December 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



33 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



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The <;arnsnn Wells Lumber Cniupany anil the Hiulsnn Ilarthvoutl TAiiilber 

 Company have both recently launched in the wholesale hardwood lumber 

 business at tyitfle Rock, Ark. 



Grafton Johnson's interest in the company operating under that name at 

 Edinburg. as also in the Osgood I-umber t'oinpany, Osgood, and the Diamond 

 Veneer & Lumber Conipany, Shelbyville. liid., has been sold to Charles F. 

 Mahley. 



The capital stock of the Lomira Furniture Manufacturing Company. 

 Lomira, Wis., has been increased to $100,000. 



The Dixie Hardwood Company has commenced in the wholesale hardwood 

 business at Vicksburg, Miss. 



CHICAGO 



The genuine scarcit.v of stocks of hardwood lumber at the mills of the 

 North is attested by H. W. Maffett of the MaffettGraeff Lumber Company. 

 .\ppleton. Wis., who was in Chicago to visit the trade during the week 

 ending December 3. Mr. Maffett had just made an extensive trip to the 

 mills in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsular, and declared that 

 he found a greater shortage of stocks than he has oliserved at an.v other 

 time in the twenty-two years he has traveled in the northern producing 

 territory. The shortage is particularly acute, he said, in 1-inch Nos. 1 and 

 2 common maple and No. 1 common and better birch. Basswood FAS are 

 practically off the market, and stocks .of common also are getting very 

 low. He cited the case of one large Michigan firm, with a big production, 

 whiih had to go into the open market for about 200.000 feet of birch in 

 order to take care of its customers. He does not believe that production 

 in the northern territory will exceed 50 per cent of normal, and this cir- 

 cumstance, coupled with low mill stocks, low stocks in consumers' hands, 

 is certain to force radical advances in prices. 



It will surprise the trade to learn that the youngest manager of a hard- 

 wood department in the city of Chicago is a charming girl but twenty 

 years of age. This is Miss Irene Fahey. manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Chicago office of the Chicago Lumber & Coal CoTupany. Miss 

 Fahey was promoted from the humble post of stenographer to this im- 

 portant position because she had, whenever the opportunity had pre- 

 sented itself, shown an almost uncanny ability to sell hardwood lumber. 

 During absences of the former manager. Rowland S. Utley, "Miss Irene," 

 as she is known to the trade, would step in and fill his place locally and 

 ', upon his return might surprise him with reporting the sale of 10 to 20 

 I ears of hardwood lumber. And she made good sales, because she knows 

 her business. There are buyers who will testify that she knows as much 

 I about hardwood lumber and the selling thereof as most of the men. 

 I Miss Fahey was promoted to the post of department commander upon 



I the resignation of Mr. Utley. who recently resigned to accept a position 

 in the Chicago office of the Steven & .larvis Lumber Company. Eau Claire. 

 Wis. 



Col. W. B. Greeley, chief of the U. S. Forest Service, was the guest at 

 an informal luncheon at the Union League Club when he stopped over 

 in Chicago reiently en route to Washington after having attended a 

 forest fire conference on the Pacific coast. At the luncheon Col. Greeley 

 discussed forestry matters with David L. Goodwillie, chairman of the 

 forestry committee of the T'. S. Chamber of Commerce; W. L. Hall and 

 local lumbermen. 



Fred Wright was down from Wausau. Wis., near the first of December 

 and was cordially greeted by his many friends among the lumbermen and 

 buyers. 



E. C. Smith of Milwaukee, who enjoys the distinction of being the 

 brother of Roy Smith, manager of the Chicago oflBce of the Charles W. 

 Fish Lumber Company, was in Chicago around the first of December visit- 

 ing his brother and calling on the trade. 



Director Winslow of the Forest Products Laboratory. Madison, Wis., 

 attended the meeting of the directors of the National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association. Chicago, December 1, 



O. T. Swan of Oshkosh, Wis., secretary-manager of the Northern PIcmlock 

 & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, was in Chicago on December 1 

 and attended the meeting of the directors of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association. 



William Boniface of the William Boniface Lumber Company. Escanaba. 

 Mich., and treasurer of the Winegar-Gorman Lumber Company, Winegar, 

 Wis., was in Chicago recently to confer with Joe Gorman, manager of the 

 I'hicago office and vice-president of the Winegar-Gorman Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



T. A. Kelly of the T. A. Kelly Lumber Company. Watersmeet, Mich., 

 was in Chicago on business the week ending December 3. 



<;eorge U. Bulgrin of the R. Connor Company, Murshfield, Wis., and 

 W. D. Wheeler of W. D. Wheeler & Co., Marshfield, Wis., were recent 

 visitors to the lumber trade in Chic-ago. 



BUFFALO 



A report from Rochester states that the appellate division of the Supreme 

 Court has revised with costs the decision in the case of the New York 

 Central Railroad against the Warren Ross Lumber Co., Jamestown, N. Y., 

 and dismissed the complaint with costs. This is the case in which Justice 

 Sears about two weeks ago rendered a decision that Philippine mahogany is 

 not real mahogany, and not subject to the railroad's classification coveting 

 foreign woods. The lumber company held that the wood should take a 

 lower freight rate than that charged under the classification in question. 

 The difference in freight on the shipments Involved amounted to a little 

 over ,$,500, but it was the principle at issue which led to the lawsuit. 



President French and other officials of the Atlantic Lumber Co. were 

 recentl.v visitors for a day at the company's oIRce and yard here. 



Work of demolishing the old residences on Delew'are avenue at the corner 

 of Gary street is now proceeding and in the spring work will be started on 

 the erection of a large hotel there. The property was owned by Willis 

 K. Jackson, of Jackson & Tlndle. 



Orson E. Yeager spent Thanksgiving day and several days following 

 with his parents at Moscow, Pa. 



Judgments were recorded last month against the H. T. Kerr Lumber Co., 

 with office in ElMcott .Square, Buffalo, in favor of the Sawyer Goodman 

 Co,, for $4,576.01, and the General Lumber Co,, $1,077.07. The com- 

 pany has been engaged in the wholesale hardwood trade here for a num- 

 ber of years. 



The Hardwood Lumber Exchange of Buffalo, which is a social organiza- 

 tion in these days, meeting only semi-occasionally, but nevertheless alive 

 and representative of the industry here, has elected Elmer J. Sturm as 

 president and Frank T. Sullivan as secretary and treasurer. 



Tile Fiber Furniture Co.. Corry, Pa,, is completing the erection of a 

 new building, 32 by 14.'? feet in size and two stories high. It will be used 

 as a drykiln and lumber shed, and will have Erie Railroad switching 

 facilities. 



Commodore Louis A. Fischer, of the Buffalo Yacht Club, and member of 

 Dohn. Fischer & Co., Lumbermen, has reached .Tacksonville, Fla.. with his 

 yacht, the Romana. after cruising from Buffalo since October 12. 



PHILADELPHIA 



\y. X. Lawton. presidpnt of the Lawton Lumber Company. Sixth street 

 and Glenwood avenup, has sold his lar^e yard to C. C. Colbansih. who will 

 conduct a srpneral mill business. ;Mr. Lawton leaves for Calif'^rnia at the 

 latter part of rtecombcr and upon his return will engage in the wholesale 

 lumber and supply business. 



"There will be a veritable scramble for lumber in the spriiis of 1922," 

 according to a statement made by Mr. Lawton. "The volume of the 

 demand will be unprecedented, and lumber industries will prosper as they 

 have never prospered before in time of peace. 



"The lumber dealers of the United States should realize this and pre- 

 pare themselves nccordinsly. The nation is on the verge of u boom 

 which will prove more favonilile than has any boom i>eriod of times past. 

 The coming increased successes of industry and trade will, moreover, be 

 more permanent than the successes we experienced generally in the nat- 

 ural evolution of the economic cycle. It is this boom, which has already 

 begun to develop, that will create an enormous demand for lumber." 



Portions of the yard of Janney Lumber Company are being demolished 

 to make way for the erection of the Delaware river brid:;c which will 

 connect Philadelphia with Camden. 



The David Baird Lumber Company. Camden. N. J., has made a large 

 claim for damnjres for its property from the Delaware River Bridge Com- 

 mission. 



PITTSBURGH 



The Lutz Lumber Company, capital $25,000, is a new hardwood concern, 

 which will have its plants in Randolph County, West Virginia. Following 

 arc the incorporators: D. E. Lutz. F. A. Holsberry. U. H. Allen. Elkins, 

 W. Va. : John 7,. Miller. Beverly, anil L. P. Walker, Ridgely. W. Va. 



The Empire Lumber Company, whose president was the well known 

 R. D. Baker, now of California, has filed a petition asking for dissolution 

 of the company. 



The Sherman Valley Coal & Lumber Company is a new concern at Bed- 

 ford. Pa., which has been organized with the following incorporators : 

 John M. Harencamp, B. G. Chisholm, James Mack. Eben H, Pennell and 

 Edward M. Pennell. 



The E. H. Shreiner Lumber Company has not found 1021 an easy .year 

 to do business, but Mr. Shreiner. by hard plugging. Is pulling out at the 

 end of the year with a pretty good record and looks for a stiff improve- 

 ment in business next year. 



W. P. Craig has been cashing in lately on all business done with the 

 glass companies, which are now operating at nearly full capacit.v. For 

 many years he has made a specialty of industrial and mining stocks. 



November building in Pittsburgh amounted to $2,984,000, This compared 



