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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 1922 



John W. McCIure, Memphis 



Memphis Launches McClure Boom for President of National 



T h Lumbermen's 

 Club of Memphis went 

 on record Saturday 

 afternoon. April 29. 

 as "enthusiastically 

 favoring" the nomina- 

 tion and election of 

 .Tohn W. McClure, sec- 

 retary of the Bell- 

 j^rade Lumber Com- 

 pany, as president of 

 the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Associa- 

 ti<.)n for the ensuing 

 year. This action was 

 taken through adop- 

 tion, by unanimous 

 rising yote, of the fol- 

 lowing report of the 

 resolutions committee, 

 presented by J. D. Al- 

 len, Jr., as chairman ; 

 "Whereas, the an- 

 nual meeting of the 

 National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association 

 set tor June 22-23, is 

 fast approaching, at 

 which time a presi- 

 dent for the ensuing 

 .year will be elected, 

 \ye desire the com- 

 bined and enthusiastic 

 support of all the members of the l.umliermen's Club of Memphis and 

 their friends for John W. Jlct'lure who has seryed this club and many 

 other lumber organizations most worthily and acceptably. There is no 

 man in the United States better kno^vn in the lumber industry, or who 

 has giyen his time and money more unstintedly for the upbuilding and 

 welfare of the lumber industry, and his intiuence has had a beueflcial 

 etfect throughout the entire country. Therefore, be it 



"Resolvkd. That we go on record as most enthusiastically favoring his 

 nomination and election as president of the National H.inhvood Lumber 

 .\ssociation." 



Mr. McClure. ijiniiediately after tlic adoption of this report, thanked 

 members of the club for the contidence they had thus expressed in him. 

 He pointed out that geographical iiositicm is a big factor in the election 

 of a president of the association and that it had been a long time since 

 the South bad been thus honored. He said that, if it were honored this 

 year through his elevation to the presidency, he would do everything in 

 bis power to bring about the maximum of support from the entire hard- 

 wood lumber industry in the southern field. 



Mr. McClure is now vice-president of the National. Furthermore, he 

 served that organization as a member of the inspection rules committee 

 for ten years, during eight of which he was the chairman. He held the 

 latter position until the last annual. He has already received, it may be 

 mentioned in passing, the endorsement of the Philadelphia Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association and the Indiana Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion. These bodies took this action in January of the current year. 



The following new members were elected : C. L. Stevens, Rush Lumber 

 Company : L. W. Tibbitts. Cliicago Coal & Lumber Company, and J. B. 

 I.ongwill. .\. J. Chestnut Lumber Company. 



Jones Hardwood Company Enters Pacific Coast Field 



.\nnouncejiient lias been made by Nelson A. Jones of the entry into the 

 hardwood lumber business, as Taciflc Coast dealers, of the Jones Hard- 

 wood Company, 10 California street, San Francisco, Cal. The principal 

 stock of the company's hardwoods will be located in San Francisco with 

 its main otHce, but for the convenience of the Northwestern trade a branch 

 office will be maintained at 60S Lewis building, Portland, Ore. The com- 

 pany will carry a full stock of staple items in its San Francisco ware- 

 house and will make a specialty of furnishing straight, mixed and pooled 

 cars direct from exclusive mill connections in the East. In addition the 

 company will offer Oregon maple, ash. laurel and myrtle fi'r direct ship- 

 ment from its own mill at Myrtle Point, Ore. 



Mr. Jones until recently was manager of the Seattle office of the J. E. 

 Iliggins Lumber Co. 



Tie & Lumber Company Organized 



The members and owni'i-s of the Frampton Foster Lunilier Co. of Knox- 

 ville. Tenn,, have started the National Tie & Lumber Company, and the busi- 

 ness of the former company is being closed up. The address. ofHce and yard 

 will be the same as in the past and the business will be conducted on the 

 ^ame lines as heretofore. The same ollice. buying and inspecting force is 

 "ing retained and in addition P. M. Frampton will devote his entire time 

 to this company. 



Offices Opened in Eastern and Southern Territories 

 The Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, with general offices in .St. Louis, 

 Mo., and cypress and hardwood headquarters in Memphis, has just opened 

 an office in Baltimore, Md., putting in charge G. M. Blakeuey. The Balti- 

 more office is at 1120 Munsey building and will handle sales in the eastern 

 territory. At New Orleans another office has been opened in the Whitney- 

 Central building for the handling of export direct to European countries. 

 J. W. O'Shaughnessy is in charge of this office and he xvill also l"ok after 

 the western trade of his company. 



Woodhead Sails to the West Indies 

 Three representative business men left Beaumont. Texas., aboard the 

 steamer Lake Slavia about two weeks ago for the West Indies to give 

 trade conditions a personal inspection. They expect their trip to result 

 in a more liberal use of the two steamship lines now plying between Beau- 

 mont and the islands. The party was headed by Ben. S. Woodhead. presi- 

 dent fif the Beaumont Lumber Company and chairman of the Wharf & 

 Dock Commission; Tom Reed, president of Beaumont Chamber of Com- 

 merce, and Mayor B. A. Steinhagen. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Because of the increase in their business, the Icenomor Electric Refrig- 

 erator Company has leased the old buildiug here that was formerly occu- 

 pied by the Shinier Wire & Steel Company, and the plant Is now in opera- 

 tion and a large force of men has been employed. The company has a 

 large number of orders on hand that will keep them busy for some time 

 to conu\ 



J. C. Norman, representing the Holly Ridge Lumber Company of Louis- 

 vilh', Ky.. was a recent business visitftr in Evansville. Ind.. and reported 

 that he had found business conditions in some sections imijroviug. 



Fire a few days ago destro.ved the handle factory and the lumber yard 

 of J. W. Ciralle & Co. at Columbus. Ind.. the fire having been of undeter- 

 mined origin. The loss is placed at $7,500, with part insurance. It is 

 expected the company will rebuild its plant. 



Gus Bauman of the Gus E. Banman Hardwood Company of Evansville, 

 is Itack from a business trip to Memphis, Tenn., and the south. 



The Flynn-Bertsch Lumber Co. announces the change of the firm name 

 to the I'uiiey-Bertsch Lumber Co., 45 Wareham street, Boston. Mass. The 

 firm deals in hardwoods and the partners are John P. Curley and Frank 

 A. Dertsch. 



CHICAGO 



The Illinois Forestry Association was organized on Friday evening, 

 April 2S. at a meeting of some fifty forestry enthusiasts at the headquar- 

 ters of the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago. The following officers 

 were elected : Dr. Henry C. Cowles, professor of botan.v at the LTniversity 

 of Chicago, president : B, A. Johnson, editor of the Lumlier World Review, 

 first vice-president; Prof. J. C. Blair of the Department of Horticulture, 

 the T'niversity of Illinois, second vice-president; S. F. D. Meffley, secretary- 

 manager (if the Chicago Lumbermen's Association, secretary ; George A. 

 Pope, treasurer, 



A definite program for the establishment of a State Forestry Depart- 

 ment, the adoption of a State policy on forestry and the legal enactment 

 thereof, the arousing of public interest in forestry and the education of the 

 people as to the importance of forestry to public industries are the aims 

 declared by the new association. 



A. C. Quixley of the A. C. Quixle.v Lumber Company will represent 

 Division C--hardwood wholesalers — of the Lumbermen's Association of Chi- 

 cago at the big conference between Secretary of Commerce Hoover and lum- 

 bermen of all branches of the industry on the question of grade-marking of 

 lumber and other proposals for protecting the interests of the buyer. The 

 conference will be held in Washington, D. C, at some date during the 

 present month. Mr. Quixley was selected at the regular meeting of his 

 division of the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago on Monday, April 24. 



J. IT. Alaassen, manager of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company of 

 Memphis, stopped over in Chicago during the latter part of April while 

 en route to Detroit, Mich., and announced that George F. Weis, Jr., who 

 has been selling for his company in Chicago and adjacent territory for a 

 nuiiibiT of months, has been made manager of the Chicago office of the 

 coiiiiiany. Previous to his coming to Chicago, Mr. Weis was in the veneer 

 business in ;Memphis. 



The Chicago Lumber & Coal Company has moved its Chicago office from 

 the Marquette building to Room 901 Lumber Exchange building. 



Miss Irene Fahey, who has attained considerable prominence in Chicago 

 lumber circles because of her position as manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Chicago branch office of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, 

 has risi;;ned that position and become office manager of the Chicago office 

 of till' Steveu-Jarvis Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis. 



Miss Fahey's presence in the office will enable Fred E. Andrews and 

 Rowland S. Utley. managers of the northern and southern hardwoods <le 

 partnii-nts respectively, to spend the bulk of their time among the trade, 



