HARDWOOD RECORD 



28A 



Building Operations for July. 

 Building opei^itions in tlw largo cities tlu-c>iis;h- 

 imt the counny Ijave ini-rcased lianilsonu'ly dur- 

 ins the month of July, l!ili(;. as coiupared with 

 ilie same month 01' the past yeai- with a few 

 .■xceptions, noialjly that of Greatei- New Yofk. 

 AiTurding to ofKclal reports to The Amerii-au 

 Contraitor. Chicago, and presented herewith, the 

 gain in tlte majority of building centers is most 

 gratifying and there are no indications tbat the 

 iiia.'kimum has heen readied. 



July, .hilv, I'cr l',-i- 



l!JU(i. lllu.'i. cent cciil 



I'itv — co.>*t. ciis.t. gil..i.l<i.'i.s. 



\il:ui'ta 47L'.iiS(; :;s4,7iis «.", .. 



IMltlniore l,Oti l.dim 705, wo 30 .. 



f.irmiiighasu . .-. 4ya,.'ilKi lii.i.iKi.i I.-,0 .. 



Little liuck .., 21,S,12:i lo.s.042 l.:o .. 



Louisville o:i7,.'w.'i 4i)S.,sii,") 12!l 



I..1S Auu-eles 1,7S3,82S 1,304,108 37 ., 



-Maiicliester O7.O1IO .si, 120 17 



.Milwaukee 7oU,l.'i4 714.001 -.c, 



.Miiiiieaii.ilis l,G00.S2o .SSI,07r> SI 



.Meiuiiliis 411 ,00.-) :io2.773 3i; 



Molille 75,8.S2 42,021 70 



Nashville 1,-.G,.S1.S 274,0:iO . . 42 



New Haven 220.S47 ]t)3,«63 :;4 



Newark 1.2:;l .22s S!l2,06:i 3.S . . 



New Orleans 4n.-,.i;l7 343,S3,'i l.S 



.ManUattan S,:;40,lj0i> 10, 4:10,50.) .. 40 



-Alteration 1,274,713 1.307,407 .. .. 



Biooklvn S.0110,723 0,872,822 10 .. 



lircnx :j,lkSO,0,-)0 5.022.00 1 .".S 



Alteration :>4,453 47,870 



New York 20,7.33,44:! 20,741,.3.3» ., ."o 



ilniaha 332..S,-i0 1.045.G.30 .. lii; 



I'liiladelpbia 4,083,410 2,790,135 45 



I'aterson 0»,,s.'.7 lo2.fi is 2 



I'ittsliui;: l,.3se,2s:; 1,. 300.794 10 



I'liehlo 10.S2O 24,144 17 



I'urtlanil ... 741.470 277,735 100 



Itochester ,501,2115 314,410 SS ., 



St. Louis 3,3,58,770 2,:j74„305 41 . . 



St. Paul 510..37O 4.50.910 H 



San .\iirniii(> 102,325 .50,721 So 



Scraiitc.n 20S,7o5 203. o4o 47 



S.. attic 1. .502.00:; 1,177,114 27 



sji.ikaitc ::i)l.557 2:i5.,soii :;2 .. 



Si.iitli r.etid 5!i:;.055 07i;, 152 12 



S,vracii.«c 3.88,295 510,:i60 .. 24 



Salt Lake Cilv 142,300 .59,705 i:;s 



'lo]ieka 171.0.50 6.5,7011 IGl 



■fcledo 248,501 370,562 . . 3:1 



Terre Haute 83,703 97,075 . , ]:i 



Taeoma 283,090 162,352 74 



Wasliinirtiin 988,431 1.271.270 .. 22 



\\..r...ster 324,76S 1S2.S45 77 



W ilk.sl.arre :,.. 175,,S0S 2n5,5i;5 1-1 



Tolal 7S,515..S3n 59.054,041 :;l 



A New Saw Gauge. 



Attention to small details, more than any other 

 factor, has been the means of upbuilding some 

 of the greatest American commercial institutions. 

 .\ndrew Carnegie, tiie steel king, always paid 

 generously for new ideas and new machinery 

 u hich would simplify the process of making steel. 

 The Chicago packers boast that the.v have so 

 eliiuinated every clement of waste in tbeir busi- 

 ness "that there is "nothing left of a pig but the 

 siiueal." The successful sawmill man is lie who 

 strives to get as much out of the log and out of 

 Ills men as he is entitled to. I-'or those reasons 

 be should be on the lookout for new inventions 

 destined lo save him money. 



Francis Marshall of (irand liapids, Mich., 

 whose advertisement appears in the advertising 

 display columns of the Haiidwood Record, is 

 manufacturing a device called an automatic swing 

 saw gauge which is guaranteed to save ten per 

 <-ent of the sawyei-'s time by enabling liim to do 

 his work witliout wtitcliing a chalk mark. Mr. 

 Marshall, whose guarantee is good, agrees to 

 '■ifeet a saving of .^l.SO per thousand feet on the 

 average of variotis kinds of lumber cut. by doing 

 away with the inaccuracy attendant upon any 

 of the guess work devices now in use. Moreover, 

 he will give any responsible concern thirty days' 

 irial of a gauge in which to prove his claims. 



Willi the saw gauge in use, absolute adjust- 

 lueiir of the lumber on the saw table is permitted. 



iliiis eliniinatinK waste of lumbei-. .\ny number 

 nl lengths can be cut on the tab'e without hav- 

 ing to change Ibe stop, thus eliminating waste of 

 time. It stops automatically and does not re- 

 i|uire the attention of the sawyer, thus giving bim 

 more time to grade the lumber carefully and in- 

 crease the volume of work. .Mr. JIarshall makes 

 a guarantee that by the use of this gauge anyone 

 sawing 2. .5(10 feet of lumber a day will save 

 Ifl.iMKI a year thereby: the gauge for a mill of 

 tl.is capacity costs but $25. 



Effects of Sleet. 



During tlie wiiiler of HOM-.T nortlieru Georgia 

 was visited by a ve 

 coating of ice on lb 

 as to destroy quite a porlion of valuable hard- 

 wood forest. The accoiiipanying picture sliows a 

 hickory tree, fullj- twelve inches in diameter, 



.'V(»re sleet storm. The 

 e-tojis became so heavy 



EI'TECTS Ol' SI.I:i;T UN TiaCES in Nt.lRTlI- 

 EliN CEdUtilA. 



which was literally lorn to pieces as a result of 

 this storm. The picture was made on the prop- 

 erty of the llurford I. umber & Manufacturing 

 Company at Ivensingtou. (!a. The II.iKDivunu 

 I{i.:(.-oi;i) is indebted to W. A. liennett of Cincin- 

 nati for the loan of the interesting photograph 

 fi'om which this illiislration was made. 



Some Kinks in Stair Building. 



Herewith are illustrated two valutible little 

 "kinks" in slair building. Mjtple and oak are the 

 recognized staudarti materials for stair treads. 

 T'p to this lime stair Ireads have been made of 

 one piece of lumber laid the long way of the 

 stjiir, witli the result that where the travel is 

 lieav.v the wear coming across the grain the 

 wood wears out very soon. lUiilders of stairs in 

 factories, mills, sloi-es. elevated railway stations, 

 vir.. will liuil thai short ends of either seven- 



last longer and |in>ve general 

 tluin double the thickness of 

 the usual way. Besides the 



ly more 

 step plar 

 re is a 



economy involved in the prtictice, as short Iloor- 

 iiig can be had at a low price. 



The second cut illustrates a method of satis- 

 factory stair building where one is short of room 

 in mill or factory to secure the usual "run." 

 Acceptable stairs can be built as shown in the 

 picture of ordinary height within a space of six 

 feet. The only objection lo this form of construc- 

 tion is tbat the user must always start up or 

 down with the "right foot first." 



Dahlstrom Metallic Door Company. 



Tlie Dahlstrom Metallic Door Company of 

 .Jamestown, N, Y., has increased its capital stock 

 from .^lOO.OUO to $150,1X10, and the capacity of 

 the plant will be doubled by the erection of a 

 large addition. The new building will be begun 

 at tin early date, in order to facilitale tilling the 

 .$200,000 worth of orders now on the company's 

 books, whicli they have not been able to handle 

 up to date, althougli the present plant is run- 

 ning to full capacity. 



Metal seems to be rapidly coming into use 

 as a substitute for hardwood in the manufac- 

 ture of doors and interior linish, and in tbat It 

 aids greatly in making a building flreproof should 

 be very desirable. 



eighths maple or oak llooring made into a tread 

 so that the wear will come endwise of the grain, 

 as shown in the smaller cut on this page, will 



Japanese Railroad Ties. 



E. II. I larrimaii, president of the South- 

 ern Pacitic Itaiiroad Company, has become 

 a good customer for .Tapanese railroad ties, which 

 he is having delivered at Guaymas, Mex., at a 

 cost of 56 cents each. A contract for 1,. 500, 000 

 1.5 now outstanding, and a shipload of 83,000 has 

 already been received. President Ilarriman is 

 building 7011 miles of rotid in the slates of 

 Sonora and Sinaloa to connect with the Soutli- 

 ern Pacitic in the southern part of Arizona, and 

 the ties are for use in this enterprise. They 

 are of hardwood peculijirly adapted for road 

 building in the climate where they are to be 

 utilized. 



Miscellaneous Notes, 



A. a. Tardy, I.itlle Uock. Ark., will establish 

 a sawmill plant near I'rescott, 



The Uhlenhant Brothers ^^'agon Compaiiy has 

 been incorporated at St. Louis, .Mo., with $25,000 

 capital. 



