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HARDWOOD RECORD 



N. A. Gladding. E. C. Atkins & Co.. Indlannpo- 

 11s. Ind. 



J. L. Marx. Frankfort Handle .ManiifaciurluB 

 Company, Frankfort, Ind. 



E. L. Grlfflth, G. V. Grlllitb & Son. Albany. 

 Ind. 



W. IT. Braddon, Columbia Handle and Lum- 

 ber Company. London, Ontario. . 



W. L. Hammersloy, Frankfort Handle Manu- 

 facturing Company. Frankfort. Ind. 



11. K. Alexander. Hlllsboro Novelty Works. 

 Hlllsboro. Ind. 



J. L. McLaughlin. .Inhn L. McLaughlin & Sons, 

 Bedford. I'a. 



C. H. Amos, Amos Brothers' Handle Company, 

 Poteau, Okla. 



M. G. I-aPlerre, La Pierre-Sawyer Handle 

 Company. Jackson, Mo. 



Ollle Clem. Hugo Handle Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. Hugo, Okla. 



Clarence F. Turner. Turner. Day & Wool- 

 worth Handle Company. Louisville. Ky. 



Charles D. (iates. Turner, Day & Woolworlh 

 Handle Company, Louisville, Ky. 



C, L. Hartwell, Hartwell Brothers, Chicago 

 Heights, 111. 



Thomas McCulloch. Turner. Day & Woolwortb 

 Handle Company. Louisville. Ky. 



Abner Fellaliaum. Frankfort Handle Manufac- 

 turing Company. Frankfort. Ind. 



.1. W. Cameron, Cameron-Dunn Manufacturing 

 Company, Ltd.. Strathroy. Ontario. 



C. S. Jackson. F.I Dorado Hardwood and Man- 

 ufactiulng Company. Kl Dorado. Ark. 



y. \\. Peters. I. F. Force Handle Company. 

 New Albany. Ind. 



J. L. Donahoo. American Handle Company, 

 Jouesboro, Ark. 



C. II. Jones. .1. F. Jones' Sons. Columbus 

 t trove, O. 



J. M. Lcntz. C. F. Lcntz's Sons. Marysvllle. O. 



P. C. Scott, Keller & Tamm Manufacturing 

 Company, St. Louis, Mo. 



H. D. Hale. Union Handle and Manufacturing 

 Compan.v. Ashley. O. 



C. W. Sperry. Sperry Manufacturing Company, 

 Fort Wayne. Ind. 



L. A. Lagomarsino. Uubber Grip Tool Handle 

 Company, Paducah, Ky. 



A. V. Andrews. MeCrillls Handle Company. 

 Xorwalk. O. 



Henry H. (jibson. ll.vuuwooD Recoup, Chi- 

 cago. 



Douglas Malloch. American Lumberman. Chi- 

 cago. 



A. E. Gordon, Haudwood Record, Chicago. 



W. C. Howe. American Lumberman, Chicago. 



Hardwood Record Moil 'Bag. 



[In this department it Is proposed to reply 

 to such inquiries as reach this office from the 

 Hardwood Record clientage as will be of enough 

 general Interest to warrant publication. Every 

 patron of the paper is Invited to use this de- 

 partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt 

 will be made to answer queries pertaining to all 

 matters of interest to the hardwood trade. In 

 • Buccinct and intelligent manner.] 



Upholds New Inspection Rules. 

 I'RiNr'EiiiN. INU.. Jan. i:i. — Editor H.^rdwood 

 Record: We notice by some of the lumber jour- 

 nals what l(Miks to us rather a desire to tear the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association rules to 

 pieces as they now stand. We do not more than 

 get started on a certain set of rules until some- 

 one comes along who feels a little aggrieved be- 

 cause it does not just exactly suit his opinion or 

 the way he has been taught and wants to tear 

 the rules to pieces. We certainly think that the 

 rules as they now stand should suit everyone. 

 buyer and seller alike — more so. at least, than 

 ever before, and that it would certainly be suicide 

 to all interests to go to work and tear them to 

 pieces and form new rules. We say to one and 

 all that it would be a good time to take a rest 

 in regard to this matter and let the rules stand 

 long enough to get used to them. 



A. B. NicKEY & Sons. 



east of here, but quit his job to come here to 

 work as a machinist. When he asked for" his 

 week's wages \u- was confronted with the propo- 

 sition of taking *S worth of ax handles or noth- 

 ing at all. Naturally, he took the ax handles. 



At the general store he purchased the neces- 

 sary machinist's tools and having no money, 

 tendered the bundle of thirty-two ax handles, 

 valued at 2."> cents apiece, in payment of the 

 bill of $4.50. The country merchant also being 

 out of cash, accepted the exchange and tor 

 change to the amount of .l::i.4.") tendered twenty- 

 three hammer handles, valued at 13 cents apiece. 



With his tools and twenty-three hammer 

 handles Mitchell came to town. 



A Bit of Humor, 



Chicago Heights, III., .Jan. 23. — Editor 

 H.\RDWooo Record: We attach hereto a little 

 cli[i]>int; showing how handles can bo used a.s 

 a medium of exchange. If worst comes to 

 worst in these "panicky" times, we handle 

 people can peddle out our goods in payment 

 of our debts. — II.\RTWELL Brothers, by f. 

 L. TI. 



TOKEN MONEY IN OHIO. 



W.vcEs Ark I'.vid ix Ax Handles, with 11am 



MER Handles fob Change. 



CoNNEAiT. Jan. \'i. — One week's wages at .$S 

 a week — thirty-two ax handles. 



Change to the amount of .?.■!. ."lO after purchas- 

 ing tools — twenty-three hammer handles. 



This was the solution of a problem, like unto 

 ye olden time high finance, which confronted 

 John Mitchell when the currency stringency was 

 at its height. 



Mitchell was employed in a small woodwork- 

 ing factory in East Springfield, a small village 



Do You Know This Imposter? 

 ('HicAfiu. Jan. 2?,. — Editor IIardwouD Record: 

 Some unknown party has been impersonating the 

 writer as a lloo-lloo. buyer and traveling sales- 

 man, throughout the state of Indiana. Ix>uisiana. 

 Mississippi and elsewhere. This is to certify 

 that W. H. Matthias. IIoo-IIoo No. 10.747. is not 

 circulating throughout the South making bogus 

 purchases and borrowing money. Whoever tries 

 to do this in my name is a fraud and should be 

 apprehended, wiring me at my expense when 

 captured. This party has caused me untold an- 

 noyance and it is needless to state, as the own- 

 ers of this paper and others can vouch, that the 

 "real W. H. Matthias" is O. K. in every respect 

 and is permanently located in the city of Chi- 

 cago. where he is manager and buyer of the 

 hardwood department of the Chicago Car Lum- 

 ber Company. — Chicago Car Limber Co.mi'anv. 

 bv W. 11. Matthias. 



The Idea of the Shop Boy. 



Some men have an inherent objection to car- 

 rying anything like a bundle on the street, and 

 our boss was one of the most particular of this 

 sort of men. The necessity might be ever so 

 great for some small thing in the way of mill 

 supplies, patterns or other parts of work at the 

 shop, the boss would let it wait until the shop 

 kid could make the trip. One bright, cold day 

 a number of us were out on a lumber pile at 

 noon, taking in the warmth of the sun and dis- 

 cussing mill matters while resting, when the 

 boss came down the alley with the frame of an 

 old chair under his arm and seemingly unmind- 

 ful of the comments that greeted him on his way. 



"Get onto his nibs with the load of flre- 



wotMl." observed the sash-sticker man. "What Is 

 going to happen to the layout now the boss Is 

 working at the kid's job';" Tliere was some- 

 thing doing, sure. "I'll tell you." said the 

 turner, "the old man Is getting economical and 

 is saving that old relic for his porch in the sum- 

 mer time." 



Meanwhile the boss passad on to the mill and 

 ileposited his burden in the drafting room. The 

 matter was evidently more than a Joke and we 

 exercised our minds In vain trying to solve the 

 problem. We all knew it was worse than useless 

 to ask him anything about it until he bad first 

 opened the subject, so the old chair afforded us 

 a subject for speculation for a week or more. 



One Saturday evening while cleaning up the 

 shop I received a summons to the ofliee and the 

 mystery of the chair was unfolded. It was an 

 order, and the question was could the chair be 

 made with the machinery we had in the shop 

 and leave any margin for i)roHI '.' At first thought 

 it may seem that a sash euulpment is hardly the 

 thing for the manufacture of chairs, but there 

 is such a thing as making a machine do more 

 kinds of work than that for which it was built. 

 The pattern was that of an old-time farm 

 porch chair, more resembling a settee in its gen- 

 erous proportions. The pattern of all its mem- 

 bers was such as could be worked out on the 

 shaper and sticker. But the mortising for the 

 back and the Hat rungs — there was the rub. The 

 old man had worked at most every sort of busi- 

 ness but furniture making, and every problem 

 connected with tills chair had to be worked out 

 on lines new to him and to most of the rest of 

 us, the experience of most of us having been 

 c<mflned to the making of stools and benches 

 more or less crude in their design and finish and 

 of patterns familiar to everyone who has had 

 occasion to go to the home of a woodworker in 

 parts of the country remote from the depart- 

 ment stores. 



We had the stock to make the chair, and by 

 means of some careful handling the work had to 

 be done The sweep of the back and legs pre- 

 sented another problem ; Instead of the process 

 of steaming and l>ending. they were worked out 

 on the shaper to a pattern. This brought us 

 up to the mortising and we seemed to be in a 

 fair way to get in a position that would cause 

 the loss of all the profit (m the job by having 

 to do this part of the work with hand tools 

 instead of machinery. 



The shop kid had been a quiet but interested 

 party to the developments of this chair busi- 

 ness, and he thought his time had about come 

 to take a hand in it and offer a solution of the 

 one knotty point raised. At such times as the 

 boy could be spared fi-om running errands he had 

 made himself useful at the blind niortiser. and 

 here was a chance to show he had been observ- 

 ing and was alert to the opportunity for 

 advancement. 



■I can do that part of the work on the blind 

 mortiser. if you let me take off the top rolls," 

 he ventured to say when he heard the discus- 

 sion as to the means to be employed to get this 

 pai't of the work done without the expense that 

 seemed Inevitable with band work. As might 

 have been expected, all the boy got for his really 

 bright idea was to be told to mind his own busi- 

 ness and his advice would be asked when It was 

 needed. But the idea be had expressed was the 

 onlv solution to the difticulty. to the chagrin of 

 the' boss, and we finally had to come to the boy's 

 way of doing the work. 



'i'he work was gotten in such shape at last 

 that It could be jnit through .'is easily as if it 

 were sash or any regular work, and though the 

 method of manufacture caused the use of more 

 lumber than was used In the pattern or model 

 from which we worked, the chairs were made at 

 a fair profit and the basis laid for the making 

 of manv more things in the same line. Cheap 

 beds, safes and kitchen tables have been added, 

 and the shop kid has risen to the importance of 

 foreman in what is now a regular deiiartment of 

 furniture making. 



Necessity is the mother of invention, it is 

 said. The little job that was done as an ac- 

 commodation for one of the shop customers led 

 to the development of what is now a profitable 

 business and furnishes work to the shop at a 

 time of year when bnililing work is slack. At a 

 point in "the first effort where the idea was about 

 to be abandoned, the bright idea of the boy 

 turned the scale and made a success of what 

 was about to be a failure. .\nd it Is pleasing to 

 note tliat the boy has received due recognition 

 for his genius in solving the problem. 



H. C. IlAXER. 



