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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



lel with him. Of all our great captains 

 of incUi-stry Roelcefeller Is th(! greatest. 

 He lias made more money than any of 

 them, has more mone.v than an.v of them 

 and made it all himself, without offend- 

 ing public sentiment. He is not a manipu- 

 lator nor a panic breeder. All his enter- 

 prises are on a substantial, conservative 

 basis. 



And neither has he ever offended the 

 puldic by a vulgar display of his wealth. 

 His children are raised to work and lead 

 simple. Christian lives. No steam yachts, 

 no record-breaking automobiles, no race 

 horses, no extravagant folly of any kind. 



John D. Rockefeller is a great man. He 

 is the greatest organizer of industry and 

 commerce the world has ever produced, 

 and is, withal, a quiet, simple. Christian 

 gentleman. We are proud of him and 

 gladly recommend him to the people of 

 Europe. The world needs more such men. 

 • • * 



In great contrast with the pleasant re- 

 lations between the people of this country 

 and the Standard Oil Company is their 

 rel.itious with the Anthracite Coal Trust, 

 which is conceded to have a monopoly of 

 the anthracite coal of this countr.v. There 

 is no large corporation in the United 

 .States which so persistently gets on the 

 nerves of the people. Every year there is 

 ;a strike and a mean one. The operators' 

 only defense of their action is that they 

 are not making more than a fair return 

 on their capital stock, but the trouble 

 with that ijosition is that their stock has 

 been watered out of all reason, as in the 

 case of the Union Traction Company of 

 Chicago, and they are now endeavoring 

 to squeeze enough out of the constimers 

 and the laboring man to pay dividends on 

 all the stock, water and all. 



There is where the Standard Oil Com- 

 pany and all concerns of Rockefeller's are 

 so strong. They are on a legitimate basis. 

 Standard Oil shares are quoted at GGO, and 

 very few to be had. The evil of 90 per 

 cent of the trusts to-day is over capitaliza- 

 tion, caused by the manipulation of high- 

 grade confidence men. such as Morgan and 

 Yerkes. A trust properly organized and 

 properly conducted should be a good 

 thing for everybody. 



At present the coal trust is in a war 

 with its employes, and the price of an- 

 thracite coal is being rapidl.v advanced, 

 the business interests of the country are 

 interfered with and the miners and their 

 families are suffering, all because the 

 trust is unable to earn as great dividends 

 as they would like on their watered stock. 



FOR CUTTING UP LOW GRADE 

 STOCK. 



There is a tremendous di'vclopnient going 

 on in the hardwood industry at the pres- 

 ent time and in no line is there greater 

 possibilities for development. The prob- 

 lem .which confronts the hardwood pro- 



to his equipment. New machinery has 

 Iteen constructed to meet these reqtiire- 

 nients. One of the latest machines is the 

 "Hoosier" jiatent self-feed rip saw. made 

 by the Sinker-Davis Company of Indian- 

 apolis, Ind. We show a front and back 

 view herewith. The machine has many 



Fire destroyed the planing mill of the 

 A. R. Colborn Lumber Company of Michi- 

 gan City. Ind. Loss is 525,000, with in- 

 surance of .$0,000. 



FRONT VIEW "HOOSIElf SlOl.F-l'KKli S.\W. 



dueer to-day is how to utilize all his prod- 

 uct, and as the timber grows poorer and 

 poorer, new means for getting the profit out 

 of his timber is sought. Not so many 

 years ago a lumber manufacturing estab-- 

 lishment was nothing more nor less than a 



valualile features. The table raises square 

 liy right and left worm wheels and screws, 

 and is easily operated by crank at front 

 of machine, which is always firmly locked 

 at any point, thus preventing table from 

 jarring or falling down while machine is 



The I. Stephenson Company has let 'a 

 contract for the erection of a large wood- 

 ♦nware factory at Wells. Mich. 



r..\i K VIKW "HOO.SIER" 



saw uiiil. Some few hail cdgers and trim- 

 mers, and there were a very few more 

 that had any other machines for cutting 

 up their low-grade stctck. But within the 

 last few years necessity forced the manu- 

 facturer to seek a market for .iust such 

 material, and. finding it. he began adding 



SEi.FFi:!;ii nil' SAW. 



in operation. The guide is all iron, oper- 

 ated by lever and firmly locked by lever 

 and screws. The frcuit shaft is provided 

 with a thin star feed wheel, that can be 

 set directly in front of saw. The rear feed 

 shaft is provided Avitli a corrugated roll 

 or. when desired, a hard rubber feed roll. 



