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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 25, 1917 



J. G. Marsh Leaves for New York 



J. G. Marsb, treasurer of the Huddleston-Marsh Mahogany Company, 

 Chicago and New York, has left Chicago to take up his headquarters at 

 the New York offlces. Mr. Huddleston has been located in New Y'ork for 

 several years now. and Mr. Marsh joins him so that the factors in the 

 organization may be brought closer together. 



The Chicago office will be in charge of Henry F. Ritter, who has been in 

 the business many years, having been connected with various prominent 

 concerns. 



E. A. Sterling Now with James D. Lacey & Co. 



E. A. Sterling has left tbe National Lumber Manufacturers' Association 

 as manager of tbe trade eNtension department, and is now taking a vaca- 

 tion at his home in Brooklyn, Susquehanna county. Pa. He has accepted 

 the appointment as manager of the new eastern office of James D. Lacey 

 t Co., which will be located in the Forty-second Street building, New 

 Xork. The office will be opened about .Vugust 1. 



Mr. Sterling will also take up some of his former consulting practice 

 as part of the activities of tbe James D. Lacey & Company's office. 



The Mississippi Lumber Company Sells Out to Long-Bell 



The Mississippi Lumber Company, Quitman, Miss., and Chicago, has sold 

 eut its entire southern holdings to the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas 

 City. The transaction involves the sale of 56,000 acres of standing timber 

 and 31,000 acres of cut-over lands, as well as the pine mill at Quitman, 

 Miss., and the hardwood mill at Crandall, Miss. All logging and lumber 

 equipment is also transferred. 



The transaction having been closed, the Long-Bell people are taking over 

 the cut, which is being disposed of now through the Long-Bell sales agents. 

 I'art of the purchase was from the estate of Jacob Haynes. While the 

 eonsideratiou was not given out for publication, it is understood that it 

 involved in the ni'ighliorbood of .$3,000,000. Tbe negotiations and sale 

 were conducted througli the firm of James D. Lacey & Co., Chicago. 

 Bliss-Cook Big Manufacturer of Oak Flooring 



In the last issue of H.\iiiiwuod Hecord there is a little story of oak floor- 

 ing production in Arkansas in which the production of the Bliss-Cook Oak 

 Company, Blissville, Ark., was stated as being 900,000 feet per month. 

 This has brought the following letter from Erskine Williams, sales man- 

 ager for the Bliss-Cook company : 



Editor Hardwood Record : Our attention has just been called to an 

 item on page ;^6 Hahdwood Uecord in regard to the output of flooring by 

 the Saline Kiver Hardwood Company, Pine Bluff, Ark., and also mention- 

 ing tbe output of this company. 



Wish to advise that 900,000 feet per month was our fonner output. 

 However, we have since put in a new machine — in fact, only got this 

 started a very short time ago. Our present capacity is (>2.000 feet per 

 day, and wish to advise the week ending July 14 we produced 319,000 feet 

 (did not run new machine regular). 



Purchase Timber in Kentucky 



The Bassett Hardwood Manufacturing Company, Monticello, Ky., has 

 purchased tbe Phillips timber holdings in Wayne county, consisting of 

 about 10,000,000 feet of oak, poplar, pine, walnut, chestnut and hickory. 

 The deal includes the land, oil and coal rights. It is expected that two 

 mills will be put in operation ou tliis tinilicr at an earl.v date. 

 Memphis Men Join the Colors 



N. Matt Wall and P. B. Berry, who have been associated for some time 

 with Nickey Brothers. Inc., Memphis, traveling in the interests of that 

 tna, have recently joined Company M of the second Tennessee infantry. 

 This is a voluntary unit and will be calk'd into federal service very shortly. 



Mr. Wall has been traveling in the eastern part of the country and Mr. 

 Berry in the north central states. 



Waldron Williams 



Waldron Williams, third son of the late Ichabod T. Williams, whose 

 father was one of the founders of the business of I. T. Williams & Sons, 

 world famous hardwood house, died at his home in Rye, N. Y., the morn- 

 ing of July 19. after a brief illness. Mr. Williams was fifty-five years old. 

 He is survived by a "Wife, three daughters and one son. 



Waldron Williams retired from active participation in the Williams 

 hardwood business six years ago when he and his brother, H. K. S. Wil- 

 liams, disposed of the larger sliare of their interest.s to Thomas Williams, 

 senior son and active manager of the business. During his years in the 

 business his activity included all its many branches both export and domes- 

 tic and he was known to the trade in all parts of the hardwood producing 

 fields at home and abroad. He began his lumber career at tbe bottom rung 

 at the producing source. Accompanied by a hardwood inspector he went 

 south and for a time personally went over the lumber shii>ped from that 

 country to the big yards at New Y'ork and Staten Island, and thus gained 

 first-hand knowledge of the manufacturing and grading of hardwood 

 lumber. In later years he was prominent in questions affecting inspection 

 and grading rules and was looked upon as an authority in the matter 

 from the viewpoint of the eastern consuming trade. He, was a forceful 

 talker and fearless in his criticism. In the campaign about ten years ago, 

 when inspection matters were holding the center of the stage, he was one 

 of the eastern delegates working on the proposition to draw up a set of 

 rules that would be accepted everywhere and would stand w'ithout change 

 for a long term of years. Like many other eastern men he was strongly 

 opposed to frequent changes in the rules. 



The news of his death came as a shock to his friends in the trade. He 

 was an energetic man of athletic build, apparently in the best of health 

 and with many years to live. He was an attractive personality, inherit- 

 ing all the characteristics of his father ; a patron of the opera and an art 

 collector. He was a member of several clubs and an honorary member of 

 the New York Lumber Trade Association, of which he was for many years 

 a trustee. The latter organization, in line with its custom, appointed a 

 committee to represent it at the funeral. 



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I Pertinent Information j 



Building Permits for June 



While the actual new couslrucliun work awarded last month, building and 

 engineering combined, including government work, showed a substantial 

 gain over that for June, 1916, the record of building permits issued for 

 June is a ratlier sorry affair. It indicates a one-third shrinkage in the pros- 

 pective construction, as compared with the figures of the same month last 

 year. There is this saving or semi-saving consideration. The lousiness of 

 last year was phenomenally large, for June last year gained 44 per cent 

 In comparison with the permits Issued during June, 1915. Accordingly 

 if tbe present totals are compared with two years ago a modest gain is 

 indicated. The official figures of the permits issued in June in 112 princi- 

 pal cities of the United States, as received by the American Contractor, 

 Chicago, total .f61,2.S7,Gll, as compared with .$95,964,649 for June, 1916, 

 a decrease of 34 per cent. 



There was a faithful little liand among them, that led on to victory. 



I'.VUL B. BEHRV, 

 NICKEY BROS., INC. 



N. MATT WALL. 

 NICKEY BROS., INC. 



THE LATE W.VLI'KuN WILLI 

 RYE. N. Y, 



AMS, 



