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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 10, 1916 



' Chamber of Commerce Meeting 



The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America wiJl 

 hold its fifth annual meeting January 31 and February 1 and 2. at the 

 Willard hotel. Washington. D. C. 



The Colors of the Republic 



The good fellowship meetings of the Lumbermen's Association of Chi- 

 cago were resumed on Thursday noon, November 2, at a luncheon at 

 which the speaker and guest of honor was the Rev. Mr. George Craig 

 Stewart, L. H. D. Mr. Stewart presented a new conception of patriotism 

 in a vitally manly address on the subject of "The Colors of the Republic." 



While the season Is still rather young for full attendance at these 

 gatherings, there was a very good crowd of lumbermen present to applaud 

 the speaker's remarks. 



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Death of Prominent Cleveland Hardwood Man 

 John Low Sands, secretary of the F. T. Peitch Company, one of the 



largest hardwood concerns in the Cleveland district, died at his home. 



15503 Clifton Boulevard, November 3. Mr. Sands had been ill for two 



years, at the beginning of which he gave up 



work. He had been connected with the Peitch 



interests for the last five years, following the 



closing of the Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company. 



of which he was manager of the hardwood de- 

 partments. 



He had been prominently connected with the 



lumber business of northern Ohio for more than 



a <lecade, and during his career made a host of 



friends. His first job was with R. E. Wood of 



Baltimore, and his first insight into the lumber 



business was in the mills of that firm in West 



Virginia. Making good, he was given a road 



position, and from this beginning he developed 



into a salesman of rare ability. He was a grad- 

 uate of Yale University. 



Funeral services were held at his late home In 



Lakewood, November 6, at which leading mem- 

 bers of the hardwood industry and many visitors 



who were in Cleveland attended. Mr. Sands is 



survived by his widow and two brothers. 



Large Chimney Completed 



The largest sawmill chimney in the state of 

 Wlscoisin was completed at Rib Lake last week. 

 The chimney, which Is of brick construction, was 

 built by the Alphons Custodis Chimney Construc- 

 tion Company of New York City for the new 

 modern sawmill of the Rib Lake Lumber Com- 

 pany, which mill will be ready to start operations 

 in about another month. 



This chimney is 165 feet high. 14 feet IO14 Inches in diameter at the 

 bottom and 7 feet 9 Inches in diameter at the top. It rests on a solid 

 concrete foundation, reinforced with steel, 20 feet square, n feet thick 

 and has a dead weight on same of 364 tons. The chimney in question is 

 guaranteed to withstand the dead and wind loads of the column when 

 exposed to a wind velocity of 100 miles per hour. 



Cincinnati Firm Loses Shipload of Mahogany Logs 



Word was received in Cincinnati last week by the I<'r(-il)orK Lumber 

 Company, manufacturer of mahogany and veneers and extensive importer 

 of fine woods, that the steamship WilUpa, of 1,200 tons capacity, loaded 

 with mahogany logs for the Cincinnati concern, had foundered on the 

 reefs of Cape Gracias. off the coast of Nicaragua. The logs were valued 

 at .$30,000 and fully Insured. 



The cablegram stated that the crew of twenty-three men was saved, 

 also Supercargo James Raugh. How the ship foundered is not known; 

 Captain Charles Johnson of New Orleans was in charge of the ship. 



The lost cargo was the first of 8,000,000 feet of mahogany logs that the 

 Freiberg company has arranged to Import to the United States. The 

 ship was insured for $125,000. 



New Arkansas Mill 

 As a result of the recent decision of the Arkansas Railroad Commis- 

 sion, cancelling the special rate given the Mollne Lumber Company of 

 Malvern, Ark., by the Rock Island, that company finds It necessary, in 

 order to cut down expenses of moving logs to erect a new sawmill nearer 

 its timber to work up low-grade stock. It has therefore been determined 

 to erect a new hardwood mill at Velie, Ark., which Is situated on the 

 Rock Island near the company's main timber holdings. The new mill will 

 be equipped with a circular saw and will have a dally capacity of 25,000 

 feet, and will be used to saw up the low-grade hickory, gum, oak and 

 other hardwood logs. In addition to the mill will also he erected a large 

 commissary, boarding house and several dwellings ifor the employes. The 



THE LATE J. L. SANDS, CLEVELAND 



lumber will be carried on a yard at that place, but will be sold through 

 the regular sales office at Malvern. 



This company has recently purchased several million feet of gum and 

 cypress timber which, together with the already large amount held by 

 it, equips it for several years' run. The new plants will be finished and 

 ready for operations, according to the plans, within sixty days. 



Makes Change to Former Company 



C. W. Tunis announces that he has severed his connection with the 

 Probst Lumber Company of Cincinnati, as manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment, and has again taken charge of the C. W. Tunis Lumber Com- 

 pany of Ashland, Ky., and has moved the office to the Bell block, Cin- 

 cinnati. Mr. Tunis says that his company will handle West Virginia and 

 southern hardwoods and will specialize in dimension for the furniture, 

 wagon, plow and automobile trades. He will also handle an extensive 

 line of railroad and Industrial requirements In ties, timber, car stock 

 and plank. 



Great Merger of Wagon Factories 



Initial steps toward a merger of twenty or more of Cincinnati's leading 

 wagon factories Into one corporation were taken at a meeting of two 

 dozen prominent wagon manufacturers at Cincinnati last week. 



The plan contemplated is to organize a company, with a capitalization 

 of .$500,000, to engage In the manufacture of wagons and auto trucks for 

 all purposes. It is planned to build one central 

 plant and also to operate branch plants In dif- 

 ferent sections of the city. Many of the plants 

 now in operation will be utilized as branch plants ; 

 others will be abandoned e'ntirely. 



The project has been under way two months 

 and now seems certain of realization since twenty 

 firms already are favorable. Others are expected 

 to join in the venture before the final details are 

 perfected. 



One of the leading promoters of the plan, desig- 

 nated as the spokesman of the meeting, said that 

 the object of the contemplated big merger was to 

 (li'crease the overhead cost of production and 

 bring about a higher state of efficiency In the 

 various units that will be parts of the parent 

 organization. 



To Attorney Emil Hauck has been intrusted 

 the task of preparing the necessary legal papers 

 for organization. Another meeting will be called 

 in the near future to ratify the proposed agree- 

 ment among the several owners and to effect an 

 organization by the election of officers and a 

 directorate. 



Among those who spoke In favor of the merger 

 at the meeting were Fred Dhonau, Jr, president 

 of the F. Dhonau Son's Company, L. J. Froellcher 

 of the A. Froelicher Son's Company, Michael 

 Klopp of Phillip Klopp & Sons, George Finn of 

 the J. Finn's Sons' Company, and J. H. Lewis, 

 Harry W. Monning and H. Burdotf, individual 

 wagon manufacturers. 



Moving spirits of the enterprise said after the meeting that the plan 

 was an assured success. 



Irregularities in Connection with Tennessee Failure 



The failure of John M. Smith Company, a large hardwood lumber 

 operator at Dickson, Tenn., has been the most startling happening of the 

 kind in this territory, affecting the lumber trade, in a numlier of years. 

 Mr. Smith had been connected with large lumber concerns at Dickson, 

 and some two years ago entered business on his own account, being one 

 of the most popular men In this section. The first chapter in the collapse 

 of the company came during the latter part of October, when It was 

 announced that an assignment had been made, with liabilities of $71,000 

 and assets of $118,000. Nashville firms were hit for about $10,000, 

 those Included being Llebernmn, Loveman & O'Brien, Love, Boyd & Co., 

 Ewing & Gllllland. Baker, Jacobs & Co., and others for small sums. 

 Discovery of Irregularities in failure to list liabilities caused an Investiga- 

 tion. The National Bond & Investment Company of Chicago, having a 

 claim of approximately $21,000, was among those Investigating, it being 

 stated that this was due to Mr. Smith having collected on invoices for 

 lumber. After the assignment had been made Mr. Smith could not be 

 located. He had been in Nashville a day or two earlier. Following the 

 sensational developments Nashville creditors followed an Involuntary 

 petition in bankruptcy against the company, and brought the matter Into 

 the United States district court at Nashville. H. T. Cowan of Dickson 

 has been appointed receiver for the company. Up to this week nothing 

 could be learned as to the whereabouts of Smith, although the bonding 

 company and various creditors have been making energetic efforts to 

 locate him. He was at one time connected with the hardwood trade at 

 Nashville, but had been at Dickson five or six years. 



E. C. Atkins & Co. Changes Managers 

 H. T. Benham, who through his years of service as advertising man- 

 ager of E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.. has built up a wide 



