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May 25, 1917 



Company of the same city. Herman Katz o£ Mempiiis becomes vice- 

 president. 



The company talies over all the old contracts for both buying and sell- 

 ing, and will continue to conduct a wholesale business specializing In white 

 ash. Extensive export trade as well as domestic business is planned. 



.\s previously announced in Hardwood Record, Charles G. Kadel, 

 until recently president of the company, will continue as director with 

 William Pritchard, who was also a director before the reorganization. 



Mr. Thompson has been active in southern hardwoods for fifteen years, 

 while Mr. Katz, who is a nephew of Moses Katz, former vice-president 

 of the E. Sondheimer Company, has about twelve years of experience in 

 the same line to his credit. 



Log Drifting Over on the Guyandotte 



According to reports from Huntington, W. Va., "Finis" is being written 

 to a story which, while closely linked with industry, has for many years 

 been well apart from it. With the completion of the "drifting" season this 

 year the last of the logs to be brought down that famous, natural thor- 

 oughfare, the Guyandotte, will have been secured in the storage booms. 

 For seventy-five years the timbermen have been worliing on and along this 

 stream, getting out logs from its banlis and bringing those from more 

 interior points to this economical means of transportation. 



It is stated that the last of the piers near the mouth of Russell Creek 

 will be removed this spring,^ thus closing up the industry for all time. 



The Guyandotte Boom Company, subsidiary of the Crane interests, was 

 advertised for dissolution. This company had been the chief factor in 

 the river work. 



Pennsylvania Timber Deal 



The sale of the holdings of the United Lumber Company of Somerset, Pa., 

 has been effected by Senator W. E. Crow of Uniontown, Pa., receiver for 

 the 8ehofield Lumber Company of Philadelphia. Consideration is in the 

 neighborhood of $7ri,000. The receiver reserved a large amount of lumber 

 stored at Humber. 



Prominent Lumbermen Become Shriners 



Three prominent lumbermen of Wisconsin were among the 107 Knights 

 Templar who were admitted to Wisconsin Consistory, Ancient Accepted 

 Scottish Rite, and received the 32d degree in Masonry, at the fifty-fourth 

 semi-annual convocation of the various bodies of the Scottish Rite, which 

 was held at Milwaukee, May 14 to 18, inclusive. They are : John T. 

 Phillips, president Diamond Lumber Company, Green I;ay, Wis. ; Pierson 

 Kneeland, treasurer Kneeland-McClurg Lumber Company, Phillips. Wis., 

 and Glenn W. Priestley, president W. E. Priestley Lumber Company, whole- 

 sale lumber, Milwaukee. The class, which numbered 107 and was the 

 second largest ever admitted to Wisconsin Consistory, selected Mr. Phillips 

 of Green Bay as its president. Upon attaining the 32d degree, the class 

 received the degrees conferred by Tripoli Temple, Nobles of the Mystic 

 Shrine. 



A Remarkable Table 



The table illustrated on this page is in the 

 dining room of the Lumbermen's .\ssociation 

 of Chicago and is made from quartered figured 

 gum. manufactured by the l.Ttley-Hollowa.v 

 Company of Chicago at its Arkansas mills 

 The hardwood members of the Lumbermen's 

 .Vssociation of Chicago have always gathered 

 at luncheon around one table and the TItley 

 Holloway Company conceived the idea of put 

 ting in a suitable round table that would ac- 

 commodate all those who came. Twelve tn 

 fifteen people can sit around tins one board, 

 and it is practically full every noon. 



The table was manufactured by Louis I". 

 N'onnast. Chicago, and was originally twelve 

 feet in diameter, but could not be taken into 

 the rooms and had to be cut down, so tliat ils 

 ■diameter is now eight feet. 



Further Shipbuilding Enterprises 



The activity along the .\tlantic seal)oard in 

 «hip construction continues. Baltimore seems 

 to he the center of quite a remarkable develop- 

 ment in this revivified industry. The latest 

 enterprise is known as the Elkton Southern 

 Shipbuilding Corporation, which was recently 

 Incorporated in Maryland with a capital stock 

 ■of $10,000,000. The Corporation Trust Com- 

 pany of America represents the capitalists. 

 The company intends to estaldish yards for the 

 construction of wooden vessels at Elkton. Md. 



There are various other new enterprises un- 

 der consideration and with them the interest 

 in lumber is growing every day. West Vir- 

 ginia oak has come in for a good deal of at- 

 -tentlon. 



Two firms are mentioned lirlefly In a recent 



issue, the Baltimore Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company and the Maryland 

 Shipbuilding Company of Boston. The latter company has a tract of 

 1,800 feet front on Bear Creek and 1,200 feet on Fleming's Cove. There 

 is room here for the erection of ways for twenty vessels at one time. 

 It is said 1..500 men will be employed, and one vessel is to be turned 

 out a month. 



Pertinent Information 



Philippine Forester Explains Use of Metric System 



In a recent issue of Hardwood Record there appeared a notice of a bul- 

 letin covering the commercial woods of the Philippine Islands, which 

 article criticised the general use of the metric system and of terms of 

 Philippine currency in the report. Another criticism refers to lack of 

 information as to place of sale and selling price. 



The criticisms have been answeied by Arthur F. Fischer, Director of 

 Forestry. Manila, who says : 



"The metric system of weights and measures is the only one authorized 

 by law in the islands and its use in government publications is there- 

 fore obligatory." 



He then refers to the fact that the tables giving the equivalents In 

 English weights and measure are published in prominent places. He states 

 also that the law permits '.he use of the American system tor measure- 

 ment for sawn lumoer. 



Regarding prices he says : "It should be noted that the ratio between 

 Philippine and United States currency is given at the bottom of page 10. 

 This ratio being two to one, the conversion of Pihillppine prices into 

 United States currency is even easier than that of centimeters into 

 inches." 



In speaking of the place of sale and prices he says: "It has not been 

 customary to print this in Philippine government publications, and 

 unfortunately any mention of it was omitted in the letter of transmittal 

 sent you with the book." 



He then refers to Bulletin 14 which contains this and a good deal of 

 other information. 



Mr. Fisclier includes in his letter a list of publications covering Philip- 

 pine woods which can be secured from the Bureau of Forestry at Manila, 

 or from the Bureau of Insular Affairs, WashiLgton, D. C, as follows: 



The Forests of Mindoro, (Bulletin No. 8, Bureau of Forestry, 1908) ; 



.\ Philippine Substitute for Lignum Vitae (Mancono), (Bulletin No. 

 9, Bureau of Forestry, 1910) ; 



The Forests of the Philippines, (Bulletin No. 10. Bureau of Forestry, 

 1911) ; 



The Uses of Philippine Woods, (Bulletin No. 11, Bureau of Forestry, 

 1911) : 



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