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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Sepiemuer 1, 1917. 



Vol. 5f, 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1917 



No. 6 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: Pages. 



That Tired Feeling 695 



Profiteering Must Cease 695 



Cord Tires Under Fire 695-696 



The Call for Trained Rubber Chemists 696 



The Rubber Section Meeting at Boston 696 



The Great Patriotic Business Convention 696 



What Fire Elimination Might Accomplish 696 



What I Saw in the Philippines — III 



By Henry C. Pearson— Illustrated 697-700 



Automobile Tire Fabrics 



By Alvin Kingsbacher — Illustrated 701-703 



War News of the Rubber Industry 704-707 



The Rubber Trade Roll of Honor 707-708 



Bowers' Specific Gravity Tables 709-71 1 



Americanization Activities in Rubber Mills 711 



The Rubber Association of America 712 



Jelutong, or Pontijinak, Is Crude Rubber and Duty Free 



713-714 

 Judicial Decisions 714-715 



Trade-Mark Decisions 715 



Chemistry: 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 716-717 



Chemical Patents 717 



Laboratory Apparatus Illustrated 717-718 



Chemical Engineers to Meet in Boston 718 



Third National Exposition of Chemical Industries.. 719 



Inquiries and Trade Opportunities 719 



Machines and Appliances, New 720-721 



Banbury Automatic Mixer. Southwark Quick Open- 

 ing Vulcanizer Door. Holmes Overflow Trimmer. 

 Pruden Powdered Coal Carbureter. Stratton Steam 

 Separator. Bolton Vertical Bias Cutter. 



Machinery Patents Illustrated 722-723 



Dead Weight Mold Press Vulcanizer. Fabric Band 

 Stretching and Coating Machine. Rubber Sole Vul- 

 canizing and Embossing Apparatus. Machine for 

 Making Hollow Rubber Articles. Other Machinery 

 Patents. 



Process Patents 723 



Raw Material Cost Accounting in Tire Factories 



Diagram 723 



New Goods and Specialties 724-726 



Appliance for Maxillo-Facial Mechanotherapy. Vul- 

 canized Rubber Hair-Parter. Siluminite, a New In- 

 sulator. "Kantsink" Swimming Harness. Rubber- 

 ized Sharks. Sandal Gaiter with Rubber Sole. Nel- 

 sen Diving Line Buoy. "Fyber-Weld" Goggles for 

 Welders. "Crogoff," a New Game. Rubber Tube 

 Water Filter. Nathan Comfykit. Heavy Elastic 

 Aviation Cord. Tri-PIy Combination Eraser. 



Editor's Book Table 727-728 



Reports (if tlie Progress of .Vpplicil Chemistry. 

 Eighteentli Year Book and Annual Reports of the 

 Rubber .Association of AmericH. Chemical Patents 

 and Allied Patent Problems. The iMnancier Rubber 

 Share Handbook. Brazil To-day and To-morrow. 

 The Manufacture of Rubber Goods. Communica- 

 tions of tlic Netherlands Government. Institute for 

 Advising tlie Rubber Trade and the Rublier Industry. 

 Jaarboek Van Nederlandsch Indie, 1916. 



New Trade Publications 728 



Interesting Letters from Our Readers 729-730 



The Obituary Record 730 



Harry L. Lewman. H. Norman Grieb. W. Scott 



Alkire. Hon. Morton E. Converse. 



American Rubber Trade — News Notes and Personals. 731-737 



Rubber Company Share Quotations 731 



Rubber Company Dividends 731 



Major Osterrieth — Portrait and .Sketch 732 



New Incorporations 734-735 



Henry N. Mabery — Portrait and Sketch 736 



Domestic Correspondence: 



The Rubber Trade in Akron.. By Our Correspondent 738 

 The Rul)ber Trade in Rhode Island 



By Our Correspondent 738-739 

 The Rubber Trade in Boston 



By Our Correspondent — Illustrated 739-740 



Foreign Rubber News: 



Great Britain By Our Correspondent 741-742 



European Rubber Notes 742-743 



Foreign Trade Reports 743-744 



The Situation in Russia 744 



Planting: 



The Situation in Malaya 744-745 



The F. M. S. Agricultural Conference 745 



Bolivian Notes 746 



Patents Relating to Rubber 747-748 



The United States. The United Kingdom. Canada. 

 France. 



Trade-Marks 748 



United States. The United Kingdom. Canada. 



Markets 



Crude Rubber 749-750 



Market Cables 750 



Singapore Rubber Auctions 750 



Rubber Scrap 756 



Cotton and Other Fabrics 756-758 



Chemicals and Ingredients 758-759 



Statistics: 



Brazil, Manaos Exports 750 



Ceylon, Rubber Exports and Imports 751 



Cotton Crop Movement 758 



Italy, Rubber Statistics for January, 1917 754-755 



Java, Rubber Exports 75 1 



Malaya, Rubber Exports 751 



Singapore, Rubber Imports and Exports 750-751 



Straits Settlements Rubber Exports 751 



South America, United States Trade with 755 



United Kingdom Rubber Statistics 754 



London and Liverpool Rubber Statistics 754 



United States, Statistics May, 1917 754 



New York Arrivals of Crude Rubber 752 



Imports and Exports of Crude and Manufactured 



Rubber, June, 1917 753 



San Francisco Arrivals of Crude Rubber 753 



Seattle Arrivals of Crude Rubber 752-753 



