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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 25. 1922 



The Mail Bag 



B 625— Hickory Golf Shafts 

 London, Eng., May 24. — Editor Haudwood Record : We are seeking a 

 regular supply of 44" hickory (turned) golf club shafts. We particularly 

 want these of consistently good quality and they must be air dried. If 

 the shafts are what we are seeking we can take very large quantities. 



With the Trade 



Reduced Tariffs Will Be Published 



Plans are now being worked out or have been completed, following 

 numerous conferences between the Southern Hardwood Traffic' Association 

 and officials of the carriers and the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

 which will, in the opinion of the former, result in publication of practically 

 all reduced rates on forest products effective July 1, 1922. Commenting 

 on just how this will be accomplished, the association, in a letter to its 

 members, says : 



"The new rates will either be published as specific figures or in the form 

 of blanket supplements. In instances of extreme tariff complications, the 

 reductions to take effect July 1 published by some of the carriers will 

 approximate the reductions required by the commission, and specific rates 

 will be published immediately thereafter, in exact conformity with the 

 decision of the commission." 



It adds in this connection : "We are making every effort to get the 

 reductions in all rates on forest products effective July 1." 



Sedgwicks Organize Company 



On July 1 H. M. Sedg^vick will resijrn his position witli the .\merican 

 Column & Lumber Company, Columbus. O., to engage in the wholesale 

 hardwood lumber business in Cincinnati for himself under the name of tne 

 H. M. Sedgwick Lumber Company. He will have an office in the Neave 

 building. Fourth and Race streets. 



Spielman- Stewart Nuptials 



H. M. Spielman, sales manager of the Thompson Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, and Miss Helen Stewart, granddaughter of the founder of the 

 Stewart Iron Works, Covington, Ky., were married on June 14. Follow- 

 ing a reception at the home of the bride the newlyweds departed on a 

 honeymoon trip through Yellowstone National Park. They will return to 

 Cincinnati about August 1. 



New Acquisition by Kerry & Hanson 

 C. T. Kerry of the Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company, Grayling, Mich., 

 manufacturer of "Chief" Shoppenagon Michigan maple and birch flooring, 

 while attending the National Hardwood Lumber Association convention 

 had the following interesting information for the trade : The Kerry & 

 Hanson Flooring Company has purchased through receivership and the 

 bankruptcy court the property known as the Michigan Forest Products 

 Company at Strongs, Mich., manufacturer of hardwood and softwood 

 lumber. The necessary final papers have been filed at Chippewa County 

 and the company will operate under the name of the Chippewa Lumber 

 Company at Strongs. 



Mr. Kerry, who resides at Saginaw, Mich., has found business very good 

 of late. 



Long-Bell Appoints Hardwood Director 



G. W. Allport has become director of hardwood operations of The Long- 

 Bell Lumber Company, a new position. He Joins the Long-Bell organiza- 

 tion with fifteen years of experience in the hardwood lumber business. 

 Most of the time he has spent in charge of the manufacture and sales 

 of the Jefferson Hardwood Lumber Company of Pine Bluff, Ark., of which 

 he was part owner. The Jefferson company cut out recently. 



Headquarters for Mr. Allport will be at Pine Blufl', where one of the 

 Long-Bell hardwood plants is located. He will be in Kansas City this 

 month in charge of hardwood sales in the absence of C. Arthur Rugg, man- 

 ager haxdwood sales, who is in the East recuperating from his recent 

 illness. 



Sturtevant Book Bound in Veneer 



A book of testimonials concerning the use of the Sturtevant dry kilns 

 in the millwork and interior finish industry, which has just been issued 

 by the B. F. Sturtevant Company, Hyde Park, Boston. Mass., is bound in a 

 material that will undoubtedly attract much attention in the trade. The 

 cover and fly leaf are made of a real wood veneer, with a pasteboard and 

 paper backing. This Is the product of Japanese art and is as beautiful as 

 It Is unique. The booklet Is entitled, "The Question — and The Answer." 



Long-Bell Puts Up New Flooring Plant 



The Long-Bell Lumber Company has contracts with hardwood producers 

 In East Texas and West Louisiana which Justify it in putting up a two-unit 

 flooring plant at Longvllle, Tex. For the present the plant will consume 

 a million and a quarter feet of oak lumber monthly. 



A year ago the modern pine mill of the Long-Bell Lumber Company at 



Longvllle burned to the ground and on account of timber being pretty 

 well cut out it was decided not to rebuild. The flames, however, did not 

 reach the sheds, planer, dry kilns and other yard equipment. 



A month ago W. F. Ryder of the Long-Bell organization began looking 

 over the territory to see if enough oak could be secured to Justify putting 

 in a flooring plant. Mr. Ryder stated that only two flooring machines 

 would be installed at the present time, but if it was demonstrated that 

 they could secure plenty of raw material the number will be increased to 

 six. The Long-Bell company has a flooring plant of five units at Pine 

 Bluff. -Vrk., and two more units are being added now. This will give them 

 nine flooring units, and if timlior is available the Longvllle plant will 

 boost the number to 13. 



The establishment of this plant is looked upon as a boost for the hard- 

 wood industry in this section, and will probably open the way for similar 

 plants. With the establishment of the Voth Hardwood company, Beaumont 

 largely owned by the Kirby-Bonner interests, the hardwood industry in 

 Texas and Louisiana is being taken up more by organizations which have 

 ample capital and well organized selling organizations. 



Lumberman Weds Illustrator 



Philip H. Pease of Poplar IJluft. Mo., engaged in the lumber business 

 there, and Miss Hilda Hanway of Monticello, Ind.. were married recently 

 at St. Louis, Mo. They will live in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Pease formerly lived 

 in Chicago. Mrs. Pease is a talented artist and for three years has had a 

 studio in Chicago, where she has done illustrative work for magazines 

 and books. 



Big Force of Wood Car Repair Men Added 



Announcement was made June 17 by E. M. Buick, superintendent of the 

 Amerlcnn Car & Foundry Company, Terre Haute, Ind., that the company 

 will siKiploy about 300 additional wood car repairmen July 5, at which 

 time the plant, which has been working with curtailed forces for months, 

 will begin active operations. The company has sufficient orders to operate 

 the wood plant for several months, according to the manager. 



Schleyer Sells Interest in Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Company 



Announcement was made at the main offices of the Kosse, Shoe & 

 Schleyer Company in Cincinnati on June 22, that the interests of W. H. 

 Schleyer, treasurer, have been purchased by the original stockholders of 

 the company, which is one of the largest walnut lumber manufacturing 

 establishments in the Middle West. 



Mr. Schleyer, who has been manager of the Baltimore Md., office for the 

 past five years has severed his connections with the company. He will 

 take a rest for several months and then affiliate himself with a Columbus, 

 O., lumber concern, which operates a number of retail yards throughout 

 the state of Ohio. 



Albert Heidt, who has been connected with the Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer 

 Company for many years, has succeeded Mr. Schleyer as treasurer. Al- 

 though Mr. Schleyer will have no interest whatsoever in the company, 

 bis nama ivill not be dropped from the firm name of the company. 



Because of the poor export business, P. V. Shoe, secretary of the com- 

 pany, said that the Baltimore office would be closed for the time being. 



Open Memphis Sales Office 

 The W. T. Burt Lumber Company, which operates a band mill at Gun- 

 nison, Miss., has opened sales offices, Memphis. Tenn., in the Bank of 

 Commerce building. Mr. Burt has placed W. B. Crosby, formerly with the 

 -Vmerican Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, in charge of the newly 

 opened offices, and he will look after sale of the company's output. 



Hutcheson Company Moves to Cairo 



The Hutcheson Lumber Company has removed its headquarters from 

 Memphis to Cairo, 111., after having conducted its wholesale business in 

 lumber for three years at this point. It has concentrating yards at Cairo, 

 and the desire of the management to be in closer touch therewith is 

 responsible for the change in location. 



New Flooring Plant for Memphis 

 The Hudson & Dugger Company has awarded the contract for the con- 

 struction of a two-unit hardwood flooring plant adjoining its tight-circled 

 heading factory in New South Memphis. Work thereon has Just begun. 

 A new structure Is to be erected to house the flooring plant, and the dry 

 kilns are to be rearranged so as to take care of the flooring stock as well 

 as the cooperage material. The plant is to be owned by the Hudson & 

 Dugger Company, but it will be operated under the name of the Hudson 

 Hardwood Flooring Company, a subsidiary. The officers of the latter will 

 be the same as in the case of the parent company, with the exception that 

 Galvin Hudson will be general manager of the flooring company and 

 Harry D. Varlie will be superintendent. The plant will be placed in 

 operation as soon as completed. It will have a daily capacity of .30.000 

 to 40.000 feet, and will bring the consumption of plain oak in Memphis 

 to approximately (J.OOO.OOO feet per month. There are now three plants 

 here operating two. four and five units, respectively. 



Vrooman Moving to New Plant 

 The S. B. Vrooman Company, Ltd., of Philadelphia, Pa., which has been 

 located at its present address for the past fifty years, is moving to a brand 

 new plant situated at Delaware river and Kirkbrlde street, Philadelphia. 

 Their new mahogany mill covers about eight acres of ground, and tbey will 

 engage on a much larger scale in the handling of mahogany, teak and 

 hardwoods. This splendid company has been so long identified with the 

 hardwood trade that their many friends will be gratified to note the con- 

 tinued success which is attending their efforts. 



