July 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



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NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE. 



TTHE United States Tire Co. (New York). "How to Keep 

 * Down Your Tire E.xpense." Under this title the above 

 company pubHsh a pamphlet of 48 pages, prepared by its Service 

 Bureau, in which the proper care and use of pneumatic tires is 

 discussed on the basis of over twenty years experience in the 

 making and selling of tires. 



Proceeding on the principle that a tire-makers' duty is but 

 half done when he makes good tires and that he is under obliga- 

 tion to show the user how to get every foot of mileage out of 

 them that he has put into them, the booklet starts out with a lucid 

 description of the method of building an automobile tire, as 

 pursued in the company's various factories, the argument being 

 that the user is more likely to treat his tires intelligently, if he 

 knows how they are made — the nature of the material entering 

 into them and the treatment it receives in the processes of manu- 

 facture. This part of the subject is considered in detail, numer- 

 ous illustrations serving to elucidate the description. 



"Tire Troubles" forms the subject of Chapter II, and is dealt 

 with in a thoroughly practical manner, abstract technicalities being 

 avoided and the various causes of injury to tires, due to the 

 carlessness or ignorance of the user presented plainly as well as 

 rules for the care of tires under all circumstances. 



"First Aid to Injured Tires" is discussed in Chapter III, the 

 various appliances for use in this work being fully considered 

 and where necessary illustrated. 



A closing chapter is devoted to miscellaneous sundries for use 

 with tires and the result of proper tire care. 



The entire work has been prepared with a view to the pre- 

 sentation wholly of important facts in connection w'ith tire care, 

 extraneous matter and technical complications being carefully 

 avoided. It is a guide to the good use of good tires that every 

 motorist can profitably study and follow. 



The Derby Rubber Co. (Shelton, Conn.) "Light on Derby 

 Rubber." A brochure on reclaimed rubber is a rarity, one com- 

 pact, business-like and informing is a still greater rarity. The 

 12-page booklet designed to inform rubber manufacturers about 

 the Derby products is a most practical pamphlet. Typo- 

 graphically it is perfect. The brief preface on reclaimed rubber 

 in general is readable and true — every word of it. Then 

 follows a series of brief paragraphs, headed each by a special 

 Derby grade, with an explanation of the type of stock under 

 consideration and the use to which it is put in the rubber mill. 

 As a finis there is a broad invitation for those interested to get 

 in touch with the company by letter or by personal inspection of 

 their up-to-date laboratories and factories. 



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The Goodye.sr Tire & Rubher Co. (Akron, Ohio), "How to 

 Select an .\utomobile Tire," is the title of a booklet of 32 pages, 

 published by the above company, in which are set forth the merits 

 of the Goodyear tire equipment, shoes, inner tubes, patches, tire- 

 protectors and the Goodyear air bottle, to each of which a sepa- 

 rate chapter, illustrated, is devoted. Typographically and from 

 an artistic standpoint, the booklet is in every way worthy of 

 its subject; the appropriate design of the cover being in itself 

 suflScient to compel attention to the contents, which every auto- 

 mobilist will find worthy of perusal. 



The 1911 Catalogue of Rubber Boots and Shoes of the Apsley 

 Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts) is one of the most com- 

 plete and comprehensive of the season in this line of goods. The 

 cuts are clear, and relate to styles for men and women to suit 

 every demand, the shapes being adapted to the latest styles in 

 leather shoes. The prices given are net— a new departure in the 

 catalogues of this company. [554" x 6}i". 54 pages.] 



rKOCBEDINGS OP THE PAN AMEEICAN COMMEBCIAL CONFERENCE. 

 Washington. D. C. The Pan Americaa Union. 



A COMPLETE Report of the Proceedings of the Pan- 

 American Commercial Conference, held February 13 to 

 17, in the beautiful new building of the Union at the National 

 capitol. The 308 closely-printed octavo pages of this interesting 

 document furnish a verbatim report of the papers presented at 

 the conference, the discussion, in connection with them, etc., to- 

 gether with alphabetical lists of official authorities and experts 

 who led the discussions at the conference and delivered special 

 addresses, and of the speakers and a list of the firms, corpora- 

 tions and commercial bodies represented, together with a care- 

 fully-compiled index of 20 pages, the whole prefaced with a view 

 of the Pan-.\merican Union Building, and containing a group 

 photograph of the conference. The addresses of the various 

 speakers, bearing as they do, on the promotion of better relations 

 between the United States and sister-nations in the western 

 hemisphere, are interesting and instructive and the report is a 

 memorable testimonial to the good work the Pan-American 

 Union is accomplishing for all .'\merica. 



BRIEF AND ARGUMENT FOR THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., 

 et al., submitted in the October term, 1910, of the Supreme Court of 

 the United States, by William M. Ivins, of Counsel. 



The two hundred pages of this document contain a wonder- 

 fully clear presentation of the defendant's side of the issue 

 between the government and the company. In its arrangement 

 for reference, for hasty reading, or for weighty consideration, 

 it is strikingly well grouped and shows a masterly knowledge 

 of bookmaking, and of timely and sequential presentation. 

 Thirteen pages are devoted to a "Syllabus of the Argument," 

 which epitomizes all that follows. Then comes the argument, 

 which in addition to its interpretations of the Anti-Trust Act of 

 1890, takes up the history of the creation of corporations and 

 their various acts and privileges. It gives a concise history of 

 the defendant company, and in twenty subsequent sections ex- 

 haustively discusses the law, its interpretation, "monopoly," 

 "combination," "conspiracy" and "competition." 



OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. 

 The Production of Asbestos in 1910. Published as an ad- 

 vance chapter from "Mineral Resources of the United States 

 for the Calendar Year, 1910," by the Department of the In- 

 terior — Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. This octavo 

 pamphlet of 13 pages, by J. S. Dillon, gives, in addition to sta- 

 tistics and other data in regard to production, and imports, valu- 

 able information relating to asbestos deposits in the United 

 States, the foreign production of asbestos and the purposes for 

 which asbestos is used. 



Highways and Byways, a new magazine, the first issue of 

 which has recently appeared in San Francisco, California, is an 

 interesting publication devoted, as its title indicates, to good 

 roads, the motor car and the motorcycle. The number before us 

 is printed in sepia ink on a rich ecru-tinted paper and contains 

 some excellent illustrations. The 84 pages of reading matter 

 treat intelligently of the subjects to which the magazine is 

 devoted. 



Replete with information for rubber manufacturers: Mr. 

 Pearson's "Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients." 



RUBBER CULXn'ATION IN BRITISH INDIA. 

 According to a report from the United States consul at 

 Madras, the area under cultivation to rubber in his district, is 

 30,000 acres, from which, in 1910, a yield of about 180,000 lbs. 

 was obtained. The consul dwells on the serious nature of tht 

 labor problem in that section, 50,000 laborers having left for Cey- 

 lon in 1910 and 32,000 for the Straits Settlements. The low 

 wages paid by the Madras planters is blamed for the exodus. 



