January i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



95 



THE "GRAND (FACTORY) TOUR.' 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



page. 



Editorial : 



The" Grand (Factory) Tour" 95 



Rubber and Some Other Crops 95 



The American " Wonder Machine" 96 



The Influence of Suggestion 97 



Minor Kditorial 97 



The India-Eubber Trade in Great Britain .. 



Our Regular Correspondent. 99 



fThe London Cycle Shows. India-Rubber and Humanity. Thermom- 

 eters for Vulcanizing, Cab Tires. Chemical Tubiug. Haskell's 

 Golf Ball. Company News.l 



A German Opinion of the Rubber Shoe Machine 



Fromlhe-' Qummi-Zeiluna" 101 



The Rubber Shoe Trade In Uermany lie 



The American Pacific Cable ■ . 102 



The Rubber Planting Interest 103 



[What IS Mexican Rubber Worth? Notes on Planting Companies in 

 Mexico. Progress in Ceylon, Straits Settlements, etc.] 



India-Eubher Goods in Commerce 106 



[Recent American. Canadian, and German Imports and Exports. Of- 

 Hcial United Slates Statistics, Fiscal Year 1900-01. Exports In De- 

 tail of American Rubber Goods.] 



New Trade Publications 107 



Heard and Seen in the Trade 108 



Decisions in Tire Patent Cases 109 



[Rubber Tire Wheel Co. v. Goodyear Tireand RubberCo. The Kel y 

 Tire Wins iu Paris. Tillinghast Patent Decision Conlirmed.] 



Utility of " Latex " to the Eubber Tree 



Pin}. (Icargt: Lincoln Qoodale 111 



Kecent Eubber Patents [American and English] 112 



Literature of India-Rubber 113 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber ( Illustrated) 115 



[ Tlie "Record" \'apori7.er. The "Solid Comfort " Invalid Ring. 

 1 l.e Litchtield Cushion Heel. The Locke Ejector, or Tank Filler. 

 The " Pilgrim Heel" Rubbers RubberStami>s and Pottery Work,] 



A Typical Rubber Town in Brazil. Kemate de Males 117 



Some Wants of the Rubber Trade 117 



" Compounding Eubber with Religion" A.J.Scott 118 



Miscellaneous : 



To Improve Conakry Rubbers 97 



Gutta-Percha in the Philippines 98 



More Abont The Bolivian Company 98 



Large Balata Yield ot Venezuela 98 



A Valued Compllmeut from Germany 98 



Naphtlia in Rubber Work 100 



Tires for Unusuallv Heavy Work (Illuetrated) 110 



Rubber Tires and the Wheel Trade 110 



Late " Pacific Rubber Co." News 110 



Rubber Stationery for the Public Use 110 



Is There Balata In Brazil? Ill 



The Properties of French Talc .. Ill 



Building a Cable for Mexico llii 



The Large Para Rubber Crop ,. 116 



ParM Still Leads In Rubber An American 126 



Rubber Trade Notes irom Europe 125 



Manufactured Rubber 126 



The Yield ( ftlie Para Rubber Tree 12S 



Another Congo Railway Scheme 126 



Rubber Hoes for New York Schools 126 



Oaoutchiiuc Oil for Use in Boilers 126 



HubluT Goods for Tnrkiy 128 



News of the American Rubber Trade 119 



Review of the Crude Eubber Market 127 



"VTE.^RS ago the education of no young man was con- 

 ^ sidered complete until he had taken the "grand 

 tour." In this visiting of foreign countries he was sup- 

 posed to lose his narrow views, and to broaden out into a 

 polished, fair minded, all-round gentleman, fitted to adorn 

 polite society and able to devote his life to the art of en- 

 tertaining or being entertained, — the then recognized chief 

 end of man. To-day, with everything in life industrial- 

 ized, the grand tour is still taken, and is still of great 

 value, but its pathway leads not through parlor, rout, or 

 boudoir, but through store, agency, and factory. It is 

 surprising and gratifying to notice how many young men, 

 sons or relatives of foreign manufacturers, visit other 

 countries to meet the leaders in the trade. In the rubber 

 trade, for example, during the year past, a round dozen 

 of young men who expect some day to be at the heads of 

 rubber companies in England, Germany, and other Euro- 

 pean countries, have come to the United States provided 

 with letters of introduction and have visited many rubber 

 factories, extending always an invitation to those who en- 

 tertain them to visit their works in turn. Few of those 

 visits are returned, however. Perhaps in part it is because 

 we are too busy to attend to it, but really because we are 

 apt to feel that here we have the best and that the for- 

 eigner can teach us nothing. In business, however, as in 

 all else, self-satisfaction is the end of progress. It shuts 

 one's eyes most effectually to what is patent to all the 

 world beside. A sign of breadth of view and of an ap- 

 preciation of the business as a whole will be the accept- 

 ance of invitations to go abroad, visit factories when it is 

 permitted, and a friendly e.xchange of opinions, processes, 

 and compounds — in fact about everything that is in the 

 common interest. Granted that the envoy sent be young, 

 capable, energetic, such a trip will add to his value to his 

 employers many times the cost of the trip. 



RUBBER AND SOME OTHER CROPS. 



JUST now, when American seedsmen and nurserymen 

 are distributing their trade catalogues for the new 

 year, there comes to us from Ceylon a list of seeds and 

 plants which, although extensive and varied, scarcely em- 

 braces one species suited for planting in our colder lati- 

 tude. The vulgar names of these plants are familiar 

 everywhere, but their produce is such as would, in the 

 United States or Europe, be looked for at the grocer's, or 

 the chemist's — or almost anywhere else than on a nearby 

 farm. Such things are included as coffee, tea, cacao, va- 

 nilla, pepper, cinnamon, pineapples, cinchona, and the like. 

 The yield of these tropical staple crops now has a com- 

 mercial value of hundreds of millions of dollars annually, 

 the greater part of which has been the result of modern 

 development in agriculture. 



The Ceylon catalogue referred to has come to include 

 also various species of India-rubber and Gutta-percha, no 

 longer as curious novelties, but for planting on a large 

 scale for their economic value. In one sense every page 



