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HARDWOOD RECORD 



NeWs Miscellany 



Meeting Handle Association 

 The first session of a three days' meeting oJ 

 the Hiclsory Handle Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States was opened the morning 

 of July 21 at the Planters' Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. 

 The sessions continued through Thursday, Friday 

 and Saturday. In addition to the consideration 

 of various matters of importance connected with 

 the business interests of the manufacturers of 

 hiclcory handles, the meeting was unusually en- 

 joyable to the members because of the enter- 

 tainment features. 



The opening session was called to order at 

 10 a. m. with President T. R. Clendinen in the 

 chair, and Secretary J. E. Duffield present. 

 About fifteen members attended the opening ses- 

 sion, representing a good portion of the in- 

 dustry. 



The company not only is a specialist in both 

 northern and southern lumber and wagon stock 

 but also in automobile material. 



The new Konzen, Stumpf & Schafer Lumber 

 Company cirlainly ioolis like a "live wire" ad- 

 junct to the Chicago hardwood fraternity. All 

 the members have wide experience in lumber 

 afl'airs, have a large acquaintance and already 

 stand mighty well with the buying trade. 



F. S. UnderhiU a High Flyer 

 A Philadelphia lumberman has made an aerial 

 voyage. He says the novel sensations and de- 

 lightful experiences of flying words are in- 

 adequate to describe. The higher the ascent, the 

 more delectable, and, although it was his first 

 empyreal venture, he felt no fear and no desire 

 to descend to mother earth. On the contrary, 



J. P. KUNZEN 



Notwithstanding the extremely hot weather, 

 considerable business was transacted. Quite a 

 number of important matters was taken up for 

 discussion, including the ultimate shortage of 

 hickory lumber, and the various delegates were 

 heard from quite fully upon this important ques- 

 tion. 



The adoption of a standard handle was 

 another of the topics which came in for con- 

 sideration at the hands of the delegates. 



The first day was largely occupied with minor 

 details and preliminaries, so that the body 

 actually did very little business until Friday, the 

 sessions of that day and Saturday following 

 being broken up with outdoor entertainments, 

 including a trip up the Mississippi on the 

 steamer Alton. 



New Chicago Hardwood House 



The Konzen, Stumpf & Schafer Lumber Com- 

 pany is the name of a new wholesale hardwood 

 lumber and wagon stock house recently organ- 

 ized in this city. It is made up of L. N. 

 Schafer, president, of Argos, Ind., the well- 

 known hardwood iumljer manufacturer ; H. A. 

 Stumpf of Chicago, vice-president and treasurer, 

 and .L P. Konzen of Chicago, secretary. Messrs 

 Stumpf and Konzen have recently retired from 

 the McParland & Konzen Lumber Company of 

 Chicago. 



The company has taken over by lease the fine 

 plant formerly utilized by Kelley, Maus & Co., at 

 the corner of Paulina street and Blue Island 

 avenue, and has Just completed a handsome office 

 structure on the premises. 



II. A. STUMPF 



in resisting so long the temptation to taste a 

 pleasure so ecstatic, he felt himself enormously 

 the loser. 



The nineteenth ascension of the balloon Phila- 

 delphia II, the proud possession of the Aeronau- 

 tical Recreation Society of Philadelphia (of which 

 Dr. Thomas E. Eldridge Is president), with Dr. 

 Eldridge, Frederick S. Underbill and the nephew 

 of the latter on board, it is claimed, was a 

 record-breaker. Conditions were perfect — 

 weather, air currents, etc. — and at 10 o'clock 

 on the beautiful moonlight evening of July 21 

 the balloon started from the athletic grounds of 

 the Point Breeze gas works, and in a continuous 

 flight of twelve hours and five minutes, made a 

 journey of 300 miles over six states, maintain- 

 ing an average of 1,000 feet. The center of the 

 city left behind. Willow Grove was passed over, 

 and at the height of 1,000 feet the crowd watch- 

 ing the balloon could easily be seen. At Ore- 

 land there was a short fright. The car headed 

 straight for the blast furnaces, but they were 

 crossed without a swerve and all was serene 

 again. Smoothly the car sailed on. and White 

 Horse, N. J., was passed over at 1 :03 a. m. 

 Admiration of the scenery below continued, 

 when Mr. Underbill called out to the doctor, 

 who was the manager and controller, with un- 

 disguised alarm, and the doctor admitted there 

 was reason, for dead ahead was a high black 

 wall, which ou a nearer view proved to be a 

 hill. Preparation was made to ascend higher, 

 to pass over it, and the little car shot over the 

 hill with a considerable margin. The Hudson 

 river w'as crossed at 3 :25 a. m., and Dr. Eld- 

 ridge says In his nineteen ascensions he has 



never seen a sight so beautiful. The sun was 

 rising and its beams reflected on the water made- 

 a picture worth hazarding life and limb for. 

 The Housatonic river and the state of Con- 

 necticut were then crossed, then the old Bay 

 State. Here the wind caught them and Rhode- 

 Island came into line with a swerve at Pascoag,. 

 where there is an extensive lake known as 

 Ponogansett pond. With their enlarged vision. 

 these inflated — in more sense than one — 

 aeronauts mistook it for the sea. Dr. Eldridge- 

 wished to descend and. finding a suitable spot, 

 he pulled the valve rope, letting oft some of 

 the gas. They were then 10,530 feet in the air, 

 and in fifteen minutes had dropped to earth,, 

 lauding a few feet from the edge of the Pas- 

 (oag reservoir, at a point called Pine Ridge^ 

 Camp. The anchor was thrown out and just 

 us they thought they were down for good It 

 broke. The wind caught the half-inflated bag 

 and the voyagers were drawn along the ground 

 and scraped unmercifully along a big rock. The- 



. L. N. SCHAFER 



basket turned over, pinning them underneath, 

 but the rip-cord was pulled, slitting the gas hag, 

 and they crawled ignominiously forth, not mucb 

 the worse for wear, congratulating themselves 

 that their trip had been such a prodigious suc- 

 cess, their mishaps so few, their adventures so 

 delightful. They left Pascoag at 4 in the after- 

 noon of the second day and arrived In Phila- 

 delphia at 3 the next morning. 



The trip Is regarded a record one for distance- 

 from Philadelphia and for time in the air. The 

 society is naturally proud of their achievements 

 in the way of ballooning and contemplate more 

 daring feats in the near future. Dr. Eldridge 

 is thoroughly conversant with the modus 

 operandi, and his friends are glad to accompany 

 hliu on his heavenly peregrinations. Mr. Under- 

 bill Is so enthusiastic over his experience that 

 to hear him expatiate on the delights ancJ 

 ecstacies of ballooning is but to infect his hear- 

 ers with a desire to go and do likewise. 



•Will Build Two MiUs 



Following the purchase of a thousand acres 

 of mixed hardwood land In Lowndes county, the 

 Wildermutb Bonding Company of Columbus, O., 

 will begin at once the construction of two mills 

 to develop this property. The tract Is covered 

 with a fine growth of virgin timber and is about 

 eight miles southwest of Columbus. The com- 

 pany contemplates establishing a large bending 

 plant at Columbus, a duplicate of the one It now 

 operates at that place, besides the two mills on 

 the timber land. One of these mills will be de- 

 voted to the manufacture of dimension stock and 

 the other will cut lumber. 



