June i, 1903.] 



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THE COMING ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. 



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THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



No. 150 NASSAU ST.. NEW YOKE. 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 

 EDITOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 



ASSOCIATE. 



Vol. 28. 



JUNE 1, 1903. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



The Coming St. Louis Exposition 



The Boom in Small Mold Work 



Surface Clothing Again in Favor 



One Man and a Going Concern 



The Bush for Harden Hose 



Ceylon Kubber at the Custom House. 



A Tall Hold and a Down-Hill Pull 



Minor Editorial 



Literature of India Rubber 



Kubber Planting on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec— II. 



The Httilm 



PAGK. 



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[Prosperous Pnvate Plantations — " La Ventuia," "La Junta," and 

 " lxtal." No B.irren Rubber Trees. Conditio ns for Successful Rub- 

 ber Planting. Dry and Rainy Seasons. The Native " Mozo." Negio 

 Labur. Absence of Plant Pests.] 



[With Ten Illustrations.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Hegulor Correspondent 



[Notes from France. The Proofing Tr-de. Rubber Sponges. Dun- 

 lop Tire Affairs. Rise in Price of Mechanical Ruhber Goods. Pir- 

 elli. Sc Co. Gutta-percha in British Noith Borneo.] 



India-Rubber Interests in Europe 



[First Belgian Rubber Manufacturer. Rubber Industry in Italy. 

 Patent Suit Won by the Dunlops. Craigpark Electric C.tble Co. 

 Liverpool Electric Cable Co Kubber Goods Higher in Austria- 

 Hungary. Notes.] 



Annual Meeting of the New England Rubber Club 



"Civilisaton iu Congoland " 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber (Itlus'ratert) 



[Morrison's Life Belt. Maccolini's Life Preserver. Harris's New 

 Tire for Rubber Vehicles. Baumann Rubber Co.'s Novel Rubber 

 Doll. " Monitor " Expansion Packing. Tne "' Fi-OK " Tire. Jones's 

 Nor-Slipping Heel.] 



Recent Rubber Patents [American, British, German] 



Annual Meeting of The United States Rubber Co 



[Annual Reports. Boards of Constituent Companies.] 



The Textile Goods Market 



An Interview with Colonel Albert A. Pope 



[With Portrait.] 

 Miscellaneous : 



Busy and Cheerful at Eighty Years 



An Exhibition of "(ialallth." 



Ciitta-Percba Compound 



A Lathe for Hard Kubber (Illustrated).. 



Kubber Shells in Artl'lery Practice (Uluslrated) 



Rubber and Gutta-Percha Exploitation 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



The Kubber Trade in Trenton Our Correspondent 



I'he Kubber Traiie in Akron Our Correspondent, 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market , 



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\17HILE I'm India Rubber World was in press last 

 * * month the ceremonies were in progress at St. 

 Louis of dedicating the extensive buildings constructed 

 for the use of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be 

 held next year. The occasion was also the centennial 

 anniversary of the purchase from France of the vast domain 

 west of the Mississippi which now forms so important a 

 part of the United States. No greater work of coloniza- 

 tion or civilization has been accomplished in the history of 

 the world, in so short a time, than in the building of the 

 great states which now exist where, a hundred years 

 ago, there was only a wilderness. While this paper is in 

 press another celebration is just closing — that of the 250th 

 anniversary of New York as a city. In 1653, when the 

 city was founded by a Dutch charter, with 1000 inhab- 

 itants, on the island of Manhattan, then lately purchased 

 from the Indians for $24, the most of the North Amer- 

 ican continent above Mexico was practically a wilderness. 

 To day New York ranks second among the cities of the 

 world in population and wealth, and is growing at a greater 

 rate than any of the other leading capitals. Nor is this 

 growth at the expense of any other part of the country, but 

 rather is it an exponent of the development of the United 

 States as a whole. 



It is true that St. Louis has been chosen as the site of 

 the next great world's fair to celebrate the growth during 

 the century of the great Central West, but it will be none 

 the less a thoroughly American undertaking, representa- 

 tive of the whole country's progress. And this progress, 

 for many reasons, has become a matter of vastly more 

 concern to the rest of the world than in any past era, for 

 which reason the industries abroad in which Americans 

 have become competitors in the world's markets promise to 

 be more fully represented at St. Louis than at Philadel- 

 phia in 1876, or at Chicago ten years ago. Though such 

 considerations may be less appreciated here than in some 

 other countries, the mere fact of the United States govern- 

 ment being more intimately associated with the direction 

 of the St. Louis fair will tend to give the occasion greater 

 dignity in foreign eyes than any other of our great expo- 

 sitions, and lead to more liberal exhibits from abroad. But 

 apart from this, the industrial progress made by the United 

 States since the Chicago fair, and the increased importance 

 which this has given us as a trading power, will invest the 

 St. Louis exposition with an interest abroad never before 

 felt in an American occasion of the kind — an interest man- 

 ifested by both foreign exhibits and foreign visitors. 



The India-rubber industry here has not been adequately 

 represented in several extensive expositions held in the 

 United States, and it might be suggested that it may be a 

 mistaken idea for rubber manufacturers to class the com- 

 ing event at St. Louis with some former fairs. The rub- 

 ber industry here is now in a position to engage in ex- 

 port trade more extensively than ever before, and the St. 

 Louis exposition should be taken advantage of for adver- 

 tising this fact. It should lead to a new era in the Amer- 

 ican rubber industry. 



