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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 2.". 1021 



Chicago Sportsmen Maintain Floating Ledge on Mississippi 



The second man from the colored chef is S. C. Bennett. R. A. Smith and Paul 

 Schmeckel are last and next to last, respectively, on the left end of the row 



The cozy houseboat .shown in this photograph is located on the 

 Mississippi river, about 50 miles below Cairo. 111., and is the base 

 from which S. C, Bennett, president of the Hardwood Mill Lumber 

 Compan.v and other Chicago lumbermen have been doing some mighty 

 successful duck and goose hunting. Mr. Hennett and R. A. Smith of 

 his comi)any. Paul Scbmecl<el. a hardwood wholesaler, and J. V. 

 Hreneisen. a retail lumber dealer of Chicago, spent from November 25 

 lo December IJ hunting from this boat. They enjoyed some great 

 sport, bagging a large number of ducks and two or three of the 

 elusive wild geese. The boat makes an ideal hunting lodge and being 

 equipped with one of the best black faced chefs in the South, Is the 

 sort of place to which good duck hunters hope to go when they die, 



Walter Kellogg Fifield Is Killed in Collision 



The ilciitli uf Wiilli'i- Kellipu^- Kiii.-lil, .viTii'inry of I'.iikcr. I'Vntress & Co. 

 of Chiciigii. occurred on thc> evi'uing of Uecember H in a collision on a 

 suljurlmn ti'ain of the Illinois Central railroad, as he was on his way home 

 from his office. Mr. FifieM was known intimately by many lumbermen, as 

 be had been wUh r.akcT, Fentress & Co.. and their predecessors, I.yon. 

 <!ary & Co.. for virtually thirty years, having been one of the organizers 

 of the latter euncf-rn. lie was fifty-five years ohl and is survived by two 

 daughters. .Mrs. Kathcrlne Fifield Seymour and Mrs. Kndly Fifield Seymour. 

 and one sister, Catherine I.. FltieUl. Mr. Filield was born in Conncaut, 

 Ohio, and was buried there on I)ecember 17. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The business formerly coiulucti'd under the name of .1. A. Clanton, Colum- 

 ns, Ind.. is now known as the J. A. Glanton Furniture Company. 



Frank T. Sullivan of Huiralo. X. y., spent some time in Toronto lately 

 in the Interest of a new Canadian lumber company, the details of which 

 be has not yet announced. 



H. A. Humley and Herbert Hill, both of Buffalo, N. Y., have been in 

 Little Koek and Memphis for some days in attendance at the annual meet- 

 ing of the salesmen of Ihc Hugh McLean Lumber Company. 



The plant of the Warsaw Manufacturing Compan.v. manufacturers of 

 h:indles at Wiirsiiw. Inil.. was damaged by fire to the extent of $25,000 

 recently. 



Carl D. Fischer, president of the Standard Wheel Company, Indian- 

 ijiolis, Ind., died at his home on December l.S at the age of sixty-six years, 

 after an exteniled Illness. During the war his company turned its pro- 

 duction to cannon wheids, being the largest exclusive wheel factory in the 

 ic.untry. Mr. Fischer was also president of the Wapakoneta Machine 

 ' nmpany. Wapakoneta, O., of which his son, Carl D., Jr., is manager. 



The Union Hardwood Company has been incorporated at Cincinnati, O. 



The style of the Ft. Smith Furniture Company, Ft. Smith, Ark., has 

 been changed to the Border Queen Kitchen Cabinet Company, while that 

 of the Hawks Furniture Company, Goshen, Ind., Is now the Gortner-Joncs 

 Furniture Company. 



The Tennessee Saw Mills Company has moved from Knoxville, Tenn., 

 ■ • Duntsville. 



The American Furniture Corporation is now tnanufacturing bedroom 

 furniture at Newport News, Va., In place of phonographs as heretofore. 



The capital stock of the Jewett Phonograph Company. Allegan, Mich., 

 has been increased to .$730,000 from .$2."i0.000. 



A receiver has been appointed for the Frampton Furniture Company of 

 Pittsburgh. Pa. 



The capitalization of the Owen Shops Company. Cleveland, O., manu- 

 facturers of living room furniture, is now $120,000, having been increased 

 recently. 



There have lately been quite a number of changes in name, among them 

 being : The Oregon Table Company. Portland, Ore., to the West Made 

 Desk Company : the Yokley Chair Company. Mount Airy. X. C, to the 

 Mount -Viry Chair Company. 



CHICAGO 



The Zutman P.oily Manufacturing Company has been incorporated at 

 t'hicago. 



The style of the Chicago Fancy Furniture Company has been chnnged 

 to the Chicago Furniture Manufacturing Company. 



The hardwood members of the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago 

 responded to the retiuest for suggestions, made by Karl Palmer, cliair- 

 man of the Sales Code Committee of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, with an entire code drafted by a committee representing 

 Chicago yard dealers and wholesalers. The committee was headed 

 by Fred B. McMullcn. who had as aids A. C. Quixley and John Hurd, 

 all lumbermen of wide experience. The code was recently completed 

 and sent to Mr. Palmer at Memphis. 



W. Ij. Godley. manager of the Chicago office of the W. R. Pickering 

 Lumber Compan>'. left December 17 for Kansas City to make a trip 

 to the mills of the company in that territory. He will not return to 

 Chicago until after the holidays and will spend Christmas at his old 

 home in D.allas. Texas. 



Among the lumbermen from the northern territory who recently 

 visited Chicago are the following: \V. T. McGuire, RIetbrock Land & 

 Lumber Company. Milwaukee; Otto Meyers. Walter N. Kelley Com- 

 pany, Detroit; G. J. Landeck. Landeck Land & Lumber Company, 

 Milwaukee; John .\ndrews and T. R. Early, the Andrews-Karly Com- 

 pany. Wausau; W. S. Winegar, president of the Vilas County Lum- 

 ber Comp.aily and the Winegar-Gorman Lumber Company, of Winegar. 

 Wis., and Chicago, respectively; Fred K. Andrews. Stevens ,.>t Jarvis 

 Lumber Company. lOau Claire. Wis. 



Herman M. Hettler. president of the Herman H. Hettler Lumber 

 Company, was elected president of the Ilinols Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation at its twenty-fourth annual convention, held in Chicago at 

 the Congress Hotel on December 13. The lumbermen of Chicago feel 

 very much gratified at the compliment paid one of their number by 

 choosing him for the leadership of so important an organization. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Singer Furniture Company, Camden, X. J., was badly damaged by 

 lire early in Deccml)er. The loss is estimated at $50,000. 



The Philadelphia Lumberman's Kxchange has appointed a committee to 

 work on a sales code for this territory. 



The exchange sends a conlial invitation to all hardwood dealers who 

 may visit Philadidphia to lunch with the members every Thursday at 

 Ibifithby's restaurant, Thirteeuth and Sansom streets. 



Troops of the state national guard have lii-en granted permission by 

 .Vdjutant General Beary to co-operate in fighting forest fires. The men 

 will receive 25 cents an hour for their work. 



More than 400,000 acres of forest in western Pennsylvania along tbi' 

 banks of the Allegheny river will be set aside as a forest and game 

 reserve. 



Plans have been set afoot by the Pennsylvania state Grange to fight in 

 the next legislajure for a bond issue of .f25,O00,000 to buy 5,000,000 acres 

 of waste mountain lands in the state for the purpose of reforestation. 

 The Grange claims that the timber of the state should pay the school 

 taxes. 



William L. Luda.sher, president of the Plerson &. Ludasher Lumber Com- 

 pany, is one of the best optimists in the city reganling lumber conditions. 

 In a statement to the Philadelphia representative of the ILiRDWOOn 

 UECoim he predicted an enormous increase in business this spring. 



The S. B. Vrooman Cotnpany has asked permission of the city to erect 

 a $1.')0,000 log pond in front of their yard at Reynolds and Jenks streets. 



BALTIMORE 



Gustave A. Farbcr. London representative of Russe & Burgess, Inc.. 

 Memphis, was in Baltimore December 10 and spent several hours with 

 Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the Xational Lumber Kxporters' Associa- 

 tion, discussing the matters connected with the X. L. F. A., especially in 

 relation to its efforts to bring about an impi-ovement in conditions sur 

 rounding the distribution of hardwoods on the other side. Mr. Farber is 

 on the committee which was directed to lay the .\merican proposals regard- 

 ing a revision of thi> London form of contract and measurement before 

 the London Timber Trade Federation, a matter which is expecteil to come 

 up at the next annual meeting of the association. As stated some time 

 au'o. the London Timber Trade Federation hardwood section nuide several 



