February 1. 1914.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Obituary Record. 



GEORGE A. LEWIS. 



GEORGE ALBERT LEWIS, president of the Beacon Falls 

 Rubber Shoe Co., died at bis home in Xaugaluck, Con- 

 necticut. January 27, alter an illness of several months. 

 Mr. Lewis was liorn in Sharon. Ccmnecticut. February 11, 

 1843. .\lter attending school in Middletown and Xew Haven, 



George A. Lewis. 



lie entered, at an early age, the employ of the M. & C. T. Camp 

 Co., of Winsted. During the Civil War he was a clerk in the 

 commissary department of the army. In 1S64 he became as- 

 sociated with the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Co., of Nauga- 

 tuck (of which his father, Samuel J. Lewis, had been the first 

 president) as a bookkeeper. His industry and ability gave him 

 rapid advancement in this company, until he became its secre- 

 tary and then its treasurer and general manager. He occupied 

 this position when the company was merged with the United 

 States Rubber Co.. in 1892, and he was made a member of the 

 first board of directors and of the first executive committee of 

 the larger corporation ; the other members of that executive 

 committee being R. D. Evans. Sanniel P. Colt, James B. Ford, 

 Charles R. Flint, Henry L. Hotchkiss and Charles L. Johnson. 



In 1898 Mr. Lewis left the United States Rubber Co. and soon 

 after organized the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., of which he 

 was made president — a position which he retained to the time 

 of his death. The success of the Beacon Falls company was 

 attributable largely to Mr. Lewis's executive ability, industry 

 and popularity in the trade. In addition to his rubber interests 

 he was for many years president of the Naugatuck Nation.il 

 Bank. He was a man of unusual energy and was extremely 

 active in his varied interests until about six months ago. when 

 he had a slight stroke of paralysis. This was followed by a 

 second stroke, from which, however, he seemed to recover; but 

 a third stroke, occurring about six weeks ago. confined him to 

 his house and from that time he grew gradually weaker until 

 the end. 



Mr. Lewis was a man of delightful personality, affable and 

 agreeable to all alike, irrespective of social status. He was a 

 man of spotless integrity and open and above board in all his 

 dealings. He was bi.ghly esteen-ed all through the rubber trade. 



but especially in the Naugatuck Valley, where for many years he 

 was one of the leading citizens, conspicuously successful in 

 business, active in civic atTairs and interested in the general 

 welfare. 



He is survived by his wile and two sons — Tracy S. Lewis, 

 treasurer of the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., and a younger 

 son still in school. 



ASA W. DAY. 



.\sa Wilton Day, president of the Day Rubber Co., St. Louis, 

 Missouri, and former member of the Connecticut Legislature, 

 died on December 28 at his home in St. Louis, of apoplexy, in his 

 seventieth year. 



Mr. Day was born in Marlborough, Connecticut, and was edu- 

 cated at Yale College. In 1865 he engaged in the cotton business 

 with his brother, John W. Day. Four years later he married 

 Mary R. Colt, of Detroit, Mich. In 1868 he was a member of 

 the Connecticut Legislature. He went to St. Louis in 1882, and 

 with his brother, Samuel J. Day, organized the firm of Day 

 Brothers & Co., dealers in rubber goods. In 1884 he bought his 

 brother's interest in the business and changed the firm name to 

 Day Rul;ber Co. 



LEON M. VirOQDFOBD. 



Leon M. Woodford, who was connected for tliirty-five years 

 with the Goodyear India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co., of 

 Naugatuck, Connecticut, died Wednesday. December 30. at his 

 home in that place, after an illness that had continued for nearly 

 a year. 



Mr. Woodford was born in Naugatuck .\ugust 25, 1852. and 

 educated in the South Berkshire Institute, in New Marlboro, 

 Massachusetts. For a few years he was employed by the West- 

 ern L'nion Telegraph Co., in Bridgeport, Connecticut, but over 

 a third of a century ago became associated with the Goodyear 

 company and continued with that company to the time of his 

 death. During the last few years of his life he had charge of 

 the office and was the company paymaster. He was very prom- 

 inent in masonic circles and was active in the work of St. 

 Michaels Episcopal Church, of Naugatuck. 



RUBBER STAMPS IN DRAFTING FOR BLUEPRINTS. 



It has been found that the rubber stamp, in addition to its 

 manifold other uses, may be used to advantage in certain por- 

 tions of drawings for blue prints — as. for instance, titles, general 

 instructions, etc. — and that portions thus stamped will show up 

 in the print as well as if drawn in the regular way. The tracing 

 to be stamped is first sprinkled with powdered pumice stone, 

 thoroughly rubbed in and the surplus blown away. The stamp, 

 freshly inked, is then applied, firmly and evenly, after which 

 lampblack is sprinkled over the stamped portion, pressed with 

 a rag over the finger to soak up the ink. and the surplus blown 

 off. When the tracing is dry the entire surface should be care- 

 fully cleaned with g.'isolene. 



EXTENT AND GROWTH OF THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. 



On October 1 last there were registered in the L'nited States 

 1.254.971 automobiles, of which number 146,365 represented new 

 registrations, 7,153 non-resident and 18.288 re-registrations. 

 Xew York State is far in the lead in these figures, having a 

 total registration of 129,441, of which 14.420 are new — California 

 being second, with a total registration of 1 18.135. of which 6.479 

 are new. In 1908. the first year of really big production of auto- 

 mobiles in this country, there were 55,000 cars made, and since 

 that time the demand and consequent output have steadily in- 

 creased until with the past year's manufacture of 375,000 cars 

 the result was an over-production of only a few thousand, while 

 it is estimated that the annual absorption power in this country 

 f~r motor cars in normal times is about 425.000. 



