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HARDWOOD RECORD 



GRAPHOrilOXE HORN OF OAK VENEER 



Graphoplione manufacturers are of the 

 opinion that wood -will replace metal in the 

 coustructiou of horns in the near future. 

 Spruce will undoubtedly be a large factor in 

 tliis line, althongh oak and mahogany will 

 still continue to be popular because of their 

 beauty and their strength in the bending 

 process. 



In the cabinets for graphophones, hard- 

 woods play an important part, and quite a 

 large quantity of the popular cabinet woods 

 are consumed annually by graphophone con- 

 cerns. There is a wide diversity of styles 

 manifest in this line of manufacture, and 

 some of them are very noteworthy examples 

 of the cabinetmaker 's art. Graphophone cab- 

 inets are by no means confined to the small 

 wooden box seen on the cheaper types of in- 

 struments, the more pretentious styles approx- 

 imating the piano in quality of workmanship 

 and finish. 



As in the furniture trade, oak and ma- 

 hogany are the most popular woods used. 

 Quartered oak and veneers are used quite ex- 

 tensively and all cabinets having bulged sides 



or panels are veneered, as they stand the 

 strain much better than solid wood. Bent 

 panels are subjected to the. same treatment as 

 the horns, being placed in a mold and kept 

 there until the wood is thoroughly dry and of 

 the desired shape. The parts are joined to- 

 gether by mortising and glue. 



There is a growing popularity for hand- 

 carved cabinets for high-grade graphophones. 

 This demand, manufacturers state, prevails 

 even among people who would not generally 

 be considered in a position to buy hand- 

 carved articles. 



All stock purchased either for cabinets or 

 horns is carefully selected and thoroughly 

 treated. Mahogany seems to be the favorite 

 among buyers of graphophones, although 

 nuinufacturers are said to prefer oak for 

 most purposes. 



ilJt.M'IIOfnONE nORN OF MAHOGANY 



VENEER 



The ('i)liunbia Phonograph Comj)auy, a 

 large and very successful manufacturer of 

 this class of goods, was the instigator of the 

 wood liorn. The illustrations, as well as 

 much of the matter embodied in this story, 

 were supplied by that company. 



Hardwood Record Mail "Bag 



Wants Red Cedar Fence Posts 



Rrs.sEi,i,\ ii.i.i;. Kv.. Fell. 14. — Editor Haud- 

 wooD Recokd : We would like to get in corre- 

 spondence with an.vone handling red cedar fence 

 post.s in the square round boards, etc. — 



COMTANV. 



The Eecord will be pleased to put any 

 reader in touch with this concern, upon appli- 

 cation for address at this office. — Emtok. 



Hardwood Conditions as Seen by Whiting 

 Lumber Co. 



The Eecord is indebted to Chapin L. Barr, 

 Ki'i-retary of the Whiting Lumber Company, 

 Philadelphia. Pa., for tlie following analysis 

 of hardwood and oak flooring conditions as 

 viewed by him. — Editor. 



Phii-aoelphia. Pa., Feb. 10. — Editor Hard- 

 wood Record: At the request of your Mr. Jacob 

 Holtzman, asking for our opinion on market con- 

 oitions, wc are pleased to report a very sati.s- 

 f.-ielory business on hardwood flooring. We are 

 ni.w manufacturing aljout three-quarters of a 

 niilli* ri feet jirr month, and tieeause of a decided 



increase in the demand for oak flooring we have 

 found it necessary to increase our production, 

 and hope within the next ninety days to be show- 

 ing an output of at least a million feet per 

 ninnth. 



We are oversold on hardwood flooring and 

 to- day are refusing business because of not hav- 

 ing the stock to offer, and we have for the past 

 four months been getting better prices than we 

 did for the same stock the early part of 1909, and 

 we have every reason to believe that there will 

 he further advance, particularly in the select 

 and clear oak flooring, witliin the next sixty 

 (lays. 



We are also pleased to note a mueh better con- 

 dition in the market calling for low-grade hard- 

 woods, and our surplus, which represented sev- 

 t ral million feet niuet.v days ago, has all been 

 sold, and some low-grade stock we are shipping 

 £,reen from the saw. 



We hardly think it worth while to mention 

 ujjper grades of hardwood, as this stock has been 

 in. very active demand and at exceptionally good 

 I.rices for the past several months, and we have 

 had no trouble in keeping our entire output in 

 I'Pper grades sold for shipment as fast as we 

 <inild get it in shipping condition. 



We are not looking for what the "overzealous" 

 term a "boom." but we are, and always have 

 l;een, optimistic enough to feel that we are not 

 going to have any trouble in keeping our output 

 sold from both our mills, as well as from our 

 new plant as soon as completed. 



Whiting Lumber Cosipanv, 

 C, L, Barr, Secretary, 



"Doings" of Blltmore Forest School 



The Kecord is in receipt of a letter from 

 Dr. C. A. Sehenck, director of the Biltmore 

 Forest School, who is now at Darmstadt, Ger- 

 many, with his graduating class, from which 

 the following is excerpted: 



Many thanks for your good letter of the 21st 

 of January and for yonr assistance and encour- 

 agement. If we succeed in getting an oflicial in- 

 vitation from the leading lumbermen in Cadillac, 

 the Biltmore Forest School and all the good for 

 which it stands will be placed on a permanent 

 basis. 



Incidentall.v. the friendship of the best lum- 

 bermen in the United States is worth more to a 

 school than all endowments possible ; and I shall 

 make it a point to deserve that friendship. 



We shall sail from Rotterdam on the Sth of 

 .\pril and shall arrive in New York on the 18th, 

 and hope to arrange to meet you at Chicago very 

 soon thereafter. Y'ou understand it is our plan to 

 sojourn after May 1 at the operation of the Lit- 

 tle River Lumber Company at Townsend, Tenn., 

 lor a couple of months : then two months near 

 Tomah, Wis., at the operations of the C. A. Good- 

 year Lumber Compan.v, and then, if matters come 

 around right, to spend September and October at 

 (_'adillac, Mich., in the forests of the Cummer- 

 I.dggins Company, Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., and the 

 stitched Brothers' Company. 



We are having a most interesting and valuable 

 experience in the German forests. — C. A. 



SCITENCK. 



It may be said that plans are practically 

 perfected for the program as above outlined 

 for the location of Dr. Schenek's Biltmore 

 Forest School in the various sections noted 

 (hiring the open season of 1910. The arrange- 

 ments will probably include a complete mili- 

 tary camp to be transported from point to 

 point, located in the very heart of the various 

 forests, from which vantage ground the stu- 

 dents will have the advantage of studying the 

 most approved methods of woods work, rail- 

 road operations, sawmilling, flooring manufac- 

 ture and the utilization of forest and sawmill 

 refuse. It is very likely that later in the 

 season the school will be i"enioved to the ex- 

 treme South, somewhere in the yellow pine 

 legions. Dr. Schenek's students* are afforded 

 opportunities for wide experience, and his 

 school has advantages not possessed by any 

 other forest school in the United States. 



My understanding is that Dr. Sehenck pro- 

 poses to limit his students to a total number 

 of forty, and that the list of accepted appli- 

 cants is now well nigh completed. Prompt 

 action "should be taken on the part of any- 

 one wishing to be admitted to Dr. Schenek's 

 next classes, by making immediate applica- 

 tion to him at his present address, 16 Heidel- 

 berger Strasse, Darmstadt, Germany. 



The proposed plans of Dr. Sehenck in con- 

 nection with his forest school will make lots 

 of veteran lumbermen wish they were boys 

 again to take advantage of it. — Editor. 



