October 25, 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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We Are Prepared to Furnish 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



on 



OAK TIMBERS 



Cut to 



SPECIAL SIZES 



Up to 16-Foot Lengths 



JAMES E. STARK & CO., Inc. 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



BAND MILLS VENEER MILLS 



MEMPHIS, TENN., DYERSBURG, TENN. MEMPHIS, TEINJN. 



Tho West End LunibtM- Company. Cleveland, has been incorporated with 

 a capital of $30.0no by James W. Coleman. Ida Palmer Coleman. Emil Huy. 

 Joseph A. Melchor and Harold L. .Tudd. 



Of all of the various boards which have been created as a result of the 

 war, the county non-war construction board is perhaps one of the most 

 Important. Since its organization a short time ago the board has been 

 kept busy investigating claims of would-l'e constructors and deciding if 

 the work can go forward. S. D. Hutchins is chairman of the board, whii-b 

 meets every afternoon to take up applications and issue permits. lie 

 says that usually those who appear before the board to present their claims 

 for construction work accept the decision of the board gracefully. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Luml)er Company reports a pretty 

 fair demand for hardwoods in central Ohio territory. While shipments 

 are restricted to government essentials and permits are necessary for 

 other shipments, it is not a diflScuIt matter to get a permit. Box and 

 implement factories are good customers. Prices are firm at the levels 

 which have prevailed for some time. 



Contractor D. W. McGrath has started on the work of enlarging Camp 

 Sherman at Chillicothe. O.. to about one-third more capacity. The cost 

 of the addition will be in the neighborhood of $3,000,000. It is plannerl 

 to house tJO.ooO men at the cantonment after the additions are completed. 



=< CLEVELAlslD >= 



Hopes of a clarifying of the local building situation through the 

 appointment of a local building permit committee are being dashed this 

 week, as a result of lna<'tion at Columbus and Washington. Although 

 the local committee has been operating for nearly three weeks, and has 

 passed upon a fair proportion of permits submitted to it, no sanction 

 or disapproval has been received from officials at either the state or 

 national capital from whence the final ruling must come. 



Aside from the fact that this delay is of vital concern to the hardwood 

 trade, it also, seriously interferes with providing adequate housing for the 

 vast increase in population created by the larger amount of war work 

 being done in the Cleveland district. Since last winter, when the situation 

 was acute enough, there has been a steady growth in population, so that 

 unless there is speedy action from officials, supplementing the work of the 

 local committee, the housing >-ltuation here will be more markedly serious 

 than ever this coming winter. 



That the local committee is doing its share well is admitted by lumber 

 interests. A maximum of ^5000 for frame construction and .$6000 for 

 brick construction has been fixed, with a view toward eliminating dis- 

 crimination against either material. In either event, if the program was 



carried out as originally understood, the hardwood trade would benefit 

 equally well, for its material will be used In any construction. 



Another drawback to the industry is seen here in the failure of the 

 administration to appoint a local official on the car service committee to 

 issue permits of shipments of lumber. In order to meet the ever pressing 

 demands of the government for war materials, not a few factories here 

 are making additions to their plants of frame construction in which heavy 

 hardwoods are largely used. Failure to have proper representation here 

 on shipping will cause unwarranted delay in Cleveland, it is pointed out, 

 which may reflect seriously upon the output of war work. 



— < INDIANAPOLIS > 



The Eisaman-Richer Lumber Company, of Kokomo, Ind., has erected an 

 old-fashioned sawmill in Kokomo to assist the Government in sawing 

 timber delivered there for army uses. The company is confining Its activi- 

 ties almost exclusively to the sawing of black walnut, which is brought 

 in from surrounding territory. It agreed to set up the plant to assist 

 in handling the timber in that territory and it is understood that as soon 

 as war comlitions disappear the plant will be taken down. A switch has 

 been made into the mill recently. 



Winfred Rnnyan. junior member of the Ca swell- Runy an Company. 

 Huntington, furniture manufacturer, was the third man in Huntington's 

 list of men drawn for service in the recent draft at Washington. Mr. 

 Runyan is past the age of men who received questionnaires recently. The 

 factory is working on a Government contract, manufacturing ammunition 

 cases. 



The Inner-Brace Furniture Company of Elkhart is now employing a 

 large number of women workers. 



Henry W. Williams, seventy-six years old, a furniture manufacturer of 

 Seymour, died recently following an illness of ten days due to heart 

 trouble. His condition became critical only a few minutes before his 

 death. Mr. Williams was born in 1842. He was left an orphan at the 

 age of ten and when twelve years old came to America with two brothers 

 and two sisters. He organized the Seymour Furniture Company, which 

 has been succeeded by the Seymour Woodworking Company, the original 

 factory being destroyed by fire in 1902. 



The sawmill and veneer plant of Beers & Co., Milford, Ind., was damaged 

 by fire recently to th^ extent of $2,000. It is believed that the fire Is of 

 Incendiary origin. At almost the same time the fire was discovered in the 

 plant a building some distance away in which the products of the company 

 were stored also caught on fire. No Insurance was carried on the 

 property. 



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