1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



65 



Fire Destroys Four Million Feet Lumber 



The largest lumber yaril lire in years swept the plant of George Nass & 

 Son, Glenwood avenue and Dauphin street, Philadelphia, the night of June 

 14. causing a loss of $500,000. More than 4,000,000 feet of various grades 

 was destroyed. Two firemen and two sightseers were badly Injured, the 

 firemen while working on the blazing piles and the others while watching 

 the blaze. 



Wall Says Business Is Good 



M. M. Wall, Buffalo Hardwood Lumber ('onipany. Buffalo, N. Y., who 

 was among the prominent conventionites at the Chicago annual of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, reported business during the 

 month of June the best they had experienced for two years, and pros- 

 pects very good for continuance of these conditions. 



Long-Bell Adds to Oak Flooring Capacity 



The Long-Bell Luml'cr Company plans t<i install a hardwood flooring 

 plant at Longville. La., a Long-Bell town and the former location of a 

 large yellow pine sawmill of the company, which burned down a year ago. 



This Longville operation will be devoted to the production of the well- 

 known Long-Bell oak flooring. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Parkersburg Chair Company. Parkersburg, W. Va., has increased 

 its capital stock from $200,000 to $300,000. 



The style of the .\nderson Electric Car Company, Detroit, Mich., has been 

 changed to the Towson Body Company. 



The firm of Davis & Johnson has incorporated at Jackson, Ky, 



The Nichols & Cox Lumber Company is reorganizing at Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. 



CHICAGO 



The Consumers Mill & Cabinet Company has incorporated and is located 

 at 1S2S Milwaukee avenue, city. 



BUFFALO 



The following- members of the hardwood trade are on the Buffalo 

 Exchange committee to investigate the proposal to build a summer home 

 for the lumbermen somewhere in the country : F, T. Sullivan, H. L. 

 Abbott. F. M. Sullivan, E. J. Sturm, A. J. and G. Ellas. The chairman of 

 the committee is W. P. Belts, 



The members of the New York state lumber salesmen's association held 

 an outing at Newport, on Lake Ontario, near Rochester, on June 22, with 

 a program of sports. Including baseball. 



James B. Wall has returned from a trip to the Buffalo Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company's mill at Forestport, In the Adirondacks, and states, that a 

 nice lot of beech, birch and maple is on hand there. 



BALTIMORE 



The name of the Columbia Phonograph Cabinet Company, Chicago, has 

 been changed to the Columbia Cabinet Company. 



The office here of the Kosse, Shoe & Sehleyer Company has been 

 definitely closed, and W. H. Sehleyer, who has had charge of affairs In 

 Baltimore, looking not only after the office but also after the assembling 

 yard maintained until some time ago, has virtually completed arrange- 

 ments for his removal to Columbus. As has been stated, Mr. Sehleyer has 

 made connection with a chain of retail yards In the Middle West and will 

 go back to the territory with which he is most familiar. 



Another western hardwood corporation which has found this market 

 less responsivle than it had counted on is the Douglas-Walkley Company, 

 which maintained a suite of offices in the Lexington building. Lexington 

 and Liberty streets, for more than a year, having come here from Cleve- 

 land. The Douglas-Walkley Company, whose offices had latterly been In 

 charge of young Mr. Douglas, has moved back to Cleveland. 



The Williamson Veneer Company, which operates a large factory for the 

 production of veneers of all kinds at Highlandtown, states that the demand 

 for its output is increasing and that the outlook is decidedly promising, 

 A distinct trade revival is anticipated and may be said already to have 

 made it»^lt felt. 



One of the visiting hardwood men here in the last week was J. W. 

 Curry of the Curry Brothers Lumber Company of Asheville, N. C. Mr. 

 Curry had been on a trip East and was heading for home. He stated that 

 he found an improvement in the hardwood trade, a better demand being 

 manifested and prices reflecting some gains. 



