November 2r). IIUS 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



35 



Safety Devices in Woodworking 



The National Workmen's Compensation Service Bureau, New York, has 

 recently published in book form a large collection of drawings and illus- 

 trations explanatory of safety devices in various lines of woodworking. 

 Rules and directions are given for the care and operation of machines 

 with a view to lessening the danger of operation. 



Building Ban Completely Lifted 



Under date of November 21 came word from Washington that all 

 remaining restrictions on non-war construction were removed on that day. 

 Building operations of any character suspended because of the war may 

 now be resumed without further permits. Orders have been telegraphed 

 to the state councils of defense, and the action was based on a canvass 

 of all sections, which sliowed unanimous sentiment in favor of lifting all 

 restrictions. Thus all building work may be planned and carried on now 

 without any regard whatsoever to anything but the builder's individual 

 condition. 



Takes Exception to Legal Notice 



The last issue of 1I.iudwciul> Recokh containeil an item regarding the 

 routing of shipments which was a digest of a legal opinion handed down 

 by one of the federal courts. Commenting on this item J. H. Townshend. 

 secretary of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, disagrees with the 

 principle enunciated in the following letter : 



Please refer to your issue of Hardwood Record of November 10, page 

 22. article headed "Routing of Shipments." 



I do not agree with this article and would like for you to advise where 

 you obtained the information contained therein. 



If the shipper leaves the routing open, it is the duty of the carrier to 

 handle shipment via the cheapest route. 



With kind regards. 



Yours very truly. 



J. H. TOWXSHEXD. 



Secretary-Manager. 

 Navy's Job Just Half Done 



Every soldier who sailed for France was given a round-trip ticket. The 

 navy took them over and now the navy must bring them back. There can 

 be no relaxation of effort until the job is done, until every one of our 

 boys is returned to his home. To complete this task the navy needs more 

 men, and the need is just as urgent now as it was before the armistice was 

 signed. This condition oflEers an opportunity to be identified with the 

 great war, the last chance. 



The cancellation of the November draft call has deprived thousands of 

 men of the privilege of participating in the war, but the navy's call for 

 men enables you to volunteer your services. 



Men are needed now, if not to fight, then for services equally essential 

 to the re-establishment of normal conditions. The Bureau of Navigation 

 has issued a call for several hundred men who can qualify for posts which 

 require specialized ability. Only those men who are registrants of Septem- 

 ber 12, 1918, or registrants of deferred classifications of previous registra- 

 tions are eligible. Applications will now be received for induction as car- 

 penter's mates. The age limits are eighteen to forty years, inclusive, and 

 men from the following trades are particularly qualified : Woodworking 

 factory mechanic; skilled pattern makers cabinet maker; piano sounding 

 board builder; air propeller builder: journeyman carpenter; stair builder; 

 boat carpenter ; door and sash mill foreman ; wood mill worker ; mill man ; 

 factory carpenter; tank or station pipe factory worker; cooper; barrel 

 maker. 



Further information and full particulars will be furnished upon applica- 

 tion at the United States Nav.v Mobilization station, in the Transportation 

 building. Chicago. III. Mail should be adilressed to Lieut. H. D. Childs, 

 commanding officer. 



Wooden Water Tanks 



The high cost of sheet metal should open the way for more extensive use 

 of wooden water tanks on farms and in factories. The windmill which 

 pumps water on northern farms and western ranches must have a tank. 

 The factory needs tanks for water and for liquids used in manufacturing. 

 The water system of most business buildings calls for one or more tanks 

 on the roofs or on adjacent towers, for fire protection. At the lowest 

 estimate 100,000,000 feet of lumber a year has been used in making tanks 

 in normal times, and perhaps that equivalent of sheet metal has been used. 

 At present prices, the wooden tank ought to double its former use. Woods 

 are plentiful, both hardwoods and softwoods, but for large tanks soft- 

 woods, like pine, redwood, fir, cypress, and cedar, prevail ; while for small 

 tanks the hardwoods, like oak, ash, chestnut, beech, and poplar, have 

 the call. 



Accounting System for MUls 



The cost committee of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association has 

 worked out a cost accounting system, with variations making it applicable 

 to mills of different kinds and working under different conditions. The 

 system applies as follows : 



1. Mills operating exclusively from their own timber and doing their 

 own logging. 



2. Mills operating exclusively from their own timber, but contracting 

 their logging. 



3. Mills operating exclusively from their own timber, but contracting a 

 part of their logging. 



4. Mills operating part from their own timber and doing their own 

 logging who also purchase logs delivered at log railroad or mill. 



5. Mills operating part from their own timber, but contracting their 

 logging who also purchase logs delivered at log railroad or mill. 



6. Mills operating part from their own timber, but contracting a part 

 of Jheir logging who also purchase logs delivered at log railroad or mill. 



7. Mills operating under all these conditions and rafting, towing or 

 buying logs in rivers. 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association has prepared cost forms and 



cards of accounts covering all of the above classes with the exception of 

 Llass 1. Forms for Class 7 mills will be sent only to mills operating wholly 

 or a part on river logs. i 6 » "jij 



The cost forms covering mills in Classes 1, 2 and 3 will cover probably 

 so per cent of all saw mills in operation. Classes 4, 5 and 6 are provided 

 for the mills that make a practice of purchasing logs. 



The association's circular letter to members says : 



This system is the best effort of practical lumbermen and experienced 

 accountants who composed the cost committee. It may or may not be 

 wholly adequate to your needs. It is the desire of the" association that 

 members adopt this system, or at least apply it to their present system 

 in order that the figures representing the cost of lumber mav speak the 

 same language. The system is simple and can be applied to" any opera- 

 tion. Mills that carry their costs into minute detail can use this system 

 as a basis and expand it without affecting the uniformity of the accounting 



< MISCELLANEOUS >• 



The Consumers Box Company has been incorporated at Norfolk, Va. 



The Collingwood Hardwood Lumber Company, ColUngwood, Ont., has 

 gone out of business. 



J. A. Lindsay has succeeded the Lindsay Table Company. High Point 

 N. C. 



W. G. Whitcomb, president of the Whitcomb Cabinet Company, Kansas 

 City, Mo., died recently, as also did Alexander Campbell of the James Lum- 

 ber Company, Baltimore, Md. 



The Keystone Lumber & Supply Company has been incorporated at 

 Hazleton, Pa., capital, $25,000. 



The Two Step Ladder Company. Hammond, Iml.. is now known as the 

 Automatic Safety Device Corporation. 



L. M. Sturdevant has been appointed receiver for the Tucker Wood- 

 work Compan.v. Sidney, O. 



The plant of the St. Meinrad Hardwood Lumber & Spoke Company. St. 

 Meinrad. Ind., has been sold at public auction. 



The Mockville Furniture Company, Mockville, N. C, sustained a loss 

 by flre recently and has gone out of business. 



J. B. Belcher of Honaker, Va., has moved his wholesale hardwood busi- 

 ness to Bluefield, W. Va. 



William Kern, vice-president of the Tiffin Wagon Company, Tiffin, O., 

 died recently. 



The name of the M. C. Burr Manufacturing Company, Minneapolis. 

 Minn., has been changed to the Stillman Manufacturing Company. 



The Raymond Lumber Company has moved its office from Spirit Falls, 

 Wis., to Tomahawk. 



Notice of the dissolution of charter has been filed by the W. T. Thomp- 

 son Veneer Company, Edinburg, Ind. 



The F. L. Gordy Lumber Company has been incorporated at Albany. 

 Ga., with a capital of $2.5.000. 



The Mozart Talking .Machine Company. St. Louis, Mo., has tiled an 

 involuntary petition in bankrupty. 



-< CHICAGO >• 



F. L. Adams, treasurer and general manager of the Newell Lumber Com- 

 pany. Ltd.. Eunice, La. — he of the town of four railroads, good schools 

 and a. real place to live as a sawmiller, came in too late for the convention 

 on Saturday last, due to the Panama's wheels getting mixed up with the 

 tra,cks, but he felt that he was compensated for coming here in the few 

 hours he conversed with many of the members of the big delegation on 

 hand for the National conference. Mr. Adams reported their mill running 

 two shifts, and strange to say the night shift is carrying the blue ribbon 

 in production. He says their trade has been very good and anticipates a 

 good big year in 1919. The hardwood end is a bit quiet compared with 

 the steady business in yellow pine, which is their principal line. 



J. M. Thompson, who has bcpn connected with the hardwood business 

 in and around Memphis for many years, spent a few days in Chicago this 

 week, and reports conditions in the big hardwood market very active on 

 the whole, considering the time of year when we are in the "stop-watch 

 period" for a few weeks getting ready for the New Year and anticipating 

 That after the turn into 1919 the government's needs for material and 

 men will he abated somewhat, and the big consuming manufacturers of 

 hardwood lumber will be again turning their wheels. These gentlemen 

 dropped in on Hardwkod Recoup as we were going to press. 



The big event locally was the general mass meeting of lumbermen from 

 all parts of the country, which held sway here for three days at the end 

 of the week. The mass meeting itself occupied Friday and Saturday, but 

 there were other meetings of directors and individual association meetings 

 preliminary to the general gathering. A great many hardwood men of 

 prominence were present representative of hardwood production and dis- 

 tribution in all parts of the country, 



Monday, the eighteenth, was the day of one of the regular luncheons at 

 the Lumbermen's Association quarters, the principal guest being Brigadiei 

 "ieneral Brice P. Disque, U. S. A., who was taken into the far northwest as 

 a regular army colonel to speed up the production of airplane spruce in 

 that region. General Dlsque made a very interesting talk, conveying 

 graphic pictures of the many problems confronting him in his task of 

 organizing the work. He made the prediction that the co-operative plan 

 between employers and employes, under which problems are worked out 



