The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-03

SaWdust Wholesaler Who
Handles Refuse Of Mills.


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ness find here a sufficient market 10
make their separate existence pos
sible
There is the sawdust man, Tor in
sta1&&, who IN New York Is a very in
portant business man. The hoiesale
sawdust dealer aQyertises all kinds
Of sawdust and requests ~lut you will
telephone your needs so that there
may be an early delivery.
1t used 10 be that anyone who want
ed sawdust went to the sawmill and
asked for as much as he wanted. There
was only one kind of saWdust in the
good old days and that was an unim-
portant product which anybody could
! have for the asking. Now the saw
! dust wholesaler will tell you that saw
/ dust is a very valuable product and
/ that the sawdust business is offering
| greater opportunities every day.
There are about sixty kinds OF saw
! dust On the market, so says the saw
+ dust expert, and all of them have their
/ ctafod in tho aim nj trade
! Mahogany sawdust is just as aristo-
cratic and elegant a product as ma
hogany furniture. 1t is useful for
smoking-not as tobacco. Mahogany
sawdust is employed because of the
| good, clear kind of work that it does
in smoking hams, fish, etc.
All the way from the preparation of
food to the polishing of precious met
ais, ranges the usefulness of sawdust
| The hardwood dusts are used for pol
ishing in some jewelers. shops and
cheaper sawdusts are used for polish
/ ing less valuable metal work. In pack
ing and making cushions, for the COW
ering of floors and in the fur business
sawdust is useful.
There are several firms in New York
| who have no other care in this world
than to discover the dark secrets of
why chimneys smoke. They don't
bother to attend to the big buildings.
either. They are almost entirely de-
voted to solving the secrets of the do
nestle hearth. Business is plentiful,
/ too, for nowadays everybody who
! builds new house in the country or
-.
least one open fire in it, and. strange
to say, there are more new chimneys
that smoke than there are new chin
neys that don't smoke. So there you
are with an excellent opportunity for
! the smoking chimney dOcgor-and all
directly in the New York zone. In
less closely populated regions the new
( householder with smoking chimney
is obliged to consult an architect. a
mason or an Oldest inhabitant-usual-
~ with results much more doubtful
than when the chimney specialist is
called in
In line with the chimney expert is
the man who devotes his life 10 defeC-
tive hot water pipes. He calls him
sell q domestic engineer. but hastily
asserts. on being Interviewed, that h
isn't intending any Interference with
the domestic relations court and that
his domestic engineering ceases when
the hot water pipes are in perfect Or
der and there are no general heating
repairs TO be made in the fiat. He is
a specialist in these two kinds of work
and he is on tap for emergency serv-
i've all the time
Useful in the world of business as
well as that of the home is the firm
which takes care of floors.
Making over store fronts is an in
dustry which has found so many pat
rons in New York that number OF
firms have found it profitable to set
aside all other forms of building and
devote themselves wholly to helping
New York merchants improve the ap
pearance of their establishments by
putting a new face on the matter. AL
classes of merchants, from the small
dealer in the suburb to the great dry
goods firms which do millions of dol
lars worth of business in a year, in
. dulge in the luxury of a new kind OF
front to their business homes every
once in SO often. The new store front
!: builder is also an architect and his art
demands all the taste, discretion and
: sense of appropriateness which are
required for the erection of an entire
: new building, with perhaps greater
degree OF ingenuity. In line with the
: new store front enterprises there are
certain firms Of architects which have
made a reputation for their ability In
the making over of house fronts in
: city houses. SO that, while the remod
eled residences fit perfectly into thei,
: place in the city block, they at the
same time are greatly improved In ap
pearance and are given an originality
of aspect which enables the occupants
of the mansion and the friends Of the
family to recognize a residence with