The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-04
FURNITURE MEN SEE BIRMINGHAM STOVE
 AND RANGE PLANT
Are Much Impressed With Big Plant-Decide to Send Baskets to the Poor
 This Year

The members of the Birmingham Retail Furniture Dealers association yesterday afternoon were the guests of the Birming- ham Stove and Range company at lunch at the Morris hotel, immediately after which the furniture men were carried in automobiles to the plant of the company at North Birmingham for an inspection. The invitation to the furniture men was extended by B. Harry Hartsfield, vice president and general manager of the stove company. This concern is one ol the many so-calfed small industries of Birmingham and manufactures stoves
 small heaters and cast iron kettles. These articles find ready sale throughout the south. and MT. Hartsefiled told the fur
 niture men that many northern jobbers bought his kettles and shipped them bacl, to the Birmingham consumers. At the lunch at the Morris no speak ing was indulged in With the exception of short talk by J. H. Edmundson general manager of the Manufacturers | Permanent exhibit. MT. Edmundson tolc the furniture men of the merit of tn, | article manufactured by the Birming
 
 gested that they could do themselves anc Birmingham good by pushing this Bir- minghan-made stove
 The furniture men found much to in terest them at the plant of the company which covered considerably more terri | tory than many of them imagined. The visitors first were escorted through the ] molding rooms. where the casts for the making of stoves are made. They then | were taken through the storerooms of l the company, and into the casting room 1 which is of unusual length, and in which | floors were to be counted as far as the l eye could reach. Each floor was useo l for casting a particular part of stove
 and the workmen on that floor knew l nothing about the manufacture of the other parts of their product
 | Passing on through the casting room l the visitors were carried to the finishing room, and saw many skilled workmer placing in huge steel bins the severa parts that go into the making of a stove l These bins, vats, then are filled with ] small pieces of metal leather. and some | times bits of wood and gravel are placed | in them. They then are set to revolving and burned sand which clings to the cast | is thus cut away. After this process is 1 completed, the cast is turned over to an other workman, who uses an emory vince and removes every particle of sand The 1 cast is then painted and sent to the assembling room to be put with many other pieces, and finally the completed stove is sent to the warehouse for ship ment
 1 The stock of the company in the ware house is very small, which fact MT I Hartsfield explained by telling the dealers | that he had found it hard to supply the demand, and, therefore. the company had been unable to accumulate a stock o1 goods
 The furniture men expressed themselves | in unmistakable terms in regard to the hospitality of the company which they l so much enjoyed, and many of them in | sisted on giving orders for stoves. heat | CTS, cast iron kettles or grates. All o1 l them expressed the determination oi pushing the Birrningham-made product over that of any other city. and told MT. Hartsfeld he could have their or ders when they needed anything in his l line.
 l In a short business session before go 1 ing to the plant, the furniture men de. l cided that they would distribute baskets 1 of provisions to the poor Of Birming- | ham. as they did last year. President c w. Green appointed a committee or three to raise the funds for this work as fol. l lows. will O'Barr, chairman; F. O. Har- vey and J. M. Wallace.
 The Age-Herald Advertisers convention came in for large share of discussion l on the way to the plant of the Birming- ham Stove and Range company yester- day and it is considered likely that the l furniture men of Birmlngham VIII de- | eide on a candidate for sne player-p piano which The Age-Herald will give. and will sacure for him or her all the votes they 1