October 1, 1918.; 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



for making physical tests and llie chairman was instructed to 

 appoint a committee for this purpose. 



The attendance at Wednesday's meeting was about eighty, and 

 would have been greater had the room been larger. 



Among those present were the following: 



John R. MacGregor. F.agle-Picher Lead Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



L. J. Plumb, United Stales Rubber Reclaiming Co.. New York City. 



Frederick Dannerth, Newark, New Jersey. 



R. T. Stokes. St.^rs. Roebuck & Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



G. D. Kratz, Falls Rubber Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



Cole Coolidsc. Falls Rvibber Co.. Cuvahoga Falls, Ohio. 



Arthur 11. Flower, FalN Rubber Co '. Cuvahoga Falls, Ohio. 



Charles P. Fox. Municipal Lab,:r:itories. Dayton, Ohio. 



W. D. Pardee. Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey. 



Walter H. Tuve. The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Frank P. Brock. Redmanol Chemical Products Co., Chicago, Illinois. 



r>. F. Cranoi, Conshohocken. Pennsylvania. 



A. H. Smith. Buresu of Standards. Washington, District of Columbia. 



W. H. Havt. Eagle-Picher Lead Co., Chicago. Illinois. 



Geo. P. Loomis, The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron. Ohio. 



V. A. Cosier. The B. F. Goodrich Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



W. L. Smith. The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Charles M. Knight, Akron. Ohio. 



M. M. Harrison, Miller Rubber Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



R. J. Bonstein, Kellv-Springfield Tire Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



C. F. Devine, Habirshaw Electric Cable Co., Yonkers. New York. 



John Young. Firestone Tire ft Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



J. B. Britton Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



E. W. Oldham. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



A. B. Merrill, The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron. Ohio. 



C. W. Kohler. The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. 



P. R. Monahan. Rubber Insulated Metals Corp., Plainfield. New Jersey. 



E. H. Grafton. Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co., Passaic, New Jersey. 



E. R. Waite. The Goodyear Tiie & Rubber Co., Akron. Ohio. 



H. G. Pushee. General Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



C A. Norris. Mechanical Rubber Co., Cleveland,. Ohio. 



A. C. Peteriohn, Mechanical Rubber Co., Cleveland. Ohio. 



H. M. Koelliker. Mechanical Rubber Co., Cleveland. Ohio. 



J. D. Morron. Mechanical Rubber Co.. Cleveland. Ohio. 



W. H. Cope. Lee Tire & Rubber Co.. Conshohocken. Pennsylvania. 



W. W. Evans. The B. F. Goodrich Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



Herman H. I.owenstein. Chemical Warfare Service, Nashville, Tenn. 



L. J. D. Healv. Federal Rubber Co.. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 



Lieijt. Roscoc M. Gage, The B. F. Goodrich Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



G. Lloyd Allison. The B. F. Goodrich Co.. Akron. Ohio. 



G. C. Ashman. Bradlev Polvtechnic Institute, Peoria. Illinois. 



Helen C. Gillette, Prest-O-Lite Co.. Indianapolis. Indiana 



Zeuzo Kcniski. Osaka Shosen Kaisha, New York City. 



C. W. Hewlett, Kokomo Rubber Co., Kokonio. Indiana. 



B A. Allison. Barber Asphalt Paving Co.. Madison. Illinois. 



W. S. Kimlev. Hewitt Rubber Co., Buffalo. New York. 



H. A. Hoffman, The B. F. Goodrich Co.. .^kron, Ohio. 



P. H. Henkel, Continental Rubber Works. Erie, Pennsylvania. 



W. ^cott, The Goodvear Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron. Ohio. 



W. T. Kellv. The Goodvear Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



T. Kimishima. Imperial t'niversitv of Japan, New York City. 



J. H. Link. Faultless Rubber Coi. Ashland. Ohio. 



R. L. Siblev. The Goodvear Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron. Ohio. 



M. M. Kahn, Kellv-Springfield Tire Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



A. H. Peterson. Kellv-Springfield Tire Co., Akron. Ohio. 



H. r. Simmons. Universitv of Akron. Akron. Ohio. 



C. W. Sander'ion. The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls. Massachusetts. 



E. G. Marshall, Fort Madison. Iowa. 



G. S. T. Dalton. Mansfield Tire & Rubber Co.. Mansfield. Ohio. 



K. T. "Thompson. Columbiana Tire & Rubber Co., Columbiana, Ohio. 



George Oenslager. The B. F. Goodrich Co.. Akron, Ohio. 



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John B. Tuttle, The Fit 



THE FOURTH NATIONAL EXPOSITION OF CHEM- 

 ICAL INDUSTRIES. 



■"THE Fourth National Exposition of Cheinical Industries was 

 ^ held in the Grand Central Palace, New York, the week 

 of Septeinber 23. Over 350 e.xhibitors participated and their 

 displays covered three floors. Practically all of these exhibits 

 had a bearing on the production of war material. The opening 

 address of Dr. Charles H. Herty, chairman of the exposition's 

 advisory committee, outlined the growth of the industry, show- 

 ing its present position statistically, as regards exports in a few 

 lines only, and indicating the possibilites for the future, and the 

 invaluable aid the young dyestuff industry is rendering in the 

 production of toxic materials for war purposes. 



The daily program included symposiums on chemical topics 

 and the exhibition of a large variety of moving pictures, changed 

 each day, and covering a wide range of chemical and metal- 

 lurgical manufactures and waterpower development. 



Among the many instructive exhibits, those in the following 

 list had special interest for the rubber manufacturer: 



Barber Asphalt Paving Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, man- 

 ufacturers of asphaltic products, among them Genasco brand 

 mineral rubber. 



The Bristol Co., Waterburv, Connecticut, whose recording 



thermometers and pressure gages are in use m practically 

 every rubber mill. The output of this company includes their 

 well-known recording instruments for temperature and time, 

 with special fittings to adapt thein to meet the requirements 

 in rubber work ; also new strip-chart type recorders and the 

 Bristol patented safety set-screw. The total output of the 

 latter is devoted to United States Government needs. 



Buffalo Foundry and Machine Co., Buffalo, New York, 

 occupied a very large area in which was shown a line of heavy 

 machinery such as vacuum dryers of commercial and laboratory 

 size for rubber and other work. 



J. H. Day Co., New York City, exhibited their line of 

 mixers with tight-fitting covers to conserve solvents, all of 

 which find use in rubber mills where much cement is prepared. 



T. P. Devine Co., Buffalo, New York, exhibited a few repre- 

 sentative pieces of apparatus, which included a commercial size 

 vacuum dryer and one for laboratory use. They also had on 

 view a water still and a particularly heavy autoclave with 

 mixing attachment. 



Harrison Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Extensive 

 lines of paints and colors formed a portion of the extremely 

 interesting and varied exhibition by E. I. du Pont de Nemours 

 & Co. Zinc oxide, litharge and various other compounding 

 ingredients of special purity and fineness for rubber makers' 

 use were to be seen. 



Hunter Dry Kiln Co., Indianapolis. Indiana, showed a 

 model front end of their kiln, featured for the drying of 

 ruljber and equipped with direct reading hypometer. The results 

 of the Hunter system of drying as exhibited in samples of 

 crude rubber were extremely interesting. The process has 

 advanced in favor very rapidly since its introduction to the 

 rubber trade, and is now in use in practically fifty American 

 rubber factories. 



Dr. Frederick Maywald, F. C. S., New York City, featured 

 liis analytic and rubber experimental laboratory in a series of 

 photographic views, and in an informing circular set forth par- 

 ticularly the needs of the small manufacturer for chemical 

 service. 



New Jersey Zinc Co., New York City. There is probably 

 no rubber manufactory in America where the product of this 

 company is unknown. Their exhibit set forth their products in 

 an effective and interesting manner. 



Schaeffer AND BuDENBERG MANUFACTURING Co., Brooklyn, 

 New York, made an interesting display of pressure gages, ther- 

 mometers and recording instruments adapted to every manu- 

 facturing need in such particulars. 



F. J. Stokes Machine Co.. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, ex- 

 hibited chemical machinery, rotary vacuum disks, and solvent 

 recovery apparatus of interest in drying compounds, scrap 

 rubber, etc. 



^VER^'ER & Pfleiderer Co., Saginaw, Michigan, exhibited their 

 complete line of mixers for rubber and other work in neat 

 laboratory sizes very convenient for examination and demonstra- 

 tion. 



EXPORTS FROM BRITISH GUIANA. 

 From January 1, 1918, to May 30, 1918, the exports of balata 

 amounted to 234,514 pounds, against 432.251 pounds for the same 

 period last year — a considerable decrease, therefore. Figures for 

 rubber exports over corresponding periods show an increase for 

 the current year and are 5.831 and 4,935 pounds, respectively. 



HONDURAS RUBBER EXPORTS. 



During 1917, crude rubber to the ainount of 35,156 pounds, 

 value $15,086, was invoiced at the United .States consulate at 

 Cuba and the agencies at Bonacca, Roatan, and Tela. The 1916 

 shipments to the United States from the same districts totaled 

 54,347 pounds, value $33,004. 



