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could be reached whereby contributions would 

 be made in proportion to the amount cut and 

 he left the meeting very enthusiastic in the 

 cause of the publicity campaign now well 

 launched. 



New Brand of P.ock Maple Flooring 



The Escanaba Lumber Company of Masonvillo. 

 -Mich., has built a modern flooring plant to be 

 devoted to the manufacture of high-grade rock 

 maple flooring. Tlie company has pledged itself 

 to produce the best possible quality of commer- 

 cial flooring, and has adopted the word "Supe- 

 rior" as its trade-mark and "None Better" as its 

 motto. 



The company is composed of men who have 

 had long e.xperiencc in the manufacture of lum- 

 ber products. J. K. Stack of Escanaba, the 

 president, has for several years been accumu- 

 lating timber lands in northern Michigan, and 

 now has sufiicient excellent hardwood timber to 

 stock his plant for fifty years. His son, J. Iv. 

 Stack, Jr., is vice-president of the concern. He 

 will have charge of the land and logging opera- 

 tions of the company and will be confronted 

 with the duty of keeping the mill supplied. This 

 young man is very capable of handling his end 

 of the work, though it is of such great impor- 

 tance. Henry M. Stack is secretary and treas- 

 urer and has charge of the sales. He is making 

 ;i strong effort to get the trade of retail dealers, 

 amd, as he is a most aggressive and persevering 

 young man, he will undoubtedly get it. The 

 Stacks are well and favorably known in the 

 Itimber business in Michigan, Idaho and British 

 Columbia, where they have been and are still 

 identified with extensive operations. 



The company's plant embodies all the best fea- 

 tures of modern flooring plants and also has a 

 number of special features, original ideas of 

 members of the company. Special heavy ma- 

 <hinery has been installed and every piece of 

 flooring will be end-matched, bored and graded 

 perfectly, and branded with the company's name. 

 Instead of tying the bundles of flooring with 

 lath yarn they are securely bound with eight- 

 gauge bright wire. The capacity of the factory 

 as at present equipped is 10,000,000 feet of 

 flooring annually. The company is provided with 

 excellent facilities for getting its timber to the 

 plant in the best possible shape and time. It 

 owns and operates the Lake Michigan & Superior 

 Hallway, which connects the plant with the 

 timber, and modern appliances for logging and 

 hiLuling have been put in. 



The trade in the Northwest is handled by the 

 Minneapolis agency of the Stack-Gibbs Lumber 

 Company, in charge of Charles A. Cassldy, who 

 has represented the company at Minneapolis 

 during the past two years. Mr. Cassidy is a 

 man of energy and push, who during his resi- 

 dence at Minneapolis gained a wide acquaint- 

 ance in the trade, which will be most valuable 

 in the disposition of this new rock maple 

 product. 



Lorac 



The George Henke Company, 02 Beekman 

 street, New York City, is a manufacturer of a 

 thick liquid to be applied to logs or lumber to 

 prevent checking or splitting. The manufac- 

 turer claims that the preparation prevents 

 checking, splitting and rotting and is a positive 

 panacea. The material has been favorably 

 known for a number of years in Europe, where 

 it is extensively used. During the last few 

 years it has been introduced into the United 

 States, and a good many hardwood manufac- 

 turers, especially in the South, are very en- 

 thusiastic over its efliciency for the purposes 

 named. 



The George Henke Company claims (which 

 claims are supported by users) that Lorac keeps 

 logs from checking and splitting, thereby in- 

 creasing the percentage of better grades, and 

 also prevents the souring, staining or rotting of 

 lumber, and likewise prevents lumber from check- 



ing or splitting. It is equally efficient for out- 

 door work or lumber handled through the dry- 

 kiln. 



The company named is willing to supply the 

 material with a guarantee without a string — 

 i. e., that if the buyer is not satisfied with results 

 the charge will be canceled. 



It would look as though Lorac shovild prove a 

 distinct advance in lumber economies. 



The origin of the fire is unknown. It has not 

 yet been decided whether the plant will be rebuilt 

 or not, but it probably will, as the concern car- 

 ried heavy insurance. 



D. W, Baird Lumber Company of Memphis 

 Among the new lumber institutions at Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., is the D. W. Baird Lumber Com- 

 pany, recently organized by D. W. Baird. Mr. 

 Baird has been identified with the hardwood 

 trade of Memphis and vicinity lor some time. 

 He was sales manager for Banks & Co. at their 

 Hernando, Miss., plant for eighteen months, and 

 prior to that time was connected with the Dudley 

 Lumber Company of Grand Kapids, Mich., for 

 several years, having charge of the sales and 

 purchases of this concern for its southern hard- 

 woods at the Logansport yard for two years, 

 and afterwards having charge of the Memphis 

 plant when the business was moved to that city. 

 .Mr. Balrd's institution not only wholesales 

 hardwoods, but arts :is agent for the purchase 



D. W. BAIltD. PRESIDENT D. W. BAIRD 

 LUMBER CO., MEMPHIS, TENN. 



and sale of stock for leading manufacturers and 

 buyers. The concern's offerings of lumber at this 

 lime are very comprehensive and of the best 

 quality. 



Mr. Baird's general knowledge of the .hard- 

 wood business is unsurpassed, and his new ven- 

 ture should prove eminently successful. The 

 general offices of the D. W. Baird Lumber Com- 

 pany are in the Tennessee Trust building, 

 Memphis. 



Heavy Fire loss at Chattanooga 

 Fire swept the entire factory of the H. L. 

 Judd Curtain Pole Manufacturing Company at 

 East Chattanooga, Tenn., on October 4, entailing 

 a loss of upwards of $200,000. The damage is 

 fully covered by insurance. The group of five 

 wooden buildings was burned to the ground and 

 the brick office building, 100 feet away, is also 

 in ruins. Had not the wind been favorable, the 

 company's lumber yards, valued at $75,000, 

 would in all probability have been destroyed. 



The plant was established at Chattanooga 

 more than twenty years ago on a comparatively 

 small scale, but by dint of perseverance and the 

 high standard of the product maintained by Its 

 founder. H. L. Judd. was one of the most impor- 

 tant of its kind in the country. 



Autumnal Outing Philadelphia Lumbermen 

 The annual autumnal excursion of the Lumber- 

 men'^ E.xchangc. which is always looked forward 

 to with delight, came off as arranged on Sep- 

 tember 20, 21 and 22, On Tuesday morning 

 September 20 a merry party of lumbermen and 

 llieir friends boiirded a special car at the Read- 

 ing Terminal for the long anticipated trip to 

 (Jlen Summit Springs. On arriving at Mauch 

 Chunk an excellent luncheon, served by the 

 highly approved official caterer to the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange, Mr. Wiener, was partaken of, 

 after which a special trolley conveyed the party 

 to Switch Back station, where another special car 

 was provided tor the ride from Mount Pisgah 

 to Mount Jefferson, with its far-famed mountain 

 scenery. The party remained about an hour at 

 Summit llill and visited the sunken coal mine 

 there. Eour of the party, led by a nimble young 

 miner, clambered out on a sharp promontory for 

 a view of the men working in the coal. It was 

 easy to get out, but a much more difficult feat 

 to get back again. Agile Abe Trimble followed 

 the minor and made a success of it; G. Wash. 

 Stoker also made a creditable return, but the 

 two other members of the party, Fisher Dal- 

 lymple and Frederick S. Cnderhill, apparently 

 somewhat terrified at the steep slope, crept 

 along on their bands and feet at several points 

 lo make sure of a safe crossing. In reply to a 

 quiz of Tom Hoffman, who was too wise to 

 undertake an adventure of this kind, one of the 

 ridiculed twain created a little amusement by 

 stating that he might be a daring aeronaut, but 

 he was no antelope. 



After absorbing all the interesting and wond- 

 erful sights, so far offered on the journey, the 

 train was rehoarded and they moved forward 

 until they reached Glen Summit Springs, this 

 .\ ear's chosen gala ground. After removing the 

 dust of travel they gathered in the dining room 

 cf the hotel, quite ready for the regalement of 

 the inner man. The regular boarders were 

 somew^hat surprised to hear, soon after the as- 

 sembling at a large table spread for their benefit, 

 a burst of enthusiastic music from the celebrated 

 kindling wood quintette, who enlivened the meal 

 with their glees and choruses, in which the 

 entire party joined with great heartiness, par- 

 ticularly in the significant anthem of the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange, "We Are Selling Kindling 

 Wood to Get Along." On two evenings concerts 

 were given in the ballroom, at which the kindling 

 wood quintette did themselves great honor, as 

 they did not confine themselves to comic music, 

 but on one occasion, as a sample of their effi- 

 ciency, rendered with great success the sextette 

 from Lucia, which was received with enthusiastic 

 applause. On Wednesday evening solos were 

 rendered by the barytone, Harry C. Saylor, and 

 first tenor, H. W. Martin. A song was de- 

 manded from George B. Dreizler, first bass, 

 who, in response, sang "Listen to the Mocking 

 Bird," his rendition of which was enjoyably 

 and indescribably unique. On being encored be 

 repeated the same in a higher key to the delecta- 

 tion of his audience. George A. Howes, the 

 second bass, and the "boss" of the excursion, 

 for reason not of modesty or lack of talent or 

 anything else, refused to sing a solo. After the 

 musical program the hotel musicians appeared 

 and the evening wound up with a dance, which 

 left nothing to be desired. 



The big feature of the excursion was the 

 annual baseball game between the "Long Leaf 

 Timbers" and the "Sap Pine Sizes." The battery 

 tor the former were Tom Dalrymple and Maurice 

 Boyer, for the latter Wood Robinson and George 

 A. Howes. The Incomparable arbiter of athletic 

 events, Tom Hoffman, acted as umpire. The 

 official score keeper was Miss Alice Dalrymple, 



