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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25, 1922 



Chas. W. Fish Company Establishes Wholesale Department 

 in Chicago Branch Office 



A wholesale depart- 

 ment was established by 

 the Chas. W. Fish Lum- 

 ber Company o£ Elcho, 

 Wis., in its Chicago 

 branch office on January 

 9. The opening of the 

 new department was an- 

 nounced to the trade by 

 Franli Handeyside, sales 

 manager of the Fish 

 Company, and L. B. 

 Smith, manager of the 

 Chicago, office. 



This department is a 

 new departure for the 

 Fish company, which 

 has heretofore confined 

 its marlseting operations 

 chiefly to the sale of the 

 product of the Ave band 

 mills which it operates 

 in the northern territory 

 cutting hemlock, hard- 

 woods and white pine. 

 But the new department 

 will wholesale southern 

 hardwoods as well as 

 northern hardwoods and 

 hemlock. 



The department haa 

 been placed in charge of 



V. J. Euler, a young man who has had a long and valuable experience In 

 the wholesaling of lumber. Mr. Euler was transferred to Chicago from 

 Syracuse, N. Y., where he was stationed during the past year as manager 

 of the eastern branch of the Fish company. He was in Syracuse for about 

 a year and before that time was at Elcho as assistant to Mr. Handeyside, 

 the sales manager. Mr. Euler was at Elcho managing a branch of the 

 Union Wholesale Lumber Company of Toungstown, O., when this country 

 entered the war and he enlisted in the motor transport service, serving until 

 the close of the war. Previous to this he had served as assistant sales 

 manager of the Union Wholesale Lumber Company. When he was dis- 

 charged from the army he formed a connection with the Lyman Felheim 

 Company of Erie, Pa., as manager of the wholesale department, which he 

 opened for this company. He left this company to go Elcho as Mr. Handey- 

 side's assistant. 



Just five months ago Mr. Euler married one of the belles of Syracuse, 

 and now that he has been transferred there they will establish a residence 

 In Chicago. 



The Syracuse office was closed on the departure of Mr. Euler, but the 

 eastern connections of the company will be maintained. 



V. J. Euler 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The marriage has been announced of John Jamison Porter, East Jordan 

 Lumber Company, East Jordan, Mich., and Miss Eva Helen Reynier, 

 daughter of Mrs. Martha Reynier of Grand Rapids, Mich., on Tuesday, 

 January 10. 



George M. Hamel advises that he has rejoined the selling force of the 

 Wyatt-Prock Lumber Company, Philadelphia, and will handle fir, red cedar, 

 spruce, western hemlock and red cedar shingles in mi.\ed or straight cars. 



The Parker-Kellogg Lumber Company of Minneapolis, Minn., has changed 

 its name to the Parker-Bennett Kellogg Company and increased its capital 

 stock to $350,000. 



The Fassett Lumber Company has recently commenced business in hard- 

 woods In a wholesale way at Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The Andes-Nicely Lumber Company, Knoxville, Tenn., has sold out. 



The Dixie Lumber & Land Company is a new concern at Vicksburg, 

 Miss., wholesaling hardwoods. 



The Weldman & Son Company at Trout Creek, Mich., has changed Its 

 name to the Weidman Lumber Company. 



The capital stock of the Chattanooga Coffin & Casket Company has been 

 increased to $200,000. Location, Chattanooga, Tenn. 



The Dawley Lumber Company of Marion, Marathon and Penwood, Wis., 

 has been succeeded by the Dawley-Northem Yards, Inc., the latter also 

 having succeeded to the North Lumber & Supply Company at Wausau, 

 Wis., the main office of the Dawley company. 



The Anchor Saw Mills Company has moved from Memphis to New 

 Orleans, La. 



J. P. Nicely & Sons is a new manufacturing and wholesaling lumber 

 company at Knoxville, Tenn. 



The Miller Parlor Frame Company has been incorporated at Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., with a capital of $15,000, to manufacture parlor frames. 



CHICAGO 



H. H. Hillerich has recently started in the wholesale hardwood lumber 

 business at Rockford, III. 



The Spear Furniture Company has been incorporated here with a capital 

 of $12,000, to be located at 2934 Milwaukee avenue. The Incorporators 

 are Max Spear. Morris Singer and Seymour Singer. 



With a capitalization of $10,000, the Colonial Furniture Novelty Com- 

 pany has been incorporated and will do business at 1830 W. Chicago 

 avenue. 



J. F. McSweyn, head of the Memphis Band Mill Company of Memphis, 

 was In Chicago during the week beginning January 22. 



J. H. Maassen of the Cbicago Lumber & Coal Company, Memphis, Tenn., 

 was in Chicago during the session of the executive committee of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, to present a case in litigation 

 for their judgment. 



John W. Dickson, president of the Valley Log Loading Company of Mem- 

 phis, was in Chicago during the week ending January 21, where he attended 

 the meeting of the sales code committee of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association. Later he went to the annual meeting of the Indiana Hard- 

 wood Association in Indianapolis. 



Two distinguished members of the Buffalo hardwood trade, M. M. Wall 

 and Russell Perrin, were in Chicago to attend the meeting of the sales code 

 committee of the National Hardwood Lumber Association and the annual 

 banquet of tiie Lumbermen's Association of Chicago. 



A. C. Qui.xley, who is one of the representatives of Chicago on the 

 directorate of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, attended the 

 meeting of the Indiana Hardwodo Association in Indiana on January 20. 



BALTIMORE 



Arrangements have been made for the transfer of the mill and wood- 

 working establishment of the Laurel Lumber Company at Laurel, Del., to 

 former Governor John G. Townsend, of Shell)yville. The plant, it is said, 

 will be combined with a chain of mills. 



The feeling as to the future of the hardwoo<l trade is indicated by the 

 decision of the Magazine Hardwood Lumber Company, controlled by the 

 firm of Richard P. Baer & Co., of this city, at Mobile to resume operations 

 at the sawmill in Mobile, which had l>een closed since before the holidays. 

 Work started last Monday and there is every indication that it will con- 

 tinue. JI. S. Baer, a member of the company, left this week for a trip 

 to Mobile as well as to Bogalusa, La., where another mill run by an 

 affiliated company is located. 



The firm of John H. Gels & Co., which conducts a yard at Brooklyn, In 

 the southern suburbs, has decided to erect a complete woodworking plant 

 for handling its own supplies of millwork, at an outlay of about $20,000. 



The woodworking establishment of Benjamin Auld, at Port Deposit, was 

 destroyed by fire on the morning of January 9, with a loss estimated at 

 $20,000. The equipment was not insured, only the building being covered. 



BUFFALO 



Harry L. Abbott, vice-president of the Atlantic Lumber Co., and presi- 

 dent of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange, was elected a director of the Buffalo 

 Chamber of Commerce this month, receiving one of the highest votes 

 cast. He ran on tlie blue ticket and all of the candidates on that ticket, 

 with one exception, were elected over those on the red ticket. C. N. 

 Perrin was chairman of the blue ticket committee and E. J. Sturm headed 

 the lumbermen working for Mr. Abbott. 



Two lumber flres caused by locomotive sparks have occurred here of 

 late. One was at the yard of the Atlantic Lumber Co. and the loss was 

 about $4,000. The other was at the retail yard and planing mill of Stanley 

 Monczynski, 2402 Bailey avenue, and caused loss of $40,000 ; partially 

 covered by insurance. 



The firm of G. Ellas & Bro. has In operation a log sawmill, which is a 

 very unusual plant for the city. It finds that it Is quite badly handicapped 

 by freight rates on logs which arc as high as the freight rates on lumber, 

 and it has asked the Chamber of Commerce to help it obtain a lower rate. 

 It is quite probable that the log sawmills disappeared more rapidly in this 

 territory than they would have done had these rates been more favorable. 

 As to the supply of timber, the firm states that it is astonishing how 

 many logs are obtainable in easy railroading distance of Buffalo. 



President Horace F. Taylor, of the National Hardwood association, 

 entertained President John W. McClure, of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association, on his late visit to Buffalo to attend a meeting of 

 the executive committee and programme committee of the latter associa- 

 tion. Mr. Taylor was also in Toronto recently and attended the con- 

 vention of the Canadian association, where he gave a short address In 

 response to the call tor the president of the National association. 



