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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1. 1912. 



a joint stock company; the capital being $500,000, of which 

 $325,000 was paid itp. 



The product of tlie factory inchidcs wcatliciproof wire, rubber- 



Calender Room*;''. 



covered wire, lamp cord, cables, patent enamelled wire, etc. ; while 

 the motive power comprises: -'V -.,,>:;. . 



Boilers (3)— 70 h. p.; 125 h. p.; ISQVlr; p. 



Solid Steam engine (1) — 65 h, p. 



Dynamo (1)— 100 h. p. 



Suction gas plant — 140 h. p. / 



About 500 hands are employed. 



Among the various sections of the plant are the braiding 

 shop, stranding shop and rubber shop, as s.hown by illustra- 

 tions. It likevvise includes the rubber .mixing and tubing 

 shop, finishing shop, tinning shop, di'ying rooms, testing 

 room, etc. 



The principal officials -of the company include: Mr. 

 Tomekichi Matsumoto, president, and Mr, Kenzo Okada, 

 director and superintendent, portraits of whom are annexed. 



During the past ten years the Japanese Department of 

 Communication has been quite an extensive user of the 

 product of this company, wliereas formerly it used only the 

 product of tlie India-Rubber, Gutta-Percha and Telegraph 

 Works Co., Limited, and Siemens Bros. & Co., Limited. Since 

 the Russo-Japanese War the demand for insulated wire has 



A HIGHLY VALUED CERTIFICATE. 



A H.-\NDSOMELV engraved certificate, which will be liighly 

 valued in this olfice, lias been sent to tlie editor of this 

 paper by the ofiicers of the Second International Rubber and 

 Allied Trades Exhibition, which was held in London in July of 

 last year. It is a very courteous recognition of Mr. Pearson's 

 interest in the development of Castilloa planting and reads as 

 follows : 



INTERNATIONAL 



RUBBER AND ALLIED TRADES EXHIBITION 



ROY.\L .^GRICULT^R.\L H.\LL, 



LONDON. 1911. 



PATRON 



HIS -MAJESTY KING GEORGE V 



PRESIDENT 



SIR HENRY A. CLAKE. C. C. M. G, 



HENRY C. PEARSON, ESQ. 



EDITOR, "THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD" 

 NEW YORK CITY. 

 This certificate is issued with the object of congratulat- 

 ing you on the great interest you have evinced in con- 

 nection with the advancement of the Castilloa Elastica, 

 by presenting a magnificent thousand dollar Trophy. 

 Though the Competition did not realize the object you 

 wished, it brought forward several interesting sugges- 

 tions, and there is no doubt that at the 1914 Rubber 

 Exhibition in London, the problem of the satisfactory 

 extraction of the latex from the Castilloa will be solved 

 and the Trophy awarded. 

 Signed: 



Henry A. Blake, A. Staines Manders, 



President. Organizing Manager. 



D. Fulton, 

 Secretary. 



Office of the Fujikura Insulated Wire and Rubber Co. 



greatly increased and the War and Navy Departments, as 

 well as the Communication Department, of Japan, are cus- 

 tomers of this company. The electric companies of Japan, 

 China and Corea also use its product. 



A subsidiary company, under same general direction, makes 

 waterproof cloths and other fabrics for government purposes. 



WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND CABLE MANU- 

 FACTURE. 



■VT OW that wireless telegraphy has assumed a practical instead 

 ■^ ^ of a merely experimental form, the question arises of its 

 competition with the cable system. On this subject the "Gummi- 

 Zeitung" remarks that where there is a stream of regular traffic, 

 the cable, notwithstanding the higher cost of its installation, can 

 be operated more economically than the wireless telegraph, the 

 working of which is said to be verj- expensive. Copper wires 

 and cables require for their operation far less electricity than 

 the wireless system. Hence the necessary installation of power- 

 ful machinery, and the erection of lofty masts (or antennae), in 

 the latter case, besides the high cost of working. 



Consequently, wireless telegraphy can only be used to advan- 

 tage where there is a limited amount of traffic, or where the 

 laying of cables is attended with special difficulty. These condi- 

 tions exist in the over-sea possessions of European powers, as 

 well as in telegraphic communication with these colonies, and it 

 is specially in such territories that the cable industry has to fear 

 competition. 



The extension of wireless telegraphy in the German colonies 

 has been facilitated by the removal of certain difficulties, which 

 impeded the transmission of signals, as reported at the recent 

 meeting of the Technical Commission of the German Colonial 

 Economic Committee. By the erection of a series of wireless 

 stations the German government has followed the example of 

 the English authorities, who have established Marconi stations 

 at the most important British colonial points. 



In conclusion, the opinion is expressed that the cable manu- 

 facturing industry ought to pay special attention to instances 

 where the installation of wireless is considered impracticable; in 

 order to promote the adoption in such cases of the ordinary 

 svstem. 



