May 2.-., 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Golf Tournament Date 



The fourteenth annual tournament of the Lumber Trade Golf Associa- 

 tion will be held at the Shawnee Country Club, Shawnee or Delaware, Pa., 

 on June 2, 3 and 4. Headquarters will be at Buckwood Inn. 



Big Increase in Lumber Orders 



The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association has announced that 

 statistics of the manufactures for last week show a large increase in 

 orders received, and this is true especially in the great southern 

 lumber region and all along the west coast. For a month now the larger 

 Pacific coast manufacturers have reported heavy orders and last week 

 their orders ran far above normal. The southern pine manufacturers 

 show a big jump in orders, and the northern pine and North Carolina pine 

 regions indicate slight advances in orders, the former cutting more than 

 usual. 



For many months the general lumber movement has been below normal 

 and retailers have been allow'ing their stocks to become low. The present 

 increases show that retailers are buying heavily, and it goes without say- 

 ing that they would not do this if they were not receiving many orders 

 in realization of a big building boom. 



Through Bills Assured Exporters 



The resumption of through ocean bills of lading is now believed to be 

 only a matter of a very short time, Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the 

 National Lumber Exporters' Association, having received assurances to 

 this effect at a conference which he held last Wednesday at Washington 

 with C. E. Spens, of the National Railroad Administration. Mr. Dickson 

 went over to Washington to see about this and other matters, and feels 

 also that he made headway with regard to securing an extension of free 

 time on export shipments from ten to fifteen days. The Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission having reduced the time, it w'ill be up to that body 

 to make the extension, but Mr. Spens thinks that such action will be 

 taken. Another subject discussed was that of responsibility for storage 

 charges on shipments that were started over the initial railroad in time, 

 but which failed to reach port soon enough to be taken aboard steamers 

 aud therefore has to be put in storage. The shipper is now responsible, 

 but Mr. Spens is working to the end that the railroads shall assume the 

 charge on all delayed shipments that went forward under G. P. C. per- 

 mit. In the event of the steamer failing to take a shipment assigned to 

 it, though it got to port in time, the storage charge is to be borne by 

 the steamship line. 



Mr. Dickson also saw F. W. Taylor, assistant director of operations 

 of the United States Shipping Board, and got from him a promise to send 

 information about steamers being allotted to different ports as soon as 

 the allotment is made, which would give exporters an opportunity to get 

 shipments to port in time for having them put aboard the vessels. There 

 has been much complaint that such information was not now obtainable 

 early enough to be of any value. Mr. Dickson took occasion to make an 

 earnest protest against shippers being required to prepay the ocean freight. 

 There was as much reason, he urged, for prepayment of railroad freight, 

 and this requirement would prove far less burdensome because of the 

 fact that the charges were generally light as compared with the ocean 

 freight bill. 



Changes in Traffic Office 



The offices of the Southern Hardwood TratRc Association at Alexandria, 

 La., in charge of A. C. Bowen, district manager for the Southwest, will 

 be removed to New Orleans, La., June 1, and will play an important part 

 in looking after rates, charters, bookings, forwardings and other phases 

 of the export business of members of this organization. Mr. Bowen will 

 have charge of the offices after their removal to New Orleans, and he will 

 have a competent staff to assist him in properly and efficiently admin- 

 istering his duties in his new field. 



J. S. Thompson, who has been assistant secretary of the association 

 at Memphis since late last summer, will go to Louisville, Ky., on June 1, 

 as successor to R. R. May, who recently resigned to become assocaited with 

 the J. V. Stimson Hardwood Company. Huntingburg, Ind., and Memphis. 

 Mr. Thompson has made good in the highest sense of that word at Mem- 

 phis, and his advancement is a tribute to the energy and ability he has 

 thrown into his work here. He began his railroad career in Louisville, 

 Ky., and while he served a number of years with the Illinois Central at 

 Memphis and Chicago, he was with the Louisville Board of Trade as chief 

 clerk to the traffic manager when he was engaged by the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Association. 



C. A. New, who recently came to the association from the Illinois Cen- 

 tral, after fourteen years of continuous service with that road, succeeds 

 Mr. Thompson as assistant secretary. Mr. New came into much promi- 

 nence when he assisted in the preparation of the exhibits which enabled 

 the Illinois Central and other southern roads to gain the important vic- 

 tory scored when rates on lumber from southern producing points to 

 destinations north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers were materially 

 advanced in 1916. He handled rate adjustments and complaints for a 

 number of years, and specialized in rates on lumber and forest products 

 during his long railroad experience. He is regarded as an exceptionally 

 able traffic man, and the association is congratulating itself on the man- 

 ner in which he is taking hold of his new work. 



Mr. McCamey, who has been in the local offices of the association as one 

 of the rate men, becomes assistant to J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager. 



With the Trade 



New Firm of Timber Brokers 



Announcement has been made of the establishing in business of a new 

 firm of timber agents and brolsers at 5 and 6 Great Winchester street, 

 London, of Flatau, Dick & Co. The individual members of this firm have 

 had long experience in the timber business. 



Sharpnack Lumber Company Organized 



Thomas S. Sharpnack who has been associated with the Peytona Lum- 

 ber Company, Huntington, W. Va., for several years in the capacity of 

 treasurer has sold out his holdings in that company and acquired an in- 

 terest In another firm manufacturing band sawn West Virginia hard- 

 woods. This stock will be sold through the Sharpnack Lumber Company 

 which has been incorporated as a selling organization. 



The new firm is prepared to furnish red and white oak, yellow poplar, 

 chestnut, basswood, beech, maple, hickory and other hardwoods, and 

 can also quote on lumber surfaced, resawed or kiln-dried. Shipments 

 will be made direct from the mill. 



Mr. Sharpnack has been engaged in the manufacture and sale of West 

 Virginia hardwoods for the past fifteen years. 



Change in Eastern Concern 



W. R. Butler & Co., Boston, Mass., have announced the discontinuance 

 of selling arrangements with the Emporium Lumber Company, Utica, 

 N. Y., whose stock they have had exclusive sale of in New England and 

 a portion of New York state for more than twenty-three years. 



The company will continue in the hardwood business, specializing in 

 northern hardwoods, and has completed arrangements for sources of sup- 

 ply for birch, beech and maple. The company has also arranged for mill 

 connections in the South for a supply of oak, ash, chestnut and other 

 southern woods. 



Machine Company Foremen "Go to School" to Improve 

 Production 



W. S. Mcintosh, works manager of the S. A. Woods Machine Company, 

 Boston, Mass., is the organizer of a group of foremen of the various 

 departments, which has Just completed a course of study of modern pro- 

 duction methods. The object of the course was to train the men in the 

 principles of foremanship, to develop their qualities of leadership and to 

 give them a broad view of their work and of industry as a whole. The 

 course was under the direction of John Calder, mechanical engineer, of 

 the Business Training Corporation, 185 Madison avenue. New York, which 

 had charge of all the details and supplied the text books. 



The course lasted three mouths and the men devoted about three hours 

 of spare time to the training. It consisted of textbook study, quiz ques- 

 tions, practical problems, lectures and conferences. The general subjects 

 covered by the training included "handling men" ; materials from pur- 

 chase to final product ; plant plan and layout ; the principles of organiza- 

 tion ; the elements of cost finding and cost accounting ; record keeping ; 

 industrial relations ; hiring and firing ; welfare work ; safety ; plant team- 

 work, etc. Everything was taken up in a practical way and the men were 

 encouraged to apply the ideas they acquired. 



Mr. Mcintosh hopes that the course will help to develop the men who 

 took it as well as benefit the plant through increased elficiency, due to 

 better cooperation. He is also of the opinion that employe relations will 

 be strengthened because of the more careful handling of problems by the 

 trained foremen. 



Race News and Other Items from the Blue Grass 



.A.t least 40,000 Kentuckians and their friends attended the Kentucky 

 Derby, the classic of the famous Churchill Downs track at Louisville, 

 which was run on May 10. It was a wonderful race, first honors being 

 captured by Sir Barton, the entry of Mr. Ross, a celebrated horseman from 

 Canada. Everybody present was betting on Kelly or Exterminator, but 

 Ross's horse coupled up with Kelly and the Ross stable won the prize. 



This was a gala day for lumbermen generally ; they were present from 

 all over the country. One party entertained by the W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Company at Weisinger-Galburt included R. M. Carrier and wife, 

 Sardis, Miss. ; Samuel E. Barr, New York : B. E. Kenny and wife, Fay- 

 ette, Ala., manager of Brown's plant at that point ; Lewis Doster of E. C. 

 Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. ; W. E. DeLaney, Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany, Lexington, Ky. ; R. L. Jurden and wife of the Penrod-Jurden Com- 

 pany, Memphis, Tenn. ; Walter Burke and wife, Lamb-Fish Lumber Com- 

 pany, Charleston, Miss., and Tom Maston and wife of Kansas City, Mo. 



The party certainly had a wonderful time, being entertained at the races 

 and later at dinner at the Eight Mile House. A majority of these folks 

 went to French Lick following the races and had their vacation of the 

 year, playing golf and other things. They were Joined there by Chester 

 Korn and family of Cincinnati : Mr. Rutherford of Venesta, Ltd., London, 

 England, who is making his first visit to America ; young Wilson ot the 

 Ransom company, Nashville, Tenn., and several others. 



C. R. Mengel of C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Mengel and the two boys, were spending a week at French Lick playing 

 golf and generally enjoying the pleasant weather. 



