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Jl-.iny machines were scrapped that might have 

 served had he uot been determined to have the 

 hest tools and the best methods, and, so far 

 as possible, similar tools for similar work, so 

 that men could change from one to the other 

 without delay of any kind. In this way he has 

 developed specialists in every department, and 

 the workmanship has improved at the same time 

 costs were being reduced. 



But this cutting down meant more than this. 

 It meant that, instead of scattering the brains 

 and energy of the force over a hundred differ- 

 ent machines, it has concentrated and devel- 

 oped these three to far greater perfection than 

 had ever been thought possible before. Also 

 the work of advertising men, demonstrators and 

 salesmen is much more simple and hence more 



effective. 



Of Interest to Woodworkers. 



All lumbermen will be interested in the en- 

 graving which accompanies this article. It 

 shows a new 28-inch band sawing machine con- 

 taining many patented features and improve- 

 ments, which is now being put upon the mar- 

 ket by the Defiance Machine Works of Defiance, 

 O. These machines are being made in very 

 large quantities by automatic apparatus, which 

 enables the company to turn them out at a very 

 small cost — a feature well worth considering, 

 and one which does not by any means indicate 

 inferiority, as the machines are built on the 

 same lines as the other tools manufactured by 

 this well-known concern, and are of the same 

 high character. 



Every detail of construction of the band saw- 

 ing machine embodies the highest grade of 

 workmanship, rendering it remarkably smooth- 

 running and handy. For piano and organ fac- 

 tories, pattern work and woodworlters in gen- 

 eral it cannot be surpassed. 



The frame is cast in one piece, with cored 

 center, and broad, firm base. The wheels are 

 28 inches in diameter, IVa inch face, covered 

 with pure rubber bands, ground true after fit- 

 ting to the wheels and given a running balance ; 

 they are supported upon ground steel spindles 

 of large diameter running in long bronze self- 

 lubricating bearings of the reservoir system. 

 The tension device maintains a uniform tension 

 to the saw blade, so that either hard or soft- 

 woods can be sawn without fear of the blade 

 breaking or running off the wheels. The table, 

 of iron in one piece, is 24 by 28 inches and can 



he readily tilted to any angle for conical or 

 bevel sawing. The tight and loose pulleys are 

 10 inches in diameter, with 4-inch face, having 

 a speed of 700 revolutions per minute. Each 

 machine is furnished with one %-inch band saw 



28" PATENT BA.Mj SAWINC At.\CHIXE, 

 MAXUFACTUKED BV DEl'lAXCK MA- 

 CHINE WOKKS, DEFIANCE, O. 



blade, brazing tongs and vise, etc. The machine 

 will take material up to 12 inches thick and 

 under, and the saw blade used is 14 feet 10 

 inches long. It requires but one horsepower to 

 drive the machine, and it occupies only 34 by 

 46 inches of floor .space. 



The company will willingly send further par- 

 ticulai-s upon application. 



Hardwood JVeWs, 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



CHICAQO 



Two West Virginia lumbermen were welcome 

 callers at the Uecord office June 24 — James C. 

 ■Rest of the Midland Lumber Company, Parkers- 

 burg, and C. H. Ilolden, representing the Pardee 

 & Curtin Lumber Company of Clarksburg, who is 

 in charge of the company's Parkersburg, office. 



Frank F. Fish, the popular secretary of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, was 

 thought to be convalescing very nicely last week 

 and expected to be at his office on Monday ; how- 

 ever, reaction set in and he is again laid up, 

 so that it will probably be another week before 

 he is able to get down town. 



"Billy" Mathias, the popular hardwood sales- 

 man who has had charge of the hardwood affairs 

 of the Chicago Car Lumber Company for the past 

 six months, returns to his former employment 

 with the W. JI. Ritter Lumber Company, of 

 Columbus, on July 1 and will have charge of the 

 Chicago territory. 



G. J. Landeck, the well-known Milwaukee lum- 

 berman and chief host of the delegates to the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, was a 

 Chicago visitor June 22. 



O. O. Agler of Upham & Agler, the newly 



elected president of the National Association, 

 left Chicago June 22 to attend the annual meet- 

 ing of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, which 

 took place at that city on June 23. 



W. L. Martin of the Embury-Martin Lumber 

 Company, Cheboygan, Mich., was a visitor to 

 this market June 22. 



Attention Is called to an error in the adver- 

 tisement of the Kentucky Hardwood Flooring 

 Company on page 9, current issue of the 

 Record. The item of one car 13/16x2-inch face, 

 select plain white oak flooring, should read 214- 

 inch face. 



The Hardwood Record acknowledges with 

 thanks receipt of a striking calendar from the 

 Lumber Underwriters of New York City. On a 

 background of dull, dark blue is seen the figure 

 of a fireman coming out of the night bearing in 

 one hand a lantern, which casts a weird light 

 over his features and sheds a bright glow upon 

 the parchment which he holds in the other hand 

 and which bears the following legend : "Know 

 all men by these presents : That this policy is 

 in the standard form of the states of New York, 

 New Jersey, North Carolina, etc. ; that in addi- 

 tion to these standard requirements it contains 

 the absolute guarantee of fifteen Lumbermen 

 Underwriters for the payment of any loss under 



this policy." The sketch, by Chase Emerson, is 

 a remarkably clever and well-executed concep- 

 tion. As is well known, the Underwriters com- 

 prise a company conducted by lumbermen for 

 lumbermen and is confined exclusively to fire 

 risks on lumber and woodworking plants. 



R. M. Carrier of Sardis, Miss., head of the 

 extensive hardwood interests of the Carrier Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company, was a caller at 

 the Record office last week. Mr. Carrier at- 

 tended the Minneapolis meeting June 17 and 18 

 as a representative of the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers .\ssociation of the United States. 



C. D. Boynton, the "lumberman-wit" of St. 

 Louis, who has contributed many a bit of amus- 

 ing reading to the Record's columns, was a 

 caller on June 20. 



John W. Long, editor of the New York Lum- 

 ber Trade Journal, was a pleasant caller at the 

 Record office June 15. 



A number of cypress manufacturers who at- 

 tended the meeting of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association at Minneapolis, June 

 17 and 18, spent the following .Sunday in Chi- 

 cago, en route to their homes. Among them were 

 E. G. Westmoreland of the Des Allemands Lum- 

 ber Company, Des Allemands, La. ; L. H. Price 

 of the Ramos Cypress Company, Ramos, La. ; A. 

 T. Gerrans of the St. Louis Cypress Company, 

 Houma, La. : J. A. Bruce of the Owl Bayou Lum- 

 ber Company, Strader, La. ; George E. Watson 

 and wife of New Orleans. Mr. Watson is sec- 

 retary of the Southern Cypress Manufacturers 

 Association. 



A new concern at Margaretville, N. 1'., has 

 been organized to manufacture lath, lumber, 

 shingles, etc., with a capital of $10,000. Wil- 

 liam IL Smith of Margaretville is head of the 

 company. 



The Poplar Lumber Company has been formed 

 at Edmeston, N. Y., by Jas. K. Bramer, of 

 Apdiia Station, and others ; it is capitalized at 

 $25,000 and will manufacture lumber. 



On June 10 fire in the yards of the Pendleton 

 & Gilkly Lumber Company of Oconto, Wis., 

 caused a loss of nearly $750,000. The fire was 

 one of the worst in the north for years. Fanned 

 by a high wind, the flames spread through the 

 yard and only one small corner escaped damage. 



BOSTON 



William Knabe & Co., of Baltimore, Md., 

 Chickering & Sons, Boston, and the Foster- 

 Armstrong Company, Rochester, N. Y., manu- 

 facturers of pianos, have consolidated their busi- 

 ness under the name of the American Piano 

 Company. The capital stock is $12,000,000. 

 half preferred. The officers of the new com- 

 cauy are Ernest J. Knabe, Jr. , president ; George 

 G. t-oster, William Knabe, Charles H. Eddy and 

 William B. Armstrong, vice-presidents, and 

 George Eaton, treasurer. It is reported that 

 management of the three old companies will re- 

 main the same as they were and that the various 

 plants will continue in operation. The operat- 

 ing head of each plant will no doubt be one of 

 its present officers. 



C. A.. Breed, representing the Appleby Lum- 

 ber Company, Jamestown, N. Y., was in Boston 

 recently. 



Edgar Burgess, manager of the New York 

 branch of the Maley, Thompson & Moffet Com- 

 pany, mahogany, hardwoods and veneers, visited 

 the Boston market early in the month. 



Fred D. Stimpson of the Brawley & Smith 

 Company, hardwood dealers, Philadelphia, has 

 been in this market. 



A. L. Manes, representing the Scotch Lumber 

 Company. Fulton, Ala., manufacturers of rift 

 flooring, was in Boston recently. 



.\t the time of writing the appointment of a 

 new surveyor general for Massachusetts is still 

 in doubt. Charles H. Crane received an r<: 

 pointment from Acting Governor Draper, b 

 the governor's council has held it up at th 

 request of several members of the trade. A 



