December 25, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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W. E. Hyde Will Open Office at Memphis 



The Hyde Lumber Company announces that W. E. Hyde, vice-president, 

 will open an office in the Bank of Commerce building, Memphis, about 

 January 1. The object is to enable him to give more direct and personal 

 attention to the rapidly growing interests of both The Hyde Lumber 

 Company, South Bend, Ind., and the Desha Lumber Company, whose mills 

 are at Lake Providence, La. 



Mr. Hyde has been an active worker in southern association and club 

 work for some time. He is actively interested in the new Southern 

 Alluvial Land Association. 



Lenox Sawmill Company Making Good Progress 



Vice-president W. D. Johnston of the Leno.'i Sawmill Company of Lenox, 

 Ky., recently returned to Pittsburgh, Pa., after a week's visit at the mill. 

 Mr. Johnston examined the new construction work and reports that the 

 new railroad has Just been completed from Redwine, Ky., to the sawmill 

 at Lenox, a distance of about six miles. The town of Lenox is all built ; 

 has about thirty houses, a hotel, commissary and office buildings. The 

 sawmill frame is completed and machinery is now being installed. This 

 consists of a heavy Clark band mill, a horizontal resaw, a Clark edger, etc. 

 The entire plant will be driven by electric power. 



Logging operations are now going on at full speed with the object of 

 having plenty of material on hand for the mill to start on about February 1. 

 It is expected there will be 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 feet of logs in the pond 

 and on the ramps at that date. 



The company now owns about 100,000,000 feet of timber and will prob- 

 ably secure a similar amount in the future, giving the operation a total 

 of about 200,000,000 feet, principally white and red oak and poplar. 



As previously noted in Hardwood Record, the Lenox Sawmill Company 

 is owned by W. S. Whiting of Elizabethtown, Tenn., and W. D. Johnston 

 of Pittsburgh. 



Anderson-TuUy Company Will Soon Have New Vicksburg Mill 



Running 



Within about thirty days the mill of the Anderson-Tully Company being 

 built at Vicksburg will be sawing lumber. The machinery is for the most 

 part in place and all that remains is to connect it all up, clean out the 

 debris and "get her going." The mill is a finely arranged structure, right 

 on one of the bays of the river, and takes its logs on a long haul-up right 

 out of the water. The passage through the mill is exceptionally well laid 

 out to provide for economic handling. The equipment will consist of a 

 nine-foot band mill, a horizontal and a vertical resaw and other necessary 

 equipment. Provision is being made to pile about 4,000,000 feet of 

 lumber on a tract immediately adjacent to the mill, and the remainder 

 of the stock will be taken on down the tracks beyond the plant of Houston 

 Brothers onto the main yards. 



Receiver Refused for William Whitmer & Sons, Inc. 



In the suit of Robert F. Whitmer vs. William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., 

 being an application for a receiver on the ground of insolvency, the 

 chancellor of the state of Delaware made an 'order on December 16 dis- 

 charging the rule to show cause why a receiver pendente lite should not 

 be appointed. The rule was heard by the chancellor on affidavits filed on 

 behalf of both parties. S'even persons filed affidavits supporting the con- 

 tention of insolvency ; one of the seven was the complainant himself and 

 the other six were persons who had formerly been connected with the 

 company. On the other hand fifty-eight affidavits were filed on behalf of 

 .the defendant company showing an excess of assets over liabilities amount- 

 ing to upwards of $4,000,000. Most of these affidavits were by persons 

 wholly without interest in the litigation and who were thoroughly familiar 

 with the facts about which they testified. 



The chancellor in bis opinion, among other things, said : 

 Upon the return of the rule heretofore granted why a receiver should 

 not be appointed, the defendant, by its officers, denies under oath all the 

 allegations of the bill of complaint upon which the charge of insolvency 

 rests. These affidavits specifically set forth the assets and liabilities of the 

 company, showing an excess of the former; aver that all claims against 

 the company are being promptly paid as px-esented ; and allege that there 

 are no suits, attachments or Judgments of any kind against the company 

 by which its property is Jeopardized, or can be wasted or diminished. 

 They also tend to show and assert that the company is carrying on its 

 business with profit and advantage to its stockholders. The affiants 

 allege that such parts of the business as have demonstrated themselves 

 to be unprofitable, have on that account, been discontinued in the interest 

 of economical management. 



Lamb-Fish Lumber Company Expanding 

 The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, Charleston, Miss., is already the big 

 part of that town. Within the immense white fenced tract it seems that 

 there would hardly be room enough to house further industry, but in the 

 near future two new operations will have become parts of the Lamb-Fish 

 layout, if not strictly in the organization itself. 



Some years ago the company put in a large, well-cQuipped bending plant 

 for the manufacture of various bent materials from hickory. On cutting 

 out the suitable raw material, the plant became useless and has stood idle 

 for some time. A short while ago negotiations were completed with the 

 Queen City Box Company of Cincinnati, O., and that concern is now 

 actively engaged in re-equipping the plant with the best possible facilities 

 for the manufacture of rotary veneers and boxes from those veneers. 

 The floors have been pretty well equipped and the work of laying out the 



new equipment is now well in progress. It is expected that it will be 

 completed within the next two or three months. 



The other unit is to be a modernly equipped hospital for the use of 

 Lamb-Fish employes. The building will be very attractive, a one-story 

 affair on a duplex floor plan, that is, one side will be for the white help 

 and an identical section in the other wing will be for the negro element. 

 The building will have a large reception hall, the various necessary smaller 

 storage rooms of different characters, two wards and two private rooms, 

 the wards having large glass sun parlors, opening onto what will fcc a 

 flowered court. The basement will contain the heating apparatus and 

 other necessary features of that character. 



Robert S. Corson Joins George B. Osgood 

 George B. Osgood, principal in the George B. Osgood Lumber Company,. 

 Peoples Gas building. Chicago, announces that he has been Joined im 

 business by Robert S. Corson, who for the past fourteen years had becni 

 ■with Upham & .\gler, Chicago, in a selling capacity. Mr. Corson is. 

 generally considered to be one of the best hardwood salesmen in Chicago- 

 and the northern territory. He is a hard worker and is after business 

 every minute. 



Mr. Corson is well-known everywhere where hardwood lumber is bought. 

 W'ith the high standing of Mr. Osgood in this territory and the company's 

 excellent mill connections, the combination should be a winning one. Mr. 

 Osgood and Mr. Corson seem to be starting the year right, and certainly 

 have the best wishes of Hardwood Record for the utmost success "right 

 off the reel." 



Will Add to Plant 



The Leopold Desk Company, Burlington, Iowa, advises that It is in 

 the market for a dry kiln equipment, the most modern equipment avail- 

 able. 



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Pertinent Information 



A Letter From Doctor Schenck 



J. S. Illick, professor of forestry, Pennsylvania State Forestry Academy. 

 Mont Alto, Pa., has forwarded to the editor of Hardwood Record a letter 

 liy Dr. C. A. Schenck written on October 23, which reached Mr. Illick on 

 December S. We are sure that everyone will be interested in reading what 

 the good doctor has to say. 



Darmstadt, Heidelbergerstr. 16, Oct. 23, 1916. 

 J. Illick, Esq., 



Mont Alto. Franklin Co., Penna. 

 Dear Old Illick : 



Quite recently and after two years of waiting, I received a few American 

 lumber papers. The American Lumberman, the Southern Lumberman, 

 the North Western Lumberman, also American Forestry and — Forest 

 Leaves! — 'the latter containing an essay of your own good self. You caa 

 imagine that I did not lose any time in getting after it. To me, person- 

 ally — since I have been an adjutant of a battalion in Poland, and with 

 the civil administration in Brussels, your remarks are of peculiar interest. 

 How I wished to have been able to give you some hints and facts, con- 

 cerning your topic "The Foj-csts of the War Zones!" It is too late, now. 

 Thus, my notes are coming post fehstum. 



1. Poland : — I have seen but that part of Poland, during a stay or 

 rather a meandering of five months, which lies south of Lodz — where I 

 got wounded, quite unnecessarily. The woods and forests belong to the 

 landed aristocracy, and to the crown, in this case the Czar. The poor 

 devil of farmer has never had any show. Amazing it is, that the poor 

 used to go begging for fuel, with gigantic forests, in which the timber 

 and wood is going to waste, lying at their doors. Those poor devils were 

 never allowed to gather the decaying stuff. I tell you. if the land policy 

 from a national viewpoint, has been wrong in the good U. S. A., — it has 

 been infernally and cursedl.v wrong in Poland. Now-a-days all these forests 

 are placed in charge of German foresters, taken from their jobs at home. 

 Some of these you happen to know, e.g. Herr Krutina of Heidelberg. No 

 timber or wood is being cut, without being previously marked. Fire patrols 

 are maintained during the hot season. Industries (sawmills, paper mills, 

 tannic acid factories and naval stores) are being developed. Never have 

 the woods been better handled than they are now. 



2. Belgium :— Jn Belgium, there are practically, no forests, excepting 

 that gorgeous stretch near Brussels. Those in the Ardennes are "wood- 

 lands," or — in a few cases — parks of the wealthy, e.g. that of Sir Wm. 

 Schlich ! The rest is scrubby stuff, so notable in the sandy plains of 

 Flanders, in the Province of Limburg. In the Province of Brabant, 

 Hainaut. Liege, there is nothing I should like to own. Now, that was 

 the condition before the war. All that the Germans have done, was to 

 insist, that the woods should not suffer from any fires. I have been instru- 

 mental in that line myself. There is no such thing as reckless cutting by 

 the Germans. Where the woodlands have been laid low, — by the armies 

 of both sides — ^it was done to build trenches, log houses, and above all to 

 gain a free sight for the guns. A few fine avenues of trees had to come 

 down, also. But — not 3 per cent of the avenues — upon my best knowledge 

 and true belief — were thus ruined. To speak of wholesale destruction of 

 fine woodlands, by reckless soldiers, is in the case of Belgium impossible — 

 because there were none, save the famous ones at Brussels, which stand 

 as beautiful today as they ever did. 



3. Occupied Part of France : — Here I have no personal knowledge. 

 I have not been there. My informants are my relatives fighting there- 

 abouts, and the ranger of Lindenfels, (Pfeifer) whom you may remeuibe 

 and who has been here on leave. They tell me that with eachanny cor 

 there is a committee on economic questions. A forest officer of rank i i 

 member of each committee. His helpers are forest rangers, taken f m 

 the ranks. Not a tree is cut without being marked, excepting those ci , by 

 shells. When a battalion wants wood, for building or for fuel o. for 

 charcoal, the ranger is sent to mark the trees. Naturally, no forest 

 planting is being thought of. Otherwise the woods are being cared for. 

 A man, who has not been on the fighting line, can not well form an idea 

 of what is being done there — aside of fighting. 



To make a long tale short, and so as not to annoy the censor unduly. 



