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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



July 111. i!):;i 



Beautiful Birch 



ROTARY CUT VENEERS 



There is no hettei Hircli grown than that found on our 

 Timber Holdings, Send us a trial order for a crate or a 

 earload. and we are confident you will forward repeaters 

 without solicitation. Quality considered, you wdl find 

 our i»rices reasonalde. 



Bissell Lumber Company 



Mills: 

 rKIl'OLI, WIS. 



Address Dept. 3 

 MARSHFIELU, WIS. 



Rotary Cut 



Northern 

 Veneers 



Members of 

 Maple Flooring 

 Manufacturers' 

 Aasociatitn 



T7URNITURE manufacturers and factory buyers who insist on 

 ■^ having high quality veneers should send us their orders. We 

 ■re specialists in Northern Veneers. 



We also manufacture Northern Pine, Spruce, Hemlock. Cedar 

 Posts and Poles, Lath and Shingles, which we ship in straight 

 cars and cargoes wr mixed with ©ur "Peerless Brand" Rock 

 Maple, Beech or Birch Flooring. G\'f Otir Pnr.'s 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



Chicago Offices: 812 Monadnock Block 



GLADSTONE. MICH. 



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I BUSK & DANIELS, 8 Broadway, NEW YORK 



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Evansville Outlook Is 

 Encouraging 



There is every indication that trade with the furniture, chair, desk 

 and table manufacturers at Evansville, Ind., will pick up in the near 

 future. There is a feeling that the worst day has been passed in 

 the industrial situation and that things will get a whole lot better 

 after the first of September. A fairly complete survey of Evans- 

 ville's indxistries conducted on July 1 by a daily newspaper of that 

 city, shows that less than 2 per cent of the factory employes now 

 are out of work. Few of the plants in that city are closed down 



entirely, while a majority within the last few^ months have increased 

 working hours. Fully 90 per cent of the factories in Evansville are 

 working full time at the present. Five per cent of the remaining 

 10 per cent are operating more than 60 per cent full time. In 

 round figures, factory owners said not less than 1.000 men are out 

 of employment in Evansville. This figure includes the many building 

 trades workers, who are still idle, and the men who were cut ofr 

 by retail and wholesale firms when business conditions became dull. 

 One of the best indications, factory owners in Evansville say, is 

 the increasing ciders by the furniture plants. While some of the 

 furniture factories are stretching points in order to give employes 

 full time work, .and are basing present w^orking schedules on orders 

 they expect rather than those actually in hand, practically all the 

 Evansville factories are operating at near full time. The Bosse 

 group of factories, including the big plant of the Globe -Bosse- 

 World Furniture Company, is operating 50 hours a week and a 

 fair force of employes is at work. The Klamer group of plants 

 are operating at an average of 40 hours a week. Other furniture 

 factories are operating at from 40 to 45 hours a week. Evansville 

 was not hit as hard by the industrial tie-up as w^ere many cities. 

 The main reason for this fact was that the city had many industries 

 that were affected little oi not at all by the shake-up. The plant 

 of the United States Furniture Company has been operating full 

 time until a week ago when one day was cut off the working time. 

 The line of davenette suites the plant manufactures, has been un- 

 usually popular during the past year and orders have kept the 

 plant busy. Harry H. Schu, manager of the company, says he 

 attributes the popularity of the davenport suites to the housing 

 shortage and the fact that the suite makes a room into both a 

 living room and sleeping room through convertability of the daven- 

 ette. Mr. Schu says buying has slacked at present, due to an 

 attitude of w^aiting on the part of the trade to determine what the 

 July market will bring forth, but he expects business to go along as 

 usual aft-er the middle of July. The plant has an exhibit at the 

 Chicago furniture show^. A total of about 750 men is employed at 

 the plants of the Kramer group. The group includes the Monitor 

 Company, one of the city's newest plants; the Schelosky Table 

 Company; the Wertz-Klamer Company and the O. A. Klamer Com- 

 pany, as well as the Klamer-Goebel Company. All of the plants are 

 turning out ne'w styles in their customary products, but the Moni- 

 tor plant is developing an entirely new product in a Spanish 

 Renaissance style of furniture. There is a slight slacking off of 

 orders at the present time. The Midland Furniture Company has 

 just begun the manufacture of a new line of high priced furniture. 

 The plant is busy establishing marketing agencies for this line. 

 according to Nestor Brentano, the manager, and expects to market 

 it nation-wide. The furniture is the costly stationary over-stuffed 

 colonial suites, consisting of a davenport, chair and rocker. The 

 suites will retail at $500 to $600. The plant expects to turn out 

 a large quantity of these suites during the coming year, the demand 

 being great, according to Mr. Brentano. The davenport is not a 

 bed davenport, but is the sort that is found in the homes of the 

 wealthy. The plant is being operated at full time with a full 

 force of men. Mr. Brentano expects no let-down in business and 

 says the factory's products are on an established price basis. The 

 new line of furniture will not interfere w^ith the regular output of 

 the plant in any w^ay and production will be kept up on all old 

 lines. 



The veneer manufacturers of Evansville believe that an improve- 

 ment in their business will come with a picking up in the furniture 

 trade. George O. Worland, manager of the Evansville Veneer 

 Company, reports their plant is being operated on part time, while 

 the company's plant at Mobile, Ala., is closed down still and he 

 does not know when it will resume operations. He is, how^ever, 

 optimistic over the future outlook. He thinks that the furniture 

 and stove market that w^ill be given in Evansville from Aug. 29 

 to Sept. 3 will have a stimulating effect on the retail trade and 

 that the market will be larger in every way and bring in more 

 business than the first market that was given last April. 



