HARDWOOD RECORD 



Hardwood Record Mail 'Bag. 



I In this department it is proposed to reply 

 to siicli inquiries from Hakdwood Record read- 



;-onfer a favor by semUng 

 office. — Editor. 



Wants Machine for Making Yardsticks. 



XA.sin u.LK, Ti;-N-N., June 24.— EJitor IIaku- 

 wboD Kecokd; Can you put us iu touch with 

 manufacturers of a machine with which we 

 could malie yardsticks for advertising purposes? 

 We are not certain, but are of the opinion that 

 machines for this purpose are made to order. 

 Any information along this line you can give 

 us will be greatly appreciated and will be pleased 

 to have an opportunity to reciprocate. 



COMPiXV. 



The correspondent is doubtless right about 

 these machines being made to order, but if 

 any reader chances to iinow where they may 



Maple Mangle Roller Blocks. 



Hambihc;. .June l.j. — Editor Hakdwood Hec- 

 ui;d : A well-known lumber company of Bay 

 City, Mich., gave me your esteemed address, and 

 today I beg to ask whether you could let me 

 know the best mills for supplying octagon cut 

 maple mangle roller blocks, cut from rock or 

 hard maple wood. Undoubtedly you are in a 

 position to furnish me with the best addresses. 

 You will understand these are blocks which are 

 afterward turned into rollers for mangle ma- 

 chines. Esteeming the favor of your kind reply, 

 & Co. 



The correspondent has been informed that 

 the Eecord will attempt to find out who is 

 in position to furnish this stock, and that he 

 will be duly advised. Anyone interested may 

 have his address on application.— Editor. 



ness. has obtained a vote of $150,000 toward 

 the fund for the extension of the lumber busi- 

 ness, and new government mills are to be 

 established in Nagano and Aomori prefectures. 

 Before the end of this year there will be nine 

 timber mills in all in Akita, Aomori, Miyagi, 

 and Kumamoto prefectures, all worked by the 

 government. The director of the forest bureau 

 admits that Japan is the only country in the 

 world which takes upon itself the working of 

 the lumber business. In many forests reserved 

 by the government there is an almost inexhausti- 

 ble supply of timber, but these forests are re- 

 mote from railways, rivers, or seaports, and 

 much expenditure is necessary for opening roads 

 or constructing other means of transport in 

 order to make such timber available. District 

 forestry offices will, however, not work mills 

 regardless of profit, as strong competition is 

 going on among them. It is stated that the 

 government mills will only supply their products 

 to merchants in Japan, and the works are not 

 yet progressed to such a stage that the govern- 

 ment can export direct. So far, the export of 

 timber by the government mills has been con- 

 fined to supplying sleepers to the South Man- 

 churian Railway Company. 



News Miscellany. 



Henry Malay. 



Henrv Maley is dead. This was the sad news 

 which went out from Edinburg, Ind., the evening 

 of July 6, bearing a message of grief and a 

 sense of personal loss to many a lumberman 

 throughout the length and breadth of the land, 

 and even across the water. 



Henry Maley wns a y.nins man- in spite of 

 his three-score aua - v.n ^. n-. for when a 

 man's heart is youn, ^^ L. n i,. lov rs his joke and 

 loves his work an.. In iH' i I li- is never old. 



He was the dean m IkuJa In.nliermen. There 



used to be a saying that lleuiy Maley was the 

 father and Indiana the mother of the hardwood 



.Mr 



.Tlands, notably in 

 -iM !ity may be at- 

 I . ..t all phases 



tributed to his tli" ^ n , i 



of the hardwood In). ' , m. ■ What he did 



not know about |mi.ii,--i:. .r and about 



manufacturing and .uiailin- i i no ur.xn ever 



KU.'w. However, it was a- i iinninMM nr.T of 

 Indiana quartered white ":il, i!,.ii li- >^as best 

 known to the trade, for ciTiain it i^ that what- 

 ever other excellent products he may have placed 

 upon the market, It was his quartered oak which 

 made him famous. If not the very first, he was 

 among those who introduced it to the world, and 

 it has remained his specialty during all these 

 years. 



Upon those of the lumber fraternity who did 

 not know him — and they are few indeed— no 

 eulogy of Mr. Maley could leave the impression 

 that did his happy, gentle nature. To those who 

 knew him and loved him— and they are legion- 

 words are not needed to remind them that the 

 world has lost a noble character — a man great 

 in his very simplicity of life and thought and 

 manner, a man with a great soul and a great, 

 kindly heart. Said one who knew him well : 

 "Henry Maley was an honest man, but he made 

 no parade ot his Integrit.v. He was honest sim- 

 ply because he never knew how to be anything 

 .Ise. He belonged to the ranks of the old-time 

 Indiana lumbermen who are fast disappearing 

 Horn the earth and can no more be replaced than 

 < an the splendid white oak giants of their native 

 state. Such men and such trees come but once 

 in history." 



IIE.NitY MAI 



DIED JULY 



lumber business, for in his career he saw it 

 spring from a tiny nuclevis down where he first 

 started his own operations, to a great industry 

 which has penetrated every section ot the coun- 

 trv where such timber can be found. 



'in the many years which Mr. Maley devoted 

 to the lumber trade he prospered. From a very 

 small beginning his business grew steadily until 

 today it may be classed among the half dozen 

 largest of the kind in the country. It embraces 

 the ownership of nine sawmills, a furniture fac- 

 torv and several other enterprises, besides ex- 



Obituary. 



The demise of Samuel Disston, on Ju 

 soon after retirement from his long 

 with Henry Disston & Sons, Inc., the famous 

 saw manufacturers of Philadelphia, came as 

 startling and grievous news to his many friends. 

 Only a few weeks ago he was tendered a dinner 

 at the Bellevue-Stratford by his business asso- 

 ciates as a testimonial of their warm friendship 

 and high esteem. After fifty-seven years of effi- 

 cient service he had thrown off the cloak of re- 

 sponsiblllt^ and was about to cease from his 

 labors when the silent leaper came unexpectedly 







Japanese Forestry Work. 



.V recent Japanese publication contains an 

 article relating to the progress now being made 

 liy the government of that country in acquiring 

 information for the development of forestry. 

 It states that lately an official in the depart- 

 ment of agriculture and commerce was sent to 

 the mlted States and others to Europe for 

 the inspection of the timber trade and forestry 

 administration. A commission was also sent to 

 India for the same purpose. A specialist on 

 forestry in the same department is to be sent 

 to South America shortly on a similar errand. 

 The latter will thoroughly study the rubber 

 plantations, and, if possible, bring back roots or 

 seeds for planting on the Bonins and Luchu 

 groups. 



The department of agriculture and commerce, 

 which established a sawmill in Akita prefecture 

 in 1906, making a grant of $100,000 in that 

 year and ?1 50.000 in 1007 to develop the busl- 



SAMUEL DISSTON. LATE OF HENUY DISS- 

 TON & SONS, PHILADEI-l'lUA. 



and bore him av?ay for the rest which is eter- 

 nal. "Sam" Disston possessed the rare gift ot 

 unfaltering loyalty to those he cared for. In 

 manner he seemed somewhat brusque at times, 

 but his friendship once gained It never failed, 

 though tested to the utmost. 



Samuel Disston was born in England In 1838. 

 While but a hoy his family emigrated to the 

 United States. With his brother Henry he 

 learned the business of saw-making. The broth- 

 ers started In a small way, employing but a few 

 m>n,*whlle today their house has a force of 

 employees numbering about 3,500. Samuel Diss- 

 ton learned every phase of the trade thoroughly 



