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fclements of the trade, that it is donhtful if ever 

 an unlvinri wnrlt was uttered against "Goody," as 

 he was affectionately liuown to his familiars. He 

 was a man of rare foresight and ability in his 

 calling, and in the fraternity was regarded as 

 an authority on every subject pertaining to both 

 the purchase and marlieting of hardwoods. His 

 loss is not only a shock to the lumber trade, but 

 constitutes a permanent bereavement from which 

 both his home associates and the trade at large 

 will not recover for a long time. 



Hardwood Record voices the sentiment of 

 every man who Isnew E. E. Goodlander in saying : 

 "Adieu, old friend, we cannot say goodbye." 



Building Operations for September and 



Preceding Nine Months 



The American Contractor of Chicago, in its 

 building report covering thirty-six cities through- 

 out the country, establishes a decrease of 7 per 

 cent for September as compared with September, 

 1911. On the other hand, the nine months 

 including September showed an increase of 4% 

 per cent as compared with the same period of 

 last year. Memphis, Tenn.. led for the month 

 of September with an increase of 133 per cent. 

 Other cities showing a decided gain for (hat 

 month over Septembei;, 1911, were Birmingham, 

 Ala., 95 per cent ; Cleveland, with ,5.5 per cent : 

 Worcester, Mass., 71 per cent; Scranton, Pa., 67 

 per cent ; Pittsburgh. 65 per cent. Toledo, O., 

 shows the greatest increase during the first nine 

 months of the year, building operations in that 

 city being 60 per cent greater than for the first 

 nine months of 1911. The detailed figures for 

 September, 1911 and 1912, are shown as follows : 



September, September. 



1912. I'JU. Percent. 



City. Cost. Cost. Gain Loss 



Akron .$ 335,650 $ 261,995 25 .. 



Atlanta 568.58T 487.087 16 . . 



Baltimore 669,760 636.843 5 .. 



Birmingham 470.262 240.792 95 . 



Buffalo .838,000 901.000 .. 15 



Cedar Rapids 330,000 171,000 92 ,. 



Chicago 7,210,900 7,613.100 . . 5 



Cleveland 1,379,315 888.440 55 .. 



Columbus 513,025 510,770 1 . . 



Dallas 351,225 ,"599.972 .. 12 



Denver 331.600 433,150 .. 23 



Detroit 1,841,800 1,387,660 32 . . 



Duluth 85.408 319,727 .. 73 



Ft Wavne 354,340 166.200 11 .. 



Grand Rapids 204,130 240,993 9 . . 



Harrisburg 101.0.50 80,975 25 . . 



Hartford ., 437,530 517,610 .. 15 



Indianapolis 1,000,,540 7,50.280 33 . . 



•Kansas City 959.774 4..894,e29 .. 80 



Memphis 644.515 276,440 133 . . 



Milwaukee 823.989 1,222,159 ., 32 



Minneapolis 1.211.075 1.002.8.50 20 .. 



Nashville 84.144 101.207 .. 16 



Newark 708.625 515,201 37 



New Haven 325,765 434.568 . . 25 



New Orleans 211.170 297,560 .. 29 



Norfolk 97.740 156.354 ., 37 



New York 13.047,378 15.005,.543 .. 13 



Oakland 646.436 500.708 29 .. 



Omaha 476.050 464.658 2 . . 



Philadelphia 2,798.700 2,390.885 17 .. 



Pittsburgh 1.343.749 826.036 65 . , 



Portland. Ore. . . . 909,,595 1,462.920 . . 37 



Rochester 969.936 R82.267 9 .•. 



St. Louis 1.248,763 1,490,995 .. 16 



Salt Lake City 227.975 192,000 IS .. 



San Antonio 151,592 148,611 2 .. 



San Francisco .... 1.783.145 1,634,048 9 .. 



Scranton 159,375 94.922 67 .. 



Seattle 607..S70 462,051 31 . . 



Shreveport 86.590 86.323 . . . . 



Toledo 336,605 345,873 . . 2 



Wilkes-Barre .... 175.298 136,568 20 .. 



Worcester 591,202 344,260 71 . . 



Total $47,710,178 551,467,239 .. 7 



•Kansas City permit for Union Depot Sept.. 

 1911, $4,051,000. 



Cutting the Cost of Clearing Logged-off 

 Lauds 



The constantly increasing acreage of logged- 

 off lands has made it imperative that some 

 means for economically and rapidly cleaning 

 these lands be available. Various devices have 

 been employed with varying success but none has 

 proved entirely efficient. It is now announced 

 from the office of the Clyde Iron Works at 

 Duluth, Minn., that that company has perfected 

 a device for pulling stumps and clearing land, 

 skidding the stumps to the machine and putting 

 them in large piles, thus enabling the machine 



to clear from three to six acres at one setting. 

 The machine has been successfully demonstrated 

 for the past two or three years and gives every 

 promise of revolutionizing the attitude of the 

 lumberman toward his cut-over holdings. 



Each of these machines is designed as an in- 

 dependent power unit complete in itself and 

 readily portable oven over the roughest and 

 most swampy country. It is mounted on broad 

 steel runners which are part of the frame-work 

 of the machine. Outside of this base the ma- 

 chine somewhat resembles an ordinary skidder 

 as it is equipped with boiler, engine, drums and 

 ■ cable. Some of the types .manufactured are the 

 single line skidder, the double line skidder, the 

 double line skidder with mechanical out-haul, 

 and the right of way skidder. Any of these 

 machines equipped with three drums may be 

 used for pile driving and for handling orange- 

 peel buckets for digging lateral ditches in drain- 

 age work and other excavation. 



It has been demonstrated that the cost of 

 clearing cut-over land with these machines is 

 approximately half what it would cost under 

 the same conditions with hand labor. In con- 

 nection with the operation of the skidder, a 

 specially designed steam stump puller has been 

 put on the market. This machine is equipped 

 with double cylinder three-drum engine. The 

 main cable is geared to two speeds, the low 

 speed with a maximum capacity of 112,000 lbs. 

 and the high speed with a maximum of 16,000 

 lbs. Thus the engineer can pull his stump at 

 slow speed and then skid it to the pile at as 

 great speed as 300 feet a minute. 



An Advanced Idea of Accident Prevention 



It has been preached tor .years that the surest 

 way of eliminating the wasted time and money 

 contingent upon industrial accidents is to pre- 

 vent such accidents themselves. By eliminating 

 or at least reducing to a minimum the accidents 

 to industrial workers, it of course follows that 

 the question of expense and inconvenience will 

 be reduced proportionately. It is with this in 

 view that a number of states have inaugurated 

 educational methods tending to increase the in- 

 terest in this vital question and to establish 

 uniform methods of controlling as much as pos- 

 sible the possibilities of industrial accidents. 



The state of Illinois, however, is the first to 

 establish an official state school for the study 

 and prevention of industrial accidents and of 

 diseases directly resulting from any particular 

 occupation. The school was opened on October 

 14, having been established under the llliriois 

 Occupational Disease Law and the Health, Safety 

 and Comfort Law, which legislation compels the 

 state factory inspector to see that every known 

 health and safety device is Installed wherever 

 required throughout the state. 



To carry out this new idea to a successful con- 

 clusion, it will be necessary that the state In- 

 spector be a proficient instructor as well as a 

 mere policeman. The school will embody such 

 features as a technological laboratory for the 

 study of the causes of industrial accidents and 

 ill health, and a lecture room for public lec- 

 tures to foremen, superintendents and others 

 directly responsible for accidents. Drafting 

 rooms in which new ideas in woodworking ma- 

 chinery guards and other safety devices can he 

 worked out will be provided by the state. In 

 addition, bulletins of the department of state 

 factory inspection will be sent free to manufac- 

 turers, workers and others Interested. 



The headquarters of the school are on the 

 fifteenth fioor of the Transportation building. 

 Chicago, and are under the direct charge of the 

 state factory inspector. The value of this unique 

 innovation in Industrial advancement is ap- 

 parently without any grounds for argument. 

 With the Idea Itself already established. It re- 

 mains for those in charge to keep this depart- 

 ment as free from political Influence as possible 

 in order to accomplish a high degree of efficiency 

 and effectiveness. 



MisceUaneous Notes 



The Gray Lumber Company of Waveriy, Va., 

 recently suffered a loss by fire. 



The Olney Cabinet Company, Olney, III., has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. 



Lambert E. Barnes of Greenwood, Miss., has 

 recently added a woodworking department to his 

 plant. 



Wm. P. Braun of Morrill, Me., is planning the 

 establishment of a dowel factory in the near 

 future. 



The Boston Furniture Company has been in- 

 corporated at Boston, Mass., with a capital of 

 $100,000. 



A new concern for Fonthill. Ky.. is the Font- 

 hill Spoke Company, incorporated with a capital 

 of $6,000. 



The Koss Chair Company was recently incor- 

 porated at Louisville, Ky.. with a capital stock 

 of $69,000. 



The Maris Hardwood Company has entered 

 the wholesale irardwood lumber trade at San 

 Francisco, Cal. 



The Maple City Manufacturing Company has 

 recently commenced the manufacture of tables 

 at Milford, Ind. 



The Pine Bluff .Spoke Company, Pine Bluff, 

 .\rk., was recently Incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $30,000. 



The Miller & Nickel Company was recently 

 Incorporated at New Albany, Ind.. for the manu- 

 facture of vehicles. 



A new concern to incorporate at Centerville, 

 N. y,. is the Centerville Woodwork Company ; 

 capital stock $10,000. 



The Vincennos Novelty Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been incorporated at Vincennes, Ind., 

 with a capital of $10,000. 



.1. Elwood Cox of High Point. N. C, has re- 

 cently purchased a site on which he plans to 

 build a shuttle block factory. 



A new concern to enter the furniture manu- 

 facturing trade at Baltimore, Md., is the Chesa- 

 peake Manufacturing Company. 



The Dorman-Eicle Manufacturing Company. 

 Houston, Tex., has been incorporated for $10,000 

 lo manufacture woodwork, etc. 



The Hardwood Manufacturing Compemy has 

 been incorporated at Manchester. Tenn. The 

 company is capitalized at $35,000. 



A new concern to incorporate at Boston, Mass., 

 is the Hills Couch-Chair Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. It is capitalized at $100,000. 



.\ new concern to Incorporate at McMinnvllle, 

 Tenn., is the McMinnville Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, with a capital stock of $20,000. 



Fire recently damaged the plant of the Buffalo 

 Maple Flooring Company, Chicago and Mackinaw 

 streets, Buffalo, to the extent of $3,000. 



The Bovill Wood Products Company recently 

 commenced business at Bovill, Idaho. " The com- 

 pany will manufacture wood specialties. 



The sawmill of tlie Napoleon Lumber and 

 Handle Company, Napoleon, O.. was recently 

 destroyed by fire. The plant was fully Insured. 



,Tohn Obrecht Sons Manufacturing Company Is 

 planning the erection of a factory at Tell City. 

 Ind., for the manufacture . of wooden lawn 

 swings. 



The Arkansas Veneer Company of Helena re- 

 cently filed an amendment to Its charter. In- 

 creasing its capital stock from $20 000 to 

 $40,000. 



The plant of the defunct Jamestown Veneer 

 and Panel Company, Jamestown, Pa., has re- 

 cently been purchased by Calflsh Brothers of 

 Union City, Pa. 



The Shaw-Walker Company, manufacturer of 

 filing cabinets, is planning the erection of a 

 $100,000 addition to its factory at Muskegon, 

 Mich., in the near future. 



The J. L. Pease Company, manufacturer of 

 columns at Berwick, La., has been succeeded by 

 the Pease-Gilmore Column Company, which is 

 incorporated with a capital of $15,000. 



The Hardwood Flooring Company, Inc., was 



