The sun., 1910-05-12
FAR EAST RUBBER MAD TOO
SINGAPORE mas THE CRAZE
AND MJCH ~ REING RAISED.
sultan oI Johsre Expects IIis Plantations
to Net $4,000. nOO a Near some
tInhttnG gThat 4 a. dangerous ~
Any in the world Nays OF nOrneo,

wear. Mr. RaglAnd started with th'
intention Of investigating the rubber
planting situation in the Malay PeninsuE
and in the East Indies. and much Of hli
time he spent la Singapore, Borneo
Ssinla'rn and Java
One thing that strikes the traveller
IN Borneo and Sumatn - the fact tha
most of the travelling has 10 he done OF
the rivers and most IT the towns lie on
rivers. about thirty miles or more from
their mouths said Mr. Raghnd at the
wolcott yesterday You 60 over "a
Borneo from singapore IN a Dutch or
a Chinese steamer The first place
visited IN West Ruru.o WAS Foutianik
which 10 directly On the equator.
found that Boneo has q wonderful soil.
though al the present it produces mostly
Jungle products the principal one being
copra. the dried meat Il the cocoanut
They are beginning now 20 plant tobacco
and rubber experm"n'ally. Ia South
Borneo there is considerable Dutch
community The northern part - an
English protectorate the rest ot the
country being under Dutch rule The
parts Of the island dom Q diisr much
The people Who are doing the dsvel-
oping are Chinese They furnish q mar
ket for the jungle man and ship - We're
Il not for The ,l.ur-" ,h.re vuutd o." uo
Singapore The Chilamau ls the middle
man between the Jungle msu and tho hIg
merchant
I spent seyerl days n Band 'ernassin.
which is the capital ~ South Borneo.
u is rather q pretty place ike typical
tropical town | met only one English
man there and he said there were no more,
and I was the only American about. J
didn't g. into the jungles, but M going
up the nvers lt was no uncommon hing
to see a tree full of monkeys and another
full of heauiiiu, birds.
Speaking about hunting whom ! was
az Singapore there was a young fellow
by the name Of Fow Ter. a New YORK man.
who came in from an expedition up into
the Malay Peninsula and had brought
hack the heads Of three stadangs, which
are sAid TO he the most dangerous Jungle
animals in those parts. ! vas told that
H YOU chase one he will circle IN his tracks
and come hack and lie IN wait for you.
The heads look something like that of q
Wild or. There was another American
named isham whose home is somewhere
over in New Jersey. who got 20 singapore
after FoW Ter had come in, and when he
hnand Of the others exploit he went out
stadanR hunting aud came hack a. the
end of six weeks with I've heads. He told
me that for three days ~ his trip all the
food he had was a chunk of boiled rice
from which be broke IN meal a. he
needed H.
sSinRapare is rubber mad. Most of the
craze ssems 10 be located In the Malay
Federated States. where there 10 good
deal Of Il being planted. One oi the most
interesting percentages ] met was the
Sultan Of JOhOrs. who D. "A man about -
years old and "a great hustler Hs has
gone into the rubber business on uig
scale and hp expects tO make st3 FhWn
In the next five years oui oi hls 'Iari1-
tons. went over o. lohcre several
times and upon one occasion was con
Quoted through the palace and saw the
R0ld dinner service and the gold spears
and swords which the sultan owns We
himself had upon this occasion luHt come
IN from a tiger hunt and he said he al1
Just killed hI- nineteenth man eater Hn
was educated in England and % was odd
% hear him speak oi England AZ hack
home Re has four or five motor cars
Singaporp has beautiful roads and .u no"
town an between @IO and Hu automobiles
while in the MALAY States is an equal
number vas told 'aaf the country .f-
.sIU miles ~ fine WacidaWi rHG roads
-Borneo be- the .east developed 10. any
part OF the Fast LiIes that ] H-|nt.
] was told that on the island every Hrn
Of mineral - 20 he found lp one UirT
of the island are The famous Nrlkr or
head hunters, and 'luu" tuug. ] met
in singapore am American. an fN-uHN,-
paper man who had gone into Tho show
business. and he told me ha was wl.I-
ING there for "a cargo Dt Dyaks whom 10
was bringing over r1 exhibit 90 'onev
Island This summer We SAID me- had
about thirty ana % Nef them be- had
first - 60 20 London who're ho got Gre
deniials from the Colonial Once and
then he had 20 ge. permission from the
British authorities Iu Norh borneO.
and 70 agree to repatrlate his troup
There are any number 70 sultans Iu
BOrneo. / got acquainted with the one
AZ Pontianik and took a picture 81 HIM.
He didn't speak any English. 10 ] went
10 the palace With an interpreter who
was a personal friend OF the Sultan.
and soon the Sultan appeared. with =
big cigar In his mouth he wore a little
red cap like fez, a white jacket buttOned
up 20 the throat ana a brown sarOng.
a sort Of shirt One Of ls sons ~ being
brought no by the Dutch hotel proprietor
with whom I stopped. ] was told that
the Sultan had lost two or three sons,
all Of whom had died under mysterious
circumstances. He has t lot ~ wives,
-. a - a
some Of them was responsible Tor The
death Of his sons. 80 when this hoy was
born he took him 10 the Dutchman and
beaRed him 20 bring him up.
7 never tired going up into the jungle.
buf this hotel proprietor told me that
he had Once gone away up into the interior
in a launch. taking IN American talking
machine with him. with records by CarusO
and many Of the great singers lie used 10
set it going. having screened u On 20 the
box could not be seen and the Dvaks
used 20 hock about his boat IN their
canoes. Ne told them II they peeped
hehind the screen they would all he taken
sick and the next day they brought !
hoats full Of fruits and flowers 10 pro- |
nitiate the strange spirit. whom they [
called the 'Hantu Europa Or European |
ghost There are some queer words that |
one hears m the East The natives about |
singapore call ice aver hatu. which means I
stone vuter The electric cars Iu the /
streets they call hlntu cratn. which /
IA ghost car
The natives play football a great d.aI
and Ia B0rneo and Sum4'ra q great pass .
time h fying kites aud especially fighting
duck In the AIR With them. They have a
wAy 0f sticking hif- - glass tl tho Eita
atFing near the kite itself and 'nr way
they control their playtlngs. which are
tailless and about the same ~hauas as the