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WORKS OF HAFNER MANUFACTURING ro.MPAXY. 



GKXKKAI. VIEW PLANT SIIULTZ BELTING CllMrANV. 



Steele & Hibliard. With Mr. Krebs in the 

 saddle, great things may be expected of this 

 ruueern this year. 



Closely affiliated with the lumber industry 

 is the mamifacture of belting. There is not 

 a more perjilexing problem to manufacturers 

 'if lumber than this matter of belting. A 

 liad belt can cause no end of trouble, delay 

 and consequent expense in a mill or factory. 

 The Shultz belt has stood the test of years 

 and has never been found wanting. The 

 Shultz factory is one of the large institutions 

 of St. Louis. It has a floor space of 130,500 

 si|uare feet and is equipped with every new 



and practical device for making leather belt- 

 ing. Mr. Shultz is universally regarded a.s 

 one of the best tanners in the country. He 

 nas invented many useful machines now gen- 

 erally used in the leather trade. In the 

 manufacture of Shultz belting nothing but 

 the heaxiest packer steer hides are used. The 

 leather is prepared by Mr. Shultz ' own spe- 

 cial process. By a new and wonderful ma- 

 chine all tendency to stretch is taken out of 

 the belt. The Shultz sable rawhide belting 

 has a world-wide reputation founded upon 

 years of use in some of the largest plants 

 in the United States and in every country 

 where belting is used. 



'Builders of Lumber History. 



irUMBEB XXIII. 



Lewis Dill. 

 I .Sec portrait S 11 iiiilr incut.) 



When the National "Wholesale Luaiber 

 Dealers' Association compliments one of its 

 members by making him president of that 

 body and reelecting him at the end of his 

 first term of office it is evident that the re- 

 i-ipient of the honor has shown other quali- 

 lications for the office than the abilities of 

 ' he average successful business man. The 

 head of that organization, which holds such 

 a distinctive position in the lumber industry, 

 must be a man of broad mind, strong char- 

 acter, diplomatic adaptability and social in- 

 rlination. 



The large membership of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association and 

 its long life as a working body, in which 

 li_<gal services, credit information, arbitration 

 departments and other important functions 

 have been well administered, make the duties 

 of its chief executive more than nominal. 

 ( 'onsequentl}' it was a particularly hajjpy 

 clioice which last year made Lewis Dill of 

 Baltimore its president and this year re- 

 elected him to that office. Besides being a 

 most successful lumberman, Mr. Dill has 

 made himself familiar to a large proportion 



of the memliership of the association as 

 an active worker in lumber associations and 

 a public-spirited citizen. 



For fifteen years Mr. Dill had been an- 

 nually' elected to the board of managers of 

 the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, one of the 

 most progressive organizations of its kind in 

 the country. In 1897 he was elected presi- 

 dent of the body and during his first term 

 increased the membei'ship from thirty to 

 seventy firms, and made it include nearly all 

 dealers in the city and vicinity. His most 

 thorough and advantageous administration 

 was continued for five years. The high 

 esteem in which he is held by his fellow 

 members was voiced by Norman James, who 

 came after him as president of the Ex- 

 change: "To Mr. Dill, more than to any 

 other man in the trade at Baltimore, or for 

 that matter, more than any ten men, is due 

 the credit for the standing of our Exchange. 

 He has been for years its most energetic 

 worker, an inspiration and stimulus to the 

 remainder of the members to follow him in 

 the good work." 



Mr. Dill was born Sept. 19, 1S59, in the 

 little town of Frederick, Md. Here in the 

 early days of the Revolution his forbears. 



wild ivere (if Si-otch-lrisli extraction, settled. 

 The town has an historical significance all 

 oat of proportion to its size, and it has been 

 the birthplace of many a stei'ling patriot 

 i-elebrated in song and story. A boy could 

 not fail to imbibe loyalty and patriotism 

 from its traditions quite as much as he did 

 virile, physical strength from the wind that 

 blew across from the Blue Eidge mountains. 

 It was here that Lewis Dill's boyhood and 

 youth were spent. Here he went to the public 

 school and was graduated from Frederick 

 college when he was seventeen years old. At 

 this early age he realized that the commercial 

 strength of our country was the greatest link 

 in its chain of prosperity, and as soon as he 

 left school he secured a position as clerk in 

 a large jobbing house in Baltimore. 



Ability, energy and ambition soon carried 

 him to the bookkeejjer 's desk, and then it was 

 but a short step to the position of office man 

 ager. Ten years later, when the business 

 (vas closed out, the responsible task of its 

 liquidation was intrusted to Mr. Dill, then 

 only twenty-seven years old. 



After the affairs of the company were 

 settled, Mr. Dill was employed in the lumber 

 office of Samuel P. Rylaud. He soon mas- 

 tered the details of the new business and it 

 was not long before his ability as a salesman 

 became well known as ho traveled between 

 the mills and the eastern markets for Mr. 

 Eyland. 



In 1S87, with Louis C. Koehle he formed a 

 partnership under the firm name of Dill & 

 Roehle, and for ten years they conducted 

 a most successful hmiber business. At that 

 time failing healtii caused Mr. Roehle to 

 retire from the firm and since Mr. Dill has 

 conducted the business alone as Lewis Dill 

 & Co. For years this firm has been the lead- 

 ing factor at Baltimore and Washington in 

 the car market trade of the East. 



Before being elected to the presidency of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation, Mr. Dill was for three years a 

 trustee of that body, was first vice president 

 and had been prominent in the work for 



