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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10, 1917 



Memphis Club Hears Addresses 



Members of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at the regular semi- 

 monthly meeting of that organization at the Hotel Gayoso Saturday. 

 March 31, listened to brilliant appeals tbv support of the League to En- 

 force Peace made by Bolton Smith of Memphis and John K. Doan, field 

 secretary of the league. These gentlemen emphasized that the organiza- 

 tion was designed to afford facilities for the maintenance of peace after 

 the war was over and assured the club members that it was not a paci- 

 ficist but rather a preparedness league. Sentiment among members of 

 the club strongly favored the ideas advanced by the speakers and, while 

 no official action was taken by the club, it was quite clear that the or- 

 ganization would receive cordial support from individual members. The 

 meeting was given over largely to the addresses of the two speakers 

 and the regular order of business was therefore suspended. The usual 

 luncheon was served. There were seventy-four members and visitors 

 present. 



Charles G. Kadel, chairman of the special committee which formed the 

 employment bureau now being maintained by the club, reported that during 

 March employment was found for forty-five persons in various depart- 

 ' ments of lumber and mill work, including thirty inspectors. 



It was decided that the next meeting would be held at the home of the 

 Colonial Country Club near White Station. Occasional meetings have 

 been held there during the past two years and they have been wholly 

 enjoyable. 



Carriage Builders' National Association 



Members of the Carriage Builders' National Association, who held a 

 special meeting at the Hotel Gibson In Cincinnati last week, see in the 

 "back-to-the-soil" movement, which is to be a part of the preparedness 

 program, prospects of a boom in their business. 



Governor Cox of Ohio and chief executives of other states are advo- 

 cating the growing of greater crops, that there may be no danger of a food 

 famine in the event of war, said Theodore Luth, president of the associa- 

 tion. "Increased activities on the farm mean that more agricultural im- 

 plements, wagons, automobile and buggies will have to be used. Our 

 business is already good, but it is bound to be much better. 



"We met today to discuss the freight traffic congestion, which is keep- 

 ing us from making prompt shipment of carriages. We talked over the 

 increasd price of material used in building carriages, but there is still 

 much to be said in this connection and remedies to be proposed. There- 

 fore I have called another meeting at the Hotel La Salle, Chicago, for 

 June 27." 



Forty leading carriage manufacturers of the. United States attended 

 the meeting, which was a continuation of the session held at the Gibson 

 in February. Nothing definite was accomplished in the plan for beating 

 the high cost of building carriages, wagons and auto bodies. 



Emil E. Hess, treasurer of the Cincinnati Carriage Makers' Club, de- 

 clared that many firms were having their men drive automobiles to dis- 

 tant points, as this is the only way to deliver machines that cannot be 

 sent by freight to customers because of the shortage of railroad cars. 



Cincinnati Carriage Makers Elect Officers 



The Cincinnati Carriage Makers' Club has chosen for its president during 

 the coming year H. H. Nelson of the American Carriage Company. At the 

 first meeting of the new board of directors at the Business Men's Club 

 last Tuesday the following other officers were elected ; First vice-president, 

 Howard S. Cox, Kelly-Springfield Tire Company ; second vice-president, 

 W. S. Rulison, W. F. Robertson Steel and Iron Company ; secretary, W. J. R. 

 Alexander, Wright Varnish Company ; treasurer, Emil E. Hess, Sayers* & 

 Scovllle Company. A tribute was paid the retiring president, Charles 

 A. Fisher, whose administration has been highly successful. It was an- 

 nounced that Frank E. Hutcheson, editor of the Spokesman, will be chair- 

 man of the publicity committee. 



George W. Huston, assistant secretary of the Carriage Builders' National 

 Association, called attention to the meeting of members of that body, 

 which President Theodore Luth called for March 2S last. At this meeting 

 the carriage manufacturers discussed increased prices of material and 

 necessity for standardizing buggies. 



The association will hold Its annual convention at the Hotel La Salle 

 in Chicago next September. Last year It was held in Cincinnati and be- 

 cause of the assistance extended them by the Chamljer of Commerce, 

 officers of the organization already have begun a movement to bring the 

 convention back to Cincinnati in 191S. 



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Allan McLean Killed at New Albany 



Late on the afternoon of March 23. New Albany, Ind., situated directly 

 across the Ohio river from Louisville, was visited by one of the most 

 disastrous cyclones known In this district in many years. A total of 

 thirty-eight lives were lost, while a property damage of .$1,000,000 was 

 recorded. Including a number of plants and residences, a path one-liiilf 



mile wide and three miles long being wiped almost clean. The storm 

 missed the business section of the city completely. 



Included in the wreckage were the woodworking plants of the Kahler 

 Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of cabinets and automobile wood 

 parts, and Jacobson & Sons, manufacturers of cabinets and special wood- 

 work. The Kahler plant, consisting of two large concrete buildings, was 

 totally demolished, six employes being killed in the wreck. F. H. Kahler 

 was in the office at the time and was not Injured. The loss was $75,000, 

 nninsured. Jacobson's loss was about $1.5.000. Both plants are to be 

 rebuilt at once. The lumber yard of the Churchill-Milton Lumber Com- 

 pany, adjoining the Jacobson plant, was hardly touched, a tew stacks 

 of lumber being overturned and scattered. 



Among the dead was Allan McLean, manager of the timber department 

 of the Wood-Mosaic Company, large manufacturer of walnut, oak and 

 other timber. Mr. McLean was ill at his home at the time the storm 

 broke, and was so badly crushed by a falling wall that he died the next 

 morning, following an operation. Mrs. McLean was not seriously hurt, 

 and accompanied the remains to Ottawa, Can., Mr. McLean's former home. 

 Mr. McLean Is survived by a number of brothers In the lumber business, 

 among whom are W. A. McLean, head of the Wood-Mosaic Company ; 

 Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company, Buffalo; R. D. Mc- 

 Lean, president of the McLean Mahogany and Cedar Company, Buffalo ; 

 Angus McLean, president of the Bathhurst Lumber Company, Bathhurst, 

 N. B. ; ,liis father, Donald McLean, of Thurso, Quebec ; and a brother-in- 

 law, Hannon Barclay, secretary of the Wood-Mosaic Company. 



Resolutions adopted by the Louisville Hardwood Club in connection 

 with the death of Allan McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company, New 

 -Albany, Ind., killed In the cyclone of March 23 : 



Whbreas, The members of the Louisville Hardwood Club being deeply 

 grieved at the very sudden and untimely death of our friend and brother 

 member, Allan McLean, endeavor to record their appreciation of his un- 

 blemished reputation and untainted character and the affectionate regard 

 with which they shall cherish his memory, and. 



Whereas, It is most unfortunate that one, who had just blossomed out 

 into the fullness of life, should be so soon called upon to cross the valley 

 of the shadow of death, and. 



Whereas, Realizing that we cannot say anything to soften the grief 

 or mitigate the loneliness that must come to his family at this time, how- 

 ever, be it 



Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes, and copies 

 thereof be sent our departed friend's family, extending our deepest sympa- 

 thies at this hour of bereavement. 



ALLAN McLEAN: 



An Appreciation 

 By G. D. Cratn, Jr. 



Allan McLean in dead; and icith his death there panned a hero. His 

 death, in the crash and chaos of a destructive tornado, icas not more heroic 

 than his life. 



He was one of a family of hiy men — and he lea.t a bin man. Xot physi- 

 cally, hut in spirit. Ilandieapped by ill health, he was not merely brave, 

 hut cheerful. Constantly forced to his bed by physical weakness, 

 the strength of a great spirit shone ever from his eyes. His smile was 

 that of a brave soul which would not yield to adversity. 



Allen McLean wa.H such a man as every man would like to be. He was 

 able to carry his otrn burden, and still lift .^ome of the weight of the world. 

 He was strong enough to forget him.'^elf and enthuse over the interests of 

 others. His capacity for enjoyment limited by his physical condition, he 

 ncvei-theless drained the cup of life to the Ja-tf drop. 



Allan McLean has passed away: hut he will always be remembered. Let 

 this he his epitaph: Here lies a hero not of the battlefield, but of life. 



Geo. D. Burgess Has Relapse 



Word was received from Memphis early in the week stating that the 

 condition of Geo. D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess. Inc., Memphis, and presi- 

 dent of the National Lumber Exporters' Association, was much worse, and 

 that his family and friends felt very apprehensive as to the outcome. Mr. 

 Burgess was taken ill in New Tork while on a business trip right after 

 the annual meeting of the National Lumber Exporters' Association in 

 Pittsburgh, which he managed to attend, and was later brought to the 

 home of his sister. Miss Evelyn Early, in Baltimore. Here he recovered 

 sufficiently to be taken to Memphis, where he continued to make headway 

 for a time. His relapse is a great disappointment to his many friends. 



C. A. Goodyear Lumber Company Goes into Southern Field 



Lamont Rowlands, vice-president and treasurer of the C. A. Goodyear 

 Lumber Company, with headquarters at Chicago, got back last week from an 

 extended trip South, where he was accompanied by Mrs. Rowlands and Miles 

 Goodyear, president of the company, who met in conference with L. O. 

 Crosby at New Orleans to elTect the organization of the Goodyear Yellow 

 Pine Company. 



The company has secured 42,000 acres of virgin longleaf pine In Missis- 

 sippi, this having been purchased from J. W. Blodgett. representing the 

 last of his holdings in Pearl River county, Mississippi. Mr. Goodyear is 

 still in the South, where with Mr. Crosby he is working out plans for the 

 construction of two sawmills which will have a combined capacity of about 

 100,000,000 feet of yellow pine lumber a'year. There will be accessory 



