I'ebi'uaiT -•3. 1910 



HARDVVOOD RECORD 



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successor to the Kansas City Hardwood Flooring Company, to decide to 

 put on a night shift about March 1. This company, which operates a 

 plant at the foot of East Seventeenth street, now employs 130 men, and 

 the proposed night shift will increase this number to 173 or more. 

 According to R. G. Bruce, one of the owners and officers of the company, 

 the demand for the company's products lias increased heavily of late, 

 which he attributes to general bettering of conditions over the country. 

 Since the removal of this company's main plant and principal place of 

 business hero from Kansas City about two years ago, the company has 

 enjoyed a steady increase in business, despite the depressing times. Until 

 recently the company retained its old name — Kansas City Hardwood 

 Flooring Company — as it was a Kansas corporation and maintained a 

 warehouse in Kansas City. The company's charter was, however, sur- 

 rendered at the beginning of this year, and re-incorporated in Arkansas 

 under the name of the E. L. Bruce Company. It has also given up its 

 warehouse in Kansas City, 



Prominent Wisconsin Lumberman Dies 



Col. S. W. Ilollister, one of the pioneers and best known lumber manu- 

 facturers in Wisconsin, died February 19 at his home, Oshkosli, of heart 

 trouble. His death was not unexpected, as it had been known for several 

 days that lie was sorely stricken. Last Monday he went to his ofiBce 

 at the Hollister, .\mos & Co. plant as usual and was feeling well. He 

 attended to his duties in the office and made a trip through the lumber 

 yard and returned to his ofBce. Suddenly he arose from his fhalr com- 

 plaining of a pain in his chest in the region of his heart and was taken 

 home to bed. Tuesday morning he arose as usual, and although he was 

 not feeling as well as ordinarily, he transacted considerable business 

 about the city, but while on the way •.wine he had another attack. 

 Prominent Chicago doctors were summoned, but they were able to hold 

 out but little hope. 



Col. Seymour W. Hollister was a Badger by birth and by preference. 

 He was born in this state, was educated and made his own career in 

 Wisconsin, the greater part of his life being spent in Oshkosh. He was 

 born at Brighton, Racine county, August IT, 1S45, and was the son of 

 Asa and Sarah Hollister. In the year 1S45 Col. Holllster's father 

 engaged in the business of contracting, milling and logging, in this city. 

 He retired in IStlO and died in 1880. 



Col. Hollister enlisted in 1864 in Company B, Third Wisconsin cavalry, 

 and sejfved to the close of the civil war. In 1866 he first embarked in 

 business for himself, although previous to that time he had become 

 skilled in timber cruising and other departments of the lumber business. 

 His first business venture w-as with his brother, William W. Hollister, 

 they being engaged in logging for two years. In 1868 he entered into the 

 business alone and continued as a logging contractor until 1882 when, 

 with Frank .\mos and John Stanhilber, both now deceased, the concern 

 known as the Stanhilber-Amos Company was formed. The three well- 

 known men purchased the sawmill and lumber yards of Mead & Ripley. 

 In 1893 Messrs. Hollister and Amos purchased the interest of Mr. Stan- 

 hilber and changed the firm name to Hollister, Amos & Co. Since the 

 death of Mr. Amos, Colonel Hollister has been sole owner of the business. 



In 1883 Colonel Hollister became a partner in the firm of R. McMillen 

 & Co.. manufacturers of sash, doors and blinds, but withdrew in 1887. 

 In 1888 be formed the corporation, Hollister. Jewell & Co., in which firm 

 the late United States Senator Philetus Sawyer was associated. The 

 company purchased a large tract of land in Ontario, Canada, and erected 

 a double band sawmill at Garden River, Ontario. The mill was operated 

 until 1893, when it was destroyed by fire and never rebuilt. During that 

 period about 20,000,000 feet of lumber was sawed each year. 



In connection with Leander Choate, J. H. Jenkins, George T. Brown, 

 A. E. Thompson and others, Colonel Hollister established the Choate- 

 HoUister Furniture Company, of which he was vice-president and general 

 manager. That plant was burned April 12, 1899, and was not rebuilt. 

 Colonel Hollister was president and general manager of the Keshena 

 Improvement Company and of the Wolf River Boom Company, He was 

 also a director in several of the large business institutions of Oshkosh, 

 including the Old National Bank, Oshkosh Manufacturing Company, Wis- 

 consin Electric Railroad Company, R. McMillen Company, and Wisconsin 

 National Life Insurance Company. 



Colonel Hollister was always highly respected for his frankness and 

 honesty. As an employer of labor he was considerate at all times, and 

 in every way he showed a simplicity and genuine friendliness which won 

 many warm friends to him, and in his death Oshkosh loses one of its 

 best citizens. The funeral was held Monday afternoon, and various 

 organizations of which Colonel Hollister was a member attended the 

 funeral, which was in charge of the Masonic order. The interment was 

 private. 



Hardwood Company Resumes 



The plant of the Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company. Winnfield, La., 

 destroyed three months ago, has been completed and has resumed opera- 

 tions. The mill had to be almost completely rebuilt, and has been en- 

 larged to almost double the capacity of the former plant. > 



Legislation to Help Lumber Industry 



After a conference with W. H. Sullivan of the Great Southern Lumber 

 Company, Bogalusa, La., Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana is 

 thoroughly imbued with the necessity of increased federal attention to 

 the matter of preventing waste in the lumber industry. As a result 



Senator Ransdell has introduced an amendment to be made to the Agri- 

 cultural bill providing for an increase of $50,000 in the appropriation 

 for this purpose. 



Before presenting his amendment Senator pansdell discussed the mat- 

 ter at length with Chief Forester Graves. As a result the Louisiana 

 senator has been interested in various needs of the lumber industry 

 which can be cured by legislation. It is believed that the amendment 

 will be considered favorably by the Senate, and it is practically certain 

 that no objection will be raised by the House conferees. 



Asheville Man Buys Kentucky Timber 



W. S. Whiting of Asheville, X. C, a prominent lumber operator, closed 

 a deal on February 22 for the Roper-Reese timherlands in Morgan county, 

 Kentucky, and on Thursday a deed of conveyance was made to him by 

 Judge H. C. Gudgel of Owensville. Ky.. referee in bankruptcy. The 

 purchase price is given out as .$116,300. 



The property embraces 5,000 acres purchased outright and the timber 

 and mineral rights of another 5.000 acres. Altogether the property is 

 one of the most extensive timber holdings in this section of the country 

 and the deal one of the largest consummated in lumber circles in the 

 vicinity of Cincinnati for some time. It is estimated that the timber 

 will cut 61.000,000. 



Mr. Whiting purposes to build six miles of railroad to tap the Chesa- 

 peake & Ohio at Morehead, Ky., and to establish in the very near future 

 a large band mill on the property. 



The Fiedler Company Starts Manufacture 



The Fiedler Company was incorporated in Chicago a short time ago 

 with .$50,000 capital for the manufacture of panels, using Fiedler process 

 waterproof glue. The company is today turning over the wheels for the 

 first time in its new factory at 1315-1345 West Twenty-first place, Chi- 

 cago. It will manufacture a general line of high-grade, built-up panels 

 on order, using various foreign and domestic woods commonly required 

 for this purpose. Only the necessary equipment for actually starting is 

 now installed, but the company expects to have four additional presses 

 installed during the next few weeks. Orders already are booked for con- 

 siderable quantities of panels to begin with. 



The officers of the company are Carl L. Fiedler, president: George R. 

 Fiedler, vice-president and treasurer : Willis D. Smith, secretary. The 

 directors are Carl L. Fiedler, George R. Fiedler and Percy A. Tonk, presi- 

 dent of the Tonk Manufacturing Company. 



The head office of the company will be maintained at 20 East Jackson 

 boulevard, Chicago. 



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Pertinent Information 



The Log of the Lab 



Such is the title of an entirely unique book about the size of Hardwood 

 Record, printed by the stafiE of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madi- 

 son, Wis., for the purpose of maintaining a consistent record that will 

 reflect the problems considered and solved by the laboratory force. 



The book is entirely different in every particular from all other publica- 

 tions that might be even remotely connected with forest products. It 

 is printed on a good grade of paper, made up in such a way as to indicate 

 that it had been assembled as sort of a diary of the work accomplished. 



The cover is a pleasing brown paper, made in the laboratory's experi- 

 mental paper plant, from long leaf yellow pine. 



The first number contains charts outlining the organization of the 

 Forest Service at the Forest Products Laboratory, showing the various 

 departments and the heads of each. It reviews the different important 

 problems that have been put up to the department, and in the end con- 

 tains a rather unusual section of a more or less personal character, which 

 is made up of short paragraphs of decidedly pertinent humor. 



According to the announcement. Howard F. Weiss, director of the 

 laboratory is chief editor ex-offlcio, and Frank A. Hallauer is the real 

 editor. Robert C. Palmer and <;eorge M. Hunt are Mr. Hallauer's 

 assistants. 



A Real Money Saver 



The Higglns Machinery Company. 

 808 First avenue, south Seattle, 

 Wash., has been actively pushing 

 a rerrarkably eflective contrivance 

 to facilitat.! l.icing up belt joints. 

 'J'his is illustrated in the accom- 

 panying cut which describes the 

 operation of the "Redding three- 

 minute belt clamp." The feature 

 of the contrivance, which Hard- 

 wood Record describes because it 

 presents such a remarkable possi- 

 bility of saving time and securing 

 a perfect joint, is the fact that it 

 takes a maximum of three minutes A Clamp That Will Join a Belt In 

 to effect a perfect joining of belts Three Minutes 



