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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I June 1, 1915. 



Reg;. U. S. Pat. Off. 



Vol. ?2. 



JUNE 1. 1915. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



Have We Turned the Corner? 



No One Can Plead Ignorance 



Indictment of the Hidden Rubber Shippers 



Rubber in the Submarine 



American Advertisements Barred from German Papers 



The Pan-American Conference 



The Heavy Burden of War 



Minor Editorial 



Rubber's Vital Part in the Submarine 



Illust 



Rubber Statistics for the United States 



Substitutes for Hard Rubber 



Illustrated 



Explaining the Embargo Guarantees to Dealers 



Important Rubber Club Communications 



New Machines and Appliances 



Illust 



New Tire Machines 



Illustrated 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 



Test for Fineness of Pigments 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 



Illustrated 

 The Editor's Book Table 



New Trade Publications 



Interesting Letters from Our Readers 



Obituary Record 



With portraits 0/ .'. D. Vermeule and J. /'. Ridel 



Five Men Indicted for Fraudulent Rubber Shipments 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



Clifford H. Oakley 



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 Rubber Trade in Boston 



By Our Correspondent 



Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



By Out < resi ondeni 

 Rubber Trade in Trenton 



Bv Our Correspondent 

 Rubber Trade in Akron 



By Our Correspondent 

 India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Bx Our ( on espondent 



Conditions in the German Rubber Industry 



Present and Prospective Plantation Production 



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Rubber in German East Africa 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 



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

 Market for Chemicals and Compounding Ingredients 

 Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



Rubber Scrap Market 



The Market for Cotton and Cotton Fabrics 



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The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co., which manufac- 

 tures mechanical rubber g Is, with factories, warehouses and 



executive offices at Passaic, New Jersey, has moved its New 

 York 'branch office from 18 Vesej street to the new Equitable 

 building at 120 Broadway. 



L. Littlejohn & Co., crude rubber brokers, have moved to 

 better and inure commodious quarters. Their address is now 

 !. New York City. 



The Faultless Rubber Co., of \shland, Ohio, has added two 

 new buildings t" it > plant. One of these, 60x200 feet, two 

 stories high, is equipped with 600 lockers, also toilets and shower 

 baths, for the use of employes. The other. 60x60 feet, is to he 

 used as a mill and calender experimental department, with its 

 ston d hand finishing. 



BATAVIA RUBBER MARKET. 



DEFORE the European war broke out practically all the 

 *-* crude rubber produced in the Dutch East Indies was for- 

 warded to Amsterdam, Holland, to be there sold and re- 

 shipped. But the war placed so many difficulties in the way 

 of shipping that it soon became almost impossible to get the 

 crude rubber to Amsterdam, and the rubber market of that 

 city is now practically closed. To dispose of their product, 

 the rubber producers of the Dutch East Indies formed the 

 Batavia Association for the Rubber Trade, which association, 

 in turn, organized the Batavia Rubber Market, using the 

 Amsterdam market as a model. The Batavia Association for 

 the Rubber Trade is registered in Batavia and is formed for 

 a term of 25 years beginning March 1. 1915. its object being 

 to further and protect the rubber trade. According to the 

 regulations for trading in rubber on the Batavia market, 

 which were framed and recently published by the Batavia As- 

 sociation, rubber is now sold in Batavia by private sale, bj 

 public auction and by forward contract. Buyers must be 

 houses established or represented in the Netherlands Indies, 

 or crude rubber brokers connected with the Batavia Associa- 

 tion. Prices are computed in Dutch cents and half cents per 

 metric pound or one-half kilogram, and terms are cash, with- 

 out disci >unt. sellers always having the right to demand pay- 

 ment per scale. Delivery is taken, in private auction, within 

 14 days at the latest, unless the parties have otherwise agreed, 

 and the goods are stored pending delivery. The same rule 

 applies to public auction sales. In case of forward sale, de- 

 livery is taken on first warning of the sellers, under condition 

 that they give opportunity for inspection. In case of parcels 

 damaged by sea. lire or water, delivery is taken as per condi- 

 tions of sale. When a buyer fails to take delivery at the 

 proper time the seller has the right to weigh the goods, and 

 from that moment they become the property of the purchaser 

 at his account and risk. Rubber is weighed in gross for ac- 

 count of sellers and the tare afterwards deducted. Delivery 

 is made on the scale. 



Monthly auctions are held as arranged by the Batavia As- 

 sociation, according to a plan determined on by the Board of 

 this association in conjunction with the brokers, and notice 

 of the auction is given seven days in advance of the date fixed. 

 Tenders are lodged in closed envelopes slating the names of 

 the brokers connected with the association through which the 

 bidder wishes to buy. Prices paid are kept secret until all bids 

 of the dan- have been dealt with. 



Sellers pay a total commission of ]/ 2 per cent, to the pur- 

 chasing broker. The same rules apply both for private and 

 public auctii ms. 



The association stipulates the forms of contract for sale 

 made by forward contract. Other forms of sale are allowed, 

 as long as they do not deviate from the general rules of the 

 Batavia Rubber Market. Sales under the official conditions 

 of other markets are also allowed. The Board of the associa- 

 tion decides all cases not provided for in the market reg- 

 ulations. 



The Batavia association has also organized a Rubber Arbi- 

 tration Bureau to decide, at the request of the parties con- 

 cerned, any disputes which under the law may be settled by 

 arbitration. This bureau is also to decide upon differences in 

 quality, and upon defaults in carrying out contracts for future 

 delivery, and is to fix allowance when necessary. 



RUBBER TRADE INQUIRY. 



[107.] A reader of The India Rubber World requests as- 

 sistance in locating the American representatives of the firm of 

 Schirm, of Leipzig, Germany, which manufactures a dipping ap- 

 paratus for use in the production of transparent rubber nipples. 



