HARDWOOD RECORD 



21 



NeWs Miscellany. 



A Model Fast End-Matching Machine. 



As is well known, modern requirements de- 

 mand that all hardwood flooring shall be end 



tongued and grooved, and as this 11 'fng is now 



made in all lengths from 12 Inches to 16 feel 

 this process means the handling of a very much 

 larger number of pieces in the output of the 

 ordinary flooring factory. That treteran wood- 

 working and cooperage manufacturing house, 

 the E. & B. Holmes Machinery Company of 

 Iiuffalo, has for many years built a machine for 

 this purpose. In the advertising pages of this 

 issue of the Record the apparatus is Illustrated, 

 showing the machine "opened up." Since ibis 

 picture was made, however, many improvements 



have I n mad!' in construction. The steel angle 



bars are divided and are much heavier, the 

 chains are of larger size and are double in 

 number, the live rolls have been enlarged and 

 increased in number, and are carefully balanced 

 The top of the machine is decked with steel 

 with openings through which the mils project. 

 This machine is built in both right and left end 

 Frame as desired, and end-matches flooring from 

 % <■■ I 1 ., inches in thickness, from 12 inches to 

 Hi feet in length. It can lie quickly changed 

 for different thicknesses, and is simple ami 



isslble in every pail, line operator only is 



required and the machine has a capacity of 

 from 15,000 feet upwards per day. depending 

 upon the size of the stock and the rate of the 

 feed. Probably mure hardwood flooring has been 

 end matched on this machine than mi all others 



bined, and it is in use by many of the most 



successful and progressive hardwood flooring 

 manufacturers of tin' country. The E. & B. 

 Holmes Machinery Company will he glad tu 

 supply full details concerning the machine, and 

 a list of users on application. 



Change in Title of Wisconsin House. 



'I'll.' well-known hardwood firm of Vollmar & 

 Below of Marshfield, Wis., has been incorporated 

 under the title of the Vollmar & Below Com- 

 pany. There will be no change in the manage- 



nient or policy of tin ncern ; it has been 



reorganized as a stock company to take care of 

 an increasing volume of business, which it is 

 thought can lie belter handled by a corporation 

 I ha n by a firm. 



Held for Fraud. 

 A press dispatch from Charlotte, Mich., undei 

 date of March 15, alleges that Hiram 1'. 

 Webster, an Eaton Rapids [umber merchant and 



a director of the Hillsdale Lumber Company, 

 has caused the arrest of I. ant K. Salisbury, a 

 brother of Waiter Salisbury; Frank I.. Masters, 

 a clothing merchant of Hillsdale, and Will 

 Wagner, cashier of the first National Bank <>f 

 Hillsdale, for obtaining money under false pre- 

 tenses in connection witli llie promotion of the 

 Hillsdale Lumber Company, a Louisiana timber 

 enterprise. It will be recalled that Lain K. 

 Salisbury is an ex-Grand Rapids attorney who 

 served time for his connection with the famous 

 water scandal in that city. After bis release he 

 went south and has had the reputation of mak- 

 ing considerable money in connection with tim- 

 ber deals. It is alleged thai Salisbury went to 

 Hillsdale last October and promoted the. Hills 

 daf Lumber Company, with a capitalization of 

 $75,000 ami himself as president. He repre 

 sented to have 25,000 acres of timber land in 



northern Louisiana, having on it 100,000, ' 



feel of white oak and 30,000,000 feet of cypress. 



It was asserted that: s.'lT.olio had 1 n paid for 



the property and ^l'o.iiihi worth of stock was 

 sold to Hillsdale and Hudson people, and the 

 remainder to Webster and other Charlotte men. 

 The stockholders, becoming suspicious, sent oul 

 a timber expert who reports thai the company 

 has only 2.000.000 feet of oak and 30,000 feet 

 of cypress; that the parties from whom the land 



was purchased had sold il for $12,500 and that 

 ii was once sold for about $1,000 and was worth 

 JUS! about thai sum. 



Louisiana Red Cypress Company. 

 The Louisiana Ke.i Cypress Company is the 

 name of a new corporation which not only 

 succeeds the Cypress Selling Company, Ltd.. of 

 New Orleans, bul becomes the purchaser of the 

 output of i he larger portion of the mills pro- 

 ducing cypress lumber in Hie Hull' district. The 



R. II. HOWNMAX. PRESIDENT, 

 officers and directors of the new c panj are 



as follows : 



II. II. I tow iiiiian. president 



Frederic Wilbcrt, first vice president. 



L. W. Gilbert, second vice president. 



L. W. Price, Gus Drews, Geo. w Dodge, 

 frank It. Williams. Win. L. Burton, Edw. Han 

 son. John Deblieux, II M Cotton and I, Lee 

 Riggs\ directors. 



ikaxki.IN GREENWOOD, MANAGER. 



Franklin Greenw I. recently sales manage] 



of the Selling Company, becomes general man 

 nger of the new corporation. It is organized to 



do a wholesale business which contemplates tie 



handling of approximately ." .000,000 feel "l 



cypress and 25,1 ,000 feet of tupelo gum. The 



company is capitalized al $l,t ,000. \ feature 



of the capitalization is the fact thai ten per 



cent of the sleek has I Il set aside for sule- 



lion by employees of the company. The total 

 stock is already subscribed. 



While the plans of the new company will 

 change the details "i operation somewhat, thej 



will not alter the personnel "f the management 



or selling fonc, Ti nly radical change con- 



templated is due to the inability to secure cars 

 for transportation in sufficient number t.. handle 

 the business; the company is therefore planning 

 to utilize barges On the .Mississippi and Ohio 

 rivers to deliver its lumber to St. Louis. Cairo. 

 Evansville, Cincinnati. Pittsburg and other- 

 points. Many Of lb.- mills whose stock has been 

 purchased by the Louisiana Red Cypress Com 

 pany are admirably located for shipment of 



lumber by river. it is antlcipt 1 thai a con 



siderable reduction in freight cost will be made 

 by ibis method. 



R. II. Downman, tie- president of the , 



pany, is too well known to require more than 

 casual comment, as he is the foremost cypress 

 operator of the country. Franklin Greenwood, 

 who becomes manager of the new- company, has 

 achieved a dislinei success as market manager 

 of tie' old company, has thoroughly mastered the 

 cypress s ,.]|j„e situation, ami will doubtless add 

 new laurels to those already achieved in H i- 

 connection with the old company. 



St. Louis as a Furniture Center. 

 St. Louis stands fourth among Hie cities ol 

 the United States in the value of its manu- 

 factured furniture, according lo the annual re- 

 port of the Mia. bants' Exchange of that city. 

 The thrice which surpass il in this particular an' 

 Chicago, New Sfork and Grand Rapids, in the 

 order named; however, in I lie quantity of fur- 

 niture pui .nit. by numbers of cars and pieces, 

 it is undoubtedly at ihe head of the entire list. 

 The year 1906 has been a banner year for 

 Si. Louis in ihe development of population and 

 property wealth, and the furniture intends have 

 profited accordingly. Healers and factories have 



bad an exc linglj busy year, their total sales 



aggregating nearly $35, I; of this im- 



rai tec business probably $9,500,000 worth was 

 the out pui oi local manufacturers. Although 

 business has been materially hindered and dam 

 aged by the great car famine of the last -i\ 

 iieciiihs. ii is estimated that it increased in vol 

 time over 1905 at least seven per cent. 



The total number of furniture factories in St. 

 Louis is over fitly, three of which have been 

 established within tin- past year; new additions 

 and improvements to old factories have been 

 many and extensive. Several large new busi- 

 ness blocks have been constructed, and in this 

 connection the furniture trade has profited, since 

 there is a noticeably "rowing tendency among 

 business men to Improve and beautify their 

 offices. New schools, hospitals and churches 

 have likewise made a considerable demand upon 

 dealers, and several large stores have added a 

 complete furniture stock to their oilier depart- 

 ments. St. Louis prides itself upon the fact 

 that nowhere in the country can a liner assort- 

 ment and greater variety be found. It is very 

 evident that Hue recent world's exposition im- 

 proved Hie Lisle of the I I'll' tO SIlC'll ail CXtl'llt 



(bat they ar <w demanding more artistic and 



better goods. 



Prices "f furniture have advan I el ( ten 



per cent, or correspondingly with the advance 

 in lumber ami oiber requisite materials. Oak, 



ti hi standby, is now being substituted by 



Bnely finished birch and elm, although the most 

 beautiful specimens turned out an-, of course, 

 bird's-eye maple ami mahogany. Clrcassion wal- 

 iiin gives promise of becoming exceedingly popu 

 lar ; if is finished dull, a style which is also 

 growing in favor tor mahogany. However, onk. 

 gum, birch and poplar are still the most genet 

 ally used woods for furniture purposes. 



