HARDWOOD RECORD 



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lesseniug supply of stave timber, which necessi- 

 tates the use of a narrower stave. 



A new code of specifications for turpentine 

 and oil barrels was adopted, dealing chiefly with 

 the quality of material. 



It was the expressed sentiment of many mem- 

 bers that the price of barrels ought to be raised 

 because some manufacturers are said to be sell- 

 ing at cost, while the staves are selling at a 

 higher figure. Stave men said they are not get- 

 ting enough for their product and would be com- 

 pelled to use their raw material for other 

 purposes if prices are not raised. Barrel men 

 retorted by saying they could not make the con- 

 sumer pay any more, and so no action on prices 

 was taken. 



The following officers were re elected : J. It. 

 Kelley, Kansas City, president ; W. F. Woolfner, 

 Peoria, 111., vice-president ; William .T. Murray. 

 St. Paul, Minn., second vice-president : Freil 

 Kober, Pittsburg, Pa., third vice-president ; Fred 

 .T. Benner, St. Louis, secretary-treasurer. 



The next meeting place was at first decided to 

 be at Little Rock, Ark., but this action was 

 reconsidered on a suggestion that Detroit be 

 chosen. It was finally voted that the meeting 

 be held in July, the place to be decided on by 

 a poll of members. 



The annual banquet was given on the evening 

 of the second day's session, under the auspices 

 of the Camp Followers' Club, the social organi- 

 zation of the association. About one hun- 

 dred and fifty members partook of this pleasant 

 affair. E. II. Defebaugh acted as toastmaster. 

 Other speakers were : J. R. Kelley, Kansas City ; 

 W. L. Wenford ; W. G. Clyde of Pittsburg, vice- 

 president of the Camp Followers' Club, and W. F. 

 Woolfner of Peorin. vice-president of the asso- 

 ciation. 



The m.ikers claim that by the use of this in- 

 vention the highest caloric value of the wood 

 is retained because the charring is effected at 

 the lowest possible temperature by reason of 

 the lagged jacket of asbestos and the readiness 

 with which the combustion is regulated at every 

 point and the cold excluded. 



Prominent Philadelphia Wholesale Lumljer 

 Firm 



Charles K. I'arry, bead of lh(> wholesale lum- 

 Ijer firm of Charles K. Parry & Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., secured his first business experience 

 ii the Consolidation National Bank of Philadel- 

 phia, after graduating from the Friends' Central 

 High School. After five years of work in the 

 hanking business he spent a year with his 

 father, wlio was engaged in the retail lumber 

 business. Later he formed a partnership with 

 E. P. Slocomb, of E. P. Slocomb & Co., with 

 whom ho was associated for five years. In 

 .January, 1904, Mr. Parry sold his interest in 

 l). P. Slocomb & Co. to Mr. Slocomb, and shortly 

 I hereafter formed the Righter-Parry Lumber 

 Company. In 1909 the present firm of Chas. K. 

 I'arry & Co. was formed to sell the stocks of 

 mills with which Mr. Parry had become indi- 

 vidually associated. 



Mr. Parry inherits a knowledge of the lumber 

 business inasmuch as his father conducted a 



New Insulated Charcoal Retort 



Something new in the way of fuel for suction 

 gas engines is reijorted from England. It is 

 the retorted wood charcoal, according to a Lon- 

 don journal, produced by a new insulated char- 

 coal retort manufactured by a concern in that 

 city. It is their claim that retorted wood 

 charcoal surpasses all others becausi* of the 

 purity of the gas. the absence of tar and clink- 

 er, the reliability in maintaining a continuous 

 run, and its ettectiveness in quickly starting the 

 engines. Its economy is said to be shown by 

 the fact that only about throe-quarters of a 

 pound of retorted charcoal per hour is required 

 as against one and one-quarter pounds of coke 

 per horsepower. 



The apparatus is portable and handy and cau 

 be placed in the yard near the engine or shop 

 and used with practically no additional cost of 

 labor. It is made in three sizes suitable for 

 engines up to eighteen horsepower, thirty horse- 

 power and fifty horsepower, respectively. 

 When used it should be erected in a 

 position a few inches from the ground to 

 allow air to get under as required. It sliould 

 be filled with wood, preferably not above six 

 inches in diameter, and placed horizontally. A 

 space from nine inches to twelve inches in diam- 

 eter should be left, three feet from the top in 

 the center, and this should be filled in with 

 dry wood and chips that will burn easily. After 

 filling, the lid must be put on and secured round 

 the outside with wet clay (and also the side 

 door) to prevent gas escaping. Then all the 

 caps except the middle one should be put on 

 the chimneys. The dry chips should then be 

 lighted down the middle chimney and when it 

 has gotten a good hold — in about fifteen or 

 twenty minutes — the cap should be put about 

 two-thirds on the chimney and the other caps 

 opened to the same extent. When the fumes 

 come out at the bottom, all chimneys should 

 be closed and everything made airtight except 

 the space at the bottom, which should be re- 

 stricted a little at the wind side by soil or 

 clay, so as to prevent too rapid combustion. The 

 retort is then left to burn itself out. 



CHAS. K. PARRY. CHAS. K. PARRY & CO., 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



large retail yard near Hatboro, Pa., for Iwenty- 

 flve years. His great grandfather, Isaac Conard. 

 operated a sawmill where the city of Philadel- 

 phia now stands, that section being now known 

 as Kensington. Mr. Conard bought rafts, which 

 v,'ere at that time floated down the Delawari' 

 River, also sawed locally for people owning tim- 

 ber in the immediate vicinity of Philadelphia, 

 but after operating for about seven years, ho 

 gave up the sawmill business to engage in 

 farming. 



Mr. Parry is vice-president and controls the 

 output of the Selma Lumber Company at Selma, 

 N. C. This concern has about five thousand 

 acres of timber, most of it short leaf pine, but 

 also containing considerable oak and poplar, 

 lie also owns and controls the Clio Lumber Com- 

 pany at Bingham, S. C, cutting largely long leaf 

 pine ; also is interested with and controls the 

 output of B. B. Gray at Pine Bloom, Ga., cutting 

 long leaf pine. 



Six months ago Mr. Parry, in connection with 

 two large manufacturers in Tennessee, bouglit 

 the Johnson tract near Pensacola, consisting of 

 about eight thousand acres of spruce and hard- 

 woods. A railroad is being completed into this 



limber and the mill will be constructed in the 

 spring and summer, and everything ready to 

 ship lumber in the fall. This tract is estimated 

 at loO,000,000 feet and contains some of the 

 fiuest poplar, oak and basswood, and is prob- 

 ably one of the finest tracts that has been on the 

 market for a long time. 



Stock Handled by Floyd-Olmstead Company 



The new mill of the White Lumber Company 

 located at White Mills, N. C, has recently been 

 put into operation under the most favorable 

 auspices. It will cut hardwoods, white pine 

 and hemlock. It is a band mill with a daily 

 capacity of 63,000 feet and is pronounced one 

 of the finest equipped in that section. Besides 

 the band mill, there is a resaw, planing mill and 

 a complete linci of machinery for the manufac- 

 turing of stocks which are desirable for eastern 

 and other trade consumption. 



The White Lumber Company also owns seven 

 miles of railway, which is used in getting out 

 its own timber. This road taps the Southern, 

 Norfolk & Western and the C. C. & O. railroads. 



The output of this mill is liandled by the 

 Floyd-OImstead Company, whose offices are lo- 

 cated in the Bulletin building, Philadelphia. This 

 concern ever since it started in business has 

 been the sole agent of the White Lumber Com- 

 pany's stock. In a very short time there will be 

 a considerable accumulation of stocks on stick 

 and from that time eastern buyers as well as 

 others will have the advantage of selecting from 

 Ibis choice lumber. 



The White Lumber Company still continues to 

 operate its plant at Butler, Tenn., cutting prac- 

 tically the same line of woods it is cutting at 

 White Mills. The Floyd-Olmstead Company is 

 also sole agent of this stock. 



Enters Wholesale Hardwood Field 



'i'lie Oliver & Bliss Lumber Company is the 

 name of the new concern which has recently 

 I'Utercd the lumber business at Minneapolis. 

 Minn. Its oflices are located at 7oG-738 Lumber 

 Exchange building, and it has back of it gen- 

 llemen who are not new to the lumber business 

 nf Jlinneapolis. 



Mr. Oliver, senior member of the new com- 

 pany, has been engaged in the hardwood lumber 

 business in Minneapolis for a number of years. 

 Besides hardwood lumber, he has also handled 

 considerable shop pine and is well known to the 

 factory trade of the Twin Cities. 



A. S. Bliss has been a resident of ilinncapoiis 

 for fhe past five years and, as is well known, 

 has been associated with the Payson Smith 

 Lumber Company during that time. Uis first 

 experience in the hardwood lumber trade was 

 acquired with John B. Ransom & Co. of Nash- 

 ville, Tenn. 



The Oliver & Bliss Lumber Company wilV 

 handle northern and southern hardwood 1 limber, 

 lies, car liniln'r. pine, lumber and lath. 



Placed in Bankruptcy 



.Vuuouncement has recently been made that 

 (he Hall & Sisson Lumber Company, with offices 

 at room 707, 217 La Salle street, Chicago, and 

 mills at Annadel and Suubright. Tenn., has beei» 

 placed in bankruptcy. Frank McKay, Ijeing ap- 

 pointed as receiver. The company has conduct- 

 ed a manufacturing and wholesaling business in 

 oak. poplar and chestnut, making a specialty of 

 sciuthern white pine. It is stated that some of 

 the creditors endeavored to keep the concern 

 I ut of bankruptcy in order to best conserve the 

 interests of parties concerned, but others stood 

 pat, which resulted in the appointment of the 

 receiver. The liabilities are given at approxi- 

 mately .$10,000, with assets estimated at $18.- 

 000. However, it is said that the assets are of 

 such a nature that it will bo difficult to realize 

 on them with any degree of promptness. Charles 

 G. Hall was president and treasurer and Nor- 

 man Carroll, vice-president and secretary of the; 

 defunct concern. 



