694 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1917. 



Faultless "Wearever" Advertising on Broadway 658 



Interesting Letters from Our Readers 659-660 



Manufuctiircrs .Si)uf,'lit for Webbed Glove. Rubber 

 i^'argoes and the Submarine. Air Supply Device for 

 Kul>ber Bouts. I'fyffer's Resilient Wheel with Pneu- 

 matic Hub. 



GimA-Po^ 



Vol. 56 



AUGUST 1, 1917 



No. 5 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: Pages. 



Forty Million Heveas in the Philippines 629 



Tu Chung Rubber in America 629 



Sixty Million Tires Annually after 1920 629-630 



The Importance of Cost Accounting 630 



Training Young Men for Export Trade 630 



Minor Editorial 630 



What I Saw in the Philippines — II 



By Henry C. Pearson— Illustrated 631-633 

 India Rubber in War 



By Robert G. Skerrett— Illustrated 634-638 



Protected Occupations in England 638 



War News of the Rubber Industry 639-640 



The Rubber Trade Roll of Honor 641-643 



A Ship for Rubber Cargoes 643 



Chemicals in Licensed Export List 643-644 



Touring Bureau Indicates Strategic Roads 644 



German Germs in Plasters 644 



Bowers' Specific Gravity Tables 645-647 



Ventilated Rubber Coats 647 



Rubber Heels at the Shoe Finders' Convention 647-648 



Chemistry: 



What the Rubber Chemists .\re Doing 648-6.S0 



Method of Analysis 650 



Chemical Patents 650 



Laboratory Apparatus 650 



Machines and Appliances, New Illustrated 651-653 



Machine for stamping numbers on metal. The 

 Double Cone Vise Coupling. Acid Proof Valves. 

 Sectional Steel Shelving. The Daft Flexible Coup- 

 ling. Powers' Temperature Regulators. 



Machinery Patents Illustrated 653-654 



(iammeter's Vulcanizing Press. A Self-Contained 

 Tire Vulcanizing Mold. Other Machinery Patents. 



Process Patents Illustrated 654 



Process of making heels or soles from solid tire scrap. 

 Porous Rubber Fabric. Other Process Patents. 



Miscellaneous Patent I llustrated 654 



French Rubber Cushioned Wheel. 



New Goods and Specialties Illustrated 655-656 



"Liberty" Bathing Cap. The "U-Put-On" Rubber 

 Heel. Rubber Protector for Nursing Bottle. .\n 

 officially tested tire filler. Improved .^ural Ice Bag. 

 Gaine with Rubber Ball. Shoulder Pad with Rubber 

 Tubing. A White-Soled Pac. Mulford Apparatus 

 for Applying Carrel-Dakin Solution. The Tri-co 

 Universal Rain Rubber. Metal Barrel with Rubber 

 Gasket. 



Editor's Book Table 657-658 



"The Cotton Year Book and Diary," 1917. "The 

 Effect of Wars and Revolutions on Government Se- 

 curities, E.\ternal and Internal." "How to Build Lip 

 Furnace Efficiency." Statistics of Manufactures, 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. "The Law of Pat- 

 ents for Designs." Penang Chamber of Commerce. 

 Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1916. "De 

 Gouvernements-Rubberonderneming Slootwijk." 



New Trade Publications 658 



Obituary Record 660 



H. A. Newell (Bortrait). William O. Anderson. 

 John P. Stockton. A. L. Neiswanger. 



Trade-Mark Decisions 661 



Custom House Decision 661 



S. A. E. Summer Meeting 662 



American Chemical Society 662 



American Rubber Trade — News, Notes and Personals. 663-670 



Rubber Company Share Quotations 663 



Rubber Company Dividends 663 



Packing Plantation Rubber 665 



Captain Appleton (Portrait) 666 



New Incorporations 667 



Munger Wins Rim Decision 668 



Frank E. Titus (Portrait and Sketch) 668 



Domestic Correspondence: 



The Rubber Trade in Akron.. By Our Correspondent 671 

 The Rubber Trade in Boston.. By Our Correspondent 671 

 The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



By Our Correspondent 672 

 The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



By Our Correspondent 673 



Inquiries and Trade Opportunities 673 



Foreign Rubber News: 



Great Britain By Our Correspondent 674-675 



Labor Troubles in Russia 675 



Foreign Trade Reports 675 



Planting Notes, Rubber: 



Tlie Situation in tlie Dutch East Indies 



By a -Special Correspondent — Illustrated 676-677 

 The Situation in Malaya 



By a Special Correspondent — Illustrated 676 

 Brazilian Notes 679 



Patents Relating to Rubber 680-681 



The United States. The United Kingdom. Canada. 

 New Zealand. France. 



Trade-Marks 681 



United States. United Kingdom. Canada. New 

 Zealand. 



Designs for Tires 681 



United States. 



Market: 



Crude Rubber 682 



Market Cables 683 



Singapore Rubber Auctions 683 



Rubber Scrap 690 



Chemicals and Ingredients 691-692 



Cotton and Other Fabrics 692-693 



Statistics: 



Brazil E-xports 688-689 



Ceylon, Rubber Exports and Imports 684 



Cotton Crop Movement 626 



Federated Malay States, Rubber Exports 684 



Holland Imports of Rubber 690 



Italy, Rubber Statistics for January, 1917 622-687 



Java, Rubber Exports 684 



Malaya, Rubber Exports 683 



Penang Rubber Exports 683 



Singapore, Rubber Imports and Exports 683-684 



Straits Settlements Rubber Exports 684 



United Kingdom Rubber Statistics 688 



London and Liverpool Rubber Statistics 688 



United States, Custom House Statistics 687 



Cleveland. Rubber Arrivals 686 



New York Arrivals of Crude Rubl)er 685-687 



Imports and Exports of Crude and Manufactured 



Rubber, April, 1917 687 



San Francisco Arrivals of Crude Rubber. .. .686-687 

 Seattle Arrivals of Crude Rubber 686 



