December i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER 'WOUL.TD 



73 



A LESSON FROM THE WHITEWASH MAN. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: page. 



A Lesson from the Whitewash Man "3 



The United States Rubber Oo.'s Plans 74 



The Battle of the Golf Balls 74 



Minor Editorial 75 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 76 



The India-Eubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correapondtnt 77 



[Government Contracts. Utilization of Waste. Reclaimed Rubber. 

 Recent Motor Tire Trials. Underground Telegraph Lines. Pon- 

 tianak Gum. Obituary. Dunlop Rubber Co. Hyde Imperial Rub- 

 ber Co. * hanges in Personnel. Visits to Works.] 



The Rubber Trade in Canada 79 



[Waterpooof Clothing Trade. Imports of Rubber Goods.] 



Progress of RubberlPlanting 80 



[Yield of ■' Par^ Rubber " in Ceylon. Iowa Rubber Co. '* Ceard 

 Rubber" in Nicaragua. Ecuador Rubber and Development Co. 

 Rubber Trees in the United States. Planting Notes.] 



Variable Speed Devices for Rubber Mills.... J.O.DeWolf 82 



[With Three Illustrations.] 



Thanksgyvinge Dinner of y* New Englande Rubber Clubbe 84 



[VViih Illustrations ] 



The Textile Goods Market 87 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber (/»«stra(ed) 88 



[The "Clingfast" Thumb Stall. *' Agnota Packages" of Rubber 

 Bands. The " Calumet " Rubber Horse.shoe. The Reversible Rub- 

 ber Heel. " Faultless" Water tiottles. The Stein '■ Bike Wagon " 

 Tire. The Auto Lock Clasp A New Rubber Sponge. Ridgway's 

 Patent Belt Conveyor. A- New Rubber Solution. Boyd Swinging 

 Hose Rack. "The Little Mother" B.iby Comforter.] 



Recent Rubber Patents [American, English, German] 91 



The Late Richard Butler ("'i'/i PnrlrnU) 93 



The India-Ruber Trade in Germany 94 



[With Balance Sheet of the \'ereinigte Gummiwaareo-Fabriken, Har- 

 burg Wien.] 



New Trade Publications 103 



Miscellaneous : 



New I ^ongo Railway Projects (3 



New Treitment of Gutta-percha 83 



The Sand B'ast in Itubber Work Ul'iis(ra(ed) !)0 



" Rlgby " Waterproofing Process .. SO 



Deatii of a Russian Kubber yinn (.With Portrait of BorU Kempe) 102 



The Haskell 'Jolf Ball Suits '. ... 103 



The \merif'an Pacific 'able U*.; 



The Lawn Sprinkler Season .. in:i 



News of the American Rubber Trade 95 



[With Portraits and Illustrations.] 



The Rubber Trade at Akron Our Correspondent lOl 



The Rubber Trade at Trentou Our Correspondent 102 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market . 104 



T N a recent issue of this journal a page was devoted to 

 ■*■ describing the class of machines which squirt white- 

 wash through a rubber tube, as a substitute for the old 

 style of handwork with a brush. Doubtless thousands of 

 honest whitewashers have been forced by the introduction 

 of these machines to seek other vocations, or else starve 

 or beg. There must have been hardship in many cases, 

 and an artist might have found a theme in one of these 

 discarded workmen, sitting in despair over his now useless 

 brush and pail, and too old to learn a new occupation. But 

 the world does not pause to offer consolation ; whitewash- 

 ing is done better and for less money under the new rtjgime, 

 and the old must give way. 



The butcher's trade of other days has disappeared like- 

 wise. The small operator, handling a single beef carcass 

 a day, perhaps, regarded half of it as waste. The other 

 half had to bring enough money to reimburse the butcher 

 for the cost of the animal and for his labor. Nowadays 

 every portion of the animal is converted into merchant- 

 able commodities, and, through combining the results of 

 scientific research with a higher class of business manage- 

 ment, although the price of meat is higher than in primi- 

 tive times, it doubtless is much lower than if the only de- 

 pendence still was upon the butcher who killed his own 

 one beef per day and threw away half of it as worthless. 

 There may be a cry of "beef trust" for awhile, but in- 

 evitably the small butcher must follow the man with the 

 whitewash brush. 



And this is the "trust" problem; economic changes 

 follow one another too rapidly for everybody to keep pace 

 with them, and there are always ears to take in any cry 

 that things are going wrong. So does history repeat it- 

 self, except that the cry ever has a new catchword. A 

 generation ago half the people were excited over the " rail- 

 road monopoly " question. Horace H. Day was alive then 

 — Goodyear's great adversary in the rubber patent litiga- 

 tion — and his latter years were spent in aggressive warfare 

 against the great public wrongs under which he beheld the 

 masses suffering. But nowadays few people can recall 

 those great wrongs and few rubber men, even, remember 

 in what national political convention Mr. Day was a prom- 

 inent figure and the choice of some of the delegates for 

 president of the United States. And what became of the 

 monopolies and of the oppressed masses? The politicians 

 who made capital of such things dropped out of sight ; 

 the people forgot their wrongs when no longer reminded 

 of them so vociferously ; and the world kept on its way. 



To day no one could get support for a crusade against 

 the railroads, since the public recognizes the advantages 

 of travel across the continent by through train, over mak- 

 ing a change at every county town. The people can no 

 longer be infuriated against the banks as in the days before 

 the civil war, and in a few years more it will be equally 

 impossible to get up a furore against the manufacture of 

 goods by large aggregations of capital. There is one class 

 that will have reason to denounce " trusts " for a longer 

 time — those who have paid good money for worthless 



