in the 

 Titamc disaster, but he was stricken only last August with the 

 disease which carried him off. It was on the 27th of that month 

 that he took to his bed. from which he seldom arose afterward. 

 He was a member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Mining 

 Engineers, the Engineers' Club of New York, and the Lotus Oub- 

 of Trenton. 



He is survived by two brothers. Colonel Washington A. 

 Roebling. of Trenton, and Edmund Roebling, of New York, and! 

 one sister, Mrs. Josephine Jarvis of New York, 



Ch.arles G, Roebling. 



