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March 25, 1922 



humidity can be gradually reduced to the schedule percentage. 

 The moisture thus absorbed will quickly disappear. 



The 160 degrees mentioned in preceding paragraph is for oak or 

 black walnut. Other hardwoods can stand higher temperatures 

 as a rule. 



In this final steaming, as in the steaming for casehardening 

 during the drying (after fiber saturation has been reached), the 

 object is to condense upon the wood (which is relatively cold to 

 the heat of the high pressure steam), as quickly as possible, a 

 heavy film of water, and to drive this into the outer layers of 

 fiber, the transfusion in reverse direction from that taking place in 

 drying being entirely feasible, since the kiln air, saturated with the 

 high pressure steam, becomes many degrees hotter than the wood. 

 Use Tiemann Test to Prove Casehardening 



If any casehardening is suspected, or as a matter of proper 

 precaution regularly practiced, the lumber should be tested for 

 casehardening by the well known Tiemann test, which has been 

 fully described in a previous issue of Hardwood Record. If the 

 prongs of the samples refuse to remain straight after sawing, and 

 if the material is to be manufactured into parts which will not per- 

 mit distortion or warping, it is best to remove the strains which 

 move the prongs of the samples, but even this can be overdone, 

 and reverse strains can be set up by oversteaming, which while 

 not so serious, nevertheless are not desirable. Practice only, and 

 experience, will teach the right measure in this as in other things. 



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Cincinnati Club Prepares for Election 



Nominating committcos weri' iippnintfil to seli'ct oflicors for the annual 

 election of the Cincinnati Lumlicrnion's Club at a meeting of the organiza- 

 tion on March 1.? at the Hotel Mctropole. J. C. West, president, nominated 

 the following to select the regular ticket: Samuel Uiche.v, Richcy. Halstead 

 & Quick Company ; P. V. Shop, Kosse, Shoe & Schleycr Company, and 

 G. M. Morgan, Nicola, Stone & Meyers Company. The Independent Com- 

 mittee, which was nominated from the floor, consists of (ioorge Hand. 

 Bayou Land & Lumber Company ; E. H. Barhcr, Howard & Ilarber Lum- 

 ber Company, and R. E. Oifford, Lyon Lumber Company. The nominating 

 committees were rcciuestcd to announce the personnel of the two tickets 

 at the next meeting. The election will be held in May. Will Sterrett, secre- 

 tary, was instructed to invite the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association to hold their 1923 convention in Cincinnati. 



Carriage Makers Elect New Governors 



At the annual mooting and dinner of the Cincinnati Carriage Makers' 

 Club, which was held at the Business Men's Club, Cincinnati, O., a new 

 board of governors was elected. The members are : Henry W. Meyer, Perrin 

 P. Hunter, Emil E. Hess and Walter Dinkelman. A motion to change the 

 name of the club to the Carriage Makers' and Automobile Accessories 

 Club will be voted upon by a post card referendum. 



South-westerners Approve Hardwood Institute 



One of the first opportunities, if not the tirst. for sounding nut popuhif 

 feeling in the hardwood manufacturing industry at large toward the action 

 of the meeting at Louisville, Ky., March 7-S, when the project of organizing 

 a "Hardwood Institute" was set in motion, was afforded by the March 

 meeting of the Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club and the Louis- 

 ville course met with complete, hearty and enthusiastic approval. No 

 formal resolutions were presenteil on the subject, but the attitude of the 

 manufacturers was made none the less evident from the trend of the dis- 

 cussions and otherwise. 



Hailing from Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, the southwestern hard- 

 wood manufacturers came together at Lumbermen's Club quarters, Caron- 

 delet and Union streets, in New Orleans, on Wednesday, March 15, one 

 week after the big Louisville conclave. The attendance was rather small, 

 due primarily to the fact that some of the old club stand-bys had made the 

 Louisville trip and were unable to Journey to New Orleans the week fol- 

 lowing, but the gathering was thoroughly ropresentativo of the industry 

 and it might also be said that it was thoroughly representative of the atti- 

 tude of hearty endorsement and co-operation which the hardwood people 

 of the extreme South and Southwest may be depended upon to give to the 

 "Institute" movement. 



In the ah.sence of President Bohlssen of Ewing, Texas, the trusty gavel 

 of choice hardwood was swung ably by Vice-President C. II. Sherrill of 

 New Orleans. The delegates enjoyed their usual repast, approving gener- 

 ously of the change in chefs made for their luncheons, and spent a brief 

 while Id talking over the significance of the Louisville meeting to the 

 Industry in general. Practically all the delegates had read a full account 

 of the proceedings as was set forth In the March 10 issue of Hardwood 

 Record and had already spent considerable time in digesting them. Secre- 



tary J. M. Pritchard of the National Association, who was a guest of the 

 Southwesterners, made an interesting address in which he recounted briefly 

 the high lights of the action taken at Louisville and spoke optimistically 

 of the good which is bound to come from the organization of the proposed 

 "Institute." 



Other brief speeches were made by Chairman Sherrill, Secretary George 

 Schaad. W. Brow-n Morgan of S. T. Alcus & Co., and others. The meeting 

 date for the club was set back to the regular second Wednesday of each 

 month. 



Probably the most optimistic note sounded during the day was a state- 

 ment by Carl Faust of Faust Brothers, Jackson, Miss., who blasted at a 

 single stroke whatever clouds of pessimism that might have been banging 

 over the manufacturers when he declared that his mill is being daily 

 crowded to a full 100 per cent of Its capacity and that every item of this 

 output is being purchased as soon as it can be marketed. 



Lower Hardwood Rates Being Instituted 



The Southern Hardwood Truthc .\ssoriation announces that lower rates 

 on hardwood lumber and forest products are already in effect from south- 

 ern points to some destinations in Central Freight Association territory, 

 in accordance with the recent ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion calling for a reduction of approximately 7 per cent therein, effective 

 March 6. It notes that rates to all destinations in Central Freight Asso- 

 ciation and Eastern Trunk Line territory will be effective between now 

 and April 10, or as soon as the carriers are able to issue the necessary 

 supplemental tariffs. 



There is Just a suggestion that, because the commission did not issue an 

 "order" for lower rates, some of the carriers may decline to put them 

 into effect. The association, however. Is keeping in close touch with the 

 management of the roads, and it is already on record as declaring that any 

 recalcitrant line will be haled before the commission if it refuses to comply 

 with the ruling of that body. 



J. V. Norman, general counsel for the association, appeared before the 

 Interstate Commerce .Commission one day last week to argue on the 

 petition of this organization for a still further cut In lumber i-ates and for 

 a substantial reduction in rates on logs moving to the mills. It will be 

 recalled by readers of ILvitDwoon Record that J. H. Townshend, secretary- 

 manager, and Mr. Norman, appeared before the commission on "lumber 

 days" of the general investigation of rates and put in the petition on 

 which the latter made his argument. 



Mr. Townshend on March 20 declined to make any forecast of the prob- 

 able outcome of this latest appearance of Mr. Norman before the com- 

 mission. 



With the Trade 



Yellow Poplar Offices Moved 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company announces the removal of its gen- 

 eral ofiices on April 1, 1922, from Coal Grove, Ohio, to 33 Rector street, 

 New York City. 



Sunflower Company Is Liquidating 



The Sunflower Lumber Company of Clarksdale, Miss., is liquidating 

 its assets. The company has sold its seven-foot band mill at Clarksdale 

 to the Mississippi Valley Hardwood Company, and the retail business has 

 been purchased by W. B. Perkins, who will operate it under the name of 

 the Sunflower Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 



Dimension and Flooring MiU Planned 



The Hodge-Hunt Lumber Company of Hodge, La., is expected to estab- 

 lish a hardwood dimension and flooring plant to be operated in connection 

 with its hardwood sawmill. No definite announcement has as yet been 

 forthcoming from the company, but it Is known that its officials are mak- 

 ing investigations of the feasibility and advisability of this project and a 

 definite announcement Is expected in the near future. 



A new oak flooring manufacturing company has been organized at 

 Shreveport, La., by the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company of the North 

 Louisiana city and the Arkansas Oak Flooring Company of Pine Bluff, 

 .\rk. The new company was given the name of "Perfection Oak Flooring 

 Company." It is capitalized at $300,000 and the Frost-Johnson people and 

 the .'Vrkansas concern are equal owners. 



The name "Perfection," given the new company, was chosen because It 

 was the name of the product which the .Vrkansas concern put out and it 

 will continue to be the name of the product of the Perfection Oak Flooring 

 Company. The plant will have three separate imits, with a total produc- 

 tion capacity of 60,000 feet of oak flooring per diem. It is understood that 

 all the sales will be handled through the Pine Bluff sales ofllce, which has 

 been handling them heretofore for the Arkansas Oak Flooring Company of 

 that city. 



E. A. Frost of Shreveport is president of the new company ; Howard W. 

 Coles, Pine Bluff, vice-president and general manager, and the resident 

 manager at Shreveport is to be Samual Coles, brother of the vice-president 

 and general manager. 



