October 1, 1912] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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globes, a very attraciive scene to meet the eye of the incoming 

 visitor. 



The booth of the E>sex Rubber Co., Inc., a little to the left of 

 the front stairway on the main floor, gives an illustration of 

 what can be done m the way of decoration by the judicious utili- 

 zation of the product of a rubber factory. Covering the top of 

 the railing around the booth, and covering the pillars that sup- 

 port the roof and arranged in various designs on the front of the 

 railing, is a fine display of the rubber tiling made by the com- 

 pany, both in red and white. This exhibit shows what an 

 artistic sense is able to accomplish with material that does not 

 seem particularly promising. In this exhibit there is a very 

 interesting rubber tree standing about four feet high, all of 

 red rubber, which is quite unlike anything that grows in the 

 -Amazon jungle, or in the famous 80.000 acre plantation in 

 Sumatra. Its leaves all consist of red rubber soles neatly trimmed 

 and ready to attach to the awaiting uppers. 



,A FINE IIERB.\RiUM. 

 At the extreme left of the main floor, against the southern w;Ul 

 of the building, is the stand of The Ixm.\ Rubber World, notice- 

 able for many things, but particularly so for several of its con- 

 spicuous features. For one, there is a big map, 15 x 20. showing 



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■the two hemispheres, so marked that they indicate what parts of 

 the globe are reached by this publication. It will be seen at a 

 glance what a very small part it does not reach. 



Further impressing the visitor's mind with the circulation of 

 this publication is a panel 9 x 11 feet, giving a list of the coun- 

 tries in which The Ixdi.\ Rubber World is read. A panel giving 

 a list where it does not circulate would only have to be one- 

 twentieth part of this size, for barring the North Pole and the 

 South Pole, and a few cannibal islands, it goes everywhere. 



The two big portraits, six feet high, painted on hard rubber 

 [lanels. one of Charles Goodyear, the other of his famous legal 

 contemporary, Daniel Webster, are two other notable features 

 of this exhibit, but perhaps the person in search of rubber in- 

 formation will be even more impressed by the extensive herbarium 

 showing the various botanical specimens of rubber, and extending 

 all around the three sides of the exhibit. There is an excellent 

 slight from the large south window, which makes it possible to 



study these specimens in detail. Seven or eight large photo- 

 graphs of Castilloa trees add also to the importance of this booth. 

 The J, P. Devine Co. displays at the back of its space, two 

 large panels, one giving a list of the American users, and the 

 other a list of the foreign users of the company's machinery. 



The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co., the Farrel Foun- 

 dry & Machine Co., and the United Shoe Machinery Co, occupy 

 iha center of the main floor under the open court that reaches 

 up to the balcony so that these three exhibits can be viewed 

 not only from the side but from above. 



THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW. 

 In the southeast corner of the main floor there is a room par- 

 titioned off, large enough to seat probably 200 people, where every 

 hour or thereabouts a moving picture show is given of highly 

 interesting scenes to the rubber world. These are colored views, 

 and show the gathering of the latex in the Amazon country and 

 its preparation. Fine pictures are shown of Para, Pernambuco, 

 Bahia, Rio Janeiro, and other cities. You are taken on a trip 

 across Brazil, from Sao Paulo, to Matto Grosso. You see 

 the new Madeira-Mamore railway, which recently gave Bolivia 

 its first exit to the outer world. Pictures of the falls in the 

 Madeira river are shown, and many other exceedingly interesting 

 jungle scenes. 



THE IMPERI.\L INSTITUTE. 

 On the third, or balcony floor, in the southeast corner, the 

 Imperial Institute of London makes a fine display of a great 

 variety of rubber produced in the British colonies. There is 

 rubber in sheets, in biscuits, in crepe and in balls. There are 

 Ceara rubber, Landolhhia, vine rubber, and specimens of Castilloa 

 from the West Indies, There is also quite an extensive Her- 

 barium of rubber botany. This exhibit is characterized by the 

 excellence in classification and description that one would 

 naturally expect to find in anything pertaining to the Imperial 

 Institute, 



The British Malaya space is divided into sections, each sec- 

 tion being allotted to a particular province, which is indicated 

 by conspicuous signs, as. Perak, Pahang, Selangor. etc. Here are 

 seen not only specimens of rubber, but many fine photographs il- 

 histrative of plantations in the Far East. 



EXPOSITION NOTES. 



Tlie Philadelphia Rubber Works Co, have a large cxhil)it of 

 reclaimed rubber, and are represented by their vice-president, 

 J. S, Lohman and several other members of the company. 



The Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co. are showing a full line 

 of their solid and pneumatic tires, and also have on exhibition 

 rubber goods made from the latex, which has been treated by 

 a new process by the Brazilian Government, and which it is 

 claimed is superior to the present method of treatment on ac- 

 count of the crude rubber being cleaner, purer and having more 

 life. Their exhibit is No, 14. 



Exhibit No. 15 is that of the "India Rubber Review," of Akron, 

 Ohio, which is under the personal supervision of Mr. Theodore 

 Eugene Smith. 



Exhibit No. 117 is that of the American Rubber Reclaiming 

 Co.. of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is show- 

 ing a varied line of reclaimed stock. 



Gammeter-Brodbeck, of Akron, Ohio, operate a general agency 

 for the distribution of rubber manufacturers' supplies — exhibit 

 No. 120. 



Muehlstein & Co. are among the prominent waste rubber firm? 

 of the country and their exhibit is attracting much attention- 

 exhibit No. 121. 



