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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1902. 



WHAT THE RUBBER TRUST LOOKS LIKE. 



HERE is the latest picture published of the Rubber Trust, 

 a product of the clever pencil of Mr. F. Opper, to be 

 found in the New York Journal of September 10. Mr. Trust 

 is shown running over the hills to get his share of fresh tariff 

 plunder. This picture is not quite what the New York World 

 had led us to expect, but then newspapers cannot be expected 

 always to agree. According to the World the Rubber Trust is 



"a monster of at least 

 two heads, clearly de- 

 fined and of most forbid- 

 ding aspect," with "a 

 clue to a third head, 

 which is carefully kept 

 out of sight." But what 

 this creature does is of 

 more consequence than 

 what he looks like. "Ev- 

 ' erything made of rubber 

 in the world, certainly 

 in America, is controlled 

 by the Rubber Trust," 

 says the Cleveland Plain 

 Dealer, with the result 

 that the people must pay 

 extortionate prices. The 

 monster even puts up 

 the price of its own raw material. The New York World said : 

 " The Rubber Trust increased the price of rubber from 94 cents 

 on January 4, 1889, to $1.45 on January 3, 1900." But this 

 concern meddles with a lot of other matters. Only lately we 

 read in a Washington City paper that just after the president 

 of the Rubber Trust dined with the president of the United 

 States a revolution broke out in Brazil — to further the ends of 

 the Trust — and the same writer had an idea that the late trou- 

 ble over the Acre concession, in Bolivia, had a similar origin. 

 If any one should wonder what makes this " hydraheaded mon- 

 ster" so influential, let him consider how much money it has. 

 Somebody in Iowa wrote to The India Rubber World that 

 when several shares of one rubber company were needed, to 

 secure control of it, "the Trust paid $250,000 each in order to 

 get them." The New Y ork Journal once, told how the Rubber 

 Trust had "accumulated $5,000,000 more than it has dared to 

 divide." President Roosevelt ought to know about this Trust. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE Monarch Rubber Co. (St. Louis, Missouri), depart- 

 ing from the usual form of catalogues of rubber foot- 

 wear, have issued to the trade a publication of 12 pages, larger 

 than The India Rubber World size, devoted principally to 

 an account of " How Rubber Boots and Shoes are Made," by 

 Mr. W. E. Hemenover, secretary of the company. This paper 

 deals with the origin and nature of crude rubber, with illustra- 

 tions of rubber working on the Amazon ; a description of rub- 

 ber factory processes, with cuts of machinery used in the Mon- 

 arch company's establishment; and an account in detail of 

 the construction of rubber boots and shoes. On alternate 

 pages of the publication are illustrations of the Monarch com- 

 pany's " Buckskin " and other brands of rubber footwear — the 

 whole making a trade circular more than usually interesting 

 and attractive. 



The Baltimore Rubber Co. (Baltimore, Maryland) send 

 us a handsome Net Catalogue for the season of 1902-03, de- 



scribing and illustrating a wide range of rubber goods carried 

 by them as selling agents for The Boston Rubber Shoe Co , 

 Stoughton Rubber Co., New York Belting and Packing Co., 

 Limited, and The United States Rubber Co., manufacturers of 

 the " Candee " and " Woonsocket " goods. The catalogue em- 

 braces rubber footwear, clothing, sporting goods, and mechan- 

 ical goods, giving prices on a very large number of articles. 

 [(>%"X9i4"- 62 pages.] 



Hodgman Rubber Co. (No. 593 Broadway, New York) issue 

 a fashion plate, showing their " Alexombric " rain coats, in 

 four styles, for men and women, folded in a convenient shape 

 in a cover of paper having the appearance of cloth treated un- 

 der the process by which these goods are made, the whole 

 making an attractive looking package. 



H. W. Johns-Manville Co. (No. 100 William street. New 

 York) issue a catalogue of their great variety of asbestos Elec- 

 trical Supplies, including many items involving the patented 

 compound of India-rubber and asbestos which they call " Vul- 

 cabeston." r4^"X7^". 103 pages.] 



MR. FLINT HAS THE FASTEST YACHT. 



THE steam yacht Arrow, built for Mr. Charles R. Flint 

 of New York, was turned over to her owner and for- 

 mally put in commission on September 6, altera final test 

 for speed which resulted in the fastest mile ever made by a 

 steam vessel. A measured nautical mile on the Hudson off 

 Irvington was covered in i minute 32 seconds, at the rate of 

 39.13 knots, or nautical miles, an hour. The boat was designed 



THE YACHT ARROW." 



to attain a speed of 40 knots. The record was equal to one 

 statute mile (5280 feet) in i minute 1 9 1", seconds, or 45.06 miles 

 an hour. The best previous record was at the rate of 36.5 

 knots, or 42.25 statute miles, by the English torpedo destroyer 

 Viper, of the turbine type. The Arrow is a twin screw boat, 

 130 feet over all, 12 feet 6 inches beam, 4 feet 7 inches draft, 

 and displaces about 66 tons. Two triple expansion engines of 

 4000 H.P. turn her screws at the rate of 600 revolutions a min- 

 ute. The designer is Charles D. Mosher ; the steel hull was 

 built by Samuel Ayres & Sons, at Nyack, N. Y. ; the boilers 

 were made at Elizabeth, and the engines and auxiliaries at 

 Newark, New Jersey. During the recent visit to the United 

 States of the Russian grand duke Boris, a cousin of the czar, 

 he was entertained by Mr. Flint on August 30, being taken up 

 the Hudson to West Point on the Arrow at a rate of speed, for 

 a yacht, new to this experienced traveler. 



