HARDWOOD RECORD 



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A Lumberman's Letters to His Son. 



Chicago, August 4, 1905. 



My Dear Son: You have the nerve to write 

 in. 1 hat you eould have sold Kvans at Toledo 

 a nice bill of oak if you eould have guarantee d 

 to ship him Indiana stock. Where do you 

 buy your foolish powders, anyway? Don't yi .11 

 know that Indiana oak is liable to grow in 

 Kentucky, Tennessee, or any of half a dozen 

 other states.' Memphis has been selling In- 

 diana oak for the past fifteen years, and so 

 have all the rest of us. For Heaven 's sake, 

 utilize one of the many vacant spaces in your 

 nut to deposit this adage: "You don't have 

 to tell your telephone number if you don 't 

 want to." The next time a man wants to 

 buy Indiana oak, you sell it to him, or any 

 other kind of oak that he wants. 



Before receiving your order from Jones we 

 had a wire from him telling us not to ship 

 the order. Received a letter from him by the 

 same mail that brought yours (and your re- 

 quest for cheek), stating that he gave you 

 the order to get you out of the office, prefer- 

 ring to pay telegraph charges to cancel it, 

 rather than to have you hanging around any 

 longer. He said some very uncomplimentary 

 things about you, in which he was probably 

 entirely justified. Haven't you got any bet- 

 ter sense than to make goo-goo eyes at a 

 lumberman's pet stenographer.' Am glad to 

 know that you had consideration enough not 



I] Jones you were my son. A.I 

 ent time the old man thinks pretty well ol 



By iii.> way, who is this "Daisy" to whom 

 you are writing mush letters, one of which 



to me evidently by misl 

 you knew the trouble a friend of mil 

 with letters of this sort, you would refrain 

 from writing them for all time to come. When 

 you want to say foolish tilings to a girl, do 

 it over the telephone or by wire. I shall not 

 anything to your mother about this, be- 

 e I know she would disapprove. She has 

 radical objections to any young woman who 

 is associated with the theater. You had bet- 

 ter chop Daisy and get to cover. 



Another thing I want you to remember is 

 to get your expense account down to about 

 half the amount it has been running for the 

 last few weeks. By present indications I 

 should judge you must have been buyi] 

 farm on the installment plan. 



Your affectionate Father. 



P. S. No, I can't approve of your, sug 

 gestion to buy you an automobile to tour 

 New York state on a lumber selling 

 dition. If necessity arises I shall aol 

 to hiring you a "Scotty" special on the 

 Central, but I can't stand for the automobile 

 game no matter how good the New York state 

 - are. If by any possible chance the 

 police should miss yon, the sheriff wouldn't 

 overlook me. 



JVeto Method of SaWing Q'd Veneers 



So much interest has been manifested in 

 the article which appeared in the issue of the 

 Hardwood Record of July 25 on the subject 

 of a new method of sawing quartered veneers, 

 that this supplementary and more specific ac- 

 count of the methods practiced by Z. T. Rob- 



mill, for in an ordinary supply of logs there 



is often enough select timber to supply three 

 or four veneer saws. Frequently then 

 parts of an otherwise rough log, that will 

 make perfect veneers. In a sawmill without a 

 veneer saw, logs of good quality tire saw.. I 

 into ordinary lumber, which if cut into ve- 

 neers by this new method would greatly in 

 crease the profits of the mill. 



In sawing an inch board, it is necessary t.. 

 take from the log one and a quarter in. hes 

 of \\ because the saw cuts one-eighth of an 



FIG. 1. 



inson of Owensboro, Ky., illustrated by 

 sketches, is herewith presented: 



The cutting of veneers is of supreme impor- 

 tance to the economical utilization of our for- 

 est products, and any method or device which 

 facilitates their manufacture further enhances 

 this importance and should be welcomed by all 

 engaged in the veneer business. This new ma- 

 chine uses practically the entire log, thus 

 greatly reducing the waste of wood heretofore 

 incident to the sawing of veneers, and produc- 

 ing a uniformity in figure and color impossi- 

 ble by the old method. 



Any sawmill engaged in the manufacture of 

 quartered oak is incomplete without a veneer 



FIG. 2. 



and in shrinking and dressing the board 

 another eighth of an inch is wasted. If this 

 same thickness was cut by this method into 



quarl 



ber. 



I n 



d of tin- ma. hi: _' il- 



lusti 1 ethod of saw ii with 



this invention. As will be seen in I 



sawing veneers by this machine, the linet 



tin- grain which radiate from th ater • 



circumference of th.- log are followi 

 ly as possible. Vrhen tin- figuring I 

 reguli iangular strip which 



is ti .1} waste necessitated is cut off. An- 

 other section of veneers is then sawed until 

 tli.. figuring bi ?ain, whei 



foregoing operations ited. 



It »ill be understood that ■<■ the 



staj i 1.. th.- » i.hh of the 



hii of veni 1 



.us , .-11-1-1. 



tually sa» up tl ntiir quarter, except a 



snip the eighths of an inch thick, whii I 



mains, and which is the p 



l'li. 



clamps. During the ."in - work 



many adjustments and I 

 log , iy, which pr., ! 



any but a mechanism which ma; I and 



. .1 quickly. 

 Figure 3 shows how a Bitch 



whii 



by Figure -I. The diagonal Ii- J re 4 



shov 



...1 it will 



.. that tie - will 



