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sentative for the builders of the Locomo- activities in public office are no exception.
bile, and a service station was built on Whatever will forward the interests of
Shippan avenue. He continued to handle
the Locomobile from 191 1 to 1916. Three
years previous Mr. Schavoir began the
manufacture of inner tubes. He had
gleaned from his experience in repairing
that those on the market were far from
being perfectly suited to the service they
were called upon to render. The line of
manufacture of inner tubes is of a highly
technical nature, and Mr. Schavoir has
devoted himself assiduously to the mas-
tery of every theoretical and practical de-
tail in this work. He keeps himself always
abreast of the latest discoveries
and developments in the rubber industry.
The result is that the business has had a
steady growth, making such demands on
his time and attention that all other lines
and interests have been dropped. The
plant is equipped with the most modern
apparatus, machinery entering largely
into the manufacture of a product of this
kind. Employment is given to about
fifty men. The product is sold largely
through jobbers, a large proportion of it
being exported to Sweden, Norway, the
West Indies and South America. The
war gave a great impetus to the manu-
facture of toys in America, a line of busi-
ness that previously had been largely
controlled by certain European coun-
tries. Alive to the opportunity thus presented,
Mr. Schavoir began the manufac-
ture of rubber toys in 191 7, and this de-
partment of the business is showing a
very satisfactory growth.
A Republican in politics, Mr. Schavoir
has served six years as a member of the
Common Council ; he was chairman of
the Park Committee, under whose direction
and supervision Halloween Park was
built. As will be seen in his business ca-
reer, Mr. Schavoir's bent is in the line of
construction and organization, and his
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Stamford, and make it a better place in
which to live and to be happy appeals to
him. It was largely as a result of his ef-
forts that Elm street was paved, and the
paving of Atlantic street finished. His
committee bought the property and had
the plans made for the sewage disposal
plant, construction of which was postponed
on account of the war, but the
contract for building was made in Au-
gust, 1919. During Mr. Schavoir's incumbency,
the pumping station was re-
modelled. He is a member of the Kiwanis
Club, of Stamford, and of the Be-
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Schavoir married Katherine Meigel,
daughter of Henry Meigel, of New Can-
aan, Connecticut, and they are the par-
ents of a son, Frederick, who is asso-
ciated with his father in business, and of
a daughter, Bertha Schavoir.
ROME, Morris Gerry,
Head of Important Business.
Success is something that cannot be
appraised in figures. It involves too much
of the elemental force of the individual
the power of taking from life a thought
here, an impression there, of gaining
from every experience something of use
and value and making it serve as a means
of attaining definite good. That this good
be material makes its attainment no less
worthy of commendation. A man who
achieves importance in the business world
to-day must give as well as take. Life
yields him nothing without exacting a
price—and that price is—himself. No
matter how much the individual wins
from the public, he must give of him-
self equal value. This is the man of real
significance in the world. And generally
speaking it is the man who began at the