November 



1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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POLITICS AND BUSINESS. 



Published on the 1st of each Month by 



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No. 150 NASSAU ST,. NEW YOEK. 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



EDITOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 



ASSOCIATE. 



Vol. 31. 



NOVEMBER 1, 1904. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS, 



Editorial: 



I'dlltles and Hnsiness 



Kniiber and the Congo Question 



•■ A Strange Industry" Discovered 



.Minor Kdltorial , 



The Editor's Book Table 



The Passing of the Oldest Rubber Importer 



[With Portrait ot Georj^e A. Alden.] 



Obituary Notes.. 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain . Our Regular Cnrrespnrulent 

 [riie Tire Trade. .New Patent Law. The Carriage Manufacture. 



Artificial Rubber. The Cotton Trade. Position of Gutta-percba. 



Notes on Packuigs. David Ilridge & Co. The Italian Trade.] 



The India-Rubber Industry in Sweden and Norway 



Our lliltisti Correspondent 



Insulating Materials in High Tension Cables Emmanuel J ona 



[Abstract of a paper read before the International Electrical Congress, 

 at St. Louis.] 



Vulcanization of Rubber by Electricity 



[Invention of Howard F. Riddle. With 5 Illustrations.] 

 Rubber Factory Appliances : 



The Astfalck Quick Press System 



A New Type ol Ring Cutter (iilusfrafed) 



Rubber at a Carriage Show 



[With I Illustration.] 



Sixty Years in the Rubber Business 



[With Portrait of John D. Vermeule.] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber. 



[Dods Cross Expansion Piston Packing. Waterproof Leather Shoes. 

 The Auto Tire Protector. Weed's Chain Tire Grip. A Canadian 

 ■' Military'* Boot. New Automobile Shirt.] 



[With q Illustrations 1 



Recent Rubber Patents 



[American. British. German. French.] 



The New Cable to Alaska 



Another Pact lie Cattle Proposed 



The Singapore Guttapercha Trade 



Setauket Rubber Factory Burned 



[With an Illustration.] 



The Cotton Goods Market 



The Dunlop Tire Patents : 



The Dtllated Tire 



The End of the Diinlop (Welch) Patent 



Rubber Interests in Europe . 



New Trade Publications 



Miscellaneous: 



Oeari" Rubber in Nicaragua 



Rubber Interests in Brazil 



The Wearing of Rubber Collars 



Concessions for " Almeidina " Gum 



ludia-Kubber Goods In Commerce 



.lapanese Waterproof Goods 



Rontgen Kays in Cable Making 



Wireless Telegraphy on the Amazon 



Color Barometers for Advertising 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



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A yV /■ ITHIN a week from this date the ([uadrennial na- 



^ tional election will have occurred in the United 

 State."?, and a certain feeling of suspense will have been 

 lifted from millions of minds. But while the number of 

 ballots to be registered on November 8 doubtless will be 

 as large as at any preceding election — and possibly much 

 larger, in view of the increase in population — there has 

 been apparent no such popular excitement over the im- 

 pending result as to disturb business in any way. Time 

 was when it was regarded as a matter of course that a 

 presidential campaign would rob business of all life for 

 half a year, at least. True, there has never been any logi- 

 cal reason given why the choice of a president should be 

 an occasion for stagnation in trade, but if the whole popu- 

 lation decided in advance that the campaign months were 

 to be a dull season, except in a political sense, the dullness 

 very naturally developed. 



This year appears to have afforded an e.xception to a 

 rule which has been recognized for the past two genera- 

 tions. It cannot be said that the popular interest in poli- 

 tics, has declined, or that the business classes or the 

 masses are really less concerned than in the past about 

 the outcome of the election. 15ut in a country like this 

 popular sentiment ought to be, and doubtless is, more in 

 telligent as public institutions advance in age, and most 

 citizens nowadays do not fear any revolutionary tendency 

 as a possible result of a general election. 



Even when one political party supersedes another in 

 control of the government, a radical change in policies 

 rarely occurs, and a change in governmental methods is 

 practically impossible within the limits of a single presi- 

 dential term. The fact is that the government of the 

 United States is vastly more conservative than is always 

 recognized, either at home or abroad, and no matter what 

 theories may be urged here or there in advance of an 

 election, the government in power may be e.\pected always 

 to be responsive to the soundest business sense of the 

 country as a whole whenever questions of vital importance 

 are to be decided. 



It is not to be assumed that the foregoing considera- 

 tions, in so many words, have found place in the minds of 

 all the voters in the country, but at any rate experience 

 has taught those who have voted a few times that, who- 

 ever wins at the polls, the country is not brought to dis- 

 aster. Hence, it is not necessarily a sign of apathy or a 

 lack of patriotism if the average voter of today fails to 

 feel alarm over the fate of the nation at the approaching 

 election. Doubtless party feeling is as strong as ever, 

 and, as we have intimated, the approaching vote may be 

 the largest ever cast, but politics has not been allowed to 

 occupy the minds of the people to the exclusion of busi- 

 ness. 



We feel that the situation is one upon which the people 

 of the country are to be congratulated, as affording a via- 

 dication of the principles on which the government is 

 founded. And doubtless the experience of the past sum- 

 mer will be repeated in future "presidential" years— a 



