42(1 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 25, 1917 



tract contains more than 50,000,000 feet. The company operates Its own 

 logging equipment anil locomotive power, and has Its own trackage tor 

 both nillls. 



The general management of the business Is under the direct supervision 

 of W. A. Hansom who Is president of tlie concern. I,'. It. Hansom is 

 secretary and treasun-r. 



The Gayoso Lumber t'ompany lias in its various departments lu the 

 neighborhood of 400 employes. At the present time It has on stlclts more 

 tlian in,(l(10,0llU feet i>r lumlier. 



^ ■ iwy!.amay»iTO:!>s ! KotBiGTOOTt^^ 



With the Trade 



"He's Who," in Louisville 



.\mong llio "Who's Wlio," in I.ouisviiie lumber elieles Is young A. E. 

 Norman, .Ir., vice-president of tlie Norman Lumber Company, director 

 of the Louisviiic braneli of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, 

 and recently elected presldi-nt of the Louisviiie Hardwood I'iub, who 

 last year served as vice-president of the organization, and friied out tile 

 unexpired term of the club's late president. Smith Milton. 



.Mr. Norman is one of the youngest big men in tlie local trade and 

 at tile age of twenty-seven years is president of tiie club, being the 

 youngest president tile club iias iiad during its ten years of service. 

 His conneetioii with tile lumber liusiness d.itcs liaik five years, or iiaclj 

 to tile tiiiif wlien he 

 entered tlie liusiness 

 with his father, A. E. 

 Norman. Sr., one of 

 the pioneer Louisville 

 iiimbeniien. 



(Jradiiating from tlie 

 Louisville Male High 

 School, where iniideii- 

 taiiy he captained tlie 

 football team, he went 

 to Princeton I'nlversity. 

 wliere he put In a full 

 four-year term liefiu-c 

 returning to Louisvilb' 

 to take up tile lumber 

 liusiness. This fall he 

 married Miss Nell ("nil 

 filer I-'uiton. daughter 

 of Dr. (Javin Fulton, a 

 prominent local physi 

 clan. 



An interesting angle 

 in his presidency of the 

 local hardwood club Is 

 in the fact that his 

 father, A. E. Norman, 

 Sr., was a charter mem- 

 ber and first president 

 of the organization. He 



later served several terms as president, and even during the past year 

 acted as chairman on several occasions when the regular officers W'ere 

 absent. 



Young Norman is truly a chip from the old blocii, and is talcing to 

 the lumber industry as a ducij takes to water. Of course be comes from 

 a family that has been well intrenched in tlie southern lumber trade 

 for many years, and probably knows more about sawmills and lumber 

 at the outset than the average man entering into business upon leaving 

 college. However, the five years tliat he has been actually connected 

 with the trade have given lilni an insight into conditions which many 

 men have spent a lifetime in acquiring, and this fact is shown con- 

 clusively by the action of the club members in electing him to the 

 presidency of the organization, from a membership which includes many 

 men who are well up in every angle of the hardwood lumber industry. 



Yeager-Stabell 

 Arthur .1. Veager. city salesman of the Yeager Lumber Company, Buffalo. 

 N. Y.. and son of Orson E. Y'eager. was married at the Church of the 

 Holy .\ngels November l.T to Miss Martiia K. Stabeli, daughter of a lead- 

 ing Buffalo contractor. The groom's two cousins, John H. and Maurice 

 Wall, sons of .Tames B. Wall, were among the ushers. After December l.'i 

 Mr. and .Mrs. Yeager will be at home at 89 Minnesota avenue. 



To Appraise the Crane Lands 



Commissioners have been appointed in West Virginia to appraise the 

 lands of Cole & Crane in tliat stale for the purpose of levying the inherit- 

 ance lax against the holdings of the late Clinton Crane <if Cincinnati. 

 The appraisers are Wells (ioodykonntz. F. C. Leftwieb, and Naaraan .Tacksou. 

 Cole & Crane of Cincinnati have been said to be the largest individual 

 holders of land In West Virginia. Their holdings arc enormous. Some 



time before the death of the Junior partner Cole & Crane created a trust, 

 of which Judge C. W. Campbell of Huntington, W. Va., is a member, to 

 take over these lands. The trust became operative at the death of Capt. 

 Crane. 



H. Bauman Sales Manager for American Column & Lumber Co. 



.\s announced in a recent Issue of H.Mtnwoup Kf.iuuii. W. C. Bariett, 

 formerly sales manager for the American (_"olunin &. Lumber ('ompany at 

 St. Albans, W. Va., Is now with the Thomas Hall Lumber Company at 

 Charleston, W. Va. H. Uaunian, who has been well known in hardwood 

 circles for a good many years, ri'cently took the posUiim of sales manager 

 for the St. .Vlbans flriii. 



Mr. Bauman has iiad general praeticul experience in manufacture, 

 inspection and selling of soiitiiern hardwoods, and Imniediateiy prior to 

 going to St. .\lbans was sales manager for the C. & W. Kramer Com- 

 pany, lilchniond, Iiid. 



J. R. Dean Now an Aviator 

 J. Kiclimond Dean, formerly vice-president and treasurer of The Dean- 

 Splcker Company, manufacturer of fancy wood veneers at Chicago, 

 recently took the examinations for the aviation service and passed with 

 Hying colors. He has been at Camp Kelly, San .\ntonlo, Tex., for four 

 iir five weeks, and it is expected that with the excellent record he has 

 made he will have attained a captain's commission within three or four 

 inontlis. 



.\s an example of the rigid character of the examinations it is said tliat 

 only about five per <'ent of the p-.irticipants get through. The fact of a 



man's having passed Is 

 a pretty good demon- 

 stration of his men- 

 tality. 



Mr. Dean has been 

 in the lumber business 

 fur quite a number of 

 years in Cliicago and 

 has been connected with 

 the operation now con- 

 irolled by The Dean- 

 Spieker Company for 

 several years, it having 

 prior to its acquisition 

 by this company been 

 operated as The Black 

 Lumber & Veneer Com- 

 pany, of which Mr. 

 Ilea 11 was vice-presi- 

 dent 



It is announced at 

 'i'he Dean-Spicker office 

 that Maxwell P. Spick- 

 er, son of J. T. Splcker, 

 has been elected treas- 

 urer to succeed Mr. 

 Dean. 



Tribute Paid to 

 Horace C. Mills 



.\ committee was ap- 

 pointed at the last meeting of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange to draw up 

 memorial resolutions on the death of Horace C. Mills, w'ho for nearly 

 iialf a century was connected with Taylor & Crate, and treasurer of that 

 ccirpiiration since the business took that form in 1000. Tlie evidence 

 iif high esteem in which Mr. Mills was held was evidenced by the large 

 number of lumbermen in attendance at his funeral. As one of his as- 

 sociates said : "We remember him as tiie true type of the Christian 

 business man." 



Five Million Dollar Airplane Plant 



The Standard .\lrcraft Corporation, with factories in Fiainfieid and 

 Elizabeth, N. .T., has been incorporated in Albany for .$.5,000,000, divided 

 into .f2. 000.000 preferred and .$S.OOO,000 common stock. Harry Bowers 

 Mingle is president of the new corporation and the board of directors 

 is composed of Charles H. Day, C. Vernon Bradford, Daniel L. Meenan, Jr., 

 C. G. Stratt and Mr. Mingle. 



It was announced that the new concern now has millions of dollars 

 worth of government orders and expects to employ more than 8,000 men 

 and women in the main plants. The new plant at Elizabeth, N. J., covers 

 eighty-seven acres and the main buildings have more than 300,000 square 

 feet fioor space. There is also a sixty-acre flying field and five acres of 

 waterfront on which will be established the hydro-airplane hangars and 

 test sheds. This plant represents an investment of more than .$1,000,000. 

 In addition to the two main plants, the Standard Aircraft Corporation 

 lias sev(*n smaller factories in which parts of airplanes are made. It is 

 expected that sixty airplanes a week will be the normal output of the 

 new corporation. 



The description of this organization indicates that it should be a large 

 buyer of hardwood lumber, veneers and other woods products which play 

 so important a part in airplane construction. 



T. liiClI.MtlNl) DEAN, CHICAGO. 



