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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10, 1921 



subject with other organizations by the National Wood-using Industries 

 Association. C. L. Harrison, of the Hlmmelberger-Harrison Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cape Girardeau, Mo., is chairman of the committee from the Ameri- 

 can Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. 



Elimination of waste and the conservation of timber resources are the 

 principal motives back of the movement for standardization of dimension 

 .sizes. 



Bargains Fail to Encourage Buyers 



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BRANCHES IN 25 CITIES 



Bargain prices for hardwooil lumber will liave little to do with the quick- 

 ening of buying until such time as the buyers feel more like getting into 

 the market than they do at present, according to letters received by a 

 certain large manufacturer of hardwood lumber from a number of his 

 customers. This manufacturer wrote to these buyers asking them what 

 they thought prices should be to stimulate buying. This was not a sales 

 letter, the inquirer merely wanting to satisfy his curiosity as to what the 

 buyer feels like he should have in the way of prices. Most of the buyers 

 whom he addressed assumed that he was trying to solicit business and 

 replied that they were not in the market for lumber. Some few sent in 

 definite answers. The purchasing agent for an automobile body plant in 

 Ohio said that lumber was still too high, especially on the up grades. He 

 complained that there is a difference of approximately $50 a thousand 

 in quotations for FAS and No. 1 common oak, which he said was too great 

 a difference in these two grades. He also objected to the wide range on 

 the same grades of nearly all items, suggesting that it would be a sensible 

 thing for the lumbermen to set prices offering a legitimate profit and stick 

 to them, regardless of what their competitors might offer. 



An Indiana furniture manufacturer said that he found a range of 

 prices of from $25 to $30 on the same items. A wholesaler said that 

 offers of No. 1 commo3 1-inch sap gum at $40 are finding no buyers. A 

 box manufacturer, who uses No. 2 common sap gum, S2S to %, said he had 

 been getting quotations, based on the Chicago freight rate, of $27 to $32 a 

 thousand. A buyer of crating lumber said that he had been offered No. 2 

 rough sap gum at $25, f. o. b. destination, and wouldn't buy because he 

 felt he should get it for less. A stove company said it had been quoted 

 $25 a thousand for No. 1 and No. 2 common gum crating strips, and $20 

 to $25 a thousand for No. 2 common gum. 



Harvey Derne Dies in Accident 



The news of the tragic death of Harvey Derne, superintendent of manu- 

 facture of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, comes as a great shock to 

 the wide circle of his friends in the lumber and associated Industries. 



With his wife and a party of friends be was returning home from the 

 Columbus Athletic Club, early in the morning of Jan. 1, 1921, where they 

 had attended the club's annual New Year party, when his car, which he 

 was driving, collided with a heavy taxlcab in Broad street at Washington 

 avenue. Nearly all of the party of eight in Mr. Derne's car were injured 

 more or less seriously, Mrs. Derne receiving painful though not dangerous 

 wounds about the head and face. Edwin L. Holloway, also of the W. M. 

 Ritter Lumber Company, received painful internal injuries. 



Mr. Derne was rushed to St. Francis Hospital, only a few blocks away, 

 but he was dead when the hospital was reached, and the belief is that 

 death resulted almost instantaneously from his impact against the steer- 

 ing wheel. 



Few men had such a wide circle of friends in the lumber industry ; his 

 sterling qualities as a man, coupled with his business ability and technical 

 attainments, made him a prime favorite socially with his friends, and gave 

 him a place of distinction in industrial circles. 



Prior to his long connection with the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, he 

 was connected \vith Burns Brothers, the Chequasset Lumber Company and 

 the Raleigh Lumber Company. 



He became connected with the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company Jan. 1, 

 1903, and has been continuously in its employment since. In the capacities 

 of division superintendent, general superintendent, and superintendent 

 of manufacture. In this latter capacity he was easily among the first 

 authorities in the hardwood lumber industry. 



Mr. Derne was forty-six years of age, a native of Maryland, and was 

 educated at St. Johns College, Annapolis, at which institution he was 

 known as an accomplished athlete. 



Clubs and Associations 



Big Year Ahead for Hoo-Hoo 



From present appearances 1921 is to be a big year for tile "Hoc H00.S." 

 Tliere are many concatenations sciieduled in connection, particularly, with 

 the annual conventions tliroughout the United States. 



Secretary-Treasurer Isherwood of St. Louis, Mo., said : "With the new 

 ideas that are being injected into the Order of Hoo Hoo, and with the 

 lumbermen grasping its purpose and principles and higher ideals, it is 

 gaining much prominence throughout the country. This is clearly indi- 

 cated in the number of concatenations that are already arranged for." 



Mr. Isherwood is to attend as many of the concatenations as possible, 

 and has a very busy time before him for the first four months of the year. 



