HARDWOOD RECORD 



17 



In the School of Experience. 



About Glue and Its Use. 



A writer in the Practical Carpenter says 

 that glue, being an animal substance, should 

 be kept sweet. To do this it is necessar* 1 1 1 

 keep it cool after it is once dissolved, and not 

 in use. In all cases keep the glue-kettle clean 

 and sweet by cleansing it often. 



Good glue requires more water than 1 1 



consequently you cannot dissolve six pounds 

 of good glue in the same quantity of water 

 you can six pounds of poor. The best glue 

 will require from one-half to more than 

 double the water that is required with poor 

 glue, which is clear and red, and the quality 

 of which can be discovered by breaking a 

 piece. If good, it will break hard and tough. 

 and when broken will be irregular on the 

 broken edge. If poor, it will break compara- 

 tively easy, leaving a smooth, straight edge. 



In dissolving glue it is best to weigh the 

 glue and weigh or measure the water. If 

 this is not done there is a liability of getting 

 more glue than the water can properly dis- 

 solve. It is a good plan, when once the quan- 

 tity of water that any sample of glue will 

 take up has been ascertained, to put the glue 

 and water together at least six hours before 

 heat is applied, and if it is not soft enough 

 then, let it remain longer in soak, for there 

 is no danger of good glue remaining in pure 

 water, even for forty-eight hours. 



The advantage of frozen glue is that it 

 can be made up at once, on account of its 

 being so porous. Frozen glue of same grade 

 is as strong as if dried. 



If glue is of first-rate quality, it can be 

 used on most kinds of woodwork very thin. 

 and make the joint as strong as the original. 

 White glue is only made white by bleaching. 



Simple Wood Preservation. 

 A correspondent of the Western Rural says 

 to take boiled linseed oil, and stir in pulver- 

 ized charcoal to the consistency of paint. Put 

 a coat of this over the timber, and there is 

 not a man who will live long enough to see 

 it rotten. He says that he discovered many 

 years ago that wood could be made to last 

 longer than iron in the ground, but thought 

 the process so simple and inexpensive that it 

 was not worth while making any stir about 

 it. He has taken out basswood posts, after 

 having been set seven years, that were as 



sound as when first put into the ground, 

 and weather seemed to have had no effect on 

 them. The posts can be prepared for less 

 than two cents apiece. They should be well 

 seasoned before the oil and charcoal are 

 plied. 



The Use of Oil on Belts. 



A correspondent of the Wood-Worker says 

 that there can be no doubt but castor oil is 

 of some benefit to a belt if used sparingly and 

 at a time when the belt most needs it. but 

 the way some men have of slapping it on In 

 huge doses, and at frequent intervals, is . 

 tainly amazing. It is a mistake to put cold 

 castor oil on a belt which is cold, hard and 

 glassy inside from dust slipping. From long 

 experience it has been learned that castor oil 

 should be very warm and applied evenly and 

 sparingly with a brush, in order to do the 

 most good. Some men say they will not use 

 it at all, as they do not see its virtues. They 

 claim it gums up and spoils a belt in short 

 order. The belt won't absorb castor oil as 

 readily as it will neatsfoot oil. as its consis- 

 tency is too heavy, but if it is to be applied 

 at all. it should be very warm. Neatsfoot 

 oil is much more preferable and should be 

 warm when applied, to soften up a belt. Too 

 much is worse than none at all. 



Now, it would seem as if a belt would con- 

 tinue to stretch as long as it remained soft, 

 and would therefore need shortening occa- 

 sionally, but that is a matter of opinion under 

 varying conditions. If belts are thrown off 

 the pulleys Saturday and allowed to remain 

 off until Monday morning, they will shorten 

 themselves, and do so more effectively when 

 coated with wnrm neatsfoot oil. Belts allowed 

 to remain permanently on the pulleys will 

 never contract and are more apt to slip, 

 whether treated to oil or not. 



It is customary for some men to treat slip- 

 ping belts in this manner, viz., slap on lots of 

 castor oil and "chuck the rosin to it," not 

 fine, but lumps, which the belt has to crush. 

 It may be effective for the moment, but does 

 not last, and certainly does not improve the 

 belt any. There is nothing much worse than 

 rosin for leather, yet it is the most common- 

 ly used. The sooner mill men graduate from 

 the habit the better it will be for the belts, 

 and the less it will cost for belting, oil and 



Netos Miscellany. 



Handle Men May Combine. 



The National Association of Hickory Handle 

 Manufacturers met at Memphis, Tenn., June 8, 

 and the question of consolidating all the hickory 

 handle manufacturing plants in the country 

 was discussed and favorably considered. Those 

 present at the convention represent eighty-five 

 percent of the manufacturers of hickory handles 

 in this country and the sentiment in favor of 

 the proposed combination was practically 

 unanimous. 



Charles D. Gates, president of the Turner. 

 Day & Woolworth Handle Company, Louisville, 

 Ky.. is president of the association ; Frank 

 Peters. New Albany, Ind., vice president ; T. 

 R. Clendenning, Atchison, Kas., secretary, and 

 Thomas McCullock, Louisville, treasurer. The 

 following members of the association were pres- 

 ent at the meeting : 



Charles D. Gates, Turner, Day & Woolworth 

 Handle Co., Louisville, Ky. 



Thomas McCullock, Louisville, Ky. 



T. R. Clendenning. T. E. Jackson Wooden- 

 ware Co., Atchison, Kas. 



A. N. Maltby, Central Mfg. Co., Kansas City. 

 Mo. 



P. C. Scott, Keller & Tamm Mfg. Co.. St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



A. H. Leathers, J. B. Leathers' Sons, Dick- 

 son, Tenn. 



M. R. Grace, Southern Handle Co., Memphis. 

 Tenn. 



C. I.. Hartwell, Hartwell Bros., Chicago 

 Heights. 11'. 



G. Sherman, Sequatc Handle Co., Se- 

 quatchie, Tenn. 



P. W. Peters, 1. F. Force Handle Co., New 

 Albany, Ind. 



H. J. Weible, Hoosier Handle Co., Bluffton, 

 Ind. 



C. H. Jones, J. F. Jones .& Sons, Colum- 

 bus Grove, O. 



D. C. Bennett, Dexter Handle Mfg. Co., Dex- 

 ter, Mo. 



J. M. Harris, BlacUstone Handshave Handle 

 Co., Blackstone, Va. 



C. H. Amos, Amos Bros., Poteau, I. T. 



J. L. Donahue, American Handle Co., Jones- 

 boro, Ark. 



. American Hani ■nes- 



Ark. 



II' v Handle ' Ark. 



A. H. Ward, Veedersbnrg Handle Co.. Veed- 

 ersburg, Ind. 



Robert L. Renther, Nashville Spoke and Han- 

 dle Co., Nashville, Tenn. 



E. H. Ilarned, Clark-Danforth Handle Co., 

 Cairo, III. ; C. F. Turner, Turner, Day &. Wool- 

 worth Handle Co., Louisville, Ky. ; Mr. Justice, 

 Co., Bluffton, Ind., and Mr. 

 Smith, Veedersburg Handle Co., Veederslmrg. 

 Ind.. were interested visitors at this meeting. 



Discussing the proposed merger. President 

 said that while there has been no con- 

 solidation completed, a committee was appointed 

 to secure options on the various companies rep- 

 resented. Wealthy capitalists are behind the 

 movement and every step taken so far has 

 been successful. 



Hickory handles are made only In the 

 United States and this great American indus- 

 try supplies the hickory handle market of the 

 world. Over 2,300 styles of handles are manu- 

 faotured in the United States. Seventy-five per- 

 cent of the available hickory timber supply In 

 the country is found in Tennessee, Arkansas, 

 Alabama and Mississippi, and since Memphis Is 

 the center of this belt, it will probably be the 

 headquarters of the new combination. Because 

 of the diminishing supply of available hickory 

 timber steps will be taken by the association to 

 advance the price of handles to meet the In- 

 creasing cost of labor and hickory timber. 



This meeting was the regular quarterly gath- 

 ering of the association and adjourned to meet 

 at Chicago, subject to the call of the presi- 

 dent. 



Drowning of E. J. Eoys. 



E. J. Roys, an old-time Michigan operator, 

 who lately has been engaged In the wholesale 

 and commission lumber business in New York, 

 was drowned in Johns Pond, in the Adirondack 

 region of New Tork, on June 1, while fishing. 

 He was in company with C. W. Manning, of New 

 York, and a guide, when the boat capsized. Mr. 

 Roys, thinking, no doubt, that he could be of 

 no service to his companions and confident of 

 his ability to swim to shore, made the at- 

 tempt, but he was so heavily clothed and the 

 water so cold that he sank before reaching bis 

 destination and was drowned. Mr. Manning 

 and the guide stuck to the boat and eventual- 

 ly reached the shore. Mr. Roys' body was re- 

 covered that night and taken to Sheffield, Mass- 

 where he was buried on June 4 from the old 

 homestead. 



Mr. Roys was born near Sheffield, August 15. 

 1S45. In his early life he taught district 

 schools in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and 

 afterward in Michigan. Shortly after he was 

 1 y-one years old he became a professor In 

 the high school at Cedar Springs, Mich., and a 

 year later decided to enter the mercantile busi- 

 ness and bought out his uncle, who owned a 

 general store there. While engaged in this 

 business he entered the lumber and shingle 

 business, buying mill cuts, and had a yard and 

 shiny [ar Springs. His merchan- 



dise and lumber business was afterward 

 changed to Roys Brothers by the admission 

 of his brother George. 



■nteen years later the merchandise busi- 

 ness was sold and Roys Brothers entered upon 

 a larger manufacturing lumber business, hav- 

 ing s: , uingle mills at Coral, Kendal- 

 vllle, Lakevlew. Lake George and Lake City, 

 Mich., during the course of the next ten years. 

 In 1S9G. after closing out the Michigan oper- 

 ations, Mr. Roys returned to the Ea9t, v 

 ever since he has carried on a wholesale and 

 commission luml *■ He leaves a wife 

 and one son, Fred J., and a mother now ei._ 



Old. His son, F. .1. Hoys, who is 

 In the lumber trade, is the gen 



