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HARDWOOD RECORD 



link nut. The owner of a woodworking estab- 

 lishmerrt knows that a machine equipped with a 

 lence which may be locked at any point sup- 

 posedly that the operator desires, is always set 

 so as to rip plump. 



"This ripsaw is equipped with a variable fric- 

 tion f("ed so that feeds of from forty up to two 

 liundred feet or thereabouts, are provided. A 

 patented device for removing gum or pitch from 

 the faces of the wheels Is also peculiar to this 

 machine. In short, we claim for it that it is 

 the "very last word" iu band ripsaws — very near 

 perfection, indeed. 



"To any of your readers in need of a machine 

 of this type we should be glad to give full par- 

 ticulars and furnish photographs, etc." 



New Members of the Chicago Exchange 



At the last meeting of the Chicago Hardwood 

 Lumber Exchange the firm of Quixley & Bul- 

 grin, lumbermen, of the Fisher building, was 

 duly passed upon and accepted by the exchange, 

 nils concern is of m^re or less recent origin, 

 having joined the ranks of the Chicago trade 

 about nine months ago. The two members were 

 originally from Wisconsin, where they received 

 ^heir training in the various departments of the 

 lumber business. A. A. Quixley started in the 

 lumber business as a member of the retail tirm 

 oi* Stordock & Quixley, of Beloit, Wis., which 

 concern began business in 1903. It was not 

 long before .Mr. Quixley sold out and entered 

 the service of .1. M. Attley & Co., Chicago, wlmm 

 he represented in the Wisconsin and Illinois 

 territory. Mr. Quixley's next connection was 

 with the Mason-Donaldson (Company, of Rhine- 

 lander. Wis., whom he represented in Chicago 

 and vicinity in 1906. Two years later he took 

 charge of the new i;hicago yard of the Brit- 

 lingham & Young Company, at 22nd street. 

 and was with this firm until April 1 of the 

 current year, at which time he joined forces 

 with Mr. Bulgrln. - ■ 



The lumber experience of the junior partner, 

 Oustave II. Bulgrln, covers a period of eleven 

 years, starling with his employment by the K. 

 Conner Company, of Marshtield, Wis., in JIay. 

 1S99. lie represented this concern in 'Wiscon- 

 sin ;nicl Illinois and acquired a wide acquaint- 

 ance among the retail and factory trade. Mr. 

 Bulgrln was with the U. Conner Company foi 

 six years, and in 190,5 took charge of the sales 

 department of the Brittingham & Young Com- 

 pany, where he became a valuable member of 

 the working force of that concern. lie continued 

 in this capacity until his affiliation with Mr. 

 ijuixley. " ■ '-"■ 



The outside representative of Quixley it Bul- 

 grln is A. H. Ebenreiter, of Kewaskan, Wis., 

 who was also formerly connected with the Brit- 

 tingham & Young Company. 



The assets of the new concern, both as to 

 Ihcjrough mastery of the business and also the 

 ability to hustle, ensures it a permanent place 

 in the ranks of the local lumber trade. 



Lumhei Company Will Remove General 

 Offices 



The general sales offices of the Great Southern 

 Lumber Company, which for four years past 

 liave been located iu the Railway Exchange, 

 Chicago, will be removed lo the site of its big 

 mill plant at Bogalusa, La., on December lo. 

 The active duties of sales manager will fall upon 

 W. B. Vanlaudingham, who will remove to Bo- 

 galusa and continue in charge of the sales there 

 under General Manager W, A. Sullivan. The 

 company will maintain an office for Chicago and 

 vicinity at 1534 MeCormick building, which will 

 be In charge of N. Gregertsen, who has been 

 representing the company in southern Wisconsin 

 and northern Illinois for several years. 



Mr. Vanlaudingham has been associated with 

 the t:hii-ago office as assistant in the sales de- 

 partment for about a year. Prior to that he 



was connected with the W. R. Pickering Lumber 

 r'ompan.v of Kansas City, Mo., where he ful- 

 filled the duties of assistant sales manager. He 

 has had several years of practical sawmill ex- 

 perience and is a gentleman of unusual ability, 

 and has carried forward the sales dc>partment 

 of the Great Southern Lumber C'ompany in a 

 successful manner since he assumed the re- 

 sponsibility several weelis ago. 



The removal cjf the company's main sales office 

 to Bogalusa, while a distinct loss to Chicago, 

 will be of considerable advantage to the com- 

 pany, as its department head will then be in 

 full touch with the stocks at the mill. The mill 

 c,f the company, as Is well known, is the largest 

 in the world, producing 700.000 feet of Inmbei* 

 daily. 



Mr. Vanlandingham states that the company 

 lias upwards of 1.100 cars on its order files and 

 is shipping out as fast as cars can be obtained. 

 Owing to the car shortage the company is not 

 able to dispatch much more than half of its 

 usual daily shipment. Mr. A'anlandingham also 

 states that he finds an improvement in deiiiand 

 and some increase in values. 



Biltmore Doings for October, 1910 



The last day of Oc-tober. 1910. finds llic Bill- 

 more Forest School comfortably settled in Darin 

 stadt. the capital of the grand duchy of Hesse, 

 in (Jermany. With Darmstadt as a center, the 

 .surrounding countr.v will lie worked during tie- 

 ensuing winter, and an interesting winter it 

 promises to be. A few weeks will also be spent 

 in the Black Forest, famous for its spruces, and 

 situated within thirty miles from Darmstadt, 

 Excursions are plannc-d to the Spessart, a moun- 

 tain section near Darmstadt, exhiiiiting the 

 most famous primeval stands of white oak of 

 the continent. 



On October 1 the students visited a catalpa 

 plantation made by the Pennsylvania lines near 

 Fort Wayne, Ind.. under the kind guidance of 

 Mr. F. I. Brown. Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Graham, 

 officials of that banner railroad of the United 

 Statc-s. On the way to the plantation, the tie 

 problem of the I'nited States, and, incidentally, 

 that of the Pennsylvania railroad, were dis- 

 cussed at length. 



Two days later, viz.. on October ;!. the class 

 was joined in Xew York City by twenty likely 

 looking freshmen, and sailed for Germany, flfty- 

 eight strong, in the good steamer "Amster- 

 dam," of the Holland-America line. 



The class enjoyed a remarkably smooth pas- 

 sage from New Y'ork to Rotterdam, so much so 

 that no student was compelled by seasickness 

 to miss the daily lectures given by Dr. Schenck 

 and Dr. House. Dr. Schenck began his lectures 

 on sylviculture, whilst Dr. House started his 

 course on dendrology. 



The first two weeks of the German sojourn 

 were spent at Lindenfels, a suuiU village near 

 Darmstadt, situated some l..")00 feet above sea 

 level. The field work wdiile at Lindenfels con- 

 sisted of sylvicullui-al excursions and of tree 

 planting. American species (viz.. white pine 

 and Douglas fir and hemlock and yellow poplar) 

 were planted. Three full days were spent In 

 excursions into the municipal forests near Lin- 

 denfels, under the guidance of the foresters 

 who administer them, Forstmeisler Ouvricr, 

 I'orstmeister Ileimburg and Oherforster Strack. 



it seems as if every little hamlet hereabouts 

 were tbc> owner of some .'.00 or 1.000 acres of 

 limber land, from which is supplied the local 

 demand for fuel, wood, and timber of all sorts. 



These communal forests are placed in charge 

 of state foresters; they are used, incidentally, as 

 public parks : financially they are more than 

 self-support ing. yielding an annual revenue of 

 some three dollars per acre net. 



Thc> foresters in charge of the woods are keep- 

 ing detailed records of all the work conducted 

 in every c'orner ot the lands placed under their 



c-harge. These records enable them to gi\e de- 

 tailed information pertaining to the history, dur- 

 iiig many decades of years, of almost every acre 

 c:f forest. This system helps the foresters iu 

 solving the financial as well as the sylvicul- 

 tural problems confronting them. 



On Octolter 21 Dr. Schenek gave the hoys a 

 welcome to his native land in the form of a 

 "Siengerfest." held in the ruins ut an old castle 

 o\ertC)wering the Lindenfels village. The set- 

 1 lug of the scene was ideal : two large bon- 

 fires were lit in the yard of the castle. The 

 initiation of a number of freshmen was con- 

 ducted, with the usual ritual, in the great arch 

 heading to the dungeon of the old fortress. 



On Octobc^r •J9 the sc'hool left Lindenfals for 

 Darmstadt, walking the distance of twenty-two' 

 miles in four and a half hours. Dr. Schenek's 

 slogan seems to contain a grain of truth when 

 he says : "For efficiency in forestry, good legs 

 are as much required as are good brains." 



In Darmstadt, lectures are offered in the Merck 

 mansion, situated in the center of the Merck 

 park, and exhibiting some 157 varieties of trees, 

 thus outdoing the fifty-seven varieties of Heinze 

 by a hundred points. The school is very grate- 

 lul to lis hcjst. the Hon. George Merck, of New 

 York, for tile great and continuous favors shown 

 to the students by placing at their command 

 the lecture rooms as well as the park surround- 

 ing the Merck mansion. 



New 'Vehicle Combination in Canada 



A .$1.000.oih;i company lias lieen organized in 

 Hamilton, (Jut., to manutac-tvire road machinery, 

 automobiles, auto trucks, carriages and wagons. 

 It is a combination of three industrial Interests. 

 — the road machinery company at (jOderich. 

 Ont.. au automobile manufacturing company from 

 Delroii. Mich., and Ihe Baynes Carriage Com- 

 pany of this city. The Baynes company came 

 from Buffalo about five years ago and has a 

 large plant here, the buildings and machinery 

 of which will be the foundation of the new 

 organization. The woodwork for the automobiles 

 and the trucks will be manufactured here, the 

 machinery part being manufactured in Detroit. 

 More than thirty ot the largest industries in 

 Hamilton are now controlled by American cap 

 ilal and management. 



Bursting Speed of Pulleys 



At a meeting of the American Society of Me- 

 chanical Kngineers, Professor C. II. Benjamin 

 desc-ribed a series of experiments on tlie burst 

 Ing speeds of pulleys of about 24-inch diaine 

 ter. The following .are peripheral speeds per 

 seccmd : 



Split wood pulleys 220-2(iii fc 



Built-up steel pulleys 23.'i ti. 



Solid wood pulleys 27.''< ft 



Solid web paper pullc>ys 300 ft. 



Solid cast iron pulleys 350-390 11. 



Thc^se results are somewhat at variance wilb 

 the opinicm entertained by tnany users of power 

 transmission appliances, but at the same lime 

 they indicate that a very high factor of satet.\ 

 is furnished by all pulle.vs of sound design ami 

 ccmstruction, as peripheral speeds rarely exceed 

 80 ft, per second and are generally very much 

 less. 



The Morehead Condenser Trap 



A uc'W method of draining exhaust steam and 

 reduced pressure beating systems of both water 

 and air, and with the same agent create a 

 vacuum to insure positive and rapid circulation, 

 has been devised, patented and put into .success 

 lul operation by the Morehead Manufacturing 

 Company of Detroit, Mich. 



The new device is known as the Morehead 

 Condenser Trap, and is in general appearance 

 similar to the old and well-known Morehead 

 return steam trap. In detail, however, the con- 

 denser trap differs from the return trap in the 

 addition of a eold water connection made through 



