May I, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



225 



NEW TENDENCIES IN RUBBER SHIPMENTS. 





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THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



Uo. 150 NASSAU ST.. NEW YOEK, 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



EDITOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 



ASSOCIATE. 



Vol. 24. 



MAY 1, 1901. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



page. 



Editorial : 



New Tendencies In Rubber Shipments 225 



Beginning at the Wrong End 226 



Minor Editorials 227 



Qualifications of Salesmen R.C.K. 228 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent. 229 



• [ Antwerp vs. Liverpool as a Rubber Market. Rubber Manufacturers' 

 Association. Rubber Recovery. Prooting Trade. Motor Tires. 

 Company and Personal Notes.] 



European Rubber Notes 230 



The Manufacture of Rubber Packings.— II... /oftn S.McChirg, M. S. 231 



Heard and Seen in the Trade 233 



[Hard Rubber Industry. Automobiles. Rubber Substitutes. Rubber 

 Goods Catalogues ] 



Some Successful Men in the Rubber Trade. 



I— The Late Charles M.CIapp 235 



1 With Portrait and Two Illustrations.] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber illlvxtrdled) 237 



[*' lama " Combined Water Bottle and Syrinfie. The Geer Syrinpe. 

 '* Standard " Non-CoIIapsible Nipple. O'SuUivan Rubber Golf Sole. 

 Whip Socket Rubbers. Atomizers for Florists' Use. The New 

 "School Gaiter." "Universal" Bicycle Attachment ] 



Some 'W. D. Allen Specialties (fiiu8(ro(ed) 239 



Growth of the Diamond Rubber Co 240 



[With View of Their Factory.] 



Exports of American Rubber Goods 240 



A Practical Rubber Planter 241 



[With Portrait of Frank I.. Torres ] 



Recent Rubber Patents [American and English] 241 



Prices of Rubber Footwear 243 



[With Diagrams.] 



Rubber Trade Notes from Chicago Our Regular Corresp<mdent. 245 



Miscellaneous : 



Flour in Crude Rubber 228 



Unprofitable Cab Services 232 



Rubber Industry In Switzerland 232 



Mexican Rubber Exhibits at Paris Leajidro femandez 234 



Rubber Planting in Honduras 2.'i4 



Some Wants of the Rubber Trade 216 



News of the American Rubber Trade Z46 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 251 



/^UR British correspondent indulges in some comments 

 ^-^ on the growth of the importance of Antwerp as a 

 crude rubber market, as compared with Liverpool, which, 

 at one time, was ahnost the sole distributing point for 

 African sorts. Within ten years the rubber arrivals at 

 Antwerp (mostly Africans) have grown from nothing to a 

 present rate of 5500 tons a year. Meanwhile, the arrivals 

 of Africans at Liverpool direct from the countries of pro- 

 duction have been declining. Doubtless the ultimate 

 bearing of such facts will be found in a tendency toward a 

 more direct conveyance of rubber from its sources to the 

 points of consumption. 



Just now, however, the movement of crude rubber is 

 becoming adjusted along the line of control of the traffic 

 by the various nationalities which control the sources of 

 supply. In other words, the reason for the establishment 

 of a rubber market at Antwerp is to be found in the inter- 

 est which the Belgian government and Belgian capital 

 have taken in developing the trade of the Congo Free 

 State. Similarly, care is taken by the Portuguese govern- 

 ment that the growing rubber output of its colonies in 

 Africa — including the Benguella sorts — shall pass through 

 the port of Lisbon. France, likewise, is actively develop- 

 ing the resources of her colonies, with the result that much 

 rubber from them is finding its way by French owned 

 steamers to Havre, Marseilles, and Bordeaux. Finally, 

 Germany is trying to build up home rubber markets on 

 the same basis. 



The first effect of these new conditions is merely to les- 

 sen relatively the direct importation of African rubbers at 

 Liverpool. Still, the great English port continues to han- 

 dle large quantities of African rubbers, imported from 

 France, Germany, Belgium, and Portugal. All of this, of 

 course, has no bearing as yet upon a more direct convey- 

 ance of rubber from the forests to the factory than in the 

 past. But there is bound to be another stage of develop- 

 ment. 



We have been written to by French merchants inter- 

 ested in the collection of rubber in French Africa, by 

 companies owning their own ships which carry the rubber 

 to French ports, relative to finding a sale for this rubber 

 in the United States, without its first passing through Liv- 

 erpool hands, on the ground that it can be laid down in 

 New York for less money than when handled ui?der past 

 conditions. Already there are large arrivals here from 

 Belgium and Portugal. Of course for the present the de- 

 sire prevails, for e.xample, that the whole French colonial 

 trade, or the German colonial trade, in rubber shall inure 

 to the benefit of ports in the mother countries, but in time 

 this same trade may become so expanded as to make ship- 

 ments possible from the colonies referred to, direct to the 

 consuming countries. 



Another tendency toward more direct methods in rub- 

 ber shipments is taking shape in the Amazon country. No 

 doubt one element in the high price of Para rubber to 

 consumers is the fluctuation in exchange due to the de- 

 based Brazilian currency. A Brazilian trader who owed 



