April i, 1902.] 



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HENRY C. PEARSON, 



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HAWTHORNE HILL, 



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Vol. 26 



APRIL 1. 1902. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial : 



The New Financial Plan 



The Trade Tramp 



Facts on Both Sides 



A German Rubber Manufacturer 



[With Portrait of Franz Clouth.] 



The India- Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Rni^ilor Comnijoiideiit 



[Cellulose Compounds and Rubber. Rubber Sponge. Bisulphide of 

 Carbon, Government Specilications. Manchester Cycle and Motor 

 Show. Guarantees with Recovered Rubber. Electrical Matters. 

 Waterproof Trade in Spain. News in Brief. 1 



Rubber Planting in the Far East 



[Memorial from Malay State Planters to the British Colonial Secre- 

 tary. The Government Plantation in Burma {U'ith lUuitralions). 

 Gutta-Percha in the Malay States.] 



Rubber News and Views From Manaos Lynvel Oarnier 



[A New Law and its Effects. Causes of Trade Depression. Large 

 Yield of Caucho Trees ] 



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The Eureka Fire Hose Co. 's Factory 



f'vVitii Four Illustrations.! 



The Ideal Press Room for Small Mold Work 



A Former Svpcrintendent 



Deaths in the Rubber Trade 



[John Augustus Churchdl (,11'il/i Portrait). James Dick. K. T. 

 B. Spader. Robert C. Helm. John Stearns J 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber illhislrated) 



[Motormeo's Arctics. " Rex ' Rubber Heel. Clark Detachable Tire. 

 Rubber Shoes for the Chinese Trade. The Wales-Goodyear " Osh- 

 Scosh." Soft Rubber Heels With Hard Rubber Finish, Rubber Nov- 

 elties from Germany ] 



Recent Rubber Patents [American and English] 



The New Development in Bolivia 



[With M.rp of Rubber Districts ] 



The Close of the Rubber Footwear Season 



The Chiapas Rubber Company 



Literature of India-Rubber 



Miscellaneous : 



Hamburg's Crude Rubber Association 



Reclaiming Rubber in hn^-Iand " 



How to Do Business in Germany 



Troubles of the Cable to Maniios [, 



American Cycles and Tires in China 



Crude Rubber Co. News in Brazil 



A Card From K. F. Sears ', 



"Continental" Tires in England ..... . 



Rubber Planting In Mexico ' 



Balata Trade ill Europe 



Waterproof Cloth from India '.'..". 



American Sates in Parft 



A Good Thing to Let Alone 



Rubber Goods For Turkey 



Heard in the Rubber Trade 



Rubber Notes from Europe 



Rubber Shoes for Horses 



New Trade Publications 



Some Wants of the Kubber Trade 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



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THE NEW FINANCIAL PLAN. 



T^^HK new financial [ilan reported to be under considera- 

 tion by the United States Rubber Co. is one that 

 is liable to be somewhat misunderstood by persons who are 

 not familiar with the rubber business as a whole, and more 

 especially with the rubber shoe manufacture. Yet the plan 

 is exceedingly simple, and one that many other rub- 

 ber companies, were it possible, might do well to imitate. 

 The company mentioned is a large borrower from banks, 

 because in running its business on orders it e.xpends mil- 

 lions of dollars for rubber and fabrics, in wages, and the 

 like, months before any return can come from its custom- 

 ers. Banks are organized to do just that sort of lending. 

 To make banking profitable, however, their loans are 

 limited usually to three or four months, the discount being 

 from 4 to 7 per cent. Nor will bank directors, as a rule, 

 take a large line of any one firm's notes for discount. It 

 has to be spread around, involving much work. If, there- 

 fore, the sum total needed be issued at once as first mort- 

 gage gold notes at 5 per cent, per annum, due in one or 

 two years, and the investing public become the bankers, 

 the company saves quite a sum in interest over the old 

 system of discount, and no one can possibly suffer except 

 the banks that lose that amount of business. The plan is 

 wholly sound, and no doubt will prove successful. 



THE TRADE TRAMP. 



T^HE "tramp printer" is known wherever books are 

 made or type is set. He has been made immortal 

 in good prose, and equally in poor verse, and is really the 

 only trade tramp that has been so honored Yet his coun- 

 terpart exists in all divisions of industry, even in the rubber 

 trade. Now that it is brought to your attention you prob- 

 ably remember him, as he came into the factory office to 

 see the "boss." Not, as a rule, a man who would get a 

 job if subjected to a close phrenological examination, yet 

 possessing an indescribable air of rubber knowledge that 

 prevents a curt refusal, and this is just what wins the day. 



Deftly he refers to other factories in which he has la- 

 bored. With infinite tact he formulates reasons for leav- 

 ing, and even while common sense urges that he will flit 

 just as he becomes useful, he gets his wish. For a time he 

 works well and rises rapidly. His wide experience, his 

 dirty, well-thumbed notebook, his many knacks, give him 

 a decided advantage over the plodding workman, and just 

 as the employer begins to plan a place of responsibility for 

 him that would for ever put him beyond want, comes the 

 ancient unrest, and he is gone. Gone with or without ex- 

 cuse ; again a tramp, pioneering in new fields. It is prob- 

 able, nay sure, that he cannot help it ; a rover by nature, 

 he must move on. 



The practical, the industrious, the honest, see in him lit- 

 tle less than the vagabond, and dislike him accordingly, but 

 he is more than that. He is in fact the "little leaven that 

 leaveneth the whole lump." He unifies the trade to an 

 unthought of degree. He gives to the workmen views of 

 other mills, other bosses, other methods. Whether he car- 



