October 1, 1914] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



us to provide further occupation for our 500 workpeople and 

 thus help the nation generally." 



In spite of the appeal on the part oi American users, England 

 has definitely stopped the export of aniline oil. 



Prof. Atwood, of the American Association of Commerce, 

 Berlin, known to many in the rubber trade, did good work in 

 helping stranded Americans during the first of the war panic. 



Some one played .i mean trick on an Akron youth, employed 

 in a British rubber factory. As he was about to start off on a 

 vacation, be was ordered to appear at polici headquarters, 

 where information bad been lodged that he was a German, and 

 that be bail not registered. In spite of his protestations he was 

 ordered not to go more than live miles from the station, and bis 

 vacation trip became impossible. 



Ernest E. Buckleton, president of the Northwestern Rubber 

 •Co., Limited, is doing a lot for the Red Cross, furnishing yarn 

 for socks, material for bandages, and enthusiastically stirring up 

 volunteer workers to prepare these materials. 



Ibe report that Germany had hundreds of tons of synthetic 

 rubber and that domestic factories were using it in lieu of 

 natural rubber and thus suffering no inconvenience is generally 

 discredited in England. 



Dr. Joseph Torrey, at Litherland, is editing the papers read 

 at the last London Rubber Exhibition preparatory to issuing 

 them in book form. He is greatly handicapped by the impossi- 

 bility of securing corrected proofs from authors resident in 

 France, Belgium and Germany. 



THE WORLD'S MERCHANT MARINE. 



EUROPEAN RUBBER NOTES UNDER WAR CONDITIONS. 



During one of the battles near Muelhausen, Alsace, the villa 

 ■of George Chatel, director of the Automobile and Aviation Co., 

 ■of that city, was struck by a shell and Mr. Chatel and his wife 

 both killed. 



The Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition which was to 

 have been held in Rovno, Russia, this fall, has of course been 

 postponed. If the conditions warrant it, it will be held from 

 August 28 to September IS, 1915. 



The India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Co., 

 Ltd.. of London, will pay half wages to the wives and families 

 •of all its employes who enlist in the service, and employment 

 will he found for them on their return. 



Owing to the important foreign contingent in Mincing Lane, 

 many of its representatives have been called to arms by one or 

 another of the belligerents. Among them is Mr. Robert Kahn, 

 .if Hecht, Levis & Kahn. who has been summoned to the French 

 ■colors. 



It is reported that M. Michelin, of Clermont-Ferrand (France), 

 the tire manufacturer, has established a fund equaling $200,000 

 for the benefit of French aviators who may perform acts of 

 exceptional heroism during the war. 



REDUCTION IN BRITISH RE-EXPORTS OF RUBBER. 



The more immediate effect of the war upon the English rub- 

 ber market is shown by the re-exports to other countries from 

 England during the month of August of the years 1913 and 1914. 



1913. 1914. 



Russia founds 1.286.200 63,200 



Germany 1.602,500 652,500 



France 876,200 467.900 



United States 4,242,100 2,184,600 



Other countries 1,010.600 474.300 



Total 9,017,600 3,842,500 



N T< )\V that the opportunity has arisen for greatly increasing 

 ™ the merchant marine of the United States — a development 

 which has been desirable for a great many years — it is interest- 

 ing to glance at the present merchant marine of the leading 

 countries of the globe, and to compare it with conditions a 

 generation ago. 



The world's merchant marine statistics issued not long ago 

 by the French Registry Office gave the total number of steamers 

 and sailing vessels forty years ago and at the present time, or, 

 more accurately, just prior to the outbreak of hostilities, as 

 follows : 



1874-75 Sailing vessels, 59,280; with average of 14,521 tons 



Steamers 5.365; " " " 3.424 " 



1913-14 Sailing vessels 21,924; 5,630 " 



Steamers 17.135; 23.841 " 



The following statement is given of the mercantile marines 

 just prior to the war, of England, Germany. Franc.' and the 

 United States, in the two classes : 



Sailing vessels, 1914. Steamers. 1914. 



England 4.945 6,594 



Germany 1,041 1,510 



France 877 612 



Tinted States 2,993 1.103 



STATISTICS OF STEAMERS. 

 Figures of the number of mercantile steamers belonging 

 to 16 nations, early this year, were as follows: 



Steamers, 1910. Steamers, 1914. 



England 5,453 6,594 



Germany 900 1,510 



United States 551 1,103 



France 526 692 



Norway 657 1,266 



Japan 332 803 



Italy 258 S37 



Holland 224 451 



Sweden 497 940 



Austria 167 315 



Russia 435 622 



Spain 377 438 



Greece 108 312 



Denmark 318 470 



Belgium 73 132 



Various countries 580 S'H) 



Thus while England had 6,594 mercantile steamers, Germany 

 had 1,510, France 692, Russia 622. ttah 537 and Austria 315. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 •Compounding Ingredients; Rubber Country of the Amazon; 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



THE WAR AND THE ENGLISH RUBBER INDUSTRY. 



According to English advices, the ordinary cotton goods trade 

 has been, at a standstill, while the demands for government 

 purposes have been of an unprecedented character." This applies 

 specially to goods for hospital purposes. 



The rubber industry in general has important orders for the 

 various government departments affected by the war. These 

 include equipment for the motor trucks and commercial vehicles 

 now being ordered largely to replace the horse-drawn vehicles 

 taken for military purposes. Permanent benefit is expected to 

 the rubber trade from the impetus thus given to the motor for 

 commercial purposes. Among the government contracts which 

 have been received is one placed with the Dunlop company for 

 10,000 pneumatic tires. The Midland Rubber Co., which had 

 been supplying the government's requirements in solid tires for 

 army transports, has bad a marked increase of that business. 

 1 't.Vrs have also been received from the government for 

 cellaneous rubber products. 



