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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1914. 



'GlTlA.Pff^ 



Vol. 49. 



FEBRUARY 1, 1914. 



No. 5. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



The Automatic Increase in Rubber Consumption 221 



Rubber Literature 221 



Prizes to Be Awarded at the London Rubber Exposition. 222 



Getting Accurate Rubber Statistics 223 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 224 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 224 



Rubber Manufacturing Statistics in the Next Census 224 



The Rubber Club's Fifteenth Annual Banquet 



Illustrated 225 



Some Neglected Near-By Markets. I — Colombia 



Illustrated 229 



New York's Fourteenth Annual Automobile Show 



Illustrated 233 



Rubber Trade in Germany and Russia in 1913 236 



An Antwerp View of Plantation and Para 236 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 236 



Crude Rubber During 1913 237 



Some Vigorous Views from Singapore 239 



The Editor's Book Table 



Illustrated 2-40 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



By Our Correspondent 242 



Some Interior Views of the Firestone Factory 



Illustrated 243 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



By Our Correspondent 244 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



By Our Correspondent 244 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



By Our Correspondent 245 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



Bv Our Correspondent 246 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



By Our Correspondent 247 



Foreign Trade Opportunities 248 



The India Rubber World Trophy at the London Rubber Show 



lUuslr^tcd 248 



Rubber Club Gathering Statistics , 249 



A Few of the Latest Tires 



Illustrated 250 



Obituary Record 251 



[With Portiail of G. A. Lewis.] 



The Famous House of Faber 252 



[With I'lirtrait of Eberhard Faber.] 



Reduction of Rubber Footwear Prices 252 



News of the American Rubber Trade 253 



New Machines and Appliances 



Illustrated 258 



New Trade Publications 260 



Calendars and Souvenirs for 1914 260 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 262 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 264 



Rubber at the Paris Automobile Salon 



lUustraii-d — By Our Correspondent 265 



The Standardization Committee's Report 267 



Rubber Testing at Gross Lichterfelde 267 



A German Manufacturer on Rubber Consumption 268 



Rubber Notes from Japan 



By Our Correspondent 269 



Netherlands Indies Rubber Growers' Association 270 



I \\ !ii! PiTtrait of A. G. N. Swart.] 



What Is the Matter with Rubber? 270 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 271 



Tapping Results in British Guiana 



Illustrated 272 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 273 



[I'nited States. Great P.ritaiti. France. Germany. Belgium.] 



Review of Crude Rubber Market 276 



Ant^verp. 



Rlbbkr Arriv.m.s for 



Details. 1913. 1912. 



Stocks, Nov. 30.. kilos 546,599 707,545 

 Arrivals in December — 



CouKO sorts 233,492 168,281 



Otiier sorts 8,721 13,294 



Plantation sorts 134,363 144,064 



Aggregating 923,175 1,033,184 



Sales in December 363,894 522,124 



Stocks, December 31.. 559.281 511,060 



.Arrivals since Jan. 1 — 



Congo sorts 2,886,032 3,229,978 



Otber sorts 120,438 144,585 



Plantation sorts 2,033,039 1.402.841 



Aggregating 5,039,509 4.777,404 



Sales since January 1.. 4,991,288 4,930,882 



December. 



1911. 

 634,262 



1910. 

 568,148 



521,169 234,673 

 56,424 30,414 



73.721 35,616 



1,085,576 

 410,838 



868,851 

 280,639 



1909. 

 735,616 



215,983 

 57,985 

 42,029 



1,051,613 

 510,101 



674,738 588,212 541,512 



3,175,581 3,105,357 



489,771 399,641 



670,461 553,678 



4,335,813 4,058,676 



4,249,387 4.011,974 



3,492.332 

 865,349 

 328,277 



4,685,958 



4,740,181 



RUBBER ARRIVALS FROM THE CONGO. 



J.\xu.\RV 2, — By tlie steamer Am-crst'ille: 



Bunse & Co (Belgika) kilos 2.000 



do (Comp. Commerciale Congolais) 13,500 



do ..• (Grand Lacs) 8,600 



do (Cic du Congo beige) 1,200 



do (Intertropical) 13,400 



do 2,700 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (See. franc, du H. C.) 22,735 



do (H. C.) 23,980 



do (Comminiere)) 18,100 



Credit Colonial & Commercial (Anc. L. & W. Van de 



Velde S. A.) (Kasai) 67.000 



do (Comfina) 22,600 



do (Crevelde) 12,700 



Cliarles Dethier (American Congo Cy) 5,027 



Willaert Freres 4,000 217,542 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



Exi'iiRTS OF Cevlon-Gruwn Rubber. 



[From January 1 to December 22, 1913. Compiled by the Ceylon Chamber 

 of Commerce.] 



1912. 1913. 



To Great Britain t>ounds 7.377.602 14.590,452 



To United States 4,267,949 5,745,870 



To Belgium 1,178,666 3,699.438 



To Australia 232.386 453,993 



To Germany 195,138 364,971 



To Austria' 73.660 31,434 



To Japan 68,415 286,069 



To Canada 22,078 



To France 11,568 15,682 



To Italy 6,378 44,754 



To Russia 2,288 101.116 



To Holland 2.282 992 



To India 700 1,881 



To Xorway and Sweden 39 



To Straits Settlements 146,147 



Total 13,439,149 25,482,799 



(Same period, 1911. 6.112,722; same period, 1910, 3,074,783.) 

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

 include the imports re-e.xported. (These amount to 2.383.758 

 pounds — 1.797.179 pounds from the Straits and 586.579 pounds 

 from India. — Ed. C. O.) To arrive at the appro.ximate quantity 

 of Ceylon rubber exported for 1913 to date, deduct the quantity 

 of imports from the total exports. In previous years the exports 

 of Ceylon rubber only were given. 



Total Exports from Malaya. 



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



These figures include the production of the Federated Malay 



States, but not of Ceylon.] 



Port Swet- 

 Singapore, Penang, tenham, 

 To— Dec. 16. Nov. 30. Dec. 21. Total. 



Great Britain. ../■ 0101 rf^r 19.511.595 13.838.133 23.336,727 56,686,455 



Continent 308,116 157,333 2,996,319 3.461.768 



Japan 1,020,790 1,020,790 



Cevlon 122.851 316,267 1,353,005 1.792.123 



Uriited States 5.653.565 247,867 5.901.432 



Australia 104,526 104,526 



Total 26,721,443 14,559,600 27,686,051 68.967.094 



Same period. 1912... 14,372,067 8.655,764 19,281,051 42,308,882 



Same period, 1911... 6.635.618 4,547.062 11.505,738 22,688,418 



Same period, 1910... 3.707,599 2,234,569 8,008.578 13 950,746 



