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"In the matter of overshoes the population of Holland may be 

 divided into three general classes — lower, middle, and upper. 

 The lower class, using mainly sabots, would under no circum- 

 stances be users of overshoes, using their wooden shoes exclu- 

 sively ; with the middle class objections hard to overcome would 

 also be met, as they prefer to wade through mud and water 

 in their ordinary shoes and look down upon the use of any sort 

 of protection as effeminate. It is, hence, to the upper classes that 

 the dealer must look for his trade. These people will not only 

 gladly use any article the value of which is demonstrated to them, 

 but are ready and willing to pay for anything practical. 



"The climate of the country is damp and rainy the year round, 

 so that a sale of rubbers once started would not be confined to 

 any particular season. American shapes would answer the pur- 

 poses perfectly, because the purchasers would to a large extent 

 be users of American shoes. To create a permanent market the 

 goods offered should be of good quality, as the entire population 

 is economical and will soon stop buying an article which does 

 not last. There are some German rubbers on sale here now, but 

 they are little known and little used, so that advertising would 

 be necessary before any large permanent demand would be cre- 

 ated for American rubbers." 



HEW BALATA FACTORY IN NORWAY. 



Toward the end of the past year a new manufacturing com- 

 pany was formed at Christiania, Norway, under the style Viking 

 Rem-og Paknings-Fabrik, Aktienselskabet ("Viking" Belting 

 and Packing Factory Co., Limited), with a capital fully paid of 

 275.000 kroner [=$73,700]. The intention was to begin opera- 

 tions during the past month. The board of directors elected 

 consisted of Messrs. Worm Hirsh, civil engineer; Nicolay Leth, 

 solicitor; and Emile Backe, mill owner. The managing directors 

 appointed were Messrs. B. Chr. Jenssen, civil engineer, and An- 

 thon Berg, former managing director of Aktienselskabet den 

 Norske Rem-Fabrik, of Christiania. The latter for some time 

 past have made a specialty of balata belting. The new com- 

 pany will make both balata and leather belting, and various 

 packings. Their address is 16 Svingens gade, Christiania. 



AUSTRIAN RUBBER MANUFACTURER HONORED. 



Two Austrian gentlemen, well known to the German as well 

 as the Austrian india-rubber industry, have received a high mark 

 of distinction. Mr. Camillo Castiglioni, business manager of the 

 Oesterreichisch-Amerikanischen Gummiwaren-Fabrik Actien- 

 gesellschaft (Vienna) and Mr. Wilhelm Reithoffer, one of the 

 principal members of the firm of Josef Reithoffer's Sonne 

 (Vienna) have received the title of Counselor of the Board of 

 Trade. We congratulate both gentlemen on this honor, and we 

 ourselves feel that the entire trade in Austria shares in the well- 

 deserved distinction accorded them. — Gummi-Zeiiung. 



RUSSIA. 

 Mr. B. Wittenberg, general director of "Prowodnik" Company, 

 of Riga, has received from the Czar of Russia the order of St. 

 Anne, third class. 



GERMANY. 



Emit, Arntz is no longer proprietor of the business known for- 

 merly as Hoxtersche Gummifabrik Emil Arntz, at Hoxter. The 

 style is now Hoxtersche Gummifaden-Fabrik Emil Arntz, and 

 Richard Arntz. who formerly held power of attorney, is the 

 proprietor. 



NEW BRITISH TIRE COMPANY. 



The "K. T." New Pneumatic Tyre and Rubber Co., Limited, 

 have been registered in London, with £160,000 [= $778,640] 

 capital, to acquire and work the numerous patents which have 

 been granted throughout the world in connection with the 

 "K. T." pneumatic tire — an article now having an established 

 position in the trade. The new company succeeds to the under- 

 taking of the "K. T." Syndicate, Limited, registered April 20, 



1905, and agreement with Edward Brice Ketten and others. 

 There are agreements also for the sale of the German and Aus- 

 trian-Hungarian rights, an option for the sale of the American 

 rights, and a provisional sale of the rights for France. 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE. 



KOLONIAL-HANDELS-ADRESSBUCH 1910 (14- JAHRGANC). MIT 

 Karten der Kolonien - - - Berlin: Kolonial- Wirtschlichten Komitee. 

 [1910.] [Paper. 8vo. Pp. 371. Price 2.50 marks.] 



' I 'HIS valuable yearly epitome of progress in German colonial 

 *■ development becomes more complete with each issue, both 

 through the inclusion of new interests and the growth of each 

 of the departments which have gone to make up the book from 

 the beginning. It is practically a complete directory of the busi- 

 ness firms in the colonial trade, and of the plantations in the 

 colonies, not the least important of which are those devoted to 

 india-rubber. For German East Africa alone no less than 

 twenty-seven plantation companies are listed, devoted wholly or 

 in part to rubber, and seventy-one individual planters. Rubber 

 is being cultivated in many cases in connection with coffee, cacao, 

 sisal, cotton, cocoanuts, palm nuts, kapok, pepper, and so on. 

 There are similar lists, but fewer names of rubber planters, for 

 Togo, Kamerun and other colonies, including even New Guinea. 

 Transportation facilities are fully treated, and the maps are a 

 useful feature of the book. 



MALAISIE CAOUTCHOUC PLANTATIONS. SOCIETES FINAN- 

 CIERES. Antwerp. Imprimerie J. E. Buschmann. 1909. [Paper. 8vo. 

 Pp. 114.] 



The readers of The India Rubber World are familiar with 

 various directories and handbooks of rubber plantation com- 

 panies operated in the Far East which have been brought out, 

 particularly in England. Interest in such plantations, however, 

 has by no means been confined to Great Britain. Investments in 

 planting in the region referred to have been very large in Bel- 

 gium and the Netherlands, not to mention other countries, and 

 the brochure, the title of which is here quoted, printed in 

 French, has been issued as a guide to continental investors in 

 rubber plantations. While many of the companies here listed 

 are registered in London, a considerable proportion of them 

 have to do with plantations in other than British colonies. The 

 general style of the book is the same as the English plantation 

 directories which have been reviewed in The India Rubber 

 World. 



LE CAOUTCHOUC. HISTORIQUE-LATEX PROPRIETES-TRAITE- 

 ments-Technologic Fabrication-Confection Vulcanisation-Gomes _ Ana- 

 logues Essais. Par Amedee Fayol, Ingenieur civil, Ancien eleve_ de 

 l'Ecole centrale Lyonnaise. Paris and Liege: Librairie Polytechnique 

 Ch. Beranger. 1909. [Paper. 8vo. Pp. in + 138.] 



As its title indicates, this is a summary of the rubber interest 

 in general, intended apparently for purposes of general informa- 

 tion rather than as a technical handbook, though it appears to be 

 carefully drawn up and to be scientifically accurate. The author 

 of the book has been mentioned several times in these pages as 

 the translator of books on rubber of importance from other 

 languages than French. 



THE QUARTER CENTURY NUMBER OF THE INDIA-RUBBER 

 IOURNAL. 1884-1909. A souvenir. London: Maclaren & Sons, Lim- 

 ited. [1909.] [Folio. Pp. 102. Price, 2s. 6d. 

 Our congratulations have been extended already to the India- 

 Rubber Journal on the age and high standing which it has 

 acquired, and they are repeated in respect of the handsome 

 book which the managers have brought out in celebration of their 

 quarter centenary. It is no less interesting than handsome, in its 

 summary of progress of the rubber industry, particularly in 

 Britain, since its first commencement. It is in fact a valuable 

 handbook. 



MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. TWENTIETH ANNUAL RE- 

 port. [With Index to Volumes XI-XX.] St. Louis: The Board of 

 trustees. 1909. [Goth. 8vo. Pp. 223.] 



ORGANIZATION GENERALE D'UNE PLANTATION V'HEVEA. 

 By G. Vernet, Agricultural engineer chemist at the Pasteur Institute at 

 Nhatrang [French Indo-China]. [Reprinted from Journal a Agnculturt 

 Tropicale, June-September, 1909.] [Paper. 8vo. Pp. II.] 



