Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-16
NINETY THOUSAND
TONS Of RUBBER
USED LAST YEAR
Immense Industry Due to
Charles Goodyear'S DiscoV-
cry and Is Constantly In
CreaSing,

Crude rubber is a commodity about
which one hears much these days.
The demand for 1t is increasing stead
lily and rapidly New uses are being
found for it constantly. Never before
has the number of manufactured ar
ticles been so numerous and varied
as TODAY. In the United States alone
the consumption of crude rubber in
1915 was in the neighborhood of 3d.
600 tons while the production of all
grades Of manufactured rubber mer-
chandise is estimated at 100000 tons.
Col s. p. colt, president of the
United States Rubber company, in dis
cussing the wonderful development of
both the crude and manufactured
rubber industries, recently said.
Probably very few people outside
of the trade. even today, know to
whom and what we are indebted for
the great number and variety of rub
Der articles that we are enjoying.
Il refer to Charles Goodyear and
to his discovery of the inflammation
Of rubber about 1874 Prior to that
time rubber goods could not be man
ufactured successfully For instance,
if you had bought a hot water bottle
(and ] doubt if they were made them
the rubber would have run soon after
you had filled it, IL you had bought
a rubber coat and worn it in a sleet
storm it would have cracked from the
cold Charles Goodyear discovered a
process fer treating rubber with
sulphur at a temperature of 230 de-
grees which brought about a chem
- "a it,t l.a .t,,s RI GO n
it was no longer affected bv an ordi-
nary degree Of cold or heat.
This process was patented by Mr..
Goodyear in 1874 There are still
four companies in existence. all inn
portant subsidiaries of the United
States Rubber company which were
the first to secure licenses from Mr..
Goodyear to use the process. This
occurred about seventy years ago.
long before any other companies now
using the Goodyear name came into
existence. So YOU will see that we are
BY far the oldest as well as the larg-
est manufacturers of rubber in the
world under the Goodyear patent.
You know also, by the way. that, the
courts having decided that no one
mas the exclusive right of the
use of the word. Goodyear, as
descriptive term, has today no longer
any commercial significance.
The four companies of ours to which
refer are l.. Candee a. Co, of New
haven, Connecticut; The Meyer Rub
per company, of New Brunswick, New
Jersey: The Goodyear's Indiana Rub
Der Glove Manufacturing company
and The Goodyear's Metallic Shoe
company, both of Naugatuck. Con-
necticut, where Charles Goodyear
lived and developed his process. All
OF these companies are going
strong"
In connection with the statements
or Colonel Colt it is both interesting
and instructive to know that in one
OF the Broadway windows on the
ground floor of the United states
hubber company building at 1870
broadway. New York. there is on ex-
Mpltion a notable collection of me-
mehtoes of Charles Goodyear, with
out whose vuleanizing process, in the
Judgment of Colonel Colt. there would
not nave been made one-hundredth
part OF the rubber goods that are on
me market today.
In the background, in the center of
me window Is a life size oil painting
VT Ioouyeaf on nara TuDpefy "
the celebrated artist G. r. A. Healy,
81 Boston, under date of about 1850.
II was property of his grand daughter
lara Goodyear, until acquired by the
United States Rubber company a few
years ago.
Directly under the painting is a
,anie five feet in length by three in
Niuth, also made of hard rubber,
winch was formerly ovned and used
personally by Mr.. Goodyear. 1t was