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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 10. 1921 



Wages Will Remain 

 Relatively Stable 



Chart in current Forecaster presents a study of 

 the fluctuations of wages over a period of sixty 

 years in comparison with the activity of business 

 as measured by the rise and fall of Dun's Index 

 of Commodity Prices. 



Free copy of Bulletin M sent upon r(que-.t 



The Brookmire Economic Service, Inc. 



25 West 45th Street, New York City 



*' The Original System of Forecasting from Economic Cycles" 



Foch Dedicates Edward Hines, Jr., Hospital 



{C'lvtiniu'd from puf/e 25) 



Corps. August l.'i, 1(117: Provisional Seiond I.ieiitemint. KeRuliir Army. 

 October 'M. 1!I17, and assisned to tlie filst Infantry. He was promoted to 

 First Lieutenant (temporary) and. wliile in camp with liis reKiment at 

 Gettysburfr. I'a.. in response to a call f(jr iifiiters for iiniiKMliate fondtrn 

 service with machine gun companies, volunteered and was accepted for 

 such service. Assigned to the Fourth Machine Ciun Battalion. Second Di- 

 vision, he sailed for France December 24, 1!)17. His organization went into 

 .service on the Toulon-Troyon Sectors. Verdun, in the severe winter and 

 spring of 1018. 



On April 4. lOlS. while on a reconnaissance in (Jrafiier Woods in front 

 of those sectors. Lieutenant Hines succumlied to the effects of the rigors 

 of trench lite and to extreme exhaustion, and from their effects died in 

 Base Hospital l.'i. A. E. F., at Chaumont, Prance, June 4. 1918. in the 

 twenty-second year of his age. 



Lieutenant Hines was the first graduate of the Officers' Training Camp 

 at Fort Sheridan in the Chicagip distriit to die in active service in France. 



The name also fittingly eomiuemorates the splendid service given the 

 nation liy the grailuates of the Fort Sheridan traiidng <-aiiips; in addition 

 it fittingly eonutii'iiiorates the enthusiastic devotion oi the college anil 

 universit.v' undergraduates who. by the thousand, voluntarily aliandoni'il 

 careers of individual promise to offer their services and their lives to their 

 countr.v. 



The hospital in its present size and completeness is due to the expendi- 

 ture of time, effort and money by Lieutenant Hines' parents. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Edward Hines. of Evanston. Hlinois. The cost of the completed ]dan has 

 lieen about five million dollars. The total appropriation is $i;.400,()lKi. 

 The difference has been contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Hines. 



The name given thus also suitably recognizes their service and generosity. 



By the I'resident : 



(Signed) A. W. MEi.r.ox, Secretary of the Treasury. 



As the order indicates, a tremendous sum of money was spent 

 on the hospital by Mr. and Mrs. Hines and, furthermore, it is due 

 to their devoted interest that the hospital is the finest of its kind 

 in the entire country and has established a precedent for safety 

 and comfort that will mean incalculable good to our soldier victims 

 of the world war. It insures them treatment in fireproof structures, 

 handsomely and thoroughly equipped, instead of the improvised 

 buildings that the Government had jircviously shown a ilisposition 

 to erect. 



The hospital has a capacity of 1,000 beds and is .'tlrcady in opera- 

 tion. The surroundings are being beautified and on Armistice Da\' 

 the American Legion of Illinois will plant an avenue of memorial 

 trees within the grounds. 



Pertinent Information 



Holland Joins Nichols & Co. Lumber Company 



F. E. Holland has accepted the management of the hardwood flooring 

 department of the Nichols & Cox Ijumber Company of Orand Rapids, Mich., 

 resigning his connection with the W. R. Pickering Lumber Company. Mr. 

 Holland had been with Pickering for six years, having managed their 

 Houston, Tex., and Detroit. Mich., branch offices. He is secretary and 

 treasurer of the Michigan Association of Traveling Lumlier and Sash and 

 Door Salesmen and vicegerent for Hoo-Hoo in the Detroit district. The 

 office of the Michigan association will be moved to Grand Rapids, 1405 



(ienesee street. S. E.. but the Hoo-IToo toga will be turned over to Fred .\. 

 McCaul of Royal Oak. 



N. W. Marshall will succeed Mr. Holland with the Pickering Company 

 and will continue the office of that company in Detroit at 704 Ford building. 



Southern Pacific Promises Hardwood Rate Cut 



As a result of the aggressive work on the part o£ the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association to secure reductions in freight rates on hardwoods 

 from southern points, the Southern Pacific has announced that it will, at 

 an early date, put into effect sharply reduced rates on hardwood lumber 

 and forest products moving from Mississippi valley territory to Pacific 

 loast destinations. These new rates are to be 80 cents per hundred 

 Ijounds from group "E" west ot the Mississippi and 85 cents from group 

 "C" east of the Mississippi, compared with present rates of $1.00 Vi and 

 .f 1.13 14 respectively. No date has been set for the effectiveness ot the new 

 rates, but the association anticipates that the trade will get the benefit 

 of the reductions about the first of December. It also believes that the 

 other transcontinental roads will follow suit. It has spent about nine 

 months working on this proposition, and its most telling argument has 

 Iieen the fact that the bulk of the tonnage of forest products moving to tne 

 I'acifii' coast from the territory in question has been by combination rail 

 and water routes. The proposed rates will go a long way toward equalizing 

 all-rail and comliioatlon rail-and-water rates. 



The New Sturtevant Catalogue 



The Catalogue No 282, covering "High Humidity Dry Kilns," which 

 was issued less than three weeks ago by the B. F. Sturtevant Company 

 of Boston. Mass., would be a credit to any industrial organization, and 

 it certainly will stand as a monument to the enterprise of the firm 

 which issued it. The best way to dcscril)e this catalogue aside from a 

 reference to the fact that its cover is handsome and appropriate, is to 

 quote the "Introduction" contained in the book itself: 



"In presenting this handbook and catalogue to the Lumber and 

 Woodworking trade, we believe that we have gathered data that will 

 be of universal use in demonstrating the advance of the art of <lrying 

 and conditioning hmiber. A new catalogue is generally indicative of the 

 lU'ogress of the business that it represents. Such it certainly is in the 

 present case. 



"We have divided this Iiandliook in two parts. Part One is devoted 

 exclusively to a discussion of the Sturtevant High Humidity Kiln. Part 

 Two is composed of several interesting Jtnd impartial publications taken 

 verbatim from the 1'. S. Forest Products Laboratory bulletins and other 

 interesting data. We feel that these impartial articles in the main, sub- 

 stantiate our claim that the kiln in which the temperature, humidity, 

 and. most important of all, the circulation is under the constant auto- 

 matic control of the operat<n- is the best and most practical kiln (Ui 

 the market. 



"The Company wisiies to express its thanks and appreciation to the 

 U. S. Forest Products Ijaboratory. Madison. Wisconsin, for its hearty 

 cooperation in supplying cuts and other important data. 



"We believe that the limited space devoted to the Sturtevant High 

 Humidity Kiln is sufficient to describe the correctness of its theory 

 and design and also to demonstrate its mechanical flexiljility to bring to 

 pass aii.v desired set of conditions tipon all the lumber simultaneously." 



Clubs and Associations 



National Wholesalers to Meet at Washington 



At the trustees' meeting of the National Wholesale lAimber Dealers' 

 Association, held November 4 in New York City, invitations were received 

 from many sections lu'ging the association to hold its next annual con- 

 vention in their cities. The Iftst annual meeting was held at Chicago, and 

 this year, in the interest of the association, the trustees believed it better 

 to select a more easterly location, and, after careful consideration. Wash- 

 ington, D. C, was unanimously decided upon, the meeting to be held dur- 

 ing March, 1922, the exact time and other meeting details are left with 

 the executive committee, .lohn W. MeClure, president, being authorized to 

 add to this committee as necessary. This will be the thirtieth annual 

 meeting of the association and unquestionably will be the largest in the 

 history of the organization. 



Conference on Railroad Ties 



For the purpose of determining some plan of action on the unification 

 for specifications ot railroad ties, a conference of railroad, lumber and 

 government representatives was held October 25 in Washington. D. C. 



.\t this initial meeting there were no details ot any kind discussed but 

 only questions of a broad nature were considered. The discussion for 

 the most part centered on whether the unification of specifications for 

 railroad cross ties and switch tics should he undertaken, if so. what the 

 scope of the work would be and how it should be organized. 



.^mong the foremost advocates for the proposed plan was Earle H. 

 Clapp of the Forest Service. In his remarks Mr. Clapp said that the 



