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The Commercial Museum, 
34th Street, below Spruce Street, 
Philadelphia, 
October 28, 1912. 
Mr. A. Staines Manders, Manager, Third Inter¬ 
national Rubber and Allied Trades Exposition, New 
Grand Central Palace, New York, N.Y. 
My Dear Mr. Manders, —I came home the other 
day, after visiting the Rubber and Allied Trades Expo¬ 
sition in New York, with a new mass of knowledge 
relating to rubber and its production, over all quarters 
of the globe. Although I had been over the building 
before the exhibit was opened, and had seen something 
of the magnitude of the display, I really had no adequate 
conception of what this exhibition was to be. Its 
magnitude was beyond anything I had in my mind. 
The whole arrangement and organization of the 
exposition seemed to me to be well done and followed 
out on excellently laid lines. The only regret I had on 
leaving it was that I could not return and spend another 
ten days in studying the great diversity of products— 
rubber and allied — which you had brought together. 
A graphic exhibit of this kind does more than 
anything else to impress one with the great value and 
extensive use of this absolutely necessary product. The 
exposition, a great success in every way, I hope repaid 
you for your painstaking and hard work, which I know 
full well an exposition of this kind requires. 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) W, P. Wilson, Director. ' 
These expressions of opinion from different standpoints are 
striking testimony to the importance of Rubber Exhibitions. It 
has frequently been acknowledged that they have been of the 
greatest assistance to an industry, the magnitude of which, in a 
very short time, will be equal to that of the steel industry. Perhaps, 
however, the most striking proof that the value of these 
Exhibitions is now recognised is the list of Vice-Presidents and 
of members of the Honorary Advisory Committee, which is many 
times greater than that of 1908 and 1911. 
Area of the Exhibition. — The available space for the 
Exhibition covers an area of over 200,000 square feet. 
The number of articles manufactured wholly, or in part, from rubber and for 
which rubber was not previously used, is increasing at an enormous rate. 
The next of this series of Exhibitions will not be held in London before 1919. 
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