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HARDWOOD RECORD 



1921 



(h^rSpeciahyls AMERICAN WALNUT 



Lumber and Veneers 



Our IJand Mill at Cincinnati is in daily operation 

 and we now carry a stock of over three million feet 

 of walnut lumber. 



We have also ready for prompt shipment three mil- 

 lion feet of walnut lon^;- wood veneers, half million 

 feet of walnut stumpwood and one million feet of 

 African and Central American mahogany veneers. 



JV e Also Handle 



AH0CANY 



MEXICAN 



PHILIPPINE 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



EASTERN BRANCH: 

 8 E. Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. 



ill Cliiiagip ilniiii!; tlii' grenti-r piUt of the week of .August 15. Whili- hi'ii' 

 Hr. KiiiK niauagcil to oonncct with SHvcral gooil-sizcil orilera of Kontiicky 

 oak niKl other haidwooils. He ileclaroil that he is iloiug a gooil liiisiniss 

 in spite of the di'iircssion nml Is kei'piiiir his inill near I'ailucali opi'i-iitiiis: 

 twelve hours a liiiy. 



Sam Thompson, sales manager for tin- Aiiilerson-'rull.\ t'oiiipany. .Mem- 

 phis, Tonn., visiteil ChieaKo iluring the week of .\ngust 15 on a selling 

 tour. Mr. Thoni|)soii ileelareil that husiness is improving, though still 

 very (iiiiet. lie eame to C'hieago from the east. 



The Yawkeyliissell I.unilier Company of White Lake. Wis,, has appointeil 

 W. V. White as Chieago sales representative with an 

 McCormiek liuililing. 



Walter l)e Witle of ihe Holt llanlwoo.l I'oinpany. Oeonti 

 visitoil I'llleago. 



Marshlielil. Wis., was in Chi- 



Home Office: Cincinnati, Ohio 



I^ock Box 18, St. Bernard Branch 



.itlii'e al VIVA 



Wis., roeently 



J. .7. lirennan of the K. roniiur I'nmpany, 

 rago tile week of .\ngust 15. 



The seeonil quarterly section of the I'.rJl I'.lition of tl 

 ter has Just heen sent out hy the National Ilarihvood I.umher Assoeiation. 

 whleli sliows the annual lumtier reqniremeuts of a larg 

 wood users throughout the eonntry, t'hieago being partii-iil;irly well rep- 

 resented. 



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 nninlier of hard- 



PHILADELPHIA 



Tile huilding of till- <:reat Ka_sterii IMetun- I'raine I'nmpan.i-. 110-ll'J 

 North Seeond street, was destroyed liy tire .Vugust. l.**. The loss Is esti- 

 mated at .flip. (Mil), which Is covered hy insurance. Explosion of gilding 

 li(iuld is given as the cause of the bhr/e. 



Hardwood dealcus of Wilmington ri'porl a decided improvement in liusi- 

 ness. 'I'hls is largely due to resumption of work in the Harlan plant 

 of the I'.ethlehcm Shlphnlhllng Coinpany ami in the idaiit of .Joseph I'.an- 

 croft & Sons Company. 



The state Department of Forestry announces that airplanes are imprac- 

 tical for spotting tires. Forty-seven new forest tire detei'tlou towers are 

 to be placed in state forests. 



.\n Incendiary tire was started In llie yanl of Charles II. Clark. lOS 

 Pickinsoii streets. Two arrests have bei>n niadt'. 



The .\ugust tournament of the I'hiladclplila Lumbermen's (!tdt Club was 

 held on the seventeenth. J. K. Troth, playing in the rain, sent his <lul> 

 sintliDg into a tree and It had to be rescued by a caddy. The following 

 men were awarded prizes of a dozen golf balls for their low scores: Coale, 

 fiS ; FInley, T.S : Wistar, 79, and Coulbourne. "!) The nialili was jilayed 

 at Whiti-raarsh Valley Club. 



BUFFALO 



^luvcrnnr Milln- \v;is in this city on An;;ust 2nth whilt- muking an inspec- 

 tion of thi' Stat)' l)arj;t' canal. lie wiis wclcomcil hy u committee of business 

 men, among whom were Orson E. Yeager and A. Conger (Jootlyear. The 

 governor has iieen nof only seeking tirst-hand information about the 

 canal, luit endeavoring to get shippers to appreciate its advantages. Canal 

 rates are approximately eighty per cent of all-rail rates to New York. 



The building outlook in Buffalo is quite favorable for this fall ami 

 several million <lollars worth of work is already in sight. Included in this 

 are tive public schools to cost .*2. 000. 000. I^abor cost« have come down 

 largely, owing to the business depression and there is no difficulty in get- 

 ting all the men needed nowadays. 



Husiness men here have organized for thf -(lurpctse of appealing to the 

 owners of large industrial plants which are idle to start them up and thus 

 ;:ivi- cmidoytncnt to many men out of work. The number idle is said to 

 be abuut 41). 000. 



The retail lumiicr industry nf l*uflFalo has been under investigation by 

 the grand jury this month and many witnesses have been summonetl to 

 give testimony. Among them is K: C. Evarts, secretary of the retail asso- 

 chition and of the lumber credit association. The district attorney made 

 a raid on the offices i>f these organizations and seized a lot of l>ooks and 

 papers, which were inspected hy the grand jury aft**r a protest to the 

 effect that the seizure was illegal. Enough books and papers were taken 

 to till a nund)er of lioxes and after they were used they were returned in a 

 patrol wagon. It has taken aliout ten days to make the investigation of 

 the lumber trade. The grand jury's report in the ntatter was rendered 

 to .lustice C<de. who itresides at this term of court. On August 10th 

 indictments were found against seventeen lumber corporations and twenty- 

 seven individuals. Bail was fixed at .$2.l'00 each. 



PITTSBURGH 



The IMttsburgh I'.uilders' Exchange, through its seeretar.T. E. M. Tate. 

 announei's that the beginning of a buililing boom is now evident because 

 of the voluntary reduction by the Free Huilding Unions of their wages. 

 This, along with the announcement that the Pittsburgh Chamber of 

 Commerce Housing Cor[)oratii.>n will start work before CK'tober 1 on at 

 least ".'(111 community group houses seems to indicate that there will he 

 more doing in the very near future. It was also announced last week that 

 the dean J15.000.UI10 or $20,000,000 worth of plans for downtown build- 

 ings are ready for letting just as soon as building wages come down. 



The Elizabeth I'laning Mill Company. Elizabeth. Pa., has been dissolved 



