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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Houses of the period from 1S65 to 1S70 were 

 decorated from cellar to garret with hideous 

 imitations of the grain of wood in base sim- 

 ilitude of mahogany, bird's eye maple, oak, 

 ash and walnut. Very suddenly it disappeared 

 from the house painter's art, and for the last 

 quarter of a century the defilement has not 

 been practiced. In those days the wood 

 grainer held the monopoly of a trade of his 

 own. and despised the ordinary employment 

 of plain painting. He even regarded himself 

 as an artist and secured a fancy price for his 

 services. 



The present revival of graining is doubtless 

 based on the comparatively high price which 

 is now commanded by high-class clear hard- 

 woods, so the cheaper soft woods are again 

 particularly in demand to masquerade as 

 base imitations. 



The method employed in the grainer's art 

 consists in painting the wood a color in imi- 

 tation of the lighter grain of the wood to be 

 imitated, then adding a coat of paint of a 

 darker tinge and by the use of steel combs 

 and a small dauber of n.L. sufficient 



of the darker tone to. in a very slight degree, 

 imitate various woods. When the last coat 

 of paint dries, the entire surface is then var- 

 nished. 



It is a singular manifestation of ill taste 

 that will permit anyone to finish a house with 

 graining, as even the commonest kind of 

 hardwood lumber, even if it contains knots, 

 when properly finished, will make a much 

 more satisfactory and ornate house finish than 

 the very finest graining ever executed. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The Washington .Manufacturing & Supply 

 Company of S corporated 



recently to ma sash, doors, ca 



fixtures, etc. The incorporators are Robert 

 ■ gton, Jas. Lee. W. L. Collier, J. C. 

 Crouch. C. L. Wetzler and L. W. Palmer. 



The stave factory at New Boston, 111., has 

 been forced to close, having used all the tim- 

 ber within reach. 



J. V. Hankinson, owner of hardwood and 

 veneer mills at Franklin. O., has purchased a 

 quantity of ash and oak timber at Bunker 

 Hill i m a force of men there to cut 



it. Mr. Hankinson has recently increased the 

 capacity of his plant by the addition of a 75- 

 horsepower engine. 



Manitowoc. Wis., will have a new piano 

 plant soon, to be operated by the Charl 

 NetZ' V of Milwaukee. The factory 



will be U50 by 110 feet, and will employ 350 

 men. 



The City Sash & Door Company of Minne- 

 apolis. Minn., has purchased the assets of the 

 Bohn Manufacturing Company of St. Paul and 

 will move the plant to .\i as an a( j. 



dltion to the j., tory. The Bohn com- 



pany has about $150,000 worth of machinery 

 and lumber on hand. 



The sash and door factory of Johnson, Smith 

 & Co., Mil Minn., is almost com- 



pleted. The new plant will replace the one 

 whi'h burned April 10, and will cost $15,000. 



The Ohio Stave Company, Marysville. O., 

 has been forced to close down for two 

 until timb can be brought in. The 



company has a quantity of timber pure) 

 but has been unable to get the logs deli' 

 Duri ■ down the firm will make im- 



in the fa< 



Thi rtment of the Roach & 



MnssrT Sash & pany is now occupy- 



ing spacious new quarters. The new water 

 tower which will furnish power for the sprink- 

 ler system for fire protection in the factory 



completion. The compan; 

 mad*- ements and the 



plant is now tntirely under roof. 



The Des Moines Cabinet Works was recent- 

 ly incorporated at Des Moines with a paid in 

 capital of $10,000 by A. Clemens, J. J. Van 

 Oel and R. J. Clemens. The company has 

 leased a building, and machinery for the 

 equipment of the plant has been contracted 

 for. 



A Little Rock firm has just closed a deal 

 for 7.500 acres of fine oak timber lands in 

 Eastern Arkansas at $15 an acre, which is a 

 considerable advance over prices obtained of 

 late in Arkansas. 



A new hoop mill with a capacity of 30,000 

 coiled hoops daily is being erected by the Su- 

 perior Veneer & Cooperage Company at Mu- 

 ni.-ing. Mich. 



W. W. Rowan is now sole proprietor of the 

 Hartford Stave Factory, Hartford, Mich., he 

 having purchased the interest of his partner, 

 J. M. Luce. 



A $50,000 sash, door and window blind fac- 

 tory is being built at Ft. Worth, Texas, by 

 ii Smith. 



Irwin Rhodes, of James Stewart & Co., con- 

 tractors at Pittsburg, was married at More- 

 head, Ky„ on June 27, to Miss May Bi id 

 sister •■! S. M. Bradley, the well-known man- 

 ner and wholesaler of lumber and rail- 

 road ties, of Morehead. Locally, it was the 

 social event of the season, and many lumber- 

 men from Mr and Mrs, 

 s are on an extended wedding tour, and 

 will be at home in Pittsburg about Aug. 1. 

 The bride was a Kentucky society favorite, 

 and will be greatly missed by her many 

 friends. 



W. M. McCormick of Phlladelpl la and v7. B 

 Townsend of Townsend, Tenn., who are joint- 

 ly interested in the Little River Lumber Com- 

 pany at Townsend. have purchased the plan- 

 ing mill and box property of Saxon & Co., 

 Ltd.. at Knoxville. and have organized the 

 Holston Box & Lumber Company for the pur- 

 of operating the plants. The company 

 will engage in the lumber business locally, and 

 also in the manufacture of boxes and shooks. 



thus utilizing the low end of the lumber prod- 

 uct manufactured by the Little River Lumber 

 Company. 



The Edinburgh Wooden Ware Company of 

 Batchellerville, N. Y., has put in the Gordon 

 hollow blast grate, manufactured by the Gor- 

 don Hollow Blast Grate Company. Greenville, 

 Mich. The company rinds that it more than 

 fulfills expectations, as it would have been 

 impossible to run their new machinery with- 

 out it. The company burns its green saw dust 

 and shavings, and will sell enough wood this 

 year to pay for the grate, as well as for a 

 Dutch oven which was built in front of the 

 boilers 



A new concern for Pine Bluff, Ark., is the 

 Nimmons >v Bennett Company, which has a 

 capital stock of $100,000, of which $60,000 has 

 subscribed. The company will manu- 

 facture heading, staves and hoops, and engage 

 in a general lumber business. 



The United States Casket Company of 

 Grand Ra| nsolldatlng with the Wis- 



consin Casket Company of Manitowoc, Wis.. 

 will locate al the litter place where a large 

 factory will be erected. The Wisconsin Cas- 

 ic i Company's factory will be conducted a» 

 part of the new plant. 



Work en Frank Bandy's new sawmill at 



tur, III., was begun a tew days ago. Mr. 



has contracted for a quantity of logs 



along Hie Mississippi valley. He will saw 



only hardwoods, while and red oak. maple, 



and gum. 



re lias been quite an Impetus to the coop- 

 erage business at Nashville recently. Another 

 big plant has decided to locate here, the Bauer 

 my ei I.awienceburg. Ind. Mr. 

 the head of the whisky cooperage con- 

 visited Nashville recently and as a result 

 he has purchased a site on the Tennessee Cen- 

 tral railroad containing several aires. Work on 

 the plant will start In a few days. The new 

 move will represent an Investment of $200,000. 

 plant will give employment to one hundred 

 men. 



HardWood Netos. 



By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 

 Chicago was a sort of Mecca for maple 

 flooring manufacturers last week, for the ma- 

 jority oi the big operators were in town, in- 

 cluding W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac, Thi 

 I orman and William M. Dwlght of Detroit, 

 Dr. Earl of Hermansville, Mich.. B. P. W he- 

 don of W. D. Young & Co., Bay ' I 

 1 1 others. 

 The Chicago S ' Illinois railroad has 

 made a great success of its Chicago and St. 

 which it opened last spring, as it 

 has I" nost popular rout' 

 and from the big city on the Mississippi. Fast 

 trains on this route leave the La Salle - 

 station, on the elevated loop, both morning 

 ig. The company's ticket offices are 

 at t>l Adams street. 



The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern's 

 eighteen-hour train to Xew York has become 

 with both Chicago and New 

 men who desire to realize fully 

 one in both cities. The unfortn 

 hieh befell one of its early trips has 

 Lad no appreciable effect in diminishing the 

 patronage of the train, as every sensible man 

 readily recognized that the accident was in 

 no wise ,bie to the speed of the train, but was 

 one which might have with the 



same calamitous results to a train running at 

 forty miles an hour, or even to a freight run- 

 ning at ten miles an hour. There has b 

 an attempt on the part of the sensational 

 daily press to exploit this eighteen-hour serv- 



ice to New York as something miraculous in 

 the running time of a passenger train. As a 

 matter of fact, the Empire State Express on 

 the New York Central has made- exactly the 

 time for ten years and has never yet 

 had an accident. Anyone who is acquainted 

 with the physical conditions of railroads 

 knows that the Lake Shore road is freer from 

 both curve and grade than the New York Cen- 

 tral, that Its physical condition is good 

 and that just as great care is exercised for 

 the protection s of its passengers 

 as is vouchsafed by any other railway in the 

 try, 1 1 was the newspaper press that 

 made a scandal of the unfortunate accident 

 above referred to. The remarkable feature of 

 the ' the high average sped in com- 

 bination with the Ions distance of nearly 1.000 

 miles. 



C. I Gill, the well-known hardwood lum- 

 en of Wausau, Wis., was a visitor to this 

 market on Friday. 



O. O. Agler of Dpham & Agler returned last 



week from a spread eagle trip, which included 



it to the firm's distributing yard at Cairo, 



111., and to several Wisconsin points, where 



he is engaged in taking up stocks. 



■ik J. Cobbs, the banker-lumberman of 

 Cadillac, Mich., accompanied by his wife, was 

 In this city on Friday, en route home from a 

 six weeks' tour ol the Pacific const. 



John D. Spalding, vice president of the South- 

 ern Oak Lumber Company, la in the South on a 

 i rip. 



