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HARDWOOD RECORD 



.Tim.> 10, 1919 



Clubs and Associations 



reive bonds for 43 per cent of the amount, but that will not hit many 



Exporters Will Meet at Chicago 



The board of managers of the National Lumber Exporters Association 

 will hold a semi-annual meeting at the Congress hotel, Chicago, June 19 

 and 20. These da.vs have been selected as many members will be in Chi- 

 cago attending the meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



Chicago Lumberman to Play Golf on June 24 



The Lund>ermen's Golf Association of (.'biiagu will hold its annual tourna- 

 ment at Beverly Country Club. June 2-1, rain or shine. This will be the 

 thirteenth annual tournament of the a.ssociation and full 'provisions are 

 made so that everyone will have such a good time as to forget the usual 

 signiflcance of the nundjer thirteen, thereby preventing its interfering 

 with their play. The usual events are scheduled with the Stillwell Cup, 

 Foye Cup. American I>uml)erman Cup. Ijiimber World Review Cup, Lum- 

 bermen's Association Cup. Ilettler Cup. and the I'resident's Cup as prizes. 



The Beverly Country Club is a beautifully situated course located at 

 Eighty-seventh .street and Western avenue, Chicago. It is easily accessible 

 by automobile, train, or other transportation, and with an anywheres near 

 even break in the weather the attendance should be good. 



Meeting of Farm Wagon Men, June 18 



The Farm Wagon Department of tbc National Implement Vehicle Asso- 

 ciation will hold an important meeting in Chicago on June 18. The session 

 win be held in the English room of the Congress Hotel, beginning at 10 

 o'clock. 



The manufacturers will have an opportunity of learning of the rapid 

 progress in which the standard auto track wagon is being popularized 

 throughout the country. They are already noticing the results of the con- 

 structive publicity campaign which the department is conducting through 

 the trade and farm press and other means. 



The meeting on the ISth will l>e very important for the reason that 

 on June 1 the new standard auto track wagon became effective as the only 

 type to be manufactured by tho.se who agreed accordingly. Regardless 

 of materials on hand for wide or narrow track wagon construction, these 

 manufacturers will confine their product to the new standard from this 

 time on. 



It is expected that a large attendance of the manufacturers will be 

 present at this meeting to talk over the many features of this most Impor- 

 tant step ever taken by the industry. 



Exporters Protest 



A feeling akin to indiguati<»n has been amvised among the members of 

 the National Lumber Exporters' Association by the action of the United 

 States Shipping Board in allotting a large steamer to, one Ben New on 

 the condition that he furnish an entire cargo of lumber for export. The 

 association has long tried to get a vessel or vessels, especially out of one 

 of tlie Hampton Roads ports, but has not met with success. That the 

 shipping hoard should now accord a man who was not known in the export 

 trade until he blossomed out as the holder of a monopoly in the shipment 

 of dunnage during the war a whole vessel, not under charter, but at the 

 regular published rate of $1 per 100 pounds, and exclude every other ship- 

 per from getting space on this vessel is being regarded in the light of 

 rank favoritism, and a special committee has been appointed by the 

 National Luml)er Exporters' Association to submit a determined protest. 

 This committee consists of C. S. Powell of the C. S. Powell Lumber Com- 

 pany, New York ; W. E. Weakley. W. M. Rifter Lumber Company, Colum- 

 bus, O. : John L. Alcock, John L. Alcock & Co., Baltimore, and W. H. 

 Russe, Russe & Burgess, Inc., Memphis. Tenn., and it will try to see the 

 board some time this week. Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the asso- 

 ciation, who had previously protested, will go also. Mr. New, as stated, 

 came into notice last year after he had made an arrangement with all 

 of the steamship lines to furnish the dunnage which they might need. 

 He had virtually all of the ships in operation tied up with contracts 

 before anyone appeared to be aware what was going on. The discover.v 

 brought out a most emphatic remonstrance from the regular exporters 

 and the arrangement was terminated, the Briti.sh government itself taking 

 over the dunnage problem. Just why he should have succeeded in getting 

 the vessel from the shipping board no one here appears to. know. 



Trade Commissioner Resigns 



John R. Walker resigned on May 31 as trade commissioner in the 

 Department of Commerce, after spending two years in Europe investigat- 

 ing the lumber business and lecturing in this country on the situation as 

 he found it. He will resume his law practice in Washington, D. C, in 

 the firm of Walker & Burhank. 



Liberty Loan Subscriptions 



Subscribers to the fifth Liberty loan totaled $5,249,908,300. which was 

 an oversubscription of .$749,908,300. There were 12,000,000 subscribers. 

 The only two districts which did not exceed their quotas were Atlanta 

 and Dallas. All subscribers for $10,000 or less will be allotted the full 

 amount of the subscriptions ; but allotments on larger subscriptions will 

 lie somewhat reduced. For instance, subscribers for .$30,000,000 will re- 



With the Trade 



New Store Fixture Factory for New Orleans 



The Karl Hansen Compan.v. Inc., New Orleans, La., has leased a large 

 tract of ground in that city and is now erecting a new plant for the manu- 

 facture of store and office fixtures. The company has been in business for 

 two years and has grown substantially, the new plant providing for a space 

 of 30,000 feet as against 1,300 feet in the old plant. 



Evansville Company Now Co-partnership 



The Evansville Band Mill Company, one of the best-known lumber 

 manufacturing concerns at Evansville, Ind., has surrendered its charter 

 as a corporation with the secretary of state at Indianapolis and in the 

 future will be operated as a co-partnership. There will be no change in the 

 management of this well-known concern, that has been in business for 

 the past three years and which has built up a wide and extensive trade. 

 Frank M. Cutsinger was the president of the corporation, George H. Foote 

 was the vice-president and treasurer, while Joseph Waltman was the 

 secretary. Mr. Waltman is the president of the Evansville Lumbermen's 

 Club, that has been a big factor in developing the lumber interests of that 

 live city on the Ohio river. 



Change in Hardwood Plant 



The former plant of the C. S, Lindner Interior Manufacturing Company, 

 Grand Rapids. Mich., has been purchased and will henceforth operate as 

 the Standardized Furniture Company. The new company has extensive 

 phonograph cabinet contracts which will be continued as other lines are 

 being developed. It is said tliat the purchase consideration approximated 

 $200,000. 



J. Harry Schoneberger is president of the company; H. A. Alhaugh, vice- 

 president : Clarence J. Farley, treasurer ; Jacob Hoerner, secretary. This 

 nmkes the fourth factory now in control of these highly successful opera- 

 tors. 



Cooperage Company Buys Lansing Outfit 



On May 22 F. Grismore and H. W. Ilyman. president and vice-president, 

 respectively, of the Grismore-Hyman Company, Memphis, purchased from 

 the Lansing Company all of the sawmill property formerly owned l)y the 

 latter and operated at Parkin, Ark. The equipment includes a 60,000-toot 

 daily capacity band mill, with planing mill and band resaw attached, a 

 full complement of skidders. loaders, mules, wagons and such other 

 equipment necessary in sawmill operations. The purchase also covers 

 4.500.000 feet of hardwood lumber on the yard at Parkin, and aliout 

 40,000,000 feet of stumpage on the lands owned by the seller in Cross 

 and St. Francis counties, Arkansas. This and other timber in the vicinity 

 will he handled over the Helena. Parkin & Northern railroad, a line operat- 

 ing between the Missouri Pacific railway at Parkin, Ark. ; Chicago, Rock 

 Island & Pacific at Lucerne, Ark., and the St. Francis river at Riverside, 

 Ark. The new owners will operate the above as a partnership under the 

 name of Parkin Ijumber Company. 



All lumber from the above plant will be marketed through the Gris- 

 more-Hyman Company, who.se office is located at 903-912 Central Bank 

 building, Memphis. These people also own and operate several slack 

 barrel stave plants, including a double mill at Riverside, Ark., on the 

 Helena, Parkin & Northern railroad. A portion of the timber mentioned 

 in the above purchase is available for delivery to this plant and this will 

 add several years to the stave mill operations. 



Late News from Memphis 



The new band mill of (he Odeen Millin!.' Company at Manila. Ark., 

 will be in operation within the next week. The mill will cut all the 

 hardwood logs at Big Lake, estimated at several million feet. 



.\t its last meeting before summer adjournment the lAimbermen's Club 

 of Memphis conferred unusual honor on Isaac Wright by suspending the 

 rules of the club and electing him an honorary member. Mr. Wright is 

 eighty years old and has long been actively connected with the hardwood 

 business, liaving been in Memphis for the past twenty years. lie is held 

 in esteem and affection by all the Memphis lumbermen who took delight in 

 so honoring him. 



Commenting on the general market situation recently. J(diu M. 

 Pritchard, secretary manager of the American Hardwood Mauufactiiri'rs' 

 Association, exiiressed himself in convincing terms regarding the results 

 of publicity work that has been carried on in behalf of gum, oak and 

 other southern hardwoods through his association and the affiliated bodies 

 which have preceded it. The campaign today is on a larger and more 

 progressive scale than ever before and the fruits of past efforts are 

 being reaped now. The demand for oak and gum is exceedingly heavy, 

 and gum, which a few years ago was entirely without either friends or 

 champions, is one of the most eagerly sought hardwoods in the southern 

 field, and there is every indication that this aggressive advertising policy 

 will gain rather than decrease in momentum. 



Two promini'ut visitors at Memphis recently were R. M. Carrier, presi- 

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