October 10. 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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wood purchases, is branching out into the softwood field, and is placing 

 orders for piling and lumber for sliip ways and other prelimlnar.v con- 

 struction at the proposed big government plants for building fabricated 

 steel ships. He has ordered 96,000 piles from the Georgia-Florida Yellow 

 Pine Emergency Bureau. 



The question of readjusting the prices of cantonment lumber for the 

 next month and the price of ship timber and lumber on the first 100 

 wooden ship schedules ordered is under negotiation this week between 

 the committee on lumber. Council of National Defense, Shipping Board, 

 and committees representing lumber interests. 



Pacific coast spruce is the next lumber commandeered. Some time ago 

 the government let the spruce men know it wanted all the suitable spruce 

 for aircraft stock. Certain hardwood stock is not unlikely to be com- 

 mandeered next. 



Rumors that Major George R. Sligh of the Aircraft Production Board 

 and well known in the furniture trade of his home city of Grand Rapids, 

 has resigned or will resign are denied at his office. Major Sligh has been 

 handling questions pertaining to lumber for aircraft manufacture for 

 the government. 



The Treasury Department has issued an order that drawback be al- 

 lowed on the exportation of veneers and sawed lumber manufactured by 

 the Astoria Veneer Mills and Dock Company of Long Island City, N. Y.. 

 from imported flitches. 



It is announced that the first forestry regiment has reached France 

 safely. 



Shippers have been allowed fifteen days to file printed arguments with 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission in the reconsignment case. Carriers 

 five days to reply. G. M. Freer of Cincinnati and Claude Owen of 

 Washington appeared at the reconsignment case. Arguments were made 

 for different groups of many lumbermen, manufacturers, wholesalers and 

 retailers, including numerous hardwood concerns, in opposition to the 

 proposed charges for reconsignment. 



In the complaint of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, against Yazoo & 

 Mississippi Valley Railroad, the Interstate Commerce Commission has 

 reopened the case for further hearing upon the question of reparation 

 <lue to alleged misrouting of shipments of gum and oak lumber from 

 Charleston, Miss. 



\ committee of West Virginia hardwood and other lumbermen is 

 here on the car shortage situation. 



The committee on lumber and other committees of the Council of 

 National Defense, it is understood, will be reorganized into advisory 

 bodies representing various industries in co-operating with the govern- 

 ment. By getting rid of their official status these committees, it is 

 claimed, will comply with the new law and with the suggestion of the 

 United States Chamber of Commerce. 



Wooden Shoe Soles for Soldiers 

 Experiments are under wa.v looking to the equipment of the Holland 

 army with wood-soled shoes. Holland has 600,000 men under arms to 

 protect the country's neutrality, and though no fighting has taken place, 

 the country is feeling the expense of keeping so large an army on a war 

 footing. Shoes with wooden soles are much cheaper ; but questions be- 

 sides cheapness must be considered. Several thousand j>airs of shoes 

 have been distributed among the Dutch soldiers in order that wooden 

 soles may be given a trial to determine their value in actual use. The 

 working people in Holland generally wear wooden shoes, but they are 

 objectionable from the soldier's standpoint. 



New Factory Equipment Needed 



The French goverumout estimates that the parts of France which the 

 Germans have overrun have 20,000 factories which must be provided with 

 new machinery and other appliances before they can again resume busi- 

 ness. The government has appropriated $50,000,000 for buying new 

 equipment to replace what the invaders carried away or destroyed. 



Hardwood l>Jews ^otes 



•< MISCELLANEOUS >-^ 



The Acme Planing Mill Company, Portland. Ore., has dissolved. 



J. B. Frost has been appointed receiver for the Taylor-Frost Manufac- 

 turing Company. Toledo, O. 



The style of the firm of W. K. Prudden & Co.. Lansing, Mich., is now 

 the Prudden Wheel Company, 



The Algiers Manufacturing Company. Xew Orleans, La., has suffered 

 a loss by fire. 



The Berhnardt Chair Company has been incorporated at Lenoir, N. C. 



.\n involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the Ithaca Cal- 

 endar Clock Company, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The Greeneville Furniture Company, Greenville, Tenn., has been suc- 

 ceeded by the American Lumber & .Manufacturing Company. 



Michael Whissel has been appointed receiver for M. Zeis & Sons, Buf- 

 falo, N. Y. 



The Omaha Woodworking Company, Omaha. Neb., has filed an invol- 

 iuntary petition in bankruptcy. 



The Deemer Manufacturing Company, Deemer, Miss., is now conducting 

 its business under the style of the New Deemer Manufacturing Company 

 (Inc.). 



The Newcomb Manufacturing Company, Newcomb, Tenn., has been suc- 

 ceeded by the Newcomb Mantel & Furniture Company. 



The Detroit Tank & Seat Company, Detroit, Mich., is moving to Ply- 

 mouth. 



The KroII .\uto Grand Piano Company, Connersville, Ind., is now the 

 Werner Industries Company of Cincinnati, O., and the Krell Piano Com- 

 pany at the latter point is now also operating as the Werner Industries 

 Company. 



At Brooklyn, N. Y., the Kronenberg Woodworking Company has incor- 

 porated. 



The Exum Furniture Company, Johnson City, Tenn., has sustained a 

 fire loss, 



A receiver for the Ottawa Furniture & Manufacturing Company, Ottawa, 

 Kans.. has been applied for. 



The Kacine Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Racing Wis., Is reported 

 as unable to meet obligations and of submitting an offer of settlement 

 to creditors. ^ 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the Progress 

 Planing Mill Company, St. Louis, Mo. 



The Acme Veneer Package Company has been incorporated at Orchard 

 Park, X. Y., with a capital of $40,000. 



At Montreal, Que., the Veneers & Panels Company (Ltd.), has also 

 incorporated. 



-.-<, CHICAGO y- 



The next meeting of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion will be held at the Statler hotel, Detroit, Mich., October 23 as an- 

 nounced by Secretary John C. Knox who was in the city on October 9. 



O. T. Swan, secretary of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association, returned from Washington, D. C, on October 1, 

 and stopped in Chicago on his way to Oshkosb, Wis. He spent several 

 weeks in Washington representing his association in the business it has 

 been transacting with the government in the matter of supplying lumber 

 for military purposes. 



The Milk Bottle Crate Company has been incorporated locally with a 

 capital stock of $30,000, as has also the Rlchter Moulding Company with 

 a capitalization of $10,000. 



At Mouud City, 111., the Mound City "Veneer Mills Company h»s been 

 incorporated at $20,000. 



C. A. Smith, president of the Smith-Barns & Strohber Company, veteran 

 piano manufacturer of Chicago, died recently . 



The death is announced of Carl Holstein, secretary-treasurer of the Con- 

 tinental Manufacturing Company, city. 



The Rocktord Republic Furniture Company has incorporated at Rock- 

 ford. 111. 



John W. Dickson of Memphis, spent last week in the North, mainly in 

 Chicago. 



C. A. Bigelow of Bay City, Mich., passed through Chicago last week on 

 his way to Wisconsin points. Mr. Bigelow has just returned from war 

 consultations at Washington. 



Among northern visitors to come on to Chicago after the northern log- 

 gers' meeting at Milwaukee last week were M. J. lox of Iron Mountain. 

 Mich., and Paul Bushong of Gladstone. Micb. 



M. C. Dow of the Goshen Veneer Company, Goshen, Ind., was in the 

 city last week. 



S. R. White of the S. R. White Manufacturing Company, Bloomington, 

 111., passed away recently. 



Israel Elkin, treasurer of the Elkin-Siegel Cabinet Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, city, has withdrawn from that concern. 



The Republic Phonograph Company of Illinois has commenced business 

 with officers at 320 S. Wabash avenue and a factory at SOU W. Lake street, 

 Chicago. 



H.iEDWociD Record has word from John M. Pritchard, secretary of the 

 Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association, Memphis, that he has been ap- 

 pointed one of the listing officers for the recruiting of the Twentieth 

 Engineers (forestry and sawmill regiment) for service in France. Details 

 of the new unit are found elsewhere in this issue. 



H. J. Hegel in charge of the section of lumbering and forest products 

 at Madison, Wis., passed through Chicago last week on a tour of inves- 

 tigation of hardwood supplies. . Mr. Hegel has charge of the testing of 

 different hardwoods, as to their suitability for aeroplane work and has 

 already arrived at some interesting conclusions. 



--<, BUFFALO >• 



Lumber freight rates on the lakes have gone to an unusually high figure, 

 an advance of 50 cents having occurred this month. The increase brings 

 the rate from the head of the lakes up to $6, while that from the Georgian 

 Bay district is now $5. Lumbermen say that these are the highest figures 

 ever paid at this time of year, but it is predicted that a still further ad- 

 vance may go into effect at the first of November. Vessels are scarce, the 

 lumber fleet being only half as large as could be used, and men to man the 

 boats are also hard to find. Hardwoods have been moving by rail from 

 the lake districts for much of the present season. 



