July i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE TRUST TO BLAME. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial : 



The Trust to Blame 



The State of the American Trade . 



South Africa and Trade 



Obstacles to Progress in Bolivia .. 

 Minor Editorials 



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Census ot the Bicycle Industry 312 



Five Miles of Rubber Belting in a Grain Elevator 313 



[With live interior illustrations from the Grand Trunk Railway eleva- 

 tor, Portland, Maine. J 



A Rubber Plantation in Guatemala 314 



[The Hacienda '* EI Baul." Followed by Notes on Rubber Planting 



in Mexico.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 316 



[State of Trade. Lampblack. Analytical Notes. Haskell Golf Ball. 

 American Steam Packings. Rubber Lined Hose. Holland and the 

 Rubber Trade. Dental Rubber. Medical Plasters. Short Mention.] 



Surface Ornamentation of Rubber Goods 318 



[With Cut of Engraved Roll and Illustrations of Effects Produced.] 



A Decision in Favor of the Grant Tire Patent 320 



[By Judge Newman at Atlanta in r?. The Consolidated Rubber Tire 

 Co. 7'. The Finley Rubber Tire Co.] 



The Use of Rubber in Painting Machines 381 



[With Four Illustrations.] 

 Views of a Manaos Rubber Merchant 322 



[Present and Prospective Rubber Supplies.] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber {Illustrated) 323 



[Mr. Kcmpshall's Golf Ball Patents. Melchers's Shower Yoke. ''Inter- 

 locking" Rubber Tire. American Made "Solar" Auto-Horns. 

 Sometiiing New in Crutch Tips. Rubber Hand Rollers. The 

 Videto Cushion Heel. The "Union" Horseshoe Pad. Bailey's 

 Rubber Massage Roller.] 



New Rubber Factory Equipment 326 



[With Illustrations of De Laski Circular Loom, New Safety Stop for 

 Rubber Mills, and New Process for Making Solid Rubber Tires.] 



Recent Rubber Patents [American and EngUsh] . 327 



The Editor's Book Table 330 



Hiscellaneous : 



" The Prices of Rubber Goods " 311 



Bolivian Syndicate's Plans 312 



German Prices of Rubber Scrap T.O.N. 325 



New Trade Publications 326 



Rubber Flux 325 



The Rubber Trade in Akron. Our CorrespondenX 326 



Rubber Notes from Europe 326 



Indla-Rubber Goods in Commerce ,., S30 



Death of George P. Dodge 330 



"Pari Rubber" from Ceylon 331 



Notes from Panl 331 



Rubber Men and Rubber Topics 3 31 



News of the American Rubber Trade ... 332 



Beriew of the Crude Rubber Market 332 



"XTOT the "Rubber Trust" this time, but the Cotton 

 Duck Trust, which, according to the statement of 

 many, is directly responsible for the high price of cotton 

 duck. To be sure, experts point out that raw cotton in the 

 South to-day is quoted at g^ cents, as against 7 cents a few 

 months ago, but that makes no particular difference, as it 

 is easy, natural, and pleasant to blame the " trusts" for all 

 commercial ills. This is due in a measure, perhaps, to the 

 attitudes of the individuals who are called to manage the 

 different departments in these great corporations, for par- 

 ticularly when new there is a lack of individual responsi- 

 bility and a feeling of enhanced greatness which the public 

 at large, and customers in general, are quick to appreciate 

 and resent. The writer does not charge the very able 

 officers in the cotton duck trust with any such attitude, 

 yet its existence seems to be resented and rumors of new 

 cotton mills are constantly in the air. However wisely 

 and righteously a trust, duck or other, be run, therefore, 

 it can hardly hope for the cordial liking that individual 

 companies enjoy, nor can it fail to put a premium on the 

 building of new mills and the creation of increased com- 

 petition. 



THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN TRADE. 



"T^HE growth of the India-rubber industry in the United 

 States, which has been continuous since the first in- 

 troduction of vulcanization, appears from the latest decen- 

 nial census — to say nothing of more concrete and ever 

 present indications — to proceed without any sign of abate- 

 ment. This is not only encouraging to those whose money 

 is invested, and to those who live by working in the rubber 

 factories, but it is of interest in contrast with the lack of 

 similar expansion in this industry in some other countries. 

 In seeking a reason for the more satisfactory condition of 

 the rubber trade on this side of the Atlantic, it is not suffi- 

 cient to point to the skill and ingenuity manifested in the 

 factories or the enterprise shown in the financial and sell- 

 ing departments, for in regard to these qualities no mono- 

 poly is possessed by Americans. The situation which ex- 

 ists is common to the industries of this country, and, in- 

 stead of being exceptional, the rubber branch and its 

 growth are only typical of general conditions. 



In the first place, the United States are a new country, 

 with large areas still sparsely settled, and others as yet 

 not settled at all. There is room, therefore, for a long 

 continued growth of population from abroad, such as has 

 been in progress from the birth of the nation, and an in- 

 crease in population in itself affords a basis for an ex- 

 panding trade. Besides, the average buying power of the 

 people as a whole has always been large, as compared 

 with that in some older countries, and tends to increase 

 rather than diminish ; the normal condition of the popula- 

 tion is that of possessing an income beyond the limits of 

 subsistence, leading to a wide demand for and distribu- 

 tion of innumerable classes of industrial products. Until, 

 therefore, a check occurs to these generally progressive 



