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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1919. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THK HANDLING OF COAL AND ASHES IN LARGE MAN UFACILKING 

 plants, as well as heavy materials such as cement, sand, ore, 

 etc., is the subject of Book No. 220, published by the Link-Belt 

 Co., Chicago, Illinois, which is devoted to description and illus- 

 trations of the Peck carrier in its various modifications for the 

 individual needs of such manufacturing establishments. The 

 book, of nearly 100 pages, shows many diagrams and photo- 

 graphs, and gives the names of plants in which the carrier is 

 installed, among which are several rubber companies and other 

 concerns in allied trades. 



The Raybestos Co., Bridgeport, Connecticut, has issued 

 an 80-page booklet descriptive of Raybestos brake linings and 

 clutch facings, and giving in tabular form the brake and clutch 

 data necessary for supplying the passenger and commercial cars 

 on the American market with these products. 



space to the conditions and prospects of the present year, there 

 are nearly sixty pages of statistics regarding raw cotton pro- 

 duction, consumption, export, import and prices; mill production 

 statistics, including tables for numbering yarn by weight, break- 

 ing weight tables, yarn and cloth output tables, and many others. 

 A classified buyers' index of equipment and supplies lists the 

 latest machinery and equipincnt for the manufacture of cotton 

 textiles of every sort. 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE 



WHAT BRAZIL BUYS AND SELLS. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, 

 Industry, and Commerce, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Paper, large quarto, 

 134 pages.) 



THAT Brazil is eager to foster the growing trade relations 

 with the United States, which have become an important 

 outgrowth of the war, is evinced by this unusual publication in 

 the English language, which has recently been issued for free 

 distribution. Its purpose is to place before American com- 

 mercial and financial interests the salient facts regarding the 

 foreign trade of Brazil before and since the beginning of the 

 great war. 



Statistics of several sorts are given, but especially to indicate 

 the things which Brazil requires for its development, particularly 

 commodities formerly imported from Germany. 



A study of the statistics presented discloses the interesting 

 fact that although total exports from Brazil to the United States 

 showed an increase of $33,845,000 between the years 1913 and 

 1917; total imports from the United States to Brazil showed 

 an increase of $57,677,000; and imports of manufactured rubber 

 goods from the United States to Brazil increased to the value of 

 $932,000, the exports of crude rubber from Brazil to the Ignited 

 States decreased $452,000 in value, although the quantity was 

 4,709 metric tons greater in 1917 than in 1913. 



HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. A READY-REFER- 

 ence Pocket Book of Chemical and Pliysical Data. Seventh Edition. 

 By Charles D. Hodgmai., B. S., assisted by Melville F. Coolbaugh. 

 M. A., and Cornelius E. Senseman. M. A. The Chemical Rubber 

 Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1919. (Leather covers, VA by tVi inches, 554 

 pages. Price $2.50.) 



The present edition of this convenient and valuable compila- 

 tion of data contains about 100 pages more material than the 

 previous edition, largely by the introduction of an entirely new 

 and enlarged table of the physical constants of organic com- 

 pounds. The list embraces about 2,000 compounds, including 

 many which have only recently become of importance. The data 

 given are classified under the following general topics : Mathe- 

 matical Tables; General Chemical Tables; Properties of Matter; 

 Heat ; Hygrometric and Barometic Tables ; Sound ; Electricity 

 and Magnetism ; Light, Miscellaneous Tables ; Definitions and 

 Formulae; Laboratory Receipts: Photographic Formulae; 

 Measures and Units; Wire Tables; Apparatus Lists; Problems. 



The whole comprises a very valuable reference work for the 

 laboratory. 



STANDARD COTTON MILL PRACTICE AND EQUIPMENT. 1919. 

 The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, Boston, Massachu- 

 setts. (Qcth, octavo, 209 pages') 



This "Cotton Mill Year Book" contains a wealth of informa- 

 tion for manufacturers of cotton textiles and the rubber trade 

 in general. Following an introductory article by Arthur Rich- 

 mond Marsh, editor of 'The Economic World," reviewing the 

 American cotton trade during the year 1918, and devoting some 



MvER Dtttenhof.f 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



A PIONEER IN HARD RUBBER MANUFACTURE. 



MYER DiTTEXHOEiKR, One uf the pioneer.s of the hard rubber 

 industry in .'\merica and for many years president of the 

 Vulcanized Rubber Co., Morrisville, Pennsylvania, died in his 



apartment at the 

 San Remo Hotel, 

 New York, April 

 2, 1919, after an 

 illness of only a 

 week. He was born 

 in New York City 

 vcr 80 years ago, 

 ihe son of Isaac 

 .md Barbetta D. 

 i liitenhoefer. In 

 ;he early days of 

 •!ie Civil War he 

 .vas United States 

 Consul at Mann- 

 iieim. Germany, in 

 which city he 

 started a hard rub- 

 ber factory i n 

 1860. On his re- 

 turn from Ger- 

 many he brought 

 with him William 

 Keil, who was for 

 many years connected with the Ainerican Hard Rubber Co. In 

 the 'sixties, with S. S. Sonncborn as partner, he formed the Xew 

 York Rubber Comb Co., with a factory in Orange, New Jersey, 

 and subsequently became one of the leading spirits in the Key- 

 stone company, manufacturing similar goods. Later he organ- 

 ized the Goodyear Vulcanite Co., with a plant at Morrisville, of 

 which he was at first manager, and later president. This com- 

 pany manufactured a general line of hard-rubber goods, but 

 mainly combs and patented electrical appliances. In 1901 Mr. 

 Dittenhoefer transferred all of his hard-rubber interests to the 

 newly formed Vulcanized Rubber Co., of which he was president, 

 and the late T. E. Studley, treasurer. The factory at Morris- 

 ville. built nearly a hundred years previous, even with several 

 additions, proved too small to accommodate the business. A 

 new and modern plant was begun in 1902, and finished in 1904. 

 The ceremony of laying the corner-stone was notable through 

 the attendance of men prominent in the trade from all parts of 

 the country. Incidentally, it is interesting to recall that, at Mr. 

 Dittenhoefer's request, among the documents sealed up for all 

 time beneath the corner-stone was a copy of The Inpi.^ Rubber 

 World. 



Mr. Dittenhoefer held the presidency of the company until 

 1913, retiring then from that office, though he was made chairman 

 of the board of directors, which office he held at the time of his 

 death. 



His wife died two years ago, a short time after the couple cele- 

 brated their golden wedding. He is survived by a son, Lester 

 F. Dittenhoefer, and three married daughters. The funeral, 

 which was held Friday, April 4, was attended by many connected 

 with the rubber trade, as well as by members of the Masonic 

 fraternity, in which he was prominent. 



