Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-08-02
AND FREIGHT
Rates TO Be INCREASED
ON ALL Different LINES
MR.. MATH|ASEN
CALLED To REST
Noted Terra Gotta Manufac-
turer Dies at Fourth Lake,
N. Y.-Church Funeral.


Karl Mathiasen, the well known
terra Gotta manufacturer. died Sat-
urday. July 81 at his summer
home. Camp Danmark Fourth Lake.
in the Adirondack Mountains. after
having suffered i'll health for more
than a year. Mr.. Mathiasen was in
his sixtieth year and leaves a
widow, Matthea. nee Eslesen. and
eight sons and daughters. Mrs. Wig
go Yepson. of Pittsburgh. Pa. Karl
Mathiasen. Jr.. of Fanwood N. j.;
Helene, Alfred, Oscar. Emma and
Bennett Mathiasen. of Keyport.
Karl 'Mathiasen. the eldest son OF
Anders C. Mathiasen and kjersten
Maria Mathiasen. was born at This
ted, Jutland, Denmark, on March
IS, 1860. In the year 1878. his par
ents decided that greater oppor-
tunity awaited the growing family
in the western farming district of
the United States and shortly there
after young Karl. then in his
thirteenth year arrived with his
father in New York. BY a SEEM
ing misfortune which befell them,
their small means were suddenly
depleted and the carefully laid
plans to go west had to be abandon
ed in favor of Perth Amboy then
very small city, but where the boy
found employment at the King Cork
Works. which at that time was one
of the few industries of this COM
munity. M
Within a short time. the remain
der OF. the family arrived and a
home established. the Mathiasen
family being among the earliest
Danish settlers in this locality. The
boy stayed but a short time at the
King Cork Works as an opportunity
was offered with the old A. Hall
Pottery which was located on the
present site of the Atlantic Terra
Gotta Co plant. When A. Hall 4
Sons started to manufacture terra
IcQtaa he went with them in the
II Sing d epartmenr and later'waz
ere ployed as foreman with the Bos-
ton Terra Gotta Works and at Ra-
venswood, l.. l.
In 1887. young Mathiasen en-
h3rked in the manufacture of archi-
ttectuaI terra Gotta with his brother
in-law, Otto E. Hansen, deceased.
ursder the firm name Of Mathiasen
a Hansen The factory was erected
on small plot OF ground about
seventy-five by8a hundred feet on
| Catherine street of this city. The
| firm went Through !. all the difficul-
lties (which are linke d with the lack
of facilities and capital and further
had to face the loss OF their ei1tire
| factory by fire. a full test to meas
| ure the tenacity and stoutness of
heart Of the young manufacturer.
| These I lnisfortunes. however
seemed to mark the turning OF the
tide and the New Jersey Terra Cot
/ ia Company was Incorporated with
/ Karl Mathiasen as president. Other
members of his and Mrs. Mathia-
sens irnmediate family entered the
company. in its long career of
7 growth and uninterrupted success
Mr.. Mathiasen was man Of high
: ideals and of stout Americanism,
and in hrs quiet unobstrusive way,
/ he rendered such service in inter-
fnational relations that, in recogni-
ton, he was decorated in 1910 by
1.-THE King of Denmark with the or
1der of knights of panebrog.
AT the time of his death he was
president of theme Jersey Terra
Gotta Company of Perth Amboy;
Matawan Tile Co. of Matawap. and
director of the Royal Copenha gen
Porcelain Co.., of New York. mem-
Der of the Royal Danish Yacht
| Club of Copenhagen. Denmark; and
of the Keyport and Raritan Yacht
Clubs of Perth Amboy.s besides
having many interests OF charita-
bic nature. s.
A family service will be held at
| the Mathiasen home at Keyport. on
Wednesday at ! o'clock and will be
followed by church services at 8
o'clock at the st. Stephens Danish
| lutheran church, Broad street. this
lefty. Interment will be at the AL
pine cemetery.
II your coar or gas range doss not bake
or burn. win make AZ or no charge. F.