April 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



509 



TRADE OPPORTUNITIES FROM CONSULAR REPORTS 



Addresses may be obtained from the Bureiin of Foreign and 

 Domestic Commerce, Washington, D. C, or from the following 

 district or cooperative offices. Reiiuests for each address should 

 be on a separate sheet, and state number. 



District Offices. 

 New York : 734 Customhouse. 

 Boston; 1801 Customhouse. 

 Chicago: 504 Federal Building. 

 St. Louis: 402 Third National Bank 



Building. 

 New Orleans: 1020 Hibernia Bank 



Building. 

 San Francisco: 307 Customhouse. 

 Seattle: 848 Henry Building. 



Cooperative Offices. 

 Cleveland : Chamber of Commerce. 

 Cincinnati: Chamber of Commerce; 



General Freight Agent, Southern 



Railway, 96 Ingalls Building. 

 Dayton, Ohio: Dayton Chamber of 



Commerce. 

 Los .Angeles: Chamber of Commerce. 

 Philadelphia: Chamber of Commerce. 

 Portland, Oregon : Chamber of 



Commerce. 



(34,435) A commercial representative in Cuba desires to se- 

 cure exclusive agencies for the sale in Latin American countries 

 of rubber goods and druggists' sundries. Quote f. o. b. New 

 Yorli or southern port. Correspondence and advertising matter 

 should be in Spanish. 



(34,471) The office in the United States of a publishing house 

 it! Spain desiring to increase circulation by giving premiums, de- 

 sires to be placed in touch with manufacturers of suitable goods, 

 including fountain pens, office appliances, etc. Purchases on 

 cash basis. 



(34.475) Commercial representative of drug and hospital trade 

 in Mexico desires agencies from manufacturers for sale of drug- 

 gists' sundries, rubber goods, and allied lines. 



(34.476) Mercantile firm in Canada desires to purchase leather 

 and rubber belting. 



(34,4X8) .'X manufacturer in Jugoslavia desires to purchase 

 100 long tons of asbestos yearly. Quote c. i. f. Hamburg or 

 Trieste. 



(34,489) A mercantile agency in Ireland desires to secure 

 agency for sale of high-grade automobile tires. 



(34,495) A firm in the Netherlands desires an agency for the 

 sale of all technical chemicals. Quote c. i. f. Netherland port. 

 Payment against documents on arrival of goods. 



(34,497) A commercial agent in Brazil desires to hear from 

 American firms with view to securing representation for sale 

 of rubber goods in Brazil. 



(34,511) :\ merchant in France desires to secure an agency 

 for the sale of tires, tubes, and automobile accessories. Quote 

 c. i. f. French port. Correspondence in French. 



(34,533) --X merchant in India desires to be placed in com- 

 munication with firms for the purchase of novelties, sporting 

 goods, bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles and accessories. 

 Quote c. i. f. Indian port. 



(34,542) ,\ company of manufacturers and importers in India 

 desires to be placed in connection with firms for the importation 

 of electrical goods, bicycles and motorcycles, telephones, printers' 

 supplies, toys and novelties. 



(34,551) A firm of importers in England desires to be placed 

 in communication with manufacturers of toys. 



(34,553) A firm in Italy desires to secure an agency for the 

 sale of automobiles and accessories, vacuum cleaners, and elec- 

 trical household appliances. Quote c. i. f. Italian port. Cor- 

 respondence in French or Italian. 



DISTRIBUTION OF TIRE SALES 



The following table, compiled by the United States Tire Co., 

 gives the average monthly sales of automobile tires compiled from 

 the statistics of many years' observation. 



Month 

 January . 

 February 

 March . . . 

 April . . . . 



May 



June . . . . 



Per 



Cent 



4 



5 



5 



9 

 13 

 15 



Month 

 July 



AuRUSt . . . 



September 

 October . . 

 November 

 December 



Per 



Cent 



14 



12 



10 



5 



4 



4 



THE OBITUARY RECORD 



ACTIVE IN STANDARDIZING RUBBER ANALYSIS 



ERNST J. Lederle, founder of the Lederle Laboratories, died at 

 Goshen, New York, March 7, 1921, after unsuccessfully en- 

 deavoring to restore his broken health since 1916 when he re- 

 tired from active participation in official and professional work. 



Dr. Lederle was born on Statcn Island, New York, in 1865. He 

 received the degree of Ph. B. in 1886 from the School of Mines 

 of Columbia University, of Ph. D. in 1895 and Sc. D. in 1904 

 from Columbia University. 



From 1889 to 1902, Dr. Lederle was chief chemist of the De- 

 partment of Health, New York City, then Commissioner of 

 Health during Mayor Low's administration. He reorganized the 

 department and placed it upon its present modern and thoroughly 

 scientific basis. In 1904 he established the Lederle Laboratories 

 to render technical and scientific service to official and private 

 organizations of a wide variety and type of activities. The firm 

 of Lederle & Provost, covering the lield of sanitary and hydraulic 

 engineering, was established. He was a member of the Water 

 Supply Commission and also chief sanitary expert and adviser on 

 the construction work on the Catskill Acqueduct and its associ- 

 ated reservoirs. He was also the founder of the Lederle Anti- 

 toxin Laboratories, manufacturer of biological products, vaccines, 

 etc. 



In addition to the industrial problems which were studied by 

 Dr. Lederle and his associates in the institution that he founded 

 were many problems of the rubber industry, the chief of which 

 was the standardization of methods of rubber analysis. The in- 

 stitution was particularly active and favorably known in this 

 field. 



PROMINENT IN THE CHEMICAL TRADE 



Jacob Hasslacher, well known in chemical circles and one of 

 the founders of the chemical firm of Roessler & Hasslacher, New 

 York City, died at his New York home on March 15, in his 

 sixty-ninth year. 



He was born in Ems-on-thc-Lahn, Germany, in 1852 and re- 

 ceived his education in that country. Coming to New York in 

 1884, he established with Franz Roessler the firm of Roessler & 

 Hasslacher, manufacturing and importing chemists, the copartner- 

 ship being incorporated under the present name of the Roessler 

 & Hasslacher Chemical Co. in 1889. Under the able guidance of 

 Mr. Hasslacher the business grew to its present eminence. 



Mr. Hasslacher was identified with many organizations for the 

 advancement of the arts and sciences, also a member of numerous 

 business and social clubs. Forceful, liberal, charitable, an ardent 

 .•\merican, his passing is regretted by many friends. 



A VETERAN CITIZEN OF AKRON 



J. W. Chamberlain, one of Akron's oldest and best-known 

 rubber machinery men, died suddenly last month in Akron. An 

 appropriate obituary will be published in our next issue. 



ADJUDICATED PATENTS 



Tee Pee Rubber Co., Inc., vs. I. T. S. Rubber Co. United 

 States Circuit Court of .Appeals, Ohio. 



The Tufford reissue patent, No. 14049, for a rubber heel. 

 claims 7, 9, and 10 construed and the peculiar concavity indicated 

 by the suction effect of the construction shown; held, a limitation 

 of all claims essential to show invention over that of a prior 

 patent, also held, not infringed. — Federal Reporter, volume 268, 

 page 250. 



It will be seen from this taible that 64 per cent of the sales of 

 the year are made between May 1 and October 1. 



JfaiCIAL DECISIONS 



Gam meter vs. Backdahl. Court of Appeals, District of Co- 

 lumbia Decided June 2, 1920. 



The decision in this case, reviewed in The India Rubbir 

 World. September 1, 1920, may be found in full in the Federal 

 Reporter, volume 267, page 347. 



