October i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Typke & King, Limited (exhibit No. 75), London. — Rubber 



substitutes, chemicals, and colors; also specimens of rubber goods 

 in which these have been employed. 



The British Murac Syndicate, Limited (exhibit No. 78), Lon- 

 don. — Pure Murac and products. 



Forster & Gregory (exhibit No. 79), London. — Samples of 

 coloring materials and vulcanizing and preserving agents used in 

 the manufacture of rubber goods, and some of the results of their 

 application to these purposes. 



The Lipsia Chemical Works, Limited (exhibit No. 20), 

 Mugeln near Leipzig, Germany. — Magnesia (carbonate and 

 oxidized) for the rubber manufacture. 



Holt Town Rubber Co. — W. Openshaw, proprietor (exhibits 

 Nos. 93-94), Manchester. — Light and dark substitutes; recovered 

 rubbers; pigments for the rubber manufacture. 



John Bright & Brother, Limited (exhibit No. 81) Rochdale, 

 England. — Cotton ducks for tires, rubber and balata belting, 

 packing, hose, mechanical goods, and canvas shoes. 



The Crosskeys Manufacturing Co. (exhibit No. 86), London. — 

 "Glossine," a solution for protecting rubber from oxidation and 

 for waterproofing leather; "Endurite," a waterproof cement for 

 uniting rubber to rubber or leather; "Newit" waterproof invisible 

 boot soles and patches. 



LITERARY EXHIBITS. 



The Ceylon Observer, of Colombo, Ceylon, and the allied pub- 

 lications of A. M. & J. Ferguson, including many important books 

 relating to tropical agriculture, occupied exhibit No. i of the 

 commercial section. 



The India-Rubber Journal, the representative British journal of 

 the rubber trade, edited by Herbert Wright, f.l.s., with a collec- 

 tion of technical works, occupied exhibit No. 90. Another feature 

 of the exhibit is mentioned under a different heading. 



The "Tropical Life" stand (exhibit No. 103) was devoted to 

 planting and scientific journals, including Tropical Life, edited 

 by H. Hamel Smith, and general literature of interest to planters 

 and scientific men in the tropics. 



A. D. Cillard fils, of Paris (exhibit No. 105), exhibited his 

 journal Lc Caoutchouc et la Cutta Pcrcha and other technical 

 publications, together with some apparatus mentioned in another 

 place. 



Exhibit 106 was that of Dr. Rudolf Ditmar, of Graz, Austria, 

 who was represented by a number of technical publications of 

 which he is the author, relating to india-rubber. 



The German rubber journal Gummi-Zciiung, of Berlin, occu- 

 pied exhibit No. 107. In addition to a complete file of that 

 journal were shown a number of volumes relating to rubber by 

 the same publishers. These include some of the most important 

 books on rubber in the German language. 



Capper & Sons, publishers of the Times of Ceylon, of Colombo, 

 occupied exhibit No. 137, with files of their paper and of their 

 other publications, including an excellent "Tropical Investor's 

 Guide." 



The American Register, Paris and London (exhibit No. yi), 

 is a journal of American and European circulation, especially 

 among the tourist class. 



The In-di.\ Rubber World, New York (exhibit No. 85), ex- 

 hibited bound files of the journal, and distributed printed matter 

 regarding the character and advertising of the books issued from 

 its office. An "India Rubber World Information Bureau" was 

 maintained, with Mr. Henry C. Pearson, the editor, in attendance. 



Gow, Wilson & Stanton, Limited, London (exhibit No 41 b), 

 occupied their space with a scries of statistical demonstrations 

 of the respective amounts of plantation and forest grades of rub- 

 ber produced in the world. 



MISCELLANEOUS EXHIBITS. 



A. W. Leslie, London (exhibit No. 108), an extensive han- 

 dler of waste-rubber, showed a large assortment of the various 

 grades of scrap. 



The Russian-French India-Rubber, Gutta-Percha and Telegraph 

 Co., "Prowodnik," Riga, Russia (exhibit No. 63), exhibited re- 

 claimed rubber from Russian galoshes. Selling agents in Eng- 

 land: Edmund Schliiter Co., and John Lang, London and Liver- 

 pool. 



Batu Caves Rubber Co., Limited, London and Federated Malay 

 States (exhibit No. 26), showed a board-room table covered 

 with rubber to demonstrate another use to which rubber can be 

 put. 



The leading British railways occupied spaces for exhibiting 

 photographs, paintings, etc., of their respective systems. Exhibit 

 No. 151 was taken up by the Kearney high speed railway model, 

 a distinctive feature of which is a single bearing rail, the system 

 being adaptable to tube railways as well as surface roads. 



Steamship companies were represented as well as railway lines 

 leading into London. Exhibit No. 41 a was taken by the Booth 

 Steamship Co., Limited, Liverpool, who displayed attractive views 

 of their steamers at sea. 



Several exhibits were devoted to the facilities for handling 

 crude rubber in the English market, including the following: 



No. 41. London and India Docks Co., London. — View of 

 vaults and upper floors, showing the methods of sampling and 

 sorting and weighing rubber and gutta-percha. 



No. 41 c. Bull Wharf and Warehouse, London.— Photographs 

 of the wharf and showing operations of handling crude rubber 

 and gutta-percha. 



No. 133A. Henry Kiver & Co., Liverpool— Views of rubber 

 vaults. 



There were in every part of the exhibition the photographs 

 of cultivated rubber trees in different stages of growth, and 

 illustrating the various processes of rubber plantation manage- 

 ment, as well as of the character of the laborers and their man- 

 ner of life. In addition to special mentions of photographs 

 throughout this report, reference may be made to exhibits Nos. 

 97, 98, loi, and 102 as devoted entirely to material of this class. 



There were such further exhibitors as the Salter Typewriter 

 Co., the Telia Camera Co., "Our Dumb Friends League," Strong 

 & Co. (florists and decorators), and so on. 



E. R. & F. Turner, Limited, London, showed specimens of 

 smooth cast iron rolls, and a "John Bull" vertical steam engine. 



THE UNITED STATES AT THE EXHIBITION. 



The Rubber Regenerating Co. (Chicago) had an exhibit, run 

 by Mr. R. M. Howison, of London, who will be remembered 

 kindly by many members of the trade in America. They are 

 erecting a plant at Stoke Newington. Mr. H. MacKusick, their 

 superintendent, has been in London for a while looking things 

 over. 



Mr. Frederick C. Hood, of the Hood Rubber Co. (Boston), 

 attended the Exhibition. On the day of his arrival in England, 

 just before the opening, he beat one of the crack local golfers. 



Mr. Ed. Miaurer, of New York, representing an important 

 guayule rubber interest which has a fine display at Olympia, was 

 personally in attendance at the Exhibition. 



Mr. Theodore E. Smith, editor of the India Rubber Revieiv, 

 arrived in time to attend the initial proceedings, held on the 

 afternoon of September 12. 



Mr. Robert B. Baird, vice-president of the Rubber Trading 

 Co. (New York), an important concern in the crude rubber trade, 

 was in attendance throughout the Exhibition. 



Mr. Quincy Tucker, of Boston, who has studied extensively 

 the Bolivian rubber situation, represented the Boot and Shoe 

 Recorder. 



Mr. William A. Jameson, of The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee 

 Falls, Massachusetts), was a participant in the proceedings at 

 Olympia, incidental to a six-weeks' vacation in Europe. 



Mr. S. W. Evans, of New York, of the Picher Lead Co., deal- 

 ers in rubber manufacturers' supplies, was an interested visitor 

 at the Exhibition a number of times. 



