For Almost Three Quarters of a Century Has Set the Standard for Quality in Hardwood

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Millard C. White. of the Bay City Lumber Co., Oakland, and Mrs. White recently attended the Morris and Essex Dog Show in New Jersey and the Long Beach Dog Show at Long Beach, Calif. At both these shows their Charnpion Crovanspring Bachelor Bait was awarded the prize for the best female. They also won prizes for the best brace at each show. The Morris and Essex show was the largest ever held in the world, with 5,@0 dogs entered and the Long Beach show was the largest in the West.

Mr. and Mrs. White raise English Bulldogs as a hobby. They have been breeding and raising pure-bred dogs for nearly N years, but have specialized in bulldogs for the past five years.

The dogs are all registered in Mrs. White's name. They were shown at Treasure Island, July l5 and 16.

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Washington, luly 22.-A 7OGton scow, measuring 100 by 36 feet, in which Z/2-inch split ring timber co.nnectors were used, may be seen on Puget Sound every day hauling sand and gravel needed in the construction of the Narrows Bridge at Tacoma, Wash.

The barge is l@/o wood construction and has a depth of ten feet. According to the Foss Tug & Barge Company, of Tacoma, builders, stiffness is a highly desirable quality in a barge. To insure rigidity five hundred Z/2-inch split ring timber connectors were used in the scarfs, longitudinal and transverse bulkheads, and in all bracing.

An incident illustrating the strength carrying capacity of timber connectors occurred when the barge was floated off the ways. It was constructed upside down and after it had been floated at low tide, a line was hooked on from a boom to right the craft. During this operation the boom failed and the barge dropped onto some logs lying in the mud. When the barge was finally tipped over and floated, it was found that no damage had occurred and that the joints were still tight. A similar experience with a previous barge, in which timb.er connectors were not used, resulted in an opening-up of the scarf joints in the planks.

The results obtained with this system of construction have been so gratifying to the Foss Company that they plan to use split rings in the construction of all barges in the future and in the repairing of existing equipment.