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Gardner uses probably more lumber than any other town in 

 the State outside of Boston in manufacturing industries, and 

 the chief products are chairs and baby carriages. Naturally the 

 bulk of the lumber used are hardwoods, and the leading species 

 are birch, oak, chestnut, maple and beech. Considerable 

 quantities of cheap pine and spruce are used for crating pur- 

 poses. 



Only about 20 per cent, of the lumber used in the industry is 

 cut in this State, although the bulk of it comes within the 

 limits of New England. Inasmuch as the lumber is cut up into 

 small pieces, the chair manufacturers can utilize a rather low 

 grade of hardwood lumber, Classes 1, 2 and 3 common. The 

 largest concern in Gardner is the Heywood Bros. & Wakefield 

 Company. This concern has mills also at Wakefield, Mass., 

 and Chicago, 111. When running to capacity it employs 1,700 

 hands and consumes 20,000,000 feet per year. The other 

 chair-making concerns are much smaller and use from 2,000,000 

 to 5,000,000 feet per year. The following is a list of these 

 manufacturers of chairs : 



S. Bent & Brothers. 



Conant, Ball & Co. 



P. Derby & Co. 



John A. Dunn Company. 



Greenwood Associates. 



Brown Brothers Company. 



Pineo Manufacturing Company. 



Kelly Brothers. 

 Howe Spalding. 

 Nichols & Stone. 

 L. B. Ramsdell. 

 S. K. Pierce & Son. 

 A. & H. Knowlton. 



In addition to the above manufacturers of chairs, the Central 

 Oil Stove Company run a small sawmill at their plant at which 

 they cut up cheap pine and spruce for crating shocks. L. A. 

 Wright has a stationary mill in which they do custom sawing 

 and planing, handling pine largely. Timothy E. Sheary manu- 

 factures boxes and carries on a general lumber business. E. 

 Osgood & Sons and L. H. Kendall are the chief dealers in 

 cord wood. 



