\OVE MISER I, 1908. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



69 



The International Rubber Exhibition. 



THE EXHIBITION SUMMED UP. 



OXE of the most pleasant and interesting of the social fea- 

 tures of the International Rubber and Allied Trades Ex- 

 hibition was the banquet at Pillar Hall, Olympia, on 

 Thursday evening, September 24, at which Sir Henry Arthur 

 Blake, ccm-C, president of the Exhibition, took the chair. 

 There were more than a hundred guests, representative of the 

 planting, crude rubber, and manufacturing interests, govern- 

 ment commissioners, and members of the press — from Great 

 Britain and the Continent, the Dutch and British East Indies, 

 North and South America, and the West Indies. 



The Editor of The India Rubber World, in responding to the 

 toast "'The Press," concluded his remarks with the following 

 in regard to the Rubber Exhibition and its influence: 



"I have already told you at other gatherings how the great 

 exhibits, particularly those of Ceylon, Malay States, British 

 West Indies, and Brazil have interested me. Now as to essays 

 and discussions, they have been intensely interesting and par- 

 ticularly valuable from the rubber planting standpoint. But look- 

 ing at them from the rubber manufacturers and rubber 

 chemists' standpoint we face wholly different conditions. We 

 say carelessly that there are no secrets to-day in the rubber 

 trade, yet the trade is full of them — secret processes, compounds 

 and machines. Not only that, but it often happens that two 

 factories side by side, equipped with similar machinery, using 

 identically the same compounds, with equally skilled help, and 

 under the same management, are unable to produce the same 

 quality of goods. 



"A very complete industry is the rubber business ; in fact, 

 it is a series of widely varying industries. Insulated wire, hard 

 rubber, mechanical rubber goods, footwear, surgical rubber, 

 dental rubber, while basically the same, vary widely in compound- 

 ing and manipulation before they become finished products. 



"The expert in one of these lines usually knows little or 

 nothing of the others and each of these lines is full of complex- 

 ities and secrets. 



"The rubber chemist, therefore, coming here to read a paper, 

 is in honor bound not to talk about the secrets of the factory he 

 represents, and he chooses a subject very general in its nature. 

 'I'he chief value of this great meeting of experts is not in the 

 essays read, nor the speeches made, but in the meeting of such 

 men as Kelway Bambcr, a rubber planting chemist and expert. 



and Dr. Torrey, a factory chemist and expert. Their private ex- 

 change of views is bound to be of value to each and result in 

 the good to the trade at large. Thus the scores of manu- 

 facturers, planters, chemists and experts, who meet soci.iUy 

 and talk informally, are the real leaven that will revivify and 

 animate and solve the great inner mass <if rubber problems that 

 confront us to-day. Like the New England Rubber Club, it 

 brings men of common purpose and identical interest into 

 closer touch with one another, with great resultant good to all." 



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Liqueurs 



CIGARS 



Flor de Ctiba 



Sublimes 

 CIGARETTES 



Quo I'adis 

 State Express 



MENU DU DINER 



Hors d'Qiuvres a la Bambcr 



Consomme Olympia 



Creme du Ilevca 



Turbnt Cuagulaticn 



Para Ham in Substitute Jelly 



Saddle of Mutton, Netherlands 



Poulardc de F. M. S. 



Salade Cosur de Latex 



Poires a la Bresil 



Triandises en Formaldehyde 



Plantation Dessert 



Cafe Mexico 



To.^ST List .\t the Fili..\r I1.\ll B.\N(juet. 



His Majesty the King. — Proposed by the Chairman. 



Her Majesty the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, 

 Members of the Royal Family. 



The Rubber Industry. — Proposed by the Chairman. Response on behalf 

 of the Rubber Growers by J. Loudoun Shand, Esq. 



The Visitors. — Proposed by Col. W. J. Iksworth, 

 Executive Connnittee. Response by Louis IIotT, Esq., 

 German Rubber Manufacturers* Association, and N. H. 

 missioner for the State of Amazonas, Brazil. 



The Technical Press. — Proposed by E. E. Buckleton, Esq. Response by 

 H. C. Pearson, Esq., Editor of The India Rubber World. New York. 



The Chairman. — Proposed by Norman Grieve, Esq. Response by Sir 

 Henry A. Blake, 0. c. m. c, President International Rubber and Allied 

 Trades Exhibition. 



and the other 



chairman of the 

 chairman of the 

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The Silvertown Companv.? Exhibit. 



"MuRAC" Pavilion at Olympia. 



