December 1, 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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AMEalCAN CONGO CO. ELECTION. 



At the adjourned annual meeting of the American Congo Co. 

 <New York: November 9) the following were elected direc- 

 tors, to serve one year : 



Belgian Section. — Florent Cassart, F. J. Foulon, E. Ilinck, E. 

 Huysmanns, H. De Keyser. 



American Section. — Edward B. Aldrich, H. B. Baruch, Harold 

 Van der Linde, Paul Morion, Allen A. Ryan, William Sproule. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES 



The India Rubber World acknowledges the receipt, from 

 Messrs. Adelbert H. Alden, Limited, of Para, of a compre- 

 hensive statistical summary of the Amazon rubber situation, 

 drawn up by them for the crop year ended June 30. It is in- 

 teresting to note that this thoroughly American company has 

 achieved such an important position in the trade of what was, 

 until recently, a region so foreign to the United States. 



The managers of the branch stores of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co. during the month past devoted a week to their annual 

 conference, the period being divided between the New York and 

 Boston offices of the company. 



The directors of the Webster Felt and Rubber Co. (Webster, 

 Massachusetts), mentioned in the last Indi.\ Rubber World 

 (page 31), are Joseph N. Roy, Arthur H. Racicot, H. C. Rich- 

 ardson, and Alexander Racicot, Mr. Roy is president, Mr. A. H. 

 Racicot treasurer, Mr. Richardson manager, and Mr. A. Racicot 

 secretary. 



SEA ISLAND CJTTON MARKET. 



John M.\lloch & Co., Savannah, report [November 18] : 

 "The net receipts at Savannah for the week are 2,321 bales, 

 against 2,753 last year. The net receipts since September 1 are 

 18,564 bales, against 31,895 last year. The crop in sight at all 

 ports to date is 29,630 bales, against 48,600 last year. - - - We 

 are beginning to hear reports from various ginneries in the in- 

 terior that they are now only running two days per week. This 

 is earlier than was the case last year and taken in conjunction 

 with the lateness of the crop, would not indicate a very large 

 ultimate outturn." 



Stocks on November 18 (in bales) were as follows: 



1908. 1909. 1910. 



Savannah 8,344 13,197 11,441 



Charleston 5,174 4.039 4,072 



Total 13,518 17,236 15,513 



RUBBER IN BRITISH GUIANA. 



A RECENT arrival at New York was Mr. E. A. Hackett, sec- 

 ** retary of the Bartica Co., recently incorporated [see The 

 India Rubber World, September 1, 1910 — pa^e 444] to form a 

 rubber plantation at the junction of the Mazaruni and Essequibo 

 rivers, British Guiana. He confirms the report of the discovery 

 of a large number of wild rubber (Hcvea) trees on the property, 

 of which a systematic account is being taken. Meanwhile ar- 

 rangements are being made for the tapping of these, beginning 

 with the new year. Orders have been made for large numbers 

 of Hevea seeds and stumps from the Malay peninsula, the plant- 

 ing of which will proceed as rapidly as the same come to hand. 



RUBBER IN "PALO AMARILLO." 



'T'HE recrudescence of the Mexican "palo amarillo" brings up 

 ■*■ the questions as to whether it contains rubber, and if so, 

 whether it is present in sufficient quantity to make its extrac- 

 tion profitable. Certainly capable chemists have claimed that the 

 latex contained no rubber at all, as stated in The Indl\ Rubber 

 World long ago. Quite recently a sample of "palo amarillo" 



gum that had been in the office of this journal for several years 

 was analyzed and found to contain 3.92 per cent, of rubber of 

 an inferior quality. The analyst, however, advised that it was 

 not a good sample of "palo amarillo." He states that samples 

 recently examined by him contained 26 per cent. 



A CHEMISTS' HOME IN NEW YORK. 



nP HE Chemists' Building Co., organized to promote the in- 

 ■'■ terests of chemical science and industry in America, has 

 erected a ten story fireproof building, on a lot 56 x 100 feet, at No 

 50 East Forty-first street. New York. The lower half of this 

 building is leased to the Chemists' Club, and contains all the 

 appurtenances of a social club, together with a large auditorium 

 for scientific meetings, and ample space for a complete chemical 

 library and museum. Tlie upper stories have been constructed for 

 laboratory purposes, and can be rented either as entire floors, or 

 in suitable subdivisions, to analytical, commercial or research 

 chemists, physicists, electrochemists, bacteriologists, and the like, 

 but not as manufacturing laboratories. The value of the neigh- 

 borhood referred to for such purposes has been indicated by the 

 erection there of a large physicians' and dentists' building along- 

 side, and the attention of physicians and pathologists is called to- 

 the advantages which the Chemists' Building laboratories could 

 afford them for their own researches. 



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