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j-ears* experience in tlae railroad business as 

 well as the lumber business. Mr. McBlalr was 

 at one time the eastern representative of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States at New lork City, and he is now 

 the vice-president of the Lumbermen's Bureau 

 of Washington, D. C, which has recently located 

 Its central western ofiSce at St. Louis. He will 

 manage the work of the bureau jointly with that 

 of the exchange. 



Death of Robert H. Jenks 



There was deep regret among lumbermen when 

 it was learned that Robert H. Jenks, of the 

 I!. H. Jenks Lumber Company, Cleveland, O., 

 had died at his home, S502 Euclid avenue In 

 that city on February 20, after an illness of 

 four weeks' duration. Death was due to heart 

 disease. Mr. Jenks was a man of a generou' 

 nature, and those who had enjoyed his hospital- 

 ity and learned to know him at close range 

 win (eel that one of the best men in the lumber 

 trade of the country has answered the dread 

 summons all too soon. 



He was born at Crown Point, N. Y., July 20. 

 1854, and received his early training in Mich- 

 igan. On coming to Cleveland at the age of 

 sixteen years he entered the employment of 

 Woods, Perry & Co. He remained with this 

 concern in various capacities until he was ad- 

 mitted to the firm, when its name was then 



THE L.\TE ROBEUT H. JENKS, CLEVE- 

 LAND, O. 



changed to Woods, Jenks & Co. In 1893 the 

 firm was dissolved, Mr. Jenks retiring to es- 

 tablish the Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company, 

 of which he has been president since its or- 

 ganization. 



Besides being at the head of this concern, Mr. 

 Jenks was president of the Cleveland Land & 

 Lumber Company, the Conneaut Lumber Com- 

 pany, the Cuyahoga Lumber Companj-, the Lake 

 Eric Lumber Company, the Norris Lumber Com- 

 pany, the South Cleveland Lumber Company, the 

 Tremont Lumber Company of Tremont. La., and 

 the Tremont & Gulf Railway. He also held the 

 position of director in the Union National Bank, 

 the Northern Ohio Lumber Company and the 

 .\cme Trust Company. 



Mr. Jenks was a member of the Union Club, 

 the Roadside Club, the Chamber of Commerce, 

 and the Sons of the American Revolution. 



He is survived by a wife and two daughters, 

 Florence and Lorine, and three brothers. Prof. 

 Jeremiah I. Jenks of Cornell University, John 

 M. Jenks of Chicago and J. L. Jenks of Duluth. 



pany, with J. F. Masters, president ; W. D. 

 Uogan, vice-president, and C. S. Agee, secretary 

 and treasurer. The office and factory are 

 located at 314 North Gay street. 



This is something new in hardwood flooring. 

 It is made in sections, usually eighteen inches 

 In width and whatever length may be desired 

 for the room the flooring is to occupy. The 

 sections in their course of manufacture are 

 made up of the ordinary widths of hardwood 

 flooring, but are put together at the factory in 

 sections bound together with bolts. The 

 flooring is sandpapered and finished before it 

 leaves the shop and is cut into exact lengths to 

 suit the purchaser's requirements. It can ba 

 laid quickly by any carpenter. By pushing the 

 edges of the sections close together as they are 

 nailed down, the floor requires but little atten- 

 tion to put it in perfect shape. 



H. B. Smith Machine Company at Shreve- 

 port 



The H. B. Smith Machine Company of Smilh- 

 viile, N. J., recently made a change in its repre- 

 sentation in the middle Southwest and will 

 hereafter be represented in the sale of its wood- 

 working machinery in western Tennessee, Mis- 

 sif-sippi, Louisiana, eastern Texas, Oklahoma 

 and Arkansas, by L. D. Jones, who will cstal)- 

 lish headquarters at Shreveport and call upon 

 the trade from that central point. 



Official Maple Flooring Book 



Hardwood Record is in receipt of an artistic 

 book devoted to the interests of maple, beech 

 and birch flooring, compiled and published by 

 the Maple Flooring Manufacturers' Associatiou 

 of Chicago. The book is intended for circula- 

 tion among architects and contractors, with a 

 view to giving them specific information as u< 

 the qualities of this type of floor. It is il- 

 lustrated with colored photographs, showing the 

 trees as they stand in the primeval forests, 

 and further with cuts of many public buildinjs 

 ill which maple, beech or birch flooring has been 

 used. The physical characteristics and adaptn- 

 bility of the wood of these different species 01 

 trees is taken up in detail, while further the 

 question of association grades of manufacture 

 of thicknesses and faces, lengths, proper laying, 

 etc., are discussed. 



Death of E. P. Mason 



By the death of Captain EBenezcr Porter 

 Mason, on March 4, passes one of the most 

 conspicuous figures known in the lumber trade 

 of Philadelphia. He was for many years the 

 reporter of the lumber trade for R. G. Dun & 

 Co.'s Agency, and was personally known to 

 every lumberman in and around Philadelphia. 

 He stood about six feet in height, with large 

 frame, but for some years on account of rbeuma- 

 (ism was obliged to walk with a cane. He was 

 always welcome at all the social functions given 

 by the lumber associations. His genial and 

 pleasant manner endeared him to all, and Capt, 

 Mason, as he was universally called, will be 

 mourned by all with whom he came in contact 

 in his business career. 



New Company at Knoxville 

 Plans are now well under way for the manu- 

 facture of Masters patent hardwood flooring. 

 The company is the Masters Patent Floor Corn- 



Sale of the Hicks Locomotive Works 



The Central Locomotive Works, a new cor- 

 poration just organized, in which New York 

 and Chicago capital is interested, has just 

 purchased the Hicks Locomotive Works at 

 Chicago Heights, HI., for $470,000. Tlie plant 

 will be improved and put into operation 

 within a short time, giving emploment to 

 several hundred men. The Hicks works cm- 

 braces forty-one acres of land improved with 

 two huge buildings, which are equipped for 

 the repair of locomotives and passenger and 

 freight cars. It is said that this concern was 

 the largest dealer in second-hand locomotives 

 in the country. The plant is said to have 

 cost over $1,000,000. It is the intention of 

 the new owners to continue in the same line 

 of manufacture as heretofore. 



Important Mill Property Transfer in 

 Virginia 



A lumber deal of considerable importance in 

 Virginia has been effected in the acquiring of 

 an interest in the lumber properties of L. D. 

 George of Penola, Va., on the Richmond, Freder- 

 icksburg & Potomac railroad, by the Virginia- 

 Carolina Lumber Company of Lynchburg, Va. 

 As a result the L. D. George Lumber Company 

 is being incorporated with a capital stock of 

 8125,000, with L. D. George president and J. L. 

 Blizzard, secretary of the Virginia-Carolina Lum- 

 ber Company, vice-president and treasurer. 



The L. D. George company owns a consider- 

 able quantity of standing timber, composed of 

 pine and hardwoods, near Penola, Va., and has 

 modern and complete saw and planing mills, 

 v.'ith a capacity of 40.000 feet a day. It is an- 

 nounced by the new company tliat dry-kilns will 

 be added to the plant and the output consider- 

 ably increased under the new management. Th-i 

 Virginia-Carolina Lumber Company, with head- 

 quarters in Lynchburg, becomes the sole selling 

 agent for the L. D. George Lumber Company. 



Chicago Branch Office of Vansant, Kitchen 

 & Co. 



Vansant, Kitchen & Co. of Ashland. Ky.. 

 extensive manufacturers and distributors of 



W. H. MATTHIAS, IN CHARGE OF VANSANT, 

 KITCHEN & CO.'S CHICAGO OFFICE 



poplar and other hardwoods, have just opened 

 an office at 1504 Steger building, Chicago, and 

 are now in a better position to look after 

 the trade here. The office has been put in 

 charge of the capable and earnest worker, 

 W. H. Matthias, who Is a W!ll-known factor 

 among the trade of this vicinity. 



Improvements on Westinghouse JUectric 



Glue Pot 

 The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 

 Company has just issued a booklet illustrative 

 and descriptive of its electrically heated glue 

 pots and glue cookers, in which the advantages, 

 both as to efliciency and economy of this method 

 of glue heating, are indisputably set forth. The 

 pamphlet contains cuts of various appliances 

 manufactured by the Westinghouse company to 

 answer various specific purposes, and also con- 

 tains a table showing the energy required to 

 heat glue pots and glue cookers, stated in watt's. 

 It also contains a partial list of the users of 

 the Westinghouse product, which is a high-class 

 guarantee of the claims contained in the 

 pamphlet. 



