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lorty-seven per cent of the 

 t products, you can readily 

 rt. to advance lumber rates. 



Wien you taki' into consideration that 

 Vazoo Mississippi Valley's tonnage is Tore; 

 understand the persistent effort on their p: 



Application of the Electric Hoist 



Kapid and reliable handling of material in factories, shops, and stores 

 is an essential part of modern business. It is a problem different from 

 the lifting of hc^avy weichts l>y cranes and derricks, and special apparatus 

 is needed. The electric hoist, manufactured by the Pawling & Harnisch- 

 tewer Company of .Milwaukee, is designed to meet store and factory condi- 

 tions. The accompanying cuts illustrate methods of using the hoist. 



The small hoist is comparativcJy cheap and does the work of from three 



to ten men. 11 is c-vidcut that such a lioLst system oilers great advantages 



over hand methods. A single operator with the help of a hoist may pick 



up a load, convey it to any desired point along the runway and deposit 



it in less time than it 



10 get 



of 



helpers together. There 

 will be no laborers stand- 

 ing around idle waiting 

 for orders and no delay in 

 getting inatcrial from one 

 machine to another and 

 from one department to 

 the next one. The celling 

 is made use of and floor 

 space is saved by tJie 

 elimination of hand trucks, 

 wheel barrows. Industrial 

 trucks, etc. Then again 

 the goods may be piled up 

 to any desired height 

 without any additional ex- 

 pense, resulting in a fur- 

 ther saving of floor space. 

 .\nother great advantage 

 of the monorail system lies 

 in its fle-tibility ; it may be 

 (extended Indefinitely and 

 it can be made to cover 

 irregular areas and reach 

 into out-of-the-way corners. 

 Different tracks may be 

 connected by m e a ns of 

 switches and turntables. 



The hoists may be 

 ■quires. Any desired length 

 •d by the kind of work to be 

 is carried on. In handling 

 liy magnets instead of hooks 

 or cages. 



In view of the small cost of a monorail system and the many savings 

 realized by its use, it will be to the advantage of every executive to thor- 

 oughly analyze his material handling problems, as an electric hoist with 

 :;00 to 300 feet of runway will in most cases pay for itself inside of a few 

 months. 



Guessing the Age of Cypress 



St Products Exposition in Chicago and 

 "hi as a prize in a guessing contest. The 

 « :is the subject of the contest. No state- 

 the numbers of guesses on file, but there 

 ranged from less than sixty years as the 



Visitors wiio att-n.|-.| tli. ; 

 New York were oiTn..! • ■ t, 

 age of a section ol . \ in . -- i run 

 luent has been pui)li-lh '1 -l;.nvj 

 were many thousands, and the 

 age of the tree to more than sixty thousand. The contest has been decided 

 by awarding the prize to Francis C. Tucker, a civil engineer of Chicago. 

 The tree was adjudged to be 662 years old, and the age was determined by 

 counting the rings of growth. The judges were Howard F. Weiss of the 

 United States Forest Service ; E. A. Sterling, forest and timber engineer; 

 and Hermann von Schrenck, timber engineer. 



Three persons guessed the exact age, but the prize went to the first 

 person to guess it. The cards on which the guesses were written were 

 numbered consecutively. Prizes were av.arde<l the following persons : 



Albert Steinback, New Yorl%. 062 years. 



Albert E. Davis. -\- " i ui ..^;- .;irs. 



Albert Johnson, N. ^ ,i ars. 



R. C. Saunders, iln^ .- ■ ■ 



M. Baumgarten. Nrw 'i n i, r;.;;; ...iis. 



Lewis Leining, New Yoik, Of.;:, years. 



University Men as Lumber Carriers 



A trade paper in Manchester, England, recently called attention to tho 

 fact that among the lumber carriers in that and other cities of England 

 are a number of university men. 



According to a social worker who has been among the dockers for twenty 

 years, every year sees a number of men of refinement enter the ranks of 

 the timber carriers and general laborers — men who have once flourished in 

 the professions, men who can do wonderful things in mechanics — mu- 

 sicians, lawyers, chemists, and men who can speak in many tongues. 

 They are the men who have missed their chance in life. 



Few of them ever get back up the ladder again. Occasionally those who 



spend their life trying to help these unfortunates have success. One In 

 fifty has the will power to make the effort. 



It is easy to understand why the work is so difficult. When the univer- 

 sity man gets to the bottom, the fall is a great one. He knows he is a 

 failure. He realizes fully that the fall has been through lack of character. 

 He has sutBcicnt understanding to see plainly that the chances of getting 

 back again in the short span of years which constitutes a mans working 

 life are almost hopeless. Men who have once occupied a good position iu 

 the world and yet have not had a good education are much easier to deal 

 with. To them the fall has not been so great. Frequently they carve out 

 a second career in the business world, and get right back among their fe> 

 lows. Ixjarning their lesson in tlie hours of timber-carrying, they gain 

 pluck and sobriety. Starting under a new naiiie. and helped liy friends, 

 they once more take their place in society. 



Street Trees in Philadelphia 



Philadelphia has 127.301 trees growing along its streets. They are of 

 miscellaneous kinds, all sizes, and in various conditions. A commission has 

 been placed in charge with ample power to cut down, plant, and improve. 

 Many of the trees are in a bad state of neglect. Thousands of new will he 

 planted, consisting of piu oak, oriental plane cr sycamore, Norway maple, 

 and Chinese gingko. Three of these are foreign and one native. It is 

 strange that with 514 kinds of native trees growing in the United States, 

 1? should be deemed necessary to go to foreign countries for three out of 

 four trees for planting in Philadelphia. 



Forestry in Pennsylvania 



The forest lands belonging to the state of Pennsylvania were improved 

 the present year by the planting of 3,500,000 scedings. -Vrrangements have 

 been made to continue the work in the future. Last spring there were sown 

 in the state nurseries 1,4.'>0 pounds of white pine seed, 200 pounds of Nor- 

 way spruce, ."lO pounds of European larch, 118 pounds of pitch pine, 100 

 pounds of Sc^)t(h pine, i:; pounds of Norway pine. Not a pound of hard- 



INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY'S MILWAUKEE PLANT 

 EQUIPPED WITH A MQNORAIL SYSTEM 



wood seed was reported. It might be supposed that some space would be 



given to oak, basswood, yellow poplar, cherry, walnut, and several others. 



Walnut Farm Buildings in Kentucky 



Notwithstanding the rarity and expensiveness of walnut timber now- 

 adays, there is one farm in Kentucky which can boast not only of its 

 barns and tenant houses being built of walnut, but even the fences on 

 the place are constructed of this valuable wood. This is the Coghill farm, 

 located in the Shaker Bend section of Jessamine county, about twenty-five 

 miles south of Lexington. The larger part of this tract was formerly a 

 vast walnut forest, and a considerable quantity of the walnut timber yet 

 remains, the owners of the place cutting it only for domestic use. 



Thousands of dollar's worth of this valuable timber has accordingly 

 been cut in past years for this purpose, and not only the tobacco barns 

 and tenant houses, but even the fences have been constructed of rich 

 black walnut, which if sent to the furniture factories of the North would 

 have yielded the owners a handsome fortune. There is perhaps not 

 another farm in Kentucky on which so much valuable timber can yet be 

 found, despite this prodigality. 



Foolish Chilean Timber La'ws 



The laws of Chile prohibit the cutting of dead timber for lumber. That 

 renders impossible the utilization of fire-killed trees or those which die 

 from other causes. Another law forbids offering timber for sale within 

 six months after it is sawed. There is evidently not much demand in 

 Chile for dry kilns in connection with sawmills. Another law prohibits 

 cutting trees in summer "when the sap is in the wood." The Chileans 

 evidently have not yet learned that there is as much sap in a tree in 

 winter as in summer. 



