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HARDWOOD RECORD 



from Calvert station, went to tin- legislature and secured tbe enactment 

 of a law compelling the Pennsylvania to continue the service and put on a 

 number of trains that had been taken oCC. Mayor Preston says he will 

 insist upon the elertriflcation of the entire Pennsylvania system in Balti- 

 more as a means of getting rid of the smoke nuisance. The creation of a 

 biff down town central station is also being agitated. It is altogether 

 likely that th(> municipality will employ expert advice with a view to de- 

 vising plans that will not only serve the present needs of the railroads, 

 but furnish a basis for the permanent solution of the railroad problem 

 along the lines of proper development. 



New Nashville Consolidation 



On May 19 the Tennessee Hardwood Lumber Company and the Althauser- 

 Webster-Weaver Lumber Company. Inc.. of Nashville, Tenn., consolidated 

 under the name of the former company, making the combined capital 

 .■itock $.jO.OOO. All the former stockholders of the Tennessee Hardwood 

 Lumber Company retained their interest in the new concern, and in' addi- 

 tion D. Weaver and W. E. Althauser of the last named- company secure 

 additional stock in payment for the property of their concern. These two 

 gentlemen have purchased the interest of Charles Webster. 



The office and yard of the new company will be continued at the site 

 of the present business of the Tennessee Hardwood Lumber Company in 

 West Nashville. T. B. Johnson will Ije president of the new company and 

 D. Weaver secretary and treasurer. 



The consolidation will give to the newly organized Tennessee Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company the output of the band mill of the Althauser- 

 R'ebster-Weaver company operating at I'armersville in Wayne county, 

 Kentucky. In conjunction with this tbe new company will acquire a 

 considerable area of hardwood timber, consisting mostly of white oak 

 adjacent to this mill and further about half a million feet of hardwood 

 lumber now on sticks at the mill yard. The Tennessee Hardwood Lumber 

 Company has been marketing the output of the Forked Deer Lumber 

 Company, a concern located at Jackson, Tenn., but affiliated with it, and 

 in addition has smaller mills at different points in Tennessee, The aggre- 

 gate will give it a daily output of about 45,000 feet of hardwoods running 

 principally to oak and red gum. The plan is to ship the bulk of the 

 lumber direct from the mills, but the big wholesale yard will continue at 

 West Nashville. 



Mowbray & Robinson Interests Expand 

 The Burgess Brothers Lumber Company was organized recently by 

 prominent Cincinnati lumbermen. The new company is backed by The Mow- 

 bray & Robinson company, Cincinnati, and will have its headquarters in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., operating as an eastern branch of tbe Cincinnati firm, 

 handling all the hardwood lines turned out by the company's three mills 

 in Kentucky. In addition it will look after the export end of the 

 business. The company is established nt its large yards at White and 

 Delevan streets, Brooklyn, where preparations have been completed. 



Edgar Burgess and his brother, J. C. Burgess, are actively in charge 

 of the new company. J. C. Burgess has been for years connected with 

 the Mowbray & Robinson Company, while both he and his brother liavc 

 excellent reputations as lumbermen and business men. 



The incorporators are: Edgar Burgess, E. O. Robinson. F. W. Mowbray, 

 C. W. Bennett and D. R, Rebbuk. F. W. ilowbray is president : B. O. 

 Robinson, vice-president: Ed.gar Burge.ss, treasurer, and J. C. Bennett, 

 secretary. Capital slock is .'JoO.OOO. 



New Building for New York State College of Forestry 



On May 24, Governor Sulzer of New York state signed a bill providing 

 for the construction and maintenance of new buildings for tbe State 

 College of Forestry at Syracuse. N. Y. The bill provides an appropriation 

 of ,$250,000. and was passed without opposition. 



Cornell University made a determined fight to prevent the signing of 

 the bill for the buildings for the college at Syracuse, but was unsuccessful. 

 The State College of Forestry as now organized is tbe state institution 

 designated and supported by the state for the training of men for tlie 

 profession of forestry, and to give practical training in forestry in the 

 State Rangers' School in the Adirondaeks. 



The Hardwood Crating Business 



Leaving aside entirely tbe matter of boxes and the material eulcring 

 into boxes and box shooks proper, there is an enormous business in hard- 

 wood lumber used for crating purposes. It is a big enough business that 

 a veteran dealer of considerable prominence in the trade remarked 

 recently that he had about made up his mind not to handle as a dealer 

 anything above No. 1 common in hardwood, and confine his business in 

 the upper grades to the high-grade stock manufactured by his own 

 mills. This dealer went on to explain that he had quite a big business in 

 low-grade stock, especially in crating material, which he supplied on 

 contracts year in and year out to regular customers who use considerable 

 quantities. 



There is hardly anything in the hardwood line but what it is used 

 more or less in crating. This includes birch, maple, beech, oak and the 

 harder woods, as well as poplar, gum. Cottonwood and linn. There are 

 many prominent users of crate stock and a great multitude of other users 

 not taking such a large quantity but in the aggregate making up an enor- 

 mous trade. The manufacturers of bath tubs and sanitary ware use hard- 

 wood by the million feet for crating and shipping their product. The 

 manufacturers of stoves and heavy hardware also use enormous quantities 



of crating, and on all sides there is crating, not only more of it in the- 

 original channels than formerly, but railw-ays now require the crating of 

 lots of articles which were formerly shipped without crates and all this 

 has served to add wonderfully to the volume of crating stoclv required. 



There was a time when the bulk of this crating stock was of the soft- 

 woods, including wliite pine, basswood. spruce and a few other species. 

 Pine and spruce is still used in the work, but notwithstanding this there is 

 an enormous volume in Iiardwood crating stock — that is. stock used for 

 making up individual crates at the time of shipping — that is bought in the^ 

 form of lumber aside from boxes and box shooks and material entering into 

 their manufacture. In this work some of the harder woods that were 

 formerly found objectionable because of their hardness now find favor 

 because of their strength. So this trade not only includes a heavy volume 

 of the softer hardwoods, such as low-grade poplar, gum and cottonwood, 

 but it also includes a much larger share than many imagine of the 

 harder woods, such as oak, beech, maple and birch. 



Death of W. H. Greble 



Lumber interests have lieeu much sbocknl Mt the demise within less than 

 three weeks of each other of J. L. .Sine and W. H. Greble, two of the prin- 

 ciiial stockholders of the Greble-Sine Lumber Company of Memphis and 

 Chicago. Readers of II.^ROWOon Recoup are familiar with the deatii of the 

 former. The latter was in Detroit looking after matters connected with 

 the winding up of the affairs of tln' lirni when lu^ was stricken with heart 

 disease and died suddi-nly. 



Both of these men were well known to the entire hardwood trade. Both 

 were identified for a number of years with the Three States Lumber 

 Company. About a year ago they organized the Greble-Sine Lumber Com- 

 pan.v, Mr. Sine having his lieadquartcrs in Chicago, while Mr. Greble 

 looked after the southern end of the business. The company had securetJ 

 the output of several mills in the Memphis territory and was rapidly build- 

 ing up a profitable business. No definite announcement has .vet been made- 

 as to tile plans which the reniaining stockholders have in connection with 

 the company. 



St. Louis Basket and Box Company Expands 



The St. Louis Basket and Box t;'»unp:iny. .'Uuai;ed in the manufacture- 

 of veneered panels and fruit iiackages, has again increased its capacity 

 because of growing business. At the mill at .South St. Louis this com- 

 pany is erecting a new powiu' plant of modern and powerful equipment. 

 .\n entirely new type of furnace to hauflle tbi- variety of fuel used, con- 

 sisting of coal, dry or wet wood, shavings and sawdust, was planned by 

 the engineers in charge. The furnace has a fiat combustion arch sus- 

 pended from cast iron beams and projects halt its length in front of the 

 boilers. The lower tubes of^ tlie boilers are covered witli tile and a de- 

 flecting arch is joined to the rear of the bridge wall. This prevents the 

 heated gases from coming in contact with any cold surface until after com- 

 bustion has been completed and instires tlie uiaximum of heat and makes 

 the furnace practically smokeless. Tbe stack, which is outside of the 

 building, is 5 feet G inches in diameter and 125 feet high. The second 

 building contains a modern high-power Corliss engine. 



At the mill at North St. Louis, the company has erected three new 

 buildings made necessary by its increased operations and its expansion 

 in the manufacture of the heavier lines of veneered stock such as dresser, 

 desk and tabcl tops and all material where a sawed core is used. At this 

 plant a 48 foot Grand Rapids dry-kiln has been installed with seven kiln 

 trucks. In adition. a sawmill house for a new sawmill used in cutting 

 logs and a swing saw used in cutting and equalizing core stock has been 

 installed. 



.■\nother new feature is a firejiroof building containing the latest type 

 of Lindernian glue joiner for dovetailing, glueing and joining lumber for 

 cores. In this building there is also a 42 foot Whitney planer with a 

 capacity of about 35 lineal feet per minute. As the core stock comes 

 from the Lindernian machine it immediately passes through the planer and 

 is dressed, and from there passes tlinuigh the various processes of 

 veneci'ing. 



All the new structures of the St. Louis Basket and Box Company are fire- 

 proof and modern in every detail. This company has operated for the 

 past thirty years, starting with one small factoi-y, and it has grown to 

 its present dimensions because of the merit of its goods. The new 

 buildings give the company ."iOO.OOO square feet of space and the entire 

 plant enables it to produce about 45,000,000 feet of veneer annually. 



Annual Meeting of Mutual Liability Company 



The ICmployers* Mutual Liability Insurance t^ompany of Wisconsin, the 

 leading mutual opirating under the Wisconsin workmen's compensation 

 law and the organization with which most of the leading lumber and 

 paper manufacturers of the state are affiliated, held its second annual 

 meeting at Wausau recently, with oflicers. directors and nearly 200 

 policyholders present. 



Reports presented showed that during the twenty and one half months 

 tbe company has been transacting business it has paid $Sn,lG2,2i'i under the 

 compensation law and that it now has on band a balance of $104,1!1G..'^n. 

 The company now covers the lives of 27. "Oil employes and has an an- 

 nual premium income of .$1, '{7,1 31.42. A total of 4,060 accidents has been 

 reported, of which twenty tr-rminated in death. 



The following olficers and directors, made up for the most part from 

 the lists of lumbermen and paper mnnufaetuivrs have been elected ; 

 President. G. V. Steele ; vice-presidents, William A. Fricke. W. E. Brown. 



