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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Changes in the C. L. Willey Enterprises 



Burdis Andersr.n, who has bpen secretary and treasurer of The Hardwood 

 Company, publisher of Haedwood Recobd, during the past year, and who 

 also has been manager of E. H. Defebaugh's trade publications. The Barrel 

 & Box. Rock Products and American Stone Trade, has resigned both 

 positions, and has engaged with C. L. Willey of Chicago to talie the 

 management of his double band sawmill and rcneer plant at Memphis. 

 Tenn. This big plant has been closed down for the past twelve months 

 but now will again be put into commission. 



Mr. Anderson has added to his previous business reputation in his work 

 with the trade publications noted during the past year, and makes this 

 change simply to increase his opportunities in a commercial way. Mr. 

 Anderson has had long experience in connection with lumber and veneer 

 enterprises, and undoubtedly will make a success in his new position. 

 The details are not entirely complete, but it is rumored that Mr. Willey 

 has recently purchased a large hardwood timber tract in Arkansas, which 

 together with sundry log purchases, will supply a stock for the Memphis 

 sawmill and veneer plant for years to come. 



The employment of Mr. Anderson to take charge of the Memphis enter- 

 prise gives Mr. Willey an opportunity to devote his entire energies to his 

 large and very important mahogany and other fancy wood veneer and 

 lumber plant at Chicago. This latter business is developing very fast 

 and is of such monumental size that Mr. Willey feels as though his 

 energies should be entirely absorbed in his work at Chicago and abroad in 

 connection with ilj, even considering the fact that he is most ably assisted 

 by Manager Clarence E. Ingalls and his son. Charles B. Willey. 



At the Chicago plant >Ir. Willey is now installing a Kraetzer Prepa- 

 rator, through which he will handle his mahogany and other fancy wood 

 output, and soon will erect another single band mill to supplement his 

 present equipment for the cutting of veneer flitches and lumber. 



Death of James H. Barr 



.Tames II. Barr, Cincinnati, died at his home in that city on Dec. 21. 

 Mr. Barr was a lumberman. He v,-as bovn about sixty years ago in 

 the suburb of Ludlow, Ky.. and commenced the work of life as a boy 

 with bis father in the retail lumber business in the yard on Sixth street, 

 Cincinnati, now owned by B. A. Kipp. He succeeded to this business at 

 his father's death, which he conducted for some years. Later he went 

 into the commission lumber business, handling building woods, in which 

 line of work he had been engaged up to the time of his death. 



Mr. Barr occupied an attractive home at Mount Lookout, on the hill- 

 tops overlooking Cincinnati. He leaves to mourr his loss not only his 

 wife, and a son at>d daughter, w-ho have about attained their majority, 

 but a host of friends both in and out of the lumber business. Mr. Barr's 

 leave-taking was sudden and unexpected. He was indisposed for a few 

 days before his death, but was supposedly so far recovered that on the 

 morning of his demise he was out of bod and dressed, and made several 

 business appointnu'Uts by telephone previous to his intended departure 

 for down town. He died in a chair at bis bedside from heart failure. 



The foregoing statements are commonplace and perfunctory, and are 

 made to preface the statement that during his entire lifetime Mr. Barr 

 enjoyed not only the respect, but the friendship of everyone with whom 

 he ever came in contact in a business or social way. He was a just 

 man ; he was an honest man ; he was a kindly man ; he was a lovable 

 man. "Jim" Barr never had business of his own of so much importance 

 that he would not interrupt it to do a favor for any of his numerous 

 friends. He spent his life in doing kindly acts, and in his passing he 

 does not leave a big estate, but he has enriched the community in which 

 he passed bis life. He has enriched it with his self-sacrifice, with his 

 kindliness and with his wonderful humanity. The world is much poorer 

 in the passing of James H. Barr. 



The Chestnut Tree Blight 



The Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission has issued from its 

 Philadelphia office bulletin No. 1, In which it defines the disease which 

 is affecting chestnut trees, gives estimates of loss, explains how the 

 disease works, and gives advice as to how it may bo combatted. It is 

 admitted that the entire commercial supply of chestnut In this country is 

 in danger unless successful methods of combatting the disease are found. 

 The loss thus tar is not less than $25,000,000. 



The disease is caused by fungus, not by insects as some suppose. 

 This fungus is a parasitic plant which resembles in many ways the 

 moulds that form on decaying food. It grows, however, in the interior of 

 the bark and not on its surface, and feeds on living tissues instead of 

 wholly on dead material, as do the moulds mentioned. It ma.v be 

 described as consisting of great numbers of tiny threads, which branch 

 and grow in every direction through the bark. These threads, collectively 

 known as the mycelium, are so small that a single one can be plainly 

 seen only through a microscope ; but they are so numerous in the diseased 

 bark that as mycelium, they may be seen with the naked eye, clustered 

 together in the form of small, buff-colored, fan-like bodies when the bark 

 is pared down. These fungal threads feed in the living tissues of the 

 bark and eventually grow into the sapwood. Wherever they grow they 

 cause the speedy death of the living cells of the trees. After a time 

 the fungus completely girdles the tree, trunk or branch on which it is 

 feeding. This causes the death of that part above the girdled portion, 

 much as if girdled with »-> axe. 



When the fungus has gi'own for a time in the chestnut bark, it develops 

 on the surface of the latter a series of tiny, irregularly dome-shaped 

 protrusions (called pustules), each rarely larger than the head of a pin. 

 These are the fruiting bodies which produce millions of sticky spores 

 corresponding to seeds, and so tiny that they can be seen only by means 

 of a powerful microscope. 



The spores are believed to be carried from tree to tree on the feet of 

 birds, or on the bodies of insects. Strong suspicion rests on woodpeckers 

 and ants. The wind doubtless often carries the spores, and probably long 

 distances. 



It is know'u that periods of dying out of chestnut trees have occurred in 

 the South, in past years, but the cause has not been traced to this disease. 

 Some were as early as 1824. Chestnut trees were once common in centfal 

 Georgia, but have practically disappeared. 



New Geared Logging Locomotive 



New devices to facilitate logging operations are always looked upon 

 with interest by lumbermen owning their own timber, and others who 

 carry on logging on an extensive enough scale to employ locomotives 

 for log hauling. A new type of geared logging locomotive has just been 

 turned out by the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia, which has 

 been built with a full understanding of conditions to be met. The 

 locomotive is symmetrical in design, and power is transmitted to the 

 axles through a central drive. The pistons are directly connected to a 

 transverse shaft, which is geared through bevel wheels, to two longitudinal 

 shafts. These transmit power to the front and rear trucks respectively. 

 Each truck is provided with its own driving shaft which is spur-geared 

 to the corresponding longitudinal shaft. The housings for the truck 



NEW GEARED LOCOMOTIVE MADE BY THE BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE 

 WORKS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



gears are of cast steel. The trucks are of the equalized pedestal type, 

 so arranged that the boxes can have vertical play in the pedestals without 

 throwing the gears out of mesh. 



Combined slip and universal joints are placed in the longitudinal 

 shafts to compensate for the changing positions of the trucks when the 

 engine is traversing curves. 



The boiler is of the usual locomotive type with a deep firebox, which 

 can be arranged for burning either coal, W'ood or oil. The supply of 

 fuel and water is carried back of the cab. Other features are cylinders 

 supported on the frames, no part of the driving gear is supported by the 

 boiler, which is free to expand at the firebox end, and is subjected only 

 to such strains as any boiler must carry. 



The construction of the trucks results in easy riding and minimum 

 strain on the tracks. 



Inasmuch as the Baldwin company has constructed over 38,000 direct- 

 connected locomotives for ail classes of service, it has had ample experi- 

 ence in which to work out an effective design of geared locomotive. 



Death of J. B. Simmons 



Jason B. Simmons of Farmington, Del., one of the best-known residents 

 of that state, died Dec. 19, at the age of seventy-six years. Mr. Simmons 

 carried on a lumber business for many years, making a specialty of white 

 oak car and ship lumber, and furnishing large quantities of this material 

 to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Among his customers who were 

 also extensive buyers of this wood, were the Harlan & Ilollingsworth 

 Company and the Jackson & Sharp Company, both large shipbuilding 

 concerns. Mr. Simmons was postmaster of his town at the time of bis 

 death. 



