51 li i 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



IJr.M 1. 1915 



e of tire for their machines. Tire sundries 

 fully desribed and illustrated, including "Heal a Cut" plastic 

 compound, reliners, sell . patches, rebuilding fabrics, 



tire tube tape, tire irons, pump valves, pressure gages and rub- 

 ber bumpers. Straight side casings, ol late very popular, have 

 een neglected by the Dominion company, winch offers them 

 in "Nobby," "< hain" ami plain treads in all standard sizes, and 

 furthermore manufactures special rim fillers to enable owners 

 if oi.i cars io use straight side casings. 



SOME INTERESTING LETTERS FROM OUR 

 READERS. 



THINKS GERMANY IS NOT GETTING FAIR PLAY. 



TO the Editor of The India Rubber World : 

 As a constant reader of your very valuable journal, and 

 for many years so, I am afforded the opportunity of reading 

 also your article on page 241 of the February number dealing 

 with "The Rubber Trade on Guard." 



Whilst acknowledging your perfc. t Ereedom to do and write 

 whatever you like, I think I may justly trespass upon your cour- 

 tesy and ask you. since you are talking of the obligation to play 

 fair with England in the matter of rubber export, if you are of 

 the opinion that other nations, engaged or not in the war, must 

 take a back seat in the playhouse of American neutrality. 



I think for the sake of fair play, fair play should be strictly 

 observed in all directions and not in favoi of .me nation only. 



This war will have an end, as all wars have had, and it would 

 In pitiful if after the war we should have to bear in mind that 

 fair play was on the other side of tin ocean only a matter printed 

 on paper. 



Are you familiar with the fact that even now-a-days history 

 is taught in school in England as follows: "The great war of 

 the American Rebellion "' In Austria-Hungary and in Germany 

 it is taught as follows: "The war of the American Independ- 

 ence." 



What a pity that there are no men living like Franklin, Wash- 

 ington and the many dozens of tin- other great Americans. 

 Aours very sincerely, 



Vienna, March 6, 1915. Gustav Hacker. 



A BRIGHTER VIEW OF DUTCH GUIANA. 



["o i he Editor of the India Rubber World: 



In your issue of April 1 is an article by your "Regular Cor- 

 respondent." headed "Trade Opportunities in Dutch Guiana." 

 and in it there are so many statements that are not only mis- 

 leading, hut absolutely incorrect, that it does this colony a great 

 injustice, and it seems to me that they should be refuted at once. 



Referring to the first item, the balata industry has not ceased 

 to be. Within the last few weeks I have known of 280 men 

 contracted, and sent to the bush to bleed trees. One more 

 company now has 140 men under contract here in the city, and 

 these will be sent to the bush at once Nearly every day wit- 

 nesses tin departure of one or more parties for the bush; and 

 while the price of this article is somewhat below the average, 

 these large companies must see a profit ahead or they would 

 not send these men to the bush. Every boat that leaves this 

 port for Europe takes some of this product, it having been 

 taken off the contraband list. 



The statement that "cocoa, coffee, bananas, rubber, etc.. are 

 overflooding the local market," is absurd. Cocoa is eagerly 

 bought here by large exporting firms, and the local price of 95c. 

 Dutch, per K. < i.. is the best obtained in a good many years. 

 1 offee i- shipped on every boat to the United States, where it 

 [it about 16c, American, per pound. There is no 

 ii r to be bought here, for the reason that there is very little 

 produced in the colony, the majority of tree:- not yet having 



.hi. mini tbe required size for tapping. The outlook for well 

 conducted plantations is bright, and has not been so good for 

 \rars. 



flu great trouble in Suriname is that there is a large class 

 of people here who do not care to make their living by work, 

 ami while everyone will admit that times are not just what they 

 should be, there is plenty of work to be had here. The fact 

 that the planters of this colony have to import thousands of 

 indentured laborers from British India and Java, at a very high 

 price per head, speaks for itself. 



\.s to the new balata ordinance, it has not been in operation 

 for a sufficient length of time to be able to commenl on its 

 faults or virtues, but the fact that it has tended to cut down 

 tin amount of advances made to laborers before entering the 

 bush, and has at least tried to curtail the wholesale stealing of 

 balata, has made it very unpopular with a certain class of the 

 laboring population. 



Hoping that you will give this article space in your valued 

 journal, and hoping that it will help to correct some of the 

 erroneous statements in the letter of your regular correspondent, 

 I am, very sincerely yours, 



(Signed) J. S. Lawton. 



Paramaribo, April 30, 1915. 



FOOTWEAR FOR THE MOUNTAINS, 



A writer who contributes an article on mountain camping and 

 its proper equipment to a recent issue of the "Saturday Evening 

 Post" describes the proper sort of footwear for such outings, as 

 follows : 



"A very useful form of footwear for almost any sort of wilder- 

 ness travel is the leather-topped, rubber-footed shoe, with a cor- 

 rugated sole. You can get them with heels, also, if you like. 

 Until worn smooth they hold very well on the rocks. It is al- 

 ways more or less damp round camp — even in the mountains — 

 from dew or the like. If you have on a couple of pairs of heavy 

 stockings and these waterproof boots or moccasins, you can bunt 

 in rain or snow, and be comfortable in the evening or in the 

 morning dew, when you go out to hunt the horses — which nat- 

 urally always are lost." 



It is very evident from the above description that the writer 

 had in mind and had also had in use a pair of the famous Barker 

 Hunting Shoes. 



A NEW CANADIAN RUBBER COMPANY. 



The F. E. Partridge Rubber Co. has been formed in Montreal, 

 to manufacture rubber sundries and specialties for the wholesale 

 drug trade, automobile tires and tire accessories of all kinds. 

 F. E. Partridge, who on March 1 resigned from the vice-presi- 

 dency of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, with 

 which he had been associated for the past ten years, is the head 

 of the new concern, which has established offices at 146 Iberville 

 street, Montreal. Previous to his connection with the Canadian 

 Consolidated company. Mr. Partridge was for ten years actively 

 interested in rubber manufacture in the United States, where he 

 was associated with some of the largest concern- engaged in 

 that line. 



The firm of Congdon, Marsh, Limited, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, 

 is opening a branch warehouse at Edmonton. Alberta, for the 

 distribution of its shoe product and of Miner rubbers, made by 

 the Miner Rubber Co., Limited, of Granby, Quebec. The Cong- 

 don, Marsh concern is sole distributor of Miner rubbers in west- 

 ern Canada. 



The Chicago branch of the New York Belting & Packing 

 ( o on May 1 moved from its old quarters at 130 West Lake 

 street to a new store at ]24-12(> West Lake street. 



