May 10, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Miss Fahey, who is an expert hardwood '■InmbermaD." looking after cus- 

 tomers who deal direct with the offlco. 



The Hayes-A.vers-Koester Lumber t'timpauy was org:ani7ed in Chicago tie 

 latter part of April for the wholesaling of hardwoods, southern pine. Doug- 

 las 0r and other west Coast woods. The new firm is in effect a consolida- 

 tion of the Koester and the Hayes lumber companies, both of which have 

 Iioen operating in Chicago and adjacent territory for some time. The prin- 

 ripals of the concern are Harry Hayes, Ivan Ayers and E. Jj. Koester. The 

 hardwood phase of the business will be largely handled by Mr. Koester, 

 who has had a long experience in the selling of southern pine and hard- 

 woods. 



Wilkins & Godley, a commission firm, which will handle southern pine 

 and hardwoods, was organized in Chicago the latter part of April and an 

 nffiee opened at 1519 Lumber Exchange building. The organizers of the 

 firm are two widely experienced and well known lumbermen, B. J. Wilkins, 

 who has just resigned as sales manager for the W. R. Pickering Lumber 

 <'ompany. Kansas City, Mo., and W. L. Godley, who for the last six years 

 has bepu the Chicago representative for that firm. The new oumpany will 

 cater to the factory, retail and railroad trade. 



Thf Chicago office of the \V. K. Pickering Lumber Company has been 

 closed and Wilkins & Godley will handle its accounts in this territ(>ry. 



The following are among the hardwood firms" in Chicago which moved to 

 other quarters on May 1, Chicago's grand official spring moving day : 



Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, to 901 Lumber Exchange building, 



Cortez Lumber Company, to Room filO. 4-10 South Dearborn street. 



Long-Bell Lumber Company, to 1413 Conway building. 



Steven Jarvis Lumber Compsmy. to 926 Y. M. C. A. building. 



Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company, to 541 McCormick building. 



Frank B. Stone, removed to 1H2(» Mailers building, No. o S. Wabash 

 avenue. 



H. N". Saylor, Jr., representing the Putosi Tie & Lumb(>i- Co., St. Louis. 

 Mo., was in Chicago on a business trip during the first week in May. 



BUFFALO 



Buffalo is believed to have the youngest Chamber of Commerce member 

 in the Cnited States — only eleven months old. He is Peter Sullivan, son 

 of Frank T. Sullivan, the hardwood lumberman, who has been one of the 

 most active workers in the campaign to give the Chamber of Commerce 

 1.500 members. 



The McLean Mahogany & Cedar Company has moved its office to 590 

 Ellicott Square, after being i>n the seventh floor of that building for sev- 

 eral years. 



E. J. Heusinger. for many years connected with the lumber trade here, 

 has become sales manager for B. F. Ridlpy & Son. 



The Buffalo Lumber Exchange has a 100 per cent quota raised for the 

 new building planned for the United States Chamber of Commerce at Wash- 

 ington. The committee to solicit funds in the trade consisted of Fred M. 

 Sullivan, chairman ; Charles N. Perrin and Elmer J. Sturm. 



BALTIMORE 



According to reports tlip Rt'x Lumber Coraiiauy of ISriltimore, Md., wliich 

 was incorporated recently under the laws of Maryland with a capital 

 stock of $150,000 by Frederick D. Carozza, William H. Grannis and Clyde 

 H. Wilson, will absorb the Baltimore Tie and Lumber Company, operating 

 on a tract of some hundreds of acr'^s near Warrenton, Va. It is also stated 

 that the new corporation intends to acquire a tract of 6,000 acres of hard- 

 woods in the same section, and will undertake its deyelopment on an ex- 

 tended scale. William H. Grannis is the practical mill man of the combi- 

 nation, having been at different times identified with yellow pine and 

 liardwood propositions. 



According to the inventory of the personal property of the late Edward 

 P. Gill, president of William D. Gill & Son. Inc.. with a place on Philpot 

 street. Baltimore, filed iii the Orphans' Court April 21, the estate is valued 

 at 3;3."i.3..327. It consists chiefly of 2,000 shares of the stock of William D. 

 Gill & Son, Inc., valued at .$306,800. Mr. Gill died in December last, leav- 

 ing the entire estate to his widow and two children. 



George B. Jobson, who recently resigned as sales manager tor the 

 R. E. Wood Lumber Company, has opened an office at 1201 American 

 luulding, and engaged in the hardwood trade on his own account. Last 

 week he was on a tiip south to visit a number of mills wnth a view to 

 makin;? desirable connections. Prior to going with the Wood company Mr. 

 .Tobson was connected with the Douglas-Walkle.v Company. Baltimore. 



A. Lyle Dobell of the well-known Liverpool timber firm of Alfred Dobell 

 & Co. was in Baltimore two weeks ago and saw some of the hardwood 

 exporters, among them Richard P. Baer & Co. He also conferred with 

 Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion. Mr. Dobell gave a rather unfavorable account of the export situa- 

 tion in the United Kingdom, and later left to continue his tour of the 

 lumber producing and distributing centers of the States. 



Other recent Baltimore visitors included W. B. Sabin of the W. C. Bart- 

 lett'Lumber Company of Charleston, W. Va., and C. W. Sprinkle of the 

 Atlas Lumber Company of Cincinnati. Both were on trips through the 

 East. 



A. C. Brown, a timber merchant of Belfast, stopped in Baltimore about 

 April 20 in the course of a trip through the Eastern States. He had come 



STRABLE 

 Lumber & Salt Company 



SAGINAW, MICHIGAN 



Manufacturers 



Hardwood Lumber, Maple Flooring 



ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES 



MODERN DRY-KILNS AND PLANING MILL 



Insist, upon 



Wolverine Maple Flooring 



"Best by Test" 



JSie'JiISrinl Maplc, Bi*rch, Basswood, Elm, Beech 



The 



for Mapl( 



over, he said, to cover only the Atlantic coast and nearby Slates in order 

 to get an idea of conditions in the hardwond export trade. 



CINCINNATI 



Overheated steam pipes started a tire in a lumber kiln belonging to the 

 G. .7. Brethauer Planing Mill Company and caused damage estimated at 

 $4,000. The kiln contained live thousand feet of lumber, halt of which 

 was destroyed. 



Mrs. W. H. Settle, wife of W. H. Settle, president of the Settle Lumber 

 Company, died at her home in Madisonville on April 27. Besides her hus- 

 band, three sons and two daughters survive her. 



The Baldwin Piano Company has sold its accessory branch plant at 

 Third street and Eggleston avenue. The building was acquired by the 

 Baldwin Piano Company soon after the close of the war in order to take 

 care of a part of its business during the construction stages of its new 

 .^1.000.000 plant on Gilbert avenue. The completion of the latter removed 

 the necessity tor the retention of the Eggleston avenue building, which 

 contains 70,000 feet of floor space. 



George E. Speer has been appointed receiver for the Ohio Valley Imple- 

 ment and Transfer Company, manufacturers of farm implements. Receiver- 

 ship proceedings were instituted by David C. Ilurst, a stockholder and 

 president of the company. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Marion Handle and Box Company is the new name of what formerly 

 was the Marion Handle and Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ind. 



The plant of the Murdock Lumber Company. Washington. Ind.. which 

 was destroyed by fire recently, will be rebuilt, according to officials of the 

 company. The purchase cd" the required machinery from a mill at Gra.v- 

 ville. 111., has been completed and the first shipment has been received. 

 Operations will begin within the next sixty days. 



The Shelbyville Hardwood Company, Shelbyville, Ind., has incorporated 

 under Indiana laws with a capital stock of |20,000. The directors are 

 R. P. Keinhart, .T. M. Reinhart and Art A. Lynch. The company will 

 engage in the manufacture and sale of hardwoods. 



At a recent reorganization meeting of the Speedway Lumber Company, 

 Herbert E. Hill was named president and general manager of the com- 

 pany. He succeeds his father, Forest A. Hill, who died April 3. this 

 year. O. R. Mann retains the position of sales manager and Phillip Mann 

 remains foreman of the mill. Charles Quick was given the position of 

 order clerk. He formerly was with the Brannum-Keene Lumber Company 

 of Indianapolis. 



CLEVELAND 



Hardwood interests participated in the .American Building Exposition, 

 which was held in Cleveland from April 22 to May 2, and it was one of 

 the largest indoor exhibits of its kind held in the history of the eounti-y. 

 The Martin-Barris Company had a large centrally located space in the 

 main arena, showing hardwoods exclusively. A touch of novelty was 

 gained by placing (our giant tree trunks inside the booth, each of which 

 was planed and polished, showing the peculiar grainings of both San 

 Domingo and ilexican mahogan.v. Other hardwoods were also shown, to- 

 gether with an arf display showing the durability and beauty that walnut, 

 oak and other similar materials hold for the prospective builder. 



The Oak Floor Manufacturers' Association held forth on the exhibition 

 floor with a space in which flooring of varifuis kin<ls was prominently dis- 

 played. W. J. DuBruce had charge of the booth. 



One noticeable tendency hereabouts is the increasing demand for walnut. 

 Dealers say that not in recent years has there been the call for this mate- 

 rial as there is at the present time. Builders of handsome homes are 

 specifying walnut finish, and even the less expensive dwellings are having 

 several rooms finished with it. 



"Previous to this year we have ni;tt had demand for a single car of 



