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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1, 1912. 



the private view, with an incidental hincheon, given to the mem 

 bers of the press — and he will preside at the various meetings of 

 the Rubber Conference. 



A. STAINES MANUERS, THE ORGANIZING MANAGER OF THE 



EXPOSITION. 



But after all is said and done, and after the enumeration of 



the important officials whose names have been mentionel above, 



the power behind the throne, the originator and creator of this 



THE BRAZILIAN COMMISSION. 

 The Government of Brazil — to say nothing of the several 

 provinces and various commercial organizations in that coun- 

 try — has sent a large number of distinguished delegates to the 

 Exposition. The officers of the commission are as follows : 

 Count Candido Mendcs de .Almeida, president; Admiral Jose 

 Carlos de Carvalho, vice-president ; Dr. Eugenio Dahne, general 

 secretary. 



A. Staines M.\.\uers 



M.WUI; \\lLH.\.M J. Gaynok. 



Ml>.s U. 1-ULTUN 



Exposition, is A. Staines Manders, organizing manager. His 

 mind conceived it and his tireless industry has made it possible, 

 and has filled the three great floors of the Grand Central Palace 

 with rubber exhibits from the four quarters of the globe. Mr. 

 Manders is an Australian by birth, an Englishman by citizenship, 

 something of an American by reason of several visits to these 

 shores, and a citizen of the world by reason of the breadth of his 

 activities. He promoted and carried to a successful issue the 

 lirst International Rubber and Allied Trades Exposition in Lon- 

 don in 1908. This was voted so interesting, so instructive and 

 so stimulating to the whole rubber industry that he w'as re- 

 quested by rubber interests to repeat the exhibition three years 

 later; and in July, 1911, he brought about the second international 

 rubber show in London, four times as large and complete and 

 successful as the first. And now he has afforded to this country 

 and to the rubber interests of the Western Hemisphere an oppor- 

 timity to enjoy their first experience of a large and compre- 

 hensive rubber Exposition conceived on broad lines, and built 

 on tlie experience and knowledge acquired in the two London 

 shows. 



MISS D. FULTON, SECRETARY OF THE EXPOSITION. 

 As has been said above, Mr. Manders has been and is the 

 driving force of the Exposition, but the one who holds the guiding 

 reins is Miss Fulton, his secretary. She is a young English- 

 woman, the niece of Mr. Manders, who acted as his secretary 

 on the occasion of the two London shows held in 1908 and 1911. 

 She knows, by correspondence at least, everybody in the rubber 

 world — who he is, and what he is doing, and how much of it 

 he does ; whether he gathers rubber, grows rubber, or makes it up 

 into the finished product. She has all the rubber people on the 

 globe arranged, classified and systematized. Her knowledge of 

 the rubber trade is encyclopediacal, and better than that, no 

 matter how busy she may be with her multitudinous duties, she 

 is always willing to contribute from her store of knowledge to the 

 earnest inquirer after rubber information. 



The commission includes the follow-ing members: Jaynie de 

 Argollo, commissioner for the State of Bahia; Dr. J. Cardwell- 

 Quinn, commissioner for the State of Minas Geraes ; George E. 

 Pell, commissioner for the Commercial Association, Para; A. W. 

 Stedman, commissioner for the Commercial Association of the 

 State of Matto Grosso ; Dr. Manuel Lobato, commissioner fnr 

 the State of Amazonas, the Federal Territorj' of Acre, and Matte i 

 Grosso; J. Levy, commissioner for the Commercial Association 

 of Amazonas. 



The following are among the distinguished visitors from 

 Brazil: Raymundo C. Monteiro da Costa, Manaos; M. Pio 

 Correa, Rio Janeiro; Dr. Jacques Huber, Para; W. S. Gordon. 

 Manaos; Dr. Carlos de Cerqueira Pinto, inventor of a smokeless 

 process for curing rubber. 



Dr. Dahne when interviewed by a representative of one of 

 the daily papers, made the following interesting statement: 



"Our government naturally takes the very greatest interest 

 in the exhibition. Rubber is second in importance of our 

 natural products, being surpassed only by our coflfee. We ex- 

 pect to have about eighty tons of crude rubber in different stages 

 of production and of different varieties. The government has 

 sent up experts in the treatment of crude rubber to demonstrate 

 improvemen's we have made and to confer with American 

 manufacturers as to possible ways in which our product might 

 be made more serviceable." 



Count Candido Mendcs de Almeida and Admiral Carvalho. 

 after the expiration of the Exposition expect to make a tour 

 of the manufacturing cities of the East, together with other 

 members of the International Congress of Chambers of Com- 

 merce, recently held in Boston. Later Admiral Carvalho and 

 Dr. Dahne will go to San Francisco to choose sites for the 

 Brazilian buildings of the Panama Exposition. After that, the 

 .Admiral will proceed to the Canal Zone to look over the great 

 engineering works at that point; for the opening of the Canal 

 will be a matter of tremendous importance to Brazil. The 



