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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Congratulations. 



[The India Rubber World pus*,' J its twenty-fifth birthday last October. It was the plan of tht Editor to have a special jubilee 

 number to mark the event. With the great war on. entailing disaster and suffering and involving hundreds of friends in England, 

 France, Germany, Austria, Russia and Belgium, we had no heart to rejoice. The event has therefore been marked only by the 

 publicati •>■ if th wing letters of congratulation — letters of which we are exceedingly proud. the lidilor.] 



EMINENTLY FAIR AND A VERY REAL HELP." 

 [Prom the I'mted States Rubber Co, 1'resident's Office.] 

 I understand that The India Rubber World is approaching its 

 25th birthday under your leadership, during all of which time 

 it has been mj pleasure to watch its growth and strength, as 

 well as to count you among mj personal friends. I have always 

 felt thai the aim of the paper was high, eminently fair, and a 

 very real help to the rubber industry. 



Please accept congratulations of myself and my associates, 

 and best wishes for continued success 



| Signed] Samuel P. Colt [President]. 



• A CYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION." 

 [From the A.FSLEY Rubber Co., manufacturers, Hudson, Massachusetts.] 



I wish to add my congratulations to those of the large num- 

 ber of friends you have made during your long and exceedingly 

 useful career as founder and editor of the best india rubber 

 journal in the world. 



In the 25 years of the existence of The India Rubber World 

 you, as its editor, during that entire period, have presented to 

 its readers a vast amount of information regarding the produc- 

 tion, treatment and products of india rubber, which you, per- 

 sonally, have gathered in all parts of the world ; so that your 

 journal has become a cyclopedia of scientific and practical in- 

 formation upon this interesting subject. 



For the good of the rubber business, I trust that you will 

 continue to be the controlling spirit of The India Rubber World 

 for many, more years. 



| Signed] L. D. Apslf.v. [President.] 



CONGRATULATIONS ON "LES N0CES D'ARGENT." 

 I From Michei.in & Cie, manufacturers, Clermont-Ferrand, France.] 



I heartily congratulate you on the 25th birthday of The India 

 Rubber World 



In France, when a man and wife celebrate the 25th anniversary 

 of their marriage, we call it "les noces d'argent." 



Allow me to congratulate the happy husband of the beautiful 

 and faithful wife. The India Rubber World. 



| Signed] Edouarii Michei.in [Director]. 



"THE READING OF ITS PAGES A DELIGHTFUL PASTIME." 



[From the imu . er of the Imperial Department of Agriculture 



for the West Indies.] 



I assuredly must congratulate both you and The India Rubber 

 World oh your long and successful connection. 



From my own point of view I am particularly impressed with 

 the very interesting work you have been able to place on record 

 as the result of world-wide personal travel to practically every 

 country where rubber is grown and to many where rubber-grow- 

 ing is only a proposition for the future. In these travels you 

 have investigated the various rubber plants themselves and have 

 helped to unravel some of the botanical problems they present, 

 at the same time you have been able to form a shrewd opinion 

 as to the commercial possibilities of rubber production in the 

 countries you have visited. 



I would congratulate you, too, on the manner in which your 

 observations have been presented to your readers ; while the in- 

 formation has been useful and accurate, the quaintly humorous 

 vein running through your articles has made the reading of 

 those pages of a technical journal a delightful pastime. 



I have also to express my high appreciation of the journal in 

 its general bearing on rubber and rubber topics and wish both 

 you and it long life and prosperity. 

 [Signed] Francis Watts [Commission* ■ ricuiture for the 



West Indies]. 



HAS KEPT CONSTANT PACE WITH THE RUBBER INDUSTRY. 

 [From Pirelli & Co., manufacturers, Milan, Italy.] 

 I understand that The India Rubber Wori D is on the point of 

 celebrating its 25th birthday and beg to send my heartiest con- 

 gratulations to yourself personally and to your newspaper. 



You have achieved a remarkable task by keeping constant pace 

 during this long period with the wonderful strides that the rub- 

 ber industry has made in connection both with its sources of 

 supply as with the growth of old and the development of new- 

 appliances. 



I join with pleasure in what 1 think must be the general 

 acknowledgment of this fact. 



| Signed | A. Pirelli [Director], 



THROUGH THE EDITORS LETTERS REALIZED PLANTATION 



POSSIBILITIES. 



[From The Waterhouse Co., Limited, rubber factors, Honolulu, T. H.] 



I wish to congratulate you and The India Rubber World on 

 your quarter-century birthday, as it is a rare event in news- 

 paperdom for a periodical to round out the first quarter of a 

 century with the same editor at the helm. 



I and my associates were first interested in The India Rubber 

 World through the series of interesting letters published by you 

 of your trip through Ceylon and the Federated Malay States in 

 1905 ; and it was through these that we realized the possibilities 

 of investments in rubber plantations in that part of the world. 



The India Rubber World has been on our table ever since 

 and is looked forward to with interest each month. 



[Signed] Albert Waterhouse [President]. 



"ABLE. INSTRUCTIVE AND INTERESTING." 

 [From the Hodgman Rubber Co., manufacturers, New York.] 



It has recently come to my notice that The India Rubber 

 World is about to celebrate its 25th birthday, and I want to 

 extend to you my congratulations. 



I very well remember the time when your journal was started, 

 and if I recollect right our company was among the first to take 

 advertising space. The India Rubber World has certainly kept 

 pace with the great advance in the last quarter of a century of 

 the rubber industry in the United States, and we are fortunate 

 in having as a trade organ one that is as able, instructive, and 

 interesting as yours. May your success, continue. 



[Signed] G. B. Hodgman, [President.] 



"REGARDED AS VITAL AND VERY USEFUL IN EUROPE." 

 [From The Xorth British Rubber Co.. Limited. Edinburgh, Scotland.] 



I learn with much interest that The India Rubber World is to 

 celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. 



Pray accept my congratulations, both for yourself and your 

 valued periodical, which in Europe as in America has come to be 

 regarded as a vital and very useful part of the rubber industry. 



Although we are in the midst of war and European complica- 

 tions, we have still time to remember with pleasure our long 



