HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The concern expects that the furniture busi- 

 ness will pick up considerably following the 

 Grand Eapids sales, aud of course activity in 

 the furniture business means busy times for 

 the veneer trade. 



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The Big Six Chair Company of Evansville, 

 Ind., is a new concern that will erect a fac- 

 tory for the manufacture of a high-grade 

 line of chaii-s. The plant will cost $30,000, 

 and will be titted up with modern equipment 

 in all departments. The company is com- 

 posed of Benj. Bosse and associates in the 

 Big Six Furniture Company, and will be af- 

 iiliated with that concern. 



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Charles B. Peterson, vice-president of the 

 Hempstead Hardwood Company of Hope, 

 Ark., is plauuing the establishment of a 

 veneer plant. 



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A. .J. Anderson of Philadelphia and others 

 are the incorporators of the A. J. Anderson 

 Patent Extension Table Company, of Cam- 

 <len, X. J. The concern has a capital stock 

 of $10,000. 



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I'ptegrove & Beckwith, the principals of 

 which are well and favorablv known to the 



hardwood trade of the country, have incor- 

 porated to manufacture veneers at New York 

 City. The concern is capitalized at $10,000. 

 L. R. Kehrl is also interested. 



John Corbea is president, A. H. Misse, vice- 

 president and William Corbea secretary-treas- 

 urer of the new Southern Furniture Company 

 of New Orleans. The company has a capital 

 stock of $50,000. 



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The Jamestown Panel & Veneer Company 

 of Jamestown, N. Y., which was reorganized 

 about the first of the year in an effort to 

 extricate itself from the financial difficulties 

 in which it has long been involved, has not 

 been able to get out of the trouble. In order 

 to avoid a bankruptcy suit, which, under the 

 circumstances it was felt would deprive cred- 

 itors of even a small amount of their indebt- 

 edness, a majority of the creditors have agreed 

 to accept 33 1-3 per cent of their claims. 

 This compromise will be put through pro- 

 vided all the creditors agree to these terms. 

 The company 's affairs are in pretty bad 

 shape; its total assets amount to $45,000 

 and its liabilities to $62,462.35. The com- 

 pany operated a plant at Falconer, N. Y., 

 besides the one at Jamestown. 



Some Phases of Handle Production 



REPAIR WORK 

 By H. B. ALEXANDER 



There are many reasons why every wood- 

 working factory of any size should be pro- 

 vided with at least a small equipment for 

 doing its repairing. Of course, the large 

 lumber manufacturing concerns are always 

 well equipped in this direction, and have 

 €xpert men to handle the work, realizing the 

 economy in money and time that may be 

 effected by this means, and it would seem 

 that handle men might profit by their expe- 

 rience. Handle operators, having a machine 

 shop handy, will claim that they can get 

 their work done cheap and without serious 

 inconvenience, and so do not care to go to 

 the expense of installing a repair depart- 

 ment of their own. However, if these men 

 would take the trouble to keep ti-ack of the 

 time an average repair job is away from 

 their shops, from the moment it leaves the 

 factory until it is back again and in place 

 ready for work, they would be surprised at 

 the time consumed, especially when they re- 

 member that this sort of thing occurs very 

 frequently. It is not that the machine shop 

 charges are unreasonable, although at that 

 they are about twice what the cost would 

 .be if the work were done in a shop con- 

 nected with the handle factory; but that 

 added to (he time when a machine must be 

 idle waiting for the repairs, or perhaps the 

 whole shop waits, is needless expense. 



When a factory has its own repair equip- 

 ment the matter is infinitely more simple, 

 as well as much cheaper. A good man at 



this sort of work can do nine-tenths of the 

 repairing about the average handle plant, 

 thus saving half the time during which 

 operations must cease while waiting for the 

 work, and cutting down the cost of repairs 

 about one-third. 



It is not necessary to have all the various 

 kinds of iron-working tools, but from expe- 

 rience I have found that the following are 

 needed and can be used to advantage almost 

 every day: A good drill press, preferably 

 the regular style, though even a common 

 blacksmith's drill will answer if power 

 driven; a small engine turning lathe to true 

 up shafts, turn out loose pulleys and do 

 other sm.all jobs of turning that are often 

 recessary; a small portable forge with a 

 good anvil and vise; a full set of drills, taps 

 and dies; a good breast drill with chain 

 feed, to drill out broken tap screws in the 

 bed plates of the machines, which often 

 break oif short and cannot be gotten out in 

 any other way. This outfit would not be 

 expensive, and will more than pay for itself 

 in less than a year's time, and, of course, 

 as occasion demands, the outfit may be 

 made more valuable by the addition of new 

 apparatus. One shop making a great many 

 different kinds of variety turning has a 

 rjnall shaper, and makes all its own knives 

 for this work. 



A good plan is to have all these tools in 

 a well-lighted room apart from the rest of 

 the faclovy, using it as the general repair 



shop of the plant where all the saw filing, 

 belt fixing and other little jobs can be done 

 quickly and well, as everything needed is 

 handy. Every shop requires an emery stand, 

 and this is the place for it. It is also well 

 to keep on hand as many duplicate parts for 

 the machines as possible, as it saves time 

 and money. For instance, take the item of 

 tap screws. At our factory we use two 

 sizes, and we buy them bv' the hundred and 

 always have them ready when needed. We 

 have a set of sheet-iron boxes — twelve of 

 them, made into a case. These are labeled 

 and one used for each size of tap screw, one 

 for lag screws, one for set screws, one for 

 wood screws, one for washers, one for bolts 

 and nuts, and others for nails of different 

 sizes. This we find is a great time saver, 

 as when any of these things are wanted they 

 are usually wanted in a hurry, and it is 

 very convenient to be able to go to the box 

 and get just the thing, that is needed. We 

 make it a rule that every time these boxes 

 are used they must be returned to their 

 proper place, and the same rule holds with 

 all the shop tools, which we try to keep 

 always in the same place so they can be 

 found readily when wanted. This saves a 

 great deal of time, as everyone knows that 

 there is nothing that consumes more time 

 than hunting for tools that are never in 

 the right place. The workmen, of course, 

 are not to be blamed for such a condition, 

 but the owner of the plant, as he should see 

 to it that there are enough tools to go round 

 and that there is a place for them to be 

 kept. 



At every lathe there should be a tool box, 

 containing a good hammer, wrenches of sev- 

 eral sizes, screwdriver, small saw and a 

 good oil can. The machine man should be 

 charged up with these tools at cost and 

 required to report all losses. If losses or 

 breakages are the result of his carelessness, 

 the tools should be replaced and the cost 

 deducted from his pay. This will make the 

 men more careful and will soon stop a large 

 percentage of the losses. There is no use 

 bothering with monkey-wrenches, as they 

 are worthless for use on machines. A solid 

 S or socket wrench for each size head will 

 last longer and give better service. 

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There has b'een a lot of talk lately about 

 dimension stock, but so far it has little good 

 effect on the demand for hard maple stuff. 

 Users of this material still expect to get 

 clear dimension for the price of mill culls 

 and have it delivered besides. This is too 

 much — it is worth more than that to work 

 it up, and there is no one in business for the 

 mere lovo of it these days. 



Who Has It To Offer? 

 The Record received several inquiries recently 

 asking for a source of supply for l;iln-dried, 

 "sound, wormy chestnut for core stock. Anyone 

 interested in these inquiries can have the ad- 

 dresses l)y writing this office. 



