Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Worth Fortune
Used Here for Furniture
Colonial Pieces Reproduced and New England
Is Secured for Good Models.

When you think Of furniture you
| think of Grand Rapids, Mich u"h
YOU
OF course you do just as when you
| think OF cotton goods YOU think OF
! Fail River Mass
But isn't there "a chance-just
bare ChanCc-that you are being
foulcd2 That massive. highly polished,
solid mahogany sidebOard-can you
find the makers name anywhere or
IItg Probably YOU can not, and II not,
how do YOU know IL came from the
Michigan city just a likely az not
the piece was built right here In At
Ianta.
Atlanta has several really large fur
uiture concerns one Of them, the
Southern Furniture Company out
Marietta street. devotes its efforts al
most exclusively to high grade dining
room and bedroom sets About 250
men are employed the year around,
turning out dining room tables writ
ing desks. china closets. sideboards,
beds, dresNers, chinoniers, dressers
and washstands
Follow Colonial Models.
For the most part these are faithful
copies of old colonial pieces, and solid
mahogany and solid oak are the
woods most In iaNur
The day OF veneers and Of fancy
carvings is gone, It seems Dignity OF
line. sober finish with the richness all
IN the material-thls - the policy to-
day.
Stacked in the factory yards are
mahogany and oak in the rough,
worth in the aggregate. several hun
bred thousand dollars. Otto Schwab,
the vice president, points out a very
ordinary looking stack about the col
or or cigar box There's 100000
worth Of Mexican mahogany he re-
marks 1T is worth from $3.50 10 $500
per 1000 feet Roughly / should say
that mahogany Is worth three times
as much as oak"
When the lumber arrives in At
lanta Il must remain In the stacks
year, TO insure perfect seasoning.
Even after that, IT goes to the dry
kilns
From the dry kilns It goes to n man
who saws It into proper lengths.
Waste Manufacturers Bane.
Here Is the man who can break
any furniture factory" said Mr.
SChwab He has In his mind all the
different lengths useful I'm the plant
and IL Is his business to cut every
plank TO the best advantage. If he
does not there IS terrible waste, and
waste iS the baue of every manufac-
turer's existence"
Sized and sorted as IT comes from
the kiln the lumber Is ripped" into
proper widths. Then II is loaded on
trucks and starts It's path through the
wood working machines Everything
is In order. The sawdust and shaw
ings are sucked up by great fans and
carried straight back 10 the furnace
| fires. Loose blocks are not allowed tC
mess up the floors The lumber moves
| from machine TO machine on trucks
| II never has to be rehandlef Pieces
| are stacked In compartments as care
| fully ms a good business house files is
| letters, so that a workman need no
waste time In searching for any par,
| ticular thing he wants
Sandpaper on Belts.
Every appliance is up 90 the minute
| There are, for instance. sanding ma.
| chimes" where sandpaper beltini
whizzes necessarily In one machine
this sandpaper belt is so arranged al
| to ssndpaper the entire top Of
| dresser or sideboard or table at on,
operation. a sNllful workman In
| CreaEiug or decreasing the pressure a
! the exact points desired
| Another sandpaper belt Kisses owe
a flexible pillow and by resting odd
shaped bits on thia pillow, curved IA
! bile legs and the like are made smootl
| and ready for the vanishing proc
esaaS
Four and five coats Of vsrnish ar
| necessary before the final coat f.
applied. Each coat must be Above,
20 dry, then be sandpapered befor
the next is applied This takes sew
| oral yVpplyz When all this Is dome
each piece stands from three to fou