Nov^-mber 10, lOlS 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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J. M. McLaughlin New Sales Manager Wisconsin Company 



J. M. McLnughlin rocently took up his dutii's as sales manager of the 

 Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Company, New London, Wis. Mr. McLaughlin 

 has peculiar qualitications for the work, which are I>ase(l on eleven years' 

 association in furniture production and sales. During that eleven years 

 Mr. McLaughlin acquired a very intimate knowledge of costs, woods, con- 

 struction and other features of the business, which will be of valuable 

 assistance to him in marketing the large production of the Wisconsin com- 

 I)auy in these same circles. 



Mr. McLaughlin has been with the Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Company 

 for the past year-and-a-half, having just come from the eastern offices of 

 the company. lie will be in charge of sales of plywood veneers and 

 jilywood shooks. 



The company is turning out a largo quantity of cleated shooks similar 

 to those used in shipping the Edison Talking machine, and is finding a 

 ready market for its output. 



Important Southern Deal 



C. M. Kellogg of the Keibi^Lr I-uiiiImt <'nnip;iny: W. L. Crenshaw auil 

 William Pritchard, all of Memphis, have purchased the band mill, lumber 

 and timber belonging to the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company at Ritchie. 

 Miss., and will operate this plant under the name of the Kellogg Lumber 

 Company. Mr. Crenshaw has turned over to the firm the tract of timber 

 land he owned about twelve miles north of Ritchie on the Sunfiowcr river 

 and the timber on this, about 12 million feet, will be handled by water 

 to the plant. 



F. E. Gary was the sole owner of the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company 

 and sale of his property will be followed, around the first of the year, by 

 his removal to Chicago. He has not further announced his plans. He is 

 one of the most prominent members of the hardwood lumber fraternity 

 at Memphis. He was for years vice president and general manager of 

 the Baker Lumber Company, Turrell, Ark. ; then part owner of the Cren- 

 shaw-Gary Lumber Company, and finally its sole owner. Much regret is 

 expressed in lumber circles over his plans for leaving Memphis. 



Conference Asks Transit Privilege 



Louisville, Memphis and Evansville were represented in a conference 

 with the Louisville district traffic committee of the railroad administration. 

 The purpose of the meeting was to secure milling-in-transit privileges for 

 the cities, it being claimed that a great injustice was done them because 

 the privilege was denied them while it is granted to competing centers. 



It is stated that granting such a privilege is an economic necessity to 

 the promotion of the lumber industry, it being pointed out that the dealer 

 serves as a banker for the small mill, and that the dealer must have this 

 privilege in order to develop that class of trade. This privilege also helps 

 speed up production and shipping, as the small mill accumulates special 

 grades slowly, but can ship bulk lumber to be reworked under this privilege. 



The lumber interests, represented by R. R. May for Louisville and 

 Evansville, and J. H. Townshend for Memphis, asked for the privilege of 

 milling in transit ; of assorting, drying, grading and re-handling in transit, 

 and of drawing rough lumber into the points named to be manufactured 

 through resawing, cutting into boxes or cooperage stock for re-shipping 

 as semi-finished or finished stock to point of final destination on the basis 

 of through rates from point of origin. 



The matter was taken under advisement by this committee, which will 

 be handed a written confirmation of the request. 



A number of prominent lumbermen were present. 



Atkins* Saws In Government Work 



Accompanying this story is an illustration of a class in a detachment 

 of the vocational army of the government. All of the men in the picture 

 are using Atkins' saws. 



The government offers these short courses in vocational training (in 

 this case in the study of carpentry), the instruction covering a period of 

 eight weeks of intensive training. During this time they are taught how 



ATKINS" SAWS IN GOVERNMENT VOCATIONAL CLASS 



to build things, how to repair quickly and etficiently such important parts 

 as gun carriage spokes, airplane parts, miteriug. splicing, etc. It is said 

 that the students are so efficiently taught that at the end of the course 

 they are really excellent carpenters. 



Statement from Perkins Glue Company 



The Perkins Glue Company, South liend, Ind., has just issued the fol- 

 lowing statement : 



In January of this year we advised the trade by a circular that the 

 United States Circuit Court of Appeals had handed down an opinion in 

 the suit brought by the Perkins Glue Company against the Solva Water- 

 proof Glue Company, the Burch-Kane Company, Lowell R. Burch and 

 Thomas B. Kane for infringenu'nt of Perkins re-issue Patent No. 13,435, 

 and Perkins Patent No. 1.020,056, in which the United States Circuit 

 Court of Appeals finds that the Perkins glue and the process of making 

 it was new, and that the patents for it are valid and have been infringed 

 by the defendants. 



The case was originally decided by the United States District Court in 

 favor of the Perkins Glue Comimny "in June. 1915. An appeal was taken 

 by the Solva Waterproof Glue Company, which was argued in January, 

 1917, and has been decided. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals 

 criticised some of the ways of claiming the invention that were brought 

 before it and reversed the lower court as to them, but it sustained as 

 valid and infringed the claims for the Perkins glue as a product and for 

 the process by which the Perkins glue is made. 



The court held that the Solva Waterproof Glue Company, the Burch- 

 Kane Company, and Burch and Kane had infringed, although they had 

 merely sold the dry glue material and left their customers to make it up 

 into Perkins glue. 



The decision made it clear also that the manufacturer who mixes up 

 such dry glue material into Perkins glue and uses it is liable as an 

 infringer. 



Promptly after our January circular to the above effect was sent out, 

 the defendants (Solva Waterproof Glue Company), Burch-Kane Company, 

 Lowell R. Burch and Thomas B. Kane) brought that circular to the atten- 

 tion of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals anil charged that it 

 was an incorrect statement of the decision of the court and petitioned 

 the court for a rehearing. l)ut the court after cousideration of our reply 

 denied defendants' (Solva Waterproof Glue Company, Burch-Kane Com- 

 pany, and Lowell R. Burch and Thomas B. Kane) petition. 



Pursuant to the mandate of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 

 the United States District Court at Chicago, on August 5. 1918. entered 

 its final decree in the case, sustaining as valid and infringed the claims 

 for the Perkins glue as a product and for the process by which the Perkins 

 glue is made. 



All infringers of the Perkins patents are hereby notified again of the 

 final decision in favor of the Perkins Glue Company and are further noti- 

 fied that all infringements must cease. 



Perkins Glue Company. 

 Patentees of Perkins Vegetable Glue. South Bend, Ind.; Lansdale, Pa. 



Foreign Representatives Here to Consult on After War Business 



Special significance is attached to the visit to Baltimore some two weeks 

 ago of Ines Creighton, the managing director at Liverpool. Eng., with W. 

 M. Ritter Lumber Company of Columbus, O. Mr. Creighton made his stay 

 rather short, but he managed to see a number of persons in official posi- 

 tions, who may have something to do with the foreign shipment of lum- 

 ber, and also went to Columbus to confer with other officers of the com- 

 pany. It was his intention to stay there until his passports were gotten 

 in shape and sent to him, when he purposed going to New York and sailing 

 for home. Mr. Creighton's presence in the United States is rightly or 

 wrongly connected with the early prospect of peace and the extensive 

 readjustment that may be expected to follow the termination of hostilities. 

 Mr. Creighton said that as far as business on the other side was con- 

 cerned, he might as well be here as there. 



Another visitor, who was to have sailed on the Adriatic for the United 

 States October 14, but who was somewhat delayed, and is not expected 

 until some time this week, is Gustave A. Farber, London representative 

 of Russe & Burgess. Inc., Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Farber is a former Balti- 

 morean, who was at one time a member of the wholesale hardwood firm 

 of Price & Heald, Baltimore, but who went to London a number of years 

 ago. He has a large circle of friends and relatives here and is expected 

 to take occasion to call on the latter. The primary object of his trip 

 is believed to he to see William H. Russe and others of the company, for 

 which purpose he is expected to visit Memphis. He will, it is thought, 

 give much first hand information about conditions on the 

 other side and the prospects for the future. 



In this connection it is perhaps deserving of mention that 

 the National Lumber Exporters' Association, at its last annual 

 meeting in January of the present year, in New York, dis- 

 cussed the feasibility of establishing an export sales company 

 to handle hardwoods under the provisions of the Webb Act, 

 which permits combinations in the foreign business. At the 

 meeting a special <'ommittee, including William H. Russe of 

 Russe & Burgess, Inc., of Memphis, Tenn. ; Edward Barber, 

 Howard & Barber Lumber Company. Cincinnati, and John L. 

 Alcock ^ John L. Alcock & Co., of Baltimore, Avas named to 

 consider the question of establishing such a sales agency, to 

 get all possible information on the subject and to report the 

 conclusions of the members at the next annual meeting, in 

 January. 1919, at a place yet to be decided upon. Much in- 

 formation has been gathered by members of the committee, 

 and they have had various interchanges of views, and the 

 report to be made is expected to go exhaustively into the 

 practicability of such an agency. In the next two weeks 

 it will probably be determined where the annual meeting 

 will be held. 



