350 



Forestry Quarterly 



3-inch tongue and grooved stuff painted with two coats of white 

 lead and oil. Openings were arranged for draft and a fire was 

 built inside. The progress of destruction is shown in the records 

 following : 



Time in Temperature 3-inch l-inch Wood Wall with 



Minutes Degrees F Wood Wall Galvanized Iron 



7 800 Paint started to burn 



10 1300 Dense smoke through 



cracks in shiplap 

 19 2050 Shiplap begins to flame 



outside 



25 2125 Outside still cold 



30 2225 Four top boards burned 



through 



40 2175 Red coals appear near 



bottom 

 43 .... Fire extinguished with water 



O. L. S. 



The Lumber World Review, December, 1915. 



Shoemakers' 

 Wood 

 Use 



The use of wood for shoe-making seems 

 to be increasing, although no records are 

 available to show at just what rate. The 

 wooden heel is at present gaining ground 

 on account of the high-heeled style in 

 women's shoes. More than a dozen factories in Massachusetts 

 manufacture them, and many turn out 500 dozen pairs per day. 

 One firm has made wooden shoe heels continuously for 20 years. 

 Sugar maple. Paper birch and beech are used. Shoe shanks that 

 fit under the arch of the foot are made from wood for many 

 shoes. Veneer of Paper birch and Sugar maple is used almost 

 exclusively. Shoe pegs and "peg ribbons" are made from Paper 

 birch. The "ribbons" are long strips as wide as the peg is long, 

 peeled from the log. They are fed into a machine which splits 

 off a peg and drives it as the shoe passes along through its pro- 

 cess of manufacture. Wooden soles are used around furnaces 

 and where workers are on hot floors. Cottonwood, basswood, 

 willow, maple, birch and beech are all used. There are small 

 factories in the United States that make one-piece, all-wood shoes. 

 Cottonwood is preferred, but basswood, maple and birch are 

 also used. O. L. S. 



Hardwood Record, December, 1915. 



