i 3i in I, 1915 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 





The Obituary Record. 



JAMES CLAY HARVEY 



Di LYED by tin.- unsettled < i country, word has 



but just reached us of the death, in Orizaba, Mexio 

 December 11, of James C. Harvey, at the agi of 64 Mm . 

 far too soon, < the career of one of the most rei 



able men thai > entral America has known. His life was full of 

 change and romantic effort. He was born at Hamilton, Ontario, 

 of Scotch and English parents, and educated in the schools of 

 ..in 



He earh, i ,'inced a desire to see tropical countries and - cured 

 sition as put er's clerk in a steamship line trading between 

 New 5 irl md West Indian and Central American ports. Soon 

 afterward he became an irticled ipprentice in the ( astle line oi 

 Liverpool. This service extended over a period of six y< u 

 during which he visited South Africa, India, Ceylon and \us 

 tralia, making also several sojournings 

 of some length in planting districts 

 in the Indie--. 



I le ti ok td\ antage of the opportu- 

 nities thus afforded to study tropical 

 agriculture under manj varying con- 

 ditions and to advance a deep inborn 

 i for botanical and horticultural 

 pursuits. He subsequently voyaged to 

 the east and west coasts of South 

 America, finally arriving in California, 

 where lie settled, married, and became 

 an American citizen. I here be en- 

 gaged in manufacturing, commercial 

 and horticultural work. But the ruling 

 passion of bis life was not to be 

 quenched, and in 1899 be went to Mex- 

 ico, and spent the greater part of a 

 year in examining the planting regions 

 in the states of Veracruz and ( laxaca. 

 The result was that, in company with 

 a few associates, he acquired land situ- 

 ated in the Trinidad valley district in 

 Veracruz, to which he gave the name 

 of "La Buena Ventura," and about one- 

 half of which he developed and de- 

 voted principally to the cultivation of 

 rubber and cacao. 



A man of thought and of action, with a keen sense of humor. 

 an enthusiastic botanist, a cosmopolitan of the broadest sym- 

 pathies and interests, and a raconteur of no mean ability. Mr. 

 Harvey combined all the qualities that go to the making of a 

 delightful companion and stanch friend. 



To Mr. Harvey belonged the credit of introducing many use- 

 ful plants hitherto unknown to Mexico, such as the East Indian 

 jack fruit, cinnamon, African akee fruit, Surinam cherries, 

 grafted Indian mangos, cardamons, economic bamboos; Indian, 

 Malayan and South American palms; fiber producing plants, 

 such as Sansiz'icra Zeylanica, S. Guiniensis, and the famous 

 Manila hemp plant (Musa textilis) ; also many newer varieties 

 of pineapples, bananas, oranges, etc., besides an infinity of 

 flowering trees, shrubs and creepers, the cultivation of all of 

 which, with very few exceptions, has proved entirely successful. 



Mr. Harvey was a correspondent of the principal botanical 

 stations in the tropics, including the royal botanic gardens at 

 Calcutta, Peradeniya, Singapore, Natal, Mauritius, Seychelles 

 and the Gold Coast, as well as the famous institution at Kew, 

 London, this correspondence relating to the results of experi- 

 ence and new ideas in planting methods, and the interchange 

 of seeds ami plants adapted to the respective climatic conditions. 



Foi i : flarvei was the friend and helper of the bun- 



who haunted the Ticrra I His 



n.i Ventura was tin -topping place for botanist, 



tourist, promoter. He welcomed every white man, helped him 



1 n In- i n went along with him. In the days of the 



lie. who was a firm believer in that tree, was 



i. elder brother to the planti 



taxed 1 1 i -■ strength rs day in 



and da} out lli, particular joy was orchid bunting, and his 



collection iva a largi m'l He tlso a cumulated by exploration 



and by exchange the finest collection of palms in Central 



\mei n i 



Tin last oi his life wen spent in ti grow 



a rubber on the Castilloa plantatr installed. In 



ibis he was beginning to have decidi when the civil war 



in Mexico broke out. Mr. Harvey 



stayed by the properties under his 



charge and protected them — someti 



b\ fighting, at others by persuasion. 



I \ hes Clay Harvey. 



H. N. FENNER. 



Herbert Nicholas Fenner, president 

 of the New England Butt Co., of 

 Providence. Rhode Island, died of 

 pneumonia on January 5 at his home 

 in that city, after a brief illness. 



He was born in Providence, March 

 13, 1843, the son of Nicholas Arnold 

 and Deborah ( Brown) Fenner, and 

 obtained his education in the schools 

 of that city, after which he became 

 associated with the New England 

 Butt Co., succeeding his father. He 

 was for many years treasurer of the 

 company, later becoming its president 

 He was much interested in public- 

 affairs and was also prominent in club 

 life, being a member of many of the 

 important societies and clubs of the 

 State. He is survived by his wife and 

 by one son, Herbert L. Fenner. 



THOMAS MORGAN TURNER. 



Thomas Morgan Turner, president of the J. Spencer Turner 

 Co.. died suddenly on January 10 at his home, 5 West Ninth 

 street. New York. Mr. Turner was born in 1857. After 

 completing his education at the Polytechnic Institute, 

 Brooklyn, in 1876, he entered the firm of which his father, 

 J. Spencer Turner, was one of the founders. In 1905 he 

 became president of this concern, which deals in cotton clucks 

 and fabrics of all descriptions for the rubber trade. He was 

 president of the Consolidated Cotton Duck Co. and an officer 

 in several other important fabric concerns, and a member of 

 the Union League, New York Yacht. Riverside Yacht, Lambs 

 and Republican Clubs. 



PROF. F. W. HINRICHSEN. 



Prof. F. \Y. Hinrichsen, who in spite of his comparative youth 

 bad accomplished so much toward solving the chemical problems 

 in the treatment of caoutchouc, and had won an international 

 reputation, fell on the battlefield before Lodz on December 2. 

 His early death, at 38, robs the chemical world of a worker. whose 

 achievements would probably have been considerable. He was 



