

THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1915. 



AN UNFORTUNATE MISAPPREHENSION. 



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Vol. 52. 



JULY 1. 1915. 



No. 4. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



Rubber Men for Preparedness 52g 



The War and Rubber Tires 529 



The Brighter Side of the Amazon 529 



Two Pan-American Suggestions 530 



The Collector on the Watch 531 



Consuls to Give Some Genuine Information 531 



Shall We Have a University of Tire Repairing? 531 



Rubber Trade in Russia 



Illustrated 532 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 536 



Rubber Statistics for the United States 538 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 



Illustrated 539 



New Machines and Appliances 



Illustrated 542 



New Trade Publications 545 



Publications of the Society of Automobile Engineers 



istrated 546 



The Editor's Book Table 547 



Rubber Import and Export Regulations 548 



The Sixteenth Annual Rubber Club Outing 



Illustrated 549 



Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Rubber Club. . . 549 



News of the American Rubber Trade 550 



Vice-President Van H. Cartmell of the Rubber Club 



Portrait 551 



The Obituary Record 554 



I With Portrait of F. A. Magowan.] 



Mr. Loewenthal Engages in Charitable Work 



P it rait 556 



Hood Rubber Co. Outing 



Illustrated 557 



Rubber Trade in Boston 



Bv Our Correspondent 559 



Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



By Out Correspondent 559 



Rubber Trade in Trenton 



Bv Our Correspondent 561 



Rubber Trade in Chicago 



By Our Correspondent 562 



Rubber Trade in Akron 



By Our Correspondent 562 



Rubber Trade on the Pacific Coast 



By Our Correspondent 564 



India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Correspondent 565 



Rubber Trade in Germany 



By Our Correspondent 567 



Rubber Production in the Malayan Peninsula 



Bv Our Correspondent 568 

 Present Conditions of the Rubber Market at Manaos 



By a Special Correspondent 572 



The Rubber Crisis in Bolivia 573 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 574 



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



Market for Chemicals and Compounding Ingredients 576 



The Market for Cotton and Other Fabrics 577 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 578 



Rubber Scrap Market 581 



An Unfortunate Misapprehension 582 



The variety of materials used in the preparation of rubber 

 and the production of rubber goods is evidenced by the state- 

 ment recently made by William H. Scheel. of 159 Maiden 

 Lane. New York, dealer in rubber workers' supplies, that he 



i> prepared to supply practically 200 products suitable for this 

 purpose. 



HPo the Editor of The India Rubber World: 

 * I am writing you today to call your attention to an 



article which is going the rounds of the German press, namely, 

 that the Rubber Club of America has come out with a circular 

 in which they inform those interested in the branch that 

 goods for Germany will not be exported, calling attention to 

 the fact that goods will be taken for transportation to Great 

 Britain. 



The matter is very plain to us, but is being wrongly con- 

 strued by the German press, which argues that this export 

 has been forbidden to Germany, but not to England. The 

 situation is very simple, although in reality very complicated, 

 as all goods sent to Germany, or addressed to German firms, 

 or even to American firms in Germany (we greatly regret to 

 saj 1 are confiscated by the British government, and not al- 

 lowed to reach their destination. 



We should feel under great obligation to you would you 

 look into this matter and see if it cannot be straightened out, 

 so as not to give the impression that American firms do not 

 wish to send goods to Germany, but will send them to 

 England. 



We trust you will continue to send us The India Rubber 

 World regularly, as our second-class matter reaches us more 

 promptly than first-class matter, which latter is always sub- 

 ject to a delay. 



Very sincerely yours, Geo. S. Atwood, 



Secretary, American Association of Commerce and Trade. 



Berlin, Germany, May 25, 1915. 



[It is obvious from the letter printed above that the Ger- 

 man press entirely misapprehends the rubber situation in 

 the United States. This matter has been explained several 

 times in these columns and particularly in the editorial that 

 appeared in the May issue. The British Government put an 

 embargo on rubber from the English plantations in the 

 East. American manufacturers needed this rubber and in 

 order to obtain it agreed to the terms of the British Gov- 

 ernment, namely — that if shipments of plantation rubber 

 from London to American ports were resumed, none of it, 

 either in its crude or manufactured form, should be permitted 

 to reach the enemies of the Allies. This agreement was 

 entered into by the American manufacturers as being the 

 only way in which they could secure the necessary supply 

 of rubber. It indicates no feeling in any direction, either of 

 friendliness for England or unfriendliness for Germany. — 

 Editor.] 



RECENT CUSTOMS RULINGS. 



The protest by the Max Frankel Co., against a 50 per cent, 

 assessment on bottle stoppers composed of china and rubber 

 as being chiefly of china, has been sustained, and these ar- 

 ticles have been declared dutiable at 10 per cent., as manu- 

 factures in chief value of rubber. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. has also been sustained in its pro- 

 test against a 15 per cent, assessment on heavy wire forms, 

 and by the decision of the Board of General Appraisers 

 these have been allowed free entry, as wire staples. 



TO DISTRIBUTE AMERICAN RUBBER GOODS IN BELGIUM. 



An organization of Belgian business men has been created for 

 the purpose of introducing into Belgium, as soon as the war is 

 over, all kinds of American products and manufactures There 

 is a secondary object in this organization, namely, to find em- 

 ployment as agents and distributors of American goods for a 

 large number of Belgian manufacturers and business men who 

 have been financially ruined or at least very seriously embar- 

 rassed by the war. Mr. Willy Lamot. Shardhighs, Halstead 

 (Essex I, England, is acting as secretary for this organization. 



