HARDWOOD RECORD 



41 



R. J. Darnell, Inc., Has Big Fire 



Tbe double band mill and veneer plant of R. J. Darnell, Inc., Memphis, 

 Tenn., was destroyed b.v fire on June ID. It has been Impossible to 

 obtain any idea as to tlie cause of the Are. which raged the greater por- 

 tion of Sunday. With the exception of the boilers all of the machinery 

 was ruined. The tire also destroyed more than 2,000,000 feet of lumber 

 and veneers. It is estimated that the loss was from $100,000 to $125,000. 

 fully covered by insurance. R. ,1. Darnell, bead of the firm, has refused 

 to give any statement of the loss, but this is regarded as conservative. 

 A number of cars on the siding of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley road 

 were also burned : in fact, the iire was the most disastrous which has 

 occurred in lumber circles here for years. 



A full statement concerning the plans of the company with reference 

 to rebuilding and with regard to taking care of its l)usiness while the 

 plant is being rebuilt will be found in the regular Memphis corre- 

 spondence. 



Ruth-Trier 



On Wednesday evening. June 11, Adolph H. Ruth. Chicago manager of 

 the G. W. Jones Lumber Company, of Appleton. Wis., was married to 

 Miss Marie Trier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. Trier. 423 North 

 Elmwood avenue, Oali Park, III. At the same time Miss Trier's sister. 

 Clara, became the bride of C. I. Carter, of Boston. Mass. Tbe ceremony 

 took place at the Second Congregational Church in Oak I'ark. and was 

 performed by the Reverend Carl C. Morrison, of the Sacramento Boulevard 

 Christian Church of Chicago. He was assisted by tbe Rev. Edwin D. 

 Gaylord, pastor of the church in which the cere- 

 mony took place. Twin sisters, Beulah and 

 Lulu, acted as bridesmaids, and Miss Edna, an- 

 other sister, was maid of honor. Paul G. Trier. 

 .Tr., a brother, was master of ceremonies. Fol- 

 lowing the ceremony there was a reception at 

 the home of the brides. 



Tbe lumber trade of Chicago, both in the mat- 

 ter of presents and presence, demonstrated the 

 regard with whieli Mr. Ruth is held in the local 

 trade. 



On Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. Ruth left 

 on their wedding trip to the West. After Aug. 1 

 they will be at home at 6248 Wayne avenue, 

 Chicago. 



Little River Lumtier Company Employes 

 Enjoy Outing 



The third annual pirnie of the employes and 

 their families of the Little River Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Little River Railroad Company of 

 Townsend, Blount county, Tenn.. was held at Elk- 

 mont, Sevier county, Tenn.. on Saturday. June 14. 

 This annual outing as a method of entertaining 

 their employes was started by these companies 

 three years ago and has been a remarkable success. 



The picnickers started on a special train leav- 

 ing Townsend early in the morning and car- 

 rying them through the winding gorges and the 

 magnificent mountain scenery along the beauti- 

 ful Little river to Elkmont. where a park spe- 

 cially provided for the purpose was in readiness 

 to receive the crowd. 



All were well furnished with provisions for the occasion and Mrs. 

 W. B. Townsend. wife of the president of the Little River Lumber Com- 

 pany, presided over the necessary culinary arrangements. 



While preparations were going on for the spread, short speeches were 

 indulged in and there was music during the meal. 



Following the luncheon, a baseball game was played between the 

 "Rexalls," of Maryville. Tenn., and the Little River Lumber Company 

 team, known as the "Townsends." The Townsends, although this was 

 their first game, won by a score of 18 to 3. After the game the various 

 members of the party spent the afternoon in exploring the woods, 

 climbing the mountains, etc. They left on the same special train about 

 five in the afternoon. 



Horn-Williams 

 Stanley F. Horn, popular member of (he staff of the Southern Lumber- 

 man of Nashville. Tenn.. was married on Thursday. June 12, to Miss 

 Beryl Williams of Nashville. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. 

 Mercer P. Logan, of St. Ann's Church. Nashville. The bride and groom 

 left on a tour through the East, going via Savannah by boat to New York. 



To Improve Levees Around Helena 



It is announced that the levees around Helena, Ark., will be improved 

 in a very material way, by raising and straightening, in the near future. 

 Several hundred thousand dollars have been appropriated for this purpose, 

 and the work will involve the levees in the various districts in and around 

 the city of Helena, and also the levees south from this city to the mouth 

 of the White river, fifty miles away. The levees will be brought up to the 

 standard height and strength prescribed by governmental engineers. 

 Death of T. H. CuUey 



T. H. Culley, who has been connected with the Walker Veneer Works. 



of Alpena. Mich., for over live years as a traveling salesman, passed 

 away on June 1 at Jamestown. N. Y. Mr. Culley was held in high 

 esteem by his firm, which regards his death as a distinct loss. His work 

 was mostly among the veneer consuming trade in the eastern territory 

 where he sold the high-grade bird's-eye maple veneer turned out by this 

 company. The deceased will be succeeded by his brother, W. J. Culley. 



Consolidation of Hardwood Interests 



The Ilooton Hardwood Company is the style of a newly incorporated 

 organization with offlces at 508 Wright building, St. Louis, Mo. This 

 concern is made up of the consolidation of the former Hooton Hardwood 

 Company. St. Louis, the R. A. Hooton Lumber Company of Terre Haute, 

 Ind., and the Wabash Hardwood Company of Memphis, Tenn. The 

 consolidation took effect on June 10. the company to do a general whole- 

 sale hardwood business. 



R. A. Hooton of Terre Haute is president ; R. U. Fletcher, vice-presi- 

 dent : W. J. Stuebe, secretary, and J. T. McRoberts. treasurer. Mr. 

 Fletcher and Mr. McRoberts will be the active 'factors in the business, 

 tbe former doing the buying, and the latter attending to the oflice and 

 sales. 



Late Glasgow Market Report 



The timber trade in Glasgow and the west of Scotland since last 



report has displayed a continued tendency to dullness. In some cases 



prices are inclined to be easier than they were, but taken as a whole 



are well maintained. Though the movement in box-making material 



is slow, the high import cost does not admit of 



any easing of prices, cargo quotations being as 



firm as ever. Pitch pine is hardly so firm as 



it was. in sympathy with cheaper freights, but 



there is no pronounced weakness. Imports which 



continue on a moderate scale are largely made 



up of deliveries against contracts. Ex quay sales 



and also from yarded stocks are few, buyers 



evincing no desire to cover other than against 



immediate wants. 



American ash logs have come forward in 

 quantities much in excess of this market's re- 

 quirements, and it has been necessary to store 

 in several instances. ' Logs against contracts 

 have not been up to standard quality, with the 

 result that numerous logs have been rejected. 

 Not much Canadian spruce has come in so far. 

 .\ cargo arrived two days ago from Miramichi. 

 but is against contract with the largest buyers 

 of spruce, who import thousands of standards 

 yearly. Birch logs still come in by each suc- 

 ceeding boat, and this explains the small import 

 of birch planks. 



The quiet conditions prevailing are no doubt 

 due to some extent to the fear of further labor 

 troubles in shipbuilding, which are again assum- 

 ing an acute phase. So far as can be learned, 

 inquiry has dwindled away to nothing, due to 

 owners being daunted by high prices, coupled 

 with the extreme uncertainty regarding delivery, 

 tor both of which factors the works are responsi- 

 ble. This means that unless matters in this re- 

 spect improve there will be a sudden dearth of 

 employment about September or October, for there is nothing like the 

 amount of new tonnage to go on as tbe present orders are worked off. 



Cornell University Receives Gift 

 The Department of Forestry at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., has 

 benefited by a gift of 200 acres of land. This generosity has en- 

 dowed the forest school with a larger working field as former gifts 

 have been made to the Forest School comprising eight woodlots and a 

 farm of thirty-eight acres growing up to hardwoods and white pine and 

 hemlock. The lands so given present a wide variety of silvical condi- 

 tions and will afford a broad experimental field for the students to work 

 in. None of the lands so far lie more than three miles from the 

 campus of the university. Those of the Harvard and Yale Forest schools 

 lie at some distance and do not present a much more silvicultural dif- 

 ference by their remoteness. Cornell Is fortunate in possessing a work- 

 ing field close by the campus where the student can devote more time 

 to varied studies. The new forestry building has already had the ground 

 broken and it is expected that construction will go forward rapidly. 



Move Mill 



The Roper-Reese Lumber Company of Klkport, Ky.. 

 business and plant of the Yale Lumber Company of 

 those operations are run by Mishawaka, Ind., consuming interests, and 

 the new company is merely another Incorporation of those interests, for 

 the purpose of taking over the Yale Lumber Company's operations and 

 moving the plant to a new timber supply. It is expected the plant will 

 lie ready for operation inside of three months. The mill will manu- 

 facture mainly oak and poplar, the company having some 11,000 acres of 

 hardwood timber. In addition to the regular sawmill machinery, all of 

 which will be new. the company will install veneer saws. 



H. RUTH, CHICAGO MANAGER G. W 

 JONES LUMBER COMPANY, APPLE- 

 TON, WIS. 



is absorbing the 

 Yale. Ky. Both 



