February 25. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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the damage wrought by a recent fire at its yard, which destroyed the 

 office and a portion of the stock. 



CHICAGO 



The Knittel Company, Quincy, 111., has gone into involuntary bank- 

 ruptcy. 



L. II. Wheeler of the Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Co., Wausau, Wis., was 

 a recent visitor in Chicago. 



T. E. Jones, representing the F. T. Dooley Lumber Co., Memphis, was 

 in Chicago a few days ago and called on the trade. 



C. A. Lucas of the John H. Kiser Lumber Co., Eau Claire, Wis., visited 

 the trade in Chicago a few days ago. 



M. J. Fox of the Von Platen-Fox Lumber Co., Iron Mountain, Mich., 

 who Is serving his second term as president of the Northern Hemlock 

 and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, made a business trip to Chi- 

 cago during the week ending February IS. 



W. J. Grossman of the Tipler-Grossman Lumber Co., Tipler, Wis., was a 

 recent visitor in Chicago. 



E. X. Beard is now in charge of the sales of the Chicago office of the 

 Turner-Fa rber-Love Company, following the departure for Memphis of 

 C. W. Parham, who was recently made sales manager of the company 

 with headquarters at Memphis. Mr. Beard, who is from the South, has 

 been connected with the Leland Stave & Lumber Company, which was ab- 

 sorbed by the Turner-Farber-Love Company, for two and a half years. 

 He has been selling in the Chicago and Indiana territory. 



BUFFALO 



The government has announced that new inventories of the Curtiss 

 airplane plant here have been made, with a view of a general and final 

 sale in March or April. As soon as the goods, which are said to be worth 

 several million dollars, have been disposed of, the government will taki^ 

 up the question of selling the plant itself. It is probable that tenders will 

 be received for the property, which will then be sold to the highest bidder. 

 One Buffalonian interested in taking over the property proposes to divide 

 the big building, which covers 27 acres, into separate manufacturing plants. 

 A while ago it was rumored that a big automobile manufacturer would 

 buy the plant, but nothing has been heard of this proposal for some time. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Exchange, of which Elmer J. Strum is 

 president and Frank T. Sullivan, vice-president, has held a number of 

 social meetings recently, which have brought the members of the hardwood 

 trade together and have been much enjoyed. 



Hugh McLean, president of the Hugh McLean Lumber Co., leaves thi?; 

 week for a vacation in California. 



John M. Beniis. a pioneer lumberman of Western Pennsylvania, died at 

 Pasadena, Cal., a few days ago. at the age of SG years. He was a resident 

 of Warren, Pa., and had been in California about a month, intending to 

 remain there for the winter. A son, Harry C. Bemis, who is in the lum- 

 ber trade, is a resident of Bradford, Pa., and was associated with his 

 father in the lumber mill of John M. Bemis & Son at Bemis, W. Va. Two 

 daughters also survive, Mrs. George Veatch, Oil City, Pa., and Mrs. Wil- 

 liam Haines, Pittsburgh. John P. Knox, a Buffalo lumberman, was a 

 stepson of Mr. Bemis. Burial was at Campbell, X. Y. 



The Conklin Wagon Works, the oldest industry in Glean. N. Y.. was 

 wiped out by fire on February 13. with loss of .$200,000. The entire plant, 

 large main building and three smaller ones, with many wagons and much 

 machinery, was destroyed. When working full time the plant employed 

 from fifty to one hundred men, but lately it had not been running actively. 

 It is expected that it will be rebuilt on a smaller scale. 



Eugene W. Carson, a local hardwood wholesaler, has been elected a di- 

 rector of the Gyro Club. 



BALTIMORE 



Ward F. Brown, of the Brown-Bledsoe Lumber Company, wholesale 

 hardwoods, with offices in the Munsey Building, Baltimore, sailed February 

 11 with his wife on the steamer Empress of France for Genoa, Italy. The 

 travelers will go to Egypt and visit besides Italy, Germany, France, Bel- 

 gium and Great Britain, sailing for home some time in April from an 

 English port. Tke purpose of the trip, so far as Mr. Brown is concerned. 

 is of double import. In the first place he is seeking recreation, but he also 

 intends to give lumber trade conditions in the countries visited his per- 

 sonal and close attention. 



C. Boyce, of the Boyce Hardwood Company of Richmond, Va., and Hart- 

 ford, Tenn., was in Baltimore a short time ago in the course of an Eastern 

 trip, and saw various members of the trade here. He expressed himself 

 as being rather hopeful as to the prospects of the business. 



It will be a matter of surprise to many persons generally well informed 

 as to the hardwood trade in the United States to learn that not less than 

 90 percent of all the logs produced in this country for export are shipped 

 by way of Baltimore. But this statement is made by so well informed a 

 member of the trade as John L. Alcock of John L, Alcock & Co., who have 



BEDNA YOUNG 



Lumber Company 



Jackson, Tennessee 



Manufacturers of 



Quartered White Oak 

 Quartered Red Oak 



AND 



OTHER HARDWOODS 



When in the market for 



High Grade Lumber 



please let us have your enquiries. 



JACKSON & TINDLE 



INCORPORATED 



Sales Office 

 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



Main Office 

 BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Complete stock of 



Dry Northern Hardwoods 



HARD MAPLE BIRCH 



SOFT MAPLE BEECH 



BASSWOOD ELM 



MILLS AT PELLSTON AND MUNISING, MICHIGAN 



been engaged in the export business for many years and are qualified to 

 speak with authority. In fact, the firm has been active since 1893, and 

 Mr. Alcock has kept constantly in close touch with all the phases of the 

 foreign trade in hardwoods. 



The beginning of the export business in .American hardwoods are to be 

 traced back as far as the si.xties, and even to a period antedating this 

 time. The development of the hardwood forests in Western Maryland and 

 West Virginia, however, really commenced with the inauguration of the 

 steamship service between this port and those of Europe, especially 

 England and Germany, and soon made considerable progress. Even today, 

 after all these years of exploitation, many of the mills In West Virginia 

 are chiefly engaged in turning out wood products for the foreign markets. 



COLUMBUS 



The Settle Lumber Co., of Cincinnati, has been Incorporated with a 

 capital of JGO.OOO to do a general lumber business. Incorporators are 

 W. 11. Settle. George W. Clephane, Nettie B. Clephane, Charles S. Settle 

 and George L. Wright. 



The Modern Woodworking Co. is the name of a new concern which has 



