HARDWOOD RECORD 



The menu was elegantly served as follows : 



Manhattan Cocktail 



Ehie Points, Cocktail Sauce 



Celery Olives 



Green Turtle Clear 



Sauterne 



Lobster, a la Parisienne 



Braised Sweetbreads Green Peas 



Punch Cigarettes Champagne 



Koast Quail. Currant Jelly 



Potatoes Stuffed Peppers 



Peeled Tomatoes — Mayonnaise 



Ice Cream Cake 



Roquefort Cheese Crackers 



Coffee. 



Cigars 



National Wholesalers' Annual. 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association will hold its annual meeting at 

 tlie Bellevue-Stratford hotel, Philadelphia, 

 March 1 and 2. Arrangements are progres- 

 sing satisfactorily, and the committee in 

 charge of the banquet, entertainment, etc., 

 consisting of Eobert C. Lippincott, George 

 F. Craig and Henry C. Eiley, is putting 

 forth every effort to make this meeting the 

 most successful in the history of the associa- 

 tion. Men prominent in national affairs 

 have promised to attend the banquet and 

 deliver addresses. 



The Wholesale Lumber Dealers of Phila- 

 flelphia vrill hold a reception for the officers 

 :md delegates of the national body on the 

 evening of March 1. George F. Craig, presi- 

 dent of the local association, has appointed 

 a committee, of which Colonel Charles M. 

 Betts is chairman, to provide for that even- 

 ing's entertainment. 



President Lewis C. Slade has called a 

 meeting of the executive committee of the 

 association for Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 28, 

 and of the board of trustees for Tuesday 

 evening of the same date. Both meetings 

 will be held at the Bellevue-Stratford hotel. 

 Eeduced railroad rates on the certificate 

 ]ilan have been secured for delegates attend- 

 ing the convention. 



Immediately following the reception given 

 by the Philadelphia Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association to the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers Association and their guests 

 at the "Bellevue-Stratford" on Wednesday 

 evening, March 1, a concatenation of the Con- 

 centrated Order of Hoo-Hoo will be held in 

 the ball-room of the Continental Hotel at 

 9:09 p. m. This concatenation will be fol- 

 lowed by a smoker at 10:30 p. m., to which 

 .'ill luml>ermen and their guests are invited. 



Miscellaneous NeWs. 



An Automatic Copying Lathe. 



The Number Patent Automatic Copying 

 Lathe here shown is made by the Defiance Ma- 

 chine works of Defiance. 0. It has been de- 

 signed for accurately turning irregular shapes 

 such as hames. side bars for saddles, hat blocks, 

 golf stick heads, gun stocks, handles, spokes and 

 other wooden articles from the most delicate 

 sizes up to 36 inches long, and finish various 

 diameters up to 6 inches at the largest. It will 

 reproduce an exact facsimile of any model 

 placed into the machine. In addition to this 

 either end of the product may be made larger or 

 smaller than the governing model by a simple, 

 quick adjustment of the machine. At an estra 



cast in one piece, with cored center and a broad 

 floor base to stand firm. 



The head spindles, to revolve the work to be 

 turned and the model are fitted Into long con- 

 nected bea-'ings, and they are driven by cut gear 

 ing, which insures a uniform motion and secures 

 perfect turning. 



The tall spindles stand opposite and in align- 

 ment with the head spindles, and they are ad 

 justable horizontally togethef for work of vari- 

 ous lengths with an independent horizontal ad- 

 justment by hand wheel and screw to place In 

 and take out the work and model. They also 

 have a right angular idjustment to change the 

 size of turning at either end. 



The rotter head carriage is accurately fitted 



AUTOMATIC COPYING LATHE. 



and from right to left, starting to turn the 

 material at either end. The frictions are auto- 

 matlcall.v engaged or disengaged for starting or 

 Btopping the feed. The frame supporting the 

 cutter htad and guide roller is gibbed to the 

 carriage and it vibrates in a path that corre- 

 sponds with the shape of the model placed into 

 the machine, and it is connected by a convenient 

 hand lever to bring the cutter head up to its 

 work or throw it back out of the way, which 

 can be accomplished while the machine Is in 

 motion. 



The cutter head is fitted with right and left 

 hand cutters to feed both ways, and it is bo 

 constructed as to successfully turn either hard 

 or soft wood, and produce smooth and satls- 

 factor.v turning. 



The feeding mechanism" is so constructed to 

 turn with the carriage, feeding from left to right 

 or from right to left, alternately, or, it may be 

 adjusted so as to feed in one direction only, and 

 have the carriage returned by a quick auto- 

 matic motion to the place of starting, and the 

 starting station may be at the right or left hand 

 end of the machine, as desired. It has five 

 changes of feed from % inch to % inch, varying 

 1-16 inch to each revolution of the work turned. 

 and it can be started or stopped instantly. Ad- 

 justable stops are provided on a horizontal bar 

 under the carriage for regulating the length of 

 travel to the cutter head and they can be In- 

 stantly .set for short or long turning. When 

 the end of cut Is reached, the feed Is automatic- 

 ally disengaged ready for the next cut. 



The counter is furnished as follows: Three 

 No. 1 Ball and Socket Adjustable Drop Hangers 

 with new style belt shipping apparatus, one 

 countershaft 1 T-lC'iao inches, one drum for drlv- 

 ing the cutter head 16x44 inches. The tight 

 and loose pulleys are 8x4 inches and should be 

 run 620 turns per minute. 



cott, and when especially ordered. It can be 

 furnished with an attachment to turn both rights 

 and lefts accurately from one model. 



The frame is a heavy casting of neat design. 



and thoroughly gibbed to the main frame. It 

 is traversed across the path of the material to 

 be turned by means of a heavy screw driven 

 by a double friction to feed from left to right 



"Atkins Always Ahead." 

 There have been hundreds of examples of the 

 rapid ri.se of indivhluals from comparative pov- 

 erty to wealth through sheer force of character 

 and application, and in each Instance an analy- 

 sis of the process of transition reveals the tact 

 that the result was accomplished along some 

 one Ime of thought or endeavor. 



No more remarkable evidence of the success- 

 ful development of an Idea can be presented 

 than the growth that has attended the great 

 saw manufacturing establishment of E. C At- 

 kins & Co. of Indianapolis, Ind. Superiority 

 and quality was the idea which predominated 

 In the production of the Atkins brand of saws 

 from the casting of the steel Ingot to the fin- 

 ished article, and to no other one reason can 

 be attributed the wonderful demand for Atkins 

 saws which comes from all parts of the world. 

 The Atkins brand of saws may be rightly en- 

 tlted to Its Inception away back in the 17th 

 century, when the Atkins ancestors were making 

 saws in old Engiaiul and have continued there 

 and in this country In an unbroken line down 

 to the present time. 



The success of this institution was primarily 

 due to the mechanical genius of its founder, E, 

 C. Atkins, who established the business in 1857, 

 alone and without capital, though endowed with 

 abundant energy and perseverance. His knowl- 

 edge and experience In saw-making was obtained 

 in the saw factory of his father, then operating 

 at Bristol. Conn. But the continued and un- 

 precedented prosperity which has attended tha 

 business of the past ten years Is accounted tor 

 by the fact that not only the present head 

 of the firm, H, C, Atkins, but every department 

 superintendent is an expert In his particular 

 line, and ■quality" is their watchword. 



It Is well known that the skilled mechanics 

 In the Atkins factory (and they comprise more 

 than half of the employes) are the highest paid 

 workmen in Indianapolis. Little wonder It Is, 

 then, that a force of mechanical experts, aided 

 by patented and specially devised machinery 

 and appliances, should produce saws of such 



