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OUR TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 



WITH this issue The Ixdia Rubber World com- 

 ])lctes its twentieth year of contimioii.s publi- 

 cation, without change of name or of editorial man- 

 agement. So recent has been the development of 

 trade journalism, as the term is now understood in its 

 best sense, that few journals in the country devoted to 

 special interests have existed uikUt like conditions for 

 so many years. 



Twenty years ! One-fifth of a life that attains to 

 one hundred ! Or, more accurately, one-third of a 

 centenarian's active life — the first and last score being 

 but preiiaratory, one for life, the other for death. In 

 50nie cycles twenty years contain but little of accom- 

 plishment, but not in this age. Contrast the hap- 

 penings in any ])eriod of 6000 working days of Me- 

 thuselah's time with the days that elapsed between 

 1889 and 1909! What a crowding of events! What 

 changes ])olitical, geogra])hica!, and, above all, indus- 

 trial! .And what of the rubber trade? The story of 

 its growth ; of its expansion in every conceivable di- 



rection; of its spectacular successes — all this would '-'^R^' 



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BOTANIC 



At once in this sort of retrospect memory visualizes oaRDE 

 the high lights in the panorama of events. In bold 

 relief as makers of history, as organizers each with 

 his own strongly marked personalitj', certain figures 

 instantly project themselves into memory's foreground. 

 Elisha Converse, reserved, thoughtful, quietly cap- 

 able; Joseph I'anigan, impulsive, sagacious, affable; 

 Evans, fiery, alert, aggressive — and scores of others 

 who crowd to memory. 



-\t the beginning of this twenty years Dr. Good- 

 rich, Phomas Mayall and Christopher Meyer had but 

 just passed to the great beyond. During its brief term 

 the trade mourned the loss of such men as N. C. 

 ^Mitchell, George A. Alden, E. H. Clapp, Wheeler 

 Cable, Benjamin Taft, George F. Hodgman, Charles 

 H. Dale, James Bennett Forsyth, and others whose 

 names were synonymous with the growth and per- 

 manence of the trade. Their mantles have fallen upon 

 vounger men no less capable and to whom history 

 will doubtless accord just as much in the way of trade 

 accomplishment. The pioneer days perhaps are over, 

 and the era of industrial cooperation and consolidation 

 which had its beginnings since 1889 appears to be at 

 hand. 



A few years back there was no Lead trust, no Whit- 

 ing trust, no Rubber trust ; now tbey and hundreds of 

 others are here, and are the natural outgrowth of our 

 great industrial expansion. 



Twenty years ago rubber planting was a joke. 

 "Why not cultivate coal?" scoffed one critic. "About 

 as practical as the romances of Jules Verne," affirmed 

 another. Yet to-day the rubber trade of the world 

 not only believes in rubber cultivation, but has in- 

 vested millions of dollars in it and very profitably. 



The laboratory as an adjunct to the rubber mill was 

 lightly thought of by the practical manufacturer but 

 two decades ago. To-day the rubber chemist is an 

 integral part of nearly every successful rubber fac- 

 tory organization. 



As far as machinery goes, washers, mixers, calen- 

 ders, presses, and vulcanizers are still employed. They 

 are heavier, to be sure, and speedier, and are sup- 

 ported by ])halanxcs of niinor machines, but the old- 

 time procedure remains unchanged. Few revolution- 

 ary ])roctsscs can be recorded. By the use of the 

 vacuum dryer, to be sure, rubber can be compounded 

 the same day it is washed instead of months later, and 



