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such a laboratory, and that it be under the con- 

 trol of the Forest Service of tbe Department of 

 Agriculture." 



The delegates to the meeting took lunch at 

 the Cosmos Ciub at 1 o'clock and were received 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture afterward. 



Before adjournment a permanent organization 

 to further the laboratory movement w<;s estab- 

 lished, vith it K. Goodenow chairman and 

 Thomas E. Will secretary. The delegates present 

 and tbe associations represented were as follows : 

 Edward Stimson, National Hickory Assjciatton ; 

 Max Robinson, National Wagon Manufacturers' 

 Association ; Henry C. McLear, Secretary and 

 Tieasuier Carriage Builders' National Associa- 

 tion . Kufus K Goodenow, National Association 

 of Box Manufacturers ; O. B. Bannister, Western 

 Wheel Manufacturers ; George K. Smith, Secre- 

 tary National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion; T. J. Moffett, National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association ; Dr. Thomas E. Will, Secretary 

 American Forestry Association, 1311 G street 

 N. W., Washington, D. C. 



be a liberal amount on the basis of the gain to 

 them which the free weight is already giving as 

 an annual saving and to make it possible to con- 

 tend to the end for tbe permanent equipment 

 which, if adopted, will greatly add to this an- 

 nual saving for every lumberman. Each asso- 

 ciation will then remit to C. I. Millard, treas- 

 urer, or E. F. Perry, secretary of the Car Stake 

 and Equipment Complaint, GG Broadway, New 

 York. 



Because of the pledge made by all of the al- 

 lied associations to supply the required money, 

 and considering tbe results obtained and the 

 benefits now being received and which will con- 

 tinue, individuals are urged to act immediately 

 and liberally. 



Dry Kiln of Western Electric Company. 

 The Morton Dry Klin Company completed last 

 week the Installation of eight dry kilns for the 

 new plant of the Western Electric Company at 

 Twenty-sixth street and Forty-sixth avenue, Chi- 

 cago. Each kiln Is seventy-six feet long and 

 eighteen feet wide, with a height of fourteen 

 feet. The capacity of each kiln is 40,000 feet. 

 Two of the kilns will be usd for drying soft- 



The Crown Iron Works. 



To tbe sawmill trade tbe Crown Iron Works 

 of Minneapolis, Minn., needs no introduction. 

 The concern has been iu existence some thirty 

 years, and during a large portion of that time 

 has been manufacturing saw sharpening ma- 

 chinery. These machines, it may be added, are 

 of especial interest to hardwood mill men, par- 

 ticularly the neat little machine known as the 

 Blackmer Improved No. 2. 



A representative of the Hardwood Record 

 called at the Crown Iron Works tbe other day 

 and found the factory "full up" on orders. E. 

 L. Anderson, treasurer of the company, took 

 especial pride in pointing out the merits of the 

 Blackmer Improved No. 2. Said he : 



STORAGE WAREHOUSE AND DRY KILNS WESTERN ELECTRIC 

 CO., CHICAGO, EQUIPPED BY MORTON DRY KILN CO. 



woods and six for hardwoods. Tbe building in 

 which they are installed, a photograph of which 

 accompanies this article, includes both the kilns 

 and the storage rooms and is of fireproof con- 

 struction throughout, even the doors of the kiln 

 being of fireproof steel. This installation is one 

 of tbe largest jobs of 'its kind ever competed 

 in Chicago. 



An Urgent Need. 



A circular letter was sent to individual lum- 

 bermen during midsummer appealing for funds, 

 but practically failed to bring results, and at a 

 recent meeting in New York, attended by thirty 

 of the interested lumber committeemen, the fol- 

 lowing explanation and urgent request for the 

 immediate raising of a fund sufficient in quan- 

 tity to pay the obligations already made and to 

 carry the costs to tbe time of agreement or de- 

 cision by the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 was directed to be sent to all pledged associa- 

 tions. The accounts of the treasurer showing 

 the receipts and disbursements to date were sub- 

 mitted to the committee and endorsed by it. 



In a contest of this magnitude money is abso- 

 lutely necessary for Its success. Counsel fees' 

 and expenses must be paid, as well as the fees 

 and expenses of a statistician and of the me- 

 chanical engineers, also the expense of construct- 

 ing and supplying steel stakes and experimenting 

 with tbem. 



Lumbermen are therefore urged to remit to 

 their respective associations such a sum as may 



"These machines present the most practical 

 features for gumming and perfectly shaping the 

 teeth of all kinds of circular saws of any diam- 

 eter. They have been thoroughly tested, and 

 that they are all that is claimed for them can 

 be noticed by the fnct that a very large portion 

 of the best mills are using tbem. It is a well 

 known fact that previous to this invention there 

 were serious difficulties with all the machines in 

 use for grinding the bevel teeth of cross-cut 

 saws. The trouble has been that when shifting 

 the saw for grinding bevel teeth the saw was 

 thrown out of line with tbe center of the grind- 

 ing wheel so that other complicated adjustments 

 had to be made to bring it in place to do the 

 work correctly. This annoyance has been 

 entirely overcome by the use of the seg- 

 ment of a large circle to which slides 

 and a cross-head are attached for the purpose 

 of carrying tbe saw to the ground. As the con- 

 sequence of considerable thought and expense we 

 produced a machine which we call No. 2. It is 

 of medium size and will grind saws up to 44 

 inches in diameter. 



"This machine contains all the good features 

 of tbe large ones and in addition is tilted with 

 a large cup on the cross-head which will admit 

 of edger saws being ground without removing 



Hi liars. A smaller cup will be sent when re- 



qulred for saws smaller than ten inches in 

 diameter. 



"For all saws of its capacity there is nothing 

 equal to it from the fact that it is so easily and 



perfectly adjusted to all of the different kinds. 

 For shingle saws it will be found just what has 

 long been needed. Every circular or band mill 

 needs just such a machine as this to grind all 

 their small saws. We guarantee that there is 

 nothing equal to it for the amount and quality 

 of the work that can be done on it. 



"The most approved form of tooth, either 

 square or bevel, can be made on either machine, 

 and tbe change from one form of tooth to the 

 other is made instantly. They are strong, prac- 

 tical, accurate, simple in construction and easy 

 to operate. The arrangement for jointing Is 

 complete. 



"There are many advantages that a hand ma- 

 chine has over an automatic that should be re- 

 membered. It is admitted by a majority of 

 fliers that a much better shaped tooth can be 

 made with a good hand machine, and a much 

 greater amount of work can be done in a given 

 time : also that it requires less engineering to 

 run it. 



"Among the many reasons why they have be- 

 come so popular is because of tbe great amount 

 and quality of the work done with them. It is 

 so well adapted to all kinds of circular saws 

 and the change from one kind of saw to an- 

 other can be made so easily that generally if tbe 

 large machine is used this one is all that Is 

 needed for all tbe circulars in a large mill. 

 Every user is a friend. We ask you to consult 

 them, feeling assured they will, speak well of 

 our dealings with them and of tbe quality of the 

 machines. They have now been on tbe market 

 about ten years and we have yet to learn of any 

 user that wishes to change to any other make. 

 The No. 1 machine weighs about 750 pounds, 

 the No. 2 370 pounds, the. No. 2 Improved 450 

 pounds." 



The Hurley Machine Company. 



The Hurley Machine Company has already 

 taken rank as one of the solid manufacturing 

 concerns of Chicago — and this, notwithstanding 

 the fact that it is hardly six months old. The 

 business was started a half a year ago in a 

 small way and has grown by leaps and bounds 

 until at this writing the concern not only oper- 

 ates branch selling houses in New Y'ork and 

 San Francisco but has started to manufacture 

 machines at Toronto, Canada, and Paris, France. 



The success of the business has exceeded all 

 expectations of the management, and is due 

 to the fact that the machine known as the 

 "Little Giant" floor scraper is so simple in con- 

 struction and does the work of several men so 

 thoroughly and economically that the demand 

 is practically without end. The merits of the 

 "Little Giant" floor scraper were spoken of in 

 detail in a former issue of the Hardwood Rec- 

 ord. It is operated by one man standing up 

 and it scrapes every inch of floor well Into the 

 corners and close along the baseboards. Tbe 

 very low cost of the machine has been another 

 factor in its great success. 



At first tbe Hurley Machine Company manu- 

 factured the floor scraper by contract, but it 

 has since put in its own special machinery and 

 is now taking care of a large and growing trade, 

 making the addition of new floor space fre- 

 quently necessary. Up to date over 5,000 ma- 

 chines have been sold and it is a significant fact 

 that out of this total not one machine has been 

 returned to tbe factory. 



Building Operations for November. 

 Official reports from the building departments 

 of some fifty leading cities, received by the 

 American Contractor, Chicago, and tabulated, 

 show a continuation of the building activity 

 that has long prevailed, although in many cities 

 a falling off as compared with the figures for 

 November of last year must be noted. This 

 is a little more pronounced than It was last 

 month, amounting in the aggregate to seventeen 

 per cent, but building still contines decidedly 

 active. The operations last year were so enor- 



