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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Frederick H. Barnard, president of tlie Barn- 

 ard-Cope Manufacturing Company, prominent 

 furniture manufacturers of this city, died at 

 his Iiomc, Nov. 28, of pleuropneumonia. He 

 leaves a widow and two young sons. One 

 brother, A. H. Barnard, Is senior member of the 

 firm of Barnard & Strickland, well-known whole- 

 sale dealers. F. 13. Barnard was the oldest son 

 of Thomas G. Barnard, founder of the business, 

 and still living in Los Angeles. He was born in 

 Maine in 1S.">7, and was brought by his parents 

 to this city two years later, lie grew up in the 

 furniture factory and became his father's right 

 baud man. In 1884 he succeeded to its active 

 management, and for twenty-one years has de- 

 voted himself to the business. Ue was weak- 

 ened by overwork and unable to withstand the 

 ravages of the disease. 



Iiouisville. 



"Never again," said F. M. Platter of the 

 North Vernon Pump & Lumber Company. 

 "will I tackle an order for clear oak dimen- 

 sion stock or any great size." This assertion 

 was made in relating an experience Mr. Plat- 

 ler once had in cutting some 4x6 — 20 clear 

 oak. He got the price he asked for the stock, 

 and it was a good fat price, too, but by the 

 time he had accumulated a carload of this 

 class of material he was ready to swear off 

 for all time, no matter what price might be 

 ottered. He says it is all right to cut clear 

 oak in small dimension stock, but even then 

 the price should be the same as firsts and 

 seconds for such small material as is used 

 by chair and furniture factories. To make 

 the price for small dimension on the basis of 

 No. 1 common he thinks is putting it too 

 low. and yet small dimension is frequently 

 sold below that figure to-day. Speaking of 

 business at their new mill here, Mr. Platter 

 reports a shortage of logs at present, but 

 expects to overcome this in the course of a 

 week or so, having made arrangements for a 

 supply which he hopes will keep the mill 

 running reasonably steady. The company 

 contemplates putting in an oak flooring plant 

 In connection with an oak sawmill here, but 

 this Is not definitely settled. If these addi- 

 tions are made the plant here will be fully 

 as important as that at North Vernon, and 

 will necessitate one member of the firm being 

 here practically all the time. The North 

 Vernon Pump & Lumber Company's specialty 

 here is plain and quarter-sawed oak. Trade 

 is good with this company, and the outlook 

 very bright. 



D. K. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills 

 reports a good volume of business for his 

 concern in veneer panels this year and says 

 the only fault with the veneer trade is that 

 prices are too low. The Louisville Veneer 

 Mills manufacture rotary cut, slice cut and 

 quarter sawed veneers from a' great variety 

 of woods, and have a very extensive built-up 

 department where they make veneer panels 

 with oak, mahogany, walnut or any kind of 

 face wood desired. The heaviest volume of 

 business this year has been oak face, plain 

 and quartered. 



The Kentucky Veneer Works Is best known 

 to the trade as a manufacturer of quarter- 

 sawed oak veneer. During the past year, 

 however, this concern has installed rotary 

 cutting machinery and is now making rotary 

 cut veneer of all varieties of woods In addi- 

 tion to quarter-sawed oak. No built-up work 

 is done, all this veneer being sold single ply. 

 the firm catering especially to furniture man- 

 ufacturers. 



E. L. Kdwards of Dayton, Ohio, was in 

 town recently conferring with railway people 

 on the subject of cars. He h.TS had great 

 difllculty In getting cars to make shipments 

 from the mills In the eastern part of the 



state, and is now appealing direct to the rail- 

 ways for relief. 



What worries R. L. Thomas of the Ford 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Ford Ky.. 

 most is to be called on to meet some fellow's 

 prices on poplar when he feels that such 

 prices can be lower than his only because the 

 grade is lower, although it has the same 

 name. The Ford Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company has the reputation of furnishing the 

 cleanest grades In the trade here, and it will 

 not depart from this high standard for the 

 sake of making prices a dollar lower. 



Charles S. Lyons, Junction City, Ky.. rep- 

 resenting Caflisch Bros., Union City, Tenti., 

 called on the trade in Louisville recently. 

 He carried with, him some very nice orders 

 for hardwoods. 



Louisville veneer manufacturers attended a 

 meeting at Cincinnati. Nov. 2S, where pre- 

 liminary work was done toward the form- 

 ing of a national association of veneer 

 manufacturers. D. E. Kline of the Louis- 

 ville Veneer Mills was elected temporary 

 chairman of the association. A permanent 

 national association will undoubtedly be 

 formed at a meeting which is to be held at 

 Chicago Dec. 19 and 20. 



London. 



The following is a letter from the Timber 

 Trades Federation of the United Kingdom. 

 London, dated Nov. 21, and is the proposed 

 basis of an agreement between the London 

 section of the Timber Trades Federation of the 

 United Kingdom and the London and East 

 India Docks Company for the measurement 

 of American sawn lumber and sawn mahog- 

 any. These regulations were originally for- 

 mulated and agreed upon July 1, 1902, and the 

 amendments embraced in tlie document were 

 made in October of this year. It is anticipat- 

 ed that they will be adopted so tar as the 

 Docks Company is concerned. 



In these regulations the term "lumber" 

 embraces boards, planks and scantlings cut 

 from the following: Ash, basswood, black 

 walnut, cedar, cherry, chestnut, cottonwood, 

 elm, hickorj', liolly, maple, mahogany, oak. 

 poplar, satin walnut, sj-camoro and other 

 hardwoods. 



1. The measurement of lumber shall be 

 ascertained by the "American board measure 

 rule," but witli the odd feet in the lengths 

 marked. 



2. No allowances are to be made for de- 

 fects. 



3. The contents shall be returned in super- 

 ficial feet, all fractions of three-quarters of 

 a foot or over to be reckoned the next foot ; 

 all fractions of less than three-quarters of a 

 foot shall be disregarded. 



Example: (A) A board measuring 12 

 foet long by 12% Inches wide 

 to be called 12 feet. 

 (B) A board measuring 12 feet 

 long by 15% inches wide to 

 to be called IG feet. 



4. All lumber must be full thickness and 

 shall be measured as follows: 



Undei' one inch In orieelKlitli of an Inch. 

 One Inch, and onf and a qnnrli'r inch .tep- 

 aratoly. 



Oni' imrl a liall' and u|i, lo llie half inciv 



o. The lengths shall be taken to the full font 

 only, odd inches to be disregarded, cNcepting 

 stocks cut to special dimensions. 



A board measuring 12 feet 11 Indies must 

 be returned as 12 feet, and a board measuring 

 13 feet 11 inches as 13 feet, and so on. 



6. In iiscertaining the measurement of taper- 

 ing boards and planks the same shall be taiien 

 as regards width at the narrow end. 



7. The Docks Company shall return plant-il 

 lumber as actual size. 



Example: (A) Planed to % inch. 



(B) Planed to % inch, and so 

 on. 



8. All thicknesses to be piled and returned 

 separately. In cases wliere the piles are stowed 

 one upon another they shall be so shown on the 

 Docks Company's return. 



9. When wood is piled in widths, the width 

 shall be returned in quarters of an inch up to 

 and including 6 inches ; over C inches ail frac- 

 tions of an inch shall be disregarded. 



10. When lumber is stack-piled at reduced 

 rates, the Docks Company wijl not be required 

 to show the widths unless specially requested 

 to do so, in which case a charge will not be 

 made for returning the widths of planks 2 

 inches and upwards, but may be made for smaller 

 pieces of planks, boards, scantlings, etc. 



11. In the absence of special instructions 

 from the owners, or agents of the goods, the 

 quantity in a stack-pile is to be regulated by 

 the description and thicknesses of the wood; 

 say : 



800 superficial feet of 1-inch oak. 

 1,000 superficial feet of 1-inch walnut. 

 1,200 superficial feet of 1-inch whitewood. 

 Other descriptions and thicknesses of wood 

 to be in about the same proportion. 



N. B. — Any lumber and sawn mahogany not 

 measured under these regulations will be so noti- 

 fied on the landing and measuring returns. 



The following interpretations of Regulations 

 3 and 9 were agreed to : 



Rule 3. All lumber of 1 inch or under to be 

 returned in superficial feet of its thickness. All 

 1^,4 inch and up planks to be returned in super- 

 ficial measurements of 1 inch thick. 



Rule 9. The breadth column to be headed as 

 "about": all parts of nn inch up "to and in- 

 cluding lialf to be disregarded, and over half 

 to be called the next inch. This only refers 

 to breadths over 6 Inches. 



The failure of Joseph Wilkinson, a timber 

 merchant of London, lias caught a number of 

 prominent concerns of London, Liverpool and 

 (llasgow, and has had its effect on business. 

 The llnbilities are £7,073 and assets £2,619. 

 Following is a list of the principal creditors : 



Uittor Lumber Co., Liverpool iL.SoO 



Irvln v^: Sellers, Liverpool S.'j.'j 



I. Kennedy & Co., London . . . v •*''o3 



Cobhett & Co.. London f.87 



Wright, Graham & Co.. Glasgow fnii 



T. Edwards & Son, London. 462 



I. Webster & Brother, Liverpool 420 



C. G, Jones. I.ondon 400 



Gelllbrand, Ileywood & Co., London 36.-i 



Best & Co 318 



An offer of 10s on the pound has been made 

 and is being considered by the creditors. 



Lewis Dosler, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association oC the TTnlted States, 

 Is on a visit to Mngland. and opinions are being 

 exchanged with people who handle hardwoods. 



S. Rubcnstein of the Great Eastern Timber 

 rnmnjiny has slarled for his second trip to 

 liard\vood centers. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HASD'WOOD BECOBD Exolaslve Market Beporteri.) 



Chicago. 



The bnrdwuod liOde still holon up remarkably 

 good among Chicago manufacturers and whole 

 saicrs. It Is the concensus of opinion that the 

 month of December will Involve sales larger 



llian Iui\'e been experienced by the Chicago ti-ade 

 'luring tlie corr<spccdlng montb for many years. 

 The Rcrambic Htlll lontlnues for plain oak. 

 Every consumer seems to be In the market for 

 It. and there Is not enough to go around, niid 

 no prospect of future supplies to cut int<i In 



