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HARDWOOD RECORD 



who hss filled this important position for sev- 

 eral years. 



There were frequent lively disputes over the 

 decisions of the umpire and twice he was mobbed 

 by the players and the fans, and scourged with 

 clubs and stones, but nothing availed to make 

 him change his decision when once made. At 

 the end of the sixth inning he ordered the 

 scorekeeper to make the score a tie and called 

 the game, but the scorekeeper had a will of her 

 own and refused to be bossed by any man. She 

 reported the score in accordance with her own 

 sweet will as the published record of the game 

 showed. The return of these jolly excursionists 

 was as full of enjoyable events, they declare, 

 as any period of the trip. 



Those present included : 



Mr. and Mrs. Wilson 



H. Lear. 

 Mr. and Mrs. H. W. 



Allen. 

 Miss Flora Allen. 

 Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ar- 



belo. 

 F. W. Aszmann. 

 John Barber. 

 H. H. Benners. 

 Mr. and Mrs. William 



T. Betts. 

 Misses Mary A. and 



Caroline Bruner. 

 Maurice W. Boyer. 

 George H. Buzby. 

 James G. Crowell. 

 Ml', and Mrs. Fisher 



Dalrymple. 

 Thomas Dalrymple. 

 Alice Dalrymple. 

 S. B. Vrooman, Jr. 

 George D. Drelzler. 

 Thomas B. Hoffman. 



Mr. and Mrs. George A. 



Howes. 

 Misses Beatrice, Edith 



and Janie Howes. 

 John E. Howes. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. 



Kugler. 

 Mr. and Mrs. William 



C. MacBride. 

 Russell MacBride. 

 Harold M. Martin. 

 John M. Murrell. 

 R. B. Rayner. 

 Herbert P. Robinson. 

 Wood Robinson. 

 Harry C. Saylor. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Franklin 



A. Smith, Jr. 

 Mr. and Mrs. George 



M. Spiegle. 

 Mima Spiegle. 

 George W. Stoker. 

 A. W. Trimble. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick 



S. Underbill. 



Annual of the Carriage Builders' Association 



The Carriage Builders' National Association 

 met for its thirty-eighth annual convention at 

 Armory Hall. Cincinnati, O., on September 27. 

 The opening address was made by Maurice Wood- 

 hull of Dayton, O. He praised Cincinnati as the 

 first city in America to take up the manufacture 

 of carriages on an extensive scale, thus giving 

 birth to what has expanded into one of the most 

 far-reaching, influential and successful industries 

 of the world. 



After a welcoming address by Mayor Schwab, 

 President W. H. Mclntyre called the meeting to 

 order. In the absence of Secretary Henry C. 

 McLear, who was detained by illness, his report 

 was presented by Acting Secretary H. C. Drake. 



The convention included a number of addresses 

 of importance, one of particular interest being on 

 "How Carriages Were Built in the Early Days," 

 by Charles Eckart. An interesting paper on 

 "The Rubber Tire Question" was read by F. A. 

 Hastings, and James A. Greene of Cincinnati 

 offered a most entertaining feature in the form 

 of an illustrated lecture on the Panama Canal, 

 showing numerous beautiful stereoptieon slides as 

 well as a number of motion pictures. 



The following olEcers were unanimously 

 elected to serve during the coming year : Presi- 

 dent, Charles J. Richter, New York : secretary- 

 treasurer, Henry C. McLear, New York. Mr. 

 Richter was not present at the convention, and 

 the honor came to him entirely unsought, as he 

 has not been engaged in active business for a 

 number of years. He is connected with the 

 Brewster Company of New York and was advised 

 by telegraph that he had been selected for the 

 position of the highest office in the association. 



Following the adjournment of the convention 

 the annual banquet was held in the Sinton Hotel. 

 The next place of meeting was decided on only 

 after a lively discussion, Atlantic City and 

 Rochester, N. Y., being the two rivals in the 

 field. Atlantic City finally won out, and Young's 

 Pier will be the scene of next year's meeting. 



connection. This volume is a handsome piece of 

 work, containing 640 pages 6 by 9 Inches, and 

 covers the complete line of Atkins saws, saw- 

 mill specialties, saw tools, mill supplies, power 

 transmission and filing room machinery. The 

 catalog is fresh from the press and contains, 

 therefore, what is perhaps the most complete 

 and up-to-date information on the subject ob- 

 tainable. 



The first section is devoted to Atkins mill 

 saws, such as band, circular, cross-cut, metal 

 and other saws. The balance of the book treats 

 of the following subjects : 



Pages 

 Of to 109 — Saw maker's tools. 



110 to 165 — Covel filing room machinery. 



166 to 196 — Grinding machinery and grinding 

 wheels. 



197 to 256 — Woodworking machinery and saw 

 mill equipment. 



257 to 286 — Power transmission equipment. 



2S7 to 312 — Belting and belt tools. 



313 to 3.t7 — Conveyor equipment. 



358 to 380 — Gasoline engines, governors, pumps, 

 etc. 



381 to 428 — Boiler and engine trimming. 



420 to 444 — Pipe, pipe fitting, pipe tools, etc. 



445 to 484 — Logging and lumbering tools. 



483 to 590 — General mill supplies and me- 

 chanics tools. 



.-.01 to 018— Millwright's tools, etc. 



E. C. ATKINS & CO.'S NEW CATALOG NO. 10 



From a perusal of the above comprehensive list 

 of subjects it will be seen that the catalog con- 

 tains a vast amount of valuable matter. It is a 

 book that should be in the hands of every mill- 

 man. Catalog 10 can be had for the asking, by 

 addressing E. C. Atkins cS; Co. at Indianapolis or 

 at any of their branches at Atlanta, Chicago, 

 Memphis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York 

 City. Portland, San Francisco or Seattle. In 

 writing, kindly mention Hardwood Recohd. 



Ne'w Atkins Catalog 

 E. C. Atkins & Co., the big saw concern of 

 Indianapolis, Ind., has just Issued a new cata- 

 log. No. 10, a cut of which is shown in this 



Fire Loss of $50,000 on Flooring Plant 



On September 25 fire which started in one of 

 the large dry-kilns of William Horner's maple 

 flooring plant at Reed City, Mich., destroyed the 

 entire plant with the exception of the office, a 

 few piles of lumber and a part of the storage 

 sheds. The loss will approximate $50,000, well 

 covered by insurance. The fire was noticed about 

 seven-thirty in the evening, and by midnight the 

 entire plant was in ruins. 



This factory, which was located on the Grand 

 Rapids & Indiana railroad, was one of the land- 

 marks in Reed City, having been in operation 

 there for twenty-eight years. For the last two 



years the plant had been running both day and 

 night, giving employment to about ninety men, 

 and conducting a most successful business. 



On the opposite side of the railroad track, 

 across from the plant, was piled about 250,000 

 feet of rough lumber, which was practically all 

 consumed. A retail shed stored with valuable 

 pine lumber, lath and shingles was a total loss, 

 as were also eight cars of lumber. 



Mr. Horner announces that a new plant will 

 be built on the site of the ruined structure, 

 probably of brick or other fireproof material, 

 although this matter has not yet been decided. 



The factory and dry-kiln in connection with 

 the mill were entirely wiped out, but a portion 

 of the building was saved. The fire started, it is 

 said, from detective electric light wiring. Mr. 

 Horner divides his loss as follows : building and 

 machinery, about .$32,000 ; stock in and outside 

 of mill, .$17,000. 



Evansville Lumbermen Organize Clu'b 



At a meeting of prominent lumbermen of 

 Evansville, Ind., held at the New Vendome 

 Hotel on September 27, the Evansville Lumber- 

 men's Club was organized. A luncheon was 

 served, after which the work of organization 

 was immediately taken up. Those present were 

 very enthusiastic as to the prospects of making 

 the new club a strong and helpful organization. 

 Meetings will be held twice a month, the next 

 one to take place at the New Vendome Hotel 

 on October 11. An invitation will be extended 

 to the yellow pine dealers and all other lum- 

 bermen of the city to join the organization, and 

 it is hoped to make it of great benefit to the 

 trade. 



The question of overcharges by the Illinois 

 Central Railroad was taken up and talked on 

 for some time. On October 4 a representative 

 of the Interstate Commerce Commission visited 

 the city, to take evidence at the instance of 

 lumber manufacturers of Evansville and Mem- 

 phis who claim that they have paid overcharges 

 to the Illinois Central Railroad amounting to 

 many thousands of dollars. 



The officers elected for the new club are : 

 President, O. W. McCowen ; first vice-president, 

 I'rank J. Haney : second vice-president, Fred W. 

 Reitz : secretary-treasurer, George O. Woriand. 



After the meeting Secretary Woriand stated 

 that it is hoped to have various other lines of 

 business in Evansville organize along 'similar 

 lines. For instance, if the grain men will get 

 together, the stove men and representatives of 

 other lines, and these various organizations meet 

 several times a year to discuss matters pertain- 

 ing to the business interests of the city, much 

 can be accomplished. There is a good deal of 

 opportunity for developing along this line, and 

 it is hoped to make the city of Evansville one of 

 considerable industrial importance. 



The following lumbermen were in attendance 

 at the meeting : O. W. McCowen of the firm of 

 Thompson, Thayer & McCowen ; George O. Wor- 

 iand of Thompson, Thayer & McCowen ; Frank J. 

 Haney of J. A. Reitz & Son ; Fred W. Reitz of 

 the Clemens, Reitz & Sons Company ; Claude 

 Maley and Daniel A. Wertz of the firm of 

 Maley & Wertz : Bedna Young of Young & Cut- 

 singer ; D. B. MacLaren ; Charles W. Taige of 

 the E'vansville Veneer Works ; J. C. Keller, sec- 

 retary of the Evansville Business Association ; 

 and Charles Davis of Louisville, representing the 

 C. C. Mengel Box Company of that city. 



Building Operations for September 



Official reports from some forty building 

 centers throughout the United States, as com- 

 piled by The American Contractor. Chicago, show 

 an aggregate loss for September, 1910, of 5 

 per cent, as compared with September, 1909. The 

 Icsses and gains are scattered evenly throughout 

 the country and is due to local conditions. There 

 are no indications of sagging in the general run 

 of the building trade. The increase and de- 



