May 1. 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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motor trucks. Goods from wholesale and retail stores are car- 

 ried from 22 to SO miles into the country and neighboring towns, 

 while farm produce and miscellaneous goods are handled on 

 the return trips. By this means Grand Rapids merchants have 

 stopped the inroads of Milwaukee wholesalers on their business 

 made possible by lake transportation. By September the ter- 

 minal was forced to move to larger quarters and is now handling 

 more than 170,000 pounds of freight daily. 



MEETING OF COMMITTEE DI3. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR 

 TESTING MATERIALS. 



Committee D13 of the American Society for Testing Materials 

 met at the United Engineering Societies Building. Xew York 

 City, April 16, 1920, and adopted the report of the Sub-committee 

 III on Testing Machines and also voted to adopt the General 

 Methods for Testing Cotton Fabrics designated as D39-18T, fol- 

 lowing a few minor changes. 



Important papers on "Testing Machines and Laboratory Pro- 

 cedure," by W. O. Jelleme, A. E. Jury, and E. H. Barnwell, pre- 

 ceded a general discussion of proper recommendations by the 

 committee on tj^pe of testing machines for textiles and suitable 

 capacities for fabrics of varying strengths. The variables af- 

 fecting the indicated breaking strength of a fabric to which spe- 

 cial attention was drawn in the paper above mentioned were : 

 (1) the design of the jaw; (2) machine capacity; (3) machine 

 rate of load ; (4) speed of pulling jaw. 



The committee's recommendation in the matter of suitable ma- 

 chines for textile testing favored the inclined balance of pendu- 

 lum type, limiting the use of individual machine to that capacity 

 corresponding to the pull e.xerted when its pendulum makes an 

 angle with the vertical not exceeding 40 degrees, beyond which 

 point the rate of loading varies sufficiently to make accurate 

 comparative tests impossible on machines of different capacities. 

 The rate of loading recommended is 250 pounds per inch of 

 travel of the head jaw, namely, the jaw attached to the dynamo- 

 meter. 



"The Measurement of Crimp in Yarns and Fabrics,"' by A. X. 

 dadsby and E. D. Walen, of the Textile Research Co., stated 

 that crimp should be considered as the difference in distance be- 

 tween any two points on a yarn in a fabric and between the same 

 two points after the yarn has been removed and straightened. 

 The importance of determining crimp is indicated by the fact that 

 the difference between the crimp of the warp and the filling 

 of a tire fabric, designated as "off square," shows the dispropor- 

 tion in which the strain on the fabric will come in the finished 

 lire. 



Other papers of interest were "Possibilities of Air Condition- 

 ing for Textile Testing Laboratories," by .\. M. Thompson, of 

 the Cramer-Parks Company: "Moisture Effects upon Ducks 

 of Varying Weights, and Fabrics of Unusual Character": also 

 "Variation of .Apparent Strength with Machine Capacity," by 

 G. B. Haven; "Experiments on Impact Testing for Fabrics," by 

 E. D. Wallen, briefly discussed the breakage of groups of yarns 

 from fabrics by their resistance to breaking by the sidewise im- 

 pact of a swinging pendulum. 



RUBBER BOOTS AND RAINCOATS FOR THE ARMY. 



During the war the Clothing and Equipage Division of the 

 Quartermaster General's Office bought 2,885,092 pairs of rubber 

 hip boots at a cost of $14,616,432 and 8,329,791 raincoats at a cost 

 of $44,932,308. In the first year of the war, from April 1, 1917, 

 to June 30, 1918, the unit price of boots was $4.82 and the 

 1,370,619 pairs cost $6,606,384; in the year, June 30, 1918, to 

 June 30, 1919, the price was $5,289, and the 1,514.473 pairs cost 

 $8,010,048. The stock on hand to be accounted for on June 30, 

 1919. was 687,781 pairs, of which 116,202 were at supply depots, 

 600 at camps and posts, and 571,069 were overseas or in transit; 

 102.148 pairs were lost at sea during the war. 



The price of raincoats' the first year was $5.21 so lliat the 



4,744,822 supplied cost $24,720,523. In the second year they had 

 devised ditTercnt coats for foot and mounted men. The raincoats 

 for the latter cost $5 each so that $330,000 was paid for the 66,000 

 coats furnished. Most of the coats, however, were for the men 

 who had to march, the price being $5.65 and the 3,516,369 rain- 

 coats supplied cost $19,878,785. The number in stock on June 

 30, 1919, was 354.965 infantry and 25,457 horsemen's coats in the 

 L'nited Stales and 886,464 raincoats in all oversea-^, making a total 

 of 1,264,886 coats on hand. Besides these, 34,990 raincoats had 

 been lost at sea. 



GENERAL MANAGER, SYRACUSE RUBBER CO., INC, 



GEORut K. LoGott, treasurer and general manager of the Syra- 

 cuse Rubber Co., Inc., Syracuse, New York, was born 

 March 27, 1882. in Aberdeen, Scotland. Coming to this country 

 with his people when a 

 boy, he early set out to 

 take care of himself, his 

 only assets being a 

 healthy body and an 

 active, ambitious mind. 

 In 1901 he entered the 

 factory of the Diamond 

 Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, as a laborer and 

 learned the manufacture 

 of tires from the bottom 

 up. From that time to 

 the present he has been 

 identified with the tire 

 business in various ca- 

 pacities. He found time, 

 however, to attend night 

 school and eventually be- 

 came an instructor in a 

 business college which he 

 attended. For a time he 

 was a salesman for the 

 Miller Tire & Rubber 

 Co., and afterward was 

 placed in charge of the 

 Miller branch at Syra- 

 cuse. New York. 

 After a few years in Syracuse he tried to start a lire factory 

 and failed, Inu one failure did not discourage him, and in 1919 

 he organized the Syracuse Rubber Co., Inc., and was elected 

 treasurer, general manager, and a member of the board of 

 directors. 



Mr. Loggie is a member of the Elks and of the Optimist Gub 

 and is popular socially as well as in business circles. 



W. R. GRACE & CO. PIONEER RUBBER IMPORTERS. 



The interest of W. R. Grace & Co. dates back to 1854, when 

 a group of rubber boot and shoe manufacturers appointed the 

 firm their sole importing agent. The growth of the business 

 brought about the formation of Sears & Co. in 1859 as a branch- 

 house at Para and Manaos, and most of the rubber consumed 

 in the United States passed through the hands of W. R. Grace 

 & Co. From the early 'seventies until 1886 the greater portion 

 of the crude rubber coming into New York went to that firm. 



With the attempt of Charles R. Flint to monopolize the rubber 

 market, Mr. Grace undertook to withdraw from the rul)ber 

 trade, but to do this completely was impossible with an import- 

 ing house of such magnitude. The dealings, however, were as 

 small as possible till Mr. Grace died in 1904. 



When plantation rubber became of importance, W. R. Grace 

 & Co. became interested in crude rubber again, and since 1912 



George R. Loggie. 



