November i, 1908.] 



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are being fitted to the majority of the boilers, and the water tube 

 boiler is largely in evidence. Two modern engines of 1,000 H. r. 

 each are engaged in developing electricity, much of the power 

 required in the departments being derived from electric motors. 

 The baths, dining and recreation rooms for the work people are 

 on lines which are tolerably familiar to those who are acquainted 

 with German industrial procedure; in this department of a 

 large factory I have for years remarked the superiority of 

 Continental countries as compared with Great Britain, though 

 in several cases a great improvement is now noticeable in the 

 latter country. It seems that no less than 3,000 liters of white 

 coffee are given out daily at certain definite times to work people 

 who ask for it. This is quite a recent departure, and at first 

 a small charge was made for the refreshment. The coffee is 

 now given free and the general result has been to diminish the 

 amount of beer drunk at meal times. 



Knowing as I do with what energy the Germans are tackling 

 rubber chemistry 1 was not altogether surprised to be shown a 

 research laboratory mhabited by two doctors of chemistry who 

 devote themselves exclusively to research work, and in passing 

 I cannot refrain from expressing the opinion that men with the 

 financial resources of such a concern behind them and witli no 

 other business to attend to, are more likely to achieve important 

 discoveries than are those rubber enthusiasts who take on rubber 

 as one subject in a general practice. I say tliat because I was re- 

 cently told at Olympia that the discoveries of the future will come 

 from outside the rubber factory. In addition to this research 

 laboratory there is also the works laboratory, where routine tests 

 and analyses are carried out. It will be seen then that the scien- 

 tific side of the industry is receiving full attention, as is now the 

 rule at large Continental factories. Moreover, in contradiction 

 to what obtains in most of our British works, the managing di- 

 rector has familiarized himself with rubber chemistry up to date 

 and can explain the complicated apparatus of the research labora- 

 tory with the lucidity that characterizes his description of the 

 factory plant with which he has for so long been familiar. 



It is hardly necessary, in writing for India Rubber World 

 readers, to point out how varied are the products of the works 

 at Hanover, embracing as they do almost everything made of 

 rubber except footwear. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



■yilK L. & M. RUBBER WORKS (Carrollton, Ohio), issue a 

 ■*■ catalogue of Drug Sundries, Molded, Seamed, and Dipped 

 Goods, under the "Buckskin" brands, which is interesting and 

 attractive, and more than ordinarily complete for a new concern. 

 L6" xg". 28 pages.] 



Fred. Med.\rt (St. Louis), one of the longest established manu- 

 facturers of gymnastic apparatus in the country, sends a book- 

 let, "What Others Say," filled with testimonials in regard to 

 the Medart supplies, several of which have been described in 

 these pages as being composed to an important extent of india- 

 rubber. [3/4" X 614". 24 pages.] 



New York Insulated Wire Co. (New York) issue their 

 price list No. 22 of "Raven Wire Core" Rubber Covered Wires 

 and Cables, giving prices on rubber-covered wires on the various 

 copper bases, from 11 cents to 21 cents, and including various 

 tables which will be found of service. 



Syracuse Rubber Co. — F. C. liowlett, president and treasurer 

 (Syracuse, New York), issue their most elaborate catalogue — to 

 date — of Druggists' Sundries. It is profusely illustrated and 

 gives prices of the products of leading manufacturers. [6^" 

 xgl^i". 200 pages.] 



The North British Rubber Co., Limited (Edinburgh), as 

 everybody in the trade knows, have figured to an important ex- 

 tent in the supplying of rubber footwear to the Oriental trade, 

 and particularly to China. Everybody in the trade, however, 

 may not have seen the exceedingly interesting posters on a 

 large scale got out by the North British company for use in 

 China — posters involving Chinese artistic ideals, with lettering in 

 Chinese, and views of interiors of Chinese shoe stores and the 

 like. One of these posters embraces a Chinese calendar for a 

 year, and all of them contain pictures of the peculiar styles of 

 waterproof footwear required in the markets of China. If any 

 trade publication that has reached The India Rubber World 

 during the past 20 years is entitled to the designation "unique," 

 we readily give the palm to the North British Rubber Co.'s 

 Chinese posters. 



ALSO RECEIVED. 

 1>R. II. Robinson, Waco, Texas = Hygienic Masseur. 12 pages. 

 Slcwnrt &' Halilian, 210 Rroadway, New York=[Catalogue (No. 34, 



1908). Rubber Stamps.] 32 

 pages. .Mso: Price List. 4 

 I'agcs. 



Healy Leather Tire Co., 

 N'ew York. = Healy Rims and 

 Tires. 32 pages. 



The S. S. White Dental 

 Manufacluring Co., rhiladel- 

 |ihia. = Bread and Butter 

 Goods. 16 pages. 



The H. J. .\I. Howard Manu- 

 facturing Co., Washington, 

 D. C. :=n<Hvard Swinging Hose 

 Kacks. Catalogue 1907-1908. 

 20 pages. 



Myers Manufacturing Co., 

 I'remont. Ohio.="Costa" Drug- 

 gists' Rubber Sundries. 20 

 pages. 



B. F. Sturtevant Co., Bos- 

 ton. —Bulletin 156 — Generating 

 Sets. 8 pages. 



W. W. Winship. Ho5ton.=: 

 .\utomobile Trunks and Equip- 

 ments. 20 pages. 



Voorhces Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co., Jersey City, New 

 Jersey. = Big Game. [Large 

 poods in mechanical rubber.] 

 12 pages. 



The Cleveland Galvanizing 

 W'orks Co., Oeveland, Ohio. = 

 Cleveland Pump Chain and 

 Rubber Pump Buckets. 8 

 pages. 



'The India KiiiDtk World's" Stand at Olvmi'IA. 



[From left to right; Mr. A. Staines M.mdcrs. organizing manager. 

 Eosworth, chairman of the executive committee; Mr. Richard J. Hoffman 

 mittee; Mr. S. P. GiflFord, The India Rubber World. (Pages at the desks.)] 



Mr. Henry C. Pearscn 

 of Rubbe 



Colonel W. J. 

 Growers' Exhibition Com- 



It is authoritatively an- 

 nounced that another in- 

 ternational rubber exhi- 

 bition will be held in 1910. 



