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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 25, 191G 



Chicago Furniture Company Has Large Fire 



The S. Karpen Company, Inion avenue and Twenty-second street, Chicago, 

 suffered a $60,000 fire loss on f>unday night, October 15, The fire did its 

 greatest damage in the iiilns and in the lumber, destroying not only the com- 

 pany's stock, but stoclt being drietl for outside concerns. The loss was very 

 well covered by insurance. Five to seven kilns were totally destroyed with 

 their lumber contents. 



The Karpen company will rebuild immediately and states that the loss did 

 not interfere seriously with its operations, causing more inconvenience than 

 hardship. 



Riemeier Lumber Company Files Schedule 



George H. and Harry D. Riemeier, doing business as the Riemeier Lum- 

 ber Company, Cincinnati, against whom bankruptcy proceedings were in- 

 stituted recently by tiie Woods Lumber Company and others, last week filed 

 their schedule of liabilities and assets. The former amount to $72,918.42 

 and the latter $2.3,078.02. The assets consist of cash, $83.17 ; stock in 

 trade, $4,500 ; horses and vehicles, $415 ; debts due on open accounts, $17,- 

 521.85, and deposits in bank, $558. 



Of the liabilities $5,788.81 represents secured claims, $61,356 unsecured 

 and $5,6."6 notes which ought to be paid by other parties. The largest un- 

 secured creditors include : 



Anderson-Tully Company. Memphis. $1,872 ; Appalachia Lumber Com- 

 . pany. Cincinnati, $1,265; Bellgrade Lumber Company, Memphis, $1,150; 

 Buskirk-Rutledge Lumber Company, Cincinnati, $1,4.38 : Barr-Holaday Lum- 

 ber Company, Greenfield, $1,490; Brown & Hackney, Memphis, $1,184; 

 Bradley Lumber Company, Greenwood, Miss., $1,083; Champion Lumber 

 Company, Crestmont, N. C, $3.74.3 ; City Hall Bank, Cincinnati, $5,000 ; 

 Campbellsville Lumber Compony, Campbellsville. Ky., $1,145 ; Crenshaw- 

 Gary Lumber Company, Memphis, $1,600 : C. Crane & Co., Cincinnati, 

 $1,297 ; Delphi Lumber Company, Cowen, W. Va., $1,102 ; Dunlap Lumber 

 Company, Nashville, Tenn., $1,828 ; Lamb-Fish Lumber Company. Charles- 

 ton, Miss,, $1,823; Moline Lumber Company, Malvern, .\rk.. $1,045; D. S. 

 Pate Lumber Company, Chicago, $1,284 ; Rockcastle Lumber Company, Hunt- 

 ington, W. Va.. $1,142 ; ,T. V. Stimson Hardwood Company. Memphis, $1,277 ; 

 C. A. Scott & Co., Tellico Plains, Tenn., $1,505; Wood Lumber Company, 

 Millingtnn. Tenn.. $2,199, and the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, Baltimore. 

 Md., $1,013. 



Big Wheel Company to Move to Memphis 



Announcement is made that the Kelsey Wheel Company, s-bicli has had 

 its main plant at Detroit, Mich., and which has operated a brancli plant 

 In Memphis, Tenn., for several years, will remove its Detroit mnclilnery to 

 this center and make Memphis its headquarters. The main plant which 

 has heretofore been operated at Detroit will be consolidated with the Mem- 

 phis branch and finished wheels for automobiles will be made on a large 

 scale. No definite date has been set for the removal, but it is announced 

 that this will be undertaken in the near future. The local plant turns out 

 more than two thousand sets of automobile wheels per day and employs 

 between 700 and 1,000 men. .\fter the Detroit machinery has been removed 

 to Memphis the capacity of the local plant will be further increased and the 

 number of men employed will likewise be enlarged. It Is suggested that as 

 skilled labor is required for a great deal of the work at the plant of the 

 company at Memphis a considerable number of employes heretofore en- 

 gaged at the Detroit factory will be brought to this city. The Kelsey 

 Wheel Company has vastly enlarged its facilities for the manufacture of 

 automobile wheels during the past few months and It now has one of the 

 largest factories for this purpose In the country. Only within the past 

 few months has the necessary machinery been installed for the manufac- 

 ture of complete wheels. For several years after beginning operations 

 here the company manufactured spokes and rims hut had no facilities for 

 putting these together. 



Bellgrade Lumber Company to Develop New Timber 



The Bellgrade Lunil)er Company of Memphis. T''Tin., Ii.-is announced that 

 It has secured the sawmill belonging to the Ferd Brenner Lumber Company 

 at Zwolle, La., and that this will he removed in n short time to either Mid- 

 night or Louise, Miss, The company, it will be recalled, some time ago pur- 

 chased about 7,500 acres of timl>erlanrt in Yazoo and .vharkey counties, 

 Mississippi, and this mill will be installed lor the purpose of developing 

 the timber on this property. The plant has a capacity of about 40.000 feet 

 per day, but this will be increased to at least ."iO.OOO feet, or possibly even 

 more. It has not been decided whether the plant will be located at Mid- 

 night or Louise. Both towns are very .inxlous to secure it and a strenuous 

 contest is now being waged for this enterprise. 



Is Going to Revise Timber Cruising Methods 

 Herman H. Chapman, professor of forestry management of the Yale 

 School of Forestry, Is undertaking the rather large tjisk of revising Graves' 

 book on Forest Mensuration, and to this end Is soliciting the Ideas of 

 lumbermen, cruisers, forest engineers and others for valuable sugges- 

 tions. 



Mr. Chapman states that timber estimating, while requiring long experi- 

 ence and Individual Judgment, depends also on systematic methods, and 

 that the factors making for accuracy should be regulated and understood 

 by stumpage owners as well as cruisers. lie claims that those cruisers 

 who are not able to definitely describe the method Ijy which they work are 

 apt to give inaccurate and Inconsistent reports, while where cruisers 

 show consistency their work is apt to be along definite lines. 



Mr. Chapman Is soliciting the opinions of firms and Individuals Inter- 

 ested In this question In a series of questions which he Is asking on a 

 printed form. 



Widely Known Architect and Builder Dies 



George M. Anderson of Elzner & Anderson, Clncinmiti architects, and 

 for the last two years president of the Cincinnati chapter of the Ameri- 

 can Institute of Architects, died last week at the home of his mother, 

 Mrs. Larz Anderson, Grandin road. East Walnut Hills. Mr. Anderson 

 was widely known in business and social circles. He ha.d been ill about 

 two years, but the seriousness of his condition was not realized until 

 near the end. 



Associated with A, O. Elzner twenty years, he and his partner gained 

 fame through the construction of the Ingalls building, at Fourth and 

 Vine streets, Cincinnati, then the tallest re-enforced concrete building in 

 the country. He was forty-seven years old and unmarried. 



Mr. Anderson was a member of the Queen City Club, The Pillars, Busi- 

 ness Men's Club, Country Club, Chamber of Commerce. MacDowell So- 

 ciety, Art Club, and a member of the vestry of Christ Church. He did 

 considerable oil painting, and was noted for his high ideals and active 

 interest in public questions, particularly those pertaining to the beauti- 

 fication of the city. 



Pertinent Information 



Baltimore Exports Unimproved 



There is no improvement in the export situation so far as volume is con- 

 cerned. The report of the shipments for September shows an increase over 

 the same month last year, but the gain is entirely in one item, which makes 

 up the bulk of the business. The declared value of the shipments, for in- 

 stance, was $93,089 as against $79,070 in September, 1915, but not less 

 than $61,702 proved to be on account of spruce, which wood is being used 

 very extensively in the construction of aeroplanes. Furthermore, the qualit.v 

 of the spruce shipped has gone up very materially in price. In most other 

 items on the list a positive reduction in movement has taken place, where 

 shipments have not ceased altogether, as in the case of white pine, short 

 leaf pine, "all other boards," and in shooks. Thus the shipments of oak 

 declined from 885,000 to 66,000 feet, those of poplar from 90,000 to 80,000 

 feet, and those of staves from 394,820 to 48,239, while the designation 

 "other manufactures of wood" went up from $7,564 to $15,031. The ex- 

 hibit, however, clearly shows to what extent the British order in council 

 Is proving effective as a means of keeping out American woods from the 

 countries still open. 



Reports recently received here from various sections stated that many of 

 th^ exporters are preparing to rush large quantities of lumber to the United 

 Kingdom at an early date, preparations being based on statements that the 

 British Government will shortly remove the embargo upon shipments, as 

 stocks have run very low. Such advices, according to some of the leading 

 exporters, among them John L. Alcock & Co., of this city, are altogether 

 erroneous. Mr. Alcock, in speaking of the matter the other day, said that 

 not only was there no shortage In the United Kingdom, but the stocks held 

 there were actually so large as to tax the storage space. Norway and 

 Russia, in particular, he said, had been shipping vvhitewood, or poplar, to 

 the United Kingdom In large quantities, and other kinds of lumber had 

 also gone forward in very liberal proportions. He could not understand 

 how a report of a shortage could have gotten out, the information received 

 by him from his foreign correspondents being altogether to the contrary. 

 Besides, Mr. Alcock stated that with the exception of some few special sizes 

 there was no need in England tor stocks, and the supplies being laid up for 

 the supposed rush that was to come had not been manufactured with a view 

 to meeting the special requirements of the British consumers. 



The above picture was recently taken by an employe of the Iluddleston- 

 Marsh Mahogany Company of New York and Chicago, and shows mahog- 

 any logs at railroad terminal, about thlrty-flve miles In from the African 

 coast. These logs will be floated out to the coast when steamer Is there 

 and ready to take chem aboard. Mr. Iluddleston states that they have Just 

 unloaded a fine cargo of fresh large Honduras mahogany logs. 



