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HARDWOOD RECORD 



bit extent in desk maniifaeture. Altliough up 

 to tliis time dcsl^s liave been made almost en- 

 tirely of solid wood, veneer is beginning to 

 be used and quite a number of desks now 

 have handsome veneer panels. 



The prevailing styles are very plain. Th» 

 straight unornameuted legs are finished with 

 a brass cap to prevent nicking and blemishes. 

 The roll-top desk differs in no essential par- 

 ticular from the ordinary curtain desk, but 

 in the flat-top style a new feature that meets- 

 with great favor is the several pigeon-hole 

 coinpartments, small drawers, space for card 

 indexes, etc., on one side,' and the usual 

 drawers on the other side. A desk of this- 

 style is shown in one of the illustrations. 

 One noticeable feature about the sanitary 

 desk is that the roll-top is low. This makes- 

 a more attractive desk and is universally 

 liked, so that the makers are manufacturing 

 but few of the old high-top pattern. Flat- 

 top desks are also being made lower. 



Manufacturers are making about half 



A FINE CURTAIN DESK 



The first sanitary desk had legs from ten 

 to fifteen inches in height, while those now 

 in use vary from four to ten inches. The 

 high leg vras quite useless and apt to become 

 Drokb2 because of its exposed surface) and 

 again it was unsightly. The short legs now 

 used are quite as satisfactory for the pur- 

 pose they serve and they make a more har- 

 monious and graceful looking desk. 



Sanitary desks are made of all kinds of 

 hardwoods, but principally of selected quar- 

 ter-sawed white oak, mahogany and birch. 

 Sycamore is used for the pigeon-holes and 

 basswood and birch for the drawer bottoms, 

 though oak and mahogany are used also. 

 Southern cane ash is also used to a considera- 



SINGLE FLAT TOP DESK, WITH CONVENIENT SIDE COMPARTMENTS. 



their product sanitary and half ordinary 

 desks, but the sanitary style is growing 

 steadily, and the prediction is made that in 

 a few years none but this kind will be sold; 



The illustrations shown here are from the 

 A. H. Andrews Company and the Commer- 

 cial Furniture Company, two of the largest 

 desk houses in Chicago. The Andrews com- 

 pany claims the distinction of originating the 

 leg desk in IS 76. The Cjmmereial Furniture 

 Company manufactures nothing but office 

 desks and tables and has one of the best fac- 

 tories in the West. 



ANOTIIEU .STYLE OF CURTAIN DESK. 



A meeting of the Gulf Coast Lumber Expor- 

 ters' Association was held in the offices of the 

 Holmes & Herrick Lumber Company at Gulfport. 

 Miss., November 20, to discuss the regulations 

 now governing the berthing ot vessels reporting 

 for loading. These regulations make such de- 

 mands of the shipper that successful compliance 

 with them and at the same time with the terms 

 and conditions of the usual charter party Is 

 well-nigh Impossible, and it is the hope ol the 

 committee that new regulations will be enacted 

 which will be of benefit to all concerned. 



