October i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER 'JVORLD 



THE TRAGEDY AT BUFFALO. 



Fublished on the 1st of each Month by 



THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



No. 150 NASSAU ST.. NEW YOEK 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



EDITOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 



ASSOCIATE. 



Vol. 25. 



OCTOBER 1. 1901. 



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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 



PACK. 



Editorial : 



The Tragfcdy at Bulfalo 1 



The Exhaustion of Rubber l 



Why Not Assist Nature? 2 



Minor Editorial 2 



Rubber Planting in Costa Rica . . Th. F. Kmchny 3 



Mr. Flint on the Rubber Combinations 5 



[Preferred Stock and Common Slock. Economies Effected by Indus- 

 trial Combinations. Limits to the Possibility of Combining Indus- 

 tries. The TaiilT. E.\port Trade. Prices of Rubber.] 



The Waste of Rubber Resources 8 



[With Two Illustrations.] 



Yield of the Para Rubber Tree 10 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



"«'■ Regular Correspondent. 1 1 



[Waterproof Garment Trade. Motor Tire Interests. Uses of Balata. 

 British Trade Combines. Government Inspection of Factories. 

 Community of Interests. Frue Vanner. Railway Rubber Supplies.] 



Gutta-Percha Culture in Java A. ll.IitrUhout 13 



Rubber Planting Interests 14 



Some Wants of the Rubber Trade 16 



New Trade Publications ... jg 



Literature of India-Rubber 



Recent Rubber Patents [American and English] 19 



Miscellaneous : 



Hubber aud the State in Brazil 4 



Is This Why Rubber is Lower? 4 



Rainy Day .Skirts and Mackinto<he3 .'.". 4 



The Rubber Factory for Turkey 4 



Rubber Consumption In Canada .'.'.'.' . ' 7 



The Bolivian Company 10 



The First India-Rubber Rafts '.'.".'.'.'.'.'. 13 



Rubber Prices in (iennany ' 15 



" Pacific Rubber Co." 15 



Rubber Notes from Europe ,'. 10 



One Conge Rubber Trading Company 16 



A (iuestlon for the Curious P.M.T. 16 



New Uerinan Rubber Tariff 17 



Rubber Consumption in Russia 17 



Rubber Secrets Will Out '.'.'.'.'.. 17 



Exports of American Rubber (ioods 17 



Mineral Rubber in Brake Blocks IS 



Obituary Notes 22 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber ( 2!(iis(ra(ed) 21 



[Rubber Floor Tile. India-Kubber Insulating Gloves. Gorrien's 

 Portable Shower Batli.l 



News of the American Rubber Trade 23 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 25 



T^HK recent tragic death at Buffalo of the President of 

 the United States, William McKinley, led to univer- 

 sal and merited regret, at the cutting down in the prime 

 of life of a man so admirable in his personal qualities 

 and relations, and the loss to the country of a chief execu- 

 tive so honorable and capable. But in view of the many 

 notable tributes to these characteristics that have ap- 

 peared, not only in America, but wherever in foreign lands 

 the conditions were known and appreciated, a trade journ- 

 nal, such as The India Rubber World, may confine its 

 comments to the effect upon business conditions of the 

 tragedy. Rather, it may be said, no effect has been ob- 

 servable, beyond the general cessation of business while 

 the whole people paid tribute to the dead. 



There have been times when such an occurrence might 

 have precipitated a panic, and seriously upset that general 

 confidence which is the basis of trade. The fact that 

 nothing of the kind has now occurred is the strongest pos- 

 sible evidence of the prosperity of the country. In so- 

 called panics there is, of course, no change in real values 

 of what constitutes wealth ; but when prices are inflated, 

 and men measure their possessions by fictitious values, a 

 mere trifle may start a puncturing of bubbles and end in 

 unsettling all bases of credit and giving a check to legiti- 

 mate enterprise. Today, business in the United States 

 shows no change from the conditions on the day before 

 the assassination. There was no opportunity for precipi- 

 tating a crash in the stock markets, such as some specula- 

 tive interests always welcome, in the hope of being able 

 to profit from the collapse of unstable fortunes. The one 

 change noticeable is the filling of the vacancy at the head 

 of the nation by the man chosen in advance for such an 

 emergency, and in whom the public apparently have full 

 confidence. Here is political as well as business stability 

 — a combination upon which the American people may 

 well be congratulated. 



The recognition which the death of Mr. McKinley has 

 received abroad — exceeding that accorded to any purely 

 domestic event in this country at any past time — is most 

 significant. The meaning is that the United States today 

 presents a larger figure to the eyes of the world than ever 

 before ; that the industrial and commercial strength of 

 the nation, of which our people long had been becoming 

 conscious, is now everywhere recognized. 'I'his is, in a 

 manner, another evidence of the soundness of business 

 conditions here. It was the late President's good fortune 

 that this widening sense of the importance of the country 

 developed in a striking way during his administration, and 

 history doubtless will mete out to him no small credit for 

 its development. 



THE EXHAUSTION OF RUBBER. 



T^HOSE of our readers who have kept up with The 



India Rubber World from the beginning may 



recall that in not a few issues have appeared articles writ- 



