India rubber world . at his home on July 9, the inter-ment taking place at Lindall Claughton. Mr. Jager was thesurviving partner in the firm of George Jager & Sons, sugarrefiners ol Liverpool and Leith. Some fifty years ago hisfather came from Hanover Germany, started a refinery in Liv-erpool, and established a very large and successful son, whose death we announce, was born in Liverpool andeducated at the Liverpool Institute. He took hold of the man-agement of the sugar business about thirty years ago, and untilthe establishment of the foreign sugar bounties, carried it onwith co
India rubber world . at his home on July 9, the inter-ment taking place at Lindall Claughton. Mr. Jager was thesurviving partner in the firm of George Jager & Sons, sugarrefiners ol Liverpool and Leith. Some fifty years ago hisfather came from Hanover Germany, started a refinery in Liv-erpool, and established a very large and successful son, whose death we announce, was born in Liverpool andeducated at the Liverpool Institute. He took hold of the man-agement of the sugar business about thirty years ago, and untilthe establishment of the foreign sugar bounties, carried it onwith conspicuous ability. He joined the board of the Liver-pool Rubber Co., Limited, about ten years ago, and was a mostattentive and useful director, particularly good at graspingnew suggestions and lending them his energetic support. Hewas a man of great decision of character, most energetic, andin private life one of the most genial of friends. He was a mem-ber of the Liverpool Reform Club, a moderate Liberal in pol-. itics, and much interested in athletic sports, being at one timecaptain of the Wallassey Golf Club. He leaves three sons, hiseldest, Harold, a barrister at law, and Bertram and Arthurcarrying on the business of George Jager & Sons, sugar Jager visited the United States in the latter part of 1895,with Manager Tippet, in connection with the purchase of rub-ber machinery for the Liverpool company. THE ORIGINAL GOODRICH FACTORY. YEARS ago, when Dr. Benjamin F. Goodrich was just start-ing in the rubber business, he struck up a friendshipwith that veteran rubber man, Mr. Wheeler Cable. In thecourse of the correspondence that followed, the Doctor referredto the little factory that he had established in Akron, Ohio,and enclosed in one of his letters a photograph of it—probablythe only one ever taken. Later this building was raised twostories, other buildings were erected near it, and the plant sochanged that the identity of the original factory was entirelylost
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