HARDWOOD RECORD 



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New Self-Feed Eip Saw. 



The well-known machinery manufacturing 

 house of Cliagrin Falls. Ohio — the Ober Manu- 

 facturing Company — has put out a new type of 

 self-feed rip saw for ripping boards and plank 

 and preparing squares for lathes and other work 

 that is usually 

 done on saws of 

 this class. The 

 machine is very 

 rigid and is en- 

 tirely of iron 

 and steel, except 

 the table, which 

 is made of strips 

 of quartersawn 

 hardwood which 

 are glued and 

 dowelled togeth- 

 er. The table is 

 hinged at one 

 end. The saw is 

 covered in such 

 a manner as to 

 fully protect the 

 operator against 

 injury from sliv- 

 ers or pieces 

 which may fly 

 from the saw. 

 This saw guard 

 is raised and 

 lowered when 

 ripping plank of 

 different thick- 

 nesses by means 

 of a hand wheel 

 and crank. The 

 guide is hinged 

 to a hand lever 

 within easy 

 reach of the 

 operator. A scale 

 provides for va- 

 rying widths of 

 stock which it is 

 desired to cut. 

 The machine rips 



up to 12 inches iu width. The entire machine 

 is an admirable specimen of the product of the 

 Ober Manufacturing Company and while it is 

 illustrated herewith, a complete description and 

 price can be obtained from the manufacturers. 



Iron Company, and a director in the United 

 States Leather Company. In 1902 Mr. Good- 

 year and his associates commenced accumu- 

 lating longleaf yellow pine in Louisiana and 

 MissLssippi, and their holdings in those states 

 now aggregate fiOO.OOO acres. An extensive 



Frank Henry Goodyear. 



On May 13, at the family home in Buffalo, 

 N. T., occurred the death of Frank H. Good- 

 year, caused by an attack of Bright's disease. 

 Kot only was Mr. Goodyear a man of fine 

 character and one of the first citizens of 

 Buffalo, but he was one of the most promin- 

 ent factors in lumber and railroad circles in 

 the country. 



Mr. Goodyear was born at Groton, N. T.. 

 March 17, 1849. He took up his residence 

 at Buffalo in 1871. and although he began 

 operations on a small scale, they have multi- 

 plied and grown to mammoth proportions. 

 He early commenced to purchase hemlock 

 and hardwood timber land in northwestern 

 Pennsylvania, and organized one corporation 

 after another, until he controlled directly or 

 indirectly nearly all the available timber in 

 that section. In 1887, with his brother, 

 Charles W., Mi\ Goodyear organized the firm 

 of F. H. & C. W. Goodyear, which in 1902 

 was made the Goodyear Lumber Company. 

 Their holdings In Pennsylvania produce an 

 annual output of more than 200,000,000 feet of 

 hemlock and a large quantity of hardwoods. 



Aside from directing lumber interests Mr. 

 Goodyear was the promoter of the Buffalo & 

 Susquehanna railroad and was interested in 

 several minor ones; was president of the Buf- 

 falo & Susquehanna Coal & Coke Company, 

 vice president of the Buffalo & Susquehanna 

 and modern plant is being constructed at 



NEW SELF-FEED RIP SAW MANUFACTURED 

 BY OBER MFG. CO., CHAGRIN FALLS, O. 



Bogalusa, La., which will cost $2,500,000. The 

 enterprise is called the Great Southern Lum- 

 ber Company; Mr. Goodyear was its president. 

 The funeral was held on Wednesday, May 

 15, at the family home in Buffalo. The ofiices 

 of the many Goodyear interests were closed 

 during the day; the trains on his railroads 

 ceased running, and work was suspended at 

 the lumber camps, saw mills and iron plant 

 during the hour of the funeral. Interment 

 w-as at Forest Lawn. 



Stephenson Captures Toga. 



Lumbermen are mucli pleased over the se- 

 lection of Isaac Stephenson, Marinette, Wis., 

 to succeed John C. Spooner in the L'nited 

 St.ates senate, thus ending the deadlock which 

 began nearly five weeks ago. Mr. Stephen- 

 son's victory is due to some extent to another 

 prominent Wisconsin lumberman. Lieutenant 

 Governor R. Connor, of Marshfteld, who 

 turned to Mr. Stephenson the votes of two 

 assemblymen who had been counted upon to 

 support an opposing candidate. Wlien this 

 change of front took place the opposition 

 moved to make his nomination unanimous. 



Mr. Stephenson is an intimate friend of 

 Senator La Follette, who has Deen his warm 

 supporter during the campaign, which has 

 been made on a platform which is exceeding- 

 ly progressive, not to say radical. It has 

 declared for thorough revision of tariff sched- 

 ules, reducing duties where possible without 

 reducing the wages of labor; giving Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission power to regu- 

 late rates and service and to ascertain the 

 true value of railway property, the cost of 

 operation and the amount paid therefor: 



legislation compelling the adoption of the best 

 known safety appliances and strict regulation 

 as to operation of trains; strengthening the 

 Sherman anti-trust law and imposing neces- 

 sary penalties for control of corporations; 

 constitutional amendment for election of 

 United States senators by popular vote; fed- 

 eral tax on incomes and inheritances; an 

 effective child-labor law; legislation prohibit- 

 ing sale of public lands containing coal, oil, 

 or gas. would lease them; opposition to ship 

 subsidy and all forms of government bounty. 

 Mr. Stephenson is reputed to be the wealth- 

 iest man in Wisconsin, and has made his for- 

 tune through prudent investments in timber 

 lands. He is interested in several large lum- 

 ber operations in Wisconsin and in the I. 

 Stephenson Company of Wells, Mich., an im- 

 mense proposition. He is seventy-eight years 

 old; from 1S66 to- 1SG8 he was a member of 

 the Wisconsin legislature and from 1883 to 

 1889 a member of Congress. 



Increase in Memphis Lumber Companies. 



It has become almost an axiom in Memphis 

 that it is a cold week that does not see the 

 organization of one or more new hardwood lum- 

 ber concerns. There are well toward one hun- 

 dred hardwood houses of various caliber in 

 that city at the present time. 



The IIAKDWOOD Record does not want to be- 

 tray any unwise advance information, but from 

 a memorandum card picked up by a representa- 

 live in the foyer of the Gayoso Hotel a few 

 days ago. it is probable that official announce- 

 ment will soon be made of still another new 

 corporation. The card reads : 



THREE OWL LUMBER COMPANY, 



Dealers in 



Quartered Cocoanut in the Round 



and 



Airy Persiflage. 



Specialties : Cocoanut Fur and Milk. 



C. M. Kellogg, Pres. ; Geo. C. Ehemann, V.-Pres. ; 



H. L. Stern, Secy. & Treas. 



The present ostensible occupation of the offi- 

 cers of the Three Owl Lumber Company must 

 needs be explained for the enlightenment of those 

 unfortunate enough not to be acquainted with 

 them. Mr. Kellogg is the active man in the 

 hardwood house of Barksdale & Kellogg ; Mr. 

 Ehemann is the junior partner of Bennett & 

 Witte, while Mr. Stern makes a bluff as south- 

 ern buyer for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender 

 Company of Chicago. The out-of-work head- 

 quarters of the bunch is the Gayoso. 



New Hardwood Eules for London. 



It is proposed by the hardwood section of the 

 Timber Trades Federation of the United King- 

 dom to substitute a set of new rules governing 

 hardwoods for those made effective in July, 1902. 

 The proposal contemplates the measurement of 

 lumber by the American board rule in accord- 

 ance with the present rules of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association : all lumber should be 

 tallied face measure, and all fractions of ?i of 

 a foot or more counted to the next higher figure ; 

 all fractions less than % of a foot to be counted 

 back to the next lower figure. Standard lengths 

 are specified as 6, S, 10, 12, 14 and 16 feet, 

 except as otherwise specified, and all lengths 

 such as 9, 11 and 13 feet are to be measured 

 back to the next even length, except in walnut, 

 which shall be measured odd and even feet ; 

 no allowance to be made for defects : the width 

 of tapering boards to be made at the narrow 

 end. 



In view of the prevailing tendency toward the 

 modification of hardwood rules and measure- 

 ment, the H.VRDwooD Record has its suspicions 

 lliat the Timber Trades Federation of the United 

 Kingdom will have difficulty in buying American 

 hardwoods on the basis of the proposed meas- 

 ure. 



