HARDWOOD RECORD 



escaped being imposed 

 a small disbursement 

 1 . . 1 sill.' iliat the dis- 

 1 ■■\.\ iliiwn to genuine 



on the investigation ami report of I'.rottier 

 B A. Jolinson. The injured man has secured 

 the limbs and writes enthusiastically of the 

 effective use a very little practice has already 

 enabled him to make of them. 



PnOPEKTr OF THE Okdeb. 

 Two years ago at Oklahoma City, acting 

 under instructions of the preceding meeting 

 at Portland. I submitted 



port of the pi'il" 1 1.\ cl tl 

 to which I :illl>.l' '1 .il -':h 



lead at Atl:inih I'lM .: 



detailed 

 in my hands. 

 fore me, and 

 in my report 

 MO. As this 



initiates : closely followed by Vicegerent W. E. 

 Wheless of the northern district of Louisiana, 

 who has three concatenations and seventy-two 

 Initiates. 



Vicegerent Gresley is due credit for very 

 active and efficient effort put forth in raising 

 wit hill his (listiiet a generous sum for the relief 



.1 iiiT.i!- 11 :i disastrous cyclone. 



1 1 niembers have been taken In 



I 1 ne by Vicegerent Bradenbaugh 



, ii-trict of Texas, as mentioned 



iimI 11 tlKH- by Vicegerent J. F. Davis 



.: r. .;i-tirn district of Louisiana. Six life 

 I . ,1 I liave been Initiated, four by Vicegerent 

 I ■ iMiikins of the Republic of Mexico and 

 . \ i.-ogerent S. X. Acree of the southern 

 li-i I i. 1 i.f Mississippi. 



Deceased. 

 The list of members whose death was reported 

 to me during the year numbers 116. I do not 

 imagine that It is at all complete, as I feel sure 

 that manv deaths occur which are not reported 

 to me. As it is. however, the list is a sorrow- 

 fully long one and Includes the names of mem- 

 bers who have been with us at almost every 

 annual meeting since I have been scrlvenoter. 

 and whose presence have never tailed to add 

 wisdom to our councils and enjoyment to our 

 gathering. I have been peculiarly pained to 

 record the name of Col. A. D. McLcod. whose 

 death I am sure brings a sense of personal loss 

 to all who have been present at our annual 

 meetings. 



Resignations. 



.\nofbor evidence of the hard times is no 



1 III t linwn bv a material increase in the num- 



.! I I -iiruations recorded. The figures for the 



ill- review are 110 as compared with 



. lor last year. While many of these 



IK Lave eoine to uie with the frank 



.11 ilnf thr n-rm'i-i- 'v r.-n<;nn of serious 



;,.. . ^ -f .. - I . I iiiiii...lf able to pay 



, ! , , II I li.o imposes, a 



, _, , I, , ii.'.. I ... . '!■ I ._',,'■.:' :ir,^ from men 



«ii,, ii.iir ^',.^^l I iiihi ivL- :in- permanently 



out oi all laisini'ss iimsims. I seldom note In 

 the list of resignations the name of any of those 

 familiar as attendants at our annual meetings. 



tin, with 

 printed in.i 

 fixtures ill 

 the proj.ei I 

 office has !>' 



made uml' i 

 for a el,. . I 



tlnue to M ' II .i. and on ac- 



count of i( . ! nil ■ which it is 



piirohasi'l I <■ <■■ <' i •<! ''' -i-ii commercial 



Concatenations. 

 I ai.iieiul below a statement of the number 

 ..f coueatonatlons held and number of men 

 initiated since the beginning, to the end that 

 the comparative figures may be before all 

 members; 



1S92 15 concatenations, 166 men 



1Sfi3 28 concatenations, 458 men 



isni 87 concatenations, 1,575 men 



is;i5 i:U concatenations. 1,393 men 



isss 92 concatenations, 873 men 



isq7 68 concatenations. 687 men 



isss . . Tt eoiieatenatioiis. 756 men 



isvi ^: , .■!- .!■ 11 iiioiis. 861 men 



p,iHi ■ : e ■ ,1 ir-iis, ti28 men 



I'Hii ■ • I ' '• I lulls. 747 men 



PHI' I ■ ii-ns. 1,131 men 



1908 95 COIieal ' nil ii.u I ^ns TllCn 



RECORD OF VlCEnEOKNTS' WORK. 



Credit tor the largest number of concatena- 

 tions during the year goes to Vicegerent C. C. 

 Bradenbaugh of the noithern district of Texas, 

 who has held four rrnrriTiintieii" nnrl initiated 



146 regular and o„. i,,.. - nMini.., s-eond. 



Vicegerent Bea 11 i ' istrict 



of Washington, He n i n m.i ninety- 



three Initiates : IhiKl. \n -iMiu \\ M. I'.iuigh 

 of the southern dlsinet oi iexM>-, Um^ e..iietttena- 

 tlons and elghty-sevcu Initiates; fourth, Hurt .T. 

 Wright of the western district of Missouri, four 

 eoncatenatlons and eighty-three Initiates : fifth. 

 \'lcegcrcnt .1. F. Gresley of the state of Ne- 

 lir.Tska, one concatenation and seventy-six 



-M iidmliably covered all 

 n liefore us for dtecusslon 

 h I., sav In the way of 

 He routine work of the 

 ni rard admission, adonted 

 wo years ago, has proved, 

 ■ of the very best steps we 

 has been an effective means 

 •om manv members long In 

 ; no the reports of members 

 iinii ,ns. however, I have 

 Mil whom no collection 



I 1 sure that some of 



iieen as firm as they 



iiii_ ni.'mhers who, without 



,eai ■ card, have neglected 



he acting scrlvenoter of the 



me year's dues demanded. 



lie member without a card 



< dues. He may owe more 



I lii- the balance 



linn comes to 



1 herefore. is 



has 



if ho 



dls- 



of 



promptly payins wliatever '.; : . o- due. 



I have, as so many tine- n : ; , mk ray 



fellow officers for the hearin ni pains- 



taking cooperation in canwii^ n m ni-uioss 

 of the order, and our many ^ne-nr.|ll i..r Iheir 

 labor and loyaltv which alone makes success 

 possible. Respectfully submitted. 



.T. n, Baird, Scrlvenoter, 



Woods Radial Knife Setting Gauge. 



It goes without saying Hint good work on a 

 planer depends first. last, and all the time, on 

 the cutter-hoad. for it's the mi i, i ii. el iiiat does 



the actual work : the rest ni ii, nii.i merely 



feeds the stock to it an.l i ii- i :n> n An 

 unbalanced head, poor kni\n, impi .i|i. i- '.^rind- 

 Ing. incorrect setting and Iniperfeet truing or 

 jointing, all have a share in turning out poor 

 work. Any one of those bad features In the 

 cutter-head may offset all the good points in the 

 best machine. 



The Ideal of the S. A. Woods Machine Com 

 pany has been to make the best machine that 

 constant study and constant Improvement. Hie 



best tools, the best materials, and the best 

 workmen, could produce. But more than this, 

 they have centered attention on the cutter-head, 

 have devised methods for giving it perfect run- 

 ning balance, have alwa.vs selected the finest 

 steel for the knives, and are now making pos- 

 sible the use of the high-speed steels ; have for 

 years built special knife grinders that insure 

 perfect accuracy In the knives themselves, and 

 last of all, have devised a Radial Knife Setting 

 Gauge that Insures equal accuracy in their set- 

 ting, preparatory to the final process of truing 

 by means of the Woods Truing Devices while 

 the leiel is neiniiiL;- al full speed. 



iMir.ily V, 1 KiM\i- must of necessity have 



all ...n.^i I 11^ i.niiii- ni the cutting edges 



at ex.oily tie s.iMie iiNiauoe from the center 

 of the head. This is tree, no matter what the 

 form of the knives or the accuracy of the cut- 

 ter-head. To secure such exactness, measure- 

 ment must be made from the center of the bead, 

 but not from the Up of the head or from some 

 other part of the machine. By Its ingenious de- 

 sign, absolutely accurate setting is insured by 

 the Radial Gauge which may be rotated about 

 (he head. 



Realizing that touch Is far more sensitive 

 than sight— that yon can feel a difference of a 

 thousandth of an inch while you can scarcely 

 see a difference ten or twenty times as great — 

 this gauge utilizes the former of the human 

 faculties In its use. In effect. It is a specially 

 designed form of calipers. The construction and 

 use of this gauge are clearly shown In the iie 

 companylng Illustrations. It consists essentially 

 of two curved arms connected by a shaft. The 

 arms hook over the Journals at each end of the 

 head. Springs, easily manipulated by the 

 thumbs, provide quick and secure means of lock- 

 ing the gauge in position. Upon the shaft are 

 two setting rollers which have a close sliding fit 

 thereon. The large circular portions of the roll- 

 ers arc for setting straight knives ; the smaller 

 for hollow backing cutters and to give proper 

 projection beyond the surfacing knives ; the 

 rounded edge Is for beading bits. Adjusting 

 screws are provided at the ends of the arms 

 to maintain the accuracy of the gauge or to 

 change the size of the cutting circle. Evidently, 

 as the gauge is revolved about the bead, the 

 gauge shaft always remains parallel to and at 

 the same distance from the center of the cut- 

 ting shaft. 



When applied these springs are released, the 

 arms are hooked over the shaft between the 

 cutter-head and the journal boxes and clamped 

 by snapping the springs back into their catches. 

 A knife Is lightly clamped upon the cutter-head, 

 and the gauge having been properly adjusted 

 the rollers are passed by the knife edge, which 

 is then gently pushed back to an exact distance 

 from the center of the head. Here It Is more 

 tightly clamped while the other knives are sim- 

 ilarly set. When all are thus adjusted so as to 

 revolve In exactly the same cutting circle, all 

 holding bolts are firmly set. 



Beading and hollow backing knives arc set in 

 a similar manner. 



The proper use of this Radial Gauge will be 

 found to give a setting that is more accurate 

 than any previously devised method, and will 

 produce equally good results on knives with an 

 under-bevel as on those without, regardless of 

 the extent of the bevel, or even whether all are 

 beveled alike, nils is a result impossible to 

 obtain by any method of measuring from the lip 

 of tho head or from any fixed gauges attached to 

 the head. 



This type of gauge Is furnished with all of 

 the machines manufactured by the S. A. Woods 

 Machine Company of Boston. In connection 

 with tho truing devices extensively applied to 

 thoir mnoblnos by the same company, the radial 

 i_-;iie:- iiinkeo possible such accuraey of setting 

 It! Hi 1 1 looennnce of such sharp cutting 

 .1 iis,,iutely Insure equal cutting by 



nil n. i.iiiMs, This In turn Insures finer 



