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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1916. 



required. As ranches and open ranges become converted into 

 farms, and the number of cattle decreases, lessening the supply 

 of leather, while the population which must wear shoes and the 

 factories which must have belting increase, rubber will step in 

 more and more to furnish better service at even lower cost. 



THE LARGEST HEVEA? 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World; 



DEAR SIR — Passing through Shanghai last week, on the way 

 home from the East Indies, a subscriber in the Chinese port 

 lent me the September India Rubber World, just received, in 

 which there was, on page 652, the account and illustration of the 



largest Fictis 

 rlaslica tree. 



Your readers 

 may be inter- 

 ested to see a 

 reproduction of 

 the enclosed 

 photograph that 

 a friend took in 

 Ceylon recent- 

 ly. I thought it 

 was the biggest 

 specimen o f 

 llcvca Brasili- 

 cnsis in the 

 Orient, but a 

 fellow passen- 

 ger on board. 

 Director Edgar 

 B. Davis, of 

 the General 

 Rubber Co., 

 tells me there 

 is one still 

 greater at Mer- 

 g u i , Burma, 

 160 inches in 

 circumfer- 

 ence. This is 



about the size of the Rambong (Ficus elastica) that visitors are 

 shown growing in the Plaza in front of the old cathedral in the 

 Walled City, Intramuros, Manila. 



The native caretaker, standing on the right of the picture, in- 

 formed me that the Ceylon giant produced nearly 400 pounds 

 of dry rubber in the five years ending with 1914, when tapping 

 was stopped. The numerous seeds, however, are distributed 

 abroad to planters who apply for them, and it is undoubtedly 

 the parent and grandparent of some extensive estates. The pho- 

 tograph was made by William B. Daniel, nephew of C. A. Daniel, 

 president of the Quaker City Rubber Co., Philadelphia, Penn- 

 sylvania. Richard Weil. 

 On board R. M. S. "Empress of Asia," October 14, 1916. 



Giant Hevca Brasiliensis in Ceylon, Girth 

 10 Feet 4 Inches. 



AN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY IN RUSSIAN 

 FOOTWEAR SCRAP. 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World: 



DEAR SIR — No doubt you are aware of the fact that Russia 

 is the greatest country for rubber shoes, and for that 

 reason has been supplying more old shoes than any other nation. 

 Until the war Germany and England were the biggest buyers of 

 old rubber shoes, while the United States got only a trifling 

 quantity that Russia exported. 

 Since the war broke out an embargo has been placed by the 



Russian government on all rubber products, and also on old 

 rubber shoes, which resulted in a very big accumulation of the 

 latter in that country. We think, therefore, that now would 

 be the right time for an American concern to buy up as much 

 as possible of this stock, and have it stored away in Russia 

 until after the war. The cost of storage would be insignificant 

 in comparison to the gain in rate of exchange, the Russian ruble 

 now being between 29 and 30 cents, whereas in normal times it 

 was 51J^ cents. Russian-American Agency of Commerce. 

 New York City, November 21, 1916. 



JUDICIAL DECISION. 



Cohen v. Fidler & Co., England. This suit to restrain in- 

 fringement of the trade-mark "Regent" hinged upon whether 

 its use upon waterproof garments known as "yarnproof" antici- 

 pated the subsequent use of the mark by another party upon 

 rubberproof garments, the defendant maintaining that, as he had 

 been the first to use the mark upon rubberproof goods, the plain- 

 tiff's prior use of it upon "yarnproof" goods would not enable 

 the plaintiff to enjoin his continued use of the mark. It was 

 held by the court that the goods were of the same descriptive 

 properties, and that inasmuch as the defendant's adoption of the 

 mark was with knowledge of the plaintiff's use and rights, he 

 was not entitled to register his m?rk under the provisions of 

 the trade-mark act, which permits the registration of an identical 

 mark for more than one party, where there has been honest, 

 concurrent use. [United States Trade-Mark Association Bulle- 

 tin, October, 1916, page 263.] 



DE LASKI & THEOPP PATENT NO. 1,011.460 VALID. 



In our November, 1916, issue, under Judicial Decisions, the 

 De Laski & Thropp patent No. 1,011,450 for a tire wrapping 

 machine was published as void. This was an unfortunate 

 error in the records, which we are pleased to correct. The 

 patent actually involved was No. 822,561, relating to a mold 

 for vulcanizing tires. 



GEANULATED CHICLE DUTIABLE AT 20 PER CENT. 



The protest of G. W. Sheldon & Co., New York, claiming 

 duty at 15 per cent ad valorem as "crude chicle," was re- 

 cently overruled. The Board of General Appraisers held that 

 chicle, imported in a granulated form, from which the 

 moisture has been extracted, is advanced in value and is 

 properly classifiable under paragraph 36, tariff act of 1913. 

 This reads: "Chicle, crude, IS cents per pound; refined or 

 advanced in value by drying, straining, or any other process 

 or treatment whatever beyond that essential to the proper 

 packing, 20 cents per pound." 



asbestos IN ARIZONA. 



Up to the present time Canada was the only locality in 

 America where long fibered asbestos was obtained. While 

 Wyoming produces asbestos, this material is of the serpen- 

 tine type and is short fibered. Lately large deposits of the 

 long fibered type of asbestos were discovered in Arizona, 

 the largest deposits being in the Sierra Ancha and at Ash 

 Creek. The asbestos of Arizona is chrysotile asbestos and 

 is found in lime and diabase. Its nature makes it especially 

 useful for the manufacture of fabrics. The high-grade ma- 

 terial is at least 50 per cent of the total asbestos mined and 

 is the only grade that is being shipped, due to the high freight. 

 [Metallurgical & Chemical Journal.] 



The Canfield Rubber Co. of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was 

 granted a drawback allowance early last month on the exporta- 

 tion of dress shields, infants' specialities, diapers and bibs, with 

 the use of imported galloon binding, Japanese silk, lace trim- 

 ming, beading, frilled webbing, tape and drawing strings. 



