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THE INDIA RUBBER ^A/■ORLD 



[October i, 1904. 



its present size. According to this chart he now operates two 

 factories, two dynamos of 500 HI'., and in 1903 produced 150,293 

 pneumatic tires. The special tires shown by him were the 

 "Sprinter," "Racer," "Stayer," " Journey- Racer," "Motor- 

 cycle," and " Livery cycle." 



TheSocieteIndustrielle des Telethons (Paris) showed 

 an oaken case in which were a full line of samples of their in- 

 sulated cables. 



BELGIUM. 



Andre de Vriendt showed a few pieces of waste rubber in 

 a case in the Belgian pavilion, but its only value was to show 

 that among other waste materials he bought vulcanized rubber 

 scrap. 



ITALY. 



Pirelli & Co. (Milan) had a very important display of all 

 kinds of rubber goods in the Palace of Electricity. There were 

 toys, diving armor, matting, hose of all kinds, tires, battery 

 jars, clothing, hard rubber, insulated wire and cables, etc- 

 There were also fine pictures of their great factories and a list 

 of their ten diplomas of honor, and many gold medals awarded 

 at former exhibitions. 



There were of course many other exhibits that consisted in 

 part of rubber. For example, the Brunswick- Balke-Callender 

 Co. (New York) showed billiard cushions. Crutzen Brothers, 

 of Belgium, had in with leather goods some rubber soled shoes, 

 and there were exhibits such as the Whiteley exerciser, and the 

 huge balloons of silk covered rubber whose owners always re- 

 fused to tell by whom they were manufactured. 



CRUDE RUBBER EXHIBITS. 



In the great government exhibit for the Philippines the one 

 building that of all others was of interest to the writer was the 

 Forestry building. It was in this that the native India-rubber 

 and Gutta-percha from the new American possessions appeared. 

 The rubber was not much to look at, nor was there much of it. 

 Besides, it was black, sticky looking, and of low grade. But 

 the (jutta-percha exhibit was very satisfactory. Here were sec- 

 tions of two huge Palaguium trees, fully two feet in diameter, 

 while grouped around were rolls, blocks, and balls of gutta in 

 great quantity. There were also baskets as big as hogsheads 

 full of gutta balls the size of a cocoanut, and near by a box 

 covered with coarse wire cloth, in which were several tons of 

 the balls. According to the display cards most of the gutta 

 came from the island of Mindanao, its source being the Pala- 

 quium latifoliitm. Neither here nor in the building devoted to 

 Philippine machinery and utensils were there to be found any 

 evidences of the strange and crude machines for working gutta 

 and rubber, with sketches of which a certain soldier corre- 

 spondent in the Philippines has succeeded in bamboozling 

 various American papers. 



The Ceylon exhibit of cultivated rubber from the Hevea was 

 not large, but was particularly fine. Culloden, Heatherly, 

 Gikiyanakanda, and Arapolakanda estates furnished about 

 200 discs that were easily the best crude rubber ever seen in 

 the United States. It is doubtful, however, if the agricultural 

 experts can comprehend what this exhibit means. I became 

 so interested in it that I interviewed some of the high officials 

 with regard to getting others interested, and they suggested a 

 letter to the chief of Agriculture at the lair, and the following 

 letter is the first result : 



F. W. TAVt.oR, Esq., Chief of Agriculture, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. 

 Louis. 



Mv DEAR Sir : May I call your special attention to the importance 



of the exhibits of crude India-rubber in the Ceylon section in the I'alace 



of Agriculture. 



This rubber represents the final successful introduction of the South 

 American rubber tree — the Iltvia Brasilietisis — into the Far East, and 

 is the product of the large estates Culloden, Heitherly, Arapolakanda, 

 and Gikiyanakanda, two of which I visited and inspected last winter, 

 and can certify that they are producing rubber profitably and on a 

 commercial scale. 



The rubber sells in Liverpool or New York lor a much higher price 

 than any other in the world, is perfectly clean, and of even quality, and 

 is used in the very finest of goods. This most satisfactory evidence of 

 a new and reliable source of fine rubber, particularly as it comes from 

 cultivated trees is of use to the whole industrial world, and would 

 seem to merit special recognition from this Exposition. Respectfully, 



HENRY C I'EARSON. 



Chairman Classes 205 and 206, India-rubber Processes and Manufactures, De- 

 partment \) , Group 35 : Editor The India Rubher Wohlo, New York. 



Brazil devoted one corner of her rustic pavilion in the Palace 

 of Agriculture to India-rubber. There were bottles of the 

 latex of Hevea, and specimens of coarse and fine Pard rubber 

 in big balls and h;ims, sheets, spindles, and various odd forms 

 that rarely reach the American market, at least. 



Costa Rica exhibited a fine water color of the true Castillua 

 elastica tree and various jars in which were specimens of rub- 

 ber from the washed latex of Castilloa alba (?). There was 

 also rubber from the Castilloa Costaricana. There were also 

 some twenty rolls of " Central " rubbers and some gums much 

 like " Nicaragua Strip." There was also a sample of " gutta " 

 from Taberiurmontana sp., a dark, resinous, sticky product. 



In the general Cuban exhibit was a large case containing 

 crude rubber from cultivated Castilloa trees in Cuba, shown by 

 Federico Martinez de Castro, of Havana. The rubber looked 

 well and attracted much attention. 



German East Africa displayed a fine lot of ball rubber. First 

 there were nine baskets in which were little hard balls, all very 

 similar in appearance, but labelled respectively " Nitumbe," 

 " Machinga," " Mohoro," " Mahange," " Donde," " Matecho- 

 noba," " Hyari," and " Makowei river" — all from Landolphia 

 species. Then there were rolls of Gutta-percha from the Pala- 

 quium suffianum, while on the wall near by was a card from 

 the establishment of Dr. H. Traun cS: Sons (Hamburg, Ger- 

 many) showing these rubbers made up into goods. 



Rhodesia, by a wall exhibit, showed a vine and tendrils, prob- 

 ably a Landolphia, and ten sausage shaped samples of rubber, 

 dry and firm, but full of bark. 



Madagascar displayed good samples of the " Pinky " sort, to- 

 gether with black sticky slabs from the Landolphia spheto- 

 carpa, and black discs from the Mascarenhasia lisianthi flora. 



From Bdhr-el-Ghazal, in Egypt, came a few spindles of 

 African rubber. Siam furnished two small pyramidal cases of 

 rubber of the Assam sorts. 



The Orizaba Rubber Plantation Co. (Chicago) were finely lo- 

 cated in the Palace of Agriculture, Mr. H. Jay Smith being in 

 charge. They showed some 200 photographs of growing Cas- 

 tilloa, together with sections of trunks of rubber trees i, 2, 3, 

 4, 5, and 6 years old. They had also samples of rubber, and the 

 pavilion was most tastefully decorated with various Mexican 

 trophies. 



The Wonderful Colorado Rubber. — A correspondent 

 of the Boston Transcript, in a four column summary of the 

 manifold resources of Colorado, makes this brief reference to 

 the most wonderful product of that state : " There is no space 

 here even to mention the scores of new grain grasses and plants 

 —the rubber plant for example, whose product is equal to the 

 best Pari gutta perche — trees and fruits which are being intro- 

 duced and raised successfully and profitably." Who else knows 

 anything about " Pari gutta percha ".' 



