January i, 1910.] 



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given me a great deal of useful information which enabled me to 

 get into close touch with interests necessary to the successful 

 conduct of my business. As an advertising medium it has always 

 paid me and I hope that the paper will go on with the same 

 success in the future as it has in the past. 



[Signed] E. E. buckleton. 

 [Manager.] 

 RIDES TWENTY MILES IN THE HAIN FOR IT. 



[From Horter Culture Co., Limited. New Orleans, Louisiana, india- 

 rubber planters in Nicaragua.] 



I am anxious to have you know how much I care for your 



monthly journal; it is not only full of interest for me but I 



always find something in it that profits me in its application to 



what I am doing on my plantations. If in the mail I don't see 



the blue cover promptly, I don't mind a ride of twenty miles 



or so to get it, and riding for twenty miles in Nicaragua usually 



means a soaking. [Signed] j. c. horter, 



[Vice-President and Manager.] 



•HIGHLY APPRECIATED IN HOLLAND." 



[From Dr. A. G. N. Swart, 's Gravenbage. Holland, member of the com- 

 mittee of rubber growing companies in the Netherlands East Indies.] 



Your paper being of the greatest interest, not only to Ameri- 

 cans, but, I may say, to every one interested in rubber, I con- 

 gratulate you most heartily on its twenty years of existence. I 

 hope that its present Editor will continue in that capacity for 

 ever so long, as his knowledge and ability in all matters con- 

 cerning rubber is highly appreciated by all his good friends in 

 Holland. [.Signed] A. G. x. swart. 



"PICKED UP TRADE THROUGH IT." 

 [From Tyer Rubber Co., manufacturers, Andover, Massachusetts.] 

 I read The India Rubber World every issue, and there is 

 always something instructive and interesting in it, and we should 

 miss it very much. We have picked up trade through it, having 

 one customer in particular in another country that read our "ad." 

 and through that we sell large lots of our goods. 



[Signed] john h. flint. 



[Treasurer.] 

 "PLEASANT READING." 



[From Weise & Co., india-rubber merchants, Rotterdam, Holland.] 

 My best wishes on the twentieth birthday of The India Rubber 

 World. I state with pleasure that your paper has not only 

 always been of interest and value to us for its splendid informa- 

 tion but also that I have always appreciated the fact that you 

 understood how to make it a pleasant reading. Technical papers 

 as a rule are so hopelessly tough! [Signed] jac. musly. 



THE BEST OF THE NEWS CONCERNING RUBBER. 

 [From Botanic Gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements.] 

 The India Rubber World is of interest and value to me ; I 

 should be very sorry to be without it. It gives the best of the 

 news of the day concerning the industry which is the sole 

 topic of conversation here, and it gives its information clearly 

 and brightly. I congratulate its Editor on its attaining its first 

 twenty years, and hope it may go on as well for another twenty 

 and more beyond that. 



[Signed] henry n. ridley, 



[Director.] 

 "OF GREAT INTEREST FOR MANUFACTURERS." 

 [From Michelin et Cie., india-rubber manufacturers, Clermont-Ferrand, 

 France.] 



On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of The India 

 Rubber World's existence, I have pleasure in saying that I con- 

 sider the reading of your excellent review of great interest for 

 a rubber manufacturer. I also seize this opportunity to send you 

 my best wishes for its further prosperity. 



[Signed] edouard michelin. 



"EACH YEAR MORE USEFUL." 

 [From Rene Bobet, consulting engineer in india-rubber, Paris, France.] 

 I HAVE been reading your esteemed journal since it was started 

 — that is to say, for twenty years. It is a great pleasure for me 

 on the occasion of this anniversary to sincerely compliment you 

 on the remarkable manner in which von have made a success of 



The India Rubber World. It is a pleasure for me to notice that 

 your journal has each year become more interesting, more com- 

 plete, and more useful to all those who are engaged in the 

 caoutchouc industry, by giving information of the very highest 

 value. I hope you will continue to be successful. 



[Signed] R. bobet. 



THE "CLASSICAL" RUBBER PAPER. 



[From Vereinigte Berlin-Frankfurter Gummiwaren-Fabriken, Gross- 

 Lichterfelde, Germany.] 



I have followed the development of The India Rubber World 

 with great interest, and derived benefit from it many times. I 

 think every modern rubber manufacturer ought to read it, and I 

 think I am not too enthusiastic if I call it "the classical paper 

 for the india-rubber trade." I am convinced that with the great 

 progress and the wide future the rubber industry has before it 

 your periodical is bound to have a brilliant career. 



[Signed] emil spannagel. 



[Manager.] 

 "A BENEFICIAL EFFECT." 



[From Pirelli & Co., india-rubber manufacturers, Milan, Italy.] 

 We notice that The India Rubber World will celebrate in 

 January next the fact that the paper is twenty years old. While 

 heartily congratulating 3-ou on this event, we gladly avail our- 

 selves of this occasion to express our appreciation of the most 

 beneficial effect that the rubber industry and trade have derived 

 from your paper and your personal collaboration. 



[Signed] pirelli & co. 



"HAS GROWN IN USEFULNESS WITH YEARS." 

 [From Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co., Jersey City, New Jersey.] 



My attention is called to the fact that you are soon to issue a 

 birthday number of The India Rubber World; that it is twenty 

 years since I gave you the first advertisement, and that the blond- 

 bearded young man who received it is now a recognized veteran 

 in the trade. The pioneer rubber trade paper then seemed a 

 necessity to the rubber business, and it has grown in usefulness 

 with the years. I congratulate you on its w-ell-earned past, on 

 its excellent present and on its splendid prospects for future 

 usefulness. [Signed] john j. voorhees. 



[President.] 

 MARCHING ALONG WITH THE TRADE. 



[From Apsley Rubber Co., manufacturers, Hudson, Massachusetts.] 

 A score of years have passed since we as manufacturers of 

 rubber goods gave a hearty welcome to The India Rubber 

 World on its first appearance as the representative and exponent 

 of this great industry. The industry itself has made enormous 

 strides since that time, and The India Rubber World has 

 marched along with it, and we believe it has contributed much 

 to the advancement of the business it represents by the mass of 

 practical information it has furnished its readers. Regarding the 

 value of The World as an advertising medium, the most practical 

 endorsement I can give is the enclosed copy for a full page 

 advertisement in your birthday number. 



[Signed] L. D. apsley, 



[President.] 

 CONTRIBUTED TO THE BETTERMENT OF THE TRADE. 

 [From J. A. Mendes, india-rubber merchant. Pari, Brazil.] 



I understand that the January number of The India Rubber 

 World is to be a special number, celebrating the fact that the 

 paper is twenty years old. I don't know of any other technical 

 paper (the growth of which having kept pace with that of the 

 rubber and allied industries) that has really contributed SO 

 efficiently to the betterment of all concerned, at both ends of 

 production and of the vast and always increasing fields of the 

 india-rubber manufacture. [Signed] J. a. mendes. 



AN EXCELLENT TITLE. 



[From the Government Gutta-Percha and Rubber Plantations in 

 Netherlands India, Buitenzorg, Java.] 



It is a great pleasure to me to congratulate you upon the 



twentieth anniversary of The India Rubber World. The fact — 



