October 1. 1912] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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a very considerable variety of rubber products, comprising rub 

 bcr soles and heels, sheet rubber soling, tap soles ami heel cusli 

 ions; also a variety of tire accessories 

 like blow-out patches and tire inner 

 liners. In addition there is a variety 

 of rubber bumpers, "Pyramid" mat- 

 ting. "Radiator" hose, packing, both 

 of rubber and asbestos, and pump 

 valves. To those who arc athletically 

 inclined, there are sporting goods 

 which will be of interest, including 

 hockey pucks, rubber quoits, golf 

 clubs with rubber handles, tennis 

 rackets with handles of rubber, and 

 rubber bicycle handle bar grips. 



THE HOME RUBBER CO. 

 The Home Rubber Co., also of 

 Trenton, New Jersey, has an interest- 

 ing display of water hose, steam and 

 suction hose, and various kinds of 

 valves and gaskets, and a numlicr of 

 automobile tires. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



There is a superb display of rub- 

 ber machinery, quite a little of it in 

 motion, on this floor, but before you 

 get lost in this mechanical labyrinth 

 it wiil well repay you to turn towards 

 the south wall of the building and 

 visit the exhibit of The India Rub- 

 ber World. It is not as large as 

 some of the others — Brazil, for instance, which has 15.000 square 

 feet, while The Ixdi.\ Rubuer World has onlv 20 x 35 — but its 



anywhere on the face of the earth. Of course, the intrinsic value 

 of some of the other exhibits— particularly where expensive 



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P,\l.\ce — View from Lokhy of Gr.vxd Stairi 



Grand Central P.\lace — View of Exhibition Hall 



exhibit differs from any other in that the others could be dupli- 

 cated, but the exhibit made by this journal cannot be duplicated 



ir.achincry is shown, or where there is a large quantity (often 

 luiininK into many tons) of crude rubber — is very large. But in 

 all these instances the exhibits could 

 lie replaced if any untoward fate 

 ^hould overtake them. But in the 

 case of these exhibits no replacement 

 could be made ; many of them are the 

 only ones of their kind in existence. 

 Tlicy are rehcs of Goodyear's days — 

 some of them being products of his 

 wonderful skill, and some of them 

 reminiscent of the triumphs of his 

 later years. They include the book, 

 made entirely of india-rubber — leaves, 

 covers and all— which Goodyear 

 labored on so long, and of which 

 there is no duplicate. Then there 

 arc two fine life-size portraits, one 

 of Goodyear, and one of Daniel Web- 

 ster, painted on hard rubber panels. 

 by Walsh, a distinguished artist of 

 those days. The propriety of Web- 

 ster's picture on rubber will be recog- 

 nized on reflecting that Webster con- 

 ducted the famous seven years' suit 

 fnr the protection of Goodyear's pat- 

 mts, and finally won it. receiving as 

 his fee. $25,000, which at that time 

 vas the largest legal fee ever col- 

 lected in this country — though a 

 mere bagatelle to the average lawyer 

 ol today. 



There are also specimens of hard 

 ruhijcr jewelry made by Goodyear, 

 and the cross of the Legion of Honor 

 conferred upon him by the French Government after his notable 

 display of rubber products at the Parisian Exposition in 1854. 



