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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25. 1922 



Bulletin 



Hardwood Industry Shares in 10 Percent 

 General Rate Cut 



The general reduction of freight rates, ordered by the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission on May 24, will afford considerable relief 

 to the hardwood lumber industry according to brief interpreta- 

 tions of the decision received by Hardwood Record at the hour 

 of going to press. The rate cut is approximately 10 per cent on 

 all commodities, except agricultural products. Interpreted in 

 terms of hardwood lumber this means an average reduction of 

 $1.50 a thousand under the schedules obtaining in August, 1920. 

 J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association, stated over long distance telephone from his 

 office in Memphis. When reached late in the afternoon of May 24, 

 Mr. Townshend had not yet had opportunity to make a complete 

 analysis of the effect of the cut on Southern hardwood freight) 

 rates, but believes the reduction would run 2 to SVi cents a hundred 

 on lumber from southern points to the East and North, and from 

 1 to 2 cents a hundred on logs. He is preparing a bulletin of rate 

 changes, based on this reduction, which will be distributed within 

 a day or two. 



Clubs and Associations 



Southwestern Mill Men Hold Rousing Meeting in Lone Star State 



Considerable interest was stimulated among tlie Texas hardwood mami- 

 faoturers by the holding in their midst Wednesday, May IT, of the regular 

 monthly meeting of the Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club at 

 the Bender Hotel, Houston. The meeting was talieu into the Lone Star 

 state at the express wish of H. G. Bohlssen, of Ewing, Texas, president, 

 for the purpose of stimulating enthusiasm among the manufacturers of 

 that portion of the Southwest. From indications at the meeting this 

 purpose was amply accomplished. 



The meeting began with a luncheon at the Bender Hotel at 12 :15 p. m. 

 and the program, which lasted throughout the afternoon, was featured 

 with a number of inspirational addresses delivered by leading hardwood 

 lights from the Lone Star state and elsewhere. These addresses were 

 tilled with optimism over the immediate outlooli for the hardwood situa- 

 tion. Approximately a score of leading manufacturers was in attendance, 

 all being from Texas except C. J. Coppocli, former club president and 

 president of the Cybur Lumber Company, Cybur, Miss..; George Schaad, 

 Jr., club secretary. New Orleans, and Ben Johnson, of the Manstield 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, Shreveport, La. 



For genuine optimism the May meeting of the Southwesterners at 

 Houston literally ran riot. The future was, indeed, painted with a 

 brilliant hue and the product was an outloolc better than has existed in 

 the hardwood marliet at any time since the roseate days of '19. Some 

 of the spealiers, who claimed to have made a special study of economic 

 conditions, professed with all confidence to see in the not far distant 

 future prospects and possibilities rivaling, if not quite equaling, the 

 boom days of three years ago. 



Among such speakers may be mentioned W. W. Wallace, general sales 

 manager of the South Texas Lumber Company, Houston, who based his 

 optimism upon what he described as unequalled progress in the lumber 

 marliet within the past fortnight ; Ben Johnson, of the Mansfield Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, Shreveport, who averred conditions are certainly 

 better now than at any other time since 1919 ; Phil Ryan, of the Phil A. 

 Kyan Hardwood Company, Luflcin, Texas, who professed to see in the 

 improvement an unprecedented extent of territorial distribution and in- 

 quiries coming from practically all parts of the United States. President 

 Bohlssen, also, was optimistic. 



George Schaad, Jr., secretary of the club, gave a general outline of the 

 rate situation, predicting further substantial reduction in rates before 

 long on both lumber and logs. He also buoyed the manufacturers up with 

 respect to the excessive port charges at New Orleans and was authorized 

 by them to continue his good fight for a ?3 per thousand feet rate for 

 terminal charges at the country's principal lumber port. 



The next meeting of the club will be held at New Orleans Lumbermen's 

 Quarters on the first Wednesday of June which falls on the 7th. 



Exporters Meet Day Prior to National's Meeting 



The semi-annual meeting of the National Lumber Exporters' Association. 

 It was decided last week, will be held on June 21 at the Congress Hotel 



in Chicago, Secretary Harvey M. Dickson has announced. This date was 

 chosen because it falls on the day just previous to the annual meeting of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association at the same place, so that 

 by getting to Chicago a day ahead of the annual, hardwood men who 

 belong to both organizations can take part in the deliberations of the 

 N. L. E. A. It is desired especially at this time to bring out a large 

 attendance of the N. L. E. A. because several matters of importance are 

 to be acted upon. One of these is the election of a successor to Frank 

 Tiffany, the foreign representative. Mr. Tiffany has handed in his resig- 

 nation, to take effect on October 1 next, this step having been made 

 necessary by the state of his health. 



Another matter of importance to be taken up is the report of Oustave 

 A. Farber, foreign resident of the Tumer-Farber-Love Company, of Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., chairman of the committee which was named to confer with 

 the Liverpool Timber Trade Association and the Timber Trade Federation 

 of the United Kingdom on the proposed form of contract. 



Hoo-Hoo Day Started in Chicago; Concatenation Planned 

 "Hoo-Hoo Day" has been established by S. F. D. MefBey, vicegerent 

 suark of northern Illinois and secretary-manager of the Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation of Chicago. He recently announced that this day, each Thursday, 

 will be observed at the headquarters of the Chicago Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion at 11 South La Salle street as Hoo-Hoo Day, and the club will be pre- 

 pared to serve luncheon to the members of Hoo-Hoo in northern Illinois. 



Some interesting program will be prepared for each of the days and 

 every Hoo-Hoo in the entire country is cordially invited to participate. 



The next concatenation of the order will be held by the Northern Illi- 

 nois Chapter at the Chicago association headquarters on the evening of 

 May 25. An effort is being made to initiate 100 "kittens." 



Lumbermen Golfers of Chicago to Hold Tourney June 20 



Rain or shine, the Lumbermen's Golf A>;sociation of Chicago will hold 

 its sixteenth annual tournament on Tuesday, June 20, at Olympia Fields, 

 near Chicago. The association will have the use of one course in the 

 forenoon and another in the afternoon, and the contenders can play all 

 day over different courses, with luncheon at the club and a big dinner 

 and entertainment In the evening, after which prizes will be awarded. This 

 list of prizes has always been large and valuable and the record will 

 undoubtedly be maintained in the current tournament. 



This tournament is always one of the outstanding events of the year 

 among Chicago, lumbermen as well as many others who travel far to test 

 their skill against the local stars. There are always a large number of 

 skilled players on hand. 



The directors of the association recently selected a new secretary- 

 treasurer. Robert Cousin, secretary of the C. H. Worcester Company, 19 

 South La Salle street, Chicago. Mr. Cousin succeeded Richard Gebhart, 

 who was elected secretary-treasurer at the last annual meeting but who 

 since then changed bis business, making it necessary for him to resign. 



With the Trade 



Thornton Dies as Result of Gun-shot Wound 



As the result of the accidental discharge of a gun which he was clean- 

 ing, Edward Loren Thornton, a Chicago lumberman for over thirty years, 

 died at Grant Hospital, Grant Place, Chicago, on Sunday, May 21. Mr. 

 Thornton lingered five days before his death, having been wounded on 

 Tuesday, May 16, at his home at 2244 Lincoln Park West, while cleaning 

 the gun, a small calibred rifle, prior to departing on a hunting trip to 

 HoUister, Mo. 



Mr. Thornton had a national reputation as an expert buyer and seller 

 of lumber and had engaged in important lumber manufacturing and sell- 

 ing projects since his early manhood. His most recent undertaking was 

 the organization of the National Lumber & Timber Co. and the Thornton- 

 Vanlandingham-Cook Lumber Co. in the winter of 1920 21. 



In his immediate family Mr. Thornton is survived by his widow, Mrs. 

 Elsie Fawell Thornton, and three children. 



Mr. Thornton was born in St. Lawrence county. New York, November 

 16, 1864. 



Bruce Is Installing Additional Kilns 



The E. L. Bruce Company is adding two Moore Moist -Vir Progressive 

 Dry Kilns, 176 feet long, at its hardwood flooring plant at Memphis, Tenn. 

 The new kilns wili be completed the early part of June. 



New Furniture Company 



The Mosley and Hibbler Furniture Company will mauufacture furniture 

 at Kansas City, Kansas, it having recently been incorporated with a 

 capital of $100,000, by G. F. Hibbler, O. M. Jackson. E. W. .Mosley, W. M. 

 Scoot and A. J. Herrod. 



Ten Million Dollar Cooperage Merger Effected 



The Pekin Cooperage Company of Illinois, which controls the Pckin 

 Cooperage Company of Texas, Louisiana and Pennsylvania, as well as 

 the Chickasaw Cooperage Company and other allied Interests at Memphis 

 and New Orleans, has become a member of the Securities Cooperage 

 Company, according to announcement made May 10 by Walker Wellford, 



