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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



lOcTOBER 1. 1912. 



Wft»^ 



^'ol. 47. 



OCTOBER 1, 1912. 



No. 1. 



TABLE or CONTENTS. 



EDITORIAL: 



The Conference and Its Delegates 



The Third International Rubber Exposition... 



The Awakening of Brazil 



Two Great Synthesists in Our Midst 



Overalls on Top of Harvard 



Synthetic Tires Have Arrived 



The European Cotton Market 



Two Months for Counterfeiting a Trade Mark. 



Page. 



By the Editor 



A Visit to the "Black Republic" 



(With 11 Illustraliiinii.l 



International Association for Testing Materials 8 



Rubber Testing in Germany and America 8 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry 9 



The Synthesis of Rubber g 



Dr. Perkins on the Synthesis of Rubber lo 



A Brazilian View of Artificial Rubber lo 



Synthetic Rubber in Germany n 



Fusel Oil as Basis of Synthetic Rubber 12 



India Rubber in the Navy 13 



[With 5 Illustrations.] 



Rubber Manufactures in Marine Warfare 16 



An Artificial or Mineral Rubber 



Illustrated 17 



Some Types of Mineral Rubber 



By Lowell F. Lindley 17 



New Substitute for Hard Rubber ig 



The First Rubber Exhibit Ever Held 20 



Earlier Rubber Expositions 21 



The Third International Rubber and Allied Trades Exposition 24 



Who's Who at the Rubber Show? 



33 



The Brazilian Dinner ^6 



The Third International Rubber Conference 37 



Equipment for Repair Department 



Illustrated 44 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Rci^ular Corresf>oiidcnt 45 



Statistics of Rubber Supplies and Consumption 46 



Five Years of German Rubber Goods Exports 47 



Asbestos and Rubber Compounds 48 



Japanese Crude Rubber Imports 



Our Regular Correspondent 49 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 51 



German View of Malayan Rubber Products 52 



"Pricker" Tappers for Castilloa 52 



Experimental Rubber Cultivation at Para 



Notes from British Guiana. 



Illustrated 53 

 Our Regular Correspondent 55 



Illustrated 55 

 56 



The Oldest Hevea in British Guiana 



The Editor's Book Table 



New Trade Publications 57 



Fire Hazards in Rubber Manufacture 57 



A Tire Kettle and Tread Rolling Machine 



Illustrated 58 

 New Goods 5g 



[With 6 Illustrations.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber. 



[United States. Great Britain 



66 



France. Germany.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 61 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



The Trade irt Akron Our Correspondent 39 



The Trade in Boston Our Correspondent 41 



The Trade in Cincinnati Our Correspondent 40 



The Trade in Rhode Island Our Correspondent 42 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 43 



The Trade in Trenton Our Correspondent 42 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 68 



Antiverp. 



Rubber Statistics for August. 



Details. 1912. 



Stocks, July 31 kilos 434,311 



.\rrivals in August — 



Congo sorts 262,846 



Other sorts 4,900 



Plantation sorts 167,303 



Aggregating 869,360 



Sales in August 393,788 



Stocks, .August 31.... 475,572 



Arrivals since Jan. 1 — 



Congo sorts 1,976,790 



Other sorts 95,728 



Plantation sorts 837,342 



-Aggregating 2.909,860 2,880,214 2,758,353 3,162,684 3,473,739 



Sales since Jan. 1 3,108.826 2,946,025 2,763,303 3,513,568 3.606,119 



Rubber Arriv.m-s from the Congo. 



September 3.— By the steamer Lcopoldville: 



Kilos. 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) 104,400 



do (Chemins de fer Grande Lacs) 14,800 



do (Cie. du Kasai) 119,300 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 4,000 



do 1,600 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Haut Congo) 11,100 



do (Comminierel 5,400 



L. & W. Van de Velde (Comfina) 19,200 



do 8,000 



Willaert Frercs 20,000 



Congo Trading Co 6,500 



Charles Dethier (.American Congo Co.) 5,000 319,300 



