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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I J \m wry i, 1910. 



Twentieth Anniversary Congratulations. 



WORDS are lacking with which to express adequately The 

 India Rubber World's appreciation of the great number 

 of kindly letters which have reached the management 

 from rubber men everywhere, in connection with the Twentieth 

 Anniversary. While in the nature of things the maintenance of 

 a trade journal calls for other forms of appreciation than kind 

 words, the Editor of The India Rubber World can say sincerely 

 that the letters here quoted as representative of a mass of con- 

 gratulatory correspondence are accepted as a better indication 

 than any mere financial returns that his work in his chosen field 

 has not been without success. 



We thank our friends, and hope to merit equal kindness from 

 them twenty years hence. 



"OF GREAT INTEREST AND VALUE." 



[From Charles Macintosh & Co.. Limited, india-rubber manufacturers, 

 Manchester, England.] 



We are much pleased to hear that your widely-known journal 

 is to celebrate its twentieth birthday. We wish it a long and 

 prosperous life. We say this in no perfunctory manner. We 

 feel that your paper has been of great interest and value to rubber 

 manufacturers, and to rubber producers in the past few years. 

 We hope that it will continue to keep abreast of the great de- 

 velopments which are apparently coming in the near future. 



[Signed] r. K. birley, 



Director. 

 CONDUCTED ON "RlfiHT PRINCIPLES." 

 [From The B. F. Goodrich Co., india-rubber manufacturers, Akron, Ohio.] 

 I was not aware until just now that twenty years had rolled 

 around since the first number of your excellent magazine, The 

 India Rubber World, made its first bow to the public. Twenty- 

 years is indeed a long time, and many changes have since taken 

 place in the rubber world. The fact that it has survived this 

 long shows that its publication has been in good hands, and that 

 the right principles were laid down and followed in its wonderful 

 growth and success. I beg to extend The India Rubber World 

 my very best wishes for a prosperous future. 



[Signed] g. t. perkins. 



[Director and long time president.] 



"INFORMATION OF SPECIAL VALUE." 



[From Harburg and Vienna India Rubber Works, Harburg-on-Elbe, 



Germany.] 



We are pleased to hear that the January number of The India 

 Rubber World will celebrate the fact that the paper is twenty 

 years old. We congratulate you, and hope that the paper con- 

 tinues its prosperous career. We always read The India Rubber 

 World with great interest and consider that the information con- 

 tained in it is of special value, not only to us but to all persons 

 interested in the india-rubber trade as well. 



[Signed] i.. hoff, 



[Director.] 

 "INVARIABLY OF INTEREST." 

 [From North British Rubber Co., Limited, Edinburgh, Scotland.] 

 We notice that with the January number The India Rubber 

 World celebrates its twentieth birthday, and we take this oppor- 

 tunity of congratulating you on this fact. In our opinion, there 

 is no doubt but that The India Rubber World holds one of the 

 foremost positions amongst publications of its kind. It is always 

 up to date, brightly written, and contains valuable information 

 and statistics which are invariably of interest to us, and we 

 should judge to all those connected with the rubber industry. 



[Signed] a. c. baker. 



General Manager. 

 APPRECIATED IN THE INSULATED WIRE TRADE. 

 [From Bishop Gutta-Percha Co., insulated wire manufacturers, New York.] 

 If your publication has been as valuable to, and appreciated as 

 much by, the clothing, mechanical and other rubber industries, as 



it has been in the insulated wire business, surely you may feel 

 that your birth was not premature, but that, like other great 

 enterprises and great men, was just in time to fill a great want, 

 and we feel that it has been well filled. 



[Signed] henry a. reed, 



[President.] 



"INSTRUCTIVE AND PROFITABLE READING.*' 



[From James C. Harvey, india-rubber planter, Sanborn, Estado do Vera 



Cruz, Mexico. ] 



Your journal has been on my subscription list for the last ten 

 years. I recall no number during that period that has failed to 

 provide instructive and profitable reading, not alone as affecting 

 the trade status of manufactured rubber goods and the market 

 in the crude product, but as pertaining to planting affairs in 

 general and with respect to all the commercial rubber producing 

 plants, and it affords me a very great deal of satisfaction to 

 say so. [Signed] j. c. harvey. 



"MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION." 



[From Professor Dr. Adolf Prinzhorn. former rubber manufacturer, 

 Hanover, Germany.] 



Allow me to congratulate you most cordially at the completion 

 of the twentieth year of The India Rubber World. There are 

 few journals from which I have got so much valuable informa- 

 tion as from this paper, which from the beginning has been under 

 your able management. [Signed] a. prinzhorn. 



"EACH ISSUE A LITTLE MORE INTERESTING." 

 [From George H. Hood, a pioneer rubber manufacturer, Boston.] 

 It gives me pleasure to recall that I was one of the subscribers 

 to the first issue of your valuable paper, and that I have -con- 

 tinued to receive it from that time to the present. I have always 

 found it not only interesting, but helpful to me in keeping in 

 touch with rubber matters in general. Each issue has always 

 seemed to me a little more interesting and progressive than its 

 predecessor, and it has always seemed to keep pace with the 

 tremendous growth of the rubber industry. With congratulations 

 to you for the good work you have already accomplished, and 

 with best wishes for the continued growth and prosperity of 

 The India Rubber World, etc. 



[Signed] George h. hood. 



"SCOPE AND USEFULNESS GROWING." 

 [From George A. Alden & Co., india-rubber importers, Boston.] 

 I was reminded the other day that The India Rubber World 

 has been in existence twenty years. How time flies! It was an 

 exhibition of very considerable nerve on your part to devote 

 time and capital to the interests of a trade so relatively incon- 

 sequential in those days. But your forecast was sagacious and 

 right, for the growth of the rubber trade has been phenomenal 

 within that period, and a good trade paper has been a very 

 necessary part of it. In all that score of years, I think, I have 

 read more or less of every issue, and have on special occasions 

 expressed myself in appreciation of its attractive make-up and of 

 the great interest and instructiveness of its contents. I have 

 observed its scope and usefulness grow greater year by year 

 until The India Rubber World has become an undoubted power 

 in the trade, looked to for information and looked up to for 

 advice and opinions. [Signed] George watkinson. 



KEPT THEM WELL POSTED. 



[From Northwestern Rubber Co.. Limited, reclaimed rubber, Litherland, 



Liverpool, England.] 



If I am not mistaken 1910 will celebrate the Twentieth Anni- 

 versary of The India Rubber World, and as I have been con- 

 nected with the rubber business about the same time, I wish to 

 extend to you my congratulations on the success which your 

 paper has attained. I remember it in the early days and from 

 its inception it was always a source of great satisfaction to me, 

 and it kept me well posted in the affairs of the rubber world and 



