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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1. 1912. 



The other combination ran after this wise— the two flags 

 mentioned first being always at the top. 



British Malay and Ceylon— United States and Germany. 



Two Peruvian flags— Australia and Russia. 



Two Brazihan flags— Belgium and United States. 



British Malay and Ceylon— Japan and England. 



British Malay and Ceylon— Hungary and France. 



Again, two Peruvian flags, and below, Germany and Italy. 



In addition to these flags, decorating the pillars, the entire 

 two booths were covered with a silken canopy of silver-gray with 

 side drapings of cadet-blue. Between the pillars were hand- 

 some signs of the United States Rubber Co.. and of its two 

 constituent companies— the "Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co." 

 and the "General Rubber Co.,"' while inside the booths there was 

 luxurious furniture of leather an<l mahogany, and palms in 

 various corners. 



The only suggestion of rubber was found in the interlocking 

 tding — made by one of the subsidiary companies— of which 

 there were 1,300 square feet, surrounding the two booths and 

 in the aisle between them. 



Catalogues of the company's various footwear factories, and 



of its mechanical rubber goods factories, handsomely printed, 



were seen reposing unobtrusively on side tables; but the whole 



aspect of the place savored rather of art than of commercialism. 



THE CHARLES GOODYEAR EXHTRIT. 



Measured by its volume, there was no other feature in the 

 entire Exhibition that attracted a fraction of the notice or ex- 



Snow C.\SE i>F Goodyear RkI-Ic> 



cited a tithe of the interest that the exhibit of the Charles Good- 

 year relics in The India Rubber World booth received. It 

 was the note of human interest that appealed to the visitors, 

 for here were articles that belonged to the great Goodyear— 

 the founder of the whole rubber industry— some of them pre- 

 sented to him in the days of his triumph, many of them made 

 under his direction, and showing some unique applications to 

 which he put his great discovery. 



These Goodyear relics were on the upper shelf of the large 

 showcase, as shown in the accompanying cut. They included 

 the famous rubber book— Goodyear's .Autol)iography— printed in 

 a volume of several hundred pages, every page of which is 

 made of rubber thinner than parchment, the cover and every- 

 thing about the book being rubber. This is the only volume 

 of this sort in existence. Then there were many of the medals 

 tendered Goodyear by various governments and scientific asso- 

 ciations, including the large gold medal, of very considerable 

 intrinsic value, aside from its association, given Goodyear by 

 the Emperor of France at the time of his notable rubber 

 exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1854. and also the Cross 

 of the Legion of Honor, bestowed on him on the same occasion. 

 There were a number of wonderful pieces of jewelry made of 

 hard rubber mounted in gold, ■showing the most delicate carv- 



ing. There were bracelets and brooches and medallions and 

 miniature statuary. The most noticeable piece of jewelry there 

 was a replica of a remarkable chatelaine design which Good- 



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year presented to the Empress Eugenie, consisting of three 

 short chains, the links of which were made of hard rubber of 

 a dark brown color rimmed with gold, each chain terminating 

 in an ornamental pendant, one being a seal, one a watch key, 

 and the third having at its end a small watch in a hard 

 rubber case edged with gold and elaborately set with jewels, 

 including many small diamonds and several large rubies. This 

 duplicate of Goodyear's gift to the Empress he made and pre- 

 sented to his wife, and it is one of the choice heirlooms of the 

 (joodyear family. There were many other interesting items 

 in this Goodyear collection, and it is not to be w-ondered at 

 that every visitor to the Exhibition took a deep mterest in 

 these relics. 



In the same case on lower shelves there was a variety of 

 miniature creations — boats, trees, coagulating camps — made 

 from balata by the natives of Venezuela. These too, being 

 unique in their character, received much attention from the 

 general visitor, while the extensive herbarium arranged around 

 the booth naturally excited the interest of botanists and rubber 

 experts. 



THE ESSEX' BLTSINESS-LIKE DISPLAY. 



The exhibit of the Essex Rubber Co. was distinctly a com- 



The Essex Rubber Co.'s Display. 



mercial one. .-Ml the space was occupied by rubber products 

 of various kinds — the floor being covered with matting made 



