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THE INDIA RUBBER \A^ORLD 



[November i, 1901. 



tires of the usual form of construction, for carriages and auto- 

 mobiles ; also, cushion tires. 



Morgan >_^ Wright (Chicago). — This exhibit embraced 

 solid tires, with two wires, larger than in some other makes; 

 solid tires fastened on with retaining bands; and double tube 

 pneumatic tires. The company have always been in position to 

 fill orders for cushion tires, but this year are making a feature 

 of the latter. 



New Jer.sey Car Spring and Rubhek Co. (Jersey City, 

 N.J.)— The "Wemaka" solid vehicle tire, held in place both 

 by a longitudinal wire and by a 

 system of cross wires. 



New York Belting and 

 Packing Co., Limited (New 

 York). — Here was shown the 

 " Long Distance " pneumatic car- 

 riage tire which this company 

 have been marketing for a year 

 or more past. 



Standard Anti - Friction 

 Equii'-MENT Co. (New York). — 

 This exhibit embraced, in ad- 

 dition to other carriage accesso- 

 ries, the " Star Brand " wired on 

 solid tire, sold by the Batavia 

 Rubber Tire Co. (Batavia. N. Y.) 



Straus Rubber and Tire Co. (New York) 

 tires and horseshoe pads. 



Victor Rubber Tire Co. (Springfield, Ohio).— The " Vic- 

 tor " wired on solid rubber tire, with insulated holes through 

 which the wires pass— a specialty of this company. Also, the 

 "Victor" tire applying machine. 



The above exhibitors, for the most part, were represented at 

 the meeting of the Carriage Builders' National Association, 

 held in Cincinnati, during the week following. 



RUBBER NOTES FROM EUROPE. 



THE report of the Vereinigte Gummiwaaren-fabriken, Har- 

 burg-Wien, for the business year 1900-01, refers as fol- 

 lows to the recent strike in the company's factory at Harburg : 

 " Unfortunately, the good will and harmony existing among 

 our working-men since the factory began to exist, has been in- 

 terrupted during the last year by a partial strike, that broke 

 out on March 19 in our shoe department in Harburg. The 

 same culminated in the proclamation of a general strike on May 

 BALANCE SHEET, JUNE 30, I901. 

 Vereinigte Gummiwaaren Fabriken, Harburg-Wein. 



Fixed Property M 2,749,981.38 



Land 847,658.68 



Water Power 179,767.90 



Buildings 1,722,514.80 



Movable Property 1,702,914.82 



Machinery .1,361,751.50 



Utensils and Furniture... . 341,103.32 



Material and Manufactured Goods.. 4,094,703.49 



Raw Material 2,887.583.42 



Finished Goods 1,207,120.07 



Cash. Bills of Exchange, and Effects. 358,896.70 



Cash 39,764.09 



Bills of Exchange in hand . . 307,591.79 

 Stock 11,540.82 



Debits 4.095,134.78 



PASSIVE. 



Share Capital M 6,000,000. 



First Emission 4.500.000. 



Second Emission 450,000. 



Third Emission 1.050,000. 



Reserve Fund Account 3,101,865. 



Second Reserve Fund Account 375,250.44 



Security Account : 



Hypothecated for Bank Credit, 



not at present in use. 450,000 



Dividend Account 7.545- 



Dl\idends outstanding, 1899-00 3,240 



Dividends outstanding, 1900-01 4,305 



Credits 2,003,128 09 



Profit and Loss Account 1,513,842.64 



Balance from 1899-1900 24.305 59 



N et profit for 1900-1901 1,489,537.05 



Total ■■■M 13,001,631 



Wired on solid 



ALL ABOUT RUBBER IN BRIEF. 



AFTER hearing about rubber for the first time, a reporter 

 for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, writing for his paper, 

 quoted his informer as saying what follows, and printed it as 

 fact: 



" Within the past three years the demand for rubber has in- 

 creased over 400 per cent. Formerly the supply forest for this 

 country and almost the entire world was at Para, Brazil. The 

 increased use of rubber, however, has devastated these forests, 

 and now the country has to depend greatly on Mexico. Fif- 

 teen years ago the company with which I am connected pur- 

 chased 30,000 acres of land at the isthmus of Tehuantepec and 

 planted 300 trees to the acre. They are now bearing. Rubber, 

 as grown in Mexico, costs 6 cents per pound, and delivered at 

 New York at 10 cents. It is sold there at 80 cents per pound." 



The able Havana (Cuba) Post has also been edifying its 

 readers on the subject of rubber, as follows : "The rubber pro- 

 duct of the Siphonia caucha tree, which is called Gutapercha, 

 according to Mr. Charles Goodyear, has many applications in 

 -medical science, in machinery, submarine cabies and telegra- 

 phy ; substituting the other materials, as leather, whalebone, 

 tortoise shell, ebony, etc. ; rubber tires for cabs, automobiles, 

 bicycles, and articles for ladies' use are made with this pro- 

 duct." 



There were exported from Great Britain during the first 

 nine months of this year, 1,186,092 pairs of "Caoutchouc Boots 

 and Shoes," of the value of ;£i28,47o (=$623,079). 



Total M 13,001,631.17 



10. As it was not a question of wages, but solely of power, we 

 had to fight the strike most energetically, so as not to endan- 

 ger the discipline in our works, and hence the profits of our 

 business. We had the satisfaction that on June 17 the strike 

 was declared off, without any proposals on the part of the work- 

 men. Of course we have kept up our production during the 

 strike, having enough hands willing to work upon the terms 

 offered by ourselves, the latter figuring among the most favor- 

 able in our industry. We were enabled therefore to give satis- 

 faction to our customers, supported as we were by our branch 

 factories at Linden and Wimpassing, as well as by some of our 

 competitors. Our principal customers, corporations and pri- 

 vate, allowed for delays, that had become inevitable for deliv- 

 eries by the conditions existing. We herewith express to them 

 our thanks for their support and kind indulgence. At present 

 we are working again satisfactorily at our Harburg works, and 

 will hope that the deplorable consequences of the strike will 

 serve as a lesson to our workmen, and that in the future the 

 same good understanding with them may prevail that we en- 

 joyed before, and that has been always aimed at by ourselves. 

 In consequence of the strike we were obliged to build barracks 

 in our Harburg works which since termination of the strike, 

 are being used as canteens and dining rooms. At the same 

 time we connected with them washrooms and baths for our 

 employes." 



= The Hamburg-American line of steamers, having already 

 inaugurated a monthly service between Hamburg and Manaos, 

 are reported to have decided to engage more fully in the carry- 

 ing trade of the Amazon. They are said to have planned to 

 place six new steamers on the Amazon, to run up-stream as 

 far as Iquitos, in Peru, and also to place a floating dock at 

 Para. It is evident that the relative importance of the Ama- 

 zon Steam Navigation Co., a British company, which at one 

 time had a practical monopoly of the local Amazon trade, con- 

 tinues to decline — a result which is to be attributed mainly to 

 bad management during the years when the possibility of com- 

 petition seems not to have been thought of. One effect of the 

 new German enterprise referred to above will be to promote 

 the growth of Hamburg as a crude rubber market. 



