September, 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



31 



F. M. Baker Represents Chicago 



The CliiiiiKii i-liiiplcr of lion UiMi was ably ri'pn'si'nli'cl li.v !■". M. Ilakri- 

 of llarilwijixl Mills I.miiliei' Company at the graiul annual coucatcnatlon In 

 Fii'snii. Calif.. ScptemluT S. 9 anil 10. Mr. Baker, who Is vicegerent of 

 the I'hieafe'ii ehapter, left Cliicapi on Wednesday, Ausust 31, for his long 

 Journey to the Pacific Coast. He went via St. Louis where he Joined tin' 

 St. Louis ilelogation, which was going west in a special car. ^Miile on 

 the Coast Mr. Haker expects to visit Tacoma, Seattle, San Frandseo anil 

 ■ other large cities of Ori-gon, \V;ishington and California. 



Fathauer Sues Coppock 



The Theo. Kathauer Company of Helena. Ark., filed suit in Federal Court 

 recently asking damages of .i^o.OOO from the S. V. Coppock Sons' Lumber 

 Company of Ft. Wayne. Iml.. for alleged breach of contract. The plaintiff 

 states he suffered a loss of .$4.04.5.74. as the result of the refusal of the 

 defendant to accept the remainder of the shipment of 10,'J.OOO feet of red 

 oak. after he had already accepted 97.000 feet in February. 1920. Thi> 

 ordi^r called for 200.000 feet. The plaintiff chargi's that I he lumlier mar- 

 ket declineii in the meantime, causing him a loss of from Sl.'t to :?4i» a 

 tliousand foet on the remaining red oak unshipped. 



Retailers Will Feast at Thunder Lake 



The Thunder Lake Lundier Company will on September 15 entertain the 

 Wisconsin Valley retail lumber dealers and their families by taking them 

 out on the company's logging railroad for a camp dinner. The picnickers 

 will leave Khinelander. Wis., at 10 a. m. on the "Thunder Lake Special" 

 for the scene of the feast. 



Lamb-Fish Sales Office in Chicago 



The annmineement was made a few days ago that the sales office of 

 the Lamb-Fish Hardwooil Company has been moved from Charleston. 

 Miss., to Chicago. The office is now located at 208 So. La Salle street In 

 the Continental & Commercial National Bank l)uilding. Thomas F. 

 Toomey. a Chicago hardwood lumberman of many years' experience, has 

 been placed in charge of the office as manager of sales. Mr. Toomey was 

 for a number of years with the Edward Hines Lumber Company, and 

 more recently with the Kentielil-Lamoreaux Company, in the Conway 

 building, Chicago, as manager of sales. Mr. Toomey is well and very 

 favorably known to the trade throughout this teiTitory. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Atlas Lumber Company, with headquarters at Ciucinnati. f)., has 

 opened an office at Detroit, Mich. 



The Morrison-Waters I'iano Company of Cincinnati, O., has reorganized 

 as the Smith & Nixon Corporation. 



At Lexington. Ky., the Elk Stave Lumber Company has been incor- 

 porated. 



The Harris Hardwood Company, Roanoke, Va.. of which Allen Harris 

 is president, has Increased its capital stock from $50,000 to $500,000. 



CHICAGO 



George D. Griffith of George D. Griffith & Co. left for Philadelphia 

 on the night of September 2, accompanied by Mrs. Griffith, to visit their 

 daughter. Mrs. Ludlow .1. Washburn. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith expect to be 

 gone several weeks, motoring back to Chicago. In Philadelphia they will 

 be joined by some cousins of theirs from Richmond. Ind.. and with them 

 will motor to Washington. From the capital city they will strike east 

 through the Blue Rhige and Allegheny mountains. 



J. W. Paley, sales manager of the Eastman-Gardiner Lumber Company, 

 Laurel, Miss., visited Cliicago the week ending September 3. 



W. A. Herbert of W. A. Herbert & Company recently returned from a 

 two-months' automobile tour to the Pacific Coast. On the Western Coast 

 Mr. Herbert drove through Washington, Oregon and California. 



W. L. (ioiiley, Chicago representative of the W. R. Pickering Lumber 

 Company was called to Texas Saturday, August 27. due to the serious 

 illness of his father. 



Patrick McXamara. who for the past eight years has been a salesman 

 in the Chicago territory for the Lyon Lumber Company has Joined the 

 Louisiana Red Cypress Company and will be connected with the Chicago 

 office of that compan.v. 



H. J. Thorsen of the II. J. Thorsen Lumber Company. Appleton. Wis.. 

 was a visitor in Chicago the latter part of the wei'k ending September 3. 



A business and pleasure trip which R. E. Boyil of the Manley & I'.oyd 

 Lumber Company took to Marquette. Mich., two weeks ago resulted in a 

 handsome string of trout. 



On his return Mr. Boyd was happy to report a marked improvement in 

 export demand tor hardwood lumber. His company has booked several 



King Mill and Lumber Co. 



PADUCAH, KENTUCKY 



Manufacturers Southern Hardwoods 



Ash, Elm, Oak, Gum 

 Maple, Cypress, Hickory 



Cypress Shingles 



WE SHIP STRAIGHT OR MIXED CAR LOADS 



HARDWOODS and SHINGLES 



VENEER 



also 

 Re-drying 



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PROCTOR y 

 SCHWARTZ 



INC. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



fine export orders recently and expects the di-niand to continue. How- 

 ever, Mr. Boyd finds that the mill stocks are extremely short on the quality 

 of lumber which export buyers demand, .\ccording to his oliservations 

 only the most moderate export demand could be supplied out of present 

 stocks of first and seconds oak and other species. 



The Shafer Lumber Company has increased its capital stock to 180.000. 

 The Dragon Motor Corporation has filed an involuntary petition in bank- 

 ruptcy, as has the Fred K. Higbie Company of Chicago and Walrath, Wis. 



Way has been cleared by Federal .ludge Landis, arbiter in the liuilding 

 trades controversy, for Chicago's great buililing boom, and incidentally for 

 the return to work, when the boom gets Into its full stride, of .10,000 men. 

 This was accomplished on September 1 by the elimination of the last of 

 the restrictions w-hich have been a fruitful source of strife and unrest in 

 the Chicago building industry for many years. 



The restrictions abolished by agreement between officials of the union 

 and heads of the big building associations are the so-called work permit 

 and subcontractor practices. A building worker may now move from 

 Job to Job and secure work on any Job without first having to bring some 

 union official for a permit. Contractors will no longer be obliged to apply 

 for ijermits to work union men overtime and non-union men may without 

 permits work on union Jobs when there is a shortage of labor. 



Elimination of the subcontractor practice relieves contractors not mem- 

 bers of the two big building associations to deal directly with union laborers 

 without first applying to organization heads or to other contractors. 



BUFFALO 



A lumbertnen's golf tournament was held at the East Aurora links on 

 August 25th, when a large delegation of members of the trade from this 

 city visited the country club there, through arrangements tnade by Clark 

 W. Hurd. The players numbered thirty-two and the low net score was 

 turned in by Eugene F. Summers. His score was 71. .\ trophy presented 

 by the Iroquois Hotel was awarded. 



A distribution of 50 per cent to the creditors was made on September 

 1 in the case of II. Zeis & Sons, lundiernu'n and planing mill iiroprietors 

 here for many years, who failed a nundier of years ago. The settlemeut 

 was long deferred because of litigation which took it to the highest court 

 in the state. There are numerous lumber creditors, whose interests were 

 looked after by a committee consisting of Henry I. George, chairman : 

 Maurice M. Wall and Nelson S. Taylor. 



C. Ellas & Bro. have about completed the erection of their large sawmill, 

 which has been under way for a number of months. It will be a great 

 addition to the facilities of this plant. 



BALTIMORE 



Chester F. Korn, head of the Korn Lumber Company. ti>rmerly of Cin- 

 cinnati, and at one time presidiMit of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 -Association, but now operating a large saw mill plant at Sumter, 

 S. C, was in Baltimore two weeks ago and saw some of the hardwood men 

 here. He also conferred with Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the N. L. 

 E. A. While here Mr. Korn completed arrangements for a Baltimore 

 connection to handle the products of his company In this territory. He 



