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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1908. 



OBITUARY. 



Vol. 39. 



OCTOBER 1. 1908. 



No. 1. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial: 



A Story of Growth ' 



The Popular New Vehicle ' 



Trying to Drive Out Air ^ 



Training Rubber Estate Managers 3 



A New Regime in the Congo 3 



"Para" or "Hevea"? 4 



Minor Editorials 4 



The Editor's Book Table 6 



Aeronautics and the Rubber Industry 7 



[With 7 Illustrations.] 



Growth of the Insulated Wire Industry 



Ira IV, Henry lo 



Machinery for the Balata Industry 12 



[With 13 Illustrations.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 15 



The Annexation of the Congo to Belgium 



Hon. James Gustavus Whiteley 17 

 [With 2 Illustrations.] 



The Export Trade in Rubber Goods 



Alexander Macpherson 19 



'Mechanical Goods Industry 22 



The Rubber Planting World 23 



[With an Illustration.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 25 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



New Rubber Factory Appliances 27 



[Apparatus for Refining Rubber. Clark's Strainer Fixture. Rub- 

 ber Spreading Machine. A New Rubber Mixer. With 6 

 Illustrations.] 



Miscellaneous: 



British Rubber Substitutes 5 



A Campaign of Education .<; 



The India Rubber Wori-d's Editor in Japan. (With Portrait.) 6 



A German Cable to Brazil it 



Rubber Shoes in China 11 



Solution for Cement Work Erwin Meyer, Ph.D. 16 



One More "Artificial Rubber" 16 



Progress in Peru's Rubber Area 16 



Cotton Planting Progress 18 



Is "Diabolo" Declining ? 18 



Guayule Area of Mexico 21 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 21 



Rubber Industry at Singapore {Illustrated) 24 



India-Rubber Interests in Europe 26 



Non-Decomposable Crude Rubber 26 



Fruit of Palo Ajnarillo (Illustrated) 26 



Rubber Heels Bad for Thieves 28 



Exhibition of Fire Apparatus 28 



Japan and the Rubber Industry 28 



A Weed-Eating Tropical Creeper 30 



The Properties of "Vulcole" 31 



Rubber for Heart Testing (Illustrated) 31 



The State of the Tire Market 32 



Obituary— B. F. Sutton (li'ith Portrait) 54 



International Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition at Olym- 



pia, London 33 



[With 16 Illustrations.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 47 



The Trade at Akron Our Correspondent 29 



The Trade at San Francisco Our Correspondent 30 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 49 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York quotations — prices paid by consumers for car- 

 load lots, per pound — show an advance, as compared with last 

 month : 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 8>^@ 8j4 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 8 @ 8% 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 6 @ 6^ 



Automobile tires 6 (S) tyi 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 7 @8 



White trimmed rubber 10^2(0)11 



Heavy black rubber 4/^@ 4^ 



Air brake hose 3J4@ 4 



Garden hose 2 @ 2^ 



Fire and large hose 2J4@ if^ 



Matting iVi® iH 



Benjamin Franklin Sutton. 



DENJAMIN F. SUTTON died on September 23 at his summer 

 *-* home, "Echo Park," at Lake Spofford, New Hampshire. 

 For some time he had been so much of an invalid as to fill his 



friends with appre- 

 hension, but the 

 end came sudden- 

 ly, following a 

 third attack of 

 paralysis. Mr. 

 Sutton was born 

 about 63 years ago 

 at Lockport, New 

 York. At an early 

 age he became in- 

 terested in the rub- 

 ber manufacture 

 through a connec- 

 tion with the Per- 

 kins Manufactur- 

 ing Co., which 

 later was merged 

 with the Duval 

 Rubber Co. (Prov- 

 idence, Rhode Isl- 

 and). He was of 

 inventive turn of 

 mind and devel- 

 oped an atomizer 

 valve which was worked at a profit by the two companies named. 

 About 1885 Mr. Sutton became connected with a New York 

 firm in the rubber druggists' and stationers' sundries business, 

 which then for six years had consisted of two partners — Russell 

 Parker and James H. Stearns. The firm then became Parker, 

 Stearns & Sutton, which name was continued after the business 

 was incorporated under the laws of New York state in Decem- 

 ber, 1892, with $450,000 capital. Mr. Sutton was the inventor 

 of the continuous flow syringe and of a number of other special- 

 ties manufactured so successfully by the company referred to. 

 The style of the corporation was changed December 8, 1905, to 

 Parker, Stearns & Co., owing to Mr. Sutton's wish to retire 

 from business, and he sold his interest in the firm. 



Mr. Sutton was prominent in the social life of Brooklyn for 

 years. He was a member of the Union League Club and presi- 

 dent of its bowling association. He was an enthusiastic yachts- 

 man, owning the schooner yacht Loyal, and holding for a long 

 time the position of cominodore of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, in 

 addition to being a member of several other organizations de- 

 voted to this sport. Mr. Sutton finally made his home in the 

 state of New Hampshire all the year — in winter in a beautiful 

 home which he built at Keene, and in summer at "Echo Park," 

 already mentioned. At Lake Spofford he had as neighbors his 

 two partners, Messrs. Parker and Stearns, both of whom owned 

 beautiful homes there. 



Mr. Sutton, in his prime, was a man of striking appearance, 

 an athlete, and an amateur artist whose work attracted attention. 

 The interment was from his late home, on September 25. A 

 widow and daughter survive. 



In Tlie India-Rubber Journal occurs an extended notice of the 

 marriage of Mr. Baldwin Drummond and Mrs. Marshall Field, 

 in London, on September 3. Mr. Drummond, who is a grandson 

 of Lord Muncaster, is one of the joint managers of the British 

 Murac Syndicate, Limited, which has a direct relation to the 

 rubber industry. Mr. Drummond is related to the Duke of 

 Westminster, who is described as also a large shareholder in the 

 murac syndicate. The bride was the widow of the son of the 

 late Marshall Field, the wealthy Chicago merchant. 



