May 10. 1910 



R. S. HUDDI.ESTON. PRESIDENT HUDDLE 

 STON-.MARSH LUMBER COMPANY 



n. C. KKIEUKR, JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 



WALSH, ACTIVE MANAGER UPHAM & 

 AGLER INTERESTS, CHICAGO 



R. S. Huddleston Returns to Chicago 



Roderick S. Huddleston, general man.Tger of tlie Otis ManufacturiDi; 

 Company, mahogany manufacturer, of New Orleans, announces that early in 

 May he will leave New Orleans for Chicago, where he will devote his entire 

 time to his extensive Chicago interests, operated under the style Huddleston- 

 Marsh Lumher Company. Mr. Huddleston has been president of this insti- 

 tution for the past six years. 



Up to six years ago Mr. Huddleston was prominently connected with the 

 Otis Manufacturing Company, and he withdrew from that institution only 

 to accept the presidency of the Chicago company. It was on account of his 

 long connection and his broad experience in the mahogany business that ho 

 was solicited by the board of directors of the Otis Manufacturing Company 

 to succeed H. A. Otis, whose health made necessary his retirement from 

 the actual management of the business. This was three years ago. Since 

 that time Mr. Huddleston has done wonders in building up the business 

 and introducing efficient methods of manufacture and general administration, 

 and has gotten the Otis business in such shape that he feels he can now 

 leave it and devote bis entire time to his work in Chicago. 



When he assumed the management of the New Orleans concern it was 

 understood that he would remain there only so long as his interests in 

 Chicago would permit, and now that he has accomplished what he aimwl 

 at when he left for New Orleans he feels that his best interests are served 

 by putting all of his time in at Chicago. 



The return of Mr. Huddleston to the Chicago trade will be a pleasant 

 surprise to his many friends in the lumbering and hardwood consuming 

 operations in the city, and it is hoped that this time he will be a permanent 

 member. 



The Huddleston-Marsb Lumber Company is widely known as a prominent 

 handler of domestic and fancy woods in lumber, veneers and panels. It 

 has built up a wide trade and has established a highly satisfactory reputa- 

 tion for the quality of its goods and its way of doing business. Mr. Hud- 

 dleston has been closely in touch with affairs in the North even while he 

 was actively engaged in New Orleans, thus enabling him to take up his 

 old work again without feeling that he has lost his touch while he has been 

 away. 



Habdwood Record takes pleasure in presenting herewith Mr. Hud- 

 dleston's photograph, although such introduction is hardly necessary, as he 

 is pretty generally known as a ranking authority in all matters pertaining 

 to this line of the lumber business. 



Government Wood Waste Exchange 



The latest business-aid service instituted by the government is a 

 wood-waste exchange. It enables lumbermen and manufacturers in the 

 various wood-using industries to utilize each other's waste to mutual 

 advantage, aiming to effect a large saving in forest material as well as 

 in money. 



The wood-waste exchange is being conducted by the Forest Service of the 

 Department of Agriculture. More than forty manufacturers of wooden 

 articles already have asked to be listed as having certain kinds of waste 

 wood for sale, or as desiring to obtain their raw material in the rough or 

 in semi-tinished form from mill or factory waste. 



Twice a month the exchange sends out a circular headed, "Opportuni- 

 ties to Buy Waste," containing the names and addresses of factories having 

 waste wood for sale, with exact information as to species, sizes, forms 

 and quantities. Similarly, another circular headed, "Opportunities to Sell 

 Waste," gives the specific requirements of wood-using plants which desire 

 to buy waste material. 



One of the first waste problems solved has been that of a furniture 

 maker in Michigan who wrote to the Forest Service asking how to dispose 

 of sugar maple blocks and sticks which were cut off in the process of 

 furniture making and which be had to sell merely as fuel. Samples were 

 obtained from him and the Forest Service then located a scrubbing-brush 

 manufacturer who used small maple blocks for brush backs. The result 

 was that the furniture maker was enabled to sell his waste at a much 

 higher price than it had brought as firewood, while the brush maker 

 was enabled to buy brush-back material in suitable sizes at a much lower 

 figure than it had been costing him to buy maple lumber and cut It up. 



Firms which have been put into touch with each other through the 

 exchange are expected to notify the Forest Service when their require- 

 ments have been met; then their names are removed from the lists. In 

 this way several concerns which early took advantage of the plan have 

 dropped off the lists ; but as more and more manufacturers learn of the 

 wood-waste exchange the lists are steadily growing. 



H. T. Krieger in Business for Himself 



H. T. Krieger. for twelve years manager of the Union Lumber Company, 

 Jamestown, N. Y., announces that that company having gone out of busi- 

 ness, he will continue the lumber business in his own name at Jamestown. 



Mr. Krieger states he is prepared to fill all orders in a thoroughly satis- 

 factory manner, and that any business entrusted to him will receive his 

 full personal attention. 



Hardwood Record takes pleasure in presenting this announcement to- 

 gether with his photograph. 



J. C. Walsh Active Manager Upham & Agler 

 On the death of Oliver O. Agler of Chicago on April 26, J. C. Walsh be- 

 came active head of the Upham & Agler business. Mr. Walsh has handled 

 the biggest part of the active work of the company for some time past, 

 with the exception of looking after financial matters and the buying and 

 sawmiUing end. He has been sales manager for the past thirteen years. 



Mr. Walsh was originally night agent for the Illinois Central Railroad 

 at Cairo, 111. In 1900 he became traffic manager for the Sondheimer inter- 

 ests, which capacity he filled for two years, and then took a position with 

 Upham & Agler, becoming sales manager. 



Mr. Walsh is well known in hardwood circles and has a reputation for 

 being a keen manager in various departments of the hardwood business 

 with which he has been connected for so long. 



Whiting Lumber Company Plans Mill Operation 



Cincinnati lumbermeu are much interested in a recent project of the 

 Whiting Lumber Company, which recently has opened an office at Elizabeth- 

 town, Ky. This concern, which is composed of W. S. Whiting of Ashe- 

 ville, N. C, and Frank R. Whiting of Philadelphia, Pa., according to ad- 

 vices received by Cincinnati hardwood dealers, has just completed a deal 

 lor the purchase of a large tlmberland tract in Tennessee, lying practically 

 adjoining the North Carolina boundary line. 



It is contemplating, probably beginning the first of June, the construction 

 of a standard gauge railroad line from Butler, Tenn. (connecting there with 

 the Virginia & Southern road) to the heights of the Blue Ridge mountains 

 in Virginia, in which locality extensive holdings of hardwoods, as yet un- 

 touched by the ax, are under the control of the Whiting company. 



J. M. Lacy of Elizabethtown will act in the capacity of superintendent 

 of the building of the new railroad and mill. Elizabethtown, it is said, 

 will be the site for much of the big mill work. 



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