THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



The Obituary Record. 



INVENTOR OF RUBBER PROCESSES. 



CHARLES A. BeS.wv of the BeSaw Tire & Rubber Co.. Hart- 

 ville, Ohio, and Ardmorc. Oklahoma, died at Gulhrie, 

 Oklahoma, February 6, aged 43 years. The burial was 

 at Canton, Ohio. 



Mr. ReSaw was born at Pleasant Grove, near Akron, Ohio. 

 He entered the rubber business in 1900, being imiployed by the 



Diamond Rubber Co. in the 



technical department. In fact, 

 it was in the technical depart- 

 ments almost exclusively in 

 which he associated himself 

 with the Milwaukee Rubber 

 Works Co., Milwaukee, Wis- 

 consin; the Firestone Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio; 

 Swinehart Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, and the Canton 

 Rubber Co., Canton, Ohio. He 

 was general superintendent of 

 the Knight Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Canton, Ohio, when, in 1916, he 

 acquired control of the Quality 

 Rubber Co., Hartsville, Ohio, 

 which name he changed to Be- Charles A. BeS.aw. 



Saw Tire & Rubber Co. and 

 became president and general manager of the organization. 



In 1917 the capital of the company was increased to $1,000,000 

 and an additional factory was built at Ardmore, Oklahoma, 

 and Mr. BeSaw made his residence in Guthrie, thus taking 

 personal supervision of the business at the Ardmore plant, 

 which, because of his business experience and technical knowl- 

 edge, rapidly gained prestige and patronage. Mr. BeSaw was 

 the inventor of the BeSaw process for reclaiming rubber, and 

 was instrumental in perfecting several processes for the 

 manipulation of rubber. 



MANUFACTURER AND FINANCIER. 



Daniel Neil Mason, vice-president and director of The 



Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio, died at his residence 



in Cleveland, Ohio, of pneumonia, February 6, 1919, aged 31 years. 



Mr. Mason was one of three brothers, all associated together 



in several business enterprises, one of 



which was the Mason Tire & Rubber Co., 



that was organized in the fall of 1915, and 



since that time hedevoted the major por- 



uiiii (if his time to the financial end of the 



I iisiiu s^ He was a partner in Mason 



I'.iotliers Investment Securities Co., and 



^^fgBg ' \ ICC president in the newly organized Ma- 



^^^^^^^ son Cotton Fabrics Co. Indeed, it is 



1^^^ ^L^^^ claimed that his extreme enthusiasm in 



^^^^^J^BI starting this new enterprise caused his last 



Daniel N. Mason. 



Mr. Mason was an iiuense worker. 

 Whatever he did was done with all his 

 might. He was known in financial circles as a wonderfully 

 successful salesman. Young, sympathetic, naturally a leader, 

 he was popular with the workers in the plant, attending the 

 outdoor sports and field days, on which occasions, because of 

 his splendid physique, he participated in athletic sports. 



Mr. Mason is survived by his widow and a five-year-old 

 daughter. 



A. C. Redm.' 



A POPULAR AND CAPABLE MAN. 



A. C. Redman, industrial manager of The McGraw Tire 

 & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, died of pneumonia on 

 Jainiary 27, 1919. His demise constitutes a lamented loss, 

 not only to the McGraw organization but to the comnuinily in 

 which he made his home and 

 look so prominent a part in busi- 

 ness life and civic affairs. 



Previous to 1914, when he 

 entered the employ of the Mc- 

 Graw company as traffic man- 

 ager, Mr. Redman spent a num- 

 ber of years in the service of the 

 iVdams Express Co. 



He was distinguished for his 

 moral courage, energy, devotion 

 lo duty, and fair dealing — quali- 

 ties which endeared him to his 

 associates and won for him popu- 

 larity and success as an executive 

 of rare ability. As industrial 

 manager, Mr. Redman came in 

 constant daily touch with the em- 

 ployes, winning their confidence 

 and respect in marked degree. It 



is the purpose of the McGraw company to execute his plans for 

 tlie betterment, socially, physically and industrially, of its work- 

 men. 



Mr. Redman was a native of Circleville, Ohio, born June IS, 

 1885. and is survived bv his father, widow, and two children. 



A DIRECTOR OF THE CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED RUBBER CO., 



LIMITED. 



Andrew .A. .Allan, a director of the Canadian Consolidated 



Rubber Co., Limited, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, died 



at the Royal \'ictoria Hospital in that city Tuesday, February 



11, 1919, following an operation performed the previous week. 



He was the son of Andrew Allan, 



one of the founders of the Allan 



Line of steamships plying between 



Montreal and England. He was 



born in Montreal on June 16, 1860, 



educated at Rugby, England, and 



later by private tutors in France. 



He began business in the office of 



the Allan Line in 1877, .admitted a 



partner in 1881 and later, with his 



brother, succeeded his father's in- 



, terests. In 1910 he was elected 



'||, president of the Shipping Federation 



^■of Canada and was for a time a 



'*member of the Montreal Board of 



~~ Harbor Commissioners. He became 



a director of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, 



in 1917, and was interested in a number of important industrial 



and financial corporations in Canada. 



A SELF-MADE MAN. 



Frederick R. Gillespie, of Hammill & Gillespie, dealers in com- 

 pounding ingredients, etc.. New York City, died at his residence 

 in that city January 28, aged 74 years. He was born in Ireland, 

 coming to New York when a boy, and entered the employ of 

 the concern of which he was the head at the time of his death. 

 He is survived by his widow and two daughters. Mr. Gillespie 



Andrew A. .Allan. 



