HARDWOOD RECORD 



29 



American Forestry Honored. 



The Forest Service of the United States gov- 

 ernment is to become a member of the Inter- 

 national Association of Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tions. Other countries represented in the asso- 

 ciation are Germany, Austria. France, Italy, 

 Russia and Switzerland — the leading countries 

 in the practice of scientific forestry. The pur- 

 pose of the association is to standardize experi- 

 mental work generally, so that the methods of 

 investigation in each country will be uniform, 

 and to collaborate in researches affecting two 

 or more of the countries interested. 



That the Forest Service should be able to 

 enter this association on equal terms with the 

 European countries through w 7 hose researches, 

 conducted for many years, a science of forestry 

 has been built up, is evidence of the rapid 

 progress we are making in this science. Ma- 

 terial development and the practical problems 

 which it has presented have absorbed most of 

 our energies, and our contribution to the world's 

 progress along scientific lines has been in the 

 field of invention and applied science rather 

 than in discovery and research. 



The science of forestry has until very lately 

 been altogether foreign to us. It is hardly ten 

 years since the first attempt to introduce scien- 

 tific forestry upon American soil was made, 

 and the opening of the Cornell School of For- 

 estry in 1S9S was a pioneer step in American 

 education. Nor was it possible in this field to 

 import a developed science and start abreast 

 of European investigators by borrowing their re- 

 sults. Both the natural and the artificial con- 

 ditions which determine forest utilization are su 

 different from those found abroad that a new 

 science had to be built up from its foundations. 



America may well feel proud of the rapid 

 progress made, for the country is now in posi- 

 tion to utilize wisely one of its greatest re- 

 sources and to do what may be done to avert 

 the national peril threatened by forest destruc- 

 tion. We have now a science and practice of 

 forestry based upon American conditions, and 

 are ready to enter upon the stage of higher sci- 

 entific research with the other nations repre- 

 sented in the international association. 



Affiliation with foreign workers will ma- 

 terially aid us on the way toward further goals. 

 Better and better methods of practical manage- 

 ment can be devised as knowledge of the under- 

 lying scientific problems becomes fuller. The 

 United States will profit also through the eriti 

 cism of its published results by the older and 

 more experienced foresters of Europe, since a 

 part of the plan of cooperation is the mutual 

 exchange and discussion of forest publications. 

 The conventions of the associations will give 

 opportunity for the discussion of international 

 problems, for personal contact with foreign lead- 

 ers, and for promoting the feeling of fellowship 

 among workers in a common field whicli helps to 

 draw the whole civilized world together. 



Foreign forestry will profit from our investi- 

 gations, because no other country has so wide a 

 variation in climate or such a wealth of forest 

 flora as America. As we advance in knowledge 

 of silviculture we shall place at the disposal 

 of Europe facts which may well prove of im- 

 portance for the management of European for- 

 ests. New species will doubtless be made avail- 

 able for commercial use abroad, the vexed 

 problem of the influence of forests on climate 

 should be brought toward solution, and new 

 methods of practice will be brought to light. 



William Landeck. 



On Wednesday, February 27, at his home in 

 Milwaukee, Wis., occurred the death of William 

 Landeck, one of the pioneer lumbermen of that 

 state. Mr. Landeck had been ill but a week, 

 pneumonia having developed from a severe cold 

 contracted while on a recent southern trip. 



William Landeck was born at Graudenz, Ger- 

 many, in 1832. In his youth he followed the 

 trade of cabinetmaker, as did his father. On 

 coming to America in 1860 he settled at 



Hoboken, N. J., where he lived only a year. He 

 then went to Milwaukee and worked at his 

 trade for a time, later starting one of the first 

 sash and door factories in that city. In 1880 

 he took up the retail lumber business, ami was 

 connected with a number of yards, some of 

 which he owned. He then commenced the whole- 

 sale manufacture of lumber, and in 1SS9 was 

 instrumental in forming the Page & Landeck 

 Lumber Company, which owned extensive stump- 

 age ; 1 1 1 < 1 operated a mill at Crandon. Wis. 



Mr. Laudecl; maintained this connection until 

 about six months ago, and at the time of his 

 death was contemplating new operations in the 

 South. Although retiring from active business 

 in 1893, he always maintained a lively interest 

 in the affairs of his company ; his sons, who were 

 in business with him, have conducted it capably 

 and profitably. Gus J. Landeck, although a 

 young man, is already a prominent member of 

 the lumber fraternity. 



Mr. Landeck was a man of great commercial 

 sagacity and integrity, and by his death Mil- 

 waukee is deprived of one of its most faithful 

 and respected citizens. A wife and eight chil- 

 dren survive him. 



Sailing, Hanson & Co. Incorporate. 



The great lumber manufacturing house of 

 Sailing, Hanson & Co. of Grayling, Mich., has 

 recently been incorporated under the name of the 

 Sailing-Hanson Company. This does not change 

 the interests of the various members of the old 

 firm in any wise, since the step was taken 

 merely to put affairs in such shape that in case 

 of the retirement of any of its members the 

 business would not be interrupted. In short, 

 'the organization is simply a matter of con- 

 venience. 



The Sailing-Hanson Company Is one of the 

 old-established and foremost lumber manufactur- 

 ing institutions of the state of Michigan. Its 

 past history has been very largely identified with 

 the production of white pine, Norway and hem- 

 lock, but lately it is entering quite largely into 

 the production of Michigan hardwoods, of which 

 it is a large limber holder. Allied houses of the 

 company are producers of maple and beech 

 flooring, veneers and a variety of manufactured 

 hardwood products. 



An Improved Factory Truck. 



The demand on the part of manufacturers for 

 better vehicles upon which to move their raw 

 material and finished product about the factory 

 seems to have been met in a very satisfactory 

 fashion by the Gillette Roller Bearing Company 

 of Grand Rapids, Mich. After a careful study 

 of the factory truck market this firm has pro- 

 duced a truck possessing several distinctive fea- 

 tures, every one of them being the result of an 

 effort to avoid the annoying defects so common 

 in the construction of many such vehicles. Of 



Meeting Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's 

 Association. 



Secretary A. E. Beebee of McMillan, Wis., 

 announces that there will he a special spring 

 Hireling of the Wisconsin Hardwood Lumber- 

 men's Association at Grand Rapids, Wis., on 

 Tuesday. March 19. Matters of much importance 

 will be brought up at this time and delegates 

 from the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association and 

 the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion will be present. 



Open New Hardwood Department. 



William Schuette & Co., Inc., the large whole- 

 sale lumber house with main office in suite 1107 

 Machesney building, Pittsburg, Pa., has recently 



THE GILLETTJfi MALLEABLE 

 IRON CASTER FORK. 



THE GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING AXLE. 



these features those for which the makers claim 

 most are the roller-hearing axle and the mallea- 

 ble iron caster-fork. It is said that the use of 

 this axle reduces the draft of the truck one- 

 third to one-half and adds just that much to the 

 efficiency of the man who uses It. In support 

 of this claim the makers cite a letter recently 

 received from one of their largest customers 

 who says of their truck : "One man can move a 

 load of 3,000 pounds, while with many other 

 trucks it takes three men." Noting the expense 

 and loss incident upon the breaking of caster- 

 forks, the makers have provided a fork of mas- 

 sive construction made of malleable iron and 

 therefore practically unbreakable. 



Other points of merit are the improved stake 

 pockets, the method of fastening the frame to- 

 gether and the general character of the con- 

 struction, all of which are duly emphasized in 

 a new catalogue Issued by the makers, copies of 

 which will be sent on request. 



added a hardwood department to its business, 

 and will handle all kinds, both northern and 

 soul hern, as well as wagon and car stock. 



The company has secured some excellent con- 

 nections both in the North and South, and is 

 in position to satisfy the requirements of manu- 

 facturers in the above lines. It announces that 

 it is "in the market full-fledged and to stay" 

 and that while the Pittsburg district and tribu- 

 tary territory is in excellent (one. it docs not 

 intend to confine operations to that locality 

 alone, but will go after the trade in the Middle 

 West as well. R. C. Patterson, a capable and 

 practical hardwood man. is in charge of the new 

 department. 



William Schuette & Co., Inc., will undoubt- 

 edly take an important position in the hardwood 

 line, and rapidly build up an extensive clientage, 

 since its operations are based upon absolutely 

 square dealing, and its reputation as a pine con- 

 cern has always been unassailable. 



