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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



February 25. 1922 



SPECIALISTS IN 

 DIFFICULT ITEMS 



We Manufacture 



ROTARY CUT VENEERS 

 THIN LUMBER SPECIALTIES 



BIRCH DOOR STOCK 

 MAPLE PIANO PIN BLOCKS 



YEARS OF EXPERIENCE BEHIND OUR PRODUCTS 



— MUNISING WOODENWARE CO. — 



MUNISING. MICH. 



Rotary Cut 



Northern 

 Veneers ^ 



* ^ii»**'*i''*^» •» ^^' Members of 



Maple flooring 

 Manufacturen' 

 Association 



PURNITURE manufacturerj and factory buyers who insist on 

 ^ having high quality veneers should send us their orders. W« 

 ftrc specialists in Northern Veneers. 



*Ve also manufacture Northern Pine. Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar 

 Posts and Poles, Lath and Shingles, which we ship in straight 

 cattf and cargoes or mixed with our "Peerless Brand" Rock 

 Ma»>le, Beech or Birch Flooring. Oct Our Frues 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



Chicago Offices: >12 Monadnock Block 



GLADSTONE, MICH. 



WATERPROOF GLUE 



For Jointing and Veneering 



STRONG— UNIFO RiM 



USED COLD EA SILY PREPARED 



ECONOMICAL 



"CASCO" uniformity is assured because 

 we manufacture our own casein 



THE CASEIN MANUFACTURING CO. 



Largest and Longest-Established Manufacturers 

 of Casein Products in America 



15 PARK ROW NEW YORK CITY 



Branch Offices In Principal Cities 



IVrite for "CASCO" Red Book— 

 a manjtal on Veneers, Panel- 

 Making and Clue. 

 Samples of "CASCO" on request. 



Who's Who in Woodworking 



(CtDitinw il irom pmjt 'M\) 



W. A. Thomas 



Just two years later Mr. Thomas was drawn into another furniture 

 making venture and helped organize the Kincaid Furniture Com- 

 pany, of which he became president. Mr. Thomas had been origi- 

 nally a hardware merchant and he had retained this business, whUe 

 organizing these two furniture companies. But the Kincaid com- 

 pany after two years got into financial difficulties and in order to 

 pull it out of the bog Mr. Thomas had to give up his hardware busi- 

 ness and devote his personal attention to this company. His ability 

 restored the company to a healthful condition, but his e.xertions in 

 this work destroyed his own health. In 1911 he was compelled to 

 take a vacation of six or eight months to recuperate. As a result 

 of his absence the Kincaid company again began to lose money. 

 Something had to be done to save the business and, as Mr. Thomas' 

 physician would not permit him to resume the burdens that he had 

 laid down, the Statesville Furniture Company purchased the Kin- 

 caid Company, which has since been operated as Statesville Furniture 

 Factory No. 2. 



Physicians advising a change, Mr. Thomas made a trip to Europe 

 in 191.'!, visiting every furniture factory and store he came in con- 

 tact with, which makes and sells furniture, in the various European 

 countries. At the beginning of the World War in 1914, when busi- 

 ness had become slack in the furniture industry, the Southern Furni- 

 ture Manufacturers' Association asked Mr. Thomas to make a trip 

 to South America to investigate the conditions of the furniture 

 trade in that continent, and to look into the prospects for American 

 liusiness there. He visited every city of prominence in South Amer- 

 ica — in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chili, Peru and the Panama 

 Canal Zone, spending six months on the continent. His health was 

 much improved by the South American trip. 



During the war Mr. Thomas was one of the three representatives 

 of the South on the war service committee of the furniture in- 

 dustry. As one of the two vice-chairmen of this bureau, Mr. 

 Thomas established his residence in Wasliington, and served as its 

 executive head from its organization in August, 1918, until the 

 armistice was signed. 



In February, 1919, in the city of Cincinnati, a meeting was held 

 for the purpose of establishing some clearing house for all furni- 

 ture industries. At this meeting the National Council of Furniture 

 Associations was organized, and Mr. Thomas was present and he 

 has not missed a meeting of the organization. He is one of the 

 three men of the Southern states to attend. 



Mr. Thomas is a man of a lofty public spirit and has a real love 

 for his fellow men. He has always taken an active part in all ef- 

 forts to better his home city, giving freely of his time and money, 

 and proving himself an all-round good citizen. He has, in fact, 

 been a tower of strength to Statesville, and an inspiration and a 

 generous friend to his fellow citizens. 



C. H. Burt 



furniture shop in Chicago and he went there to work, learning 

 the furniture manufacturing business in every branch, even to the 

 running of the engine and the firing of the boilers. 



When he was twenty-three he went to Florida and carried on a 

 contracting business, putting up houses from found.ition to roof 

 with the help only of negro laborers. 



In 1878 he went back north to Pliiladelidiia and in 1879 formed 

 the Burt Bros, conjpany with the help of his three brothers. 



The firm was small then and its resources very limited and for 

 many years Mr. Burt did the bookkeeping for the firm at night, 

 after a full day's work. He taught himself to keep books and 

 opened iiji a double entry set with no other guide than this self- 

 acquired knowledge. 



Mr. Burt has been president of the Middle States Furniture Man- 

 ufacturers' Association for twenty years and helped to organize 

 the association twenty-two years ago. He prepared the by-laws 



