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taiuins featiiiTs were pulled off. President Wbitmarsh did not take 

 lip much time when he called for order. He only told of several inno- 

 vations, in addition to those alread.v mentioned, that would be inau- 

 gurated later on. Quite a number of new names were added to the 

 roster of the club. In addition to the lunch, there was plenty to drink 

 and the hundred members who attended the smoker enjoyed every 

 moment. There was singing, music by a rag-time player, and a cabaret 

 entertainment. Julius Seidel, chairman of the entertainment committee, 

 was responsible tor the entertaining features. The evening was one of 

 the most enjoyable spent by the club for a long time. 



New Plant of Saranac Machine Company 



The accompanying illustration gives an eseelleut idea of the new mauu- 

 faeturiug plant Just completed by the Saranac Machine Company. Benton 

 Harbor, Mich. This building is located midway between Benton Harbor 

 and St. Joseph and is easily reached from either city by electric cars. 



This Arm started some fourteen years ago in a small way and its 

 growth has been steady until tinall.v the increasing volume of business 

 -and the large demand for its machinery compelled the company to erect 

 the new factory which it now occupies. Here every facility for the con- 

 struction and erection of the high-grade products of its factories is pro- 

 vided. The new location is situated on a tract of land that provides ample 

 room for expansion as necessity demands it. 



The main building of the new plant is 6U x lif2 feet. The front section 

 has two floors. Heavy mill construction with a foundation of reinforced 



the laws of Michigan. The firm's policy is extremely progressive and it 

 incorporates in its products the most advanced ideas. The company 

 maintains a complete and competent engineering department for the 

 designing of niachiner.\-. which department is always at the command of 

 its customers. 



New Hardwood Concern in Minneapolis 



The Joxce-Hartell Company is the style of a new concern organized at 

 Minneapolis, which brings together two men who have been prominently 

 idt'ntitied with the lumber business for years. The inc-orporation con- 

 sists of John Joyce of Ashland, Wis., president; W. D. Bartell, Minne- 

 apolis, vice-president : and W. L. Jo.vce, Minneapolis, secretar.v and treas- 

 - urer. Mr. Bartell and W. L. Joyce will be the active principals in the 

 business and will both be located at Minneapolis. They are both men 

 of experience and there is every chance of their establishing for the new 

 lirni a prominent place in the hardwood lumber trade. 



John Joyce is a well-known lumberman of northern Wisconsin. He 

 is a member of the Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mellen, Wis., and 

 the Mellen Lumber Company of the same place. W. L. Joyce is the son 

 of John Joyce and started his career in the lumber business with the 

 Foster-Latimer Lumber Company at Mellen. Four years ago he went to 

 Minneapolis. He first was alDliated with the Forest Lumber Company 

 and later with the Joyce-Connor Lumber Company, which took over the 

 business of the Forest Lumber Company at Minneapolis. 



W. D. Bart '11 has for sixteen years been prominently associated with 



I'l.A.VT IIF S.U;.\N.U' MACHLNE COMPANY. BKXTOX HAUBOK. MICH. 



concrete was used. The factory floor is divided into three sections or 

 bays. The east bay is utilized for the erection of the lighter types of 

 madiines, the north bay contains the machine tools, all of which are of 

 modern design, and the west bay is used for erecting the heavier types of 

 machines and is served with overhead traveling cranes. The arrange- 

 ment of the factory is such that the company is able to obtain str.-iight 

 line production, thus doing away with any necessity of re-handling. 



One of the important items of production of the Saianac .JIachine 

 Conii?any is the single and multiple head wire stitching machines used 

 in the manufacture of bushel basket covers, fruit crates, berry boxes, 

 wire bound boxes, etc. In addition, a large percentage of the automatic 

 machinery used in the manufacture of wire and veneer and paper butter 

 dishes has been manufactured by this firm. Its automatic machines for 

 turning out berry boxes of veneer or paper have a capacit.y up to one 

 hundred complete baskets per minute. The company's automatic paper 

 package machines are a marvel of efficiency. These machines take the 

 paper from the roll and feed, print in one or more colors, cut, crease, 

 set up. wire stitch, wax line and deliver the package complete at a rapid 

 rate. In fact, the firm has an international reputation as a designer 

 and producer of high-grade machinery for the production of veneer and 

 paper packages. 



For the wooden packing box trade, three typos of corrugated, joint 

 fastener driving machines are made, enabling the compan.v to meet prac- 

 tically every requirement for machines of this kind. In addition to tbi> 

 lines enumerated above, the extended experience of the Saranac JIaehine 

 Company covers the manufacture of machines in many other lines, includ- 

 ing machinery for packing cereals and other articles which can be packed 

 in paper packages. 



The Saranac Macliine Company is a stock company, incorporiitrd uiulrr 



Upham & Agler of Chicago, and during the last three years has been 

 the Minneapolis representative of that concern. 



The new company will handle both northern and southern hardwood 

 lumber and will make a specialty of factory lumber. 



The offices will be maintained at 814-15 Lumber Exchange building. 



American Forestry Association to 'Visit BUtmore 



Toda.v, JIar. L*o, the directors of the American Forestry Association 

 will meet in their regular quarterly meeting at Asheville, N. C. adjacent 

 to which is the famous forest estate of Cieorge W. Vanderbilt. widely 

 known as the Biltmori? estate. With the directors ari- a miraber of lum- 

 lii'rmen. forester.s. owners of timlK'rIand, and others interested in forest 

 conservation. The party traveled in special cars on the Southern Rail- 

 way, reaching Asbeville this morning, and are quartered at the Hotel 

 Langrcn. The afternoon of Mar. 25 is being devoted to a trip in car- 

 riages through that section of the Biltmore estate adjacent to Mr. Van- 

 derbilt's famous mansion. C. J. Beadle, superintendent of tlie estate, is 

 acting as escort to the party. This trip enables the visitors to make a 

 study of the most advanced application of modern forestry to be found 

 anywlicre on the .\nierican continent. On the evening of Mar. 25 there 

 will be a pulilic meeting in the interest of forest conservation in the 

 convention hall at the Hotel Langren. Dr. Henry S. Hrinker. president 

 of the association, and al.so president of Lehigh University, will talk on 

 the questiim of forest taxation, of which he has made a special and ex- 

 haustive stud.v. J. S. Holmes, secretary of the North Carolina State 

 Forestry .Association, will also address the guests at the banquet, as will 

 J. E. Rhodes of Chicago, secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



On Mar. 2tJ Ihi- party will journey in automobiles as the giii>sts of 



