Noveiubot 10. 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Max Sondheimer Plans Big Bear Hunt 



Max Sondheimer. president nf the K. Sondheimer Conipany of Memphis. 

 will be the host to a large |)arty of railroad officials, lumhermeu and other 

 business men on a bear and ileer hunt on the 35.0(M» acres of timber-lands 

 owned by his finn in the vi<-inity of Sondheimer. La., for a week or ten 

 days l^eginninK November 14. The participants will gather at Memphis 

 and maive the trip directly to the scene of their sport. Big game will 

 be the objective for the first three or four days and then the huntsmen will 

 shoot quail and live duck, which al>ound iu that territory. 



Mr. Sondheimer has already made elaborate arrangements for the hous- 

 ing of his guests. He has also engaged for deer hounds, bear hounds and 

 bird dogs from the same packs that worked for the late Theodore Roosevelt 

 when he made this particuhir hunting ground faiiions in the annals of 

 the South. 



Among his guests will be: James E. Gorman, Chicago, president of the 

 Rock Island lines; R. U. Calkins, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & 

 St. Paul railway ; J. E. Calkins, manager of the Nippon Yusen Keisha 

 Steamship Line : F. B. Bowes, vice-president of the Illinois Central system ; 

 C. E. Perkins and W. I. Jones, St. Louis, vice-president and assistant 

 freight traffic manager, respectively, of the Missouri Pacific system ; Messrs. 

 Vail and Pope, of the Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company. Detroit ; O. M. 

 Krebs, McLean Hardwood Lumber Company ; Nash Buckingham, head of 

 the Buckingham-Easly-Corrigan Company ; F. D. Beneke. secretary of the 

 Southern Alluvial Land Association : C. J. Haase. King-Haase Furniture 

 Company ; Gilbert Schloss, F. G. Smith, Mossman Lumber Company : C. C. 

 Dickinson, E. Sondheimer Company, and J. J. Bruner, all of Meniphis. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Harry I'. Blake, who has been manager of thi' ulhce division of the 

 F. T. Peitch Company. Cleveland, O., hardwood distributor, has resigned 

 to become identified with the Duttweib^r-Weih>r Company, with offices in 

 The Arcade. Cleveland. 



CHICAGO 



W. S. Wint'gar. head <if the \Viiii'^;ir-(Jnr)iKiii Luiiilter ("<nnpany, was 

 in Chicago for two days, November 1 and 2. to visit the Chicago office 

 of his company, while enroute to eastern hardwood market centers. 



W. J. Hubbard, who represents the Winegar-Gorman Lumber Company 

 in the Wisconsin territory, with headquarters in Milwaukee, was in 

 Chicago November 1 to confer with Joe Gorman, head of the Chicago 

 branch. 



An "Association of Home Buyers" is the original and enterprising pro- 

 posal which S. F. D. Meffley. secretary-mqnager of the Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation of Chicago, has made to the directors of the association. He urges 

 them to promote this organization, which he says shouM be financed for at 

 least $5,000,000 and provide for the building of from 1,700 to 2,200 homes 

 and "prove a big factor in bringing business back to normalcy in Chicago." 



In the preface to the description of his plan Mr. Meffley says that "every 

 trade has its association, every community its chamber of commerce : 

 automobile owners have their clubs ; there are golf, athletic and social 

 clubs, in fact, every activity in life, except that of purchasing and main- 

 taining a home, is organized." 



The organization which Mr. Meffley proposes would provide the loans 

 for erecting homes and furnish all the necessary advice, including plans 

 and the super\-ision of building. 



Another evidence of Mr. Meffley's enterprise is the plan for the reor- 

 ganization of the association, which he has recently placed before the 

 directors. This plan provides for a wide extension of the services of the 

 association to the members, and would create nine bureaus, or departments, 

 each with a paid secretary in charge. These departments would be : traffic 

 and transportation, trade extension, publicity, statistical information, 

 inspection, educational, industrial relations, legislative, membership. 



Wilson Compton. secretary-manager of the National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association. Washington, D. C, and O. T. Swan, secretary of the 

 Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, Oshkosh. WLs., 

 were in the city a week ago to attend the meeting of the .\merican Trade 

 Executives Association at the Drake Hotel. 



A most interesting addition to current literature on lumber has been 

 made by Christian F. Wiehe, secretary of the Edward Hines Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chicago. This is a brochure, entitled "The Tale of a Tree from 

 the Forest to the Home." 



The latest strike in the local millwork plants was settled Saturday, 

 November 5, when the employers and the workers agreed on a wage scale 

 of 90 cents an hour. Between 3.700 and 4.000 carpenters, painters and 

 other skille<l workers walked out November 1. following the posting of 

 notices by the employers that the old scale would be reduced on that date 

 from $1.10 an hour to 85 cents. 



J. W. Welsh of the Welsh Lumber Company. Memphis, was a recent 

 Tisitor in Chicago. He reported conditions in the southern hardwood mar- 



ket much improved, with prospect for a continuation of this improvement. 



W. S. Winegar, head of the Winegar-Gorman Lumber Company, was in 

 Chicago November 1 and 2 to confer with Joe Gorman, vice-president and 

 general manager of the company, whose office is in the New York Life 

 building. Mr. Winegar was enroute East from Winegar. Wis. 



W. J. Hubbard, who represents the Winegar-Gorman company in the 

 Milwaukee territory, was in the city on November 1 to visit the Chicago 



office. 



P. P. Philipi of the Mason-Donaldson Lumi)er Company, Rhinelander, 

 Wis., was in Chicago the first week in November calling on the trade. 

 According to his experiences business is not so flourishing in Chicago as in 

 other and snuiUer markets, nor are prices as attractive. 



I-. M. Borgess of the Steele & Hilibard Lumber Company, St. Louis. Mo., 

 called on the local trade the first week in November. 



Rowland S, Utiey of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company has returned 

 from a selling trip to Philadelphia, Pa. 



Iv. J. Pomeroy of the Landeck Lumber Company. a<-<-ompanied by Mrs. 

 Pnmeroy. motoretl to Atlanta. 111., last week to visit the hitter's parents. 

 Mr. ftiid Mrs. S. K. Huston. 



A. •■ Adams, traffic manager of the E(.Iward Hines Lumber Company and 

 chairnifi n of the traffic committee of the Luml)ermen's Association of 

 Chicago, recently issued a warning 1o lumbermen of tbis market against 

 a probable car shortage. 



NEW YORK 



W. P. Good of the Port Aux Quiller Lumber Company of Quebec will 

 arrive in New York on Monday. His purpose is not only to study condi- 

 tions in the states, but to let the New York office of the firm have first- 

 hanil information on the situation at mill centers in Canada. 



Theodore G. Mittelstaedt, part owner with Samuel G. Ormsbee of the 

 Wayne Lumber Company. 110 West Fortieth street, left this city last 

 Monday on a tour of inspection of his mills iu the Adirondacks. Mr. Mit- 

 telstaedt will be gone for some time and is now overlooking the opi'ratioh 

 of his mill at Placid Lake. N. Y. 



Charles Kramer of the C. & W. Kramer Lumber Company, Richmond, 

 Ind.. was a recent visitor to tbis city, stopping at the Pennsylvania hotel. 

 Mr. Kramer's trip was strictly on business. He reports a fair improve- 

 ment of the hardwood situation from his district. He thinks that spring 

 will bring a marked improvement. The Kramer company is a large manu- 

 facturer and wholesaler of hardwood lumber. 



Paul n. Selden of George B. Selden & Son. Washington, D. C. was 

 recently in this city on a business trip. He brought with him a report that 

 there is a somewhat better demand for lumber in his district, with prices 

 tending to firm. This firm does a wholesaler business in southern hard- 

 woods. 



A fifth fire in the last six weeks broke out on October 25 in the yards 

 of the .\storia Mahogany Company of Long Island City. The fire in this 

 instance was trifling compared with two others of a very destructive nature. 

 Two pyromaniacs have been caught and jailed. They proved to be yard 

 men of the concern. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Amos Y. Lesher. presiilent of ihe Philadelpbia Lumbermen's Exchange. 

 is working on the Mayor's Unemployment Committee. 



Contracts for buildings and building construction in Ihe Philadelphia 

 districts, which includes Eastern Pennsylvania. Soutiiern New Jersey. 

 Delaware, etc.. number 1,730, with a total valuation of .$5s.iin3.400. 



Philadelphia hardwood dealers have been receiving numerous inquiries 

 from European buyers. While some export business is being undertaken, 

 the difficulty of arranging credits has hampered the Imoking of extensive 

 orders. 



The Great Northern Picture Frame Company. 110 North Second street. 

 has gone into the hands of a receiver. A recenf fire is given as the cause 

 of the failure. 



William Lear, leading hanlwood dealer of this city, is one of the most 

 optimistic men in the market, lie does not want to see prices advance 

 sharply to hold back business, 



Wilmington. Delaware, reports mowe activity in hardwoods. The indus- 

 tries are picking up, particularly the works of the American Car and 

 Foundry Company. This week an order was received for 43 passenger 

 coaches for the Northern China Railroad. 



Emil (iuenther, hardwood dealer, is sponsor for the slogan "World 

 Peace Fair" in place of the Sesqui-Centennial to lie held in this city in 

 1926. 



Fourteen Philadelphia industrial firms report that the month of October 

 showed a great increase over September in the number of men placed on 

 the payroll. These firms added 1,327 men during the month, 



George H. Hervey. export manager of the Thomas E. Coale Lumber 

 Company, an expert on the European market, says : 



"European buyers of United Slates Lumber who are expecting a decrease 

 in price will be sadly disappointed. 



"The foreign buyers of our wood are becoming more exactiog as to 

 grades of wood, and percentages of widths and lengths." said Mr. Herve,v. 

 "This condition, coupled with their expectance of lower prices is respon- 



