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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06
WANTS TO be KING.

New England Herald: Mott gained
much advertising from the Farmers
Institute train. The Bismarck Tribune
calls Mott, Elgin and Flasher the
big Triumvirate" with Bismarck as
the queen. New England ID the old
"He One" of them all and in Justice
We think that New England should be
called King.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06

RETURNED FROM 81. PAUL.
L. Mark Oseth returned to the capt.
tai city today from st. Paul, where
he has been taking testimony In the
famous Ignite coal rate cases.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06
0ixon's Statement.

NEW YORK, July cit was an.
nounced at the Roosevelt headquart-
ers today that Senator Dixon would
issue a statement late today contain
ing the full declaration of the po-
sition Of the Progressive party. The
statement will be preliminary. as 1t
was indicated, to call the Progressive
convention. which will be issued Mon.
day.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06
COMPANY A DRILL.

COMPANY 4 0NJle.
There will be drills every night
next week at the armory in order to
prepare for the annual encampment.
Drills will commence promptly at 8
p. M, and every member is warned
to be present.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06

GEN. TREUMANN HERE.
Adjutant General Treumann arriv.
ed in the city this afternoon to make
final arrangements for the annual en-
campment of the national guard.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06
City News
EDITOR HERE.

Editor G.. o. Thompson of the
Taylor Reporter, a among the ar
rivals In the capital city this after
noon.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06
PARTY
!. CONFERENCE
Roosevelt Leaders II New
York Still Have Hopes
Of Organizing

New YORK, July cit was an
aounced today that there would be a
conference Of the leaders Of the
Roosevelt League at the former ONCE
Of j.. Franklin Fort Monday night, at
which plans for the third party move
ment In this state will be discussed.
Taking the recent primaries a. a
basis Of calculation, the Roosevelt
leaders predict they can name the
electors that will be placed on the
regular republican ticket in Novem.
Der. 1t Is also planned to place tick.
cts In the field In every county In
the state.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06
FINISH TOURNAMENTS.

FJNJSV TOURNAMENTS.
The splendid weather Of today ds
very favorable for tennis and the
Missouri Slope and Western North
Dakota championship events are be-
ing played OF on the courts of the
Capital City Tennis club this after
They will probably be COM
pleted this evening.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06

VISITING FOR SUMMER.
Misses lone and Zadia Hutchinson
OF Havre, Mont, are spending their
summer vacation as the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry w. RichhOlt.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06
one OF the best governors that "
have ever had.
HAS POSITION HERE.

Darlington Record: VIM. Hasty
left Tuesday for Bismarck where he
has accepted the position OF bill clerk
at the N. p. station. He has been
busy this spring putting In a big crop.
but Is now free for a while and goes
back to his old work of being . rail.
road man. For the time being Mrs.
Hasty will continue to reside In this
city.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06

Golden Valley county will be the ex
IRENE western n on the N. P. main
line-and with Beach as the county
seat-things will be rushed along.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06

more nominations make the success
Of a third party movement very doubt.
full, but 1t is too soo to decide just
what Is proper to do.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-06

The acreage available Tor partition,
among the inhabitants Of the republic,
in accordance with one Of the provis-
ions Of Madero's "Plan Of San Luis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
a n,,e Of biscuits" Of Crude Rubber worth $4,000

why is II necessary TO add these DIFF
ferent substances
Pure rubber will not last without them.
You have got to add something that will
tougher IT, The oxides and earthly sub
stances put in are added not to cheaper
but to give certain definite results. This
variation runs into the thousands, per-
haps hundreds Of thousands. If you want
to get extreme elasticity you add certain
of the leads. For covering for superheat-
ed steam pipes you add asbestos. For
toughening qualities certain of the zines
are mixed with 1t, and so on ad iniintum.
"Of course, the people who have invest
ed In rubber plantations are a bit startled
when synthetic rubber comes to the fore.
The fact Is. rubber I'm the Middle East,
Ceylon and the Malay States, has been
produced at rs cents a pound. but the
average is perhaps 30 cents. Under scien-
tifc management. II is veryslikely that the
cost can be cut. The belief that the
great crude rubber industry OF the Brazils
is seriously threatened. In my Judgment.
has no reasonable foundation. Para rub
Der came out when the price was under
so cents a pound Brazilians to-day are
improving their methods OF gathering and
OF transportation and their machinery.
They are getting into position to COM
pete with synthetic rubber should It APP
pear comparatively, In addition, the In
PRODUCTION of synthetic rubber into the
rubber mills OF the world under the most
favorable conditions would come slowly.
There would be no revolution, and the
chances are that II would not hurt crude
rubber gathering at all. II would serve
chiefly to steady prices. In my judy
ment. IL would follow the course of syn
thetic camphor which has not acted to
wipe out the camphor industry In For
mosa, but rather as check on extremely
high prices"
Beside this view 1t is of interest to place
that OF Or. Duisbers. who said, In conclud-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

shoes that would not stick to the pave
ment man has become so dependent upon
rubber that II may almost be said that
should it disappear from the face Of the
globe he would be forced backward in
the scale Of civilization. Without II he
could not control the electric fluid which
furnishes him with light and power.
Transoceanic as we'll as land communlca-
ton would once again be reduced to the
means I'm use before the days OF the tele-
graph, cable, telephone and wireless teleg-
raphy. There would be no aeroplanes,
flying through the air, no trolley cars or
automobiles "skyhooting" over the sur
face of the earth, or trains dashing
through its bowels. The tennis player
would be obliged to sacrifice his shoes and
bouncing balls. the football player his
football and nose guard, the baseball
catcher his body protector, the pitcher his
mat. the golf player his golf balls, the
gambler the balls that are used in certain
forms of gambling and the billiard player
the rubber cushions on his table. There
would no longer be any mackintoshes.
rubber boots, overshoes, rubber heels.
rubber buttons, elastic belts. elastic gar
tiers or rubber bathing caps. AS for the
baby where would he get his bouncing
ball. his bottle nipple, his rubber doll and
other toys too numerous to mention?
How would the lawn be sprinkled or the
garden watered? What would replace fire
hose? Would there be any vacuum clean
ers or COW milking machines? What
he do without hiq
fountain pen. or the typewriter girl with
out her eraser? How could the surgeon
or the hospital get on without rubber?
Business and "Mr." Murphy would slow
down If there were no rubber stamp.
What would the housewife do without
fruit jar rings and the whole family with
out the talking machine? Only recently
a device has been invented Of rubber
which will eliminate one of the nuisances
connected with life In an apartment OPEN
ing on an airshaft. 1t is something that
will rob snoring of its noisiness. This cat
alogue simply hints at the wide and wild
ening uses of rubber. No wonder men
have not only turned their attention to
the development Of plantations Of rubber
trees, but studied for many years how
they might make rubber artifcially
What is the story of synthetic rubber?
Professor Perkin. one of those who have
had hand In it's discovery. said TO a
representative Of The Tribune on the day
he sailed away for England:
las a result OF work on the synthesis
OF terpenes, was led to find isoprene,
but after carrying out few experiments
was obliged to let the matter lie on
account OF more pressing research work
] had Oh hand. That would be about 1905.
Three years later f. II. Strange came to
see me and asked II would help his
chemist in working out an effort very
similar to the one ] had proposed my
self / agreed to this, and the matter
gradually developed until | got the rubber
that has been described.
What want particularly to emphasize
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

Apparently the commercial future of syn
thetic rubber remains to he demonstrated.
Henry c. Pearson. OF this city president
OF the International Rubber Conference.
and editor OF The India Rubber World,
who is considered one of the leading au-
thorities on the subject OF rubber not only
in this country but in the world. said to
the representative Of The Tribune:
up at my place in the Putnam Valley
have perhaps a hundred specimens OF
synthetic rubber. They run all the way
In value from plastics that are worth
two cents To about ten cents pound. as
compared with Para rubber at 81 20. That
relatively tells the value of artificial rub
Der up TO within the last year or two.
The bases OF these artificial rubbers were
oXidized oils; or they were cellulose prod
ucts, or they were mineral products of
elaterite. substance something like as
phalt. or something else. outside OF these
were q lot of freak rubbers made from fish
oil and seaweed and so Oh. But none of
them were to be taken seriously as being
a real substitute for rubber. Many of
them were Of service in compromising with
rubber
There was another phase OF this arti-
fetal rubber business This consisted in
the discoveries announced by the really
alert semi-scientifc fellows of the pro-
duction of artificial rubber by secret
processes. That phase has come up reg
ularly about once In every two years.
In some cases the discoveries were self
a .
rubber was They simply had something
elastic. In some cases they were frauds.
There was one man In New Jersey who.
it is said, got $4,000 of Abner McKinley's
money. There was an eminent professor
will not give his name. for he is a dear
old man-who was brought up against
one Of these men. BY some sleight OF
hand this man convinced the professor
that he had real synthetic rubber. The
professor Endorsed the so-called discovery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
1t Is Reported That This Substance Can Be Made
at Half the Current Cost of Natural
Rubber If This Proves True the
Discovery Means Much to Many
an Important Industry

ing his discussion OF synthetic rubber.
The difficulties which have been over
come were great indeed. and those which
still remain to be surmounted in order
TO produce a substance equal TO Para
caoutchouc in quality and capable of CON-
peting with cheap plantation rubber cost.
ing only two marks per kilo are still
greater But such difficulties do not In.
timidate the chemist and manufacturer;
on the contrary. they spur them on to
further efforts. The stone is rolling. and
We will see to il that it reaches its dest'
nation The end i'm view is this: that
artificial rubber may soon play as i'm
portant a role in the markets OF the
world as does natural rubber. The con.
sumption Of rubber is enormous.
Other tasks which the chemist has IN
hand shrink into insignifcance compared
with this gigantic problem. The laurel
wreath will not adorn the brow OF the Wild
dreamer. but that OF the scientist who.
cool and persevering. pursues his Slv
The seed he sows ripens slowly, and
though according TO the statements IN the
press all this is mere child's play
the problem has been solved. | leave It
TO your judgment whether this is true or
not, like much that printers ink pati+nty
transfers to paper. | am right In the
midst of this excitement. | have eri-
ployed articles made of synthetic rubber.
and for some time have used dutomoo!le
tires made Of this material Yet. K you
ask me 10 answer you honestly and rdY
when synthetic rubber will bring the NH
ions which prophets see in its exploiI'
ton, | must reply that | do not KNOW
Surely not in the immediate future. al
though synthetic rubber will certainly
appear on the market in very short
time But ! hope to live long enough 10
see art triumph also here over nature.
Apparently it will be well. despite the
claim made for the English brand that
the process employed made 1t possible 10
produce synthetic rubber at 90 Genus
hound 10 await further developments se-
fore rushing down to Wall Street to Ijy
stock in a synthetic rubber company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

is that apart from the work Of Grevillc
Wiliami in 1860 and Bouchardat In 1879
the credit of the discovery of synthetic
rubber must Undoubtedly be given TO
Tilden, who made a large quantity OF
isoprene in 1SS, and sealed ii up I'm bot
, ties In 1892 when he examined these
bottles, he found that the limpid isoprene
had been converted into "A gummy mass.
in which fioated pieces Of rubberlike sub
stances. There can be no doubt that this
was synthetic rubber Tilden exhibited
these pieces OF synthetic rubber To the
Birmingham Philosophical Society in 1892
In my lecture on Wednesday | produced
Tildens original samples. and showed by
means of "A series of experiments that
these contained very pure form Of syn
thetic rubber. ! therefore emphasize the
fact that Tilden unquestionably made a
very pure form Of synthetic rubber in
1892. or seventeen years before the work
Of Hoffman, at Elberfeld.
"On the other hand" DR.. Perkin con-
tinued, the credit Of producing really
large samples of synthetic rubber must
be given to DR.. Duisberg, of the Elder
field works The magnificent specimens
berg at his general lecture at the Con-
gress OF Applied Chemistry were probably
the finest that have been brought together
up 10 this time"
VIII synthetic rubber vulcaniZe and
take In the zines leads and earths and
the other ingredients which may be com
bined with natural rubber
The rubber vulcanizes easily. Tiden
in 1892 was the first TO show synthetic
rubber vulcaniZed ana ne produced sew
eral specimens. DIR. Duisberg showed "A
hemisphere weighing about sixty pounds
and several pieces of sheet vulcanized.
He also had two automobile tires, one OF
which was new and the other Of which
had been run $50 miles"
The polymerzng agent In the produce
ton of the English synthetic rubber was
metallic sodium. The discovery was made
by accident. IL is reported. In July, 1910.
DR.. Matthews left some metallic sodium
in contact with isopreDe, and on return
ing from his holidays In September found
that the isoprene had turned into a solid
mass OF rubber.
Dr. Duisberg's story of the history Of
SyDtneIlc was lOIu ny MN III MS
lecture.
you all know" said he, that caout-
chouc is made from the milky sap of nu-
merous species Of trees and shrubs and
the grotesquey formed lianas by various
coagulation processes, and that this prod
uct, on being suitably treated with sui
phur or sulphur compounds-that is, by
vulcaniza tion-acquire its valuable and
characteristic properties. The synthetic
method took quite different route. BY
breaking up the very complex molecue
which rubber doubtless possesses, by
pyrogenetic processes-that is. by dry
distillation-a veritable maze Of ali kinds
Of gases, oils and resins was obtained, as
well as a colorless fluid resembling BEN
zine TO which the investigators gave the
name isoprene. ---
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

and some Western capitalists put up a
considerable sum Of money for il. Build
Ings were erected Then ensued months
Of waiting, while. as the professor SAID
machinery OF an intricate character was
being constructed The capitalists finally
got tired Of waiting.
"Fiftcen or twenty years ago little
rubber was made from isoprene. Wltnin
the last year or two-in fact, at the last
international Rubber Exposition IN
1911 in I.ondon-rubber was again made
from isoprene II was made in an auto
clave. II will probably never be done
AGAIN i'm public. a. its smell was some
thing that attached itself to any one VINO
came within a few rods OF 1t ana ie-
NAMED for days The operation was ais"
said to be dangerous, and the cost some
thing over 500 pound.
I'm regard 10 recent English discoveries
they are TO be taken seriously. Such a
name as that OF Professor Perkin means
a great deal. He believes, from his labor
atorv experiments that kind Of synthet-
ic rubber can be produced at so cents a
pound Laboratory experiments, however
are no guide 10 production on CONNER
cial scale and the figures to-day mean
very little more than that it has not been
proved that this type of synthetic rubber
will do what the crude rubber or COM
merce will do. In other words, the whole
value of crude rubber to-day lies in its
ability TO take in almost any metallic
oxide. or sulphur. or earthly ingredient
and produce an elastic. resilient SEMI
metal under INFLAMMATION"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

1T was the French scientist Bouchardat
who first expressed the belief that this
isoprcne. which is obtained In very small
quantities and In an impure form by the
dry distllation of caoutchouc. might be
closely and intimately related to caout-
chouc itself. This important question was
then eagerly discussed for several decad IS
by the scientists Of all countries. ana
opinions were sharply divided. AS TAR
back as the sos the Englishman Tilden
claimed TO have prepared artificial rub
Der from soprene by treatment with ny
drochloric acid. But neither Tilden nor his
assistants, though they worked strenu-
ously for years, succeeded In repeating
the experiments Moreover, numerous
other investigators were unable to con-
firm the results. Or. Fritz Hoffman, OF
the Farbenfabrken worm Wriedr. Bayei
& Co is to be regarded as the real dis
coverer of synthetic rubber, for, by the
application Of heat he succeeded, I'm Aug
ust. 1909. in polymerizing the isoprehe
molecules into the complex rubber mole
Guile. Somewhat earlier Harries discov-
cred independently another method OF ar
irving at the same result. Every one Is
now in a position 10 repeat this exceed
ingly simple experiment himself out III
order TO confirm Hofmann's results 1t is
necessary to employ pure isoprene
He laid emphasis on the purity or the
isoprene. In the discussion as to who was
the first TO make synthetic rubber. Sir
William Tilden. the genial and eminent
English chemist OF generation ago. Pro-
lessor Perkin and his group OF English
men, or the German group. the quality
OF the isoprene may have great
deal OF weight. II is said that the rubber
produced by the Englishmen was
butadiene rubber as distinguished from
isoprene rubber, the difference in chemical
structure being one atom OF carbon In
favor of the latter.
The rubber world has heard SO many
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
Chinese of New York
Continued from fourth page.

them well informed on the subject OF
, political affairs Of the day.
An inquiry into the Life Of Chinatown
reveals an incredible number ~ Ike So
cirties and soon dispels the current Gun
ceptions regarding the vicious and crhh-
inal pastimes OF our yellow brothers lHss
have their gamblers. just as We nave o""
They have their thieves We nave GUS.
We have quite few drunkuds' I%'
have hardly any We have domestic sc'n'
dals. They have very few Chlna"NA
home life is said by those familiar WIZ
that section to be extremely qu'et ~,
peacefIl. Most OF the Chinese res'ue"'
are males, for the laws OF the nation W.
bid the admission OF laborcrs' wives ~''
discourage the coming OF merchants 1'''
lilies. There are no more tnan one hun'
dr.d women and girls OF marlasea0''
age The general public is hardly ava
OF their existence, for their stronger 'O"
servatism causes them 10 adhere i'V's
closely than their husbands 10 0hn''s-
customs. Very seldom arc ihey s,'
walking about Chinatown. The a'''''''
of the rowdies who haunt the neishV0'
hood explains why they prefer The con.
fnement of their homes to the nshs
a walk on the public thoroughiare' Ha"'
Cinnamon have married American "on''%
At bazaar held recently in Doye.s su'''
most of the booths were presided o'N
by the American wives NJ Chinese n'''
g..
The only class of the Chinese poP'''
ton which has not been to any eN'D'
modified by modernism are the tarn.
There Is large number OF them u",
the soil on the Long Island hllls
groups Of two or three they rent paw"
OF ground and very industriously gro" :"
the curious and succulent Nese'a'
Chinatown demands for its culinary teSs-
Their enormous woven hats. their Cn'''.'.
baskets and tools. together VII"
strange vegeta ton they call into oeins -. 4,
part to the landscape an extremely qu''
appearance.
There is very little to tell aovS'
them" said Mr. Titus. courteous GEM.
man OF Long Island. who has as 'eha".
on his land three Chinese farmers i"'.
work from daybreak 10 nightfali one "
them drives into town at a. m anu :.
turns about p. m. having dispose
the farms daily output. They raise n''.
cats, though they never eat them he'
get drunk. never make trouble ana
very punctual in paying their rent
The Chinese ere slowly but surely
sorting Chinatown and its disrepu'a'',
neighborhood for more desirable par's
the city. Many Of the successful nuslns
men have built themselves In BrooHy
and F1atbush homes furnished ent'reH
Western STYLE. Others have rented apaf'
ments on the upper West Side