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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Sei'tember. 1, 1912. 



"There will be three. First, manufactured goods and manu- 

 facturing machinery, which will occupy the whole first floor ; 

 second, the allied lines, including reclaimed rubber, chemicals, 

 compounding mixtures, etc., which will occupy the second — 

 or, as it is usually called, the mezzanine floor; and third, crude 

 rubber, which will fill the third floor. 



"Twenty different governments have sent exhibits of crude 

 rubber. Brazil, as I have said, is sending 100 tons of wild 

 rubber — chiefly Hcvea. Bolivia will also send a fine exhibit of 

 Hevea. Dutch Guiana will exhibit Castilloa; and we will have 

 plantation exhibits from the Federated Malay States, which 

 will send 18 tons. Ceylon will show ten tons ; and smaller 

 quantities will come from the Dutch East Indies, Indo-China, 

 Burma, the Hawaiian Islands, and many other points. Some 

 of these exhibits — notably two fine lots, one of over three tons 

 from the Federated Malay States, and one of two and one-half 

 tons sent by Ceylon, will be entered for the gold, silver and 

 bronze prizes oflfered by the Rubber Growers' Association of 

 London. 



"In the display of rubber manufactures, I fan safely say 

 that practically nothing will be lacking. Every type of manu- 

 factured goods — footwear, clothing, tires, mechanical goods, 

 dipped goods, molded goods — all will be shown ; and some of 

 them — like fire hose — will be shown in the making. There will 

 also be a working exhibit in the rubber reclaiming department, 

 and the interested visitor can see how this industry is carried 

 on." 



"What special features will there be?" 



"One novelty, and a feature quite unlike anything seen in 

 either of the other international rubber shows, will be a horse 

 traveling, at whatever rate of speed he may be disposed to dis- 

 play, over a rubber road. The road will be constructed of 

 rubber blocks made by a Chicago manufacturer. It will be 

 a moving road so that the horse can keep in motion, and yet 

 not get too far away from the rest of the exhibits. There will 

 also be rubber flooring everywhere ; in the entrance, on the 

 stairs and in front of many of the booths, for a great many of 

 those who have taken space have arranged to cover their space 

 and the adjacent passages with rubber. The visitors will find it 

 the easiest-walking exhibition hall they were ever in. Another 

 feature, somewhat unusual, and of a character to meet with the 

 decided approval of out-of-town people, will be the generosity 

 displayed by some of the manufacturers in furnishing — not only 

 free telephone booths for their customers, but expert stenog- 

 raphers, who will do their correspondence for them rapidly, 

 cheerfully and gratis." 



"Do you expect a large attendance from abroad? I think it 

 safe to assume that the home attendance will be of noticeable 

 proportions." 



"Yes, there will be a great many foreign visitors. A large 

 number of governments have sent representatives, and in addi- 

 tion to that, states and provinces and chambers of commerce, 

 and other organizations in the rubber countries have sent dele- 

 gates. There will be SO delegates from Brazil alone, with Dr. 

 Dahne as chief oflicial commissioner." 



"The exhibition will begin, I suppose, promptly on September 

 23." 



"It will open, without doubt, at noon September 23. We had 

 hoped to have President Taft, who has been kind enough to act 

 as patron of the exposition, present to make the formal opening, 

 but he advises us that unfortunately he had already agreed to 

 attend the Hygienic Congress which meets in Washington on 

 that same date; but he expects later to visit the exhibition. 

 While it will open on the 23rd to the public, there will be a 

 private view, open only to members of the press, the day pre- 

 ceding. There is every reason to believe that the attendance is 

 going to be large, because in addition to rubber men and general 

 visitors, there will be several special days, when a large number 

 of people will come because of their interest in some particular 

 country or locality. For instance, September 24, is Brazil Day. 



Four thousand invitations will be sent out by the representa- 

 tives of that government, and the Ambassador of Brazil will 

 be present to receive the guests. There will also be a Ceylon 

 Day; and so many people from .^krnn have expressed their 

 intention of visiting the show, that there will probably be an 

 .\kron Day. On the night of the 3rd of October there will be 

 a banquet open to those who have been connected with the 

 exhibition." 



"I suppose that will be well attended." 



"Well, the closing banquet at the London Exhibition was. 



A. St.mnes Manders. 



attended by over 260 people, and was a delightful — not to say 

 brilliaitt event. I do not think New York is likely to fall behind' 

 London in this particular part of the exposition." 



The interviewer did not ask Mr. Manders much about him- 

 self, but people who attended the London International Rubber 

 Exhibition held last summer say that he is a marvelous organ- 

 izer, and that he will give the rubber industry of .\merica a 

 genuine revelation of itself. 



THIRD INTERNATIONAL RUBBER CONFERENCE. 



IN the year 1893, at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 

 a little group of chemists from many lands met to confer 

 on topics of mutual interest. They incidentally laid the founda- 

 tions for that tri-ennial conclave which is known as the 

 International Congress of Applied Chemistry. The eighth 

 meeting of this congress will be held in New York City from 

 September 6th to 13th, 1912. 



As the discussions at these meetings center almost entirely 

 on chemistry, so the International Association for Testing 

 Materials has devoted most of its energy to the solution of 

 problems connected with raw materials used by engineers. 



With these two conventions as "forerunners," the Third 

 International Rubber Conference will convene in spacious 

 chambers at the Grand Central Palace in New York City, 

 September 24th, 1912. A considerable number of chemists and 

 engineers of the rubber industry have communicated with the 

 secretary, with regard to the character of the topics which will 

 be brought forward for discussion at the meetings of the Rub- 

 ber Conference. 



It is a matter of common knowledge that, a large number 

 of national societies and railroad corporations have spent con- 

 siderable time and energy in developing specifications for mate- 

 rials; so that it is not surprising that most of the letters thus- 

 far received have suggested that the question of "Specifications" ' 

 be ventilated. 



