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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1906. 



lies in its intent rather than its intrinsic worth, and as respect 

 cannot be expressed by gift, nor love bj- measure in loving cups 

 this engrossed parchment outranks them all. For in it the nieni 

 bers of the New England Rubber Club make this 

 DECI,.\R.\TION. 

 That our friend, George P. Whitinore, in all of the varied phases 

 of Committee work, at banquet, Smoke Talk, or Summer Outing, 

 l)y genial presence, sane counsel, modest manner, and self-sacri- 

 ficing attention to detail, has won the respect and love of all. That 

 his retirement from the office that he has so long held does not 

 mean a passing from our frieiidlj' intercourse nor the abatement 

 in the slightest degree of our interest in him, or slackening of the 

 delightful comradeship that we have enjoyed. We wish him 

 health, prosperity, and many years of continuance as our honored 

 friend and associate. 



JOHN II FLINT. Presiden-. ARTHUR VV. STEDMAN, Vice Presiikiit. 



HI'.NRV C I'EARSON.Se.relary. EI.STON E. VVADBROOK, A«s't Secrclaij. 



HONORARY VICE PRESIDENIS. 



Lewis D .\isi.kv. Algustus O. Uocrn 



Jamks Bkn.sett Forsyth. George H. Hoon. 



RoBhRT D Evans. 

 Henry C. Morse 



By vote of the Club, this document, signed by the officers, 

 will be engrossed and presented to Mr. Whitniore. 



Then followed an exceedingly interesting talk by Mr. 

 Richard Arthur, on the historic ten thousand mile cruise of 

 Commodore Benedict's 3'acht, the Virginia, through the 

 West Indies and up the Amazon. The stereopticon illustra- 

 tions that gave one glimpses of the many places visited 

 were as a rule excellent and selected with much judgment. 

 As the story of the trip has already been embodied in an 

 exceedingly well written and finely illustrated book, ("Ten 

 Thousand Miles in a Yacht "), which is now within reach of 

 the trade, the reader is referred to it, rather than to a synop- 

 sis here that would of necessity be most inadequate. 



After a vote of thanks to the speaker, and a collation, the 

 Club adjourned. 



RESIN IN RUBBER FROM VULCANIZATION. 



TO THE Editor of The India Rubber World ; In your 

 issue for March i, under the title, " Navy Specifica- 

 tions for Gaskets," a correspondent calls attention to 

 anomalies in the specification issued by the United States 

 navj'. One per cent, of resin is not to be exceeded, and this, 

 he states, is an impossible requirement, owing to the resin- 

 ous matters produced by vulcanization. That resin or at 

 any rate an oxidized product soluble in acetone is produced 

 during vulcanization is now well recognized, and the fact 

 has to be taken into careful consideration in attempting to 

 form an opinion of the quality of rubber used in a mixing. 

 With regard, however, to the particular case under notice, 

 it depends on how much pure rubber is specified, before one 

 can endorse the criticism that i per cent, is an impossibilit}-. 

 If the mixing contained 50 per cent, of fine Para at 1.5 per 

 cent, resin the 0.75 per cent, which the mixing contained 

 would be at least doubled during vulcanization, and thus 

 bring the goods over the limit. It appears then that if the 

 official limit is to be complied with, the goods must not con- 

 tain more than about 30 per cent, of fine Para, always sup- 

 posing that the original resin content is no more than doubled 

 during manufacture— an eventuality which can by no means 

 be assumed with confidence. Certainl}- the test seems much 

 too stringent and to have been ordained without due consid- 

 eration of the facts, and manufacturers would do well to 

 bestir themselves to effect its repeal. The recent alteration 



in the British admiraltj' tests were the outcome, I may say, 

 of strenuous representation made by the manufacturers to 

 the authorities concerned, and in these days when rubber 

 goods buyers of all .sorts are drawing up specifications man- 

 ufacturers should look to it that their interests are not im- 

 perilled by any hesitancy in making known their own views on 

 the questions involved. With regard to the 3.5 per cent, of 

 sulphur mentioned, the sulphur in any barytes present would 

 not come into consideration ; that is, if the analyst knew 

 his business, though it is to be feared in this connection, 

 that the manufacturer is often at the mercy of analysts who 

 have no practical knowledge to enable them to draw correct 

 deductions from the analytical data obtained by rigid adhe- 

 sion to text-book methods. 



HUBICRT L. TERRY, F. I. C, .V. I. M. M. 

 23 Hopwood avenue, Maiicheslcr, Eriglaii<l. .\pfil ih. 1906, 



AN ASBESTOS NEWS NOTE CORRECTED. 



^ I ^O THE Editor of The India Rubber World : The 

 -*- asbestos manufacturing industry in the United States 

 is certainly paralyzed by your note, upon page 226, in your 

 issue of April i, commending our good friends Messrs. 

 Turner Brothers, Limited, of Spotland Mills, Rochdale, 

 England, as being, through their recent addition of a rub- 

 ber department, placed in "the 7/«/9/« position of turning . 

 out goods consisting of rubber and asbestos, such as sheet- 

 ing, packing, tape rings, and the like. " The Messrs. Turner 

 Brothers are "up to date" manufacturers all right, but 

 "there are others," among them, Alfred Calmon of Ham- 

 burg, who advertises in The World, Messrs. The H. W. 

 Johns-Manville Co., of New York, and the Keasbey & Jlat- 

 tison Co. of Ambler, Penns3'lvania — which latter corporation 

 prepared the asbestos, from start to finish, from the crushed 

 rock to the completed asbestos safetj' curtain at the new 

 and gigantic Hippodrome, in your own city — either of which 

 concerns have, for v-ears past, done large amounts of proof- 

 ing in their own factories Yours respectfully, 



RICHARD V. MATTISON, M. D. 

 Aiiihler, Pennsylvania, .April s. 1906. [President Keasbey i^ Matlison Co.] 



INDIA-RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. 



OFFICIAL statement of values of exports of manufac- 

 tures of India rubber and Gutta-percha, for February, 

 1906, and the first eight months of five fiscal years, begin- 

 ningjuly i, from the treasury department at Washington : 



The firm of Schack & Pearson, Mattenw-iete 2, I, Ham- 

 burg, wholesale dealers in technical surgical rubber goods, 

 was recentl}' taken over b\- the Dr. Heinr. Traun & Sohne 

 rubber works, formerly the Harburger-Gummi-Kamm- Co., 

 who will continue the business, 



