October 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



manufacturers, was in Chicago following that meeting and was accom- 

 panied by O. T. Swan, secretary of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association. 



The Chicago Crutch Manufacturing Company has retired from business. 



The Crystal Cabinet Manufacturing Company recently commenced the 

 manufacture of store fixtures at 1448 West Sixty-sl.'tth street. 



The Chicago Wood Carrlng Company has been succeeded by the Zork 

 Manufacturing Company. 



The M. Stein Parlor Frame Company has gone into business at 5S41 

 South Loomis street. 



J. C. Rodahaffer, secretary and sales manager of the Penrod Walnut 

 and Veneer Company, Kansas City, Mo., was in the city on business for 

 a day this week. 



Alex Schmidt, sales manager of the Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Company, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, made a two-day business trip to Chicago this week. 



Sara A. Thompson, manager of the lumber department of the Anderson- 

 TuUy Company, Memphis, was accompanied by Mrs. Thompson on a busi- 

 ness trip taking them through Chicago during the past week. 



11. F. Below of the H. F. Below Lumber Company, Marinette, Wis., 

 was in the city a few days last week on business. 



C. A. Goodman, Marinette, Wis., president of the National Hardwood 

 I-umber Association, was in the city for several days last week. 



R. S. Bacon of the R. S. Bacon Veneer Company and the Bacon-Under- 

 wood Company, Mobile, Ala., is now on a two weeks' visit to the southern 

 operations. 



W. H. Day, manager of the Highland Park, Louisville, operations of 

 the Wood-Mosaic Company of New Albany, Ind., was in the city for the 

 third, fourth and fifth games of the world's series, as was Tom Christian, 

 formerly sales manager for the Wood-Mosaic Company, hut who recently 

 resigned to become sales manager of the FuUerton-Powell Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company of South Bend, Ind. 



BUFFALO 



October 7 was the date set for the annual chestnut outing of the Buffalo 

 Lumber Exchange, the members being scheduled to leave at 10 a. m. by 

 automobile from the corner of Ellicott street and Broadway. The pro- 

 gram called for lunch at 12 :30 and a beefsteak dinner at 6 o'clock, with 

 the usual sporting events, Including a baseball game. The site for the out- 

 ing was the same as last year, the farm of Fred Herman at Boston Valley, 

 south of the city. The entertainment committee of the exchange is as 

 follows : William P. Betts, chairman ; Charles N. Perrin, Fred M. Sul- 

 livan, John F. Knox, C. Ashton McNeil, Peter Yeager and Elmer J. Sturm. 



The plant at 1490-1506 Jefferson street, formerly occupied by the Bison 

 City Table Company, an auxiliary of the Standard Hariwood Lumber 

 Company, has been sold to the Wildroot Chemical Company and will be 

 used for manufacturing purposes. The building has not been used for 

 the manufacture of tables for several years, but is well adapted to the 

 purchaser's needs, having a floor area of about 50,000 square feet. The 

 sale of the property was made by Commissioner A. W. Krelnheder, one of 

 the owners, and while the amount paid is not given out It is said to have 

 been $55,000. 



One of the most serious shortages in the lumber trade at present Is that 

 of men and timber for turning out wooden canalboats. Every experienced 

 boatman will declare that no other material is equal to wood for this class 

 of craft. It is light and therefore a big carrier, and it is flexible in a way 

 that steel and concrete can never be. Just now the demand for canal- 

 boats is greater than it has been in many years. Both the United States 

 authorities and private forwarders are getting shipping orders in large 

 numbers, which they can do nothing with. Cars are so short that the 

 Buffalo elevators are filling up with grain two months earlier than they 

 should. Who will bring back the old industry of wooden canalboat 

 building? 



BALTIMORE 



Mention was made not long ago of the protests which had been pouring 

 In upon the Washington authorities because of the new rules promulgated 

 with regard to exemption of foreign freight charges from taxation. It 

 was mentioned that under the old arrangement it was necessary for a 

 shipper only to submit a through bill of lading or a local domestic bill of 

 lading, marked "for export," and the tax exemption on the amount paid 

 would be granted. Now no less than three documents of a very detailed 

 nature must be made out, and the proceeding entails much loss of time, 

 in aildltlon to trouble. The protests have been followed by a new ruling 

 making various changes, but the new method, according to Harvey M. 

 Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Association, is no 

 more satisfactory than the old one was, and further protests are the re- 

 sult. The shippers of lumber, among other.s interested, are now waiting 

 to see if real relief will be afforded from the complex red tape in which 

 the proceeding of claiming exemption has been involved. 



There is every prospect that a complete revision of the Baltimore build- 

 ing laws will be undertaken by the municipal authorities in the near 

 future. A draft making a partial revision as far as it relates to the erec- 

 tion of dwellings has been prepared by committee composed of architects, 

 builders and others, and will soon he laid before the City Council for 

 action. Its main provision is a requirement that all rooms shall have 

 windows opening out on some street, alley or other space, thus doing away 



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