The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-16
PAVE STREETS
WITH RUBBER


son is the rubber exhibition, which is
to be opened in the Agricultural Hall
at the end of June. 1t is expected that
within ten years there is every chance
of London streets being covered with
a new rubber composition pavement
and that London, instead of being one
of the noisest cities in the world, will
be the most silent.
Sir Henry A. Blake, speaking at an
entertainment in connection with the
lest rubber exhibition, said he looked
forward to the time when rubber will
compete with the quarry. He had the
authority of a well known manufac,
t1rer for saying that at half a dollar
pound rubber could be used econ.
olnically for street pavements.
Much has happened in the rubber
world since then, and the price of half
a dollar pound, which thirty months
ago did not seem a preposterous ex.
p9ctation, seems to have become more
and more remote. Yet, according to
authorities who are studying the sit
GLtion, the contrary is really the case.
= Last years rubber boom, it is point
Cd out, has meant the planting of
many millions of rubber trees in
MANY parts of the world The supply
of plantation rubber is likely to be i'm
mensely increased in the next few
years, while the opening up of South
America may lead to an additional out.
put from that source. There are good
judges who prophesy that by 1915 the
price of crude rubber will have drop
ped to half dollar pound. Then will
come the opportunity of those who
for years have been experimenting
with the rubber composition which
will supply the perfect pavement fol
London and other large cities.
Rubber pavement is, of course, nc
new thing Such places as the road
way under the Midland Hotel at St
Pancras station and the courtway Of
the Savoy Hotel have been paved il
this way in order to prevent persons
being disturbed by the heavy traffic. 1
has been laid down in sheets and thu
endurance is said to be wonderful. A
the ruber exhibition in June there will
be comprehensive display. One
firm has undertaken to pave the maiI
avenues of the hall at cost of some
thing like $4,000.
With the King as patron and Sill
Henry A. Blake as president, the ex
hibition promises to be the most repre-
sentative that ever has been held
More than twenty-four colonies ant
countries, comprising all the rubber
producing areas of the world, will be
officially represented.
resolved to come back to Hawaii, but
they had no funds with which to pay
their passage, so they slowed away
on the Sheridan, which reached here
on Saturday morning. They were
soon discovered and were put tC
work on board. They were landed
here and they are now quite content
to go back to work on the planta
tons.
Q Passengers Arrived.
Per S. S. Wilhelmina from Sal
Francisco, May 16.-H. H. Adams
Mrs. M. H. Almy, Mrs. B. M. Aikens
Edward Barnard, Miss L. Bennett
Miss Paula Bossell, Mrs. s. L. BRAY
erman, Miss Florence Braverman, MI
and Mrs. Jno. A. Buck, Miss VOL
Buck and maid, Mrs. W. H. C. Camp
bell, F, J. Doak, D. P. Dorgan, G. Eau
Ger, Miss Edith Cline Ford, Mrs. A
Fransom, George & Colt, G. Hansen
Miss Margaret Hind, Miss Mona Hind
A. q. Hirsch, c. V. Hodge, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Oscar Hoffman, Foster Hornel
H. Hotze, Madam E. Imhoff, Miss L
Isenberg, Matthew jamie, Miss c
johnson, Fred H. Kahn, r. Keys, Mis-
Florence Kirchen, Miss E. LueschieI
j. Madden, Miss M. MCGUIRE, ]. T
Mendonico, Mrs. Chas. Nettle, Miss A
H. Parke, ]. A. Parker, E. Pollita
. Mrs. Jno. Renwick, Mr.. and Mrs. A
H. Rice and infant, G. H. Robertson
j. Rosenberg, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Rott
schild, Mr., and Mrs. W. H. Russo
. Miss Evelyn Russo, Miss Lillia
Russo, Mrs. e. NJ. Scoby, H, Sin
mons, Samuel Sussman, C. c. vo
= Hamm, Mrs, d. Won Tempsky, Miss A
Won Tempskey, Mrs, Elsie Weaver, W
]. Whitney, Mrs. Wilder and son, Mrs
Walter Scott Wise, Miss Dora Wa
, ters, Chas. A. Wright.
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