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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1913. 



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V ol. 49 DECEMBER 1, 1913. No. 3. 



TABLE or CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



The Rubber Trade's Debt to Guayule 109 



Rubber Scrap Too High 109 



Taking the Measure of the Last Thirty Years no 



Wisely Awaiting the Result of the Tariff no 



The Transportation Tax on the Rubber Manufacturer. . no 



Why Leather Shoes? in 



Minor Editorials in 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 112 



Fifty Square Miles of Rubber Trees 113 



(With 7 Illustrations) 



Rubber Notes from Singapore 116 



(With 2 Illustrations) 



The Coagulation of Hevea Latex by Smoking 118 



Rio Rubber Exposition of October, 1913 120 



(With 1 Illustration) 



The Rubber Manufacturing Industry in Brazil 121 



t Portrait of Dr. Manuel L.obato) 



Adulterations in the Rubber Industry 121 



Some New Tapping Knives 122 



(With 2 Illustrations) 



The Rubber Manufacturer's Transportation Burden 123 



Synthetic Rubber from Two Aspects 124 



Summer Bob-Sledding with Rubber Tires 124 



(With 1 Illustration) 



Rubber Hose in the Machine Shop and Foundry 125 



(With 4 Illustrations) 



More Rubber Tiling and Paving 127 



A Few More Figures on Oversized Tires 127 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 128 



(With 2 Illustrations) 



The Rubber trade in Akron 129 



(With 1 Illustration) 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 130 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 131 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 132 



The United States Rubber Co.'s New Stock Issue 133 



Obituary Record 134 



The Detectorphone for Locating Machine Troubles 134 



(With 1 Illustration) 



William Appleton Lawrence 135 



(With Portrait) 



News of the American Rubber Trade 138 



(With Illustrations) 



The Standard Woven Fabric Co.'s New Plant 139 



(With 1 Illustration) 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 143 



(With 7 Illustrations) 



Waterproof Garments for the Sportsman 144 



(With 2 Illustration) 



New Machines and Appliances 145 



(With 5 Illustrations) 



The Editor's Book Table 147 



New Trade Publications 148 



(With ! Illustratiim.) 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 150 



Mr. Eaton's Report On European Factories 151 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 152 



Siegmund Seligmann 153 



(With Portrait) 



German Opinion Respecting the Future of Rubber 153 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 154 



Rubber Notes from British Guiana 155 



Rubber Planting in the Dutch East Indies 156 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 157 



(United States. Great P.ritain, France, Germany, Belgium) 



Fighting Fire on Shipboard 159 



(With 1 Illustration) 



Review of Crude Rubber Market 160 



Anttuerp. 



Rubber St.\tistics for October, 



Details. 1913. 1912. 1911. 



Stocks, September. ti/oi 455, 12p 708,127 435,545 



Arrivals in October — 



Congo sorts 355,189 209,002 355,970 



Other sorts 559 9,596 26,841 



Plantation sorts 236,373 105,545 32,452 



Aggregating 1,047,241 1,032,270 850,808 



Sales in October 409,165 463,451 272,600 



Stocks, October 31 638,076 568,819 578,208 



Arrivals since January — 



Congo sorts 2,461,005 2,658,416 2,706,051 



Other sorts 111,416 126,934 369,860 



Plantation sorts 1,742,617 1,097,623 525,979 



Aggregating 4,315,038 3,882,973 3,601,890 



Sales since January 1.. 4, 188,022 3,978,692 3,611,994 



Rubber Arrivals from the Congo. 

 October 29. — By the steamer Anversville : 



Eunge & Co (Comfina) kilos 4,500 



do (Belgika) 6.900 



do (Comp. Commercial Congolais) 15,700 



do (Generale Africaine) 750 



do (Grands Lacs) 6,400 



do (Intertropical) 23,300 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Comminiere) 5,300 



Credit Colonial & Commercial (.\nc. L. & W. Van de 



Velde— S. A.) (Cie du Kasai. 161,400 



do (Crevelde) 5,700 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 9,950 239,900" 



Plantation Rubber From the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon Grown Rubber. 



[From January 1, to October 30, 1913. Compiled by the Ceylon Chamber 

 of Commerce.] 



1912. 1913. 



To Great Britain pounds 



To United States 



To Belgium 



To Australia 



To Japan 



To Germany 



To Straits Settlements 



To Italy 



To Austria 



To France 



To Holland 



To India 



To Canada 



To Russia 



To Norway and Sweden 



10,058,285 19,656,253 



(Same period 1911—4,487,261 pounds; same 1910—2,223,341.) 

 The export figures of rubber for 1913 given in the above table 

 include the imports re-exported, viz., 1,750,219 lbs. To arrive at 

 the approximate quantity of Ceylon rubber exported for 1913 

 to date, deduct this quantity from the total exports. In pre- 

 vious years the exports of Ceylon rubber only were given. 



Tot.\l Exports from M.\laya. 



(From January 1 to dates named. Reported by Barlow & Co., Singapore. 



These figures include the production of the Federated Malay 



States, but not of Ceylon.) 



Singapore. 

 To Oct. 3. 



Great Britain pounds 14,249,990 



Continent 196,635 



Japan 738,267 



Ceylon 31,581 



United States 4,464,606 



Australia 70,556 



Total, 1913 19,751,635 



Total, 1912 9,998,689 



Total, 1911 4,538.628 



Total, 1910 2,659,962 



