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HARDWOOD RECORD 



An Old Wooden Water Pipe System 



At Newark. N. J., there Is an old system of 

 wooden water pipes, which it is claimed was 

 laid over a hundred years ago. Excavators in 

 working in this district from time to time un- 

 earth pipes which are taken as proof by anti- 

 quarians that the city had a water supply 

 other than wells long before the time when the 

 public system was installed. Pipes have been 

 dug up which were found to have been plugged 

 up at the end and still contained water. They 

 were made from tulip-tree trunks, the wood of 

 which is soft, having a straight, regular grain. 

 A small hole about 1%" in diameter had been 

 bored through the middle of the trunks. Some- 

 times It is found that on some connections had 

 been made to smaller wooden pipes which had 

 rotted away. Some of the connections were 

 plugged up with hardwood corks. Almost with- 

 out exception the pipes are found to be in 

 excellent condition, resisting well the action 

 of moisture. The pipes vary in length from 

 18 to 35 feet, and are found from 15 to 20 feet 

 underground, which indicates the extent to 

 which land has been filled in since they were 

 laid in the eighteenth century. 



Under favorable conditions and when well 

 made, wooden water pipes are very durable 

 and water keeps in them practically free from 

 contamination. Wooden pipes are still used in 

 some sections of the country and give good 

 satisfaction. 



Heavy Loss Through Timber Decay 



Millions of feet of timber and finished lumber 

 rot every year in railroad ties, bridges, trestles, 

 piles, farm buildings, fences, poles, and mine 

 props. The lumber consuming public of the 

 United States pays perhaps thirty to forty 

 million dollars a year to make good the losses 

 from wood decay. 



These great drains are a source of more and 

 more concern each year. Chemists and en- 

 gineers who have to do with the uses of wood 

 are working unceasingly on the problem. The 

 United States Forest Service has men who 

 devote their whoie time to it. 



Wood decay is caused by fungus, .whose roots, 

 like minute hairs, force their way into the wood 

 tissues and destroy the solid parts. Timber 

 treated with preservatives has double and some- 

 times treble the life of ordinary timber. 



The United States government considers in- 

 vestigations of preservative treatment of such 

 importance that one office of the Forest Service, 

 that of wood preservation, with new headquar- 

 ters at Madison, Wis., is given over entirely to 

 the work of experiments in coiiperation with 

 railroad companies and other corporations and 

 individuals in prolonging the life of railroad 

 ties, mine props, bridge timbers, fence posts 

 and transmission poles. 



The lengthening of the life of timber means 

 the saving of thousands of dollars annually 

 through doing away with the heavy expense of 

 labor and cost of material for renewals. 



A New Zealand Wood 



A wood which has not yet been used in 

 Europe has made its appearance at London. Its 

 scientific name is Olea cunninghamii and its na- 

 tive name is black maire. It has a dark brown 

 heart streaked with black and is very thorny. 

 The wood is straight grained, heavy, dense and 

 compact, sound throughout and practically all 

 heart. It is said to be susceptible of a high 

 polish and to be very durable. It has been used 

 with excellent results for railway work, cabinet 

 work, turnery, and is widely used in New Zea- 

 land for flooring, being especially desirable foi 

 this purpose on account of its wearing quali- 

 ties. It is also much used for general outdoor 

 work, for building material and bridge construc- 

 tion. It Is said that there are large quantities 

 of the timber, but it Is scattered and as it is 

 so very hard It Is expensive and difficult to 

 get it out of the forests. 



Clever Shot and Good Lumberman 



Barry Norman, the popular head of E. B. Nor- 

 man & Co. of Louisville, Ky., used to be a foot- 

 ball player of renown. He was captain of the 

 high school team here — though that has long 

 since been ancient history — and then starred at 

 Sewanee. More recently he has found that 

 Father Time and Mr. Avoirdupois have been get- 

 ting ahead of him, and he now gets his sport 

 in automobiling and hunting. Like his father, 

 A. E. Norman, he is rated one of the best shots 

 in the business, and is a leading member of the 



BARRY NORMAN SHOOTING CLAY PIGEONS 

 AT LOUISVILLE GUN CLUB. 



Louisville Gun Club. The picture shows him In 

 action at the club's grounds on the Prospect 

 road, taking part in a clay pigeon shoot. He 

 and his father usually spend several weeks dur- 

 ing the fall in Shelby county hunting quail. 

 They seldom return without full game-bags. 



Dodge Co. Building New Warehouse 



Following the completion of the main machine 

 shop addition at the plant of the Dodge Manu- 

 facturing Company, Mishawaka, Ind., ground has 

 been broken for an additional warehouse for fin- 

 ished products. 



For a long time the present warehouse has 

 been inadequate to take care of the volume ot 

 business and this condition, together with a firm 

 resolve to better the service, is responsible for 

 the new building. The plans call for a structure 

 of reinforced concrete, 256 feet long by 112 feet 

 wide, four stories high and a basement, and will 

 cost in the neighborhood of $160,000. 



The first floor, on a level with the floor of a 

 freight car, will be used for shipping and inspec- 

 tion purposes, with offices for the general traffic 

 manager and his force. 



A loading platform will extend the entire 

 length of the warehouse, with ample trackage 

 for loading and moving cars with promptness 

 and speed. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 

 already has extensive yards at the Mishawaka 

 factory, but connection with the warehouse will 

 be made direct. Suitably placed doors will give 

 access to and from the shipping floor. 



The basement and the second, third and fourth 

 stories will be couflned to the storage of prod- 



ucts. Each will have elevator facilities and the 

 whole equipped with the most modern appliances 

 of the day in warehouse construction. 



In the new warehouse arrangement it will be 

 possible to fill orders for standard goods, such 

 as pulleys, hangers, pillow blocks, collars, coup- 

 lings, clutches and other transmission machinery 

 in special or carload lots as fast as the railroad 

 company can furnish cars and pull them away. 



Berthold & Jennings Incorporate 



The Berthold & Jennings Lumber Company of 

 ,St. Louis, Mo., has been incorporated with $100,- 

 iiOO capital stock. This business has been con- 

 ducted at St. Louis as a partnership foe the 

 past thirty-seven years, being one of the oldest 

 in Ht. Louis. In Septeml>er last John B. Sarpy 

 l!iTthold, senior member of the firm, died, and 

 llie incorporation of the concern followed. The 

 ofiioers elected for the new company are C. M. 

 Jennings, president and treasurer, and G. P. 

 ^bohan, secretary. The company's headquarters 

 arc in the Lumbermen's building, St. Louis. It 

 manufactures and handles oak. gum, cypress and 

 oilier hardwood lumber as well as wagon and 

 implement stock and railroad material. The 

 ic'mp.any is one of the foremost in St. Louis and 

 lias contributed no little toward building up the 

 t I'.viable reputation which that city holds as a 

 hardwood market. 



Philadelphia Concern Makes Big Purchase 



Several of the biggest timber deals of the 

 year have just been announced from Asheville, 

 .\, (.*. They were closed by J. C. Arbogast. 

 William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., of Philadelphia, 

 I'a.. have just acquired 70,000 acres of fine 

 timber lands in Polk county. Tennessee, and 

 Fannin county, Georgia. The purchase price was 

 about $900,000. When improvcinents cnutem- 

 piated on the property are made the Philadelphia 

 concern will have expended on the property over 

 S 1.000,000, including pui'chase price. 



Two years ago William Whitmer & Sons pur- 

 chased a 35,000-acre boundary of fine timber lands 

 in Sv.-ain county. North Carolina. This tract has 

 been transferred to the Parsons Pulp & Lumber 

 Company, a West Virginia corporation, the con- 

 sideration named being $651,500. Concerning 

 tliis transfer, Mr. Abrogast of Asheville said that 

 it did not mean that the property really changed 

 owners, since the Parsons Pulp & Lumber Com- 

 pany is owned by William Whitmer & Sons. Mr. 

 .\rbogast said that development of the Swain 

 county (N. C.) property would probably not be 

 made for several years at least. 



Included in the 70,000-acre tract taken over 

 in Tennessee and Georgia are all the sawmills, 

 the railroads and the 25,000 acres of land owned 

 by the Conasauga Lumber Company, now oper- 

 ating in Polk county, Tennessee. The rest of the 

 land was acquired from small holdings, and the 

 entire property will be merged into a large cor- 

 poration, capital stock increased, and lumbering 

 operations conducted on a much larger scale. 

 It is said that the change of ownership will not 

 stop the operation of mills at present on the 

 Tennessee property. 



Status of Wagon Oak Exporters' Contro- 

 versy 



The Wagon Oak Plank Exporters' Association, 

 organized some months ago, is pursuing persist- 

 ently the aims originally set and is going right 

 ahead with the work undertaken. Conditions 

 abroad, which brought the organization into ex- 

 istence, are still operative to a large extent, 

 and the association is determined to work to 

 remedy these if It can possibly be done. Under 

 the influence of a declining market large accumu- 



