HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 25, 1919 



B 1226— Wishes to Buy Parquetry Flooring 



ManufactiiriTs in position to sell parijuetry flooring may be in- 

 terested in the following inquiry: 



rrovidence, R. I., June 6.— Editor Hardwood Record: When any of 

 your subscribers are In need of Information, wo find that they can usually 

 get It through your columns but either our searchers have not paid closo 

 attention to their work or else the information we are after has not been 

 recentlv published by you. 



We want to get In touch with some factory or mill that is making 

 parquetry flooring. We have always bought this flooring from a factory 

 m the Middle West but we find that they are unable to keep us supplied 

 and we are now looking for an additional source from which we can 

 draw what stock we need. 



You will readily understand that we are not prepared to. put in an 

 advertisement over our name but as we have seen many of these Inquiries 

 put Into your columns blind, we would very much like to have that done 

 In this instance. 



We hardly think we could accomplish the necessary result if put in as 

 an advertisement but we believe your regular columns have been used for 

 searchers after various items. 



Lumber Company. 



Clubs and Associations 



Abandons Proposed Pacific Coast Trip 

 It Is decided by the board uf trustees of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association that the piuijosed trip to the Pacific coast would, 

 not be feasible at present becau.se members are so busy at present that 

 the attendance would hardly warrant appropriations. 



It was reported at a recent meeting that the association shows a gain 

 of twenty-six members as compared with June, 1918, and a gain of six- 

 teen since the national meeting of the association at Philadelphia. 



Meeting of Farm Wagon Manufacturers 



The meeting of the Farm Wagon Department of the National Implement 

 and Vehicle Association in Chicago on June IS was full of significance as 

 revealing the present business conditions affecting the industry generally. 

 The discussions indicated the belief on the part of the manufacturers that 

 costs of production are on a permanently higher plane. The trend of the 

 markets on materials entering into wagon construction have been showing 

 a decided advance. 



The lumber situation presents a runaway market, due to a shortage not 

 only of lumber, but to unfavorable logging conditions throughout the 

 southern timber belt. It was said that there is only about 40 per cent 

 of the normal supply of oak, which has resulted in a succession of advances 

 during the last sixty days that are without precedent. Hickory is becom- 

 ing scarcer. In fact, the diminishing supply of Woodstock is becoming 

 so serious that the wagon department has arranged to make investigations 

 along the lines of cooperating with the producers in disposing of small 

 short stock to other Industries, such as furniture manufacturers, in order 

 to encourage the producers to cut dimension stock for wagon construction. 



The manufacturers present were unanimous in the expression that labor 

 costs show a large percentage of increase over a year ago, with a greater 

 probability of still higher costs than lower. 



Evansville Club Enjoys Summer Outing 



The annual summer outing of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club of 

 Evansville, Ind., was held on the steamer Joe Fowler on the Ohio river, 

 Saturday afternoon and evening, June 14, and was attended by nearly 

 200 lumbermen, their families and invited friends. It was the largest 

 and most successful outing the club ever gave. The steamer left the 

 Evansville wharf at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and returned about 

 11 o'clock at night. The boat went down the river seventeen miles to 

 the site of the new dam that the United States Government is constructing. 

 The outing was in charge of the entertainment committee. There were 

 plenty of refreshments on the boat and between 7 and 8 o'clock in the 

 evening a tempting fried chicken dinner was served by Thomas Edmondson. 

 There was dancing during the afternoon and evening, the music having 

 been furnished by the Crescent City orchestra, led by Edward C. Kerth, 

 city building Inspector of Evansville. Those who did not care to dance 

 enjoyed themselves with cards. In the dancing Oscar A. Klamer of the 

 Schelosky Table Company was awarded the prize because of his ability to 

 dance the old dances of many years ago. Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz, 

 bardwood.lumber manufacturers, was given the second price. Charles W. 

 Talge, former owner and manager of the Evansville Veneer Company, was 

 one of the out-of-town men to take in the outing, having come here from 

 Wisconsin, wliere he had been spending several weeks fishing on the lakes. 

 He was the special guest of George 0. Worland, secretary and treasurer 

 of the Evansville Veneer Company. 



The June outing took the place of the regular monthly meeting of the 

 club. There will be no more meetings of the club now until the second 

 Tuesday evening in September. 



Hemlock and Hardwood Meeting 



The midsummer meeting of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Asso- 

 ciation will he held, according to announcement, at Mackinac Island, July 

 24 and 25. The members are invited to take their families and make it an 

 outing as well as a business meeting. It is possible that the Michigan 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association will meet at the same place and 

 time, though no definite announcement to that effect has been made. 



Eastern Lumber Golfers Hold Tournament 



The Lumber Trade Golf Association, which includes in its membership 

 practically all of the eastern lumbermen who are included in the game, 

 held its fourteenth annual tournament at the Shawnee Country Clnb, 

 Shawnee-on-the-Delaware, June 3 and 4. The Philadelphia contestants 

 showed up prominently in the score, in fact, got an almost clean sweep 

 of the honors, taking them away for the most part from their rivals, New 

 Tork, New Jersey and Massachusetts. The course was in fine shape and 

 the weather was clear and hot, and altogether the occasion was ideal, 

 The entertainment and executive features of the occasion were very com 

 pletely handled by J. .\nderson Ross, chairman of the executive and touma 

 ment committee. The oflScers chosen for the ensuing year are : President, 

 Clarence G. Meeks, Weehawken, N. J. ; vice-president, Frederick E. Wood, 

 Boston, Mass. ; treasurer, F. L. Mc&Ileer, Boston ; secretary, J. Elmer 

 Troth, Philadelphia. 



With the Trade 



Develop Phonograph Business in Wisconsin 

 It is reported from Plymouth, Wis., that a factory deal has been con- 

 summated which will confer the C. F. Kade Fixture & Show Case Com- 

 pany's plant at Plymouth into a large phonograph cabinet factory. It Is 

 reported that the controlling interest in the new company has been sold 

 by Mr. Kade to a new corporation which it is suggested may be incor- 

 porated for about a half million dollars. It is expected that the members 

 of the old organization will retain active interest in the new company. 

 It is suggested that extensive improvements in conditions will be made 

 in the former factory and that this will result in a substantially increased 

 force. 



Wisconsin Man Joins Chicago Firm 

 H. A. Walker, who for the past four years has been sales manager of 

 the Steven & Jarvis Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis., left that city to 

 become associated with the Cortez Lumber Company, 111 W. Washington 

 street, Chicago, as secretary and sales manager. Mr. Walker is familiar 

 with the Chicago territory, having operated in Chicago prior to his con- 

 nection with the Steven & Jarvis company. For five years prior to his 

 residence in Eau Claire, he represented the Steven & Jarvis company in 

 the Chicago market. 



Corporate Cornelius Lumber Company 



The Cornelius Lumber Company of St. Louis, Mo., which has operated 

 for the past four years as private property, has been incorporated for. 

 $50,000. The company runs a wholesale business in cypress and hard- 

 woods and has its offices in the Wright building. The officers are L. B. 

 Cornelius, president ; Ralph Siegel, vice-president ; V. N. Cornelius, secre- 

 tary ; Roy Siegel, assistant treasurer; Geo. Goodsell, assistant secretary; 

 R. W. Bira, cashier ; Win, Kurz, assistant cashier. 



Will Operate Kilns and Planing Mill 



About July 1 the Wilce Dry Kiln & Mill Company, Throop and Twenty- 

 second streets, Chicago, will reopen the fifteen kilns formerly operated 

 by the T. Wilce Company, and in addition will operate a planing mill. 

 The kilns are now being remodeled and when changes are completed will 

 have a capacity for handling 2,500,000 feet of lumber monthly. 



The officers of the new concern, which is capitalized at $50,000, arer 

 President, George Wilce ; first vice-president, William C. Schreiber ; second 

 vice-president, Frank J. Heidler ; treasurer, H. 11. Kreutzer ; secretary, 

 William K. Schuppert, all of whom are connected with various hardwood 

 companies of the Chicago district. The new plant will provide con- 

 venient kiln facilities for these concerns. 



W. O. King Lumber Company, Inc. 



W. O. King & Co. changed hands June 1, 1910, M. D. Reeder, formerly 

 in business in the Fisher building, having secured W. O. King's interest. 

 The W. O. King Lumber Company, Inc., under which name the new 

 concern is operating, is capitalized at $100,000, having increased the 

 capital stock from $50,000. 



The company has as its officers : President, M. D. Reeder ; vice-president, 

 W. O. King ; treasurer and secretary, S. B. Smith, formerly manager for 

 the Babcock Lumber Company. 



The new company is prepared to carry on business on a much larger 

 scale than previously. 



Mr. Reeder states that they have just purchased 1,000,000 feet of maple- 

 in Wisconsin, and 3,500,000 feet of Michigan maple. 



