The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-03-25
GREAT NEWS For GoTHAM1rnA
An Expedition to Find = New Rubber Sup.
ply for Good Gum Shoes.

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ply for Good Gum Shoes.
Gotham rubber manufacturers were con-
s~iderably astonished last week by seeing In
print an advertisement for a man who had had
experience among the rubber plantations OF
Central America and Para to start on an expe-
dition to n new source OF rubber supply.
"Excuse me" said John II. Cheever with q
laugh, the new source is q secret; Suffice 1t
new field Of operations. 1t will be IA sort OF ex-
detrimental flyer. The now iisld may not Yield
Ave bounds Of rubber: and again it may be an
WHY Do you start the expedition ?" the re-
soaT T { Etvsn s svids eng Of e. s1h %S = ..nu.s
yearly Ms ger irom npG Bora aeio9 md Al GGisnd and d. Para .as0f IN
South America. But so great is tho censump-
ton OF rubber in American commerce that
there IS plenty OF room for a new supply Of tho
1t is curious how little people genorally
sdGsa sSGd. Fgo0 sTrh sH'h nisE up Mr. e. f G5ss snS
possibly swear when they. find out that their
now rubber shoes sometimes wear out In a
stand enough about rubber to know that II
they knew more they could ct rubber shoes
wouldn't wear out IN a hurry. Inspired By the
complaints that went on all, about me during
the blizzard by people who had got stuck on
what they declared to be Dasteboard and paper
Gently and Iottod down some things. about
and the american pu6iieNthat Is. II. the
American public wants the, benefit, Of It.
When Columbus discovered America he
found those old fifteenth century Americans
among them rubber shoes; But even before
that rubber was a useful thing, and they made
OF a tree called Fieus e~iast,cuS. and II anybody
wants to know right here why rubber shoes. So
called, wear ont right of, you can tell thom that
it is because there isn't enough FIcus ,~elasticus
}}n Indians ss t and Sp the Natives IA ses q shG East fndia 6ads
rough rubber boots and bottles and things OF
rubber in those old days, and ever since tho
and hotties and things has gone on boomingly.
r rhS r%e0 thst o wo shGss wear s,a S ssksi a lle6H o W sSss
had an uncouth and clumsy appearance. Now
we get enough rubber from the valley Of the
ever9 MANUFACTURED in making rabbers Of rub.
Dor instead Of something else. and the reason
a tho, Pe *5osa hsr rsb s shsHf Is t To- s 9Ss bo 50 m ruSa
bers are not made by the honest process at all.
Tho making Of q, rubber overshoe is an in
the beginning and follow it from the very out
set; TO get tho rubber in the first place g hole
is Sc drilled Inl, II a ~ 1; tree e.. and and The hes SAP Ih Is drawn
tres. and the juice is dried over the smoke from
a fire OF wild nuts in Para. and when thickened
contains SO. per cent. OF raw caoutchouo or
rubber. This raw rubber has to be cleaned
with great care. and dried afterward to exclude
81, per cent. OF water that Is part Of it.. It takes
Al tho way from one to lour months to Dc this
kneaded as is paper pulp, and crushed and
ground and torn up generally 70 remove all tho
the rubber is thoroughly washed, bya steady
flowing bath Of water. With rubber that 10
shoes that are lasting and also waterproof, but
you will have to pay more than fifty cents or q
cloth she'll of tho overshoe. this style of honest
rubber makes a shoe that is really a gum shoe,
and will keep out the wet and the snow, and
will wear without going out at the heel or the
toe. or breaking entirely away from the, upper.
And that's the kind OF rubber that l hope to
get from this new source OF supply. and IL l do.
perhaps l will become, a sort of public bene-
factor by giving to Gotham commercea mate
rial for making gum shoes that my fellow cid.
zens, after they have worn them once. will not
he obliged to sit up the next three nights In
succession completing their vocabulary Of
strong language to furnish fitting, terms Of
abuse for shoes that aren't rubber. The new OK
petition Is journey for the good OF humanity"