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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



December 25, 1920 



LONG-KNIGHT 



LUMBER COMPANY 



WALNUT- HARDWOODS 



Veneers 



Mahogany, American Walnut, Quartered White Oak 

 Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



Indianapolis, Indiana 



Furniture Makers to Cut Prices to Replacement 



Values 



It is expected that furniture manufacturers of Evans- 

 ville, as well as those in other parts of the country, will cut 

 their prices in January lists to figures "based absolutely 

 on the replacement value." This was the announcement 

 of Mayor Benjamin Bosse, head of the Globe-Bosse-World 

 Furniture Company, Evansville, Ind., upon his return 

 from Washington, D. C, where he attended a meeting 

 of the National Furniture Council. He said that retailers, 

 meeting with the national manufacturers, had agreed to 

 accept the prices of the manufacturers for January. The 

 cut has not been decided as yet, but will be figured on the 

 absolute cost price from a replacement of materials stand- 

 point. Mayor Bosse also announced a nation-wide pub- 

 licity campaign which the furniture manufacturers will 

 undertake. Mayor Bosse is the father of this plan, which 

 may involve the expenditure of no less than $2,000,000 

 during the first year. The plan was first suggested by 

 Mayor Bosse, after he had been through the South and 

 had noticed that while cotton planters have their auto- 

 mobiles, they still use home-made and crude furniture 

 in their homes. Mayor Bosse presented the matter to the 

 National Council, and a committee was appointed consist- 

 ing of three manufacturers and three retailers to make a 

 survey to determine the best manner of conducting the 

 extensive campaign. An appropriation of $5,000 was 

 voted for the survey, and Mayor Bosse was named chair- 



man of the manufacturers' committee. If the survey 

 shows what it is believed it will develop, an appropriation 

 of not less than $2,000,000 will be voted for the publicity 

 campaign. Mayor Bosse said the manufacturers, while 

 lacking business at this time, are optimistic about a revival 

 of business after the first of January. The retailers re- 

 ported that they are moving stocks sufficiently to promise 

 that they would place orders after the first of the year and 

 allow the furniture plants to re-open. The Furniture 

 Council elected officers as follows: Ashton Derby, Boston, 

 chairman; George G. Withworth, Grand Rapids, vice- 

 chairman; J. T. Ryan, Highpoint, North Carolina, secre- 

 tary. 



Fire destroyed the largest of the three warehouses of 

 Ichabod T. Williams & Sons on Staten Island, New^ York, 

 on the night of Dec. 9, occasioning the loss also of some 

 1 5 million feet of veneers, chiefly mahogany, stored 

 therein. The company has issued a card to its trade stat- 

 ing that in spite of the losses in the fire it is ready to serve 

 them, having saved two other large warehouses in which 

 is stored a larger quantity of veneer. The two ware- 

 houses which escaped the fire contain principally a dupli- 

 cate stock of veneers. The fire also destroyed a few^ gang- 

 ways of mahogany and hardwood lumber, but this was 

 only a small part of the stock held in the company's 

 yards. Virtually no damage was done to the company's 

 saw and veneer mills, and they continued operations on 

 full time directly after the fire. 



