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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 10, 1918 



UMBER ANDl 



Eimira,/l(.y. 



yiovember 



9th. 



1915. 



Fsepcke Lelght L'br. Co., 



Oilcego, 



IIJ . 



Gentlemen: - 



We are uelng your Red Qua Ioniser in the 

 manufacture of our high class interior 

 trim and general planing mill work. 



This gum is giring excellent satisfaction, 

 'being highly graded, soft texture, good 

 widths, end long lengths, also dry, straight 

 and flbt. 



Respectfully, 



Harris, kcUenry & Baker Co. 



Diet. 

 KliK/l.G. 



Of course it is true that 



Red Gum 



is America's finest cabinet wood — but 



Just as a poor cook will spoil the choicest 

 viands while the experienced chef will turn 

 them into prized delicacies, so it is true that 



The inherently superior qualities 

 of Red Gum can be brought 

 out only by proper handling 



When you buy this wood, as when you buy a new 

 jnachine, you want to feel that you have reason for 

 believing it will be just as represented. 



We claim genuine superiority for our Gum. _ The 

 proof that you can have confidence in this claim is 

 shown by the letter reproduced herewith. 



Your interests demand that you remem- 

 ber this proof of our ability to preserve 

 the wonderful qualities of the wood 

 when you again want RED GUM. 



Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company 



CONWAY BUILDING 111 W. WASHINGTON ST. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Band Hills: Helena and Blythevllle, Ark.; OreenvUle, Was. 



restrictions has been made by the government. Tbe ruling now permits 

 the erection of a building anywhere not involving an expenditure of more 

 than $500, when authorized by the local representative of the State 

 Council of Defense. rermlssion of the War Industries Board is not 

 required. 



In compliance with the suggestions of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association of the United States, the car service of the United States 

 Railroad Administration has issued a modification of the lumber embargo 

 order, exempting all material necessary in the operation of coal mines. 

 The association brought to the attention of the car service section the 

 desirability of the order so as to exempt from the necessity of obtaining 

 permits for material such as mine ties, rails, mine car stock, brattice, lum- 

 ber, trlpple stock and all rough lumber used in coal mines. 



That the government stepped in and within thirty days practically 

 stopped all non-war construction work in Ohio is shown In a statement 

 issued by C. L. Dickey, chairman of the non-war construction board, Ohio 

 branch State Council of Defense. 



"There Is but little building activity throughout other than that which 

 is absolutely essential to the winning of the war," declared Mr. Dickey. 

 He stated that complete cooperation had been secured in the many Ohio 

 counties, and that others were taking steps to, put them in line. 



W. T. Fleming, who has been in charge of the statistical work of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, is a victim of Spanish influenza. 

 He died recently at the Cincinnati General Hospital. He had been con- 

 nected with the association for several years, previous to which he was 

 Identified with the Wisconsin Lumber Company. 



First Lieutenant Henry J. Pflester, president of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati has been promoted to captain. He has been in 

 France for the past ten months. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Hitter Lumber Company, Columbus, reports 

 a good demand for hardwoods and a considerable movement when the 

 hampering war activities are taken into consideration. He says that 

 prices are generally well maintained all along the line. Oak and poplar 

 are in good demand and ash is especially strong. 



Thomas J. Quayle, Jr., formerly secretary and treasurer of the Oberlin 

 Lumber Company, Oberlin, O., and a first lieutenant in the American Expe- 

 ditionary Forces, was recently killed in action. Mr. Quayle was about 

 thirty years of age and was always interested in military affairs, having 

 been connected with the Fifth regiment of the Ohio Militia. He was on 

 the Mexican border with his regiment. Before enlisting for the present 

 war he was connected with the Hudson Lumber Company of Akron. 



Paul H. McGormley, a son of L. S. McGormley of the Price Lumber & 



Manufacturing Company, Fremont, has enlisted in the navy and a recent 

 message said he was leaving an Atlantic port for South America. 



Harry Yeackel of the Kelsey & Freeman Lumber Company, Cleveland, 

 has entered the marine service. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a good demand 

 for hardwoods from West Virginia, with prices ruling firm in every par- 

 ticular. 



=-< CLEVELAND >-- 



There may yet be much hardwood business of the kind hardwood Inter- 

 ests are accustomed to. This is the opinion of leaders in the Cleveland 

 trade this week, following the return here from Columbus of a special 

 committee of building materials interests, who have obtained practically 

 centralization of power in passing up and directing new housing construc- 

 tion in the Cleveland district. The trip to the state capital by leaders 

 in different branches of the building material Industry was the outcome 

 of the apparent Indifference on the part of the non-war construction com- 

 mittee of the Council of National Defense in failing to comment upon 

 permits issued recently by the local building committee recently appointed 

 for that purpose. On this local building committee are Irwin Fisher of 

 the Fisher- Wilson Lumber Company ; W. J. Carter, civil engineer ; E. W, 

 Cunningham, building commissioner of Cleveland ; F. H. Chapin, manager 

 of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, and John A. Kling, head of the 

 Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company. 



What all building interests here want Is a centralization of power in a 

 committee to direct housing construction, tliat the tremendous congestion, 

 due to vast increase in population, may be relieved. As a result of the 

 trip to Columbus it is believed this has been obtained, together with assur- 

 ance that before the middle of the month a blanket permit, authorizing 

 the construction of at least 1000 houses, and perhaps 2000 houses imme- 

 diately, will be issued. It is expected the local committee will supervise 

 the issuing of permits and construction, so that the views of the federal 

 and state officials will be observed. This is guaranteed by the material 

 interests who went to Columbus. The committee that accomplished this 

 much is : J. V. O'Brien, secretary, the Cleveland Board of Lumber 

 Dealers, and W. K. Palmer, president, the Cleveland Material Dealers' 

 Association, representing all lumber interests : Louis A. Moses, director 

 of the Industrial Housing Survey ; Stanley McMlchael, secretary, the 

 Cleveland Real Estate Board ; C. H. Patterson, secretary of the Material 

 Dealers' Association, and assistant secretary of the Builders' Exchange. 

 It will he seen from this group how thoroughly the material interests are 

 represented. 



In the opinion of members of this committee, the Columbus committee 



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