November 1, 1912. 



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LESSONS FROM THE RUBBER SHOW. 



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OW that the Exposition has come and gone the 

 natural (juestion arises — "What has it taught us?" 

 It certainly should have taught us something, as it is 

 hardly credible that this first experience in rubber shows 

 in this country should have passed by without leaving cer- 

 tain lessons more or less valuable with the trade. As a 

 matter of fact, the expression was not infrequentl\' over- 

 heard in conversations between exhibitors at the Exposi- 

 tion : "Yes, this is a very good show — but wait until you 

 see the next." 



Trade expositions may properly be divided into three 

 kinds — those that are distinctly technical in their charac- 

 ter, that are intended only for people directly interested 

 in that particular trade, and without any purpose of at- 

 tracting outside attention ; second, those that are planned 

 expressly to attract the general public, and which carefully 

 avoid everything of a too technical character; and third, 

 those that seek to combine these two functions, having 

 enough of a technical character to appeal to all those as- 

 sociated with the particular trade, and enough of general 

 interest to attract the ]Hiblic at large. The Rubber Expo- 



sition just held belonged to this third class, but undoubt- 

 ed!} it was much stronger on its technical side than it 

 was in its general appeal to the public at large. Viewed 

 as a rubber show intended for rubber men, it left little to 

 be desired. The exhibits of crude rubber, reclaimed rub- 

 ber, compounding ingredients and manufacturing ma- 

 chinery were full and varied, and covered the ground with 

 satisfactory completeness, j'.ut in the department of man- 

 ufactured goods the same cannot i)e said, for while certain 

 manufacturers made admirable exhibits, there were im- 

 portant branches of the rubber manufacturing industry 

 which were practically unrcitrcsented. 



The exhibitors of crude rubber cannni be complimented 

 too highly on the intelligence, enthusiasm and thorough- 

 ness with which they did their work, lirazil exhibited 

 w ith a lavish hand — nor was the Middle East far behind. 

 Both wild rubl)er fron1 the Amazon and ])lantation rubber 

 from the I'^ederatcd Malay States and Ceylon were for- 

 warded to the exhibition in generous quantity and im- 

 pressive variety. It was altogether the finest collection of 

 crude rubber ever brought together in tliis cnuntrv. .\ 

 certain rubber mill superintendent, after going over these 

 exhibits carefully, remarked: "I have learned more about 

 crude rubber in the ten days of this show than I had ever 

 learned before in an>- ten years in tiie tactorv." Of re- 

 claimed rubber and of cnnipuunding ingredients tltere 

 was also a comprehensive exhibit; while the foimdrx men. 

 with their machinery set up and in motion. contril)utcd a 

 great deal to the importance and value of the enterprise. 

 I'ndoiibtcdly, all these groujjs of exhibitors — crude ruli- 

 ber producers, planters and importers, manufacturers of 

 compounding ingredients and makers of machinery, found 

 their ten days at the Exposition time profitably spent. 

 Many of them indeed expressed great satisfaction over 

 the results of their participation. 



But among the manufacturers of finished rubber 

 goods who attended the show and who undoubtedly de- 

 rived great benefit from what they observed, there must 

 have been a number who regretted that they had not 

 seized upon this opportunity to exploit their products in a 

 large way. Soine of them when approached before the 

 exhibition took the stand that the}- could see no particular 

 benefit for them in showing their goods to other rubber 

 men — which undoubtedly was true. But in a city like 

 New York, with its five million permanent population and 

 with its half million floating population, more or less — it 

 would have been possible at a show of this character, cov- 

 ering so large a floor space, to have secured an extremely 

 large attendance of |)eople outside of the rubber trade — 



