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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, ujio. 



NEW HARDWABE DIST&IBUTIM6 SYSTEM. 



The mamifacturerE of rubber goods whose products arc dis- 

 tributed so widely through the hardware trade cannot fail to be 

 interested in the cooperative buying project which is being or- 

 ganized under the name of American Hardware and Supply 

 Co. The purpose is to distribute goods to retail hardware 

 merchants, in various States, who affiliate tlienisclves with the 

 company as shareholder.e. Its operations will be on similar lines 

 to those followed by the Phil.ndilphia Hardware .Merchants' As- 

 sociation, which has a membership of ,?3 houses, but on a much 

 larger scale. 



The new movement is under the leadership of Mr. M. R. Por- 

 ter, who has had an extensive experience in the wholesale hard- 

 \vare trade, and the present headquarters are in the Oliver build- 

 ing, in Pittsburg, in which city the first distributing warehouse 

 will be organized. It is expected that the conipniiy will be in 

 active operation by January i, 191 1. 



The new movement has received support from leading hard- 

 ware journals, in view of what are regarded as growing diffi- 

 culties in the retail hardware trade. As a prominent retailer 

 writes : "There must be a revolution in the system of distribut- 

 ing goods." Iron Age-Hardware remarks: "Perhaps the job- 

 bers will find some solution consistent with their continuance 

 as the channel for the supply of the retail trade, even though 

 this may require a modification of their methods and a material 

 reducing of tlie expenses under which they are now conducting 

 business." 



STEAM PACKINGS AT THE TRENTON FAIR. 



The Home Rubber Co. were exhibitors at the recent In- 

 terstate Fair at Trenton, New Jersey, making a specialty of their 

 "N B O" and "O I M" packings, which attracted much favorable 

 comment. The printed matter with these goods was distinctly 

 original and attractive. One folder was embellished with a view 

 of Vesuvius in eruption, with the suggestion that "If Mt. Ve- 

 suvius had been packed with N B O it would never have 

 blown out." 



RUBBER MEN PLAY BALL. 



Two interesting games of baseball were played during the 

 past month by two teams from different departments of 

 the general offices of the United States Rubber Co. in Prospect 

 Park, Brooklyn— from the Auditor's and Selling departments. 

 In the game on October I the Auditors won by a score of 18 

 to 10. In tlie game on October 8 the Selling department won by 

 a score of 8 to i. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



An interesting incident in the proceedings of Altair Lodge, 

 F. and A. M., Brooklyn, N. Y., on the evening of October 18, 

 was the affiliation of Mr. Robert B. Baird, of the Rubber Trad- 

 ing Co. (New York), and the working of the third degree upon 

 Mr. Robert L. Baird, his son. 



The Editor of The India Ruebhk World is to give an illus- 

 trated lecture on the rubber country of the Amazon at a meet- 

 ing of the American Chemical Society to be held at the Chem- 

 ists' Clitb, No. 108 West Fifty-fifth street, New York, on the 

 evening of November 11. 



Lieutenant Francis H. Appleton (of F, H. .^pplcton & Son, 

 Boston) is one of a committee of tlirce who have gone to London 

 in behalf of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of 

 Boston, to present to King George V a certificate of honorary 

 membership in their organization. 



Mr. Quincy Tucker, whose interest in rubber The India Rub- 

 ber World has chronicled from time to time, is at present in 

 British Guiana. He writes The India Rubber World that he has 

 acquired for himself and others rubber properties in Demerara 

 and Trinidad. 



Mr. William J. Kellcy, Jr., son of "the only Kelley," of the 

 firm of Poel & Arnold, New York, has returned to Germany for 

 his second year in the University of Leipzig, where he is spe- 

 cializing on the ctemistry of india-rubber. 



Mr, Edward E. Huber of the firm of Eberhard Faber, at the 

 recent fifteenth annual meeting of the New York Credit Men's 

 Association, was reelected secretary of that organization. Mr. 

 Hitber has also filled, for a number of years, the office of secre- 

 tary of the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' Association. 



Recent visitors to New York were Herr Seligman, a son of 

 Director Siegmund Sebgman, of Continental-Caoutchouc- und 

 Guttapercha Cic., of Hanover, Germany, and Dr. Albert Gerlach, 

 a director in the same company. 



The Century Rubber Trading Co., incorporated March 9, 1910, 

 are operating the factory at Plainfield, New Jersey, used for- 

 merly by the Courtney Rubber Co. They are making the "Cen- 

 tury" tire for automobiles. Tlieir New York office is at No. 123 

 West Sixty-eighth street. 



Mr. Ernest E. Buckleton, secretary and general manager of the 

 Northwestern Rubber Co.. Limited, of Litherland, Liverpool, 

 delighted his American friends with a visit during the past 

 month. 



CRUDE RUBBER STATISTICS. 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon Grown Rubber. 



[From January i 



to September 19, 1909 and 1910. 

 Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.] 



Compiled by tlie 



1909. 



To Great Britain l^ouiuis 494,394 



To United States \ ^^. 



To Canada | ^76.40o 



To Belgium 27,036 



To Germany 17,839 



To Australia 8,224 



To Italy 608 



To France I1639 



To China 1,508 



1910. 



968,439 

 ( 932,516 

 I 1.9" 



.•?4,2I7 



10,479 



1,099 



841 



Total 827,648 



[Same period 1908 — 530,618 pounds; same 1907 — 334,765.] 



Total Exports pRo^r Malava. 



LOW 



Federated Malay 



1,949,502 



[From January i to dates nam°d. Reported by Barlow & Co., Singapore. 

 Tliese figures include the production 01 the 



States, but not of Ceylon.] 

 1908. 



From Singapore (to Sept. 9) 1.369,584 



From Penang ( to Aug. 20) 802,583 



From Pt. Swettenham (to Aug. ii) .... 



1909. 1910. 

 1,712,109 2,339,629 

 1,619,205 1,315.426 

 5,008,521 



Total 2,172,167 3,331,314 8,663.576 



Antiverp. 



RUBBKR ArRIV.VLS FROM THE CoNGO. 



September 22.- — By the .steamer Albcrtvillc: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) kilos 113,800 



Do (Chemins de fer Grands Lacs) 9.900 



Do (Comptoir Commercial Congolias) 19,400 



Do (Cie. du Kasai) 78,200 



Societ6 Colonialc Anversoise (Siid Cameroon) 7,700 



Societe Equatoriale Congolaise _. 1,190 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 2,250 



L. & VV. \'an de Velde 3,000 



Congo Trading Co 200 235,640 



October 12. — By the steamer l.eofioldvUlc: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) kilos 68,000 



Do (Chemins de fer Grands Lacs) 7,300 



Do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 19,700 



Societe Equatoriale Congolaise 700 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Sud Cameroon) 10,000 



Do (Cie. du Kasai) 85,600 



Cassart iS; Ilunriun 700 — [92,000 



African Rubbers. 



New Yori.; Stocks (In Tons). 



September i, 1909 123 April i, 1910 121 



October i 67 May i 125 



November i 134 June i 90 



December l 134 July i 120 



January i, 1910 228 August 1 250 



February i 134 .September i 300 



March I 161 October i 375 



