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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE SCALDING OF MRS. PRIEST. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: pagk 



The Scalding of Mrs, Priest 



The World's Dependence on Rubber.. .'in 



Trie Man with the Rubber Secret .. 



Minor Editorial 



Literature of India-Rubber 218 



A Rival of "Para ' Rubber in the East 219 



[Based upon the report by Mr. Stanley Arden.of Selangor. With Notes 



on Progress in the Malay States, and a Map ] 



Tha End of the Bolivian Syndicate 221 



undary Dispute Between Brazil and Bolivia, and 

 a M: 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



...Our Regular Correspondent 223 



Kr.tronsch's Failure. Inferior Hotwater Bottles. Another Golf Ball 

 Company. Electrical Notes. Diyingof Washed Rubber. Volenite. 

 An.dysisof India-Rubber. Company Notes J 

 Rubber Planting and Exploitation ... 25 



[Results of Rubber Tapping at San Miguel. New Mexican Planting 

 Com;>i 1 ira Rubber " in East Africa. Bolivian Rubbi 



Baltimore.] 



India-Rubber Interests in Europe 227 



[Higher Prices for Rubber Goods in Germany. The N..me"Reit- 

 hoffer " in Austria Imprisoned for Stealing Rubber Large " 

 in ( 'able Construction. The Dunlop Company and Motor Tit: 

 Second Rubb*r J.umal in French. Kempshall Golf Balls in Great 

 Britain. Moseley Preece Wedding. 



The Only Rubber Book 229 



[With Three Illustrations of Goodyear'-- " Hum Elastic " prin'ed on 

 and bound in rubber.] 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 230 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber if /'ii.s'j'itft'd ■ 231 



[The Kisk Detachable Vehicle Tire. Bailey's Duplex Massage Roller. 

 "Mobilene" Packing for Automobiles. Automobile and Fishing 

 Coat. New French Automobile Horn. New Rack for Garden 

 Caulneld's Patent Grip Wheel. Telescopic Pocket Atomizer. Rub- 

 ber Complexion Buib. Goodrich Air Brake Hose.] 

 Recent Rubber Patents [American, British, German! 233 



New Trade Publications 234 



Miscellaneous : 



Akion Rubber Factory Burned 



Nicolas Suarez In the Acre War. 



Qerman Electrical Consolidation .... 



Dhe Source of Pontlanak . .. mo 



Success of a Young Engineer. .. 



The Largest Rubber Covered Holler, llliutrated) 



Storage of Gas dine and Naphtha I illustrated) X35 



Great Promises thai Failed 2-15 



A Useful Rubber Code 2)6 



The Textile Goods Market 245 



News of the American Rubber Trade 237 



Tito I'r.i.-e at Akron Our Correspondent, Ji3 



Personal Mention 244 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 246 



IT is asserted frequently that the British people are 

 1 much more inclined than are Americans to contend 

 for their personal rights and privileges. The idea con- 

 veyed is that the average American will submit meekly to 

 inconvenience and even injustice, rather than take the 

 trouble to make a " kick," either to obtain a present rem- 

 edy or to prevent a recurrence of the wrong. We do not 

 purpose now to venture an opinion as to the justice of this 

 comparison. Hut we are forced to admit that a certain 

 case tried lately in the Northern Assizes of Kngland, at Liv- 

 erpool, involved a more vigorous protest by a British sub- 

 ject than we have ever known to be made, under like 

 provocation, in the United States. And we note the case 

 here with a view to observing that if the Liverpool prece- 

 dent should secure general adoption, it would not be 

 without a marked influence, in one branch at least, on the 

 rubber industry. 



In the legal proceedings at Liverpool, reported at length 

 in The Times, of London, it appears not to have been dis- 

 puted that one Mrs. Priest, the wife of a small draper, 

 suffered one night from cramp. It was further admitted 

 on both sides that in search of means for relief her hus- 

 band went to a nearby chemist's shop and purchased, for 

 three-and-sixpence, an India-rubber hotwater bottle, which, 

 on returning home, he filled with boiling water and placed 

 where it might be expected to do the most good. Before 

 any benefit had been experienced the bottle burst, with 

 the result that the lady not only was drenched in bed. but 

 was painfully scalded. It probably will nowhere be as- 

 serted that the wife of the most pronounced American 

 would not have made an instant and vigorous protest 

 against a similar fate, but we believe that no such protest 

 on this side of the Atlantic has taken the precise shape of 

 that made by Mrs. Priest, with the support of her hus- 

 band. What they did was to file a suit against the chem- 

 ist — he must have been in business in a small way, since 

 his stock of water bottles consisted of only two — claiming 

 damages in the sum of §4000. 



The case was tried before Mr. Justice Walton and a 

 special jury, the latter, by the way, disagreeing on certain 

 points after having twice retired for deliberation. It in- 

 volved so many questions of alleged negligence and breach 

 of warranty by the vendor, that it was ten days before his 

 Lordship was able to deliver his decision — which bristles 

 with such a formidable list of citations of cases in British 

 jurisprudence as must strike terror to the heart of any other 

 chemist in a small way of business, having in stock a hot- 

 water bottle, and thereby liable to incur a damage suit for 

 $4000 through its sale. It is true that the award to the 

 plaintiff was only ^40 — in respect of the doctor's fee for 

 treating Mrs. Priest's scald. But it is plain from the 

 court's decision that, if certain allegations had been proved 

 to the satisfaction of the jury, the amount might have been 

 much greater, and it appears that these things were proved 

 to the satisfaction of some of the jury. 



The application of the case is this : If the failure of every 

 hotwater bottle to hold hot water, whether in America or 



