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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Xovi'iiiber 2.". 1917 



showed tliat the maniior of nailing is a very big factor. Tlic 

 lieutenant says that ho has no idea what amount of lumber will be 

 needed to make ordnance boxes or the cost of the same. 



The specifications for the boxes designate the sizes and shapes, 

 and the classes of lumber that may be used. Four groups of woods 

 are acceptable, but the grouping is not based on whether the 

 woods are hardwoods or softwoods, but are specified as follows: 



Guoir 1 : White pine, Xiirway pine, iispcn, spruce, western yellow pine, 

 cottouwood, .Yellow poplar. Itnlsnni fir, chestnut, sugar pine, basswood, 

 cypress, wllltnv, noble fir, niaKDoHa. white fir, buckeye, cellar, redwood, 

 luitternut, cucumber, nlpine tir, lodRepole pine, 



Giioni' 2 : Southern jellow pine, hemlock, Virginia and Carolina pine, 

 Douglas fir, larch. 



GuoiTP 3 : ^Ybito elm, red gum. sycamore, pumpkin ash, black asli, 

 black gum, tupelo, maple, soft or sliver. 



Giioup 4 : Hard maple, beech, oak, blackberry, blreli, rock elm, white 

 ash. 



Such matters as thickness, widtli, surfacing, nailing and joining 

 are stated in detail. 



Personals 



Bo.v Jones has been selected to open in Washington a joint office 

 for the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' and the Northern Hem- 

 lock and Hardwood Emergency bureaus, from which will be con- 

 ducted a campaign of promotion among government officials and 

 allied representatives, in the interest of the northern hardwood 

 products, especiallv those coming out of Michigan and Wisconsin. 



W. E. DeLaney having returned to Lexington, K,v., the office of 

 the Southern Hardwood Emergency Bureau is occupied at this time 

 by F. W. Mowbray of Cincinnati, representing eastern hardwood 

 lumber manufacturers; H. B. Weiss of Memphis, representing 

 southern hardwood manufacturers; J. M. Prit chard, the new man- 

 ager of the bureau, and E. E. Myers, 



The Southern Hardwood Emergency Bureau expects to do a good 

 business with the home and foreign governments. It has been con- 

 sulted by representatives of the same recently with regard to vari- 

 ous prospective orders, one of them being a lot of hardwood rail- 

 road ties for the Italian government. 



So extensive are becoming the lumber operations of the navy at 

 its several yards and naval stations that it appears that lumbermen 

 are to be placed in charge of such operations at those establish- 

 ments. It is reported that George H. C'heeley, who has been an 

 eastern representative of H. H. Hitt Lumber Company of Nash- 

 ville, has been selected to take charge of the lumber yard in the 

 Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard. It was not known whether Mr. 

 Cheelej' would accept the offer. 



The number of lumbermen coming or writing here with a view to 

 helping the government is constantly increasing. Last week Olin 

 Wliite, representing Love, Boy'tl & Co., hardwood manufacturers 

 and dealers of Nashville, Tenn., was around inquiring about Uncle 

 Sam 's possible requirements for ash and other hardwood stock. Mr. 

 White has been mentioned for possible appointment to the engineer 

 reserve corps, U. S. A. 



Eobert Allen, secretary of the West Coast Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation, is here working in the interest of far western lumber manu- 

 facturers. 



Harrv T. Kendall of the Kirby-Bonner Lumber Company and 

 E. A. Smith of New Orleans are on the job in the Southern Pine 

 Emergency Bureau. 



Arthur B. Ransom of Nashville, Tenn., is one of the well-known 

 hardwood lumbermen here this week. Mr. Ransom inquired what 

 his three mills could do to help the government. He is reported 

 to be finishing a contract for 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 gunstocks for a 

 certain government. One of Mr. Ransom 's mills, it is understood, 

 has been making music boxes or Victrola cabinets and he was in- 

 quiring about the extent of possible curtailment in the production 

 and shipment of musical instruments. He is understood to have 

 learned that Judge Lovett, the prioritj' commissioner, recently is- 

 sued an order restricting the shipment of materials for musical in- 

 struments, passenger vehicles, etc., to the extent of requisitioning 

 open top cars for other purposes. 



A. L. Johnson, president of the Mansfield Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Winnfield, La., has been appointed member of the man- 

 aging committee of the Southern Hardwood Emergency Bureau. 

 One more member of the committee is to be appointed from the 

 eastern district of the hardwood section. 



Mr. Pritchard says that it is not planned to readjust hardwood 

 prices to the government periodically, as pine prices are adjusted 

 monthly. Hardwood orders are generally for special stock and 

 there may be a different price on each. 



J. M. Pritchard Becomes Manager of Southern Hardwodd 

 Emergency Bureau 



.lohn .M. I'litcbard. secretary of tbe (Jmn Lumlier Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, left for Washington November 14, closely following tbe action 

 of tbe board of governors of that organization in lending Ills services to 

 the .Soutbern Hardwood Emergency Iturcau at Wasbington for the period 

 of tbe war, and 1ms already entered upon Ills new duties, Involving the 

 distribution of such orders among the hardwood trade as are placed by 

 tbe government for war purposes. 



Tbe unanimous action of the board of governors of the association in 

 lending the services of Mr. Pritchard to the bureau tor the period of the 

 war resulted from receipt of a telegram from M. W. Stark, chairman of 

 the bureau, to 11. 15. Weiss, president of the association, in which he 

 <leclared that Mr. Pritchard was the most available man for the position 

 because of both bis training and bis abilities. 



Immediately after adjourment of tbe meeting of the board, which was 

 attended by practically all members thereof, as well as by numerous lum- 

 bermen identified with tbe association, Mr. Weiss sent the following tele- 

 gram to Mr. Stark at Washington : 



Your telegraphic request of the tenth instant received. Directors held 

 meeting today. Unanimousl.v tender tbe services of our secretary to the 

 emergency bureau and offer entire resources of the association to the gov- 

 ernment through .vour bureau. Pritchard leaves Wednesday night. 



He also dispatched the following wire to R. H. Downman, director of 

 lumber, raw material division, war industries board, Council of National 

 Defense : 



At the request of M. W. Stark, cbainnan of the Southern Hardwood 

 Emergency Bureau, we have today given the services of our secretary, 

 John M. Pritchard. to the bureau for the period of the war. We feel that 

 Mr. Pritchard will be of inestimable value to the bureau and to the govern- 

 ment. This association, to tbe last man. will stand behind the bureau 

 and the government, backing their actions, and is anxious to co-operate 

 to the end that greater efficiency may be developed and tbe war brought 

 to an early and successful termination. 



The members of the board and ail others present not only agreed to 

 do everything they could in behalf of the government, but they assured 

 C. E. Van Camp, on whom the duties of Mr. Pritchard will largely fall, 

 that they would give some of their time toward assisting bim in directing 

 the affairs of the organization during tbe absence of Mr. Pritchard. 



Mr. Pritchard said, before leaving, that he bad never seen a more 

 loyal or patriotic spirit displayed than that shown by those who attended 

 the meeting of the governing board of the association, and that, after 

 listening to the declaration that every man stood solidly behind the 

 government and the bureau, he was leaving Memphis with the positive 

 conviction that every member of the association meant Just exactly what 

 he said. 



Mr. Pritchard hopes to return to Memphis for the holidays, and also 

 for the annual of the Gum Ijumber Manufacturers' Association in January, 

 but he said that his immediate future plans would he determined by the 

 requirements of his new work and that he did not know what be would 

 be able to do in the direction of following his own inclinations about 

 getting back to Memphis. His family will remain in Memphis for the 

 present. 



The enthusiasm generated at this meeting of the governing board reached 

 such a high pitch that it was decided to organize a volunteer war council 

 among Memphis lumber manufacturers to co-operate with the bureau and 

 with the government in seeing that the latter secures its full require- 

 ments in the way of hardwood timber and lumber. This war council, it 

 is planned, will hold luncheons at stated periods, and no subject will be 

 allowed discussed that does not bear dircctl.v on the needs of the govern- 

 ment and means for taking prompt care thereof. 



Memphis is particularly well represented on the Southern Hardwood 

 Emergency Bureau. In addition to having Mr. Pritchard as the manager 

 of this bureau in the placing of orders among members of the hardwood 

 trade, it has four members of the bureau : H. B. W'eiss and R. L. Jurden, 

 who have been identified with the bureau since it was first organized, 

 and Ralph May and W. A. Ransom, who were elected thereto when it was 

 decided some days ago to increase tbe .size from six to twelve. 



Each of tliese four lunihermen has agreed to give two out of every six 

 weeks to the work of the bureau at Washington, with the result that one 

 Mempliis member will be in Washington all the time. It is clearly under- 

 stood, however, that, in the distriliution of orders, Mr. Pritchard will be 

 governed almost wholly by the necessity of conserving freight room, 

 whether on cars or on ships. Lumber will be ordered where it can be 

 delivered with the shortest haul, whether to an industry or to a port for 

 clearance for Europe. < 



