June 10, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Dooley Buys Arkansas Mill 



Frank T. Dooley, of the F. T. Dooli-j- I^iiiiilier I'oinpuny. New South 

 Memphis, has purchased the baiul mill of the Lockwood Lumber Company 

 at Brinkley, Ark., and this will be continued in full operation under the 

 new management. The plant was built some years ago by W. L. Brown, 

 an Arkansas lumberman, and is equipped throughout with modern machin- 

 ery. 



Maassen Will Remain In Memphis 



As a result of the plan to remove the hardwood department of the 

 Chicago Lumber & Coal Company from Memphis to St. Louis, Mo., the 

 headquarters of the company. J. J. Maassen, manager of that department, 

 resigned on June 1. Mr. Maassen did not desire to leave Memphis and 

 determined to remain and go in business on his own account. 



In the meantime, before carrying out his intentions to organize, Mr. 

 Maassen, accompanied by Mrs. Maassen. is taking his first real vacation 

 in thirteen years. They left Memphis during the first week in June to 

 motor to the Pacific Coast, Mr. Maassen, as he expressed it, with notbing 

 on his mind but his cap. The tour will last about six weeks and upon his 

 return to Memphis Mr. Maassen will open an office. 



Mr. Maassen has had a wide experience in the hardwood lumlier business. 

 He left the FuUerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company of South Bend, 

 Ind., after about ten years with them as buyer in the South, to go with the 

 Chicago Lumber & Coal Company in the same capacity, September 5. 1918. 

 In February, 1919, he took charge of the hardwood department of this firm 

 as manager, with the proviso that the department should be moved to 

 Memphis. 



Memphis May Have Special Train to National Convention 



The entertainment committee of the Lumbermen's Clul) of Memphis is 

 making arrangements for transportation for Memphis lumbermen who will 

 attend the forthcoming annual of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation at Chicago June 22-23. It announced at the regular semi-monthly 

 meeting at the Hotel Gayoso Saturday afternoon. May 27, that a special 

 train would be secured if there were as many as 125 desiring to make the 

 trip, and that, in the event there are not enough for a special train, special 

 cars would be attached to regular trains between Memphis and Chicago on 

 the proper dates. The club has already endorsed the candidacy of John 

 W. McClure for the presidency of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation for the ensuing year, and is anxious, according to the statement 

 made by T. E. Sledge, first vice-president, who occupied the chair, that the 

 club send a strong delegation to support the club's resolution for Mr. 

 McCIure's election. 



W. H. Dick of the Tallahatchie Lumber Company was named as the 

 representative of the club on the directorate of the Memphis Chamber of 

 Commerce at a meeting of the directors of the former held the latter 

 part of May. 



Two new members were elected : W. R. Foley of the Chickasaw Cooper- 

 age Company, and George W. Ashby of the Rush Lumber Company, both of 

 Memphis. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Rutland Sash & Door Company has incorporated at Rutland, Ver- 

 mont. 



The Automatic Seating Company at Superior, Wis., Is a recently incor- 

 porated company. 



The capital stock of the Randolph Planing Mill Company of Elkins, 

 W. Va., has been increased from $25,000 to .$150,000. 



At Palatka, Fla., the Palatka Hardwood Mill Company has commenced 

 in business. 



S. H. Wat ring, J. M. Woodford, Charles Ritter and Margaret H. Rit- 

 ter Elkins have incorporated the Woodford Lumber Company at Elkins, 

 W. Va. ; capitalization, $50,000. 



CHICAGO 



Fourteen meowing "kittens" were metamorphosed into "cats" at a 

 concatenation of the Northern Illinois Chapter of the Concatenated Order 

 of Hoo Hoo held at the headquarters of the Lumbermen's Association of 

 Chicago on Thursday, May 25. The initiation and dinner was in charge 

 of S. F. D. Meffley, vicegerent snark for the chapter. Among those ini- 

 tiated were Albert Lawrence Wilson and Herbert Leighton Pease, National 

 Association of Box Manufacturers ; E. N. Beard, Chicago representative of 

 Turner-Farber-Love Company ; J. H. Dunn, St. Louis Basket & Bos Co., 

 and Jacob S. Drell, G. W. Jones Lumber Co. 



A. C. Quixley of the Quixley Lumber Company lost his father, J. W. 

 Quixley, who died the night of May 28, in a Rockford, 111., hospital at an 

 advanced age. Mr. Quixley buried his father in Beloit, Wis., which was 

 his old home. 



M. W. Stark of the American Column & Lumber Co., Columbus, O., 

 during the latter part of May was in the Presbyterian Hospital in Chi- 

 cago for treatment, but he was sufficiently recovered around June 1 to 

 go out and visit a number of his friends in Chicago. 



BUFFALO 



The mill of the Western Lumber Company, Clean, X. Y., was damaged 

 by fire on June 2 to the extent of $5,000. The Are started in the shaving 

 bin and was communicated to the roof. Some material was wateV-soaked 

 and some burned, but the machinery is not believed to have been damaged. 

 A shut down of three weeks will take place. 



Orson E. Yeager is spending three weeks on a western trip, taking in 

 the world convention of Rotary Clubs in Los Angeles. 



The Buffalo Lumber Exchange holds its first annual outing of the season 

 on June 13, when a trip down the river and a dinner at the Motor Boat 

 Club will be enjoyed. Frank T. SulUvan is in charge of the arrangements 

 for the day. 



The Hotel Statler has contracted with the Batavia & New York Wood- 

 working Company, Batavia, N. Y., for the interior woodwork, which will 

 be American walnut and quartered oak. The contract for furniture has 

 also been let. Berkey & Gay will supply the bedroom furniture and 

 Bernard & Simmons the chairs and lobby furniture. 



The Public Service Commission at Albany held a hearing on June 2 on 

 the petition of G. Elias & Bro., lumber dealers of Buffalo, for a reduction 

 in the freight rate on logs from various outside points to this city. Com- 

 plaint was made by A. J. Elias as to the rates made by the different roads, 

 the latter also being represented at the hearing. Both parties were given 

 twenty days to file briefs. G. Elias & Bro. erected a well-equipped sawmill 

 some months ago at their yard for the purpose of handling their own logs 

 from nearby points, but the rates asked by the roads for delivery herje are 

 regarded by the company as excessive. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Fire swept the planing mill of Charles Stolzer, 2310 Washington avenue. 

 Philadelphia, this week, causing a loss of more than $5,000. Dried lumber 

 and woodworking materials are believed to have caught fire from a glue 

 machine. 



Pennsylvania now is assured of a national forest reserve. Word was 

 received today that the purchase of 74,000 acres in Elk. McKean, Forest 

 and Warren counties had been agreed upon by the National Forest Reserva- 

 tion Commission. The land will be taken over by the Government at the 

 price of $2.73 an acre. 



Arthur J. Stevens is hard at work on the books of William Whitmer & 

 Sons, Philadelphia, lumber dealers owning large tracts of land in Virginia, 

 West Virginia and North Carolina. The company was declared insolvent 

 and Mr. Stevens was appointed receiver by Federal Judge Thompson. The 

 company, which is capitalized at $3,000,000. is believed to be in a fair 

 condition, although its working capital has been cut down. Lumbermen 

 believe that the receiver will bring the company out of the "woods." 



Two Philadelphia lumber companies have been in business more than 

 100 years. These are the J. Gibson Mcllvain Company and R. A. & J. J. 

 Williams. Both concerns were represented at the big luncheon given by the 

 chamber of commerce to all centenary establishments in this city. 



BALTIMORE 



Wm. Schleyer. who has been located for some years in Baltimore as 

 the local representative of Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer, hardwood distributors 

 and exporters, with headquarters at Cincinnati, has withdrawn his inter- 

 est from the corporation, and, it is stated, has formed a connection with 

 a chain of retail yards, which will enable him to remain in the Middle 

 West. The company some time ago disposed of Its yard in Baltimore, 

 where stocks of hardwoods were accumulated for the domestic trade and 

 for export, and last week the belongings of the office, which for a time 

 had been in the Knickerbocker building, were removed. Max Kosse, of 

 the corporation, stopped in Baltimore a few days ago, though the visit 

 had no exclusive connection with the winding up of affairs there. Mr. 

 Kosse had been in New York relative to some foreign shipments and he 

 went to Baltimore to confer with Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the 

 National Lumber Exporters' -Association, regarding the shipments. 



Another visitor in Baltimore during the week was C. S. Powell, of the 

 Powell Lumber Company, hardwood exporters, with office on Broadway, 

 New York. Mr. Powell also saw Mr. Dickson. He was appointed receiver 

 for his company on May 11 and has since been engaged in winding up 

 affairs. Meanwhile, however, he has organized what will be known as 

 the Powell Lumber and Timber Corporation, with offices and yard at 43 

 Davis street. Long Island City, N. Y. This new corporation has already 

 started in business and is prepared to furnish stocks similar to those 

 carried by the old concern, which was carried down by the deflation 

 that followed the post-war boom. 



Yet another out-of-town caller in Baltimore during the last week in 

 May was M. Christie, of James Kennedy & Co., Ltd.. Cincinnati, who was 

 proceeding by automobile with his wife to Ocean C'it.v, N. J., where the 

 family is to spend several of the summer months. The journey was en- 

 tirely for recreation and to install the family at the seaside. 



J. J. Linehan, of the Mowbray & Robinson Company of Cincinnati, 

 made Baltimore a stopping point on a trip by automobile to see his 

 father, who lives on the eastern shore of Maryland and whom he had not 

 seen for some time. 



The Maryland Lumber Company is erecting a two-story brick wnnd- 

 working plant, which will extend from Forrest street, through to East 

 street, and will house not only the offices of the corporation, but a sash 



