Marih 25, 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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liave nsed corrupt motlicds and he was glveo a clean bill by a subcom- 

 mittee of the senate and retained his scat by a vote of 40 to 34. 



Mr. Stephenson was one of the richest men in Wisconsin and his wealth 

 U estimated at close to $40,000,000. The enterprises with which he was 

 closely associated and, for the most part, owned the controlling interest, 

 are the North Ludlngton Company, the I'eshtlgo Company, the Stephenson 

 Transportation Company, Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship, Canal 

 and Harbor Company, the Stephenson National bank, the Pcstitigo Lumber 

 Company, the Marinette and Menominee Paper Company, and the Stephen- 

 son Manufacturing Company. lie was also associated with II. A. J. Upham 

 and James K. llslcy as trustees of the $15,000,000 Wells estate. 



Mr. Stephenson was married three times ; in 1852 to Margaret Stephen- 

 son, in 1S73 to Augusta Anderson and in 1884 to Elizabeth Burns. The 

 family consists of Mrs. Stephenson, wife of the deceased, Mrs. Joshua 

 Hodglns, Mrs. H. J. Brown, Mrs. Ralph Skidmorc, all of Marinette, Mrs. 

 Nelson J. Ludlngton, Chicago, and ^Irs. J. Earl Morgan, Oshkosh, all 

 daughters. Another daughter, Mrs. W. 11. George, died a few years ago 

 as dlG also his eldest son, Isaac Watson Stephenson. Grant Stephenson, 

 a son. Is now a lieutenant in command of an American mine destroyer 

 in foreign waters. Thomas and William Stephenson, half brothers of the 

 fenator, reside in Marinette. The grandchildren are Miss Margaret 

 Hodgins, Marinette; Howard George, in officers' school at Camp Custer. 

 Isaac George of Marinette, Isaac W. Stephenson and Mary Elizabeth 

 Stephenson, also of Marinette and the three little children, two sons and 

 a daughter of Grant Stephenson in Milwaukee. A great grandchild, 

 Elizabeth Carpenter George, is but a month old, the mother being in 

 Menominee, Mich. 



Rev. Samuel Plantz, president of Lawrence college of Appleton, Wis., 

 officiated at the funeral, assisted by Rev. Mr. Reynolds of Gram Methodist 

 church at Marinette. 



Mr. Stephenson was a generous contributor to the welfare of his home 

 city, having donated sites for parks as well as various monuments for 

 their beautifying, and also donated the Stephenson public library and 

 endowed the Stephenson manual training school and several other public 

 iMiildings. 



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Pertinent Information \ 



Building Immense Army Warehouse 

 Work is now under way at Chicago on the first two units of a three- 

 unit government warehouse that is to cost more than three million dollars 

 and when completed will be one of the biggest buildings of its kind In 

 the world. The building is to house the quartermaster's and ordnance 

 stores of the army. 



The units of the building now being built will provide a total of 

 1,200,000 square feet of floor space and about 18,000.000 cubic feet of 

 storage space. The third unit which may be added at any time will give 

 the building a total of 1,800,000 square feet and 27,000,000 cubic feet. 



Seventeen thousand five hundred carloads of material, including 3.500,- 

 000 feet of lumber, will go into the first section of the building. 



Baltimore Exports Show Advance in January 

 The showing made by the statement of exports for .laniiary is quite sat- 

 isfactory, as compared to what has gone before when the general sitaatlon 

 Is considered, though, of course, the volume of business done amounts to 

 only a fraction of the aggregate in normal times. For almost the first time 

 flr boards have a place in the statement, not less than 96,000 feet, of a 

 declared value of $4.C04, having gone out for the month. White pine also 

 figures in the list, but with a very small lot, and poplar is held down to 

 limited proportions. "Ail other boards," however, are again in evidence, 

 and with not less than 194,000 feet valued at $10,043, at that. But 

 spruce, as was to have been expected, again holds a position far in the lead 

 of all other woods, making up In fact, all but a small part of the total, 

 with shipments of 1,118,000 feet of a declared value of $110,806, against 

 a total for all the exports of $143,058. The striking feature about the 

 shipments of spruce lies in the sharp advance In value, the exports for 

 January being worth more than the 1,279,000 feet shipped in the corre- 

 sponding month of 1917, which were valued at not more than $88,440. 

 The variety of shipments was greater last January than n year ago, which 

 suggests that a further depletion of stocks abroad must have taken place. 



American Vessels in Commerce 

 In 1915 American vessels carried our exports to the value of $3615, - 

 512,946; In 1916 the value rose to $650,245,020; and In 1017 to $934.- 

 250,237. During the same period our exports were carried in foreign 

 vessels to the amount of $2,770,301,315 In 1915; $4,129,331,285 in 1910. 

 and $4,432,790,778 in 1917. American vessels Increased their carrying 

 nearly threefold and foreign vessels f*'ll short of twofold. 



May Collect Additional Statistics 

 Franklin H. Smith of the Forest Service, Washington, D. C, spent last 

 week in Chicago In the interest of the forthcoming lumber census. A 

 movement Is on foot to collect fuller statistics of the annual production 

 of veneers and cooperage stock than has been done heretofore. These 

 two Important branches of wood utilization have not been Included In 

 yearly statistics, as lumber has, and there Is need for fuller information. 



H ardwood ISJews ISlotes 



< MISCELLANEOUS > 



The II. II. Wiggin I.uinler Company h:is incorporated at Boston, Mass., 

 witli a capital of $100,000, as has the Milwaukee Woodcraft Corporation, 

 Milwaukee, Wis., at $2.5,000; the Greensburg Lumber & Mill Company, 

 Youngwood, Pa., capital $60,000 ; and the Rochester Moulding Works, 

 Rochester, N. Y., at $50,000. 



The capital stock of the Vetal Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Knox- 

 viiie, Tenn., has been Increased to $100,000. 



At ThomasvlUe, N. C, the Hoover Chair Company has sustained a loss 

 by (ire. 



The Gillett Manufacturing Company, Clio, Mich., has made a change In 

 its capitalization, it liavlng been increased to $100,000. 



— < CHICAGO y — = 



The Frain-Doud Manufacturing Coniijany has incorporated at $4,000 

 to manufacture phonographs at 4524 N. Crawford avenue, city. 



The J. L. Metz Furniture Company has been incorporated here. 



Frank F. Fish, secretary of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion, leaves this week for New York where he will attend the meeting 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. Since clofelng 

 up the associations' emergency bureau office at Washington and return- 

 ing to Chicago Mr. Fish has been "under the weather" physically but 

 is getting around to normal condition again. 



The grading rules committee of the National Hardwood Association 

 met at Chicago on Friday of last week, there being a full list present. 

 Among those who attended were : M. J. Fox, Von Platen Lumber Com- 

 pany, Iron Mountain, Mich. ; H. C. Fowler, Case-Fowler Lumber Company, 

 Macon, Ga., and John McClure, Bellgrade Lumber Company, Memphis. 

 Mr. McClure came on directly from Washington, D. C, where he with 

 R. L. Jurden and John M. Pritehard. respectively president and secre- 

 tary-manager of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 were in protracted .and momentous conference with officials on the ques- 

 tion of wagon oak for war veliicles. The session of the grading com- 

 mittee did not complete the work before it and it is likely that another 

 meeting will be called in the near future. 



Representatives of the panel industry met in Chicago on Friday ot 

 mst week, among those attending being, D. E. Kline, Louisville; Howard 

 Young ot Indianapolis, Ind., secretary of the national organization, Mr. 

 Teesdale, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis. ; Mr. Thompson, 

 Carrom Company, Ludlngton, Mich. ; E. W. Benjamin, Cadillac Veneer 

 Company, Cadillac, Mich. ; E. V. Knight. Now Albany Veneering Com- 

 pany, New Albany. Ind. ; A. E. Gorham. Gorbam Brothers Company, 

 Mt. Pleasant. Mich. : J. T. Crandall, Crandall Panel Company, Brocton, 

 N. Y., and C. B. Allen. Allen-Eaton Panel Company, Memphis, Tenn. 

 The bulk of discussion at the sessions had to do with ways and means 

 for 100 per cent efficiency in meeting the government's call upon the 

 panel industry in connection with its airplane program. 



Reports of inspectors' work in the latest bulletin of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association show 9,764,077 feet inspected by salaried 

 inspectors ; C202,534 feet by fee inspectors, making the total 11,996,611 

 feet of February inspections. 



Owing to his Inability to give to the office the time which it requires, 

 L. J. Pomeroy has resigned his office as jabberwock in the interest of 

 IIooHoo. A. C. Quixley succeeds him. Mr. Quixley in turn is succeeded 

 as viee-gerent snark by G. A. Vangness. 



ilAUDwooD Recokd has received copy of the banquet program of 

 •■.\tkins Pioneers." an organization of twenty-year employes of E. C. 

 .\tkins & Co., Indianapolis. Another Interesting publication is a valuable 

 luioklet entitled "Housing and Inilustry" by W. S. Whiting of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association. 



Chicago welcomed quite a few distinguished visitors last week who 

 were here on personal business affairs. The list Includes ; W. W. 

 f ramble, general manager. Yawkey-BIssell Lumber Company, White Lake, 

 Wis. ; W. T. Grossman, TIplerGrossman Lumber Company, Green Bay, 

 Wis. ; G. W. Jones, G. W. Jones Lumber Company. Appleton, Wis., and 

 J. K. Ferguson, Ferguson Hardwood Company, Paducah, Ky. 



=■< BUFFALO >= 



An official report made as to bousing conditions In Buffalo shows that 

 there are ninety-eight vacant houses and 107 flats. Accommodations are 

 not so much unequal to the needs of factory workers as was at first 

 claimed, but with an Increase In the number of workers in munition plants 

 (his summer It Is expected that a large demand for houses will develop. 

 The reports that the government may Interest Itself In the housing problem 

 has created much interest among real estate men and builders here, but 

 it Is not believed that the plan will be carried out in this city, 



.V timber-owner and lumberman from Florida was here the other day 



