August 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



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icals used in rubber compounding, of reclaimed rubber, etc. For 

 the chemical laboratory. Dr. Marckwalk and Dr. Frank ex- 

 hibited new apparatus as follows: a centrifugal for rubber 

 analysis, and a viekosimeter for solutions. 



The German Committee were : 



President — Dr. Golinelii, Privy Councillor of Legation. Official 

 Members — Dr. Lewald. Privy Superior Cov.niillor of Government ; 

 Mr, Goetsch, Privy Councillor of Legation ; Dr. Busse, Coun- 

 cillor of Government. From the "Star.dige .\usstellungskommis- 

 sion fiir die Deutsche Industrie" — Mr. Goldbsrger, Privy Council- 

 lor for Connnerce. Proidcnt ; Dr. Kramer, Professor : Count vcn 

 Schweinitz : Dr. Hciman, General Secretary. From the "Kl- 

 lonial-Wirtschaftlichc Komitee" — Mr. Ladenig, L^irector (Presi- 

 dent, Union of Planters, Kamerun) ; Dr. Fricdrich Supf; Dr. 

 Warburg, Professor; Mr. Warnholtz, Director (President, Un- 

 ion of Planters, East Africa) ; Mr. Besser, General Secretary. 

 From the "Ccntralverein Deutschcr Kautchukvvaren-Fabriken" 

 — Mr. llofif, Oneral Director; Mr. Seligmaiin, Councillor for 

 Commerce; Mr. Spannagel, General Director; Dr. Soetbeer. 

 General Secretary. General Conuv.issioner in L< id, n — Dr. H. 

 Johannes, Cousul-General for Germany. 



BELGIUM. 



Royalty v\ as much emphasized in the striking exhibits of the 

 Belgian section. There was the "Honours Room," with its 

 water-color portraits of the King and Queen ; the "Queen's 

 Flower" charity ; the sale of "EdeKveiss," tlie proceeds to go 

 toward ameliorating the ravages of sleeping sickness, and other 

 charitable work prosecuted by the Belgian rulers in the Congo. 

 • The Ministry of Colonies had prepared a rubber-growing 

 chart of the Belgian Congo, showing planting results from the 

 Manihot GlaziovH and the Fuiiluinia. They also showed samples 

 of rubber coagulated by a new process. There were maps, 

 photographs and curios. 



Perhaps the most graphic presentments were the dioramas, 

 representing rubber planting in the Belgian Congo, and a forest 

 of rubber lianes. 



Various steamship lines, Congo railways, commercial com- 

 panies, and great rubber trading companies, such as the ''Kas- 

 sai," were exploited by means of rubber samples, maps, photo- 

 graphs and charts. 



The rubber section of the .Antwerp Chamber of Commerce 

 furnished a notable exhibit oi rubber samples, eighty in num- 

 ber, all classified and labelled. There were also samples of 

 rubber and photographs from the great inbber plantations owned 

 by Belgians in the Malay States, Java and Uurneo. 



COMMITTEE FOR BELGIUM. 



The Honorary President w-as M. Jules Renkin, Minister of 

 the Colonies, while the Honorary Vice-Presidents included 

 Count de Cailiet-Latour, Governor of the Province of Ant- 

 werp ; Mons. de Vos, Burgomaster of Antwerp ; Mons. Fran- 

 cotte. President of Belgian Foreign Exposition Committee, and 

 Colonel Thys, Administrator of the "Colonialasa" Company. The 

 Acting Presidents were Ed. Bunge, President of The Antwerp 

 Rubber Planters' .'\ssociation, and E. Pollet, Consul-General of 

 Belgium, London ; the Acting Vice-President being N. .Arnold, 

 Director-General of the Colonial Ministry, Brussels. R. Ehr 

 hardt. Secretary of the .Antwerp Rubber Planters' .Association, 

 filled the post of Secretary-Treasurer, and L. Osterrieth, mem- 

 ber of the Antwerp Rubber Planters' .Association, that of Sec- 

 retary. 



In addition to the above-naired officials, the body of the Com 

 mittee, consisting of thirty-four members, included : the Duke 

 of Ursel, Government Commissioner at the recent Brussels Ex- 

 position; G. Albrecht, Sheriff of .Antwerp; Ch. Corty, Presi- 

 dent, and W. Van der Welde, President of Rubber Section, 

 Antwerp Chamber of Commerce; Mons. de Schamphclare. Vice- 



President of Syndicate Chamber, Gher.t ; 11. de Wildeman, Con- 

 servator of Brussels Botanical Garden ; L. Strauss, President 

 (if the Higher Council of Industry and Commerce; O. Engle- 

 bert. President ot Syndicate Chamber of Rubber Manufacturers, 

 Liege, Mons. Jenatzsky, manufacturer, Brussels ; Mons. C. 

 Olyff and Mons. Smeyers, Directors in the Belgian Ministry 

 of the Colonies; and Baron .A. de 1 l;uille\ ille. Director of the 

 Belgian Congo Museum. 



Various commercial bodies were represented upon tlic Com- 

 mittee by groups of members. Prominent among these organiza- 

 tions were ; Belgian Colonial Sccicties, ten members ; Rubber 

 Planters' Associations, .Antwerp, seven members. Brussels, two 

 members ; Ghent, one member. 



Count van der Burgh, Cjeneral Secretary, and Mons. Bogaarts, 

 Treasurer of the Belgian Foreign Exposition Committee, were 

 members of the General Committee. 



FR.\NC"E. 



( French Tropical Possessif lis. ) 

 The Governments of Madagascar, of the French Congo and 

 of French Cochin-China sent in very interesting samples of 

 crude rubber and a notable collection of photographs. Two 

 French planting companies, one in Cochin-China and one in the 

 French Congo, also exhibited samples of Funluinki rubber. That 

 from the French Congo was prepared liy a hot-water process. 

 They also showed maps of the plantations and many views. 



(French Manufacturers.) 

 Three large rubber manufacturers showed mechanical rubber 

 goods, insulated wire, hard rubber, tires, footwear, rubber sun- 

 dries, clothing and smaller specialties. 



( French Machinery. ) 



One of the most interesting of the machinery exhibits was 



the "Olier" machines for general rubber work. There were new 



profiling calenders, mixing machines, vertical spreaders, tire 



wrapping and unwrapping machines, presses for shaping and 

 curing tires, etc. 



(The French Committee.) 



The Honorary President was the French Minister of the 

 Colonies, while the Honorary Vice-President was the French 

 Consul in London. The Committee was composed of forty- 

 three members, twelve of whom formed an executive board, 

 including the following officials: .A. Haller, Member of the 

 French Institute, President ; Mons. Augagneur. ex-Governor of 

 Madagascar, and Mons. Lamy-Torrilhon, President of the Syn- 

 dical Chamber of Rubber Manufacturers. Vice-Presidents ; A. 

 D. Cillard, manufacturer. Director of Le Caoutchouc ct la Gutta 

 Pcrcha, General Secretary; Dr. Paul Colin, advocate, and Count 

 Louis de Clcrcq. engineer. Assistant Secretaries; O. Dupuy, 

 delegate of the Indo-China Rubber Planters' .Association, 

 Treasurer. 



In addition to the above officials, the Board included : Dr. 

 Chautard, Administrator of the Parisian Industrial Rubber Co.; 

 Mons. Paris, Deputy from Cochin-China ; Mons. Grellou, manu- 

 facturer ; O. Labroy, Chief of the Museum of Natural History, 

 and P. Breuil, consulting engineer. Editor of Lc Caoutchouc et 

 la Gutta-Percha. 



In the general body of the committee, consisting of thirty-one 

 rr embers, were eleven professors and mher academic experts, 

 ten representatives of manufacturing and importing interests 

 and ten members of an official character. Prominent among 

 these ordinary members were the Governors-General of Western 

 .Africa. Indo-China and Madagascar; the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, Paris ; the Frerch Chamber of Commerce. London ; the 

 Professional Syndicate of Rnliber and Gutta-Percha; the Syn- 

 flical Chamber of Elastic Fabric Manufacturers; Mons. See and 

 Baron F. de Wissocq, .Administratrir^; "f the "Etablissements 



