. St. Nicholas [serial]. o submitthe next best advertisements. Three Third Prizes, $ each to those who submitthe next best advertisements. Ten Fourth Prizes, $ each fo those who submitthe next best advertisements. Here are the rules and regulations : 1. This competition is open freely to all whomay desire to compete, without charge or consid-eration of any kind. Prospective contestants neednot be subscribers for St. Nicholas in order to com-pete for the prizes offered. 2. In the upper left-hand corner of your paper givename, age, address, and the number of this competi-tion (126). 3. S
. St. Nicholas [serial]. o submitthe next best advertisements. Three Third Prizes, $ each to those who submitthe next best advertisements. Ten Fourth Prizes, $ each fo those who submitthe next best advertisements. Here are the rules and regulations : 1. This competition is open freely to all whomay desire to compete, without charge or consid-eration of any kind. Prospective contestants neednot be subscribers for St. Nicholas in order to com-pete for the prizes offered. 2. In the upper left-hand corner of your paper givename, age, address, and the number of this competi-tion (126). 3. Submit answers by June 10, 1912. Use ink. Donot inclose stamps. 4. Do not inclose requests for League badges orcirculars. Write separately for these if you wish them,addressing St. Nicholas League. 5. Be sure to comply with these conditions if youwish to win prizes. 6. Address answers : Advertising Competition , St. Nicholas League, Union Square, New York. A KM^K ( See also page 22.) 20 ST. NICHOLAS ADVERTISEMENTS. The Good Old Bicycle Days Making a Bicycle Tire—Third ArticleBy Harry Davis WHEN my last article closed we had a cargo of crude rubber on the wharf at a South Americanport ready for shipment to the United that article I told you all about the sharp-eyed little brown men of the Tropics — how theycarry on the first stages of the great rubber industry, gathering sap from the tall, stately rubber treesand smoking it over palm nut fires until it hardens and takes the form of big balls, or biscuits. This month we will visit a factory. There we will see howthe crude rubber is made into bicycle tires. Suppose we select for our trip one of the great plants operatedby the United States Tire Company. This concern has fourimmense factories. Each is equipped with the most modernmachinery known to the rubber industry, and at each hundredsof men work twenty-four hours (in three shifts ) every day,making tires — bicycle, motor-cycle, and automobile. As weenter t
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