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resiiltoci in (bat city being known ns chair city throiialiout the country- 

 In 1800 Silas B. Crocl;er, his father and brothers became interested in 

 the firm ot Croclicr & Bliss. Later Silas B. Crocker was connected with 

 the Phoenix Chair Company and for two years was engaged with Mann 

 Brothers at Two Rivers. In 1881 the Crocker Chair Company was 

 founded and Mr. Crocker was connected with this corporation until re- 

 cently when the Crocker interests were sold to Eugene Zundel and 

 others connected with the concern. This new chair factory makes the 

 twelfth factory in Sheboygan which manufactures chairs exclusively or 

 in connection with other furniture. 



New Oak Flooring Plant 



For more than a year the yellow Poplar Lumber Company at Coal 

 Grove, O., has been engaged in the construction of a modern oak flooring 

 plant with supplemental dry kilns for the production of the highest pos- 

 sible quality of oak flooring. The material used is the unsurpassed white 

 oak, sawed by this company from its Virginia holdings. The character 

 and quality of this oak has been previously described in Hardwood 

 Record and, as is well known, physically it is unsurpassed in quality by 

 any oak grown in the known world. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company has taken infinite pains to install 

 the most modern type of machinery, and backed by expert skill it cer- 

 tainly is putting out a product of plain and quarter-sawed oak flooring 

 that is unsurpassed. 



The company will conflne itself entirely to -ft and % inch flooring of 

 standard widths. The stock will be hollow-hacked, end-matched, bored 

 and carefully graded in accordance with the best known flooring manu- 

 facturing practice. 



Eeceiver in Charge of Mantel Factory 

 The Broadbent Brothers Manufacturing Company ot Baltimore. Md.. 

 maker of mantel.s and tables, was placed in the hands of William P. 

 liyon as receiver, by the circuit court, Aug. 19. No statement of assets 

 and liabilities was made. The receiver gave bond in the sum of $25,000, 

 that being the amount of the capital stock for which the company was 

 incorporated a year and a half ago. 



Receivers Will Sell Property 



The Thornwood Lumber Company's lands and personal property, located 

 in Pocahontas county. West Virginia, will be offered for sale Sept. 17 

 by the receivers who have been in possession of the property for some 

 time. The various tracts of timber aggregate more than 10,000 acres, 

 much of it heavily wooded. The property went into the receiver.s' hands 

 in .Tune. The sale will take place at Marlinton, W. Va. 



Timber Purchase 

 The purchase of over 70,000,000 feet of hardwood timber has been 

 made by Senator Isaac Stephenson for the N. Ludington Company at 

 Marinette. The timber is located in Florence county, Wisconsin, and 

 Iron county. Michigan, having been the property of the Cadillac Timber 

 Oompan.v of Cadillac. Jlicli. The timber will be brought to ilarinette by 

 rail and sawed. The cousummation of the deal means that the mills of 

 the N. Ludington Company at Marinette will run at least five years 

 longer after next year. The extensive holdings of the N. Ludington 

 Company are reaching the end and would not have sui:)plied the mill for 

 more than a year or two longer. The larger part of the timber is located 

 in Florence county. The deal means much to the city ot Marinette as 

 the company employs several hundred men and is a big factor in the 

 industrial payroll of that city. The cash consideration is said to have 

 been ?276,000. 



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The Forest Products Exposition 



.V preliminary outline of the field to bo covered by the Forest Prod- 

 ucts Exposition has been sent in the form of a circular letter to trade 

 papers by George S. Wood, who was recently chosen manager. Sug- 

 i:estious are invited, touching upon both the exposition in general and 

 the details. It is the purpose to adopt a design to be used for adver- 

 tising purposes, a sort of trade work, or coat of arms, and an invitation 

 li.is been sent out, calling upon persons with original ideas to submit 

 them. Mr. Wood expresses the hope that the invitation will come to 

 the attention of "ingenious young men and women who can combine 

 what would suggest itself in the way of a comprehensive and not too 

 involved design covering the range of purposes of this exposition. He 

 would like to have impressed in this design an idea of an architecturally 

 well balanced view of the exposition, showing the lumber exhibits, pos- 

 sibly bungalows and other lumber formation, woodworking machiner.v. 

 wood products of various kinds, and a forestry exhibit, all embraced in 

 a general scheme. While not speaking authoritatively, the accepted 

 design or designs will be paid for, a committee of disinterested and 

 competent people making the selections and probably awarding prizes. 

 Probably a more definite announcement along these lines will be made 

 later, yet the idea can be followed out and some work be done." 



The exposition will open at the Coliseum, Chicago, Apr. 30 and will close 

 May 9. It will then be removed to Grand Central Palace, New York, open- 

 ing May 21, and closing May 30. 



Forestry Exhibit for Indiana 



E. A. Gladden, secretary of the Indiana Statr Board of Forestry, Indian 

 apolis, Ind., has sent out the announcement that there is to be a forestry 

 exhibit at the Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, Sept. 8 to 12. This display 

 is intended to serve the following purposes : 



To impart some instruction to those wishing to learn. 



To create a sentiment in favor of wood preservation, by the use of 

 treated timbers, and by substituting less expensive but more prevalent for 

 more expensive and less prevalent species. 



To call the attention of young and old to the beauty and charm of the 

 trees themselves, whether used as ornaments to the home grounds, as 

 shade trees along streets or avenues, as necessary adjuncts to beautiful 

 parks, or as producers of lumber. 



To stimulate a desire among the people of this commonwealth to plant, 

 care for and protect trees. 



To cause their value as a product of nature to become more apparent 

 to the layman. 



To bring the board of forestry before the people — to prove to them 

 that there is a board, and to explain the reason for its existence. 



The board has secured the services of P. H. Teal, a graduate in forestry 

 at Purdue University, who will have charge of the exhibit and will servi' 

 in the capacity of assistant for that purpose. 



This is the first time in lumber history that anything of this sort has 

 been attempted, and it should be of great interest to everyone in the least 

 interested in the world's second largest industry — lumber. 

 Wisconsin Trains Forestry Men 



Wisconsin is training men to look after its interests in forestry. Nine 

 have just compi<ted the first .vear cf the course in the state university 

 at Madison, and have gone into the woods to put into practice what 

 they have learned in theory. The purpose of the course offered by the 

 university is to prepare men for positions as rangers, forest guard.s. 

 tree planting experts, nursery foremen, and as competent and respon- 

 sible assistants to commercial nursery men, lumbermen and to workers 

 in kindred vocations. 



Those selected for service in the forest reserve this fall are : William 

 E. Curtin and Carl Burnham of Madison. Miles L. Bourcin of Wausau. 

 raul Lawrence and Paul Smith of r.hinelandcr. Percy E. Weaver and 

 Earl Grow of Woodruff, John Iversou of Sturgeon Bay. and A. F. Fow- 

 ler ot East Troy. 



A Substitute that Failed 



Substitutes which take the place of wood occasioually fail when the 

 supremo test comes. That happened during the recent long spell of 

 torrid heat in Kansas City. . .\spbalt pavement buckled and heaved, 

 necessitating an expenditure for repairs estimated at $.nOO.rOO ; but 

 wooden pavement passed through the ordeal without a wrinkle. Tills 

 recalls an experience in the Baltimore fire where the wooden block pave- 

 ment on one of the worst burned streets was so little damaged that the 

 blocks were used again, while some of the asphalt and other pavements 

 practically disappeared. 



Economic Education in Pennsylvania 

 The Penns.vlvania commissioner of forestry is engaged in a practical, 

 sensible work having for its purpose the enlightenment of the people of 

 that state on the value of the forests. The fire season is now approach- 

 ing in that region and he is sending out short, pointed circulars giving 

 timely advice, and practical information. He claims that forest fires 

 cause a yearly loss of $2.5,000,000 in Pennsylvania, directly and indi- 

 rectly, not counting damhcre to soil, deterioration of water supply, de- 

 struction by floods, suffering from drought, and menace to health. The 

 state appropriates $25,000 a year to maintain its forest department. 



Eesourceful Forest Rangers 



One of the qualifications which the governm<'nt insists on when it 

 picks men to send into remote regions as forest rangers, is that "they 

 must be able to take care of themselves." That lias a rather wide 

 meaning. The man who qualifies is ready when the emergency comes, 

 whether he is fighting fire, or building bridges, or sheltering himself 

 and horse in mountain storms, or finding sustenance in a desert region, 

 or standing off gunfighters who sometimes cross the ranger's path. An 

 instance of resourcefulness was lately noted in the Sitgreaves forest, in 

 .Vrizona, where rangers built a watch tower 115 feet high, of logs, with 

 no appliances other than axes and ropes. The tower was needed as a 

 fire lookout, and the men W'ent to work and built it. Men who are 

 qualified to "take care" of themselves are also competent to take pretty 

 j4nod care ot property placed in their keeping. 



A Large Undertaking 



The announcement is going the rounds ot the press, but without citing 

 any particular authority for the statement, that a systematic movement 

 is under way to exterminate timber bark beetles from the Ignited States. 

 If the movement is really under way all people will join in wishing it full 

 speed ahead and a clear track. But is such an undertaking seriousl.v 

 under consideration? It so, which bark beetles of the some hundreds 

 of kinds are to be attacked first, and what will be the mode of attack? 

 There is probably not one acre of woodland in the United States that 

 is not inhatdted b.v bark beetles of one kind or another; and some 

 neavily-infested districts have as many beetles to the acre as the state 

 of Illinois has people. 



Most of the species of beetles are comparatively harmless, and no one 

 will pay any attention to tliem ; but some are pests ot the worst bind, 

 and against them a declaration of war is alwa.vs in order. The pine 

 bark beetle and the hickory beetle are among the worst. The former 



