.May 1, 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



453 



The Obituary Record. 



ARTHUR L. KELLEY. 



ARTHUR LIVINGSTON KELLEY, for many years presi- 

 dent of the Mechanical Fabric Co., died at his home in 



Providence, Rhode Island, on April 7, alter an illness 

 se\ eral j ears 

 Mr. Kelley was born in Canton, New York, on April 17, 1858, 

 son of Joseph Hani and Samantha Westcott Kelley. He was 

 ninth in descent from Stiikeley WestCOtt, who came to Provi- 

 dence with Roger Williams, lie attended the village schools in 



ii and Pots- 

 dam During his 

 spare time he 

 worki d in the print- 

 ing office at Pots- 

 dam, w h e r e he 

 learned the printers 

 tradi and published 

 an amateur paper 

 for about two years. 

 Later lie went to 

 Lawrence. Massa- 

 chusetts, where he 

 attended the high 

 school and then 

 Phillips A n d o v e r 

 \ i a d e in y, from 

 which he graduated 

 in the class of 1876. 

 After graduation he 

 entered the employ 

 of Stedman & Ful- 

 ler Card Clothing 

 Co., of Lawrence. 

 In 1885, owing to 



increased busini --. he and Mr. Fuller moved the plant to Provi- 

 de nee, Tlie business was later sold to the American Card Cloth- 

 ing Co., and Mr. Fuller and Mr. Kelley founded the Mechanical 

 Fabric Co., with the former as president, the latter as vice-presi- 

 dent and manager Mr. Fuller died in 1899 and since then Mr. 

 Kelley had been president, with his late brother, Edward B. 

 Kelley. a^ treasurer. Mr. Kelley was president of the Rubber 

 Goods Manufacturing Co. for two years, president of the Narra- 

 gansetl Electric I ighting Co. of Providence, since 1908, director 

 of the Providence Journal Co., United States Rubber Co. and 

 several other manufacturing and insurance companies. lie was 

 junior warden of Grace Church and a member of I lope Club, 

 \gawam Hunt Club and Sons of the American Revolution. In 

 1878 he married Lotta Persis Fuller who. with his two sons. Ar- 

 thur Livingston Kelley, Jr., and George Fuller Kelley, sur- 

 vives him. 



CAPTAIN TRUMBULL WARREN KILLED IN ACTION. 



The January number of The India Rubber World contained 

 a paragraph stating that Trumbull Warren, president of Gutta 

 Percha & Rubber, Limited, of Toronto, Canada, had gone to 

 the front and had been appointed assistant adjutant of the 

 headquarters staff on Salisbury Plain in England. The sketch 

 was accompanied by a reproduction of a photograph showing 

 Captain Warren in the uniform of the 48th Highlanders of 

 Canada. 



On April 21 a cable was received stating that Captain Warren 

 had been killed in action. Few details were given, but it was 

 said that he was killed by a piece of shrapnel while leading a 

 charge on the German trenches and that he was within 50 yards 

 of the enemy's battle line when he was struck. The news 

 caused the most widespread mourning in the city of Toronto, 



Arthur L. Kelley. 



where, notwithstanding his youth, he had become a very promi- 

 nent figure. 



Trumbull Warren was born in 1886 in London, the son of 

 II Ii. and Sarah Van Lennep Warren — both at that time citi- 

 zens of New York. The following year the family moved to 

 l.iionto ami shortly after his lather established the Gutta 

 Percha >\ Rubber company. Young Warren graduated at 

 Upper Canada < ollege when about 18 years of age, and, 1 

 deeply interested in military affairs, immediately entered the 

 Royal Military College at Kingston, from which he graduated 

 in I'll/. He then entered In- father's company and made a 

 thorough studj of rubber manufacture. Foui years ag< 

 the death of his father, be became treasure! of the company, 



and two years ago became president, while retaining the posi- 

 tion of treasurer. He applied himself to the duties of these 

 offices with great zeal and the company was very successful 

 under his management. 



When the war broke out he was one of the first of the Cana- 

 dians to enlist, and when the troops with which he was con- 

 nected left England for the field of active operations lie was 

 made captain of a company in the Canadian infantry. 



Though only 29 years of age, he had established a most 

 enviable place, not only in the business life of Canada but also 

 in its social life. He was an active member of a number of 

 the leading clubs of Toronto. A few years ago he married 

 Alls- Marjory Braithwaite, the daughter of a well-known 

 Montreal banker. He left two children, little girls of two and 

 three years of age. He is survived, also, by two younger 

 brothers. Harold D. and Frederic A., and a sister, Mrs. Charles 

 S. Band, of New York City. 



C. E. AKERS. 



Information has been received of the death, in England, of 

 C. E. Akers, the author of the "Report on the Rubber Industry 

 of the Orient" and of the "Report on the Amazon Valley, Its 

 Rubber Industry and ( Ither Resoui 



Mr. Akers was born in the Isle of Jersey in 1861, the son of 

 an English army officer. He was. in turn, a soldier, a news- 

 paper correspondent and special commissioner for the British 

 government. It is in connection with the special commission un- 

 dertaken by him in 1912 to investigate the rubber possibilities of 

 both the Orient and the Amazon valley that his work is of particu- 

 lar interest to the rubber trade. He was appointed in that year, 

 with two collaborators, by certain large London and Paris in- 

 terests, to investigate rubber planting in the East, and the possi- 

 bilities of rubber planting in the Amazon valley. The greater 

 part of the year 1912 was devoted to these two expeditions, and 

 the voluminous reports which he published early the following 

 year attracted a great deal of attention. They were discussed 

 in various issues of this publication, particularly in the issues of 

 April, May. June and July of 1913. 



Mr. Akers spent much of the decade between 1893 and 1503 

 as a correspondent for the "London Times" in North and South 

 America, and while in this country, in 1900, married Miss Char- 

 lotte Mabel Dwight, daughter of Colonel James Dwight, of 

 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, who, with two daughters, survives 

 him. 



ELIAS L. TOY 



Elias Toy, president and general manager of the Buffalo 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Buffalo, New York, died at his 

 home in that city March 27. He was 44 years old, and had been 

 interested in rubber manufacture since boyhood. In 1903 he 

 removed from Akron to Buffalo, where he organized the above 

 named company, establishing a plant for the manufacture of 

 rubber goods. He is survived by his wife and three children. 



