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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1909. 



constitution, the land laws, an account of the natural resources, 

 and commercial statistics. In fact, it would seem to omit no 

 class of information which either a citizen or an outsider might 

 desire in relation to the state or the city. And since rubber 

 figures so largely in the life of the people there, this is leally a 

 book on rubber and its sources and the conditions of its supply. 

 The text of this work is printed in Portuguese (the language of 

 the country), French and English. The work as a whole is of 

 the highest type of book making in France. 



DEATH OF BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT. 



"T" HE president of Brazil, Dr. Affonso Augusto Moreira Penna, 

 ■*• died at Rio de Janeiro on June 14, in his sixty-second year. 

 He assumed the presidency, for a term of four years, November 

 15, 1906. He was born in the state of Minas Gerales, received 

 a liberal education, became governor of his state, and later held 

 a portfolio in the imperial ministry. He was one of Dom Pedro's 

 cabinet who accepted and supported the republic after the procla- 

 mation. He was vice-president of the republic at the time of 

 his election to its highest office. President Penna contributed 

 largely to the improvement of the national finances. He was 

 favorable to the increase of trade between his country and the 

 United States. His term will be filled out by the vice-president, 

 Dr. Nilo Pecanba. 



President Penna's last public paper was his message to the 

 national congress, presented on May 3. It was a record of 

 material progress during the year and of improved relations 

 with foreign powers. He expressed satisfaction at the operation 

 of the new system, inaugurated under him, of maintaining a fixed 

 rate of exchange. This has resulted in -great benefits through- 

 out the republic, and likewise has been of benefit to traders in 

 Brazilian rubber in whatever market. Speaking of Rio the 

 president said : "It is a fact, happily beyond dispute, that yellow 

 fever has no longer an epidemic character in our midst." The 

 same can be said of most other Brazilian ports now, and this 

 is almost as useful a conquest as that achieved over the instabil- 

 ity of the exchange. 



APROPOS OF CHICLE. 



' I 'HE International Gum Co., was incorporated May 25, 1909, 

 ■^ under the laws of Maine, with $500,000 capital, authorized 

 to engage in the chewing gum trade. Francis Baumer, of No. 

 35 East Twenty-eighth street, New York, is president and treas- 

 urer. The other directors are Robert S. Muller, Marcel Mulct, 

 Ethel P. Mulct and Dwight Patterson, all of New York. 



The Federal Chewing Gum Co. (Brooklyn) and the Bon Bon 

 Co. (New York), manufacturers of chewing gum, have been 

 granted by the government an allowance of drawback on gum 

 made by them with the use of imported chicle and cane sugar 

 The allowance shall not exceed 10.3 per cent, of the net -weight 

 of the exported product for the chicle and 67.56 per cent, of 

 such weight for the refined sugar. 



Mexican exports of gum chicle for two fiscal years (ending 

 June 30), according to official returns, were as follows: 



1907-08. 1908-09. 



To Germany pounds 689 2,130 



To United States 4,009,984 4,436,329 



To France 88 99 



To Great" Britain 2,548 41,263 



To British Honduras 752,006 569,681 



Total 4,765.31s 5,049,502 



CHARLES R. FLINT IN CHICLE AGAIN. 



The organization is reported of a new combination in the 

 chewing gum trade, on the lines of the American Chicle 

 Co. The idea is to consolidate in the Sen-Sen Chiclets Co. five 

 important independent concerns, with a capital of $6,700,000, 



consisting of $2,700,000 in bonds and $4,000,000 in stock. The 

 companies named are T. B. Dunn & Co., Rochester, New York ; 

 Frank H. Fleer & Co., Inc., Philadelphia; Somerville & Co., 

 London, Canada; Curtis & Son, Portland, Me., and The Grove 

 Co., Salem, Ohio. T. B. Dunn, head of the first-named com- 

 pany and treasurer of New York state, and Frank H. Fleer, 

 also named above, have consented to act as respectively president 

 and chairman of the board of the new company. The Dunn 

 company makes the "Sen Sen" chewing gum and the Fleer 

 company the product called "chiclets." The promotion of the 

 company is in the hands of Flint & Co., No. 25 Broad street. 

 New York, which includes Charles R. Flint, who, it will be 

 remembered, promoted the American Chicle Co. in 1899. 



The new company is to be incorporated under the laws of 

 Maine. It is stated that shareholders and directors of the Amer- 

 ican Chicle Co. have subscribed liberally to the underwriting of 

 the new company. The earnings for five years of the five com- 

 panies to be merged are stated to have averaged nearly $425,000 

 annually. .'American Chicle dividends are now 6 per cent. on. 

 the preferred and at the rate of 18 per cent, on tiie common. 



REVOLVING PORTABLE ELEVATOR. 



' I 'HE illustration here relates to an apparatus whicli has 

 ■*• been designed to fill the need for a simple, strong, 

 easily handled, portable elevator. With little labor and in 

 little time, and with no danger of breakage, this elevator lifts 

 merchandise weighing up to . 1,200 pounds, raising it to 

 any required height up to 10 feet. Every bit of space may be 



used from floor to ceiling, 

 which is not the case where 

 step ladders, planks, and the 

 like must be used in putting 

 goods in place. This elev.itor 

 is built entirely of steel and 

 iron. The platform revolves 

 on a ball-bearing base and 

 therefore can be swung 

 around with ease at any 

 point when loaded or un- 

 loaded. It is easily operated 

 by one man. The platform 

 is equipped with rollers. The 

 elevator may be easily 

 wheeled through narrow 

 aisles, in which it can be 

 turned like a truck. It can 

 be operated in a 4-foot aisle 

 and loaded and unloaded 

 from front, back or either 

 side. It requires but one 

 Revolving Portable Elevator. ,„3„ ^^ ^aise a package 1,200 

 pounds in weight. 10 feet up, showing a great saving in labor. 

 The illustration shows the machine being used to tier 700- 

 pound bales in a dry goods \varehouse in New York. [New 

 York Revolving Portable Elevator Co., Jersey City, New 

 Jersey.] 



LEATHER AND RUBBER HEELS. 



A NEW way of applying rubber to heels was seen recently 

 •»^ on women's shoes. The plan is to have the heel half 

 rubber and half leather, but to have both rubber and leather 

 come next to the ground or to the point of wear. 



The top-lift is thus divided. Most of the heels made this 

 way have the rubber on the outside of heel. As a rule the 

 rubber is built a trifle higher than the leather, and the eflfect 

 is to throw the weight over to the inside of the shoe and 

 cause the whole heel to wear squarely. 



