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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 25. 1920 



Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAGO 



A series of social gatlieriugs, witli a view to increasing the acquaintance 

 of the families of lumbermen, was recently inaugurated by Secretary 

 Hooper of the Chicago Lumber Association, with a card party and dance 

 at the association's headquarters in the Lumber Exchange building. Some 

 forty couples attended the social and they all had a most enjoyable 

 evening. Mr. Hooper plans to repeat the social early in March when it 

 is expected a much larger number will be in attendance. 



George I. Smith of the Chicago Lumber & Veneer Company, recently 

 suffered serious injury when an automobile in which he was driving 

 collided with a Hal.sted street surface car. 



Fain King of the King Mill & Lumber Company of Paducah. Ky., was 

 in Chicago on business Dec. 21 and 22. 



Frank Handyside, sales manager of the Charles W. Fish Lumber Com- 

 pany, Elcho, Wis., was in Chicago last week visiting the local headquarters 

 of his firm. 



The formation of a .$100,000,000 foreign trade financing corporation 

 is practically assured as the result of a meeting of bankers and business 

 men of many other lines of activity in Chicago on Dec. 10 and 11 under 

 the auspices of a committee of the American Bankers' Association. The 

 plan adopted, provides for a financial capacity of $1,100,000,000 and 

 operation under the Edge Law. The plan was that proposed by the 

 American Bankers' Association committee, but the details of organization 

 were left to a committee of thirty representing various commercial and 

 industrial divisions. Herbert Hoover was among the speakers at the 

 organization meeting, which was held in the Congress Hotel. 



Among the hardwood men visiting in the city during the past two weeks 

 are the following : R. B. Goodman of the Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Com- 

 pany, Marinette, Wis. : Horace Taylor of Buffalo, New York, president of 

 the National Hardwood Manufacturers' Association : Earl Palmer of the 

 Ferguson & Palmer Company. Memphis ; James E. Stark of James E. 

 Stark & Co.. Inc., Memphis ; John W. McClure of the Bellgrade Lumber 

 Company. Memphis ; H. D. Nichols of the Paducah Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany, Paducah, Ky. 



L. P. Putman, directing manager of the American Wholesale Lumber 

 Association, returned to Chicago last week, following a trip to Columbus, 

 O., where he attended a meeting of wholesale dealers for the purpose of 

 discussing association work. He reported a substantial increase In mem- 

 bership as a result of the meeting. 



MEMPHIS 



W. H. Lockwood. district manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association at Cincinnati, resigned, effective Dec. IS, according to an- 

 Bouncement made here by J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager. C. J. 

 EiUemann is now serving as acting manager. 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association is disposed to facilitate the 

 carriers as much as possible in the direction of heavy loading of cars with 

 lumber and forest products, but it is unwilling to allow the railroads to 

 saddle upon its members the impossible task of loading certain kinds of 

 hardwood lumber and lumber products at the rate of 36,000 pounds mini- 

 mum carload weight. The sub-committee of the Southern Freight Rate 

 Committee, Atlanta, wants to increase the minimum weights on forest 

 products from 30,000 to 36,000 pounds, but the association is vigorously 

 opposing this movement on the ground that there are certain kinds of 

 lumber and certain lumber products which, by their physical structure, 

 cannot be loaded at the latter rate. J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager, 

 and C. A. New, his assistant, appeared before the sub-committee at Mem- 

 phis some days ago and made the position of the organization perfectly 

 clear on this point. 



Fire badly damaged two of the small warehouses or storage sheds of the 

 Memphis Furniture Manufacturing Company some days ago, entailing a loss 

 of approximately $20,000. 



BUFFALO 



The Yeager Lumber Company is making an addition to Its office bnlld- 

 ing, which will afford it about twice as much space as before. The Atlantic 

 Lumber Company has completed the extension of its office building, the 

 work having been under way for several months. 



C. N. Perrin was lately a major in the campaign to raise funds for the 

 Associated Charities. He had five teams working under him. one of these 

 being the lumber team, captained by Fred M. Sullivan. 



James B. Wall has returned from a ten-day trip to the southern mills. 

 In the interest of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company. J. D. McCallum 

 and H. A. Plumley have been attending the annual meeting of McLean 

 Lumber Company salesmen at Memphis and Little Rock. 



The jury ia the Silverthorne case, after deliberation of many hours, 



reported to Judge Hazel that it was unable to reach an agreement, and it 

 was therefore discharged. The case was on trial here for seven weeks. 

 A sensational disclosure following the trial was the arrest of a Syrian 

 priest, the Rev. Francis Shemalie, who was secretly indicted by a grand 

 jury. He is charged with having tried to influence one of the jurymen 

 and having "sought to influence, obstruct and impede the due adminustra- 

 tion of justice in the United States district court." A plea of not guilty 

 ■was entered and bail was fixed at $10,000. 



The government is not to give up its efforts to convict the Silverthorne 

 Lumber Company and its officers, who are charged with having defrauded 

 the United States of large sums of money by short billing of lumber pur- 

 chased during the war by the railway administi'ation. John W. Ryan, the 

 government attorney, state.s that another trial will take place. It may not 

 be reached for a year, owing to the congested court calendai*. 



A $6,000,000 pulp and paper mill is projected for Prince George, B. C. 

 by a number of capitalists, who have been looking over the ground. Among 

 them are Angus McLean of the Bathurst, N. B., Lumber Company, and 

 M. E. Preisch of the Haines Lumber Company, North Tonawanda. 



PITTSBURGH 



At Lock Haven, Pa., the Lock Haven Chair Corporation and the Hippie 

 Planing Mill Company have both closed down on account of a slow 

 market. 



The little town of Norwich, in McKean county. Pa., is out of business. 

 This is because all the timber has been cut off. Formerly this town was 

 a mighty lively little village with about 500 people. 



The Standard Flooring Company at 6601 Kelly street. East End, Is now 

 carrying one of the largest stocks of flooring in Pennsylvania. The com- 

 pany increased its capital lately to $100,000. Edward J. Steeb, Jr.. is 

 president. 



The wagon works of McLean & McGinniss Company at 427-429 Liberty 

 avenue were damaged about $200,000 last month by fire. The plant will 

 be rebuilt shortly. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company reports that the buying of hardwood by 

 manufacturing concerns in the middle west has fallen off badly of late and 

 they look for very little improvement until the first of the year. 



The fact that several big railroad companies have placed enormous 

 orders for rails lately is taken by wholesalers to mean that there will be 

 a splendid business for lumber with the railroads in the near future. At 

 present both inquiries and orders for hardwood are very scarce except for 

 bridge oak. 



Hardwood wholesalers are greatly interested in the merger of about 

 15 of the leading glass companies in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio 

 and Oklahoma. These plants will be equipped throughout with American 

 window glass machines. They have been large buyers of lumber for many 

 years, and it will be interesting to note what effect this merger will have 

 on the amount of lumber business placed and the way in which the pur- 

 chases will be made. The companies that are in the merger are as fol- 

 lows ; Penns.vlvania Window Glass Company and Kane Glass Company 

 of Kane, Pa. : Consolidated Window Glass Company, with plants at Hazel- 

 hurst and Mt. Jewett : Empire Glass Company, Shinglehouse, Pa. ; Smeth- 

 port Glass Company at Smethport. Pa. : Camp Glass Company, Hunting' 

 ton, W. Va. ; Crescent Glass Company, Watson, W. 'Va. ; Tuna Glass Com- 

 pany, Clark.sburg, W. Va. ; Westfork Glass Compan.v, Clarksburg, W. Va. : 

 Columbus Glass Company, Lancaster, Ohio, and Okmulgee Window Glass 

 Company, Okmulgee, Okla. 



BALTIMORE 



Baltimore is to get another sasb, door and millwtirk plant in the near 

 future, the Radford & Wright Company of Oshkosh, Wis., having decided 

 to establish a branch here. The company has just closed a deal for the 

 large factory building at Howard and West streets, formerly occupied 

 by the Baltimore Sash & Door Company, and after the withdrawal of that 

 corporation b,v a Iiouse furnishing concern. It is said that the Radford 

 & Wright Company will not onl.v assemble materials here, but also manu- 

 facture from raw stocks. The Morgan Millwork Company, another Oshkosh 

 enterprise, already has a big branch establishment in Baltimore, and ha.s 

 l>een steadily expanding its business, having last year opened a branch at 

 Jersey City. 



Owners of the Dunfee Lumber Company, one of the largest timber deal- 

 ing corporations in West Virginia, according to a report from Charleston, 

 that state, on Dec. 13 filed a petition in bankruptcy in the Federal court 

 there. The debts are said to total $226,000 and the a.ssets $134,000. The 

 company sche<luled claims of 129 creditors, the largest one being that of 

 the Lafayette Lumber Company of Ilniontown, Pa., which holds 10 notes 

 for $55,000, secured by a trust deed to 1,800 acres of timberland in Fayette 

 county. West Virginia. One hundred and two unsecured creditors, located 

 in various sections of West Virginia, have claims against the company. 



Fire on the morning of Dec. 15 destroyed the plant of the Fair Chance 

 Lumber Company at Uniontown. Pa., causing a loss estimated at $50,000. 

 State police patrolling the district think that the blaze is another act of 

 a gang of incendiaries who have been operating in Fayette county for the 

 last few months. 



W. E. McKee of James Webster & Bro.. Liverpool. England, stopped in 

 Baltimore last week on hi.s way to New York to take the steamer for home. 

 He has been iu the United States about two months, he told Harvey M. 



