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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25, 1919 



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I THEO. FATHAUER CO. 



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I Telephone Diversey 1 824 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



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C. W. Fish Lumber Company. Birnamwood, Elcho and Antlgo added a 

 night shift on January 8, having started with a day force on December 

 29. The Langlade Lumber Company reopened January 9. The Croclier 

 Chair Company and the Henshaw-Worden Company have been in opera- 

 tion since the early days of the New Year. All companies anticipate a 

 busy season. 



According to Fred J. Schroeder, secretary and treasurer of the John 

 Schroeder Lumber Company, Milwaukee and Ashland, Wis., the recent 

 influenza epidemic seriously affected logging operations of this and other 

 companies in the North. The epidemic has now run its course and opera- 

 tors are experiencing little or no difficulty. Late last fall, however, the 

 situation was extremely serious, and in several camps it was necessary to 

 establish hospitals with regular staffs of physicians and nurses. The 

 men were given the best of care and in this manner the spread of the 

 disease was checked and finally overcome. While the epidemic raged the 

 amount of logging worlc actually done was almost insignificant in some 

 of the camps. 



Powell & Mitchell, Escanaba. Mich., whose broom handle plant at SIdnaw 

 was destroyed by fire some time ago, have completed a new factory at 

 Ewen and are now turning out from 18,000 to 20,000 pieces a day. The 

 mill is cutting about 12,000 feet a day for raw material. Thirty-five opera- 

 tives are employed. Additional machinery will be installed to work up 

 Kiull stuff and waste into small hardwood products. 



A. H. Stange, widely known lumberman of Merrill. Wis., has presented 

 the First Presbyterian church of that city a new church, parsonage and 

 pipe organ. The donation includes a site and the entire investment will 

 amount to about $30,000. 



William D. Ilarrigan, formerly a prominent lumberman of Ehinelander, 

 Wis., but in more recent years a large timber and mill operator In Alabama, 

 died at Mobile on January 16, aged sixty-two years. He was born in 

 Brown county. Wis., in 1857 and in 1882 engaged In business at Rhine- 

 Jander. He moved to Fulton, Ala., in 1907, and became one of the most 

 extensive lumber operators of the district. He also had extensive interests 

 in the West. For the past year he suffered from heart trouble, which 

 -caused his death. Mrs. Harrigan and three children survive. 



-< BUFFALO >• 



One of the events of the month of January is always the Chamber of 

 Commerce election. That body has 4,200 members and it is no easy matter 

 to get on the board, even after once nominated. The election of January 

 15 was quite as spirited as any previous one, some members calling it the 

 best of the series. The lumbermen were represented on the ticket by 



James B. Wall, and the way they rallied showed once more how they can 

 work together. Mr. Wall was elected, standing third in number of votes 

 received. A device, suggested by Charles N. Perrin, was a square of 

 resawed basswood lumber, which was worn a la sandwich man, on a ribbon 

 about tlie neck. It assisted much in the canvass. It read in big stencil, 

 ■Put Wall on the Board." They did it. 



The bondholders of the Steuben Lumber & Furniture Company of 

 Hornell, which went bankrupt sometime ago, have arranged for a pay- 

 ment of eighteen cents on the dollar. This is expected to be all they will 

 receive. The business was sold to the Oriental Furniture Company. About 

 $33,000 worth of bonds are unsatisfied. 



President Horace F. Taylor of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange and of 

 various other lumber bodies has spent most of his time lately attending 

 meetings of committees of these bodies in Chicago and New York, and 

 now he goes on jury duty for two weeks. He was lately south and finds 

 everybody sure that business will boom lumber before long, though it may 

 be some months hence. 



The twenty-fifth anniversary convention of the New York Retail Lumber 

 Dealers' Association, held in Buffalo on January 21-23, brought out a 

 large number of people, who assisted in various ways to make it the usual 

 success. The local dealers worked hard to assist in making it pleasant 

 for the visitors, with apparent entire success. The "Prosperity Smoker" 

 of the first evening w^as given by the Niagara Frontier members of the 

 trade. The big banquet of the second evening was, as usual, a leading 

 feature, and after the sessions of the third day were concluded the con- 

 vention took a trip in a body to the mills of the Beaver Board Companies of 

 Thorold, on the Welland canal of Canada, which is connected with Buffalo 

 by trolley. With such men on the program as C. C. Beiihan, national 

 councillor of the D. S. Chamber of Commerce; Sidney Linnekin, specialist 

 of building material, Wellsley Hills, Mass. ; Spencer Kellogg, first presi- 

 dent. Utica ; Gen. L. C. Boyle, counsel, Washington, D. C. ; S. T. Russell, 

 Ilion ; J. S. Williams, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, Wash. ; 

 Charles A. Mason. Plattsburg, and man.y others, there was surely a wealth 

 of material for a convention. The address of welcome was given by 

 Arthur W. Kreinhcder, city councilman and a lifelong lumberman. It 

 was followed by the addre.ss of the president, C. C. Harper. 



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George N. Glass, president of the Keystone Lumber Company, repre- 

 sented the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association and also 

 the Pittsburgh Lumbermen's Club In the campaign for the Armenian-Syrian 



relief fund. 



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