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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, '909. 



United States Rubber Co. 's Shares. 



Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange for four 

 weeks, ending February 20 : 



Vol. 39. 



MARCH 1, 1909. 



No. 6. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial: 



PAGE. 



Sccretarj* Straus and Commerce 199 



Rubber Over-production — and Caucho 199 



Retaliatory Patent Bills 20: 



Minor Editorial 201 



Enzymes and the Color of Rubber 20 



Expert Opinion on Plantation Rubber 202 



Gutta-Percha Planting in Java 203 



[With 3 JIiustr:itions and a Portrait of W. R. Tromp de Haas.] 



The British as Pioneers in Rubber 



The Editor 205 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 207 

 [International Testing Committee. Jelutong. The Unity Rubber 

 Co., Limited. Mr. W. S. Atkins-in. Tottenham Rubber Works. 

 Iodized Rubber.] 



New Status of the Congo Rubber Country 



James Gustattis IVhiteley 209 

 (With a Portrait of the Author.] 



The Obituary Record 210 



[With a Portrait uf Abner H. Angell.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 213 



[IJnfted States. Great Britain. France.] 



American and European Factory Policy 211 



What the Rubber Planters Are Doing 215 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



Some India-Rubber Interests in Europe 217 



The Editor's Book Table 21S 



New Goods in the Rubber Market 221 



[With 7 Illustrations.] 



Miscellaneous: 



The Next Rubber Exhibition 202 



Rubber in Hunting Clothing 206 



R. M. Howiscn (IVitli Portrait) 2o6 



Use of the Words "Wire" and "Cable" 208 



The "Cyclops" Pneumatic Tire (Illustration) 208 



To Promote foreign Trade 212 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 212 



Neponset Splicing Compound 214 



Rubber at the Kew Gardens 214 



The New Hofellser Premises (Illustrated) 220 



News of the American Rubber Trade 221 



The News at Akron Our Correspondent 219 



The Trade at San Francisco Our Correspondent 219 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 227 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York quotations — prices paid by consumers 

 for carload lots, per pound — are for most grades lower than 

 Inst month: 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 8%@ 8% 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 7-M(5? 7% 



Pneumatic bicycle tires S/^"® 6 



Automobile tires S54@ 6 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 7 @ 7J4 



White trimmed rubber 9/^@lO 



Heavy black rubber 5 @ SVa 



Air brake hose .3/^@ 2>% 



Garden hose 2 @ 2% 



Fire and large hose 2J4@ 3 



Matting i'4@ iJ^ 



Liverpool. 



William Wright & Co., report [February i] : 



Fine Par6. — Influenced by heavy Para receipts, prices have declined 

 somewhat, but the undertone is very firm, and considerably more business 

 would have taken place had sellers been willing to operate. The closing 

 of sev.'ral American shoe factories next month is expected to be fully bal- 

 anced by the state of the motor industry. Para receipts, though large, are 

 still 800 tons short of the estimate; and it is still persistently rumored that 

 present heavy receipts will be at the expense of the later months of the 

 crop. Under all circumstances we repeat our advice of last month that a 

 basis of 5.S. for hard fine is a safe one for manufacturers to operate from- 

 Closing value: Upriver spot, 5J. id. [= $1.23.7]; Islands, us. lo'Ad. 

 [= $1.18.6]. 



African Rubbers. 



New Ycrk Stocks (in Tons). 



January I. 190S 156 August i, 1908 145 



February i 224 



March i 123 



April I 201 



May I 165 



June 1 446 



July 1 334 



September i 133 



October i 134 



November i 134 



December i 179 



January I, 1909 156 



February 1 157 



A PERSONAL LOSS TO BLUEFIELDS. 



The death occurred recently, at bis home in Allston, Massa- 

 chusetts, of George D. Emery, in his seventy-fourth year. He 

 had resigned a few months before from the presidency of George 

 D. Emery Co. (Chelsea, Mass.), whose business is the export 

 of mahogany and cedar from Bluefields, Nicaragua, and of which 

 he had been in charge for a quarter century. Mr. Emery was 

 mentioned in The India Rubber World several years ago in 

 connection with forming a plantation of rubber in Colombia, 

 which was destroyed at an early age by an unusual overflow of 

 the river on which it was located. The death of Mr. Emery was 

 generally deplored at Bluefields, where formal action was taken 

 expressing the regret of the community. This was joined in by 

 Mr. Jules A. Belanger, of Belanger's, Incorporated, who are 

 rubber planters, and other leading citizens, including Frederick 

 Beer, president of the New Orleans and Central American 

 Trading Co., Limited. Mr. Beer, a German by birth, who had 

 been at Bluefields since 1884, trading in rubber and gold and 

 helping to found the business of which he was latterly the head, 

 has died since. By the way, Mr. Belanger, in whose rubber 

 planting business some New Yorkers are interested, was early 

 in the year seriously ill, but later reports point to his full recovery. 



Milk on Rubber Boots. — A suggestion that may be new to 

 some readers appears in the latest catalogue of the Boston Rub- 

 ber Shoe Co.: "Milk left to dry on rubber boots will de- 

 compose the rubber." 



