1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



261 



TRADE NOTES. 



The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co. of New York, Inc., has been 

 dissolved and The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East Palestine, 

 Ohio, has been authorized to do business in the State of New 

 York. Its representative is G. A. Schumacher, 55 33d street, 

 Brooklyn, New York. 



The Everwear Rubber Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has bought 

 the plant and equipment of the Petley Rubber Manufacturing Co., 

 and will continue the manufacture of high-grade mechanical 

 rubber goods and molded specialties. The officers of the com- 

 pany are : Andrew Steele, president ; F. C. Bunde, vice-president, 

 and George W. Kliegel, secretary and treasurer. L. M. Bickett 

 is in charge of the factory. 



The Newman Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., dealer and jobber in 

 automobile tires and tubes, has removed its general offices and 

 warehouse to 244-246 West S4th street, New York City, to which 

 address all communications should be sent. Both retail and 

 wholesale business will be conducted and the several retail stores 

 of the organization will obtain their merchandise from this cen- 

 tral distributing point. 



The Keystone Tire & Rubber Co., New York City, has entered 

 into a contract with the Perfection Tire & Rubber Co., Fort 

 Madison, Iowa, by which the latter concern will manufacture 

 Keystone tires and ship them direct to the stores controlled by 

 the Keystone company in the Middle West. The contract is on 

 a cost-plus basis, similar to others made by the company in 

 the past. 



L. H. Butcher Company, Inc., New York City, has placed on 

 the market as a compounding ingredient, "Diatomite." a natural 

 silicious mineral of 1.61. specific gravity, which is offered as a 

 substitute for carbonate of magnesia. 



R. M. Loewenthal & Co., Inc., dealer in scrap rubber, an- 

 nounces the removal of its New York office to the factory, 343 

 Babcock street, Buffalo, New York, to which all communications 

 should be addressed. Its new department devoted to the rebuild- 

 ing of scrap automobile tires has developed to such an extent 

 that the handling of scrap tires as scrap will be discontinued for 

 the present. 



O'Connor & Haupt, Inc., 71 West 3d street. New York City, 

 was recently incorporated at $2,000, as noted in our issue of Jan- 

 uary 1, 1919, and will manufacture pure gum hydraulic hat bags 

 for manufacturers of men's, women's and children's hats, deal 

 in unvulcanized rubber and tire repair materials and fabrics, and 

 do all kinds of vulcanizing. 



The True-Fit Waterproof Co., Inp., New York City, has been 

 dissolved under the laws of the State. 



The International Toy Co., Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has recently 

 been incorporated under the laws of the State of Maine, as 

 noted elsewhere, with a capital of $100,000, to manufacture toys 

 of all kinds. One of the specialties will be children's 

 express wagons with Gillette auto truck tires. The officers 

 are : L. D. Pangborn, president and general manager ; 

 Dr. S. P. Woodward, vice-president ; A. P. Hansen, sec- 

 retary and treasurer. Dr. Woodward is also president 

 and treasurer of the Gillette Rubber Co., Eau Claire and New 

 Y'ork City, while Mr. Pangborn, who is an experienced toy de- 

 signer, has been chief draftsman and designer in the mechanical 

 department of the Gillette Rubber Co. at Eau Claire. 



The membership of the Society of Automotive Engineers in- 

 creased by 717 during the year just past. 



Orders placed by the government on December 7 for $1,000,000 

 worth of tires included contracts for the United States Tire Co., 

 Kelly-Siiringfield Tire Co., The Fisk Rubber Co.. Firestone Tire 

 and Rubber Co., and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 



The Mulconroy Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, manufacturer 

 of metallic hose, couplings, etc., removes January 1 from 528 

 Fourth avenue to the four-story warehouse at 112 Market 

 street, Pittsburgh. 



The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., Beacon Falls, Connecticut, 

 is endeavoring to obtain additional workers to fill the large 

 number of orders for civilian goods which were delayed during 

 the execution of government work, now concluded. 



The American Chicle Co., 19 West 44th street, New York 

 City, has contracted for the erection of a one-story brick build- 

 ing, 51 by 131 feet, on the north side of Borden avenue. Long 

 Island City, to be used as a storage warehouse in connection 

 with its present plant located there. 



COMPOSER AND MANUFACTURER. 



"T^HE X.\ME of Seneca G. Lewis has been brought into nation- 

 wide prominence lately, as that of a composer who has 

 turned over the royalties of several popular compositions to the 

 "New York Sun" Tobacco Fund for smokes for United States 

 joldiers overseas. 



Yet Mr. Lewis fol- 

 ows music, not as a 

 irofession, Iiut as a 

 lastime. He is a 

 .vide-awake, active 

 usiness man, a nat- 

 iral organizer, a man- 

 iger, and a rubber 

 nanufacturer. 



He was born in 

 Hartland, Michigan, 

 and educated there 

 ind at Hillsdale Col- 

 lege, Hillsdale, in the 

 ame state, graduating 

 n 1889, after which he 

 ;pent two years on a 

 ■anch in the "Wild 

 West." On his re- 

 urn, he entered the 

 ■mploy of the Fletcher 

 Hardware Co., De- 

 troit, Michigan, and 

 later become manager 

 of the sporting goods department of that organization. 



In 190O, at Detroit, in company with W. E. Metzger, he pro- 

 moted and managed the first automobile show held in the 

 United States, and continued in management of this enterprise 

 until he accepted the position of sales manager of the Win- 

 chester Repeating Arms Co. in 1904. 



While in Detroit he found time to cultivate his musical talent, 

 and for a time it seemed probable that he would adopt this as 

 his life work. But his final decision was for a business career. 

 In 1910, a personal friend, Charles M. DuPuy, induced him to 

 undertake the reorganization of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., 

 Jeannette, Pennsylvania, in which the DuPuy family was finan- 

 cially interested. Accomplishing this, he acted as general man- 

 ager, a position affording him the opportunity of carrying out 

 plans he had formulated long before, and so successful were 

 these that he brought the company to its present prominence. 

 In 1918 he was elected vice-p.-csident as well as general manager. 

 For several years he transcribed hardly a melody, but the 

 entrance of the United States into the war inspired him to pro- 

 duce a number of patriotic compositions, a song, a march, and a 

 one-step, and to dedicate the royalties to the benefit of the boys 

 in khaki. It is his hope that the royalties may ultimately reach 

 $25,000, nearly half of that amount having already been con- 

 tributed. 



Mr. Lewis is a member of several Pittsburgh clubs and is 

 also president of the Jeannette War Service Union, an associa- 

 tion formed to assist, in any way which may be necessary, sol- 

 diers returning from military to civil life. 



G. Lewis. 



