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everything that contributes to excellence in 

 quality and manufacture of lumber. The offices 

 of the Cremer company will be in the Third 

 National Bank building, St. I.ouls, and in 

 Chicago. 



Building Operations for October 



Forty-four representative huililini; centers 

 throughout the country as officially reported to 

 and compiled by The American Contractor. Chi- 

 cago, show an aggregate loss of eight per cent 

 for the month of October, as compared with the 

 same month of 1910. The past ten months of 

 the present year show a decline of five per cent, 

 as compared with the same months of the past 

 year. Gains of over twenty-five per cent for 

 October were made at : Buffalo, 49 per cent ; 

 Chattanooga, 88 : Dallas, Gl ; Grand Rapids, 113 ; 

 Hartford, 35 ; Manchester, 68 ; Memphis, 27 ; 

 Milwaukee. 36; Pittsburg, 111; St. Louis, 36; 

 Scranton, 58 : Toledo. 2G : Worcester, 81. Par- 

 ticulars n'ill be found in the following tables : 



October, October, 



1911. 1910. Per Cent 



City. Cost. Cost. GainLoss 



Atlant.q $ S35.40.'! ? 474.S09 .. 29 



Bnltiuiore 539.028 710.:i76 .. 24 



auffalo 910.000 01:3. 010 40 . . 



Cedar Rapids 133,0<K) Ml. 000 2 .. 



Chattanooga 128.00.'. (IT.SIW SS .. 



Chieaso ,S,7S5.7UO 10.077.2(10 .. 12 



Cleveland 1.141,040 1.430,402 .. 20 



Columbus 421..'>7.S 4fiO..S02 .. 6 



Dallas 274,800 170.-.1,-. 61 .. 



Denver 432„300 501.63.". .. 13 



Detroit 1,522,649 1,401.420 8 .. 



Dulllth 237,55.-. 594,985 . . 43 



(iranii Rapids 403.0.33 1SS..S0O 113 .. 



Hartford 471,705 349.298 35 . . 



Kansas City 726,348 663,645 9 .. 



Los Angeles 1,821,427 1,890,753 .. 3 



Manchester 100,485 59.479 68 . . 



Memphis 379.780 298..570 27 .. 



Milwaukee 1.075.932 785.728 36 . . 



.Minneapolis 718.815 1.177.275 .. 38 



Nashville 73.0.32 126.:i71 .. 41 



Newark 724.766 866.374 .. 16 



N\'W Haven 289,980 377,987 . . 23 



.Manhattan 6,438.3.33 7.324.651 . . 12 



Brooklyn 2.716, l.SO 2,459,395 10 .. 



Bronx 1.508.175 3,024,375 . . 50 



New York 10.662.088 12..80S.421 .. 16 



OakUnii 621.007 .-.40,020 15 .. 



Okla. City 124, .-.so 310,001 .. 59 



Omaha . 363.480 440,695 . . 19 



Pilterson 102,219 104,820 . . 47 



Philadelphia 2.346.130 2.643,025 .. 11 



PitLshurgh 2,136,670 1,009,203 111 .. 



Portland, Ore 1.690,980 1.6.81.170 1 .. 



Rochester 1,104,775 1,.324..366 .. 16 



.St. Paul .571.482 877.003 . . 34 



.St. Louis 1.614,140 1.185.701 .36 .. 



Salt Lake Citv 173.7rM> 140.100 J6 



San Francisco' 1.253,802 l.ii.-,4.702 10 .. 



Scranton 191,209 120,802 58 .. 



Seattle 638.895 2.101.695 .. 61 



Spokane 185.025 .380.270 .. 51 



Tacoma 172,471 135,947 26 . . 



Toledo 250.868 223.629 12 . . 



Worcester 546,732 290.465 81 . . 



Total $46,408,772 .$30.890,4.59 .. 8 



Meeting Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club 



The regular meeting of the Lumbermen's Club 

 was held Nov. 6 at the new home of the Busi- 

 ness Men's Club. A fish dinner was served at 

 6 :30 p. m. to a representative gathering of the 

 heads of concerns, after which President Sam 

 Richey at once proceeded to do business. The 

 routine was quickly disposed of and the reports 

 of five cases submitted to the "Square Deal" 

 proposition of the club were read, together with 

 a recital of the main points at issue. Each case 

 had been taken up by a separate committee. 



After the reports were read the question of 

 giving publicity to the reports was thoroughly 

 gone into, and it was decided that it would not 

 be proper nor .lust to contending parties to give 

 their cases undue publicity and that, therefore, 

 all the papers in the cases submitted would be 

 respected as confidential, and after submitting 

 the report to the club the papers would be re- 

 turned to their respective owners. 



A number of letters were read by the secre- 

 tary from persons who had submitted their cases 

 to arbitration, and every one expressed himself 

 as thoroughly satisfied with the adjustment, 

 whether on the losing or the winning side. 



The report of the chairman of the Advertis- 

 ing Committee on a plan for advertising embraced 

 a plan for "circularizing," which, after discus- 



sion, was received and spread upon the mituites 

 and no further action taken. 



The Advertising Committee was instructed to 

 sulunit a plan of classifying the various lumber 

 interests in the telephone and city directories to 

 make reference more convenient, as all are 

 classed as lumbermen, whether hardwood or soft- 

 wood men. millmon, dealers or manufacturers of 

 building material. 



Superiority of Dovetail Glue Joint 



Every device that science brings out that is 

 better than methods that were formerly used, 

 making it possible to get the work performed 

 at a lower cost, with the quality as good or bet- 

 ter, must b? immensely valuable to the manu- 

 facturing indti.slry. A series of scientific in- 

 vestigations were recently made at the Purdue 

 University, Lafayette, Ind., which are of espe- 

 cial interest to the wood-working industry, as 

 they give it a comprehensive idea of the actual 

 strength of the different kinds of joints glued 

 together, also their comparison in strength with 

 the natural wood. Owing to the tests being 

 slightly in favor of the double cut, tapering 

 wedge, dovetail glue joint made on the Automatic 

 Dovetail Glue Jointer, the Linderman Machine 

 Company has had the photographs made into 

 half-tones without retouching, put them into a 

 booklet called "Technical Glue Joint Analysis," 



TESTING MACHINE EMPLOYED IN SHOW- 

 ING JOINT STRENGTH 



which proves in a true light the exact strength 

 of clamped and taper-wedge dovetail joints in 

 oak, maple and pine, as compared to the solid 

 wood. The cut on this page will give you an 

 idea of how the flexure tests are taken on the 

 Olson testing machine. This illustration shows 

 a tapering wedge dovetail jointed board break- 

 ing under a load of 27,000 pounds, fracturing 

 the solid wood, leaving the joint in as perfect a 

 condition as when it was dovetailed together, 

 which proves that the joint is stronger than the 

 natur.al wood. There is every indication that 

 the new 1911 model Linderman Automatic Dove- 

 tail Glue Jointer is revolutionizing the jointing 

 of lumber in the furniture industry, because it 

 is beyond dispute that the double-cut, tapering 

 wedge, dovetail glue joint is a principal factor 

 in producing the finest solid furniture in twenty- 

 five different factories : and when taken into 

 consideration that it requires but one auto- 

 matic operation to complete a panel without even 

 having to prepare the lumber, and save all waste 

 in lumber, it appears that it must become a 

 necessity rather than a machine that merely 

 could be used. No one who puts lumber to- 

 gether in quantities of 1,000 feet a day or more 

 can hardly afford to be without this automatic 

 method of jointing. When a table company can 

 save $5.25 a day in glue, and do with lour men 

 and a "Linderman" the work which it took 

 eleven men to accomplish by the best hand 

 methods. It means a saving that will net 

 enormous dividends on the investment. To any 

 firm not having a copy of the "Technical Glue 

 Joint Analysis," the Linderman Machine Com- 

 pany will gladly send it on request. 



Mammoth Mahogany Log 



One of the largest mahogany logs ever brought 

 to this country was landed at Pensacola, Fla., 

 recently by one of tlie boats of the mahogany 

 carrying fleet of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Com- 

 pany of Louisville, Ky. It weighed ten tons, 

 was seventeen feet long and five and a half feet 

 in diameter. The log came from (he Mengel 

 company's camps at Axim, on the west coast of 

 Africa. This company has a number of steamers 

 engaged in its African and Central American 

 mahogany shipping interests. 



In Charge of Sales 



W. A. McLean, president of the Wood-Mosaic 

 Company, Inc., of New Albany, Ind., and Roches- 

 ter, N. Y., announces that S. B. Taylor of Buffalo 

 has affiliated himself with the Wood-Mosaic Com- 

 pany, and in the future will have charge of its 

 sales department. Mr. Taylor is a very com- 

 petent lumberman, with a thorougli knowledge 

 and long experience in hardwoods, and undeniably 

 the Wood-Mosaic Company has secured a mighty 

 good man for the handling of its hardwood, 

 sawed rough and flooring output. 



H. H. Hitt, the well-known manufacturer of 

 hardwood lumber at Falkvilie, Ala., announces 

 the appointment of M. R. Williams as sales 

 representative in the Philadelphia and New "York 

 districts. Mr. Williams' local address will be the 

 Continental hotel, Philadelphia. Mr. Williams is 

 a man who is thoroughly familiar with lumber 

 affairs and with the eastern trade, and he should 

 he a valuable ally to Mr. Hitt's lumber enter- 

 prises. 



Look Out for Him 



Plnkerton's National Detective Agency advises 

 Hardwood Record that during April. 1911, the 

 bank at Burlington, Wis., reported that during 

 July, 1910, one Andrew H. Bruitt defrauded it 

 of thirty dollars on a worthless check. Later he 

 secured $631.69, also on a worthless draft, from 

 a man by whom he was employed at Bronson, 

 Mich. In December, 1910, this same man was 

 arrested by the police at Frankfort, Ind., and 

 later secured his release by compromising the 

 Michigan charge. Still later he was arrested by 

 the police at Marinette, Wis., and while awaiting 

 trial escaped from jail. 



Bruitt is an alleged lumber salesman by occu- 

 pation, and very likely will seek employment in 

 this line. Drafts and checks given by him are in 

 connection with lumber sales. Warrants for his 

 arrest are out with the Burlington and Marin- 

 ette police. His description is sis feet two inches 

 tall ; age about fifty years ; weight one hundred 

 and sixty-five pounds ; slender build, gray hair, 

 regular nose, smooth shaven and of good general 

 appearance. He claims Milwaukee as his resi- 

 dence. He writes a very legible but rather 

 cramped hand. 



Lumbermen should be on the lookout for this 

 swindler. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Simplex Ladder Company was recently in- 

 corporated at Buchanan, Mich., with a capital 

 stock of $6,000. 



The Morris Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Morris, Minn., with an authorized 

 capital stock of $80,000. 



The Brown-Morse Company of Muskegon. 

 Mich., manufacturer of office furniture, has in- 

 creased its capital stock to $250,000. 



A new furniture concern for Port Huron, 

 Mich., is the Brennan Furniture Company, incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $25,000. 



The plant of the Globe Parlor Furniture Com- 

 pany at High Point, N. C, was entirely de- 

 stroyed by fire of unknown origin on Oct. 16. 

 The loss is estimated at $50,000. Insurance was 

 carried. 



The Walland Lumber Company, Slinneapolis, 

 Minn., was recently incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $100,000. Those interested in the new- 

 company are P. B. Parsons, P. A. Long, D. R. 

 Thomas and E. M. Chandler, all of Minneapolis. 



