HAKDWOOD RECORD 



'Builders of Lumber History. 



NUMBEE LXXI. 



Ernest Berry Nonnan. 

 {See Portrait Supplement.) 



One of the distinctly ' ' live wires ' ' in the 

 hardwood manufacturing and distributing 

 trade of the country is Ernest Berry Norman, 

 president and treasurer of E. B. Norman & 

 Company, Louisville, Ky., whose portrait 

 forms the supplement of this issue of IIakd- 

 WOOD Record. 



Mr. Norman is not only a well-known figure 

 in the hardwood trade of Louisville, but he 

 and his house are well known throughout the 

 entire Middle West. He was born in Nor- 

 mandy, Shelby county, Ky., on July 22, 1875. 

 He received his education in the ward and 

 high schools of Louisville and after finishing 

 at these schools attended the University of 

 the South at Suwanee, Tenn. After leaving 

 college he entered his father's lumber office 

 at Louisville, where he remained for three 

 years, receiving the incalculable benefit from 

 the thorough training with that dean of the 

 Louisville lumber trade, A. E. Norman. 



It had always been Mr. Norman 's ambition 

 to become a lumber manufacturer and he left 

 the employment of his father to go into the 

 hardwood sawmill business. He engaged with 

 a company operating a sawmill at Louisville 

 and acquired an interest in the business from 

 time to time, and soon became vice-president 

 and general manager of the institution. He 

 eventually obtained control of the plant be- 

 longing to this business and organized his 

 present corporation of E. B. Norman & Com- 

 pany, Inc., and engaged specially in the pro- 

 duction of white oak and yellow poplar. He 

 completely rebuilt the sawmill acquired, so 

 that it has a capacity of about 30,000 feet 

 daily, which is often increased to twice that 

 amount by both night and day operations. 

 To the sawmill he added a plauing mill and 

 bos shook factory with extensive yards in the 

 vicinity of Shelby and Fulton streets. 



The members of Mr. Norman's present 

 company are himself, president; E. Carnahan, 

 of eastern Kentucky, vice-president, and A. E. 

 Lanning, superintendent. Mr. Norman has 

 the general financial and sales end of the 

 business, Mr. Carnahan the stumpage and 

 logging end and ilr. Lanning immediate 

 charge of the operations of the plant. 



The output of the company 's sawmill is 

 about 15,000,000 feet annually and about 

 5,000,000 feet are consumed in the box fac- 

 tory and planing mill. The source of supply 

 of this important plant is the upper Big 

 Sandy and Kentucky rivers, the logs being 

 floated to the Louisville mill by means of 

 these streams and the Ohio river in numerous 

 log floats during the season. A large portion 

 of the timber reaches the sawmill in long 

 lengths, which enables Mr. Norman and his 

 associates to supply heavy and long timbers 

 for ship building, construction and heavy en- 

 gineering jobs. They also produce a great 

 deal of high-grade oak and poplar lumber. 



stock 



The company usually cai 

 one-half its annual output. 



Mr. Norman was married in 1896 and has 

 two sons, seven and ten years of age. He 

 had the serious misfortune of losing his wife 

 by death in 1902. He is a member of the 

 Broadway Baptist Church, the Pendennis 

 Club, the Tavern Club and Country Club. In 

 politics Mr. Norman is a republican. He is 

 a prominent member of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association. Personally, he is 

 one of the most charming men, alert, active 



and forceful. He is an enthusiastic automo- 

 biUst and combines pleasure with business in 

 the expert use of a touring car. His social 

 instincts 31*6 very marked and he is a uni- 

 versal favorite with business men of all 

 classes of Louisville. His host of friends all 

 know him as ' ' Berry. ' ' 



Mr. Norman 's business affairs are con- 

 ducted on a high plane and his achievements 

 in the hardwood trade, while already consid- 

 erable, only augur for his future success and 

 a I'.evelopment in excess of even his present 

 high standing in the trade. 



Hardwood Record Mail Bag. 



llu tbis department it is i.i-i 1 i- ; |.i\ 



to such inquiries from HAEDWi"ri. i; , i 



ITS as will lie of enough gen. i i i- 



wan-ant puljlication. Every pan. ii. |..|. r 



is invited to use this departiuc-uL in.h. aud 

 an attempt will be made to answer iiueii'fs pti- 

 taining to all matters of Interest to the hard- 

 wood trade in a succinct and intelligent man- 

 ner.] 



Wants Apple Wood. 

 Cincinnati, O., August 24. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record ; Can you give us the names of any 

 sources of supply of apple wood boards? We 

 have an inquiry for some of this stock but do 

 not know of anyone who furnishes it. 



& Co. 



The correspondent has been given one or 

 two addresses, but anyone else who has some 

 of this stock to dispose of will be put in 

 ation with him on request. — Editor. 



Wants Gum Flooring. 



The Eecord is in receipt of the following 

 letter from a well-known lumber house and 

 has supplied the inquirers with the names ol 

 several manufacturers of gum flooring. 

 Should other readers of the Record desire 

 the address of this concern they can have 

 it on application. — Editor. 



Greensboro, N. C. Aug. 29, 1908.— Editor 

 Hardwood Record, Chicago : We would appre- 

 ciate it if you could put us in touch with some 

 good concerns who manufacture gum flooring. 

 We want to buy lU"x4" square edge, ends 

 matched, all redwood. One face to be clear of 

 all defects and to be thoroughly dry. We would 

 want a sample car and if satisfactory could use 

 650,000 feet in the next twelve months. This is 

 for floors that are very damp and we could not 

 accept any sap or other defects in the lumber. 

 We would want same delivered on a Boston rate 

 of freight. We have no connections that can 

 get this out and if you can refer us to any good 

 reliable concern that could manufacture it we 

 will greatly appreciate it. . 



Trouble of the Sawmill Man. 



The Record is in receipt of a note from 

 a well-known Kentucky hardwood manufac- 

 turing house which operates several sawmills 

 throughout the state, in which the writer 

 says: "Talking about troubles of the saw- 

 mUl man, what do you think of the attached! 

 This is a sample of labor conditions in Ken- 

 tucky." 



Enclosed with the letter were daily report 

 sheets of one of his sawmills which read as 

 follows: 



August 17 — (.'ould not get hands — gumming 

 .Viigust IS — Could not get lianils. Fair at Co- 

 August 19 — Gone to fair — can't get hands. 

 August 20 — Gone to fair — everybody — myself 



too — one day. 



-Vugust 21 — Gone to fair. 



.\iigust 22 — Can't saw — everybody trying to 



s.iber up — we will get to work the 24th all O. K. 



Seek Source of Iiumber Supply. 

 New York. Sept. 5. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record. — The I'an-American Commercial Com- 

 pany, S. A. Xo. 1 Esclavo street, City of Mex- 

 ico. Mexico, arc desirous of reaching direct a 

 reliable firm exporting flooring and siding lum- 

 ber with a view of placing some orrlers. — L. M. 



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