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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Automatic Handle Lathe. 



There is illustrated herewith a fine example 

 of modern automatic machinery production, a 

 24-inch patent automatic handle lathe manu- 

 factured by the Defiance Machine Works, 

 Defiance, O. Handle making has become an 

 important part of the American hardwood in- 

 dustry, and a high type of tool for the produc- 

 tion of this line of manufacture will be inter- 

 esting to many of our readers. 



This machine is designed for rapidly turn- 

 ing brush and tool handles similar to those 

 shown in the engraving, and has a capacity 

 of from 3,000 to 3.500 handles per day. It re- 

 9 the rough material and performs the 

 turning complete at one operation, making 

 each piece of a kind and to exact size and 

 shape, turning round, oval, hexagon, octagon 

 or square as may be desired, in sizes up to 

 8 inches In diameter and 24 inches long. 



For a specific description of this most in- 

 teresting and valuable machine, readers are 



iiiiilli 



\t TnMATIc HANDLE LATHE. 



referred <" the makers, the Defiance Ha 

 Works. Defiance, O. 



New Chicago Hardwood Company. 

 I red \v Black, who recently retired from the 

 Wlsi umber Company, haviDg sold his 



holdings in 1 1 > ; ■ t corporation, has just completed 

 the organization 'if the Fred W, Black Lumber 

 Company, with offices at ■ '■"" "id Colony Build- 

 ing, this ,iu ill.' capitalization of the new 

 ompanj Is $50,000, fully paid in. Fred W. Black 

 Is president :m<l 1 !■ t:i < <■ \V. r,la< k secretary. The 

 Iderable timber holding three 

 Ho enwi Id, Lew Is county, Tenn. 

 II is building a new sawmill which will be ready 



tor operation al I Nov, 1, The timber consists 



oak, bul lias a sprinkling of very fine 

 poplar. It Is expected iliat the timber supply 

 will stock Ihc mill for four years. In addition 



ir, hi, tpul of (his operation, the Fred \v. 



Black Lumber Company is a buyer of mill 

 .,i southern hardwoods and already has aceumu- 

 iv [air stock, notably In oak and pop- 

 lar, which are iis speclalti 



Important Chicago Meeting. 



cutlve committee and the ways and 



means committee, both of which were appointed 



at the midsummer Ottawa meeting of the Na- 



tlonal Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 



among the combined delegates represented 



at that meeting- from other organizations for the 



pushing the car equipment case now 



pending before Hie Interstate Commerce Pom 



mission as filed by the National Association, have land in Washington, Greene and Unicoi counties 

 Issued a call for a meeting of the members of Tennessee. It consists of oak, poplar, chestnut 

 both committees to be held at the Auditorium and other hardwoods of high quality, and the 

 Hotel. Chicago, Oct. 25. for the purpose of com- company's estimate places the total at 250,000. 

 pleting the joint organization and pushing the 000 feet. The purchase price is said to have 

 suit energetically. A number of invitations have been $212,500. Of this company E. Peltz i t 

 been issued to other organizations, heretofore not Cross Fork, Pa., is president : George I. True 

 affiliated with the movement, asking them to of Addison, Pa., vice president; and Alfred E. 

 send their president and one delegate to collabo- Edgcomb of Knoxville, Tenn., secretary and treas 

 rate on the subject, by which means it is hoped urer. The company is capitalized at $250,000, 

 that all the associations of any account in the and the stockholders include practical lumber- 

 country will take a hand in supporting the men and capitalists of Tioga and Potter counties, 

 movement now under way to force the railroads Pennsylvania, 

 to furnish their own equipment for flat cars, and 



assure proper weight of loads. The regular R o bert Felt .v. Cyrus Echard. F. W. Wright 

 executive committee of the National Associa- » n d w - H - Brown o£ Connellsville, Pa. ; E. B. 

 tion Itself will hold a meeting in New York city S tone ° f Morgantown, W. Va. : W. W. Wrighl 

 on Oct. 11 for the purpose of going over the gen- of Cadiz, O.. and Frederick Felty of Uniontown. 

 eral work oi the association and for the making ''»■• are promoting the incorporation of the Par 



of final plans for the Chicago meeting. 



Big Timber Purchase. 



M. H. Kloek, M. 1!. Stebbins and J. W. Sulli- 

 van are among the Tioga county, Pennsylvania, 

 stockholders of the Embreevllle Timber Company, 

 which recently purchased 29,500 acres of timber 



sons & Cheat River Lumber Company, with a 

 capital stock of $150,000, and the Parsons & 

 Shafer Fork Railroad Company, with a capital 

 stock of $100,000, for the purpose of developing 

 15.000 acres of timber land near Parsons, W. Va 

 The property Is on the Cheat river, near the line 

 of the West Virginia tvntral railroad. It con 

 tains cherry, walnut, oak. spruce and hemlock. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HABSWOOD RECORD 

 Chicago. 



Lewis Duster of Columbus. O., secretary of tic 



Hardw I Manufacturers' Association, sailed for 



Europe Sept. 20 on a combined business ami 

 pleasure trip. 



Harvey Derne. superintendent of production 

 ind Inspection for the W. M. Hitter Lumber Com- 

 pany, Columbus, il. was married a few days 

 r.l has suit.-, i for Europe for a wedding 

 trip 



Henrj Baltou, manager of the big Cobbs & 

 Mitchell. Inc., lumber manufacturing and maple 



il -j ni_' plat I dillac, Mich., was a caller 



it this office Oct. 4. Mr. Ballon states that he 



^aged In rebuilding on the company's 



in when this work i- completed be will 

 engage In rebuilding another of the mills at 

 Cadillac. He reports the demand tot maple floor- 

 ing still holding up very strong and anticipates 

 an active winter's business for the company's 

 big factory. 



r. w. IJpbam of 1'iiham & Agler, the well 

 known Chicago hardwood magnate. Is dai'y ei 

 pected home from his European trip. He is 

 accompanied by his wife. 



C. 6. Powell of the Fullerton-Powell Hardw i 



Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind., was a I hi 

 cago visitor Sept. 26, and paid this office a call. 



The Walnut Lumber Company of Indianapolis. 

 well known hardwood operator, bus opened a 

 yard ai los| South Paulina sired, this city. 

 John Panabaker, who has long been associated 

 with this house, will have charge of this plant, 

 in which walnut will be made a specially. An 

 Is well known, this bousi is allied with the 

 D'Heur >V Swain I, umbel Company Of Seymour, 

 Ind. 



Fred W. Black, president of the F. W. Black 

 Lumber Company, 300 Old Colony Building, 

 returned from a Tennessee trip on Friday. He 

 reports stocks remarkabl; short in first bands 

 throughout Tennessee and says that bis new 

 mill In Lewis county will soon lie running. 



Edward S Mfos I S Co., Umber agents 



and Importers, London, left thai city Beptem 



0, accompanied by Mrs. Moss, for a trip 



through the United States, and purposes visit 



Ing the principal lumber centers. 



Ph i ..!•■■■ ion Record is In t fpl of an 



invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Weber of 

 Detroit, to be present at the marriage of their 

 daughter Adalade to .1. Sam Wright, at the 

 Second Presbyterian Church In that city, on 

 Oct. 16 Mr. Wright Is one of the best known 

 lumbermen among buyers of the East and Mid 



Special Correspondents.) 



die West in the country, having for many years 

 covered a large portion of this field in handling 

 the stock of the West Michigan Lumber Com 

 pany of Woodvllle, Mich., and for the last ten 

 years he has done the same service for the com- 

 pany with which he is interested, the Butters 

 Lumber Company ,if Boardman, N. C. Mr. 

 Wright's prospective bride is a talented and at 

 Ive yonng woman of the City of the Straits. 

 and both arc u< be felicitated on their approach 

 Ing marriage After a brief wedding trip Mi 

 and Mrs. Wright will be at home after Nov. 1 at 

 Boardman, N. C. The editor of the Hardwooh 

 RECORD lias insisted for many years that J. Sain 

 Wright would eventually make some good woman 

 a husband. 



Tile Rei obd bad the pleasure of a call on Ocl 

 3 from John C. King of the King & Battle's Lum 

 her Company. Cleveland. O. Accompanying Mr 

 King was W. C. King, western representative of 

 the company, who makes bis headquarters at 

 Rockford, 111. 



The beaming countenance of Deacon Wagstaft 

 of Oshkosh illumined the Rdcobd sanctum on 

 Oct. 3. 



W. it King, the big Chicago bard maple oper 

 ator, returned a few days ago from a week's 

 chicken shooting In Nebraska, and has now left 

 for a northern business trip. Mr. King reports 

 in Increased call tor hard maple. He has re 

 rent ly disposed "t a block of upwards of 8,000, 

 000 feet in one sale. 



Among the Record callers recently was Hans 

 lorcheimer. associated with Hugo Forcheimer. 

 exporter of lumber and logs at New Orleans. 



i i Record Is In receipt "fa hmdsomely Illus- 

 trated md typographically produced publication 

 called Wood Craft, which is the successor of 

 the Pattern Maker. Cleveland, O. As the publl 

 cation Is apparently devoted to Its former lines, 

 matters pertaining to pattern making, it would 

 almost seem thai its new name was somewhat 

 Ill-advised, as tvood-crafl is supposed to be know! 

 edge and skill in such things as belong to wood 

 land lite and occupations. If the name chosen 



had been the W I Craftsman, It would have 



been much more appropriate to the subject mat- 

 ter of the publication. However, what's In a 

 name, anyhow V Wood Craft Is a deucedly hand 

 some paper and is edited and illustrated Intelli- 

 gently, 



Boston. 

 George H. navenport of Davenport, Paters A 



Co., Boston, who has been on nn extended pleas 



