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are easily made and the richest effects secured. For furniture, 

 solid mahogany sideboards, tables and chairs may be superseded 

 by those made of hard rubber. 



In other words, hard rubber lumber is in sight — the lumber 

 sawed, planed and turned as lumber is today and the sawdust- 

 not a waste product but molded into new lumber, and the furni- 

 •ture or panels or flooring after use returned to the mill that made 

 them, and these, too, made into just as good hard rubber lumber 

 as when first manufactured. 



Better than rubber roofing will be the fiber and rubber shin- 

 gles of the future. If the underwriters are fussy the fiber may 

 be asbestos or the compounding ingredient infusorial earth. 



Boat-builders (wooden boats) have trouble with their lumber. 

 When hard rubber lumber is available they will rejoice. It will 

 be hard on those who sell copper sheath or Anti-Teredo 

 paints : for the busy water borer will not touch rubber. 



Speaking of hard rubber lumber, who can say that a factory for 

 turning it out will not one day be established in Singapore, to 

 make boxes in which to ship rubber? The boxes, of course, to 

 be sawed up into short vulcanite sheets for insulation work, once 

 their duty as rubber carriers is finished. At least it would not be 

 difficult to make wooden boxes with a thin coating of hard rubber 

 vulcanized to the wood, forming a clean anti-sliver coating. Such 

 boxes could easily be ventilated and should find use when empty. 



Great European ports send to South America for Greenheart 

 logs to build their docks, and a costly product it is. Iron columns 

 covered with a thin film of hard rubber should be cheaper and far 

 more durable. So, too. the protection of iron and steel in scores 

 of places where they perish from oxidation would prove a simple, 

 effective solution of this evil. 



SEMI-HARD PIPE. 



As liquid conductors there is a possibility that semi-hard rub- 

 ber piping may compete with copper and lead pipes. So, too, lead 

 armored cables may give way to those coated with semi-hard 

 rubber. The product would be just as flexible, much lighter, and 

 cheaper. 



INDIA RUBBER WOODENWARE. 



In the line of sports will come hard rubber golf clubs, cricket 

 and baseball bats, fishing rods, polo mallets and balls, and so on. 

 The city policemen will no longer use a club of locust wood ; it 

 will be of hard rubber. And this will extend all through the line 

 of woodenware where anything especially tough, flawless and fine 

 is required. 



RUP.BEK LINOLEUM AND OIL CLOTH. 



Speaking again of floor coverings, oil cloth and linoleum as 

 such cannot exist once rubber is really cheap and plentiful. Every 



