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HARDWOOD RECORD 



four expert designers with their corps of 

 subordinates; one whose specialty is plan- 

 ing machines; a second, band-sawing ma- 

 chinery; a third, sanders, and another 

 small tools. The. construction of all ma- 

 chinery is in charge of F. L. Lane, gen- 

 eral superintendent. 



It has never been the good fortune of the 

 v/riter to visit and inspect a better organ- 

 ized, more orderly, and a more fully 

 equipped machine manufacturing house 

 than that of The Berlin Machine Works. 

 The systematic manner in which every 

 part of the business is conducted is mani- 

 fest to even the casual visitor. In con- 

 struction, an analysis of the tools of the 

 IJerliu Machine Works is also a particu- 

 larly noticeable feature. Primarily every 

 tool seems to be built for strength and 

 rigidity. It seems to be in the mind of 

 the designer that if a 3,000-pound frame, 

 bolted together on lugs will stand the 

 strain of a fast running machine, a 3,500- 

 pound solid cast frame will do it better, 

 tlierefore the better plan is adopted. It 



seems to be in his mind that if an eight- 

 inch narrow gear will carry the load of 

 driving a feed-roll, that a twelve-inch 

 wide gear will do the work better and 



FRAME or noRlZON'T.\L BAND RESAW 

 CAST IN A SINGLE TIECE. 



safer, and the better plan is therefore 

 adopted. 



Simplicity is another feature of the 

 tools. Wherever one piece, even at a 

 higher cost, will take the place of two, 

 the one piece is used. One could go on 



without end in discussing the details of 

 the construction of Berlin tools. He could 

 tell of the self-hardening steel employed 

 in its knives, the avoidance of objection- 

 alile gears in band resawing construction, 

 the simplicity and strength of parts in a 

 hundred other tools and yet could not 

 finish the stocy in the brief scope of a news- 

 liaper article. In short. The Berlin Ma- 

 chine Works is a well-ordered, well 

 equipped and mammoth iilant which pro- 

 duces wood-working tools of quality. 



The Berlin Machine Works maintains 

 blanch stores and oflSces at Seattle and 

 San Francisco; branch oifices at Chicago, 

 New York, Boston. New Orleans, Spokane 

 and Macon, Ga. Traveling representatives 

 are located at Columbus, Norfolk, Minne- 

 apolis, St. Louis and Little Bock, Ark. An 

 allied house is The Berlin Machine Works 

 of Cau.ida, which is about to erect a large 

 plant at Hamilton, Ontario, which will 

 manufacture a line in duplicate of that 

 of the [larent institution. 



LONG LINE OF SANDERS READY FOR SHIDMENT. 



NeWs Miscellany. 



Brazil Market for Office Fittings. 



Tlie Amei-iciin consul .stationcil at Uio .lanicro 

 states tUat American manufaetui-ers of olHce 

 fittings should have little difficulty in introduc- 

 ing their goods, and once rc-coguized there would 

 undoubtedly bo a constant demand for them. He 

 writes as follows : 



"There is a wave of improvement ou in Brazil 

 generally and especially iu Rio de Janeiro. A 

 large number of modern office- buildings are being 

 constructed, creating a demand for new office 

 appliances, which will be mo.sHy made in Brazil, 

 but an aggressive campaign iu behalf of Ameri- 

 can roll-top desks and similar conveniences would 

 probably be successful. Manufacturers of patent 

 files, especially metal files, and other office aoDll- 

 ances should do a good business. The lariff is 

 high. Ou an office desk, for instance, the duty 

 would be $0 to $40 gold, specific, and an addi- 

 tional SO to GO per cent ad valorem, depending 

 upon the nature of the article. However, high 

 prices are common on everything. The business 

 men of Rio de .Taneiro will buy American office 

 fittings when once tliry are led to ajipreciate 



their merits, high prices or not. In a commu- 

 nity whore business affairs are dominated largely 

 by conservative foreigners, however, the intro- 

 duction of modern American conveniences will 

 not be accomplished without effort, [American 

 manufacturers desiring to enter the market in 

 such goods should write to some of the firms 

 named by Mr. Anderson, the addresses of which 

 are obtainable from tlte Bureau of Manufac- 

 tures. 1 Correspondence should be in Portu- 

 guese, if possible, otherwise iu French, and in 

 English only as a last resort," 



German Discrimination Against American 

 Lumber, 



lleitry A\'. Diederich, formerly .\merican consul 

 at Bremen, called the attention of .\merican 

 lumber and timber shippers to the fact that 

 under the rules of the Prussian railways a 

 special and higher rate of freight was collected 

 on American pitch pine, yellow pine, hickory 

 and black walnut for inland transportation than 

 was charged tor wood coming into Germany from 

 European countries. In this report it was 

 Inrlher stali'd tliat inasmuch as nearly all the 



PILE OF SOLID SINGLE CASTING FRAMES FOR PLANING 

 MACHINES, 



railroads engaged in this transportation were 

 owned and managed by the government this spe 

 cial freight tariff was in reality a discrimination 

 against American lumber. .\s the new German 

 tariff law went into effect on March 1, 1906, it 

 may be of interest to lumber shippers to know 

 that, although the import duty on hardwoods 

 has l>een increased considerably, no change has 

 boon made in regard to this special freight tariff. 

 ■ Vicc-Consul Frederick Hoyermann writes that 

 by the terms of the new German tariff the im- 

 port duty on hardwoods has been raised from 

 .$1,14 to ¥1.37 per cubic meter (35,314 cubic 

 feet). 



Reforestation in China, 



China has been destitute of tree growth for 

 so many years that the action of the Germans 

 at Tsiugtau, where they maintain a fortified 

 garrisou, in providing for the reforestation of the 

 district under their control is to be most heartily 

 commended. The authorities have been conduct 

 ing a department of forestry since their occu 

 pation, with the result that the barren hills of 

 a few years ago are now covered with young 

 forests. Millions of young trees have been set 

 out .and the work has been taken up by the 

 Chinese, who are planting trees themselves under 

 the supervision of the Gorman authorities. 



