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TABLt OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial : 



Criminal Compounding 



A Crying Evtl and a Few Long Felt Wants. 



Butter and Rubber— A Suggestion 



The Stock Exchange aud Business 



Minor Editorial 



I'AGK. 



251 

 251 



252 

 253 



253 



254 

 255 



Rubber Planting Enterprises 



Rubber Planting on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec— I Tin Edilnr 



[From New Y'ork to the Mexican Border. Alkali Plains. Native Food. 

 Opals. Arrival at Mexico City. A Journey South of the Capital. 

 Adventures a: Achotal. On Horseback over Forest Trails. The 

 Demarest, Newmark, and ** La Ventura " Estates.l 

 [With Ten Illustrations and a Map. J 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Uur Regular Corn spondtnt 260 



[Tire Litigation. A Question of Policy. Tire Noles. Standard Pans. 

 Notes from Italy.] 



Gathering Rubber Underground 



[With two Illustrations of Little Known African Rubber Plants ] 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co 262 



[Fourth Annual Report. Balance Sheet. Annua. Election ] 



New Trade Publications 264 



Automatic Measuring of Rubber Coated Fabrics 265 



[With Seven Illustrations.] 



How Rubber Comes from the Congo (illustrated 267 



Literature of India Rubber 268 



Recent Rubber Patents [American, British and German] 269 



The Doughty Shoe Machine 271 



[With Two Illustrations.] 



The Obituary Record 273 



(With Portraits of Charles A. Hoyt and John M. Sludlry.J 



Rubber Interests in Europe . 275 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 276 



The Rubber Trade in Akron Our Corre*pmuUnt 277 



Miscellaneous : 



Laving the Pacific Rubber Cable .. 261 



To Make Rubber Shoes in Munich 266 



Ftcus eutniicn as a House Plant ' 2 n 



A Useful Rubber Code 22 



Mr. Plerpont Morgan's Retort L-74 



News of the American Rubber Trade 279 



The Textile Goods Market 284 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 2S5 



A MANUFACTURER of hard rubber goods, whether 

 ■* * in Europe or America it does not matter, was moved 

 to discharge a foreman not long since for incompetence. 

 The man left breathing " threatenings and slaughter," and 

 the day following, the goods under the buffing wheels in- 

 stead of being a smooth glossy black were filled with 

 minute red specks. It was not until hundreds of dol- 

 lars' worth had been spoiled that it was found that the 

 lampblack was the trouble, that being mixed with red 

 vulcanite dust. Naturally the manufacturer blamed the 

 foreman and most bitterly, but the evidence was purely 

 circumstantial ami nothing could be done, nor could the 

 sufferer himself be sure that his employer's suspicions 

 were well founded. 



Were this the only such case on record it would not be 

 worth mentioning in these pages, but the story throws a 

 side light upon a temptation that often assails workmen 

 who are otherwise perfectly honest. The desire to prove 

 to a former employer that things cannot run smoothly 

 without his presence is the foundation of it, and that im- 

 pulse, reinforced by a desire for revenge for real or fan- 

 cied injuries, causes the man to become a criminal. Such 

 a course is unworthy and foolish, and can never be aught 

 but a cause for self reproach to the one who yields to the 

 temptation. The world is small and the story of such hap- 

 penings will leak out and follow one for years. 



And just here comes in another phaze of the question 

 that the manufacturer, although a sufferer, should in all 

 honesty ponder. Rubber goods sometimes go wrong 

 without any such aid. Were it to happen just after a man 

 in charge of certain departments left, he might be sus- 

 pected wrongfully and stay for the rest of his life under a 

 cloud. All of which points to the importance to the worker 

 of being so trusty as to be above suspicion, and to the 

 manufacturer not to be unduly suspicious, and to employ 

 men of character as well as ability. 



26i A CRYING EVIL AND A FEW LONG FELT WANTS. 



PROM the beginning of time the world has been full of 

 *■ "crying evils," and those who appreciated them have 

 been equally conscious of " long felt wants," and as far as 

 we are able to pierce the mists of the future such condi- 

 tions will continue. It is of its application to the India- 

 rubber trade, however, that we wish to speak — not, per- 

 haps, to the trade as a whole, but specifically to that divis- 

 ion embracing the manufacture of mechanical rubber 

 goods. In this line the evil is that of " dating ahead," and 

 the "want" pluralized is a group of manufacturers who 

 will put a stop to it — not collectively, but individually. 



The dating ahead custom began some years ago in the 

 marketing of 3-inch garden hose, and in certain instances 

 it has reached the stage where shipments in February or 

 March are dated the September or October following. 

 Now, under the pressure from buyers, the same evil is 

 creeping into the sale of belting and other staple mechan- 

 icals. That this is not fair either to the manufacturer or 



