September 1, l'Jl.S.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



677 



A FINE EXHIBIT OF AMAZON RUBBER AT THE 

 SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION. 



and shapi of crude rubber produced in tin- Amazon < 1 i ^ t r k- 1 and 

 states. There arc huge bails and sheets of Sernamby, 



IT will be remembered whal a chibit Brazil had at 



the rubber exhibition in New York in 1912, and Brazil's 

 exhibits at the London rubber shows have also been famous, 

 It was the expectation of the Brazilian government to havi 

 able exhibits at both the Panama-Pacific Exposition at 

 Francisco and the Panama-California Exposition at San D 

 but owing to the present financial situation in that country, the 

 Brazilian Congress at the last moment concluded not I 

 officially represented at either of those i 



|ii Eugenio Dahne, however, who was one of the Brazilian 

 commissioners at the World's Fair at St l''(M. and 



had been in general charm' of the Brazilian exhibit in New 

 York in 1 ( '12. and had held the office oi Commissioner General to 

 the United States and ' anada, representing the Ministi 

 Agriculture, Industry and I ommerci of Brazil, had been working 

 for several years to obtain Brazil's participation in the two Cali- 

 fornia expositions and when his government decided not to be 

 represented officially, he determined t" arrange for a private 

 exhibit of Brazil's most important products at the San Diego 

 Exposition. With this in view he returned to Brazil last Janu- 

 ary and succeeded in collecting a large number of exhibits show 

 iii-; the various industries in which Brazil is engaged. Ilr was 

 fortunate enough to secure from the Minister of Agriculture 

 the entire collection of rubber displayed .it the exposition in 

 Rio de Janeiro in 1913 and which had been kept intact with the 

 ctation of sending it to the London exhibition held in July, 

 1^14. but which the government later decided not to send. 



s Brazilian exhibit at San Diego was officially opened on 

 the fourth oi July by the president and nthcr officials of the 

 exposition. It is described bj the press of California as one of 

 the liiK-st features of the fair. It occupies a space of US feet 

 front by IS feet deep. Dr. Dahne has divided his exhibit into 

 three sections, showing products from the North of Brazil, from 

 Central Brazil and Southern Brazil. The first section con- 



Generai View of the Exhibit. 



sists largely of a display of rubber from the Amazon. There 

 are five tons of samples of crude rubber, including every variet) 



Front oi Ri bb r Exhibit— Amazon Jungle in B i groi ni>. 



bloi - "t caoutchouc, crepe-sheets and biscuits oi Manitoba and 

 Mangabeira. One cas< aloni contains samples of sixty different 



varieties. The implements used by 



iber gathi rers are als< i shown, 



and rude rubbi I i S and 



clothes bags of rubber made by the 

 natives, while a large collection of 



excellent photographs explains the 



preparing the rubber. 



\s a fittil round an- 



ting, there is reproduced a lit 

 scene of an Amazon jungle, flanked 

 by the reproduction of the two-story 

 native house of the rubber gatl 

 the "Roosevelt Cabin," shown in one 

 of the phi * igraphs. 



The outside walls are bedecked 

 with hunters' trophies, the heads and 

 skins of deer, wild boar, the 



American jaguar, the otter, the sloth, 

 monkeys, birds, and other animals, 

 and Collections of Indian bov 



clubs and lances 

 whole Brazilian exhibit is par- 

 ticularly fine and has provi 



t' i all visitoi ' 



sideriug that 1 >r. Dahne has bn 

 this great collection together with 

 comparatively little aid and is mak- 

 ing this exhibit on his own personal 

 responsibility, it is a monument I 

 his energy and capacity for this sort of work. That his efforts 

 have been duly appreciated, not only by the visitors to the ex- 



