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TABLfc OF CONrtNIS. 



PAGE. 



■dltorlftl: 



Drawbacks to tbe Rubber Trade 3."i 



Minor Editorials .3(i 



Literature of India-Rubber 38 



Obituary -General William H. Skirm 38 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain. Our lUuular Correspondent 39 

 [Travel Notes— To Budapest. Recovery of Vulcanized Rubber. Treat- 

 ment of Pontianak. Vulcanizing With Chloride of Sulphur. Extend- 

 ed Use of Rubber Hose. The Newspapers and India-Rubber. Trade 

 News Notes ] 



Cleaning Buildings by Sand Blast — Frank L. Blanchard 41 



Women s Work in Rubber Factories 42 



Caucho and " Castilloa Ulei '' Warburg Dr. Werntr Each 43 



Crude Balala Dutiable 44 



Rubber Cargo Lost on the Amazon 45 



The So-Called " Colorado " Rubber . 46 



Progress of Rubber Planting 47 



[Notes from Ceylon and the Malay States. Straits Settlements. Horreo. 

 Mexico. Soutli America. [ 



Amazon '■ Para" Kubber and its Contents. 49 



Yield of Planted ' Para " Kiibber 50 



Planting Money Instead of Rubber 50 



Eecfint Rubber Patents 51 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber 53 



[The Coile liath Tub. Dr. TuUar's French Douche. Peerless Rubber 

 Wainscoting. Stearns's Puncture Resisting Tire. New Automobile Ap- 

 parel. A New Style m Fountain Syiinges. " Peerless '• Sponge Land- 

 ing Pad. '* Hemisphere " Cuspidor Mats.] 



[With II Illustrations.] 



Rubber Interests in Europe 55 



[\ Swiss Factory. Gutta Gentsch in England. Fire at Harburg. Notes.] 

 (With I Illustration ] 



The Textile Goods Market 63 



New Trade Publications . . . 63 



Uiscellaneous ; 



Contjoconsul to tbe United States 37 



Insurance of Ocean Cable 37 



Tire Kepalrlng in Akron . 37 



Weaving Curved Elastic Fabrics 37 



Can You Predict Knbber Weather ? F.R.tf'at 37 



"Tainted Money " for Rubber Boots 37 



Guita-Percha from the Philippines 38 



The ^ewest Atlantic Cable .. 44 



Tht> Colorado Rubber Game 46 



Rubber ."Stoppers and Appendicitis ...... S. P. Snarjilex 46 



Rubber for Cliannel Cements 46 



Progress In Colombia 54 



The •• New Era" steam Irap. (lUuKlratea) 66 



Automatic Wrapping Machines. i'Uustrattd) 66 



A Rubber Polo Bal' 66 



A Matter Worth Looking Into 63 



Candy Barred from a Kiibbfr Mill 63 



India-rubber Goods In Commerce 63 



Vaccuum Drying of Rubier I /(/inflated) 64 



News of the American Rubber Trade 57 



[With I Illustration.] 



The Akron Rubber Trade ra 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 64 



I N another column is reported the loss on the Amazon, 

 •*• a few hours above i'ara, of a steamer carrying 2iotons 

 of rubber, worth locally perhaps near $400,000. Such oc- 

 currences are not frequent, though within a year the Ama- 

 zon Steam Navigation Co. have lost on the Pun'is two 

 Steamers worth $130,000. But they are liable to occur at 

 any time, for navigation on the Amazon and its chief 

 branches is not all plain sailing. The most recent disaster 

 was due to a collision, at a point where the Amazon is a sea 

 rather than a river, between two steamers which had been 

 hid from each other's view while rounding an island. Some 

 of the rivers are badly obstructed by cataracts — notably 

 the Madeira, on which it has been asserted that one-fourth 

 of the rubber sent down from Bolivia is sunk and lost. 



.\nother piece of news from the .Vmazon relates to serious 

 damage by storm to a government boat between .Manaos 

 and Par;i, after which, and apart from the effects of the 

 storm, the boat ran aground and required assistance, for 

 which payment had to be made. This boat, by the way, 

 was following a merchant steamer with a cargo of rubber 

 of disputed origin, payment of export duties on it being 

 claimed both by Amazonas state and the Federal adminis- 

 tration in the Acre. 



These matters we refer to as illustrating the drawbacks 

 to the trade in crude rubber which exist in addition to the 

 remoteness from commercial centers of the rubber forests 

 and the natural conditions which accentuate the labor 

 problem. After the rubber is harvested, there are serious 

 risks in transportation, while the attention which the tax 

 collectors give to the business does not tend to encourage 

 enterprise. 



Nor is the list of drawbacks exhausted. The treacher- 

 ous nature of the river bed still renders the Amazon cable 

 line useless for much of the time, so that the interior rub- 

 ber centers often are cut off from communication to an ex- 

 tent which seriously handicaps trade. It may be added 

 that a glance at the recent extensive report, by the learned 

 director of the Para Museum, on the 14 species of Amazo- 

 nian mosquitoes — including the yellow fever disseminat- 

 ing kind — all pictured in colors and in heroic size, would 

 suggest to some minds a serious drawback to rubber gath- 

 ering where such pests abound. 



There are continually brought to our notice opportuni- 

 ties for the investment of capital in rubber estates — devel- 

 oped or otherwise — in the Amazon valley, and on paper 

 some appear very attractive. Gather so much rubber at 

 one price and sell it another (and higher) price, and one 

 cannot fail to grow rich. But none of the prospectuses 

 takes into account such drawbacks as are referred to con- 

 stantly in our pages, not from motives of discouragement, 

 but simply as a result of the ordinary work of newsgather- 

 ing, which is our province. 



The fact that in spite of all these difficulties so much 

 forest rubber is produced proves how necessary rubber 

 has become to the world ; if the cost were twice as great, 

 rubber would still be demanded. AVithout doubt the ex- 



