People not familiar with tho rtiblwr trade have no idea of the great quantity of miptbtt tlmt lb consumed In Akron, nald a rubber manufacturer yea-terday. 1 would not attempt to estimate the quauitity but it runs into hundreds of barrels every week and 11101*1? la considerable competition between the Standard Oil (Jo. and theCleveland Refining Co. for tho supplying of this demand. Maybe when the rubber manufacturers all unite to Import their own crude rublrer they will combine to purchase their unptba Jointly and secure better prices.