HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Max Kosse, K. & I*. Lumber Co., Cincinnati, 

 0: 



George M. Spelgel, < leorge M. Spelgel & Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Harvey M. Dickson, Dickson Lumber Company, 

 Norfolk, Va. 



Ferd Brenner, Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, 

 Norfolk, Va. 



\Y. F. Best, Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, 

 Norfolk, Va. 



Mr. Patterson, Dickson Lumber Company, Nor 

 folk, Va. 



Fred Am, J. M. Card Lumber Company, Chat- 

 tanooga, Tenn. 



W, II. Russe, Russe ,V Burgess, Memphis, 

 Tenn. 



George I>. Burgess, Russe & Burgess, Memphis, 

 Tenn. 



G. A. Farber, Memphis, Tenn. 



W. E. Weakley, \V. M. Bitter Lumber Com- 

 pany, Columbus, O. 



The Saw. 

 The pleasant "surprise" to be perpetrated By 

 E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., of Indianapolis, alluded 

 to In these columns a shorl time ago, has mate- 

 rialized in the form of an exceedingly handsome 

 souvenir book entitled The Saw. commemorat- 

 ing the fiftieth or golden anniversary of this 



nr 1 . -i- v r-j — r~* t 



tuted, from its humble beginning in 1856 to Its 



I hi sent wn rid wide fame and greatness. 



The book Reflects greal credit upon Rogers & 

 Co. of Chicago, who prepared it. it is printed 

 upon dlamond-d enameled paper, and all Illus- 

 trations are made d\ die half tune process, from 

 actual photographs when possible, and from 

 drawings by skilled artists after authentic de- 

 scriptions or history, in other eases; some are 

 in three colors and vignetted so as to impart 

 a shaded effect to the page. The cover is of 

 Japanese hand-made veneer paper, with a wide 

 binding of T-grain vellum de luxe cloth, while 

 the insheets are of taffeta paper with prominent 

 conventional design of which the Atkins trade 

 mark forms the center. To combine simplicity 

 with beauty is the hardesl task of the designer, 

 and this exquisite Uttb volume embodies them 

 both, representing In its entirety the acme of 

 the bookmaker's art. 



Arrangements for Hoo-Hoo Annual. 

 Jerome II. Shelp, vicegerenl snark for the 

 eastern district of Pennsylvania, held a con- 

 catenation oil February 8 a1 the Hotel Walton 

 which in point of attendance was the Largest 

 ever held in Philadelphia. An important execil 

 tive meeting, at 1 ended h\ several members of 

 the Supreme Nine and by all the vicegerent and 



CItj Hoo-Hoo. The crowd will then proc I to 



New fork, where the Concatenated Order of 

 that city will keep them alive and breathing 

 until a special steamer of one of the Old Point 

 Comfort lines, which is to he specially chartered, 

 will have cast off her mornings en route t<> the 

 exposition. On this ocean trip the western mem 

 hers will he accompanied by the Philadelphia, 

 New York and Baltimore hosts. The cost of the 

 transportation on all the excursions projected 

 will be well within the reach Of all and special 

 efforts will be made by the entertainment com- 

 mittee to so arrange affairs that il will he 

 possible for the younger members resident 

 throughout the middle and far west to spend 

 some days at Atlantic City and complete their 

 eastern trip by a visit to New York. Philadel- 

 phia, Baltimore and the Jamestown Exposition. 

 Vicegerent Snark Sheip has been assured of con- 

 siderable financial assistance and will be aide 

 tu follow out the elaborate schemes of enter 

 tainment proposed. 



An Enviable Record. 

 During the year 1906 the Coe Manufacturing 

 Company of Painesville, **.. the famous manu 

 facturer of veneer cutting machinery) made and 

 sold 152 machines for veneer mills, weighing in 

 the aggregate 4,158,350 pounds, or 2,079 tons. 







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house. Although such a remembrance consti- 

 tutes an excellent advertisement for the Atkins 

 product, the hook cannot by any means be 

 considered wholly in that light, since it is no1 

 in any sense an exploitation of the company's 

 line of tools, hut rather a tjexl hook or treatise 

 on the saw, its history and evolution, so com- 

 plete in every particular that il will become a 

 part of the library of all who are favored with 



a copy. 



It tells Of the earliest uses lo which iron was 

 put, and the crude methods of manufacture 

 employed by the ancient Ethiopians. Egyptians 

 and Phoenicians; of the bronze saws with jew 

 eled teeth which were used to cut stone and 

 thus facilitate the building of the pyramids of 

 the Pharaohs; of the earliest process of sawing 

 logs — the pit over which timber was placed, 

 while one man stood above ami the other below 

 to operate the tool ; of the primitive water power 

 sawmills erected in Germany as early as 1322; 

 and of the invention of the circular saw by 

 Brunei in 1790; concluding with the life of 1; 

 < '. Atkins, founder of the house which hears 

 his name— to write which is to write a history 

 of the development of the modern saw— and 

 the evolution of the business which he iusti- 



ex- vicegerent snarks of the eastern slates, was 

 held in the afternoon in the parlors of the hold. 

 at which plans were formulated and arrange- 

 ments made for the annual at Atlantic City 

 next September. 



Tl ncatenation ceremonies took place at 



<; o'clock and a promising class was admitted. 

 At 7 :30 ;' dinner was served in the banquet 

 hall and addresses made by Snark Sheip and 

 various members prominent in the order. a 

 line musical program was rendered and a high 

 class vaudeville en I ert a in men I presented. 



In regard to the annual at Atlantic City next 

 September, it was decided to inn special trains 

 from Si. I.ouis, Chicago and Pittsburg direct to 

 Atlantic City, each train taking up separate 

 bodies of Hoo-Hoo at various points. Members 

 of the order prominent in the passenger traffic 

 service of the railroads pledged themselves to 

 secure proper train facilities and a fail- reduction 

 in rates to the seaside city. The tickets will 

 he good from western points to Atlantic City 

 and thence to \ew York and the Jamestown 

 Exposition. When the pilgrims return from the 

 annual at Atlantic City there will be a grand 

 sendofC awaiting them in Philadelphia in the 

 well known hospitable manner of the Quaker 



To its already greal facilities tor handling a 

 large amount of business, the company has re 

 cently added 30,000 square feet of floor space 

 and a large number of the most expensive and 

 up-to-date tools that money can purchase, so 

 1 hat ii will not he surprising if the enviable 

 record of last year's production is doubled 



in P.m>7. The Coe machines, as is well known to 

 the veneer trade, embody every known appliance 

 necessary to accurate work and rapid and ecu 

 nomlcal production. of perfect stock 



Keys-Fannin Removal, 

 on February •*- the general offices of the 

 Keys-Fannin Lumber Company, manufacturers 



and dealers in hardw I lumber at Ashland. 



Ky.. were removed lo llerndon, Wyoming county. 

 West Virginia, where the company has large 

 sawmill interests. This step was taken in order 

 that the business of the concern may he handled 

 direct from the mills and I hat il may he con- 

 tinually posted regarding stocks on hand - 

 width, length, dryness, etc., and therefore in bet- 

 ter position lo make quotations. The Keys- 

 Fannin Lumber Company is manufacturing a 

 tine assortment of both hand and circular sawed 

 poplar, oak, hemlock, basswood, chesinut ami 



