HARDWOOD RECORD 



45 



=-< INDIANAPOLIS > 



Mr. and Mrs. 1- rod i . liarcliiir luiv.' nimr lo I'lorldu (or tin- wintci-. 

 .Mr. Ganlncr Is troasuror of E. C. Alklns & Co. 



Till' corporation of the Coll)urn-Bal08 Lumber Company, Goodland. has 

 boon dissolved. 



BuildhiK opi'rallons In the clt.v dnriuR lOl.") aggregated $0,301,973, as 

 compared with ?n.l.">0,407 In 1012. Substantial gains were made In 

 frame and llreproof con.stnictlou. 



On tile night of .lanuary 1. the planing mill of the Brooksldc Lumber 

 Companj- was destroyed by lire, presumably of Incendiary origin. Tln' 

 loss was about $l>'i.OOO. partially covered by insurance. The mill will be 

 rebuilt. 



Paul O. ISrown. buyer for the Talge Mahogany Company, Iia.s relmued 

 from a six months' trip to Africa. Mr. Brown bought a large cargo of 

 mahogany logs direct from the natives. 



The resignation of Kred .1. Trenck, export manager for E. C. Atkins & 

 Co.. has been announced. .Mr. Trenck and his father, John W. Treuck. 

 will engage in another line of business. 



W. W. Knight of the Long-Knight Lumber Company, and Jlrs. Knight 

 have returned from a ten days' visit with relatives in LeRoy, N. Y. 



The marriage of .Tohn 11. Guy and Miss Gerda Sebbeleu of Laporte took 

 place in New York City. December 31. Mr. Guy is financial vice-president 

 of the M. Rumely Compan.v. Mr. and Mrs. Guy will reside in Laporte. 



With a loss of approximately SlOO.OtJO. most of the plant of the Indi 

 ana Veneer and Lumber Company. JMonou railway tracks and Twenty- 

 third streets. Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire on the night of IJeccml).^ 

 22. The Are. starting in the center of the dimension room is believed to 

 liave been caused by an Incendiar.v. The southeast wing of the plant 

 and the office, in a separate building, together with several piles of lum- 

 ber and logs, were saved. The company makes a specialty of white oak 

 veneer, and expects to rebuild. 



The clt.v oflieials have agreed to recotnmond the amendment of a section 

 of the new building code that has aroused a protest from llie hardwood 

 ititerests and manufacturers of interior trim. .\s passed, the code requires 

 metal doors, sash and trim in all fireproof structures, at the same time 

 requiring ail sciiools. hospitals and apartment houses three stories or 

 more in lieighth and all other buildings more than one hundred feet higli 

 lo be fireproof. The amendment will limit the requirement ^or metnl sasli. 

 doors and trim above the one hundred foot line. 



=-< MEMPHIS >■- 



The annual of the Tinlu Darrel St:ivr Manufatturers' Association will 

 br held here .January 20-21. This is the first of the big conventions that 

 will be staged in Jfemnhis during the winter. The sessions will be held 

 at the Hotel Chisca. It is expected that there will be about 12.1 delegates 

 In attendance. Max Lowry of New Orleans is president of the association 

 and K. H. Defebaugh of Chicago is secretary-treasurer. The annual of 

 this association will be closely followed by that of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association of the United States, which will convene on 

 .lanuar.v 21-22. 



Lee Wilson, head of Lee \\'ilson & Co.. prominent manufacturers and 

 <listribiiters of iiardwood lumber, with lieadquarters at Memphis and mill- 

 ing Interests chiefly in Arkansas, has bought for himself and associates 

 about .$300,000 worth of the levee bonds authorized by the last legislature 

 of .Arkansas. This transaction is regarded as of more than passing impor- 

 tance for the reason that it places at the disposal of the St. Francis Levee 

 Board sufficient funds to enable the latter to proceed with the strengthen- 

 ing of the levees under its control and the bringing of these embankments 

 to a standard that will prevent breaks such as have proven quite disastrous 

 hi'retofiu-e. Leo Wilson & Co. and some of the other big hardwood lumber 

 interests own extensive tiniberland holdings and conduct large milling 

 operations in the territory protected by the levees in question, with thi' 

 result that the importance of this movement is evident. 



There has been considerable correspondence betiveen the bi.g lumber 

 lompanles which were reeentl.v heavily fined b.v the supreme court of 

 Missouri and ordered to leave the state, and the secretary of the Business 

 Men's Club. The latter has extended to these companies a warm invitation 

 to come to Memphis and make this their future home, dwelling at leugtli 

 on the advantages offered by this center. Secretary Tuther has further 

 advised these companies that if they do not know enough about Memphis 

 as a lumber center to satisfy themselves that this is the place for them 

 to come he is willing to u.se the machinery of the club to compile such 

 data as they may desire for their further enlightenment. That this invita 

 tlon Is being duly considi'red by some of these companies Is quite evident 

 from the letter received from the Lewis Warner Saw Mill Company or 

 St. Louis, to the effect that "We will be sure to give Memphis due con- 

 sideration, as we recognize its many points of advantage and as we an- 

 not unmindful of the pleasant features of the city's social life." Thi> 

 Business Men's {■lub will continue Its activities in this direction until 

 these companies have either located here or decided upon some other 

 point as their future home. . 



E. H. Ewinir. formerly manager of the E. H. Ewlng Lumber Company, 

 whose plant was recently destroyed by fire at Ileber Springs. .\rk.. has 

 made plans for the establishment of a wagon factory at that point, and 

 this will be placed in operation shortly. Agriculfural implemenis, too, 

 will be manufactured. Earle Briee and Louis Thompson arc associated 



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Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company 



Cape Girardeau, Missouri 



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Sikeston, Mo. 



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