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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Organize Interstate Lumber Company 



The Iiitorstatf Luiiilicr Lniiip:in.v with :i laplial sUick of ?10,000 has 

 n organized to do businojis In St. Ij.mls, Mo. 



The coiiipan.v will handle hardwoods and Is composwl of well-known 

 hgures in the hardwooil business. OlUees arc In the Wright Uuildlng. 



J. W. Thompson, foriniTly in business in Ids own name at Memplils and 

 of late associated with dllTerent hardwood concerns, Is the organizer, vice- 

 president and treasurer of the company. The other officers are : 11. G. 

 Ilascall, rickrel Walnut Company, president ; J. P. Phillips, Plckrel Wal- 

 ,ut Company, secretary. The others Interested are: George E. Ilibbard 

 ! Steele & Ilibbard Lumber Company, St. Louis, and Kerby A. Ualnc. 



J. V. Hill 



J. W. Mayhew, assistant to the president of the W. M. Rittcr Lumber 

 Company of Columbus, Ohio, writes II.midwood Uecoud the following letter 

 under date of March 5, announcing the death of J. V. 11111, who was 

 well known in hardwood circles, and who of late has been employed by the 

 government as inspector of airplane stock In New Jersey : 



"J. V. Ilill, one of the most comiK'tcnt hardwooil inspectors that ever 

 got on a lile of lumber, wiio for years was in our employ, and later chief 

 inspector of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Assotiatiou, died In a hospital 

 at KUzabeth, N. J., from complication of kidney and liver trouble, March 3, 

 191S, at 4 a. m. At the time of Ids cleath he was in the employ of the 

 Eovernment as inspector for airplane stock at the Standard .Vircraft Cor- 

 poration at Klizabeth, N. .T. i;. S. Hill, his son, has asked me to notify 

 vou of his death, as he thought the many friends of Mr. Ilill, who are read- 

 irs of the Hakdwood Record, while they would regret the fact of his death, 

 would be glad to have the information. His body is expected in Columbus 

 this afternoon. He will be buried from the home of his sister. Mrs. P. D. 

 Sliough, .")U Miller avenue, this city, at 3 p. m.. Wednesday, March 0, 1918. 

 He has another sister here, Mrs. .T. O. Legs. r\2'> Gilbert street." 



Rushing Wooden Buildings at Washington 

 To accommodate 10,000 new government employes made necessary by 

 ur entrance into the war, a million feet of lumber is being converted 

 into three office buildings at breakneck speed in the national capital. Con- 

 struction of the trio of office buildings, wiiich provide exactly a million 

 feet of floor space, was begun on October 11 and the entire project will 

 be completed within the next few weeks. The three office buildings are 

 supplemented by an administration building and a power plant, all of 

 which are built of wood. Each of the three office buildings is three stories 

 high. 420 feet long with six wings at right angles averaging 350 feet in 

 length. These buildings occupy a park which extends from Seventh Street 

 and from B Street North to B Street South near the site of the old Penn- 

 sylvania depot. The unusual quantities of supplies used in the buildings 

 is indicated by the following figures — 7500 double hung windows with 

 frames, 30.000 pounds of sash weights, 1,000,000 feet of tarred felt for 

 ^ub-floors. material for G5,000 square yards of exterior plastering and six 

 -aiioads of nails. 



Among recent southern incorporations are: The Standard Casket Com- 

 pany, Birmingham, .Ma.; the Dempsey-Camp Shipbuibilng Company, Carra- 

 bclle, Fla. ; the Sweaney Manufacturing Company, West Memphis, Ark. 



At Buffalo, N. Y., the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is reported 

 to have sustained a loss by fire. 



The capital stock of the Indiana Handle Company, Houston, Texas, has 

 been increased to ?100,000. 



At Portland, Ind., the Sheller Wood Rim Manufacturing Company an- 

 nounces a capital stock increase from ?25,000 to ?50,000. 



At St. Louis, Mo., the St. Louis Manufacturing Company has been incor- 

 porated to do woodworking business with a capital stock of $100,000. 



Hardwood l^ews l^Jotes 



=—< MISCELLANEOUS > 



Tile Barr-IIoladay LuiiiIkt ('<nni»aiiy has sustained a tire loss at its Holly 

 Bluff, Miss., plant. 



At Sagola, Mich., the Northern Saw Mill Company has incorporated 

 with $100,000 capital. 



The Bohn Refrigerator Company has succeeded the White Enamel 

 Refrigerator Company at St. Paul, Minn. 



The capital stock of the Reynold Brothers Luinber Company, Franklin, 

 N. C, has been increased to Jlio.OOO, and that of the American Cabinet 

 Manufacturing Company, New Albany, Ind., to .'?150,O0o. 



.V fire loss has been sustained by the .Jacob Jacckle Furniture Company, 

 Buffalo, N. y., and at Dubuque, Iowa, a loss reported at .?20,000 was suf- 

 fered by the Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company, due to fire and 

 explosion. 



Recent Incorporations are : The McMann-Carpenter Box Company, De- 

 troit, Mich. ; the J. C. Cobb Coffin Company, Blythcville, Ark. ; the Lud- 

 Ington Woodenware Company, Wilmington, Vt., capital $100,000 ; the 

 Dixie Specialty Company, Knoxville, Tenn., capitalization $10,000. for the 

 manufacture of clothes pins. 



The Shawano Hub Manufacturing Company, Shawano, Wis., has reor- 

 ganized as the Shawano Box Company. 



An Increase In capital stock to $000,000 has bera effected by the North- 

 ern Casket Company, Fond du Lac, Wis. 



The Wayne Millwork & Lumber Company recently began business at San 

 Francisco, Cal. 



A loss by fire Is reported by the Wisconsin I^and & Luinlier Company. 

 Hermansville. Mich. 



The Old Planing Mill Company, Glasgow, Ky., has increased Its capital 

 to $18,000, as has the Bockstegc Furniture Company, Evansville, Ind.. 

 from $19.j.000 to $300,000. 



A. W. Laing, T. J. Robson, C. H. Wetzel. George D. Hourless and G. L. 

 Rice are the incorporators of the Kanawha Valley Luml)er Company, Ka- 

 nawha, W. Va., capitalization being $100,000. 



The Glllet Manufacturing Company, producing furniture at Clio, Mich., 

 has Increased Its capital from $20,000 to $100,000. 



-< CHICAGO >- 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been tiled by the W. K. 

 Cowan Furniture Company, this city. 



The title of the Iloskins Body Company, Chicago, has been changed to 

 the Graft" Manufacturing Company. 



John Roseen, Chicago, has filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy. 



Maurice Welsh, Welsh I-umber Company, Memphis, has been spending 

 the past week in Chicago, being sick in bed most of the time he was here. 



Among prominent northerners spending time in Chicago during the past 

 week were : George E. Foster, Foster-Latimer Lumber Company, Mellen, 

 Wis.; George N. Harder, Rib I-ake Lumber Company, Rib Lake, Wis.; 

 Clarence Christensen, general manager Ilackley, Phelps, Bonnell Company, 

 Phelps, Wis. ; J. II. O'Melia, Uhinelander, Wis. ; J. P. Bushong of the 

 Northwestern Cooperage and Lumber Company, Gladstone, Mich. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Chicago had a general rally at the 

 headquarters at a luncheon on Thursday, February 28. The purpose was 

 to awaken interest in the drive for funds in belialf of the work of the 

 war recreation board. Chicago lumbermen are responding nobly to the 

 call. Walter D. Wood, secretary of the executive committee of the board, 

 was speaker, and C. B. Flinn of the war board of the Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation held the chair. 



The Robert Maisey Lumber Company, J. C. Deacon & Co., and Henry 

 Witbeck were the principal sufferers in a fire wiiich destroyed the sheds 

 of these three companies on Wednesday night, March G. The total loss was 

 about $50,000 and is covered. 



Albert Deutsch, president of the Sabine River Lumber & Logging Com- 

 pany of San Antonio, Tex., and president of the new Southwestern Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Club, passed through Chicago last week on his return ■ 

 from a month's stay in the East. 



A committee of Memphis lumbermen composed of R. L. Jurden, R. H. 

 Darnell. James E. Stark, C. R. Ransom and T. E. Jones met with Col. 

 W. S. Woods of the quartermaster's department at Chicago last week 

 aucnt the question of supplying thick oak for war vehicles. They were 

 told that the government has already ordered 240,000 wagons and 1,000,000 

 extra wheels from which it is estimated that about 300,000,000 feet of 

 vehicle stock will be needed. In support of the lumbormen's side of the 

 controversy over prices, the Ameiican Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation has written a very strong letter to the vehicle committee in which 

 the lumbermen's case is frankly and energetically set forward. The prin- 

 cipal controversy now hinges on the recent cancellation of orders of a 

 prominent southern vehicle manufacturer, it being claimed (and probably 

 witli justification), that undue and unfair influence was exerted by the 

 vehicle men toward the cancellation of this business. It is stated that 

 counsel has been engaged and that the matter will shortly be worked out 

 on a more definite basis. 



A letter has been received from the Hardwood .Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation enclosing inserts covering changes made in the grading rules at 

 the last annual meeting of the association. F. R. Gadd, assistant to the 

 president, advises that these are now ready for distribution to the mem- 

 bership. 



=■< BUFFALO >-- 



The owners of timber in New York state, and especially of trees that 

 they value as trees, are wondering If the coal shortage will not oblige 

 them to saciifiee the trees more than they would wish to. The owner of 

 a grove of more than 500 sugar maple trees, who lives in an adjoining 

 county, said the other day that these trees looked pretty good to him as 

 producers of revenue In the line of sugar, but he was afraid the public 

 or the government would demand that he cut them down for fuel, which 

 was the last thing he would think of doing. The hard maple tree has 

 undergone many changes of value in recent years. It was once considered 

 of not much account, except for show or for making sugar. Then suddenly 

 It jumped high in value as a lumber tree, and now it will be hard to 

 estimate which of the three values Is uppermost. The value of sugar, 

 however, is the only one that will save the trees as tapping them does not 

 appear to hurt them. 



The dry kiln of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company sustained 

 severe damage by fire on February 25, the loss being estimated by Presi- 

 dent Robert F. Kreinheder as $80,000. The cause was a lightning stroke. 

 About 100,000 feet of hardwoods In the kiln were burned. The firemen sue- 



