October 25, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



29 



Report of Roper Fire in Error 



Just prior to the issue of October 10, Hardwood Record received from 

 what it considered an authentic source a report of a fire at the plant of the 

 John L. Roper Lumber Company at Bellhaven, X. C. 



C. I. Millard, president and general man:!ger of the company, writes that 

 but a small portion of the roof of the planing mill at Bellhaven was de- 

 stroyed, and that this resulted from an accident not associated with the 

 operation. He says that the loss was confined to the necessary repairs of a 

 small section of the roof. 



Will Complete New Plant by First of the Year 

 The Grand Kaiiiils Furniture Company. Grand Kapids, Mich., states that 

 the new plant, construction of which was started a few weeks ago, will 

 probably be completed by the first of January. The factory will be four 

 stories high and modern in every particular. It is expected that the com- 

 pletion of the new building will obviate any dangers from floods, and will 

 furnish room for expansion of the company's output. 



A Quality Alliance 



The Anderson-TuUy Company of Memphis has again shown its good judg- 

 ment in perfecting a selling alliance whereby George B. Osgood will repre- 

 sent it in Chicago and vicinity, while Frank B. Lane of Grand Rapids will 

 look after its interests in 

 that neighborhood. This 

 alliance is a most happy 

 one and might be fittingly 

 called a "quality combina- 

 tion." 



Mr. Osgood is not only 

 a thorough and practical 

 lumberman, but his 

 friends and acquaintances 

 both in the consuming 

 trade and among his com- 

 petitors credit him with 

 being a salesman par ex- 

 cellence. He will be the 

 exclusive agent for the 

 Anderson-Tully interests 

 In Chicago, maintainin;,; 

 his oflBce as heretofore iu 

 the People's Gas building. 

 Mr. Lane, on the other 

 hand, retains his connec- 

 tion with the C. C. Mengel 

 & Bro. Company, handlinc; 

 its mahogany and walnut 

 veneers as he has for a 

 Dumber of years past, but 

 will look after the .\nder- 

 son-Tully lumber interests 

 in the Grand Rapids terri- 

 ritory as well as market- 

 ing a part of its veneer 

 output — gum core stock and crossbanding, 

 in the Houseman building. Grand Rapids, 



The Anderson-Tully Company established years ago a reputation for 

 quantit.v, — in timber, in manufacture, in grade, in service, — which is at- 

 tested to by its many old friends in the trade. The vast output of its five 

 hardwood mills, together with that of the veneer plant, cutting rotary gum 

 core stock and crossbanding, give Mr. Osgood and Mr. Lane an opportunity 

 of not only holding their old trade but of adding many new accounts. 



It is for these reasons that Hakdwood Record believes congratulations 

 are due both of these gentlemen as well as the Anderson-Tully Company, 

 and that the consummation of this alliance will work to mutual profit. 



Starts Work on New Flooring Plant 

 Work started a couple of ^eeks ago on the new hardwood flooring plant 

 of the W. E. -Williams Company. Traverse Cit.v, Mich., at Oconto. Wis., 

 is progressing very nicely. The Williams company is now organized as a 

 Wisconsin corporation with headquarters at Oconto. It purchased ten 

 acres of ground on which the new plant is being erected. The main build- 

 ing will be 240 feet long by 72 feet wide. It will contain five flooring ma- 

 chines. The warehouse will be 200 feet long by 4S feet wide, and the dry 

 kilns will occupy a space of SO by 120 feet. It is expected the work will 

 be completed in about three months' time, and that operations will begin 

 in January. 



Auto Body Factory Damaged by Fire 

 Damage estimated at ?40.000 was ?ustaint^d by the Ilaberer Auto Body 

 Manufacturing Company at Gest street and Millcreek, Cincinnati, last week. 

 The blaze spread with great rapidity through the four-story building, start- 

 ing in the drying room, where large quantities of fine manufactured lumber 

 were burned, A freight train switching across a street delayed the nearest 

 fire company nearly ten minutes, thus allowing the fire to get a big start. 

 and it was necessary to stretch hose for fully a mile. Emil and William 

 Haberer. who conduct the business, estimate their loss in stock at $,30,000, 

 while the building was damaged to the extent of $10,000. 



GEO 



B. OSGOOD, CHICAGO REPRESENTA- 

 TIVE AXDERSOX-TULLY COM- 

 PAXy, MEMPHIS 



Mr, Lane maintains his office 



Lorber Lumber Company Damaged 

 The Lorber Lumber Company, Van Wert, 0„ suffered considerable loss by 

 fire, which after destroying the ele^•ator of the Ireton Brothers mill, com- 

 municated to its yards, consuming a large quantity of rubberoid roofing and 

 much fine lumber stored in a shed. A carload of poles belonging to the Van 

 Wert Telephone Company stored in the yards was destroyed. 



Getting New Kentucky Operation Rapidly in Shape 

 The American Lumber and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 which, by the way, is the company which recently delivered .5,000,000 feet 

 of lumber in four weeks' time, making possible the opening of the Tnion- 

 town. Pa., automobile speedway, is interested through its officers in the 

 Lenox Sawmill Company of Lenox, Ky. 



This company is owned equally by W. D. Johnston, president of the 

 American Lumber and Manufacturing Company, and W. S, Whiting of 

 Elizabethton, Tenn. Both of these gentlemen recently returned from a 

 trip to the mill, and state that the construction work is progressing in a 

 most satisfactory manner. The mill will cut an unusually good lot of 

 white oak and poplar. 



In order to get to its timber, a difficult piece of railroad construction 

 about six miles in extent is being put in, which requires numerous trestles 



of a most substantial 

 character. There is a 400- 

 foot tunnel cut through 

 solid rock, which will be 

 completed by the end of 

 this month. The steel 

 rail is now on the ground 

 and when the tunnel is 

 completed the work of 

 finishing up the railroad 

 will proceed rapidly. 



The mill will be driven 

 almost entirely by elec- 

 tricity, and is of the most 

 u p-t o-d ate construction 

 and will have a capacity 

 of something over a mil- 

 lion feet a month, a large 

 percentage of which will 

 be quartered white oak. 



The company is the pos- 

 sessor of 100,000,000 feet 

 of timber, to which it will 

 add considerable areas 

 from time to time, prob- 

 ably enough to give the 

 mill a life of from fifteen 

 to twenty years. 



It is expected that the 

 work will be completed by 

 the middle of December, 

 and that after that t'me 



FRAXK B. L-\XE. GRAND RAPIDS REPRE- 

 SEXT.\TIVE .i^XDEKSOX-TULLY COM- 

 PAXT, MEMPHIS, TEXX, 



Mr. Whiting will devote considerable of his time to the manufacturing end, 

 while Mr. Johnston will look to the sales end. The operation is assured of 

 an unusually bright future. 



New Plant for Champion Tool Works 

 Harvey W. Kreuzberg, president of the Champion Tool Works, Cin- 

 cinnati, O., one of the largest manufacturers of machine and wood- 

 working tools in this section of the country, recently announced that 

 the corporation would spend in the neighborhood of ?100.000 in the 

 construction of a new plant on Spring Grove avenue, Cincinnati. Xego- 

 tiations have practically been concluded for the purchase of a tract 

 containing approximatel.v six acres. Plans already are under considera- 

 tion for the principal building. This, according to Mr. Kreuzberg, is 

 to be 150 by 300 feet and will be of the saw tooth type of construction. 

 It is likely that a firm of engineers will make the plans for the several 

 buildings, work on which will not start until next spring. The pur- 

 chase of this tract is an indication that the Champion Tool Works 

 Company and the several interests which were identified with the former in 

 a colony scheme, such as exists at Oakley, a suburb, have abandoned the 

 idea, A large tract was optioned last spring with the expectation that the 

 rapid transit loop would materialize in a short time and that (Westwood) 

 section of the city would be afforded transportation facilities. Recent 

 developments caused the project to be dropped. 



Baker & Son's New Box Factory 



P. T. Baker & Son, box manufacturers, will construct a new factory at 

 the northeast corner of Liberty and McLean avenue, Cincinnati, O., the 

 principal building to be 250 by 7D feet and one story, and will be well 

 equipped for the work to be done; 



The firm has leased the present quarters of the E. E. Beck Ltimber Com- 

 pany for ten years, with the privilege of purchase at .$40,000. The Beck 

 Lumber Company will move further west on Liberty street, where there is a 

 spacious yard. 



