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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 2S, 1918 



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by periodic comparisons between representatives of each element, may be 

 the basis o£ a future readjustment of the entire relation of the employers 

 and employes. The plan has already been taken up by a number of very 

 large corporations in other lines, and is meeting with unqualified success 

 wherever it is employed. 



Dr. Wm. C. Covert of Chicago, who spent several months in the north- 

 west logging camps doing welfare work among the men, also gave a very 

 interesting talk, as did Major Everett G. Griggs, well-known western lum- 

 berman, who has been in the service now for some time past. 



The Kraetzer-Cured Lumber Company, formerly of Moorhead. Hiss., 

 announces the removal of its Moorhead office to Greenwood, Miss. The 

 mill, of course, will continue to operate at Moorhead. 



Sam A. Thompson, manager of the lumber department of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, Memphis, has been around the city all of last week, looking 

 over the local situation, but is not attempting to force business where it 

 does not show a tendency to come through naturally. Mr. Thompson stayed 

 over for the big mass meeting on Friday and Saturday. 



There was a reunion of the Deweys in Chicago this week, there being 

 present Harry D. of Chicago, general sales manager for the Edward Hines 

 Lumber Company ; J. E. Dewey, sales manager for the Stearns Salt & Lum- 

 ber Company. Ludington, Mich., and Rutus H. Dewey, who is publicity 

 manager for the Chicago Grand Opera Company. Thus Jim can be excused 

 for affecting a little highbrow stuff, namely, listening to a few dukes and 

 princesses and other notables warbling their romances and tragedies across 

 the footlights of the Auditorium theatre. Boiled down, this means that 

 Jim Dewey attended the opera performance on Friday night. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been iiled Ity tlie Alliance 

 Manufacturing Company, Streator, 111, 



The de-ath is announced of Melville Clark, president of the Melville Clark 

 Piano Company, citv. 



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The war relief campaign in Buffalo brought out a good deal of energy 

 on the part of the lumbermen, who exceeded their quota of ?23.000 by 

 about twenty per cent. The chairman of the lumber committee was Fred 

 M. Sullivan, who .was assisted by C. W. Betts, M. M. Wall, G. Elias, O. E. 

 Yeager, E. J. Sturm. U. E. Montgomery, Ganson Depew, William Henrichs, 

 F. M. Hendricks, C. W. Hurd and John McLeod. 



At a meeting of the Chamlter of Commerce a few days ago the board 

 of directors voted unaninuiusly to direct the transportation committee to 

 work with the National Industrial Traffic League in efforts to bring about 

 changes in rail rates, rules and regulations that will be fairer to shippers 

 than those now in force. Lumber matters enter into the complaint 

 largely, including lumber embargoes, the curtailment of transit privileges 

 and the restrictions placed iijion the handling of intracity freight. Exces- 

 sive charges for switching freight enter into the complaint, as making it 

 necessary to pay large sums for carting, when the railroads ought to do 

 the work for a moderate charge. 



What the immediate effect of the end of the war is to be upon Buffalo 

 industries has been discussed generally of late, and the conclusion is that 

 unskilled labor is still in great demand. The factory which suffers most 

 as the result of the cancellation of war contracts is the Curtiss Aeroplane 

 & Motors Corporution, which will be compelled to lay off about 5,000 

 employes. This is quite a different story than the one recently circulated 

 to the effect that the Curtiss plant was going to expand greatly by 



January 1. Good faith was probably exercised in making the prediction, 

 but the sudden announcement of the suspension of hostilities abroad threw 

 all such plans awry. The plant expects to have considerable to do in 

 the manufacture of airplanes, but on no big scale. 



The Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company has also lost some government 

 contracts. It expected to put on 4,000 men soon, but the number has been 

 reduced to several hundred. 



Buffalo building permits for November are expected to compare more 

 favorably with the same month last year than has been the case for a 

 number of months. A number of large industrial permits have been 

 granted during the present month, though the number for dwellings has 

 been below the average. Houses are much needed here and a survey lately 

 taken showed only 75 houses, flats and apartments vacant, and most of 

 these were not fit for human habitation. Next spring will be quite likely 

 to show a spurt here in the building line. 



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Joseph W. Cottrell, president of the J. W. Cottrell Lumber Company, is 

 spending a few days at the mills in the South. 



E. V. Babcock, president of the Babcock Lumber Company, made a flying 

 trip over New York City in an aeroplane. 



P. M. Frampton of the Frampton-Foster Lumber Company, reports a very 

 busy month, and says that inquiries from big industrial and manufactur- 

 ing sources are keeping up well. The company is busy with its two new 

 hardwood operations in Greenbriar county, W. Va. 



S. A. Kendall of the Kendall Lumber Company was elected congressman 

 from the Pennsylvania district comprising Fayette and Somerset counties, 

 and he had a very nice majority. 



E. H. Stoner of the West Penn Lumber Company says that shipments will 

 improve very much since the embargo has been taken off. Little business, 

 however, is coming to light just now. 



W. W. Dempsey Lumber Company of Johnstown, Pa., has been selected 

 by the government to take charge of the manufacture of large quantities 

 of locust pins for shipbuildings. More than 1,000,000 pins a day are 

 needed and at present the government is getting only about 500,000 a day. 



J. N. Wooliett, president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, received 

 very optimistic reports last week from his traveling men in Indiana. Mich- 

 igan and Illinois. He believed that after a short period of readjustment 

 business is going ahead with a rush. 



Wayne Parker, formerly of New Hampshire and now of Towanda, Pa.. 

 will shortly build a large mill there to manufacture handles of every possi- 

 ble size. 



The Charles S. Flour Lumber Company has been organized at Sharon, 

 Pa., by Charles S. Flour, .\llen U. Wilder and M. R. McCann of that city 

 to do a wholesale and retail lumber business. 



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The A. F. Merrill Company, incorporated, has been organized at Brewer, 

 Maine, with a capital of $100,000. to operate a spool manufacturing plant 

 and woodturning mill of all kinds. 



A new lumber firm appears in the Springfield market in the H. L. Handy 

 Lumber Company, Inc., Herbert L. Handy and his sou being treasurer and 

 president, rosjpectively. The cjipital issued is Sns.OOO. 



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Indications that the attpntion of the hardwood trade is again being 

 concentrated upon or directed to the export trade continue to multiply. 

 Not only does the increase in the number of foreign visitors furnish proof, 

 but some renewed advances are being made by foreign firms with a view 

 to entering into business relations as soon as the obstacle now presented 

 by the lack of ships has been removed. Gustave A. Farber, London repre- 

 sentative of Russe & Burgess, Inc.. Memphis, held a conference here last 

 week with William H. Russe, head of the company, who had come East 

 apparently for the purpose, and who returned home yesterday. It is sup- 

 posed that at this conference the foreign situation was gone into quite 

 thoroughly and at considerable length. Mr. Farber afterward went to 

 New York, intending to return in a day or two. 



Another windstraw is presented by the receipt of a communication by a 

 hardwood corporation here from Churchill & Sim, the London timber 

 brokers, in which the British concern expresses a desire, as soon as vessels 

 are available, to enter into relations for the handling of the stocks of 

 the company. This prospect seems now fairly near, though, of course, 

 the exact time when tonnage will be obtainable for lumber exports cannot 

 be determined now. 



In connection horowith is to be mentioned the removal of the embargo 



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