March 25, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Johnson Becomes Sales Manager for Thane Lumber Company 



,T. C. Joluis'in, who was associati-d ■with W. L. Briscoe in the sales 

 department of the Thaue Lumber Company before the latter formed the 

 W. L. Briscoe Lumber Company, is now in complete charge of the selling 

 end of the business of the first named firm. These two gentlemen sold 

 24.000.000 feet of hardwood lumber for the Thane Lumber Company during 

 the year of their joint management, representing the output of a band 

 mill at Arkansas City and a circular mill at Watson, Ark. Mr. Johnson 

 will continue to handle the output of these plants but his ambition is to 

 greatly increase the wholesale business of the firm, building it up to 

 several times its present proportions. His oflSces are in the Bank of 

 Commerce Building, Memphis, and, preliminary to the increased business 

 he expects to do. he is arranging for material increase in bis oflSce force. 



New Company Takes Over Custom Mills at Memphis 



The Ford Lunilter rnmpany, recently incorporated by Lawn-nic W. Ford 

 and others, with a capital stock of $10,000, has purchased the band mill 

 of Gibson & Whitaker at Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Ford is secretary and manager 

 of the Goodlander-Robertson Lumber Company, and the mill will be con- 

 trolled by the last named firm. The plant has been closed down and is 

 now being overhauled. Improvements will also be made which will con- 

 vert it into a modern band plant. It is estimated that about SoOOO will 

 be expended. 



W. L. Briscoe Lumber Incorporated at Memphis 

 The W. L. Briscoe Lumber Company, (.omposcd of W. L. Briscoe and 

 T. F. Grifiith. is the latest- firm to engage in the hardwood lumber business 

 at Memphis. These gentlemen have both had wide experience in the pur- 

 chase, manufacture and sale of hardwood lumber and know the business 

 from the stump to the consumer. Mr. Bri.scoe was with the Thane Lum- 

 ber Company during the past year, being identified with the sales depart- 

 ment of that firm. He was for nine years engaged in various capacities 

 with the Paepcke-<Leicht Lumber Company and he had charge for 4 year.s 

 of the entire operations of the Dermott Land & Lumber Company at Der- 

 mott. Ark. Mr. <;riffith was connected with Steele & llibbard of St. Louis 

 when the new firm was formed. Prior to that he operated a mill of his 

 own at Batesville, Miss. He has seen service with several companies in 

 Arkansas and Mississippi. He received his earlier training in the Middle 

 Tennessee field. The company, in adilition to transacting a wholesale 

 business in southern hardwoods, will sell hardwood lumber on a commis- 

 sion basis. It? is now arranging to handle the output of mills in this 

 territory and is closing contracts to this end as rapidly as possible in order 

 to insure a steady supply. It will specialize in mixed cars of hardwood 

 lumber for northern interests not now represented in this territory. These 

 gentlemen, because of their wide acquaintance with both the manufactur- 

 ing and consuming trade, have tlie best wishes of a host of representa- 

 tives of the hardwood lumlier industry in their latest undertaking. The 

 offices of the company are in the Bank of Commerce building. 



Eastern Concern Changes Its Name 



The Mell-Viall Lumber Company, Philadelphia, has changed its name 

 to Mell & Sons Lumber Company. Inc. It is stated that the ofl3cers and 

 official standing of the company remain the same. 



The company ha.s added to its organization .Tohn Harker, formerly of 

 Wiley. Harker & Camp. Philadelphia, who will work in New York, Long 

 Island and eastern New York state, with temporary headquarters at 130 

 South Broadway. White Plains. N. Y. Charles I. Stevenson, formerly of 

 Lock Haven, Pa., and Johnson City. Tenn.. has also joined the company 

 aiid win handle central and northeastern Pennsylvania territory, 



Panel Company's Team Way Up In Basket Ball Contest 



The niinual basket ball t(»urnami'nt ol' the Crntrai Association of thr 

 A. A. U., held at Chicago. March 14, brought out sonie new basket ball 

 talent of which members of the panel industry of .\merica may very well 

 ite proud. The team of the Edison Athletic Club, an organization main- 

 tained by employes of the Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Company, New Lon- 

 don, Wi.s., was one of the strongest contestants in the tournament and in 

 thf wind up scored second place in a list of sixteen nationally reputed 

 basket ball organizations. As a matter of fact the Edison team played 

 off the final game with the Olympic Club of Madison, Wis., to decide the 

 question of first and second position, and after a close game went ilown to 

 its first defeat after an unbroken string of some twenty-thrpe victories in 

 the season. 



While the Edison boys disclaim any alibi for their final defeat for full 

 championship honors, the score was affected very largely in favor of the 

 uppcments by technicalities in the game, as for all-round quality of play- 

 ing, team work and individual efficiency, the Edison team was head and 

 shoulders above any organization which it met. 



Among the contestants were wiilely known clubs such as the Illinois 

 Athletic Club of Chicago, the famous Camp Grant team. Camp Grant, 111.. 

 St. John's Military Academy and the Gary Independents. 



The Edison team is made up of the following men : Geo. W. I>emming, 

 manager ; L. E. Shallberg. James White, Archie Schaller, Louis Steffes. 

 Harry Hertz. Max Giedlinski. Roy White. Victor Walsh. 



The group picture of the team is shown on this page and it is interest- 

 ing to note that three members of the organization are full-blooded Indians. 

 They seem to have taken naturally and delightedly to the game, which 

 lirings into play the strategy, agility and endurance for which the Ameri- 

 can Indians are famous. 



Altogether the Edison boys can be proud and pretty well satisfied with 

 the outcome for there is another year ahead, and that is a goal worth 

 working for. The team came into Chicago a dark horse and went out a 

 respected and popular organization, which had the crowd with it all the 

 way through. 



Pertinent Information 



Regarding Government Owned Building Material 



It is announcfd l)y tlu> \V;ir Hi'iiiiitnif'iit th:U 90 pt-r c-cnt of all build- 

 in!; materials owned by the War Department is held by the construction 

 division of the army. An inventory of surplus of such materials as Of 

 December 31 showed that the government has a total investment of 

 approximately $12,000,000 in this material. A good deal of this material, 

 though, has since been transferred to other construction work and a good 

 deal of it has been retained for maintenance and repair. As a result of 

 these transfers and several hundred thousand dollars in sales, the surplus 

 on March 1 amounted to $7.ri()0.000. and the surplus stock of construction 

 equipment, etc., hail shrunk to approximately .$2,000,000. The transfers 

 to going jobs are continuing at such a rate that sales have been discon- 

 tinued at many projects and the (imount of building materials that will 

 actually be sold will run a very small figure. A contract for disposing 

 of any considerable quantities of lumber held by the War Department 

 has been made which will take care of the large items in the building 

 material classification. 



Pass One Thousand Mark 



The National Ilarihvood I.umlii'r Assuciation has announced that its 

 membership has passed the 1,000 mark and is still climbing. The March 

 fifhrial liulletin of the association, in c'bminenting on the net result of the 

 membership campaign, says : 



A few years ago the attainment of this high point of development seemed 

 hardly possible, but for all that, it was an object kept steadily in view 

 and every plan and effort bearing upon it were employed to the utmost. 

 At times our gains were small and .slow and during the course of one year 

 — that in which the w-ar broke out — we were carried backwards somewhat 

 in the general recoil. The year following, however, saw us ahead again 

 with all retrogression more than nmde good, and now near the close of 

 the current association year — a >'car reidete with traile depressions, shift- 

 ings and uncertainties — we have crossed the line. 



Knowledge Needed in Business 



The I'nited States Shipping Board has prepared lists of books dealing 

 directly with matters connected with our foreign business and trade. It 

 is assumed that much information will be needed by the American people in 

 the new trade expansion that is believed to lie immediately ahead of us. 

 This couutry is destined to take a great part In the world's work in the 

 future, and education for it is part of the preparation. The shipping board 

 has prepared lists of appropriate books for persons who desire to qualify 

 tor more efBcient work. The names of the lists follow : 



Hooks descriptive of foreign countries with which we expect to do busi- 

 ness. The books on this list relate to practically the whole world. 



Books on foreign languages, among which are French, Italian, Portuguese, 

 Russian. .Japanese, Chinese, Hindustan, and Arabic. 



Books on world trade, covering numerous subjects. 



Books relating to ships and the <icean, historical, commercial, and literary. 



