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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1918 



B 1181— Wants White Holly 



New York. N. Y., March 14. — EDiTint II.mcpwocui Kbcord : We are in 

 the ninrkft for some 4/4" log run white holly, and it you can put us in 

 touch with any mill who has any of this stock to offer we will appreciate 

 your iloiufc so. • 



B 1182 — Wants to Buy Hickory Squares 



Any one in position to supply hickory squ;ires might be interested 

 in getting in touch with the following inquirer: 



Granfl Kapiils, Mich., March 20. — Editou Hardwood Record : We are 

 in the market for hickory squares from which to make hand screw spindles. 

 This stock should be No. 2 and better, white, second-growth, air-dried, and 

 we can use it in sizes 1x1", IViXiya" and 2x2", in lengths from 12 to 28". 

 We are today writing to four of your advertisers on this subject, men- 

 tioning the fact that we saw their ad in II.\rdwood Record. 



B 1183— Wants Market for Short Pieces Black Locust 



H.^RDWOOD Record is glad to reproduce the following letter, which 

 offers short pieces of black locust that may be just the thing that 

 some woodworker needs: 



Guntersville, Ala., March IS. — Editor Hardwood Record : We are cut- 

 ting black locust treenails for the government boats and have a lot of 

 short lengths. We have several thousand pieces from 5" up to 24" long, 

 IV^xli/j rough, square. We would like to And a market for these and 

 would be pleased to have you advise what they could be sold for. 



Hardwood Record has advised the inquirer that a market might 

 be found in the production of insulator pins, for threaded dowels 

 to be used in door manufacture, for tie plugs to be used by the 

 railroad companies or for wedges to be used l).y furniture or fixture 

 factories. — Editor. 



B US'! — Has Turkish Boxwood for Sale 

 In a recent issue of Hardwood Record a small item referred to 

 the use of Turkish boxwood in furniture casters. This is a rather 

 difficult wood to obtain under pres'ent shipping conditions and there- 

 fore Hardwood Record publishes the following letter, which brings 

 one source of supply to mind: 



Rochester, N. Y., March IS. — Editor Hardwood Record : Noticing an 

 item in the March 10 number of Hardwood Record concerning wooden 

 casters, we would like to inquire if you might be able to offer names of 

 manufacturers of this to whom we might offer Turkish boxwood we have 

 on hand and which is very dry. If you can give us the information we 

 would very much appreciate it. 



Clubs and Associations 



Attempt to Speed Up Memphis Car Supply 



Representatives of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association left Mem- 

 phis two weeks ago for Atlanta for a conference with C. H. Markham, 

 regional director for the southeast, which has for its speciflc purpose the 

 securing of more flat ears for handling logs into Memphis and other points 

 in this territory and the distribution of more box cars and other equipment 

 for the handling of outbound shipments of lumber. 



In connection with the latter, it is emphasized by hardwood lumber in- 

 terests that they are practically shut out from Central Freight Association 

 territory, which is the largest consumer of hardwoods manufactured in 

 this territory. 



In connection with flat cars for log handling, an increase of 33% per cent 

 in the present number will be urged on the ground that this additional 

 quantity will be necessary to. insure anything like normal production and 

 on the ground also that this additional car supply is absolutely essential 

 if a very considerable quantity of logs on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley 

 railroad, the Frisco system and the Missouri Pacific is not to be severely 

 damaged through worms and other insects. 



Information at hand shows that, under the present rate of log move- 

 ment on the Y. & M. V. road, which is by far the largest on any other line, 

 is so slow that there will be 15,000,000 feet of the present logs on the right 

 of way thereof unmoved by June 1 when woxm and other insect damage 

 begins to make itself seriously felt. 



In the delegation from Memphis are : James E. Stark and J. H. Towns- 

 hend, president and secretary-manager, respectively, of the association ; 

 W. H. Russe, Russe & Burgess, Inc., R. C. Stimson of the Stimson Veneer 

 & Lumber Company, O. M. Krebs of the McLean Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Frank May of May Brothers, J. F. McSweyn, Memphis Band Mill 



Company and president of the Lumbermens' Club of Memphis, and C. R. 

 Unnsom of the Gayoso Lumber Company, representing altogether a large 

 percentage of Memphis and Memphis territorial production. 



Lieutenant Faulkenberg of the ordnance department, who came to Mem- 

 lihls March to speed up the production and movement of lumber needed 

 for artillery wheels, accompanied the local lumbermen and it Is expected 

 that his Intluence will materially aid In securing the results desired. 



Program for National Manufacturers' Annual 



The Natbiiial lainilicr Manufacturers' .\ssoclation will hold Us sixteenth 

 annual meeting at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, April S and 9, and an- 

 nounces the following program : 



Tt'ESDAV Morning, Ai'ril 8 



Trade Extension Section — J. W. Blodgett, Chairman. 



Building Loan Association development. 



Retail co-operation. 



Developing use of lumber. 



Fitting lumber to consumers' needs. 



General Discussion of Trade Extension Work. 



Recommendations to board of directors. 



Tuesday Afternoon 



Governmental Relation Session — Chas. S. Keith, Chairman. 



Report of war service committee. 



Standardizing building codes. 



National policies and the lumber industry. 



Report and recommendations trafiic committee. 



Report and recommendations Pacific Coast committee. 



General discussion, recommendations to board of directors. 



Annual banquet Tuesday evening, 7 o'clock. 



At the banquet will occur a general review of association progress, led 

 by the following speakers : J. H. Kirby, R. A. Long. Edward Mines, E. B. 

 Hazen, W. B. Delaney, F. G. WIsner and J. H. Blodel. 

 Wednesday Morning 



Affiliated associations' session. 



"What We Are Trying to Do Through the National Association" — Talks 

 by pre-shlents of the twelve affiliated associations. 



Organization and procedure — A discussion of practical association prob- 

 lems read by six prominent secretaries. 



Recommendations to board of directors. 



Report of resolutions committee. 



Report of acting secretary. 



Adjournment. 



Exporters' Committees Appointed 



Fred Arn, the new president of the National Lumlier Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, has completed the make-up of the standing and special committees of 

 the organization for the current year, and the machinery of the organiza- 

 tion is now in complete shape for the work to be done. The standing com- 

 mittees are as follows : 



Claims — Frank F. Fee, chairman, Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany ; Fred Arn, J. M. Card Lumber Company ; W. J. Eckman, M. B. 

 Farrin Lumber Company. Cincinnati. 



Transportation — R. S. Huddleston, chairman, Huddleston-Marsh Mahog- 

 any Company, New York and Chicago ; John W. McClure, Bcligrade Lum- 

 ber Company ; John L. Alcock, John L. Alcock & Co., Baltimore ; D. D. 

 Hartlove. Price & Heald. Baltimore ; Richard P. Baer, Richard P. Baer 

 & Co., Baltimore ; W. E. Weakley, W. M. Ritter Lumber Compan.v, Colum- 

 bus, O. ; Chester F. Korn, Korn-Conkling Company, Cincinnati ; Harry C. 

 Fowler, Case-Fowler Company, Macon, Ga. ; Frank Purcell, Kansas City, 

 Mo. ; Fred Arn, C. I. Millard, John L. Roper Lumber Company, Norfolk, 

 Va., and W. J. Collins, New Orleans. La. 



Membership — Edward Barber, Howard & Barber Lumber Company, 

 Cincinnati, chairman ; E. A. Lang, Paepcke-Leicht Lumber. Company, 

 Greenville, Miss. ; W. 11. Russe, Russe & Burgess. Inc., Memphis, Tenn. ; 

 A. S. Johnson, Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company : R. S. Huddleston ; 

 Hugh McLean, Hugh McLean Lumber Company, Buffalo ; Alex. S. Wil- 

 liams, Astoria Veneer Mills & Dock Company, New. York ; C. S. Powell, 

 C. S. Powell Lumber Company, Lake Charles, La. ; R. L. Jurden, Penrod- 

 Jurden & McCowcn ; J. N. Woollett, Aberdeen Lumber Company. 



Arbitration — R. H. Darnell, R. J. Darnell, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., chair- 

 man. 



Stirring Meeting of Memphis Club 



More than one hundred French orphans will be adopted by members 

 of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, following a stirring appeal in 

 behalf of the fatherless children of France made by Miss Elinor Fell, an 

 English woman, at the regular semi-monthly meeting of that organiza- 

 tion Saturday, March 18. 



Miss Fell thanked those lumbermen who had already supported so many 

 of these children. She believed it only necessary to state the case to gain 

 the sympathy of those who had not taken part in this work and she stated 

 It briefly in this way : 



"There are more than 150,000 of these orphans of French poilus who 

 held the long lines between civilization and something indescribable until 

 the English and the Americans were able to come to their assistance. 

 The morale of these simple. French poilus is all right. The morale of the 

 English soldiers is all that could be desired. The morale of the American 

 soldiers is of the same high class. The Germans will never break through 

 any of the lines on the West front. If they could not do this in 1914, 

 1015 and 1916, they cannot hope to do it now. 



"But only about 40,000 of these orphan children of France are being 

 taken care of by Americans and other peoples. And, while the morale 

 of the soldiers in the trenches is all that it could be, the morale of the 

 women behind the lines in France is being strained to the breaking point. 

 These women will stand anything if they see that their children are pro- 



