Janiarv I, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



103 



THE STATE OF THE TRADE. 



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FobUshed on the Ist of each Month b; 



THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



No. 150 NASSAU ST.. NEW YORK. 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



KDITOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 



ASSOCIATE. 



Vol. 33. 



JANUARY 1. 1906. 



No. 4. 



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TABLE: OF CONTENTS. 



PAOK. 



Editorial: 



Tin- State of tile Trade 103 



Kubber Slavery in tile COUKO \0^ 



Larue Yield Iroin Planted i;nbt)er 104 



Wailied Kubber from tue Fai East 101 



•• Working Out of It" 105 



Minor Editorial I»6 



Obituary 106 



[With Portrait of William E. Page.l 



Rub'ier Tapping on Kepitigalla Estate IvorEtheringtnn 107 



[Methods and Results on an Important Plantation of flevea in Ceylon.] 

 [With 7 Illustrations ] 



Planting 'Ceara" Rubber in Colombia HmryG. Granger 112 



The Def nee of the Congo Administration 113 



[Report of the Committee on Enquiry Appointed by King Leopold to 

 Consider Alleged Abuses in the Congo Free State.] 

 [With Poitrait of Leopold II.) 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain. Our Rcaular CorrtuffviUnt 115 

 [The Stanley Show. Solubility 'of Rubber in Benzine. Messrs. (I. H. 

 Scott lit C«». Mr. Hancock Nunn. Golf Ball Rubber. War Othcc Tape. 

 Daniels's Packing:. Waste Rubber Valuation. Rubber Absurdities. 

 Dunlop ReorKanization. Rubber in Peru. Mr. Coop?.] 



Rubber Planting Interests 117 



[IJorneo. Jain.iica. Costa Rica. Ceylon. ",Camp Pearson."] 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 118 



Recent Rubber Patents 119 



[L'nited States. Great Britain. France.] 



Official Statistics of India-rubber and Gutta-Percha 122 



[Fo. the L'nited States Fiscal Year 191^4-05.] 



Rubber Interests in Europe 123 



[Recovery from the Fire at Harburg- Improved Profits of the Silvertown 

 Company. The Continental Rubber Works. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre 

 Co , Limited. The- Dunlop Company in Liberian Rubber Rubber 

 Workers' Strike at Munich. An Old German Rubber Factory.] 

 [With I Illustration.] 



Tires at the Olympia Rubber Show 125 



[With 3 Illustrations of E.xhibits.] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber 127 



[ Two Attractive Novelties in Matting. Novel Perfumery Bottle. New 



Tennis Sole From Cana-^a Dr. Tullar's Family Syringe. Two Newr 



PacVings. Goodrich Circular Eraser. The " Tube Core " Golf Ball. 



Rubber Teapot Spout. Air Cushion Typewriter Feet.] 



[With 8 Illustrations ] 



Uiscellaneous : 



-The Editor's Book Table lO.'i 



Kclio of a Swindle in Kubber I06 



Dr. Escli on Oastilloa Kiibbers 117 



, Rubber on the steamer Amerika. (/(Ins(rafcd) 118 



' Kubber Coin Mat Novelties 11« 



Balloons in the Weather Servl.^e 118 



Why Do Business Without a Profit ? vn 



Air Brake dose on FrelRht Trains ISI 



The Stanley Cycle Show 1.;» 



Kubber Development in Peru IM 



Facts About Colorado 128 



The (iuaynle F.ictory at Torreon I2» 



News of the American Rubber Trade 129 



[With I Illustration.] 



The Kubber Trade in Akron Our Correspondent 1.38 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 136 



T T is the custom of many trade journals at this season to 

 I^resent a review for the year just closed of business 

 conditions in their respective fields, with perhaps an at- 

 tempt to outline the course of trade for some time ahead. 

 Such summaries often are of interest, and doubtless serve 

 a good purpose, just as does the periodical balancing of 

 books or taking account of stock by the individual mer- 

 chant or manufacturer. Hut the close of a calendar year 

 presents no special reason for attempting a review of the 

 India-rubber industry, which is diversified in so many 

 branches, with business years terminating at different 

 dates. The rubber shoe season, for example, is at its mid- 

 dle about January i, and the results of the winter's trad- 

 ing impossible to estimate until the close of winter. 



\\. the same time, the interruption in business which 

 comes every year with the holiday week gives to every 

 business man an opportunity to consider with what measure 

 of success his efforts during the year have been crowned. 

 If a comparison of all branches of trade, one with another, 

 could be made, it doubtless would be found that rubber 

 has more than held its own for the past twelvemonth, if, 

 indeed, it has not done better than many other branches, 

 though this has been a period of general prosperity in the 

 United States and in the greater part of the commercial 

 world. 



Never before has the demand for rubber goods been so 

 great, or the consumption so large. Never before has 

 rubber entered on an important scale into so many uses. 

 Many manufacturers, it is true, have felt handicapped by 

 higher prices for raw materials than in the past, but raw 

 rubber has been high priced because of an unprecedented 

 call for rubber goods, and when a pressing demand exists 

 for manufactures the producer is better able to dictate 

 prices than when the market is over supplied. Still, there 

 are limits to prices which the rubber manufacturer cannot 

 overleap, and the situation of late has constrained him to 

 put forth his best efforts to improve his processes and 

 methods, to lessen the cost of products, to the end that 

 marked advancement is being made in the industry. This 

 has been distinctly a period of progress in rubber work- 

 ing, such as does not occur in periods of dullness 



The situation in the rubber industry, to all appearances, 

 is healthful ; on the whole the business continues profit- 

 able ; there is every indication that the new year will dup- 

 licate the record of that just closed. Every sign for the 

 future is encouraging — for the energetic, enterprising, 

 progressive rubber manufacturer, who has mastered his 

 business, is properly equipped with capital, and possesses 

 good judgment. These qualifications should command 

 success in any business, but nowhere, we take it, more cer- 

 tainly than in rubber at this period. 



RUBBER SLAVERY IN THE CONGO. 



TH E high commission appointed by the king of the Bel- 

 gians to inquire into conditions in the Congo Free 

 State has produced a report which, while admitting that in 



