The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-10

 HEAD OF ASHCROFT MFG. co. DIES AT SEA ON ROTTERDAM Charles M. Moore, Head of Great Corporation, Sailed on Dec.
 l for Italy Was Close Friend of Late Presi- dent McKinIey-Made Home
 in Greenwich

Charles A. Moore, one of the largest manufactures of the country. presi- dent of the corporation of Manning. Maxwell & Moore,, in New York, and president of both the Ashcroft Manu- facturing company and the ConSoH- dated Safety Valve company of this city, died at sea- on the steamer Rot terdann on which he sailed for Naples, December l. Details of his death are lacking first news of 1t having been received at the New York ofnces of the corporation by a wireless mess age. Mir Moore was widely known through New England and especially we'll known among 3he older manu- facturers of this city. or late he had made his home in Greenwich, Ct.
 Mir. Moore was on his way to visit his daughter Elsie, now the Duchess Mario Torlon1a- It had been his cus- tom for several years past to spend the winter at Naples or in trips to other points in Italy or the French Rdvaera-
 Mir: Moore was born in West Sparta, N. r., stxty-nine years ago. At the outbreak Of the civil war he enlisted in the navy and served through the war Then he became Q salesman in New England and after fifteen years of this he came to New York and formed a partnership with Henry S., Manning and Eugene IasceI1es Maxwell. They manufactured railway tools and ma chine tools and the firm developed in to the largest corporation of the kind in the country.
 For many years MT Moore lived in Brooklyn and took a large part in poll tics and club life, there. He organized the Young Republican club, which boomed Seth Low for mayor, and was ,one of the. founders and early presi- dents of the Nontauk club. For some years he was, president of the naHrt- f7<aYa p7.n3 oT.aNr well known in many movements for civic hetterment.
 For years he was a close personal friend of President Mckinley, and fre- quent1y accompanied the President on trips around the country. In 1903 he moved from Brooklyn to Greenwich Conn, where he had a fine country place.
 Among the business ventures with which he was associated are the Shaw Electric Crane company, the ConsoIi- dated Safety Valve company, the Ash croft Manufacturing company the Hancock Inspirator company. the United Injector company and the Windsor Machine company.
 He belonged to the Montauk Gen. tury. Union League. Transportation Army and Navy, Engineers, Riding and Lawyers' clubs and the MetropoIi- ban Of Washington. From 1900 until 1910 he was a vice president and trus- tee of St Johns Guild. He belonged to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Ohio Society, the New England Society, St. Andrews Society, Society of the Genesee. Chamber of Commerce of the State Of New York American Chamber of Comm cree, Ma tiona1 Association of Manufacturers National Civic Federation and the New York Board of Trade and Transporta- ton
 k c. M. Moore. son of MT Moore, sail ed today for Naples by the Italian liner America to take charge of the body of his father after it's arrival in Italy and bring it to New York
 On receipt of news of the death of the president. officers of the Ashcroft
 Manufacturing company2 ordered the nag of the factory put at half mast