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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1914. 



052-6'^ 



Vol. 51. 



December 1, 1914. 



No. 3. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



The New Federal Reserve Banking System 117 



England's Rubber Embargo 117 



Dry and Wet Season Plantation Rubber 118 



The Far East Knocking at Our Doors 118 



The Rubber Club's Relief Fund 118 



One Pitfall the Exporters Should Avoid 118 



What the Losers Will Have to Pay ng 



Minor Editorial ug 



Belgium and Its Rubber Trade 



Illustrated 120 



The Use of Rubber in the Armies of the World 



By Leon 1. Walters, M.I'.; Illustrated 124 



America and the European War 



By Ludwig II'. Schmidt 125 



The Work of the Bureau of Standards on Rubber 



Illustrated 126 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 129 



A Possible New Rubber Cement 130 



Rubber Solvents 131 



Coal Tar Products for the Rubber Trade 132 



A New Rubber and Asbestos Compound 



<in F. Green 133 



Some Interesting Letters from Our Readers 134 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 



Illustrated 135 



Some New Types of Tires 



Illustrated 137 



Some New English Rubber Goods 



Illustrated 138 



New Machines and Appliances 



Illustrated 139 



Cotton Notes 142 



New Trade Publications 143 



Editor's Book Table 143 



The Obituary Record 144 



[With Portrait of Alfred Booth.] 



The Rubber Trade Association of New York 145 



The British Embargo on Crude Rubber 147 



The Rubber Club's Relief Fund 148 



Mr. Buckleton's Home for Belgians r48 



[With 1 1 Ernest E. Buckleton.] 

 Dedication of the Forsyth Dental Infirmary 



Illustrated 149 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



indent 150 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



"ar Correspondent 151 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



Bv Our Correspondent 152 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



indent 153 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



By Our i ' ondent 153 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



Illustrated 155 



Wilmer Dunbar 158 



[With Portrait.] 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By ( ' 1 ' 159 



Trans-Atlantic Notes 161 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 163 



The General Situation in Germany 163 



Rubber Solvents in Germany During the War 164 



The Rubber Trade in Japan 



1 ndenl 165 



Japanese Rubber Imports and Exports 165 



Plantation Rubber Industry and the War 166 



H. F. MacMillan, F. L. S 166 



[With Portrait.] 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 167 



Miguel P. Shelley i6g 



[With Portrait. 1 

 Notes from British Guiana 



Bv Our Correspondent 170 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 171 



[United States, Great Britain, France,' Germany.] 



Testing of Rubber Gloves 



Illustrated 173 



The Market for Chemicals and Compounding Ingredients 174 



The Rubber Scrap Market 174 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 175 



INDIA RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. 



f~\ I ; 1 [C] \l statement of values of exports of manufactures of 

 ^-^ india rubber and gutta percha for the month of September, 

 1914, and for the lirsi nine months of five c ilendar years: 

 Belting. Boots All 



Packing and 1 Mher 



Months. and Hose. Shoes. Rubber. Total. 



September, 1914 $211,431 $107,429 $485,659 $804,519 



January-August 1,436.030 562,475 4,709,723 6,708,228 



Nine months. 1914. ... $1,647,461 $669,904 $5,195,382 $7,512,747 



Nine months, 1913.... 1,891,785 982,953 6,546,215 9,420,953 



Nine months, 1912.... 1,888,433 1,014,688 6,016,371 8,919,492 



v months, 1911.... 1,701.441 1,349.380 5,402,984 8,453,805 



Nine months, 1910.... 1,592,594 1,664,215 4,258,968 7.515.777 



The above heading, "All Other Rubber," for the month of 

 September, 1914, and for the first nine months of three calendar 

 years, includes the following details relating to tires: 



For All 



Months Automobiles. Other. Total. 



September, 1914 $266,259 $24,029 $2908 



January-August 2290,094 329.215 2,619,339 



Nine months, 1914 $2,55( .,353 $553,244 $2,909,597 



Nine months, 1913 3,244.015 429.668 3,673,683 



Nine months, 1912 2.53ifi3S 443.443 2,977.078 



GEORGE E. PELL A RUBBER BROKER. 



Early in November Mr. George E. Pell opened an office as a 

 general rubber broker in the Produce Exchange Annex, New 

 York. Mr. Pell ought certainly to be very familiar with crude 

 rubber, as there are very few men in the trade who have viewed 

 it from so many different standpoints. About 15 years ago he 

 wenl to Para, and remained there and in Manaos for 5 years, 

 being associated first with Geo. A. Alden & Co. and later with 

 Gordon & Co. While in Manaos he was the American consular 

 agent, About ten years ago he returned to America and became 

 connected with the Genera] Rubber Co. In this association he 

 made quite an extended visit to the guayule territory of Mexico, 

 some six years ago, and within the last year or two he has 

 visited the great rubber plantation in Sumatra in which the 

 United States Rubber Co. is interested. At the Rubber Exhibi- 

 tion held in New York in the fall of 1912 Mr. Pell acted as the 

 official representative of the Commercial Association of Para. 



Messrs. K. A. & C. H. Loewenthal, treasurer and secretary, 

 respectively, of the U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Co., Inc., with 

 factories at Buffalo and offices in the Forty-Second Street build- 

 ing, have recently made application to the Supreme Court to have 

 the name changed to "Low," in consequence of the tact that 

 official notification has gone forth that passports issued in any 

 German name will hardly facilitate travel to the bearer in Eng- 

 land, France or Russia; and as both these gentlemen have occa- 

 sion to make frequent trips abroad they have decided that the 

 change would very materially promote their convenience. In 

 addition to the inconvenience before described the name was 

 seldom properly spelled, so that the change from Loewenthal 

 to Low will effect an advantage in this respect. 



In accordance with its usual Thanksgiving custom, the Monati- 

 quot Rubber Works Co., of South Braintree, Mass., presented 

 its married employes with turkeys, while the unmarried received 

 cigars and candy. 



