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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1910. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



Vol. 41. 



MARCH 1. 1910. 



No. 6. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial: Page. 



What Makes a Rubber "Market?" 199 



Rubber in Cable Insulation 201 



African Plantation Rubber 



G. Van den Kerckhove 202 

 Mr. Rider's Seventy-fifth Birthday 203 



[With Pm trait. I 



The British Rubber Craze 204 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 203 

 [The Asbestos Manufacture. Siemens Brothers & Co.. Limited. 

 iber. Rubber Gauntlets. Gutta-Jelutong. "Red Rub- 

 ber." Persona] Mention. Wood-Milne.] 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 207 



[With an Illustration. 1 



The Editor's Book Table 209 



The Rubber Trade at Akron 



Our Correspondent .mi 



The Rubber Trade at San Francisco 



Our Correspondent 212 



"Castilloa" Rubber in Chiapas (Mexico) — II 



/. L. Hermesscn, .!. M. I. E. E. 213 



Miscellaneous: 



Mr. Pearson on the Amazon 200 



Our Twentieth Anniversary 200 



Western Electric Co.'s Affairs 201 



Rubber in Madagascar 202 



Two Swindling Tourists 202 



The Canadian Rubber Industry 206 



Millions for Ozokerite 208 



Housatonic Tubing Machine (Illustrated) 208 



India- Rubber Goods in Commerce 210 



From Rubber to Whist 212 



A Sensationalist Writes on Rubber 217 



General News of Rubber Planting 218 



(With an Illustration.] 



Importation of Reclaimed Rubber ' 219 



Russian Rubber Scrap in America 219 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 220 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 221 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 226 



Liverpool. 



William Wright & Co.. report [February 1] : 



Fine Para. — The market has heen active and the high level of values has 

 been more than fully maintained. At the beginning of the month prices 

 declined about 2d. per pound, but since then have advanced, and close fully 

 Z l /id. per pound dearer than at the end of December. America still continues 

 to absorb large quantities, the last steamer taking a record cargo of 1,380 

 tons, while, in addition, about :nn tons have been shipped from this market. 

 Receipts are fully up to those of last year, but so far this has had no 

 effect on prices. Closing value of Upriver ys. ioj^d. [= $1.92]: Islands 

 7S. Sd. [= $1.86]. 



London. 



Wm., Jas. & Hv. Thompson report [February 10] : 

 The salient feature of the sales was the prices paid for dark crepes 

 compared with tine grades, the former being readily taken within a few 

 pence of the latter. This feature may be due in part to "shorts" covering 

 sales of dar] it in our opinion it shows that the dark grades are 



ing into favor with manufacturers, who are now beginning to 

 realize their true value. 



JAMES ROSWELL CHAMBERLIN, who died on January 

 29 at his home in Rochester, New York, was born eighty-four 

 years ago at Troy, X. Y., in which city he received his education 

 anil began business. In 1849, upon his marriage to Miss Jane 

 Bellows, he removed to Rochester. The pair celebrated their 

 golden wedding on December 4, 1899, and Mrs. Chamberlin died 

 six years later. As a soldier Mr. Chamberlin served with dis- 

 tinction in the civil war. Mustered in as a company sergeant, 

 he took part in some important engagements, and at the end of 

 the war wore a colonel's commission. Mr. Chamberlin was 

 prominent in Masonic circles, a member of numerous civic in- 

 stitutions, and at times filled positions in the city government. 



On first settling in Rochester Mr. Chamberlin engaged in the 

 lumber business. Later he left this for the retailing of rubber 

 goods, to which the greater part of his business career was de- 

 voted. This business was incorporated April 22, 1904, as the 

 Chamberlin Rubber Co., two of the three incorporators being 

 Mr. Chamberlin and his wife. The business was continued at 

 the old location, No. 93 Main street, East, which is still main- 

 tained. 



Hiram N. Johnson, aged fifty-five, and president and treasurer 

 of the Chicago Rubber Co., was taken suddenly ill at his desk on 

 January 26, and died three days later, following an operation in 

 a hospital. Mr. Johnson became connected with this business, 

 then known as the Chicago Rubber Shoe Co., in 1897, taking for 

 his field one of the northwestern territories, in which he continued 

 for twelve years. "During this time," writes one of his associ- 

 ates, "Mr. Johnson built up an enormous trade, a trade that was 

 purely his own, one that none could take from him. He held his 

 own wherever he went, and always found them waiting for him 

 whenever he went back. Mr. Johnson had a peculiar way of 

 working himself into the life of whoever he came in contact 

 with. His trade had the same confidence in him that his house 

 had." In August, 1909, Mr. Johnson was made president and 

 treasurer of the Chicago Rubber Co., succeeding Mr. Edgar G. 

 Stearns. Mr. Johnson was buried at Aurora, Illinois, where he 

 had made his home. He is survived by a widow', two daughters 



and a son. 



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George J. Bradley, who died on January 27, at his home in 

 Cleveland, Ohio, aged thirty-one, had been in the employment 

 of The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), first at their fac- 

 tory, then as manager of the company's branch at Detroit, and 

 latterly as manager at Cleveland. Mr. Bradley, while in at- 

 tendance upon the recent automobile shows in New York con- 

 tracted a cold, which developed into pneumonia. C. B. Meyers 

 was lately assigned from Akron to be in personal charge of the 

 Cleveland branch, in order that Mr. Bradley might devote more 

 time to the outside trade developing in that territory. 



Edward T. Howe, president of the Howe Rubber Co. (Newark, 

 New Jersey), died of pneumonia in Terre Haute, Indiana, on 

 February 17. He was 39 years old and a native of Hartford, 

 Connecticut. Funeral services were held in Newark on February 

 21. Mr. Howe is survived by a widow and two children. 



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I 111 death is reported of Harry B. Wentz, who since the 

 foundation of The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., has repre- 

 sented them in the trade in Iowa. 



Tin- India Rubber World regrets the oversight which pre- 

 vented the mention earlier in these pages of the "Annual 

 Review" of the statistical position of india-rubber for 1909, 

 compiled by the Henry A. Gould Co. (New York). A repro- 

 duction of the chart, which is a distinctive feature of this chart, 

 appeared, however, in the last issue of this journal (page ig*). 



