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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1908. 



Vol. 39 



DECEMBER I. 1908. 



No. 3. 



TABLE Of CONTENTS 



Editorial: 



Rubber and Aeronautics 85 



High Prices (or Rubber Again 85 



"\"alorizntion" of Rubber 86 



Minor Editorial 86 



Taxicabs in New York and Europe 88 



Rubber Hunting in Holland — I 



The Editor 89 

 [With 7 Illustrations.] 



The Classification of "Pontianak" 92 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 93 

 [Manchester Electrical Exhibition. Air Ship Fabric. An Im- 

 proved Buffer. Asbestos Developments. Colorless Rubber. 

 Dr. .Spciicc. Obituary, .\bbott, Anderson & Abbott.] 



The Grading of Scrap Rubber 



Alfred W. Leslie 95 



Hard Rubber at the Marseilles Exposition 98 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber gg 



( L'nited States, (.ireat Rritain. France.] 



The Obituary Record loi 



I With Portraits of John Royle, Jr., Dr. F. A. C. Perrine, Henry 

 i'u.x Taiiitur and James Ferguson.] 



London's Great Rubber Heel Show 103 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



Rubber Valorization — A Manaos View 104 



The Editor's Book Table 106 



JVIiscellaneous: 



Tariff on Crude Barytes Urged 87 



Russian Tariff on Scrap E-xports 87 



Proposed Tribute to Wickham 87 



New Congo Regime 87 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 87 



Netherlands Gutta-Percha Co 88 



Sandmann's Process for Latex 88 



\'isit of a Rubber Expert to Africa 88 



. Waterproofed Garments in Mexico 94 



A Good Word for Ceara Rubber R. E. Hotehkiss 94 



Belt Rubber and Packing Shears (Illustrated) 100 



Hose Rack Litigation Ended (Illustrated) 104 



Rubber Hunters Find Gold 105 



Rubber-Asphalt Roadway in France 106 



Tires and Motors 106 



The Cotton Goods Market 108 



New Rubber Goods in the IMarket 107 



[The "Basket Ball" Shoe. "Jiffy" Fire Hose Rack. "Cling-Tight" 

 Storm Apron. Green Inner Tubes for Tires. A New Tire 

 Protective Tread. "Evcrfloat" Life Preserver. The "Time 

 Saving" Hose Coupler.] 



[With 6 Illustrations.] 



The Rubber Planting Interest log 



[With \'ie\v of a Mexican Rubber Estate.] 



The Editor's Book Table no 



News of the American Rubber Trade in 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



The Trade in Akron Our Correspondent 106 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspo-ndent 120 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 115 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



■ I 'HERE has been such an improvement in the matter of col- 

 ■*• lections that the merchants in the rubber trade are at a 

 loss to account for it. While trade is still rather quiet, collec- 

 tions are remarkably good, and retailers everywhere seem able 

 and anxious to discount their bills. This is taken as a most 

 excellent precursor of flourishing tiines, showing that the finan- 

 cial confidence has been restored and as soon as the merchants 

 begin to order to fill up the stocks which have been allowed to 

 run very low there will probably be all the business that can 

 be taken care of. Already in some lines — sundries for instance — • 



manufacturers in the East are slow about filling orders and the 

 dealers here claim to have difficulty in getting goods. 



'Sir. W. J. Gorham. president of the Gorham Rubber Co., of 

 San Francisco, and formerly mayor of Alameda, was accidentally 

 shot in the right arm while hunting duck on his game preserve 

 near Alvarado recently. With Edward Garrett, of the com- 

 pany's branch house in Seattle, and Elmer White, of San Fran- 

 cisco, they were dragging the duck boat across the marsh when 

 one of the guns was accidentally discharged and about thirty 

 bird shot penetrated Mr. Gorham's arm, from the wrist up. 

 Fortunately their steam launch was near at hand, and he was 

 quickly hurried to Alameda where he received medical attention. 

 Mr. Gorham has recovered rapidly. 



Mr. R. H. Pease, Jr., treasurer of the Goodyear Rubber Co., 

 has returned from an extended trip through the northwest and 

 in sizing up the business situation he concludes that the future 

 for the rubber business will be a busy one on the coast. "Col- 

 lections," he said, "are better than they have been for a number 

 of years. Money seems to be freer and people are cleaning up 

 their accounts and discounting their bills. We notice this more 

 particularly from our Portland (Oregon) branch, where through 

 the north the collections have been unusually good. But the 

 same is true to a large extent in San Francisco. The boot and 

 shoe business is quiet because so far we have had almost no 

 rain, but the general mechanical business is fair, and with lots of 

 promises for orders later on, it looks as though times would 

 soon get back to where they were before the financial disturb- 

 ances struck the city. If it begins to rain soon we will dispose 

 of a great many boots and shoes this fall." 



Mr. James F. Giles, of the American Hard Rubber Co., is 

 in San Francisco on a business trip, and is making his head- 

 quarters with the Goodyear Rubber Co., on Market street. 



Mr. P. T. Sprague, rubber supplies, belting, packing, hose and 

 molded rubber goods now holds forth in convenient offices at 

 Nos. 70-72 Spear street, where he is convenient to the shipping 

 trade. Mr. Sprague has been in business for himself about three 

 years now and he has been unusually successful. Prior to start- 

 ing out for himself he was for twenty years with that good firm 

 which seems to have a record for keeping all of its employes for 

 twenty years and more — the Goodyear. 



Local merchants believe that eastern manufacturers could ma- 

 terially assist them in making money if they would be more 

 careful in taking into consideration the great distance between the 

 coast and the eastern states. If the factories, they say, would 

 consider the distance between San Francisco and New York, 

 and would in some measure anticipate the orders from this coast 

 and fill them promptly, instead of holding them up and give 

 the local merchants preference in making up shipments, it would 

 mean a great inany dollars to the local trade, because the delays 

 in freight work a great loss at best. 



Mr. C. E. Mathewson, of The Diamond Rubber Co., expects 

 to make a trip to the northwest next week, with a view to lo- 

 cating a branch store in the north, probably in Seattle. This 

 firm recently received word from its Los Angeles branch that 

 in the recent 24-hour automobile race the winning automobile 

 carried Diamond tires, and the entire race, covering 836 miles, 

 was run without a change of tires, making the world's record. 

 These saine tires were then driven from Los Angeles to Phoenix, 

 Ariz., without mishap. 



The Phoenix Rubber Co. are now fully established, and have 

 their factory running at the new quarters on First street. Mr. 

 Kanzee, one of the proprietors, will return from his eastern 

 trip next week. 



Mr. Parish has returned from his trip to the Orient, and 

 states that conditions there have been very quiet. Mr. Sargeant 

 says that the general conditions in California have not begun to 

 show much change accept in the matter of collections, which 

 are much better, and everybody, he says, seems to be looking 

 forward to good times. 



