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changes be gave much time and energy. He was 

 iilso a member of the Automobile Club of Buffalo 

 and of the ti-ansportation committee of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce. 



Mr. Vetter was active in church and charitable 

 work as a member of Holy Angels' Church. He 

 leaves six children, four daughters and two sons. 

 His wife and two daughters died several years 

 ago. 



The funeral was held from the family home 

 and from Holy Angels' Church on July 3. The 

 bearers were : O. E. Yeager, 1. N. Stewart, A. W. 

 Kreinheder, J. A. Murphy. C. W. Botts, J. E. 

 Wall, F. M. Sullivan and John Connelly. 



G. M. CHAMBERS. SECKETAltV AND GEN- 

 ERAL SALES MANAGER KENDALL LUM- 

 BER COMPANY, PITTSBURGH, PA. 



An Addition 

 The accompanying cut shows G. M. Chambers, 

 recently appointed secretary and general sales 

 manager of the Kendall Lumber Company, who 

 was formerly in the Philadelphia offices and 

 moved to Pittsburgh, as reported in the last 

 Issue of Hardwood Record. 



Barnaby's First Letter 



President C. H. Barnaby of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, in his first monthly 

 report to the trade, issued a short time ago. 

 signified his intention of continuing the plan 

 inaugurated by ex-Presidcnt F. A. Diggins, in 

 sending a regular monthly report to the member- 

 ship. Mr. Barnaby's expression that he had some 

 misgivings after having assumed the responsi-) 

 billties of the president's office, will not carry 

 much weight with those who know the man. 

 He requests that the membership should not 

 hesitate to address him personally concerning 

 association matters. 



Mr. Barnaby reported that the amount of 

 iiimber inspected by the association in May was 

 12,187,874 feet, an increase of 810.900 feet over 

 May of 1911. This is a good showing consider- 

 ing the fact that a great many of the southern 

 mills have experienced all kinds of difficulty on 

 account of the high water. 



The letter announces the following changes : 



W. H. Long has been placed in charge of the 

 Pittsburgh district and Is located at 1203 Fed- 

 eral street, N. S., Pittsburgh. 



D. E. Buchanan has again taken charge of 

 the Cincinnati district and is located at 25G 

 Helen street, Cincinnati. 



W. H. Roberts has been stationed at Hunting- 

 ton, W. Va.. and can be reached at 424 Sixth 

 street, Huntington 



W. J, McBride has been stationed at Cairo, 



111., where he can be reached through the general 

 delivery. 



Applications for inspection in the Memphis, 

 Tenn., district should bo addressed lo W. T. 

 North, 118 Jackson avenue. Memphis. 



Since the annual conventioa on June 6, nine 

 new applications for membership have been re- 

 ceived and passed upon by the executive board. 



A Record Cargo of Mahogany 



Steamship Burbobank of the Mtis Jlanufac- 

 turing Company, broke all records for the largest 

 shipments of mahogany in any United States 

 port when she tied up at the Otis company's 

 dock Thursday, July 4. with two million and a 

 half feet of the valuable lumber. Some time 

 ago the Burbobank brought in a record shipment, 

 tut this last consignment is even larger than 

 the previous one. ' 



The cargo is estimated as being worth .$130,- 

 000, and was taken on from the Mexican ports 

 cf Laguna and Sion Tera. R. S. Huddleston, 

 general manager of the Otis company, states 

 that every foot of this timbei" has already been 

 sold to variotis furniture manufacturers in the 

 West and in Europe, and these logs, when made 

 up into furniture, will represent a valuation of 

 a million dollars. As soon as possible after this 

 cargo has been unloaded, the mills of this con-, 

 cern will be working twenty-four hours a day 

 converting mahogany logs into sizable lumber, 

 and with the shipments in sight, this condition 

 will continue until December. For the past two 

 months, a day and night crew have been kept 

 busy at the plants, although the mill was shut 

 down a few hours each day. This condition 

 meant the employment of over four hundred men. 



The Burbobank will depart soon for the Cen- 

 tral American and Mexican ports and will prob- 

 ably equal the record made by this last shipment. 



entirely to Chicago. A complete stock of high- 

 grade veneers, mainly in mahogany and Circas- 

 sian, has been maintained at all times, but the 

 company owned no local facilities for manufac- 

 turing its own stock. 



About a year ago the idea of installing a 

 veneer mill in Chicago took concrete shape, and 

 it was ultimately decided to erect a mill in con- 

 nection with the company's offices and ware- 

 rooms on North Ann street. The work of con- 

 struction was recently culminated, and the 

 Bacon company now has one of the most com- 

 plete and up-to-date veneer manufacturing estab- 

 lishments to be found. It is not of the size of 

 a good many plants throughout the country, but 

 the completeness of equipment and the facilities 

 for efficient and economic handling of logs and 

 stock make it more or less of a novelty. The 

 building is a two-story brick structure. On the 

 ground floor are located a Capital slicer, a boil- 

 ing vat, and "mula" saw for cutting flitches. 

 The logs are brought into the sawing room from 

 the yard on a specially constructed truck run- 

 ning on rails. From the saw^ the flitches are 

 raised from the car by means of a chain tackle 

 running on an overhead track, which transports 

 them first to the boiling vat. From here they 

 are taken directly to the slicer and from the 

 slicer it is but a short distance to the elevator 

 which takes the stock to the second floor, where 

 the dry room is located. 



The R. S. Bacon Veneer Company has an 

 annual output of 10,000,000 feet of sliced veneer, 

 including mahogany and Circassian mainly, other 

 woods being rosewood and similar fancy woods 

 and native oak. The new plant, while as stated 

 not of large proportions, is equipped in the 

 main as other modern plants are, but it embodies 

 such unique features of arrangement as to make 

 it an Innovation in veneer establishments. 



SLICING CIRCASSIAN .\ I MILL OF It. J 



Bacon Has Model Plant 



The R. S. Bacon Veneer Company of Chicago 

 was incorporated in 1900, starting on a small 

 basis. Since that date the scope of the business 

 has been continuously enlarged. Today the 

 Bacon company is reckoned as one of the lead- 

 ing mahogany and fancy veneer houses in the 

 ccuntry. 



R. S. Bacon, head of the concern, is also the 

 aetive manager of the BaconJUnderwood Veneer 

 Company of Mobile. .\la.. and for four years was 

 located at that plant running the atfairs of that 

 ojganization. The Bacon-Underwood company 

 owns considerable bay poplar stumpage in the 

 South, and manufactures that type of veneer 

 mtirely at its southern plants. The R. S. Bacon 

 Veneer Company has confined its operations 



I'.Ai UN VENEER COMPANY, CHICAGO 

 American Forestry Association Meeting 



The directors of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation will hold their mid-summer meeting in 

 the White mountains about the middle of July. 

 The meeting will be simultaneous with that of 

 the fifth annual forestry convention which is 

 under the auspices of the Society for the Pro- 

 lection of New Hampshire's Forests. 



It is expected that those attending the forestry 

 association meeting will leave New York on the 

 evening of July 16, going to Concord, N. H.. 

 where they %vill be received by Governor Bass, 

 who is president of the association and chairman 

 of the board. The party will then be driven to 

 l>eer Park hotel at North Woodstock, which is a 

 journey of seventy-flve miles. The trip will 



