May 25, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



51 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



W. r. (Ji-niit. !■:. .1. Inman aiid others liavi- iiuiirporateil the Utility 

 Table Company at Ashtabula, O. ; capital, $10.0U(I, 



The Gordon-Hagadorn Corporation will manutaetiii-e furniture at Syra- 

 cuse, X. Y., with a capital stock of $30,000. R. Gordon, G. Gordon and 

 E. W. Hagadorn are the incorporators. 



The H. S. Storr Company has succeeded the Raleigh Manufacturing 

 Company at Raleigh. N. C, and will manufacture school furniture. 



The Kentucky Lumber & Millwork Company has incorporated at Louis- 

 ville, Ky. 



The Louisiana Tie &. Lumber Company has succeeded the Valley Tie & 

 Lumber Company of Natchitoches, La. 



N. A. Gillespie, P. B. .Stearns and A. H. Schaefer have incorporated 

 the Woodcraft Manufacturing Company. .Schenectady, N. Y. Its line of 

 manufacture will be furniture. Capital, .$25,000. 



The Allied Lumber Company has incorporated at Fairmont, W. Va. 



At Hudson, N. X., the Hudson City Table Works has recently started 

 and manufactures dining room tables. 



The Foote-Burt Lumber Company at New Orleans. La., has been changed 

 to the Central Gulf Lumber Company. 



Jacob Balin and others with a capital stock of $8,000 have organized 

 and incorporated the Balin Chair Company, Brooklyn, N. Y. Another 

 Brooklyn incorporation is the ilasop Furniture Corporation ; interested 

 parties, M. G. Palliser, M. C. Hefter and W. G. Gehring. The capital stock 

 is $200,000. 



The Merdzinski Furniture Company with a capital of $200,000 will 

 manufacture medium priced library tables and dining room furniture at 

 (Jrand Rapids, Mich. It has recently been incorporated by John Merd- 

 zinski, president ; Joseph Lewandowshi, vice-president, and Stanley Merd- 

 zinski, secretary and treasurer. 



The Marion Handle and Manufacturing Company. Marion. Ind., is now 

 operating under the st.vle of the Marion Handle and Box Company. 



The Solar Polar Storm Sash & Screen Company has been incorporated at 

 Muskegon. Mich. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed against the C. S. 

 Powell Lumber Company, New York, N. Y. 



The Thorn-Iieed Lumber Company has been organized at Charleston, 

 W. Va.. with a capitalization of $400,000, the officers being ; George A. 

 Reed, president; H. P. Thorn, vice-president, and John B. Thorn, secre- 

 tary-treasurer and general manager. The company's timber holdings are 

 located near Apalachicola. Fla., consisting chiefly of hardwoods, the mill 

 being in operation at Tilton. 



A receiver has been appointed for the Hauey School Furniture Com- 

 pany of Grand Rapids, Mich., and also for the Union Manufacturing 

 Company, Gardner, Mass. 



The planing mill of the Guyan Lumber Company at Herndon, W. Va., 

 was destroyed by Are on May 6. 



CHICAGO 



H. W. Baker, Jr., of the Baker-Matthews Lumlier Co.. Memphis, stopped 

 over in Chicago on May 11, while en route to the Pacific Coast, where he 

 planned to remain a month. 



Southern hardwood lumber manufacturers having membership in the 

 Lumbermen's Association of Chicago organized a division, which will be 

 called "Division J," on May 19. The charter members of the division are : 

 L. D. Leach & Company, Galloway-Pease Lumber Company, Faust Brothers 

 Lumber Company, Utley-HoUoway Lumber Company, Paepcke Leicht Lum- 

 ber Company. Hugh McLean Lumber Company, Tremont Lumber Company. 



E. A. Lang, J. H. Faust and Glenn H. HoUoway wpre eh'cted members 

 of the executive committee, Mr. Lang as chairman. The division will he 

 represented on the board of directors by Max Pease of the Galloway- 

 Pease Lumber Company. 



Outbreaks of labor terrorism in Chicago as a result of the continued 

 enforcement of the Landis award have not greatly intimidated prospective 

 builders, according to the testimony of permits issued for the first seven- 

 teen days of May. The permits set a new high record for values during 

 the time, totaling $14,571,800, and indicate that the building boom will 

 surpass the predictions of the most enthusiastic earlier in the year. 



Figures from Building Commissioner Bostrom's office show that permits 

 for 229 apartment buildings, 376 residences and 167 other structures 

 were taken out during the seventeen-day period. The value of all permits 

 for the entire month of April was $17,076,560, while the totals for May, 

 1921. show a puny $2,967,750, despite the fact that the building lockout 

 was then in the process of settlement and the first signs of the building 

 boom were manifesting themselves. 



BUFFALO 



The hardwood men were quite active in the promotion of a larger mem- 

 bership in the Chamber of Commerce recently, the campaign being in 

 charge of Fleming Sullivan as major, with E, C. Evarts as adjutant. A 



wholesale and a retail team canvassed for new members and the lumber- 

 men led all other teams in bringing in recruits by obtaining ninety in the 

 first three days. On the wholesale team were Harry L. Abbott, captain ; 

 A. H. Weaver, lieutenant ; John H. Wall, Elmer J. Sturm and Carlton 

 Betts. 



The Rudolph Wurlitzer Mfg. Co., located at Martinsville, near Tona- 

 wanda, broke ground a few days ago for a large toy manufacturing plant, 

 which will use waste wood from the company's musical instrument factory. 

 The building will be one-.story, with 10,000 square feet of floor space. It 

 is expected that manufacturing will begin during July. 



The Silverthorne lumber case, which received much publicity about two 

 years ago, has been closed- by Federal Judge Hazel, who has signed an 

 order of discharge. The death of A. K. Silverthorne several months ago 

 made further trial of the case impractical. The trial of the case took 

 place in Buffalo, the charge being that the Silverthornes defrauded the 

 government on shipments of lumber for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. 

 during the war. During the trial the Rev. Father Francis Shemalie was 

 arrested for illegal communication with a juror and recently he was 

 lined $1,000. The jury was unable to reach an agreement as to whether 

 fraud was committed, and was discharged. 



Harry L. Abbott, of the Atlantic Lumber Co., has been appointed one 

 of three members of a permanent membership committee of the Buffalo 

 Chamber of Commerce. He has also been named as one of the executive 

 committee. 



CLEVELAND 



The Charles J. Pfeil Company of 1976 West Third street, announces 

 plans for a factory addition to the woodworking plant that will cost about 

 $40,000. The new building will occupy a plot 33x50 feet and will be of 

 frame construction two stories high. The Charles J. Pfeil Company makes 

 a specialty of hardwood products, and the new plant represents the 

 steady increase in the company's business during the past few years. 



George J. McCardle is now covering Central Ohio territory in the inter- 

 ests of the Shields and Allyn Lumber Company, which has plants in both 

 Cleveland and Detroit. 



The Empire Plow Company, according to H. B. Haas of the Arm, is con- 

 templating increased activities beginning the latter part of August or 

 earlj- September. Mr. Haas states that red oak will be used almost exclu- 

 sively, and reports that the Empire Plow Company will be in the market 

 for this material on the dates mentioned. 



Automobile manufacturers are still working at capacity. E. S. Jordan, 

 president of the Jordan Motor Company, recently stated that business 

 would probably continue without change through the summer. In his 

 opinion the total results of this year will eclipse those of any previous 

 year with possibly one exception. 



Hardwood dealers report that the abnormal activities in the automotive 

 field has proved the feature of the season's business. The Sterns, Chandler, 

 White, WintoB and Cleveland factories all report orders insuring capacity 

 tor several months. 



Arch C. Klumph, president of the Cuyahoga Lumber Company, recently 

 made a speech before the Rotary Club outlining the beginnings of wood 

 construction in the Cleveland district. 



CINCINNATI 



L. B. Flanery, for many years engaged in the wholesale lumber busi- 

 ness at Moorehead, Miss., is now connected with the Thompson Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of this city. Mr. Flanery will look after the company's 

 business in the East and Canada and will have his headquarters at 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Cincinnati has added another lumber concern to its already long list. 

 The newest addition is the BoUing-GrifBth Lumber Company, which has 

 opened offices in the Dixie Terminal building. The compan.v will conduct 

 a general wholesale and commission lumber business. Mr. Boiling, presi- 

 dent of the new concern, was at different times in the past connected 

 with the J. W. Darling Lumber Company, Cincinnati, and Charles B. 

 Carothers, Incorporated, Memphis, Tenn. Mr. George Griffith, secretary 

 and treasurer, was for several years secretary and sales manager of the 

 Charles B. Carothers, Incorporated. He resigned that position May 1 to 

 organize the firm of Boiling-Griffith Lumber Company. 



While in this city calling on the local trade, W. L. Mace, secretary 

 and treasurer of the P. S. Mace Lumber Company. Terre. Haute, Ind., 

 announced that the company has organized the Hoosier Tie & Lumber 

 Company, which has been incorporated under the laws of the state of 

 Indiana with a capital of $100,000. The new company of which Mr. Mace 

 is general manager will operate several sawmills in Gibson county, Indiana. 

 It has obtained a large tie order and a contract to build several scores 

 of homes for an Indiana mining concern. 



Upon application of Walter E. Johns, vice-president and half owner of 

 the capital stock of the Milne-Hall & Johns Company, wholesale lumber 

 dealers. Judge John Caldwell, in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, 

 appointed Attorney David M Levy receiver. Mr. Johns in applying for 

 the receiver said that the company decided on AprU 27 to go out of busi- 

 ness. The receiver is appointed to conserve the interests of the stock- 



