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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



l( i IBEK 1. 1914.] 



Vol. 51. 



< ictober 1, 1914. 



No. 1. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: Page. 



The Flood-Tide of Opportunity i 



The War and the English Rubber Trade 2 



Mr. Cowen and the Marks Process 2 



A War Tax Although No War 2 



North American Banks in South America 3 



British War on German Trade 3 



Shipping Latex to London 4 



Germany's Vast Manufactures 4 



At Any Rate It is Fine for Guayule 4 



Minor Editorials 4 



What I Saw of the War 



By the Editor — Illustrated 5 



Some Lights on the War 8 



The World's Merchant Marine 9 



The Foreign Trade of the Belligerent Countries 10 



Brazil and the War 12 



Rubber Aboard the Fighting Fleet 



Illustrated 13 



"Henderson Rubber" r6 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 17 



Substitute for Rubber and Gutta Percha 18 



Some Neglected Near-by Markets — IV. Salvador 



Illustrated 19 



The Editor's Book Table 



Illustrated 21 



New Trade Publications 22 



Rubber Relieving Leather Scarcity 



Illustrated 23 



The Cotton Situation 24 



Guiding the Motorist on His Way. . 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



By Our Correspondent 28 



Illustrated 25 



By Our Correspondent 26 



By Our Correspondent 26 



By Our Correspondent 27 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



By Our Correspondent 29 

 The Rubber Trade on the Pacific Coast 



By Our Correspondent 29 

 Fatigue in Motor Truck Tires 30 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



Illustrated 31 

 New Rubber Goods in the Market 



Illustrated 36 



New Machines and Appliances 



i 39 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By I '. -indent 42 

 The British Census of Production, 1907 44 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 45 



A French Process for Reclaiming Fabric Impregnated with 

 Caoutchouc 



Illustrated. 46 



Recent Status of the German Insulated Wire Industry 46 



The German Empire and Its Colonies . . 47 



Some Rubber Planting Notes. 48 



Rubber and Cocoanut Planting in Malaya 49 



Notes from British Guiana 



1 >ttr Correspondent 50 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 51 



Britain, France, Germany.] 



The Scrap Rubber Market 53 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 54 



Chemical Market Report 57 



CANADIAN NOIES. 



The 81 ivei in- & Rubber Co., Ltd.. has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $555,000 and will operate a plant at 

 Calgary, Alberta, for the manufacture of tires, etc. 



A by-law has been passed at St. Catherines, Ontario, by 

 which tlu- Marathon Rubber Co.. of Akron, in return for the 

 erection and operation in the former city of a plant costing 

 at least $50,000 and employing at least 100 operatives at the 

 start, is to be granted a live-acre site and a fixed assessment 

 of $10,000 for ten years. 



The J. F. H olden Rubber Co., of 699 Yonge street, Toronto, 

 < (ntario, has been appointed Canadian agent for Diamond 

 tires. 



The Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., has been granted a permit 

 for the erection of a factory on West Lodge avenue, Toronto, 

 Ontario. Work on ibis plant — which is to be of steel and brick 

 construction and to cost in the neighborhood of $100,000 — will 

 probably not be started for some time. 



DOMINION SYSTEM EMPLOYES MAKE PATRIOTIC CONTRIBUTIONS. 



Each employe of the Dominion Rubber System — which 

 comprises the twenty or more branches and warehouses of 

 the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Ltd., and its factories 

 in Montreal, Granby and St. Jerome, Quebec, and Berlin and 

 Port Dalhousie, Ontario — will contribute one day's pay to the 

 Canadian National Patriotic Fund for the assistance of de- 

 pendents of soldiers in the field and on active service. As 

 none of the factories of the System, which employs several 

 thousand persons, have been shut down owing to the war, but 

 rather are in some cases working ten hours a day instead of 

 eight, the contribution will probably be a large one. 



RUBBER PROSPECTS FROM AN ENGLISH POINT OF VIEW. 



English investors are reported to be holding their rubber 

 shares, except in cases where they are obliged by circumstances 

 to realize. The opinion is generally entertained that such invest- 

 ments are on a better basis than they occupied before the war, 

 owing to tlie various factors in operation. 



Discussing the question of a possible shortage. Mr. H. N. E. 

 Longworthy, chairman of the Mincing Lane Share Brokers' As- 

 sociation, has expressed the opinion that, in view of the reduced 

 supplies of wild rubber to be anticipated, the falling off from 

 that source will be a heavy one. That consumption is being 

 maintained was shown by the fact that for the first week of 

 September. English landings of plantation rubber had been 832 

 tons and. deliveries 791 tons, the present London stock of planta- 

 tion being 3,6iX tons against 3,145 tons a year ago. This situ- 

 ation, in spite of the war. he regarded as decidedly satisfactory. 

 Other features imparting strength to the market were the activity 

 .if tlie industry in America and in the north of England. In 

 the latter quarter main plants are working to their full capacity. 



Very few industries have received such help as has been 

 afforded rubber planters through the action . ■ f the governments 

 of the Malay States and the Netherland Indies in facilitating 

 tlie shipment of rubber by the necessary financial arrangements. 



A CEYLON CONTINGENT FOR THE ENGLISH ARMY. 



At a recent meeting of tin Ceylon Association, of London, 

 it was stated that nearly a hundred applications had been regis- 

 tered for the proposed contingent of Ceylon men then in Eng- 

 land. With regard to those enlisting, a resolution, proposed by 

 Mr. C. A. Talbot and seconded by Mr. Arthur Lampard, was 

 unanimously adopted, recommending all proprietors and directors 

 of companies to allow enlisters half pay for six months, and to 

 let them resume their employment at the close of the war. The 

 question was, however, subject to reconsideration in the event 

 of the hostilities lasting more than the above-named time. 



