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HARDWOOD RECORD 



as it has already received from those who have seen this advanced 

 form of making- hardwood tallies. 



All visitors will be welcome at HARDVsfOOD Eecord headquarters. 



Wonderful Changes in Hardwood Requirements 



As is well known to the average Hardwood Eecord patron, this 

 paper has been engaged for several years in collecting and collating 

 information invohing the annual hardwood requirements of the ma- 

 jority of the concerns in the United States and Canada which use 

 in their various lines of production hardwood lumber in wholesale 

 quantities. At regular intervals this information is printed in bulle- 

 tin form and supplied to advertising clients. 



At least annually the sundry paragraphs in these bulletins are 

 forwarded to the lumber buyers of the various concerns with the 

 request that, if the information does not accurately represent their 

 requirements at the time, they correct it. Buring the last few 

 days the old requirements, ac- 

 companied by an explanatory let- 

 ter, have been sent out to the 

 full list of houses embodied in 

 all the bulletins except informa- 

 tion received during the past 

 ninety days. At the present time 

 the Eecord is receiving more than 

 500 letters and corrected reports 

 daily from these manufacturing 

 institutions, and within the next 

 ten days a large and compre- 

 hensive correction bulletin will be 

 issued, which will show the hard- 

 wood requirements of these vari- 

 ous wholesale consumers for the 

 year 1910. 



The astonishing feature of 

 these reports is the wonderful 

 transformation that has taken 

 place during the past year iu the 

 range of kinds and quantities of 

 lumber that is to be purchased 

 during 1910. In a good many 

 oases concerns which were large 

 buyers of many of the well- 

 known and standard varieties of 

 hardwoods have eliminated their 

 use entirely, and others have re- 

 duced the quantities materially, 

 and in nearly every case substi- 

 tution is taking place for many 

 previously esteemed woods; in 

 some cases the requirements are 

 largely confined to these substi- 

 tute woods. 



There is a tremendous increase 

 in the requisitions for inch, 24 to 

 28-inch panel poplar; there is a 



marvelous increase in the inquiries for red and sap gum; there is a 

 decided increase in requisitions for red birch; a marked increase in 

 the call for the gray elm of the North, and a considerable increase 

 in the call for inch, sound, wormy chestnut. There seems to be a 

 diminution in the call in some localities for oak of all varieties, and 

 there is a marked decrease in the demand for white and black ash. 

 Not more than twenty-five of the thousands of concerns reporting 

 advise that their lumber contracts ai-e made for the year, and a 

 good many make specific requests for immediate offers, with the 

 statement of how large quantities can be supplied. 



The Eecord is rushing this correction bulletin to press as fast as 

 possible so that its ad\ertising clients may at once have the benefit 

 of the marked changes in requisition, and to enable them to get in 

 prompt touch with the buyers. 



Incident to the publication of this interesting and valuable bul- 



letin, the Eecord wishes to advise its contemporary that advertises 

 that it is "the only weekly paper that covers the southern field," 

 to take notice that this document will be copyrighted, and that 

 steps will be taken to fully protect the publishers against the pil- 

 fering of the information therein contained. 



FELLOWSHIP 



When a man ain't got a cent, an' he's feeling 



kind of blue. 

 An' the clouds hang dark and heavy, an' won't 



let the sunshine through, 

 It's a great thing, O my brethren, for a feller just 



to lay 

 His hand upon your shoulder in a friendly 



sort of way! 

 It makes a man feel queerish; it makes the tear 



drops start. 

 An' you sort o' feel a flutter in the region of 



the heart; 

 You can't look up and meet his eyes: you don't 



know what to say, 

 When his hand is on your shoulder in a friendly 



sort of way. 

 O, the world's a curious compound, with its 



honey and its gall, 

 With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good 



world after all; 

 An' a good God must have made it — leastwise, 



that is what I say, 

 W^hen a hand is on your shoulder in a friendly 



sort of way. 



JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 



A New Tally Book 



Hardwood Eecord has been asked times without number to sug- 

 gest some better and more logical scheme than that now in vogue 

 for the tallving of hardwood lumber, and making authentic and 

 satisfactory records of the same. With this end in view, the editor 

 has combined with the best features of tally books and tally sheets 

 now iu use some original ideas of his own, and about February 1 

 a new and unique form of tally book will be put on the market by 

 Hardwood Eecord. Illustrations showing the convenient way these 

 covers are held in the hand, and of the pages of the book will be 



found in an advertisement on 

 page 7 of this issue of the 

 Record. These three-throw taUy 

 ticket covers are made from 

 sheets of twenty-gauge aluminum, 

 hinged together at one edge and 

 accommodating four tally tickets 

 4% X 8% inches in size. The 

 cover is held in the hand and is 

 readily closed or opened ; the cen- 

 ter leaf may be thrown backward 

 or forward by inserting the 

 thumb and the fingers through 

 rubber bands fastened to hooks 

 on the outside of both the front 

 and back covers. The covers 

 fold compactly to less than a 

 quarter of an inch in thickness, 

 and fit the side or inside coat 

 pocket. The four aluminum 

 pages give an opportunity to em- 

 ploy four tickets at a time if 

 need be for complicated tallies, 

 or a straight grade may be regis- 

 tered on one or two pages. 



The device accommodates any 

 form of tally sheet desired, but 

 an especially convenient form is 

 a patented triplicate tally ticket, 

 which is printed on waterproof 

 j)aper of different colors with car- 

 bon backs. Thus no loose carbon 

 sheets are necessary. Tallies 

 made on these tickets are un- 

 alterable, and their use enables 

 the inspector to retain his tripli- 

 cate ticket, and to forward the 

 original and duplicate tickets to 

 the office. Thb gives the general 

 Dffice an opportunity to hold the original tally as a matter of record, 

 md to attach the duplicate to invoice. In the event that a lumber- 

 man does not desire a duplicate or triplicate to invoice, single tally 

 sheets may be employed. Both the padded triplicate tickets and the 

 single tickets are held in place by rubber bands slipped into notches 

 Dn the corners of the aluminum leaves. 



The tally books have been experimented with by several leading 

 manufacturers and jobbers, who have placed orders with the 

 Eecoed for a quantity for their use. It is believed that they will 

 be found absolutely perfect, durable, convenient and accurate for 

 the tallying of lumber. 



A patent for the device has been applied for, the entire work 

 copyi-ighted, and the triplicate tally sheets are made under special 

 license from tlie General Manifold Company, the owner of the patent 

 thereof. 



