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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Navember 10, 1920 



Expects Coal Priorities Relief 



The Southern Hardwood TraflSc Association looks tor material Increase 

 in car supply and for removal ot restrictions against the handling o£ other 

 commodities than coal in open top cars. In a circular letter addressed 

 to its members it says : 



"Our Washington representative reports that, unless complications 

 arise, such as a strike or bad weather, general priority for coal in the 

 use of open top cars is likely to be easied in favor of other commodities 

 within the next week or ten days. The first change is likely to be to 

 exempt, from servitude to coal, cars with sides of 40 inches or more. At 

 present the limit is 38 inches. 



"There is a considerable shortage of log cars west of the Mississippi and 

 in certain sections east of the river. Easing up of gondola restrictions 

 will afford considerable relief in handling logs." 



J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager of the association, said today he 

 anticipated relief from priorities in favor of coal some time during the 

 coming week. 



Plan "Collect" Service to Canada 



According to advices received from Washington by the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic -Association, the executives of the principal roads handling 

 lumber and forest products into Canada have announced their Intention 

 of forming a committee from the commission on car service of the Amer- 

 ican Railroad Association for the purpose of working out plans whereby 

 lumber and forest products may be shipped into- Canada "collect." 



J. V. Norman, general counsel for the association, recently held a con- 

 ference at Washington with Commissioner Hall of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission, with a view to securing relief from the "pre-pay" 

 requirements of the carriers. He did not succeed, however. Thereupon, 

 S. M. Nlckey, president of the association, addressed a letter to the execu- 

 tives of the lumber-carrying roads requesting immediate action. Appoint- 

 ment of the committee is the first tangible result. 



Some shippers of lumber are tying up as much as $100,000 a month in 

 pre-war charges on shipments into Canada, according to President Nlckey, 

 and it is his contention that release from the necessity ot prepaying 

 freight will go a long way, in the present credit stringency, toward pro- 

 viding relief from tight money. 



Louisville Club Elects Officers 



The Louisville Hardwood Club held it.s annual election while the returns 

 of the presidential election were coming in on Tuesday evening, Novem- 

 ber 2, the meeting being held at the Pendennis Club, opposite the Louis- 

 ville Post building, and following an elegant dinner served at 7 o'clock 

 in the evening. 



W. H. Day of the Wood Mosaic Company was reelected president with- 

 out any opposition, he having made an excellent record as chief executive 

 during the previous year. Preston P. Joyes of the house of W. P. Brown & 

 Sons Lundjer Company was named vice-president ; Edward P. Devol ot 

 the Louisville Point Lumber Company, treasurer, and J. S. Thompson of 

 the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association was reelected secretary. W. N. 

 Willis of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company ducked serving another year 

 as treasurer, resulting in two nominations, two tied votes, and the final 

 flipping of a coin by President Day to settle the He, resulting in Mr. 

 Devol being elected on a "tails" count. 



One new member was taken into the organization, this being the new 

 Navoo Hardwood Company, which is an outgrowth of the Churchill-Mlltou 

 Lumber Company. Tom Fullenlove, sales manager, who in past years 

 attended many meetings as representative of the Churchill-Milton Lumber 

 Company, was present at the meeting. 



H. J. Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber Company recommended that 

 all members of the association alflllate with the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Association, claiming that the organization had done a good work and 

 shown excellent cooperation with the hardwood interests and should he 

 backed. The matter was tabled for further con.sideration. 



At the next meeting of the club President Day will name committees 

 to handle the following matters : Entertainment, lumber, logs, finance and 

 transportation. 



Report of the treasurer showed a cash balance of $781.92. the best 

 balance the club has shown in a number of years. 



CHICAGO 



J. A. Hemphill, president of the Hemphill Lumber Company, manu- 

 facturer of hardwood lumber at Kennctt, Mo., announces that on the night 

 of October 15 it lost its double band mill, power plant and machine shop, 

 and that as soon as it can secure adjustment of insurance it will begin 

 rebuilding, as it has about four years' run of timber at Kennctt, Mo. 



The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas City, Mo., has compiled a very 



interesting and tastily gotten up booklet entitled "The Perfect Floor — 

 How it should be laid, finished and cared for." illustrated and describing 

 the advantages and usages of "Forked Leaf" oak flooring, 



H. Mochizuki, forest expert of Tokyo, Japan, called at Hardwood Record 

 office on October 26, being desirous of securing information bearing on the 

 hardwood industry in this country. He is making a study of lumber con- 

 ditions in the United States. He has been in the States since .Vugust and 

 expects to return to Japan by January or February 1, traveling from 

 Chicago to the East, Detroit and vicinity. He stated that much more 

 progress has been made in the lumber industry here than in Japan. 



McEwen Ransom, of the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company, stopped 

 over in Chicago a day last week while enroute frcun Nashville to the 

 Pacific Coast. 



Bart Tully, of the Anderson-Tuily Company. Memphis, was in Chicago 

 early last week enroute to Mackinaw City. Mich., from which base he 

 will go on a hunting trip in the northern woods. He expects to return 

 to Chicago about November 13. 



Mr. Tully was accompanied to Memphis by T. J. Morris, manager of 

 the box making department of the Anderson-Tully Company. Mr. Morris 

 returned to Memphis the night of November 3. 



Other prominent hardwood lumbermen visiting in Chicago iluring the 

 past week were : Frank F. Fee, president of the Fee-Crayton Hardwood 

 Lumber Company. Dermott, Ark. ; John Baldwin, president of the Baldwin 

 Ijumber Company, Laurel, Miss. 



Joseph L. Linehan, sales manager Mowbray & Robinson Company, ot Cin- 

 cinnati, has gone to Europe on the steamer Olympic, having sailed from 

 New York Nov. 6. 



BUFFALO 



Chairman Orson E. Yeager, who is at the head of the committee here 

 having charge of the sale of government foodstuffs, says that the sale has 

 been completed and the committee has surrendered its warehouse. The 

 sale has been a success, has helped people get canned meats cheaply and 

 turned into the federal government a good supply of money. 



The McNeil Lumber Company has written to the board of supervisors of 

 this county offering to sell a part of its property on Fillmore avenue to 

 be used for the storage of election booths. Such a place is needed and the 

 offer will be investigated further. 



The semi-annual furniture exposition is to be held at Jamestown from 

 November 8 to 22, in the building put up for the purpose several years 

 ago. It is expected that the show will draw a fair number of buyers this 

 year and a good display of furniture is promised. 



According to the survey made by the Cleveland chamber of commerce, 

 Buffalo stands about midway in the list of leading cities in the matter of 

 building costs, running only a little behind New York and much ahead 

 of Rochester as an expensive place in which. to build. This is undoubtedly 

 because this city lias felt the effects of depression less than some others, 

 as a number of large factory undertakings have been started recently just 

 outside the city limits. Lumbermen say that materials are cheap enough 

 here, but the demand for labor is great enough to keep wages high. 



The Silverthorn case has been dragging along for over three weeks and 

 of late some sensational testimony has developed. Egbert B. Woodworth, 

 who confessed to fraudulent cheeking of lumber shipments while working 

 as an inspector for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, testified that 

 he had done police work for the company after his transactions had been 

 exposed. According to his story, he was handed money l>y Asa K. Silver- 

 thorne and this money was turned over to Capt. Whittou of the railroad 

 police. 



A Syrian priest was brought into court on the suspicion that be had 

 been tampering with one of the members of the jury in the Silverthorne 

 case. The juryman told the court that he had been visited by the priest, 

 who, without mentioning the name of Silverthorne, asked the juryman 

 not to convict "this lumberman." The priest when questioned by the 

 judge and attorneys claimed that ho had made the remark incidentally, 

 that he had called on the juryman in the interest of a church for which 

 he desired a donation, and that he had never heard of either Asa K. or 

 Frederick W. Silverthorne before. 



Fire on October 30 destroyed the ^planing mill owned by the Whitby 

 (Ont.) Brick & Clay Products Company, with many thousand feet of 

 valuable lumber. The loss is estimated at $20,000, with no insurance. 



G. Elias, who recently retired from the lumber business as a member of 

 G, Elias & Brother, was elected an honorary member of the Buffalo Lum- 

 ber Exchange at a recent meeting. 



PITTSBURGH 



Governor Wm. C. Sproul has called a conference of the foresters at 

 Harrisburg, Pa., December S and 9, to decide on a nation-wide program for 

 forest conservation. 



October building in Pittsburgh amounted to .'?1. 783,319, or ?S00,000 

 more than in September of 1920. 



The Universal Liunber Company has starteil a l-.nnber yard at Bvnddock 



