May 1, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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rilH INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



No. 150 NASSAU ST.. NEW YORK. 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



EIII TOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 



ASSOCIATE. 



Vol. 32. 



MAY 1, 1905. 



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TABLfc OF CONTENTS. 



PAOK. 



Editorial: 



Two Kinds of Rubber I'lantlriR 265 



Uubbcr Cubs and Associations 265 



l£ubb-r and Cou'iterfeit .Moucv 2B6 



A Confus on ol Names 250 



Annual Meeting of the New England Rubber Club 267 



The Rubber Sundries Men Dine 258 



IWith Porlrait nf (icoiyc !•'. HcidKman,! 



The South American "Caucho " Tree Identified Ernsl I'U 259 



IWilh 1 Illus ration.] 



Jottings by an American in Europe— I A. M.Slickney 261 



LKlQiislhat .\nicric.ins are ExlravaKanl. Importance of the Chemist 

 in the German Factory. The Harburg and Vienna India-Rubbcr 

 Works and Manager Hoff . The New Substance Galalith.) 

 The India-Rubber Tradein Great Britain Our Regufar Currtspnndcnt 263 

 (Revival in the Walerprootint: Branch, Serious Fires in Rubber 

 Wnrks. Molybdenum Mine Pruhts of Rubbrr Cultivation. Motor 

 1 ire Notes. A Wnsie RuDber Reminiscence, Banana Rubber.] 



Mechanic il Rubber Manufacturers' Dinner 265 



[With Ponraii of Cnmmodnre E. C.Benedict.] 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co 's Report 267 



Valve and Ring Cutting Machinery 268 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



The Leyland Works and Its Manager 269 



[Willi Portrait of James E. Baxter,] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber 270 



[The Goodrich Tennis Ball. Davol's Whirlpool Spray Syringe — No. 

 212. Three Hose Novelties A New Ladies' Rubber Heel. Hodg- 

 man's ' Duple-x " Foldinj: Bath Tubs. Baldwin Pneumatic Tire 

 .Alarm. " Dialite " Matting and Treads. " Nota-Seam " Gas and 

 Air Baloon. The Bryant Automobile Rim. The " Squcezil." A 

 Revolution in Water Bottles.] 



[With 21 Illustrations.] 



Commercial Motor'.Vehicles 272 



Recent Rubber Patents 273 



[.-Vinerican. British. German. French.] 

 [With q Illustrations.] 



The Rubber Planting Interest 275 



[An .\merican on Ceylon Rubber. A Test of Ceylon Rubber. Cey- 

 lon and Malay States .Notes. Planting in Sou'hern India. The 

 Nahiku Rubiier Co. Coliseo Sugar Pltntation Co. Tchuantepec 

 Rubber Culture Co.] 



The Latest Rubber "Get Rich Quick " Scheme 277 



Troubles of the Ubero Plantation Co 278 



Miscellaneous : 



New Trade Publications 256 



Exploitation of Guayiile 2.58 



Some Wants of the Trade 260 



Rubber Fiom the Roc'<v Mountains 262 



Under the Ban of tbe Law 204 



Remarkable Service of a Rubber Belt H.W.M. 266 



Sales of Second Hand Tli es 266 



India Rubber (ioods in Commerce 268 



Sir Thomas I. iptou on Rubber 26.S 



Dr. C. O. Weber and Synthetic Rubber v8l 



Rubber Notes from Europe 281 



News of the American Rubber Trade 282 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 287 



TWO KINDS OF RUBBER PLANTING. 



T^HE rubber planting that Tin; India Rubbkr World 

 has persistently sought to promote, for the past fif- 

 teen years, is the planting of rubber trees under proper 

 conditions, with a view to the commercial production of 

 rubber. Such planting seems bound to e.vtend, for a long 

 time to come, with ample returns for those who pursue 

 the business intelligently. But this does not apply to the 

 planting of rubber on paper — primarily for the benefit of 

 promoters — a business which this Journal has sought to 

 discourage quite as earnestly as it has tried to promote 

 honest cultural propositions. 



Just how much such fiascos as that of the Ubero com- 

 panies, reported elsewhere in this paper, will damage legit- 

 imate business none can tell, but that the e.xpo.'e is injuring 

 rubber planting as a whole, particularly in Mexico, cannot be 

 doubted. Were it not for the incontestable evidence in the 

 Far East that cultivated rubber is a most profitable crop, the 

 outlook to-day would be dark. Not that the grossest mis- 

 management of any individual concern can permanently in- 

 jure sound propositions, or prove a bar to progress, but it 

 may handicap those who, under adverse circumstances, are 

 honestly struggling toward success. There is but one thing 

 for the rubber planter in the southern countries to do, and 

 that is to produce rubber and get it out in such shape and 

 with such records of cost, down to the last penny, that his 

 proposition is proved beyond cavil. 



What of the six and seven year old Castilloas that are 

 now in existence all through Mexico? There are thou- 

 sands of them. If the planters know their business they 

 should produce at least a half pound a tree per year, of good 

 clean marketable rubber. Where is it ? The planters owe 

 it to the public to make prompt answer — and the best is to 

 give it in the form of rubber. 



RUBBER CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS. 



A I.MOST from the beginning of the rubber industry 

 there have been business associations in it, for 

 one purpose or another, but chiefly for the regulation of 

 prices. While the Goodyear patents were in force and the 

 various manufacturing companies were licensees, price reg- 

 ulation was an exceedingly easy thing. Then too, shortly 

 after the expiration of the patents it was not difficult to 

 get together somewhat along former lines. In time, how- 

 ever, when competition became severe, when new concerns 

 were crowding into the field, it became more difficult 



Nevertheless, the spirit of association continued, and it 

 is only necessary to recall the old Gossamer Association, 

 the Carriage Cloth Association, and indeed, the memory 

 of even the younger manufacturers will bring up gatherings 

 for the prevention of price cutting in almost all of the 

 varied lines that go to make up the rubber industry. It 

 is a sorry statement to make, but nearly every rubber as- 

 sociation was short lived, and terminated very suddenly 

 by the withdrawal of certain firms who believed that they 

 played the game fairly while others did not. 



.•\t the present time there are in existence several India- 



