February 25. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Grosskopf-McDonald Company Formed 



The Grosskopf-McDonaia Lumber Company lias been formed by John 

 Grosskopf and E. II. McDonald and headquarters have been established in 

 Shawano, Wis. The company's mills are located at Lyndhurst, Pella and 

 Tillida, Wis. Both members of the new firm arc men of experience in the 

 lumber business. Mr. Grosskopf has operated saw mills in the North for 

 years, while Mr. McDonald has served with the Flambeau River Lumber 

 Company, the Menominee Indian mill and the Chas. Gill Lumber Company. 

 He was in ch.nrge of the mill operations of the latter company for four 

 years. The new company will manufacture and wholesale hardwood 

 lumber. 



Evans-ToUey Nuptisils Annoimced 

 Mr. and Mrs. Ciiy Iluslnn E\ans nnn<iunrt'd the marriage of their 

 daughter, Sadie Katherine, to Robert Lee ToUey on Wednesday, Feb- 

 uary 15, at halt after ten o'clock in the morning at Trinity Methodist 

 church, Chattanooga, Tenn. The bride's father is one of the best known 

 hardwood manufacturers in the southern territory. His company has been 

 among the leading members of the southern branch of the industry for 

 years. 



Cincinnati Has New Hardwood Company 

 Cincinnati has added another hardwood lumber concern to its already 

 long list. The new concern is known as the Warn-Hamrick Company, and 

 has been Incorporated with a capital of $50,000 to manufacture and deal in 

 hardwoods. The officers are : President, Preston Warn ; vice-president, 

 W. Waite Hamrick, and secretary-treasurer, Robert S. Warn. Preston 

 Warn is now manager of the Warn Lumber Corporation, Raywood, W. Va. 

 Until January 1, Mr. Hamrick was western representative of the John Half- 

 penny Company of Philadelphia. Robert Warn was in charge of the office 

 at the Warn Lumber Corporation until January 1, 



Exports Show Good Improvement 



The improvement which has taken place of late with regard to the for- 

 eign trade is shown by a comparison of the statements for December, 1921, 

 and the corresponding month of 1920. but even more by contrasting the 

 results of last December with those of November and some of the pre- 

 ceding months of 1921. The aggregate estimated value of the exports 

 for last December is given as $257,370, against $292;246. This appears 

 to indicate a loss, but allowance must be made tor the difference in valuation, 

 the shipments for December, 1920, having ranged very much higher in 

 value than those for last December. The 789,000 feet of oak boards shipped 

 last December, for instance, are recorded as having a value of $28,844, 

 while the 639,000 feet shipped in December, 1920, were declared to be 

 worth not less than $90,485. This happens to be the only item on the list 

 which admits of comparisons, other contrastings being inconclusive ; but 

 there can be no doubt that the movement last December was materially 

 larger than the appraisement would indicate. The value of the shipments 

 for last November were 206,181 and those of October $66,861. Measured 

 by these months, therefore, December shows up very well, with every 

 indication that further gains will be recorded. 



Bauman Launches Own Company 



Gus E. Baumau, who for the past six years had been connected with the 

 Maley & Wertz Lumber Company of Evansville. Ind., in the capacity of 

 vice-president and traffic manager, has resigned his position and has 

 started the Gus E. Bauman Hardwood Company with offices in the Citizens' 

 Bank Building at the corner of Main and Fourth streets. The company 

 will deal in all kinds of hardwoods and will make a specialty of gum. The 

 company will have sales connections with some of the largest hardwood 

 mills of the country. Mr. Bauman has bad about twenty years' experience 

 In the hardwood lumber business and before going to Evansville was con- 

 nected with J. V. Stimson & Co.. Owensboro. Ky. 



Fast Feed Planer and Matcher Book 

 An illustrated 92 page book on Fast Feed Planers and Matchers has 

 been issued by the S. A. Woods Machine Co., Boston, Mass., copies of 

 which may be had by anyone interested in this subject upon application 

 to the executive office at Boston or to any of its branch offices. 



Assistant Director of Forest Products Laboratory Resigns 



The Forest Products Laboratory, Madison. Wisconsin, announces the 

 resignation, effective March 1, of O. M. Butler, Assistant Director for the 

 past five years. Mr, Butler leaves to take the newly created position of 

 Forester in the American Forestry Association at Washington, D. C. 



Bruce Leads South in Installing Wireless Telephone Service 



The first wireless telephone sei'vice for commercial purposes to be estab- 

 lished in the South is being installed by the E. L. Bruce Company, manu- 

 facturers of hardwood flooring and lumber, to connect their mills at 

 Memphis, Tenn., and Little Rock, Ark. 



It is said that there are only a few other commercial organizations in 

 the country and these confined largely to New York and Chicago, that have 

 shown the enterprise of this southern company in so early taking advantage 

 of the development of wireless telephony. In establishing this service the 

 company will assume a unique position in the lumber industry and at the 

 same time will reflect credit on the progressive spirit of that industry. 



Writing to Hardwood Record about this ultra-modern undertaking, H. D. 

 Thorn, manager of sales promotion for the E. L. Bruce Company, had the 

 following to say : 



".\s we manufacture our own electrical power at each one of our plants, 

 we anticipate that we will be able to operate these wireless stations at prac- 

 tically no expense. We are assured that a special operator Is not re- 

 quired and that with a little coaching, anyone In the oHlce can operate 

 the telephone. 



"With the delays that we are experiencing in long distance telephoning 

 and telegraphing, we anticipate a big advantage by this installation and are 

 assured that they are powerful enough to get through from Memphis to 

 Little Rock, or vice versa, under practically any atmospheric conditions. 



"Our sending and receiving wires will be placed at an altitude of ap- 

 proximately one hundred and twenty-five feet, as they will be strung from 

 the sprinkler tower and smoke stack In each case and this will provide 

 us with a wide range, both in receiving and sending messages. 



"Of course, this is somewhat in the nature of an experiment, but we 

 feel sure that the use of wireless telephones more and more in the affairs 

 of modern business will be certain. At any rate, it will give us quick con- 

 nection between our two plants at all times and when the use of these 

 wireless telephones is more general, will probably be able to transact 

 quite a bit of business with our dealers throughout the country, as the 

 outfit we are getting is capable of reaching pretty well over the country, 

 under favorable conditions. 



"These telephones will be installed in the very near future and we will 

 be glad to advise you, after we have thoroughly tried them out. Just what 

 our results are with them, as we feel that an experiment of this nature 

 will be of interest to the general lumber industry." 



Ask Receiver for Body Company 



Suit was filed recently by Walter W. Woodruff & Sons against the In- 

 diana Body Corporation, Indianapolis, asking the appointment of a receiver 

 for the body corporation, judgment of $1,000, including a note, interest and 

 attorney fees. It is alleged that the corporation is about to become In- 

 solvent. 



Weyerhaeuser Will Market Hardwoods in East 



A most formidable new competitor has entered the hardwood trade in 

 Baltimore in the Weyerhaeuser Timber Corporation, hitherto known only 

 as one of the biggest producers in the country of Pacific coast softwoods 

 and cedar. The corporation, as has been repeatedly announced, has estab- 

 lished in Baltimore one of the biggest lumber depots along the Atlantic 

 coast, the plant being located at Fairfield, on the south side of the harbor, 

 with direct connection by water and railroad. The largest vessels are 

 able to come up to the company's dock and load and tinload. For a time 

 the stocks received from Everett, Wash., were material intended for the 

 construction of the depot buildings, but now that this work has been prac- 

 tically completed, at least so far as present requirements go, the corpora- 

 tion is beginning to receive enormous shipments of fir, spruce, hemlock and 

 other woods, and Col. James E. Long, the manager of the branch, 

 announces that his company is prepared to ship hardwood lumber, together 

 with hardwood flooring, as well as its usual softwoods. To be ready at 

 all times to take care of the inquiries for hardwood flooring, for wblfh 

 Colonel Long evidently sees a heavy demand, the corporation has arranged 

 with the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Columbus, O., to handle its 

 celebrated "Ritter Brand" of oak flooring. It was not hitherto supposed 

 that the Weyerhaeuser interests would take in any of the hardwoods, and 

 the announcement will therefore come as a surprise. The company has 

 recently completed at the depot a plant for the working of timber, and is 

 now in a position to supply stocks of any thickness or width. 



Columbia Graphaphone Company Involved in Receivership Suit 



Much interest is felt at lialtimore as a result of the proceedings for a 

 receivership for the Columbia Graphaphone Company at Wilmington, Del., 

 and other places, because of the fact that the Columbia Graphaphone Fac- 

 tories Corporation, an affiliated concern, has a big factory at Orangeville, 

 a Baltimore suburb. The factory was started during the war and prac- 

 tically completed about two years ago, but has not begun operations. It 

 owed its inception to the boom born of the war, and large quantities of 

 hardwoods were purchased and stored in the yard preparatory to the 

 manufacture of phonograph cabinets. The company long since stopped 

 buying cabinet woods for this or any other purpose, and it has been a case 

 of waiting for the financial clouds to disappear. The company has met all 

 of its fixed obligations, and It is contended that the suits, which were 

 brought by stockholders, have no real standing In court. It Is not likely, 

 however, that pending a settlement of these proceedings the Columbia 

 Phonograph Factories Corporation will begin actual operations here. 

 Meanwhile one avenue of distribution for hardwoods, which was expected 

 to absorb large quantities of lumber, remains closed. 



John G. Adler, Veteran Lumberman Dies 

 John G. Adler, prominently identified with the lumber Industry at Mem- 

 phis for practically half a century, and president of the DcSoto Lumber 

 Company, died there last week from heart trouble after an Illness of only 

 a tew hours. His remains were interred In Calvary cemetery after solemn 

 requiem mass at St. Patrick's church. The deceased is survived by two 

 daughters, Miss Elizabeth A. Adler and Mrs. Marie Bumpus, and by two 

 sons, J. C, who was associated with him in the lumber business, and W. H., 

 who is an editorial writer on the Memphis Commercial Appeal. 



Mr. .4dler was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, In 1848, and came to this 

 country with his parents when only a lad. He entered the lumber business 

 when 16 years of age. 



