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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 25, 1921! 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



LOUISIANA RED CYPRESS CO. 



HARDWOOD DEPARTMENT 



4th Floor Poydras Building 



NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 



Manufacturers and 

 Wholesalers of 



Fire Damages Indianapolis Yard 



Fire caused damage eKtim;ited at $60,000 recently at the lumber yards 

 of Winters, Mercer & Brannum at Anderson, Ind. Tbe total property loss 

 is estimated at about $75,000. Most of the damage was done in the yards, 

 the mills being only slightly damaged. Several frame buildings and sheds, 

 large quantities of lumber and three motor trucks were damaged. Joseph 

 W. Campbell, manager and treasurer of the company, said the loss is cov- 

 ered by insurance and that the company will be able to operate the mill 

 without much trouble and will continue business. The fire started in the 

 sash and door house, but the cause has not been determined. 



Hardwood News Notes 



BUFFALO 



The tractor is getting to be an important feature in hardwood yards. 

 Frank T. .Sullivan installed a tractor some time ago and now has two 

 in operation. He has done away with horses at his yard. The Atlantic 

 Lumber Company has put in four tractors and expects to add others soon. 

 At both these yards the tractor is said to be more economical than horses 

 and to do the worlc of two or three teams. It is possible to use these 

 machines for deliveries on the street and both yards are using them for 

 that purpose. 



A. Conger Goodyear, head of the Great Southern Lumber Company, has 

 been named as deputy fuel administrator for the eighth judicial district, 

 and has taken up the duties of the office. 



B^our residents of Wayland, N. Y., for many years identified with the 

 Gunlocke Chair Company, are to engage in the chair manufacturing busi- 

 ness In Philadelphia, Jefferson County, N. Y. 



The General Motors Company has decided to erect plants in this city 

 for the manufacture of Chevrolet automobiles and Fisher bodies, and the 

 city council has voted for tbe closing of three streets in order to facilitate 

 the undertaking. 



BALTIMORE 



Dwight D. Hartlove of Price & Heald. Baltimore, president of tbe Na- 

 tional Lumber Exporters' Association, and Harvey M. Dickson, secretary, 

 were in Washington about the middle of September to confer with the 

 United States Shipping Board committee on the bill of lading form and 

 protest against some of the clauses of that document. The Baltimoreans 

 found themselves confronted by a formidable array of legal talent, who 

 asked many questions ami were quick to note weaknesses, but the visitors 

 felt that they made out a strong case. They objected especially to Article 

 10 in the draft, and suggested changes. 



O. G. Webster, who for a time represented several hardwood lumber com- 

 panies of West Virginia in Baltimore, having an office in the Calvert 

 Building, has been made representative of the Brown-Bledsoe Lumber 

 Company, in Cleveland and surrounding territory. 



CINCINNATI 



C. L. Harris, Northern Ohio representative of the Atlas Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, has resigned his position with that concern. B. M. Bon- 

 ner, general manager of the company said that a successor to Mr. Harris 

 would not be appointed until business conditions become more staple. 



W. H. Reynolds, manager of the Hardwoods department of the Ten- 

 nessee Lumber & Coal Company, has returned from a month's inspection 

 tour of the company's mills at Oneida. Tenn. Mr. Kcynolds said that plans 



have been made at the mills to increase production fifty per cent during 

 the next three months. 



George B. Wilson of the Frank Haass Lumber Company is on an ex- 

 tended business trip In tbe South, visiting the various mill connections of 

 the company. 



The annual golf tournament of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club will 

 be played at the Fort Mitchell, Ky., Country Club, September 27. W. H. 

 Hopkins of the New Uiver I^umber Company has been appointed chairman 

 of the Tournament Committee. Arrangements for the affair are In the 

 hands of the Executive Committee of which J. C. West of the West 

 Lumber Company is chairman. 



.\. A. McLaughlin, vice-president of the A. L. McLaughlin & Company, 

 Cincinnati woodworking machinery distributors, and Miss Edna Flanagan 

 of Bonnie Leslie, South Bellevue, Ky., were married in the latter city 

 recentl.v. Mrs. McLaughlin was i)rlvate secretary to ,ludge .A. M. Caldwell 

 of the Campbell County. Ky., Circuit Court. 



EVANSVILLE 



The sawmill of (irant Shinier, near Chrisney, Spencer county, Ind., a 

 few miles east of Evansville, was destroyed by fire a few days ago, the 

 loss being about .f5.000, with practically no insurance. The fire started 

 from some burning sawdust near the mill. It is not known at this time 

 if the mill will be rebuilt. 



The Anderson Valley Lumber Company of St. Meinrad, Ind.. will move its 

 plant within a short time from that place to Ferdinand, Ind., a few miles 

 away, in order to be on a railroad. The company has been in business for a 

 number of years. 



Daniel Wertz of tbe Maley *: Wert/. Lumber Company of Evansville is 

 interested in a company that was recently organized here to manufacture 

 refrigerators. The company will start some time early next year. The 

 president of the new company by Oscar A. Klamer, who is at the bead of 

 four large Evansvilli' furniture factories. 



Fire of an unknttwn origin a few days ago destroyed the Woodward 

 sawmill at Lapel, lud., several miles north of Evansville. Two cars loaded 

 with lumber on a switch near the mill also were destroyed. The total loss 

 is $5,000 or more and no Insurance was carried. The mill was the property 

 of Lawrence Woodward and his stepmother, Mrs. Ella Woodward. The 

 mill probably will be rebuilt. 



William Partington, traffic manager of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Com- 

 pany, reports that the log situation is some better than it was a month 

 or two ago, and he thinks that a good many logs will be coming in here 

 by the middle of October. Log prices are rather high and logs have been 

 hard to obtain. 



MEMPHIS 



Till' "Bart Tully," the all-steel towboat of the Patton-Tuliy Transporta- 

 tion Company, a subsidiary of the Anderson-TuUy Compan.v, manufac- 

 turer of hardwood lumber, box shooks and veneers, sank in the Missis 

 sifipi Sunday night about sixty miles north of Memphis, throwing the 

 entire crew into tbe murky waters of that stream. All escaped with the 

 exception of a boat painter, who was drowned. This boat had only recently 

 come off the ways, where it undenvent extensive repairs and improve- 

 ments, including the installation of superheaters. It was valued at $35,000. 

 It was to be used by the company in handling general river traffic on the 

 Ohio and Mississippi in steel barges recently ordered from Pittsburgh for 

 that purpose. 



.\ltbough the Louisiana Red Cypress Company remove<l its hardwwid 

 department from Memphis to New Orleans, September 1, as ri-cently 

 reported in the H.Mtuwoon Record, it has opened branch sales offices in 

 Memphis, In charge of L. H. Penny. These are located in the Falls build 



