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HARDWOOD RECORD 



death was pneiiinonia. lio being sick but five 

 fiays. The deceased was widely known and 

 highly respected in hardwood circles. He orig- 

 inally operated at Indianapolis, but after sev- 

 eral years went to Memphis, Tenn., and organ- 

 ized the L. n. Gage Lumber Company, which 

 still bears his name. Mr. (_Tage remained in 

 Memphis for several years, ami then left for the 

 gold fields of Oregon. Upon returning from the 

 West he went to Cincinnati and organized the 

 Gage-Possell Lumber Company, with which in- 

 stitution he was connected for a number of 

 years. 



Mr. Gage was a pioneer in the hardwood 

 business, starting with Scatchard & Son, Buf 

 falo, many years ago. Until recently he had 

 been living in Oregon, and returned to Chicago 

 last October. He leaves a widow and five mar- 

 ried daughters. 



The cutler head is made round, as this form 

 facilitates the application and care of thin air- 

 hardening cutters, with which the machine is 

 preferably fitted. The head is grooved to carry 

 four cutters. 



There are many improvements in this new ma- 

 chine, and full details can be secured by ad- 

 dressing the H. B. Smith Machine Comijany. 

 Smithville, N. J. 



Biltmore Doings 

 Biltmore Doings, giving .tu account of the 

 activities of the Biltmore Forest School in 

 Cermany during December, tells of interesting 

 irijis the students made during that month. The 

 first part of December was spent in a trip 

 through Bavaria and Saxony. In Bavaria the 

 forests visited were mainly spruce and lir. In 

 these sections the students had excellent oppor- 



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New Cabinet Planer 



Illustrated herewith is a view of a new thirty- 

 inch heavy cabinet planer that has just been 

 put out by that veteran and sterling wood-work- 

 ing machinery house, H. B. Smith Machine Com- 

 pany, Smithville, N. J. This machine has va- 

 rious improvements over any other type of furni- 

 ture planer, and is built with a round head, hav- 

 ing four sell-hardening cutters, patent sectional 

 feed rolls, patent sectional chip-breakers, power 

 hoist, and provision for jointing and grinding 

 the cutters on the machine. 



These machines are e.\tra heavy as compared 

 with other cabinet planers, and are very finely 

 constructed, and strongly driven. They will do 

 the finest kind of smooth planing. The frame is 

 cast boUow including the front and rear cross- 

 girls, which is the stiScst possible form of con- 

 itr-uction. 



The bed Is heavy and deeply ribbed, and has a 

 vertical movement of lull seven inches on long 

 inclines, which extend from the front to the rear 

 of the framing. The feed Is started and stopped 

 by a belt-binder which is hinged on a trunnion 

 Independent of the shaft. I'rovision is made 

 for two rates of feed, viz : twenty and thirty a 

 minute, but additional rates ol feed may be had 

 by additional pulleys. 



The feed works consist ol four live-Inch feed 

 rolls, two above and two below. The upper Iced 

 roll is made In sections. The front and rear 

 rolls arc thirteen and one-hall Inches apart from 

 center to center, which enables the machine to 

 plane pieces as short as thirteen and one-halt 

 Inches without depending upon one piece shov- 

 ing the other through. 



The sectional leetl rolls arc made two Inches 

 wide and each sectlOD Is given pressure by a 

 spring ol limited movement, which causes a 

 double roller over each section to give the neces- 

 sary pressure to each section so as to Insure 

 a positive Iced. Pieces varying In thickness 

 can be planed simultaneously. 



1 unity to closely observe the regeneration meth- 

 ods employed by Bavarian foresters. The for- 

 ests in this country are logged in strips about 

 300 l*eet wide, each strip being restocked after 

 cutting by planting. Logging is started at the 

 top of the hill and carried downward, thus avoid- 

 ing damage to the young growth. By this 

 method a perpetual supply is const.intly beius 

 maintained. 



From Dresden, in Saxony, the students visiteil 

 the suburb of Tharandt, where is located th<^ 

 first technical forest school in the world, which 

 was founded in 1811 by Heinrich von Cotta. 

 The students were accorded a royal welcome 

 and access to the various departments and lec- 

 ture rooms of the school. It was learned that 

 the revenue from all the state forests of Sax- 

 ony Is two and onc-lialf per cent, and that the 

 forests have risen in value gradually siure 1811. 



an annual i-:ilr of tlni'c piT ceui. making a total 

 revenue during this period of five and u half 

 per cent. So it would seem that Frederick 

 Weyerhaeuser was not far wrong when he stated 

 that he could not see a revenue in e.Kcess ol 

 two per cent in forest growth. 



From Dresden the students returned to Darm- 

 stadt, stopping en route at various points of 

 interest, where particular observations were 

 made to show the results of different typos of 

 forest administration. 



Baldwin Plant for Chicago 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works of I'hila- 

 delphia has announced that its new western 

 plant will be built at East Chicago on a tract 

 immediately adjoining the Gary plant of the steel 

 corporation. Adequate shipping facllitii's with 

 highly satisfactory switching arrangements are 

 available at the new site. It is planned to make 

 the development of the western plant gradual, 

 as was the erection of the Eddystone plant at 

 Philadelphia. The rapidity of erection depends 

 entirely upon business conditions. The cost of 

 the new project will be entirely covered without 

 the issuance of any new capital. It will be 

 paid for out of the cash resources of the Baldwin 

 Locomotive Works. 



The Motor Truck in the Lumber Busiuefs 



That the motor truck not only commands the 

 attention of lumber dealers throughout the coun- 

 try, but is here (o play an important part In 

 the transaction of their business, is evitlenced 

 by the rapid installation of motor car service in 

 vai-ious lumber yards all over the country. The 

 first concern in the lumber business to use 

 motor trucks exclusively in deliveries was the 

 I'idel Ganahl Lumber Company, St. Louis. Mo. 

 This concern spent several years In a close In- 

 vestigation of the possibilities of the motor truck 

 for this purpose, and now is using seven trucks, 

 of five-ton capacity, with astonishingly gratify- 

 ing results. The eighteen months' trial which 

 they have already had, has demonstrated their 

 efilciency under hard service, and the ease with 

 which they can be handled in the yards. This 

 company is the only firm in St. Louis at the 

 present time using motor trucks, and it claims 

 that they arc never idle. The accompanying 

 illustration shows the entire battery about to 

 start out in the morning. 



The experimental stage has already been 

 passed, and it is now an established fact that 

 deliveries can be made with motor trucks not 

 only easier and faster but more cheaply than 

 with teams. Furthermore, their ability to travel 

 the hardest roads and in the worst weather 

 makes deliveries a much surer proposition, and 

 lu'events unavoidable shutting down during heavy 

 weather, which is utiavnidable with team 

 service. 



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