August 25, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Clubs and Associations 



Announcing National Retailers' Convention 



The National Uetail Lumber Dealers' Association will hold its third 

 annual convention at the Pontchartrain hotel, Detroit, Mich., Thursday 

 and Friday, Septemljcr 11 and 12. The program will be interesting and 

 instructive and different from any such gatherings in the past. The 

 sessions will be active and full of vital importance. Entertainment will 

 not be neglected by any means, as Detroit dealers have gotten together on 

 a program with a full measure of pleasure during the two days' conven- 

 tion. It is expected that visitiBg lumbermen will bring their families as 

 full provision has been made for entertaining the ladies. 



Inspection Rules Committee Appointed 



President Goodman of the National Hardwood Lumber Association an- 

 nounces the appointment of the following inspection rules committee to 

 serve during the current association year. The policy of increasing the 

 size of this committee is now under advisement. 



John W. McClure, Memphis, Tenn., chairman ; E. M. Holland, Grand 

 Rapids, Mich. ; J. L. Benas, St. Louis, Mo. ; M. G. Truman, Chicago, 111. ; 

 M. J. Fox, Iron Mountain, Mich. ; F. T. Dooley, Memphis, Tenn, ; B. F. 

 Dulweber, Greenwood, Miss. ; Otis A. Felger, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Harry 

 C. Fowler, Macon, Ga. ; W. H. Lear, Philadelphia, Pa.; John A. McBean, 

 Toronto, Ont. ; Geo. B. Osgood, Chicago, 111. ; I. F. Balsley, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. ; B. W. Ackles, Buckhannon, W. Va. ; M. E. Philbrick, Boston, Mass. 



Inspection Staff Change 



D. E. Buchanan, deputy national inspector. National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, in charge of the Cincinnati, Ohio, district, has resigned and 

 Ed. Horn hitherto his assistant has been appointed to succeed him. All 

 applications tor inspection service in that district .should now be addressed 

 to Ed. Horn, 912 Grand -Ave., Price Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



National Industrial Conference at Chicago 



The vital problems of busiues.s, multiplied by post war and imhistrial 

 developments, will be discussed at a national conference to be held in 

 Chicago September 8 and 9 under the auspices of the Illinois Manufacturers' 

 .•Vssociation. The sessions will be at the Congress hotel. 



Trade and industrial associations in every line have been invited to 

 appoint delegates, and to participate in what is believed will be a meeting 

 of moment, inasmuch as it will enable business to present concretely its 

 attitude on some of the questions now before the law makers at Wash- 

 ington, and some of the proposals of a revolutionary nature that have been 

 presented from various sources in the past few months. 



Representation is to be given at the conference not only to business, but 

 to the farming interests, since it is pointed out that agriculture, after all. 

 Ls one of the greatest businesses of the country. The farmer has his 

 capital invested in land, he is an employer of labor, and he is concerned 

 with the maintenance of conditions which will permit him to obtain a fair 

 return upon his investment and his management of his enterprise. 



Leaders of organized labor have also been invited to talk, and to state 

 where the demands of workers are going to stop. 



Some of the subjects which It has been suggested be discussed at the 

 conference are the following: 



Participation in private business on the part of the federal government. 



Nationalization of industry. 



Influence of exports on prices and production. 



Possibilities of increasing production. 



The relation of the United States to the rehabilitation of industry in 

 Europe. 



Stabilization and guarantee of contracts. 



Iteflnition of profiteering. 



The attitude of njiplnying farmers and manufacturers to labor. 



Adju.stmeut between property rights and community interests. 



Participation of labor in the management of industry. 



Increasing the purchasing power of the dollar. 



Distribution of the war debt. 



Governmental price fixing. 



The Plumb plan. 



The solidarity of farming and business interests. 



With the Trade 



Jones & Dunn Moved to Louisiana 



Jones & Dunn, manufacturers of liardwoods, who have been located at 

 Jennie, Ark., for a number of years have moved their main office to 

 Monroe, La., in the Central Savings Bank & Trust Company building. 

 They have established a new mill site nine miles south of Monroe on the 

 Ouachita river. 



The mill site is beautifully located and the company is now building a 

 thoroughly modern sawmill town. Work is well under way, and the band- 

 mill, which will be an eighteen foot operation Avith fourteen Inch saws and 

 a ten inch band resaw, will have a manufacturing capacity of 00,000 to 

 75,000 feet a day. 



The company has timber holdings aggregating 21,000 acres of virgin 

 hardwoods, principally in Richland Parish, La., beginning five and a halt 

 miles from the mill site. The company is installing a standard gauge 

 logging road into the timber. 



Simmons Becomes Pitch Pine Secretary 



On August 1 Roger E. Simmons became secretary of the American Pitch 

 Pine Export Company and entered upon his duties, having completed his 

 work with the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce with which he 

 had been connected nearly five years. He recently returned from an 

 extensive trip through Russia, where he studied the timber situation. 



Mahogany Companies Amalgamate 



Formal announcement has come from New York that two of the biggest 

 factors in the mahogany lumber and veneer business have amalgamated 

 and will now operate as one corporation. The Huddleston-Marsh Mahogany 

 Company and the .\storia Veneer Mills and Dock Coniijany, both of New 

 York, have amalgamated and in the future will be known as the .\storia 

 Mahogany Compan.v, Inc. The offices will continue at 3-t7 Madison avenue, 

 New York City. 



The executives of the new corporation represent a merging of the officers 

 of the two former companies. They are as follows : Alex S. Williams, 

 chairman ; R. S. Huddleston, president ; R. T. Williams, vice-president ; 

 J. G. Marsh, ^-ice-president ; F. R. Huntington, treasurer ; H. P. Williams, 

 secretary. 



The new company is one of the largest factors in the mahogany business. 



Schmidt Joins The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Company 



.\le.\ .Schmidt, who has l)een identified with the lumber trade, par- 

 ticularly the walnut trade in this country for a number of years, has be- 

 come sales manager for The Kosse, Shoe & Schlej-er Company of Cincinnati. 



Prior to the war Mr. Schmidt was in charge of the American office of 

 the Theodore Francke Erben Company, a German firm operating business 

 and mills at Cincinnati. Ohio. At the time the enemy property custodian 

 at Washington was taking over German institutions in this country, the 

 Theodore Francke Erben business was sold to the Wood-Mosaic Company of 

 -New Albany, Ind., Mr. Schmidt remaining in charge. 



Mr. Schmidt's connection with The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Company 

 began -\ugust 1, prior to which time he took a two months' vacation in 

 order to recuperate his somewhat impaired health. Hardwood Record 

 extends to Mr. Schmidt its good wishes in his new work. 



Overseas Forwarding Company Now in Operation 



The .\merican Overseas Forwarding Company, which recently secured a 

 charter under the laws of Tennessee, with a capital stock of $50,000, 

 perfected formal organization at Memphis, August 19, by the election of 

 the following officers : 



J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 .Association, president ; J. S. Thompson, Louisville, Ky., first vice-president ; 

 A. C. Bowen, New Orleans, La., second vice-president ; B. P. McCamier, 

 Memphis, third vice-president : R. O. O'Rouke, New Orleans, general man- 

 ager ; J. A. Koehler, Helena, Ark., general agent west of the Mississippi, 

 with headquarters at Helena. Messrs. Thompson, Bowen and Koehler are 

 district managers of the association with headquarters, respectively, at 

 Louisville, New Orleans and Helena. 



Directors elected were : R. L. Jurden, Penrod-Jurden Company ; James 

 E. Stark, James E. Stark & Co., Inc. ; John W. McClure, Bellgrade Lumber 

 Company ; S. M. Nickey, Green River Lumber Company and Nickey Bro- 

 thers, Inc. ; Walker L. Wellford, Chickasaw Cooperage Company, and J. H. 

 Townshend, all of Memphis ; Ferd Brenner, Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, 

 Alexandria, La. 



The company, although it had only formally completed organization on 

 the above date, was already doing business. It had booked considerable 

 quantities of harilwood lund)er and forest products, cotton and cotton 

 seed products and drugs for export and it has many applications on file 

 for space in ocean-going vessels. 



The company is empowered under its charter to engage in the booking 

 of space on coast wise and ocean going vessels and on river barges ; to 

 charter all sorts of vessels ; to forward cargoes of cotton, lumber, forest 

 products, cotton seed products, steel, iron, drugs and other commodities 

 for the export trade and to write maritime insurance on lumber and 

 other materials. It is also empowered to handle return cargoes of fer- 

 tilizer materials, mahogany lumber and logs and various other commodi- 

 ties for import. It will have nothing whatever to do with domestic busi- 

 ness and its use of river barges will be in connection with tonnage moving 

 to the ports for clearance. 



Mr. O'Rouke, general manager, will have his headquarters in New 

 Orleans i.nd will devote his entire time to looking after forwardings, rates, 

 bookings, charters and other phases of exportation. He has spent a num- 

 ber of years in the forwarding business on his own account and brings to 

 his new position a wealth of experience. Mr. Koehler has given an excel- 

 lent account of himself as district manager at Helena, Ark., while the 

 services of Messrs. Bowen and Thompson are too well known to need com- 

 ment here. Mr. Townshend, head of the company, is one of the most able 

 traffic men in the country and it is anticipated that his record in looking 

 after exports will be just as brilliant as that he has made as manager of 

 domestic traffic Interests of lumber shippers in the southern and eastern 

 hardwood fields. 



No stockholder can have less than .$200 or more than $1,000 of stock 



