August 10. 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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members may be furnished with schedules of naval lumber requirements. 

 A portion of the letter reads : "Also we would be glad to receive stock 

 lists with prices f. o. b., your mills or yards, with approximate freight 

 rates to Washington, D. C, Philadelphia, Norfolk and New England 

 points, carrying a Boston rate. In this connection, your attention is 

 called to the special rate made to the government by land grant rail- 

 roads." Club members expect to follow this advice, and will figure on 

 what they can furnish at all times, whether it is the full amount called 

 for or not. In many cases lumbermen have been in the habit of throw- 

 ing such schedules in the waste basket where the full number of items 

 could not be bid upon, but with the shortage in hardwoods and the big 

 demand it is said that in the future dealers and manufacturers will bid 

 on such items as they can furnish, even though not on the complete 

 schedule. In bidding on specified widths and lengths in many cases bids 

 can be placed on random widths and lengths, and if plainly stated in the 

 bid there are cases where the government is glad to consider such bids, 

 if prices are right, and properly extended on the bid. Heretofore the local 

 lumbermen have not given much attention to such bids, but expect to pay 

 more attention to them in the future. 



Whether the hardwood business will ever get on a mail order footing 

 or not is hard to say, but it is reported that within the past few months 

 there has been a decided tendency to order by mail, consumers findini; 

 difficulty in obtaining their requirements so long as many concerns have 

 short stocks, and can not guarantee prompt deliveries. Many concerns 

 in this district have been doing practically no traveling within the past 

 few weeks, not having the material to offer, but have been flooded with 

 orders received by mail, and as a whole every one is getting all the orders 

 they can handle. Business is booming at the present time, and with 

 prices advancing accordingly, it being said that the building trades and 

 tlooring manufacturers are about the only ones that are not busy. 



Announcement was made a few days ago of the wedding of Stewart 

 McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., to Miss Kath- 

 leen BuUeit, daughter of a banker of Louisville. Mr. McLean is a son of 

 W. A. McLean, head of the Wood-Mosaic Company. Young McLean came 

 into the concern after leaving Indiana University, where he made a fine 

 showing in athletics. 



W. R. Willett, head of the W. R. Willett Lumber Company, recently 

 stated that while the general demand was good and prices are right, it is 

 bard to find lumber for sale, or to find just what is wanted to fill many 

 orders that are offered. However, business has been good, and the com- 

 pany has made a fine showing this season. 



Harry Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills is back on the job again 

 after having spent a few days at French Lick. H. E. Snyder, secretary- 

 treasurer of the company, has been spending much of his spare time in a 

 new Dodge touring car within the past few weeks of hot weather. 



J. G. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company is keeping 

 pretty busy this summer in hustling around from one mill to another, the 

 company now having such a string that it is no easy job to pay mill visits 

 any longer. Preston Joyes, assistant to President T. M. Brown, is the 

 proud father of a fine girl baby. 



Having been keeping close to business for several years Barry Norman, 

 head of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company, has decided to take a vacation. 

 He will rest up at Old Point Comfort, and then tour the East. For the 

 past few years he has been very busy either in Louisville or the South, 

 but feels that now is a good time to take a vacation, as the demand is so 

 great that there is no worry about selling lumber. 



George E. Wilcox, Jr., in the timber and lumber business with his 

 father, who operates mills at Sunflower, Miss., and in Bullitt county, 

 Kentucky, as well as a lumber yard in Louisville, surrendered to the 

 police of Louisville recently, stating that he was probably wanted in 

 connection with the death of Robert Hunter, a negro who was formerly 

 employed at the plant. In an altercation with the man young Wilcox 

 struck him so hard, with his bare hand, that the negro later died in the 

 hospital at Louisville. Mr. Wilcox was released on a $1,000 bond, after 

 being slated on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. 



The demand for all grades of hickory has increased to a point where 

 consumers are advertising for requirements. The Turner. Day & Wool- 

 worth Handle Company, Louisville, has been advertising for hickory 

 delivered at its Bowling Green, Ky., plant, offering the following prices, 

 which are about one-half cent per billet over prices offered last year. 

 The schedule is as follows : extra grade, cut 40 inches long, 5c per 

 handle; No. 1 grade, 40 inches, 3Hc; No. 2 grade, 40 inches, 2%c. In 

 addition to hickory handles the company manufactures ash handles, and 

 uses much maple, dogwood, etc., in manufacturing textile shuttles. Its 

 newest line is persimmon golf club heads, manufactured in the rough. 



Charles C. Mengel, head of the Mengel Box Company, and connected 

 with the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, mahogany and walnut manufac- 

 turers, accompanied by Mrs. Mengel, has gone East, where he will spend 

 a vacation of several weeks. 



Lumbermen of Louisville and the South were surprised to hear of the 

 sudden death from heart trouble of Charles Wellington Burt, Lexington, 

 Ky., who died at Lima, O., while on a business trip in an auto to Chicago. 

 Mr. Burt came to Kentucky twenty-five years ago, when he left Cornell 

 and took charge of the Burt-Brabb Lumber Company of Ford. Ky., con- 

 trolled by his father, Wellington Burt, a wealthy lumberman of Saginaw, 

 Mich. He later married Miss Mary Belle Haley of Lexington, and pur- 

 chased the old Toe Water estate, which was remodeled and named 



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IN INCREASING LUMBER SALES 



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