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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September i, ipog. 



WPo^ 



Vol. 40. 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1909. 



No. 6. 



TABLE OP CONTENTS 



Editorial: 



Our Twentieth Anniversary 



Rubber in the Air 



A Last Word on the Tariff 



The British Rubber Fever 



Minor Editorial 



India-Rubber and the New American Tariff 



The Rubber Planting Interest 



[Rubber Planting in Dutch Guiana. Ceara Rubber in Ceylon. 

 Mexican Company Notes.] 



[With 4 Illustrations.) 



Rubber Selling on The Amazon 



[Buying Direct by Consumers. -Mves Braga Company. An 

 .^mazon Rubber Syndicate. Suarez Incorporated.] 



The Dark African Rubber Prospect 



[Decline of the .\r.IR Company. Unfavorable Results in the 

 French Congo. Lower Dividends of a Dutch Company. 

 Capita] -Attracted to the Far East.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 



[L'Tiited States, t.ireat Britain, France, Ceylon.] 



Miscellaneous: 



The New Washing Machine H't'rticr, Pflcidcrcr & Perkins 



Escape from a Sunl<en "Submarine" 



Rubber and Milking Machines 



Increase in the Guayule Trade 



Bathing With Motor Tires 



Notes on a Visit to America Philif^ Sclii-lrou'tl~ 



New Trade Publications 



Tires in the .\nierican Import Trade 



A Brazilian \'ie\v of Rubber Prices 



Dr. Pinto's Smokeless Rubber 



The Editor's Book Table 



Fisher Process Rubber 



India-rubber in Aerial Navigation 



lruerHnti..inal .Virshiyi Tests 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 



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Profits of Hutchinson. 

 British Companies 



[Russian .\nierican t onipanv Profits. 

 James Robinson — Obituary. New 

 Registered.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



<Jtir Regular Correspondent 



[Rubber Washing for the Trade. The P>-ite of Rubber. 



l^eresination •>( India-Rubber. Liberian Rubber Corporation.] 



Single Tube Tires in Court Again 



The Father of the Bicycle 



IWitli ]..irti-iii of Alfred A. Pope.) 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



The Trade at .\kron Our Correspondent 



The Trade at San Francisco Our Correspondent 



Review of the Crude Rubber Trade 



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"UNITED STATES RUBBER" AT THE SHOE FAIR. 



'T'HE L'nitcil States Rubber Co. was probably tlie only exhibitor 

 ■^ at the recent First World's Shoe and Leather Fair, at 



Boston, whose popularity became so great as to necessitate 

 police protection from an overwhelming throng of admirers. 

 This actually occurred, however, on the last night of the fair. 

 The United States company had been particularly generous during 

 the month in the distribution of various attractive items of ad- 

 vertising, as for instance, a genuine leather-bound memorandum 

 book, a hard rubber match safe, minature rubber boots, and other 

 equally attractive objects, and on the last night of the fair the 



crowd surrounding tlic ruliher corner for the purpose of getting 

 these valual)le souvenirs became so great as to threaten to over- 

 whelm the entire exhil)it, and it required the services of several 

 policemen with considerable lay help to keep the entluisiasm of 

 the crowd within controllable bounds. 



This rubber exhibit was one of the most successful at the fair 

 and one of the most interesting. In the first place, the company 

 had taken generous space and had an exhibit that fronted on 

 three aisles, and it went to further expense in having made for 

 the occasion a dozen large, handsome, all-glass show cases. The 

 company showed a sample line of all its different brands, and in 

 addition 'displayed some unusual styles of rubbers that attracted 

 a great deal of attention, as for instance,, the colored silk-top 

 rubbers made at the ".\merican" and "Boston" mills; a line of 

 steel wool rubbers (together with a large lump of steel wool) 

 made at the "Banigan" factory ; the "Squadron" boot, a close- 

 titting riding boot made of rubber but looking precisely like the 

 expensive patent leather riding boots affected by smart army 

 officers on the other side. This particular boot, by the way, is 

 made expressly for the export trade. The "Candee" mill also had 

 a unique exhibit in the way of a pure white storm king boot and 

 a tan sporting boot, while the "glove" mill contributed some 

 sandals and six buckle gaiters of pure white ruliber, and also 

 some six-buckle gaiters in tan, and some tan storm shoes with 

 engraved lacing across the uppers. 



In addition to a great variety of samples of rubber footwear, 

 this exhibit showed a case in which the paraphernalia for gather- 

 ing crude rubber in South America was displayed. There was a 

 quantity of the palm nuts that are burned to create the smoke 

 that coagulates the sap, a number of paddles that are used to dip 

 into the sap to hold over the smoke, the gourds in which the 

 natives gather the sap, and the peculiar earthenware funnel 

 shaped chimneys that are put over tlie fire to concentrate the 

 smoke on the rubber. In addition, there were samples of crude 

 rubbers made by the South American natives, elaborately if 

 not artistically engraved by hand. 



In addition to the display of footwear, the United States Rub- 

 ber Co had quite a display of the goods made by its mechanical 

 factories, as for instance, matting and hose made by the Mechan- 

 ical Rubber Co. of Chicago, horse pads and rubber heels made 

 by Morgan & Wright, packing and tiling made by the Peerless 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., and samples of the famous "G & J" 

 automobile tires. 



As already mentioned, the company was more than generous 

 in its distribution of attractive advertising souvenirs, giving out 

 during the inonth 15.000 hard rubber pocket match safes and 

 about 10,000 leather covered memorandum books, which naturally 

 were in great deinand. In addition, it had on exhibit a "Jumbo" 

 boot and a "Jumbo" arctic, in which glass vases full of water 

 were very neatly concealed, these vases being full of pinks and 

 other flowers which were distributed at the close of the evening 

 to the lady visitors. Between the company's excellent exhibit 

 and its exceptional kindness to visitors, it was quite natural that 

 the Ruliber corner should have proved one of the most popular 

 spots at the fair. 



Send for a free copy of the Index to the rievv edition of Mr. 

 Pearson's "Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients," just 

 out. at The 1ndi.\ Rudber World office. 



FOR SALE. — A good sized rubber plantation with 120,000 

 Castilloa rubber trees from 2 to 5 years old and 250 hectares 

 of land. Other improvements, such as houses, pastures and 

 land cleared for planting provisions for plantation use. There 

 are also Cocoa trees, coffee and Para rubber doing well. 

 Photographs of place can be had. Address HEIDMANN COF- 

 FEE CO., No. 612 Fifth street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (339) 



