HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Perkins Glue Fast Becoming the Standard 

 For All Veneer Work 



Manufacturers who use glue for veneer laying and built-up panel work are 

 rapidly realizing the advantages of a glue that does away with the hot, 

 bad-smelling glue room necessary with hide glue and are adopting the modem 

 and efficient 



Perkins Vegetable Veneer Glue 



because it does away with the cooking 

 process, being applied cold. It is equally 

 as efficient as hide glue and at a saving of 

 no less than 20 per cent over hide glue 

 costs. It gives off no bad odor and may 

 be left open a number of days without 

 souring or in any way affecting its ad- 

 hesive qualities. 



Every shipment is absolutely uniform. 



The use of Perkins Glue does away 



with blistered work and is affected in no 

 way by climatic changes, thus increasing 

 the advantages of manufacturers, who 

 must ship their goods to hot, cold or damp 

 climates. 



Unsolicited testimonials from hundreds 

 in all glue using lines praise its efficiency 

 and economical application. 



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PERKINS GLUE COMPANY 



Originators and Patentees 805 J. M. S. Building, SOUTH BEND, IND. 



portion of the bardwood trade of the country. Although quite young. 

 Ralph has had a decidedly broad experience in the lumber business. Mr. 

 Gibson has more recently been in the wholesale lunil>er business on his 

 own account, but for a nunilier of years he was connected with the lumber 

 department of the Wabash Screen Door Company here. 



As soon as work on the new Ilarriman Bridge across the Mississippi 

 river has reached a point where considerable ground on the Tennessee 

 side can be cleared, shops that will give employment to about oOO men 

 will be constructed in Memi)his by the Rock Island Railroad, according to 

 announcement by local officials. The new shops, the construction of 

 which will cost about .1^200.1100, will be used for general car repairs, work 

 on locomotives and construction of new freight cars. These shops will 

 take the place of those constructed at Hulbert, Ark., which will be prac- 

 tically abandoned. A small roundhouse will be left at Hulbert for taking 

 care of engines doing yard work. 



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The Nashville CTiaTr Manufacturing Company has been incorporated, 

 with authorized capital stock of $25,000, to manufacture chairs and fur- 

 niture. T. F. Bonner, R. S. Crutcher, Sr., J. D. Owens, .1. J. Duaue and 

 X. N. Davidson are incorporators. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club has been granted a charter of incor- 

 poration under the general welfare statute. A. B. Ransom. Hamilton 

 Love. H. M. Greene, W. M. Farris, Jr., and T. A. Washington are the 

 incorporators. The purpose of incorporation was to give the club legal 

 status as an organization. There will be no change in the old organiza- 

 tion, all of the old officers continuing under the charter. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered reparation of §107.70 

 made by the Louisville & Nashville to T. Walter Hardy on lumber shipped 

 from Bells, Tenn., to Nashville. The shipment consisted of nine cars of 

 logs. 



T. M. Henderson, commissioner of the Traffic Bureau of Nashville, went 

 to Washington April 14 to appear in behalf of the case of the Nashville 

 Lumbermen's Club, in which a reduction of lumber rates south of the 

 Ohio is sought by the railroads. The club was successful in getting the 

 advance suspended, and Commissioner Henderson appeared before the 

 commission to sustain the contentions. 



The Buffalo Manufacturing Company had a loss by fire of 800,000 

 staves at its plant at Voorbeis, Tenn. The loss was partly covered by 

 insurance. 



Bollinger & Rice are having saw and planing mill installed at Martin. 

 Tenn. The firm has acquired some timberland which will be developed. 



A. .1. Robertson of Centreville. Tenn., has started three sawmills in 

 connection with the phosphate industry he has been working. Mr. Rob- 

 ertson announces the purchase of valuable timberland. ) 



The nines Lumber Company of Memphis has resumed operation of a 

 large shingle mill near Trezevant, Tenn. The plant has a capacity of 

 50.000 to 7.5.000 shingles daily. 



R. .S. Maddox. forester of the geological survey of Tennessee, with 

 headquarters at Nashville, has issued a warning as to the wanton destruc- 

 tion of timber, and urges the protection of timber and timber lands. 



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Col. Clarence R. Mengel, president of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Com- 

 pany, is one of a committee of thirty manufacturers which represented 

 the Louisville Commercial Club in completing arrangements for a per- 

 manent exhibition of local products. The Arcadia, a roomy building at 

 Fourth avenue and Broadway, has been leased for the display. 



A shortage of mahogany logs is one of the main factors which are 

 stimulating the market. Though demand for this, as for otlier hardwoods 

 has not been active, in view of conditions in the furniture and other 

 consuming trades, prices have been maintained and strengthened by the 

 knowledge that timber is scarce, and that no more is likely to come in, 

 in view of the exceedingly high ocean freight rates, until after the war. 

 This applies certainly to African mahogany, though perhaps with less 

 force to Mexican. 



Henry J. Powell, prominent in the local life insurance field, spoke on 

 "Salesmanship" at • a recent meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club. 

 He urged his hearers to put the interests of their customers first, not 

 to overload buyers, and to give the latter, in direct solicitation, a chance 

 to make their ideas clear. He paid a tribute to business organizations 

 In and out of the lumber field. John J. Saunders, manager of the local 

 office of R. G. Dunn & Co., will speak at a meeting to be held shortly 

 on the topic of credit conditions. 



Hardwood flooring manufacturers believe that it is time to protest 

 against foreign competition. Those in this territory have noted the 

 appearance of Siberian and Japanese oak on the Pacific coast both in the 

 form of lumber and flooring. Some of the flooring is un'doubtedly made 

 in American factories, but there is reason to believe that much of it 

 comes over in the finished state, as under the ruling of the Treasury 

 Department, which has already been protested against by the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club and others, it is regarded as lumber and enters duty 

 free. In sharp contrast with this, .\merican flooring concerns are com- 

 pelled to pa.v a twenty-five per cent duty on their goods going into Canada, 

 the Dominion authorities having ruled that even semi-finished flooring 



