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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1913. 



Antiverp. 



Vol. 48. 



MAY 1, 1913. 



No. 2. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



EDITORIAL: Page. 



The Official Report on the .Akron Rubber Strike 395 



Drop in Tire Prices and Why 395 



An Un-.-\mcrican .Word with a Sinister Meaning 396 



Clean Rubber in Brazil 396 



The Cost of .Auto Shows 396 



Minor Editorials 397 



Rubber in Southern Brazil 



By the Editor 398 

 (With 17 Illustrations.) 



The Proposed New Tariff 403 



The Rubber Sundries Manufacturers Dine 406 



(With 2 Illustrations.) 



The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Rubber Club of 

 America . '. 407 



( With 5 Portraits.) 



Brazil Withdrawing Preferential Duties on American Goods 409 



The Future of Rubber in Brazil 410 



Brazilian Rubber Manufacturing Plants 410 



New Brazilian Washing Plants 411 



Notes on Tension Tests of Rubber 



By P. L. Wonnekv 412 

 CWith Portrait.) 



Lithopone and Oxide of Zinc in the Rubber Industry 



By C. C. Stone and Gilbert Rigg 414 



Railroad Air Brake Hose 



By J. S. Sheaf e 416 



The Akers Rubber Commission 417 



The Commercial Nomenclature of Crude Rubber Varieties. .. 419 



The Obituary Record 421 



I With 3 Portraits.) 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



Our Correspondent 422 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



Our Correspondent 423 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



Our Correspondent 423 

 The Rubber Trade in Cincinnati 



Our Correspondent 424 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



Our Correspondent 425 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



Our Correspondent 425 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



Our Correspondent 426 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 427 



(With 5 Illustrations.) 



News of the American Rubber Trade 428 



(With 5 Illustrations.) 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 432 



Rubber in the Recent Flood 433 



(With 3 Illustrations.) 



The Increasing Demand for Rubber Toys 434 



New Trade Publications 434 



Editor's Book Table 435 



India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Regular Correspondent 436 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 437 



Notes from British Guiana 



By Our Regular Correspondent 438 



Statistics of Japanese Trade 438 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 440 



Proposed Tropical College for Ceylon 441 



Official Report of Ceylon Exhibit at New York 441 



Planters' Association of Ceylon 441 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 442 



(United .States, Great Hritain. France. Germany, Belgium.) 



Report of the Crude Rubber Market 444 



Rubber Statistics for January. 



Details. 1913. 



Stocks, Feb. 1 kilos 561,289 



Arrivals in March — 



Congo sorts 172,396 



Other sorts 16,715 



Plantation sorts 152,685 



1912. 

 521,956 



172,449 



7,642 



70,873 



1911. 

 539,207 



1910. 

 516,534 



365,463 174,167 

 60,342 31,452 



57,591 57.569 



1909. 

 331,433 



410,838 



112,645 



20,643 



.Aggregating 903,085 



Sales in March 251,580 



Stocks, March 31 651,505 



Arrivals since Jan. 1 — 



Congo sorts 691,716 



Other sorts 35,178 



Plantation sorts 436,897 



Aggregating 1,163,791 



Sales since January 1.. 1,023,346 1,354.422 1,212,266 1,082,089 1,127,972 



Rubber Arrivals from the Congo. 

 April 2. — By the steamer EUzabethville: 



Kilos. 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) 55,200 



do (Bclgika) 1,200 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 15,300 



do (Comfina) 20,900 



do (Chemins de fer Grand Lacs) 12,200 



do (Forestiere) 1,800 



Societe Colonial Anversoise (Haut Congo) 1,600 



do (Lomami) 12,500 



do (Cie. Franc, du Haut Congo) 6,300 



do (Cie du Kasai) 75,000 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 20,900 



Credit Colonial & Commercial Anc. L. & W. Van de 



Velde (S. A.) 2,800 



Willaert Freres 2,500 



Osterrieth & Co (Lubefu) 2,400 



do (Produits Vegetx du H. Kasai) 100 



Sundries 4,300 235,000 



Plantation Rubber From the Far East. 



E.KPORTS OF Ceylon-Grown Rltbber. 



[From January 1 to March 17, 1913. Compiled by the Ceylon Chamber 

 of Commerce.] 



To Great Britain pounds 



To United States 



To Belgium 



To Australia 



To Japan 



To Germany 



To Italy 



To Austria 



To Holland 



To Canada 



To Norway and Sweden 



12,121 

 39 



Total 2,812,384 4,927,570 



The export figures of rubber for 1913 given in the above table include 

 the imports re-exported. (These amount to 505,361 pounds — 376,392 pounds 

 from the Straits and 128,969 pounds from India). To arrive at the ap- 

 proximate quantity of Ceylon rubber exported for 1913 to date deduct the 

 quantity of imports from the total exports. In previous years the exports 

 of Ceylon rubber only were given. 



Total Exports from Malav.a. 



(From January 1 to dates named. Reported by Barlow & Co., Singapore. 



These figures include the production of the Federated Malay 



States, but not of Ceylon.) 



Port Swet- 



Singapore. Penang. tenham. Total. 

 To Mar. 7. Feb. 28. Feb. 28. 



Great Britain ../'oKHd.f 3,500,099 2,035,333 3,529,740 9,065,172 



Continent 51,834 10,533 446,616 508,983 



Japan 90,783 90,783 



Ceylon 15,467 241,823 257,290 



United States 1,145,582 49,333 1,194,915 



Australia 18,323 18,323 



Total, 1913 4,806,621 



Same period, 1912 2,161,478 



Same period, 1911 1,266,855 



Same period, 1910 581,467 



2,110,666 

 847,722 

 330,267 

 497,971 



4,218,179 11,135,466 



3,210,560 6,219,760 



2,479,933 4,077,055 



1,329,538 2,408,976 



