IKtolHT 23. 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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J. B. Montgomery & Co. of this city report that general business is quite a 

 Jot Improved, especially in industrial lines. Mr. Montgomery says that oak 

 has been a rather slow seller until very lately, but there are more prospeots 

 of good sales now on account of the industrial revival. 

 . The Johnston Lumber Company reports quite a lot of business in oak and 

 believes that building_ from now on will pick up steadily. This company 

 has been largely interested in some hardwood operations in Butler (county, 

 hut is laying off this winter until the market is more normal. 



were made when the corporation acquired two parcels of real estate 

 adjoining its plant on Carr between Richmond and Gcst streets. The plot 

 of ground on the west side of the plant facing Carr street will be used as 

 a lumber yard, officials said. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



BALTIMORE 



with the death on October 13 of John Dittmar, founder of the firm of 

 John Dittmar & Sons, one of the most unique figures in the lumber trade 

 of Baltimore has passed away. Mr. Dittmar, who came to this country 

 in ISTti from (iermany. lonceived the idea of building up a business in 

 unusual wood turning and millwork. He began to make the big wooden 

 balls for ten pin and dock pin alleys, and he gave special attention to the 

 production of many other things not to be obtained in the average estab- 

 lishment. He was an expert in caljinet and interior work, and his estab- 

 lishment grew in importance and made him a well-known figure. 



G. F. Chambers of the Kendall Lumber Comijany. of Hutton, W. Va., 

 and Kendall, N. C, stopped in Baltimore about a week ago in the course 

 of a trip through the eastern territory. He expressed the belief that a 

 marked improvement has taken place in the trade, with buyers more ready 

 than they were to place orders and with prices rather firmer. Mr. Cham- 

 bers makes his headquarters at Newark, N. J. 



Another caller was C. A. ,Eakin of the Eakiu Lumber Company of 

 Weston, W. Va., who saw some of the hardwood men here and expressed 

 himself encouragingly about present conditions as well as the outlook. 



Charles Herz of the Bencoe Lumber Company of 82 Wall street, was in 

 Baltimore about ten days ago to confer with Harvey M. Dickson, secre- 

 tary of the National Lumber Exporters' Association, in regard to some 

 foreign shii)nients which he has made or holds in contemplation. 



CINCINNATI 



The WarU-Brock Sush &. Door ('(impauy will increase its mauufacturing 

 space 100 per ceut through the purchase of a five-story brick building on 

 the east side of McLean avenue, between Richmond and Court streets. 

 The deal, which involves $40,000, will give the company a new plant much 

 larger than the space now occupied by the mill. The building originally 

 was used in the manufacturt^ of desks, and after the Knabe Bros. Company, 

 piano manufacturers, closed their plant in Norwood, O.. its uncompleted 

 material was shipped to the McLean avenue property, where the Morrison- 

 Waters Piano Company, since succeeded by the Smith-Nixon Corporation, 

 Chicago, assembled pianos. 



Frank Haass of the Frank Haass Luml>er Company has returned from 

 points in Kentucky and West Virginia, where he ' looked up some ship- 

 ments from mill connections. Mr. Haass said that the mills are working 

 50 per cent more help than two months ago when he visited that territory. 



The saw mill of the L. P. Clemens Lumber Company, between Goshen 

 and Milford, O., was destroyed by the explosion of a dynamite bomb placed 

 in the structure by some unknown persons. The explosion tore the mill 

 to pieces and left an immense crater where it stood. Bloodhounds trailed 

 a party of men to the side of a road, where the imprints of tires showed 

 that an automobile had been turned around. 



In one of the most daring daylight hold-ups staged here for several 

 months, four bandits escaped with $5,000, the weekly payroll of the J. A. 

 Fay & Egan Company, woodworking machinery manufacturers, Front ond 

 John streets. The bandits escaped in an automobile after they struck 

 ilown the paymaster. William F. Emerich. Thirty minutes before the 

 robbery the money had been piaced in envelopes for 200 employes, only 

 half of the plant. 



James W. Hale of Cincinnati, member of the partnership of the Menzies- 

 Hale Lumber Company, with offices in the Union Central building, has 

 filed suit in the United States District Court, seeking appointment of a 

 receiver to take charge of the company's business and for an accounting 

 and judgment on claims he makes against his partner, Stuart Menzies of 

 Indianapolis. The business was started in December, 1917, with an agreed 

 capital of $60,000. 



Miss Margaret Crane, daughter of Charles Crane, general manager of 

 the Crane Lumber Comii;uiy. was killed when an automobile which she 

 was driving and belongin-^' to her father, crashed into a concrete wall n(>ar 

 the lumber company's mill. Miss Crane was on her way home from school 

 when the accident occurred. 



S. P. Egan, president of the J. A. Fay & Egan Company, manufacturers 

 of woodworking machinery, has announced that the corporation had given 

 np any plan of constructing its new plant, other than at the southwest 

 comer of Paddock road and the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and the 

 Nbrfolk & Western railroads in Bond Hill, and that work would begin 

 o6 the improvement soon after Jatiuary 1. 



E. n. Ward, secretary of the Dwight Hinckley Lumber Company, who 

 has returned from a business trip through Louisiana, Mississippi and 

 Alabama, where he placed orders for hardwoods and other woods, said that 

 business in these states has picked up considerably since the increase in 

 the price Of cotton. 



Provisions for the future esteristons 'of- the Cindinnatl Coffin Cotnpany 



-Vpproximately 'Mitt furniture uuinufaclunMs and retailers attended a 

 luncheon recently in Indianapolis at which a general plan to educate the 

 pulilic in buying furniture and properly decorating a home was discussed. 

 C. A. O'Conner, president of the Indianapolis Furniture Manufacturers* 

 Association, presided, and the plan was explained by Robert L. Jordan 

 of Chicago, direction manager nf the publicity bureau of the National 

 Furniture Dealers' Association, under the direction of which organization 

 the campaign will be conducteij. 



The bureau, although still in its infancy, proposes to spend from 

 $1,000,000 to $;i,000,000 iu carrying out the campaigti. A paid teacher 

 will visit the schools to lecture on the interior decorating, and the 

 bureau will also carry the campaign to the women's clubs. Following 

 the luncheon the manufacturers and retailers were invited by George H. 

 Oilar, president of the Indiana Furniture Retailers, to attend the Indian 

 apolis industrial exposition. 



One "f the most improved nnd up-to-date planing mills will be opened 

 soon in Terre Haute, Ind.. by the Dix Lumber Company, which has oper- 

 ated a hardwood floor manufacturing plant for the past year. The new 

 department will employ over sixty men when operating at full capacity. 

 ,r. D. Palmer of Chicago, will be placed in charge of the new enterprise, 

 assisted by C. R. Connelley, acting as superintendent in the mill. The 

 company recently purchased all of the machinery of the A. Dale Ilouff 

 plant and with the additional pieces of machinery the planing mill depart- 

 ment of the Dix company is etpiipped with over $30,000 worth of machin- 

 ery. The machinery is to be housed in a plant approximately 80 by 120 

 feet and three large kilns capable of holding ten carloads of lumber will 

 be includeil in the planing mill department. Several other smaller build- 

 ings and loading platforms will be utilized by the new mill. 



Richmond Casket Company's employes' picnic which was held at Jackson 

 park, Richmond, recently, proved to be one of the most successful and 

 largest affairs of its kind ever attempted by the factory. 



According to Dwight S. Ritter. city purchasing agent, the price of 

 bridge lumber within the last three months has dropped several dollars 

 a 1,000 feet. The city purchases about 30.000 feet a year. When lumber 

 was at its highest price the city paid $48.50. At the beginning of the 

 present city administration bridge lumber could be bought for $35 a 1,000. 

 and a recent lot cost $3H a I.OOO. 



EVANSVILLE 



Harry Ruhe has purchased the interest of Edward Weyer in the sawmill 

 and lumber business at Ferdinand, Ind., and will conduct the same. The 

 sawmill is now in full operation. 



The shipping of the war surplus of hames from France to the United 

 States is the cause of the shutdown of the plant of the Kelsay Hame Com- 

 pany here, according to Roy Kelsay, the manager. This is the first time in 

 many years that the plant has been closed. 



At a hearing in the Sullivan county circuit court at Sullivan, Ind.. a 

 few dSys ago the National Bank of Sullivan was appointed receiver for the 

 Mutual Truck Company of that city upon petition of creditors. The liabili- 

 ties of the company are about $!S5.000. 



William I. Francis, of the Wemyss Furniture Company, and Robert Black, 

 of the Evansville Furniture Company, have been granted a patent on a 

 new ball-bearing table for hand saws. The improvement Is said to min- 

 imize the labor of feeding timber over the smooth flat table and relieves the 

 saw of the strain. 



MEMPHIS 



K. M. Carrier, president of the .Vmerican Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, J. M. Pritchard, secretary manager, and R. L. Jurden. of the 

 executive committee, are in Knoxville where they are attending the 

 annual of the Appalachian Logging Congress. 



A meeting of the executive committee of the association was called for 

 Knoxville during the convention of the logging congress but the full 

 membership from Memphis ditl not go. James 13. i^tark, S. M. Nickey 

 and J. W. SIcClure, all of this city, found It impossible to leave Memphis 

 to attend this meeting. 



The Southern Hardwood Trallic Association states, in a letter just 

 issued to its members, that it does not believe the threatened railroad 

 strike will materialize. It points out, hOiwevar, the likelihood of 

 embargoes and consequent tie-ups in traffic and it urges members that, 

 wherever possible, cars simuld be billed through to destination and that 

 extreme care should be used in billing cars to reconsignjng points. 



The Alexander Bros. Lumber Company has made no hnuouucement re- 

 garding its plans for the future in connection with its band mill on the 

 Parkway, in South Memphis, which was completely destroyed by fire 

 Saturday morning, Oct. 15. The loss is placed at .$.'50,000, fully covered 

 by insurance. This mill was part of a chain of such plants operated by 

 this firm at Memphis, Belzoni, Miss., and Junkn, La. All the lumber on 

 the yards was saved. The Arc Is believed to have orfgUiated from a sparl: 

 from a passing locomotive.' ■ '' '"".i'-. " ■' - 



