Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-10
HAWAII'S RUBBER
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Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition
terday afternoon in the New Grand
Central Palace, Lexington avenue and
Forty-siXth street. Three floors are
used to display the exhibits, and ex-
perts are on hand in the various
booths to explain the rubber indus
try from the gathering of the milk or
sap from the trees to the production
of the finished article"
In bringing out the picturesque fea-
lures of the exhibition, the report of
the New York Telegraph is the best
that has come to hand. This was in
the Telegraph of September %, the
day before the opening, and is as fol-
lows:
The worlds rubber exposition at
the Grand Central Palace will be for
mally opened tomorrow by Mayor
Gaynor and will continue for ten
days. At this exposition every rub
ber-producing country will be repre-
sented by delegates.
THE exposition will occupy three
floors of the Grand Central Palace.
On one floor the different countries
will show their part in the rubber
world. Each country. will have a diff
ferent exhibit and a staff to explain it
to visitors.
THE largest exhibit will be from
Brazil, which is the largest rubber
producing country in the world, and
will be in charge of large staff of
experts. Other countries to have ex-
hibits are Mexico, Ceylon, British Ma
laya, Java, British Guiana, Trinidad,
Belgium and Belgium Congo, NADIA
gascar, Indo-China, Equatorial Africa,
Occidental Africa, the Hawaiian ISL
ands, Portugal, Peru and other small
countries.
The entire floor will represent a
tropical forest with huts and Co.'S
tunes. How rubber is grown in the
Straits Settlements under British rule
will be shown at the exhibition, which
is in charge of Imperial Commission
Ell Leonard Wray. Malay rubber
gatherers in their picturesque Co.'S
tune will live during the exposition
in native huts brought from their set
Elements.
center of a plantation crowded with
spice trees. F. Crosbie Roles, COM
missioner for Ceylon, has brought a
score or more of picturesquely CARRIED
Singhalese rubber workers to New
York for the show, and with them a
few Tamils from Southern India, who
work on the Ceylonese rubber farms
as indentUred laborers. On another
floor will be a collection of exhibits
from the Imperial Institute of Lon
don. Lectures on rubber will be de-
livered daily, and motion pictures will
show scenes in rubber producing
countries and in large factories
Mr.. Anderson sent clippings from
different papers containing reports of
the exposition to Guy H. Buttolph. of
Williamson & Buttolph, to whom the
Star-Bulletin is indebted for their
use. In a note to Mr.. Buttolph ac
the clippings, Mr.. Ander-
son says, Busy as the deuce from 9
a. m. till 1870 p. m"
Rubber in all shades, forms and !
conditions, including sheets from the |
mill, were sent to the exhibition from |
Hawaii" said Mr.. Buttolph this after
noon. MI Anderson also took on
some Of the new gum found in Robert !
woods on Hawaii. He was ,
furnished besides with a large supply !
of literature by the Hawaii Promotion i
Committee, and the Hawaiian booth .
was therefore in part a promotion +,
agency.
The expenses OF MI Anderson and ,
the Hawaiian exhibit were contrib |
uted by the Promotion Committee, the
Rubber Growers Association, the in
dlridual rubber planting companies ,
and Alexander & Baldwin. +
Rubber from the Hawaiian Islands
commands within a few cents of the
highest price of rubber from any 9th
er part OF the world.
Mr.. Anderson will be back here on
in the steamer SonOma."