January 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



Manufacturers 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



Ash 



Poplar 



Red Gum 



Mixed Oak 

 Elm 



Sap Gum 



Soft Maple 



Tupelo 



CUMMER LUMBER COMPANY 



SALES OFFICE: 



280 MADISON AVENUE 



NEW YORK, N. Y. 



MAIN OFFICE 



JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



B. B. Hall Dies in San Antonio 



B. B. Hall. 'i'i. Avho up until lie went to West Texas last Septenilier for 

 the benefit of his health was sales manager of the Sabine Tram Lumber 

 Company, dietl in San Antonio Dec. 31. 



Mr. Hall was a native Arkansan where he began the lumber business in 

 the woods. He came to Texas to learn the retail end of the game and 

 ■went to work in a .yard. He was for a time in charge of the hardwood 

 department of the Beaumont Lumber Company, later going on the road in 

 Kansas and Oklahoma for the Sabine Tram. He was brought back by 

 the company and placed in charge of the hardwood department. About 

 six months ago he was made a director of the company and promoted to 

 general sales manager, handling both the hardwood and yellow pine de- 

 partments. He is survived by a wife and one child. 



Reorganize Climax Company 

 Coincident with the purchase of the interest of Dr. W. D. Haas, Alex- 

 andria. La., by Joe Friedlander and J. W. O'Shaughnessy, the Climax 

 Lumber Company of New Orleans has been reorganized. The two pur- 

 chasers of Dr. Haas's stock have been interested in the coftipany since its 

 formation in 1908. The officers of the new company are as follows : Joe 

 Friedlander, president : J. W. O'Shaughnessy, vice-president and manager 

 of the export department: E. G. Stover, secretary and manager of the 

 interior wholesale department. 



Now R. L. Palmer Lumber Company 



On .Ian. 1 the name of the Palmer-Hunter Lumber Company will be 

 changed to R. L. Palmer Lumber Company, dealers in mahogany and hard- 

 Tvoods. The company i.s located at the Mystic wharf. Boston, Mass. R. L. 

 Palmer Is president and treasurer. 



"The Gloom Chaser" 



The fellows who can't see the doughnut for the hole had better not 

 read "The Gloom Chaser." because it says things about pessimism and 

 pessimists that won't do their vanity any good. The Gloom Chaser is a 

 four-page publication devoted to optimism, issued occasionally b.y the 

 Xong-Bell Lumber Company. The second issue is now in circulation and it 

 certainly ties a can to the tail of gloom. 



Capt. Chas. H. Ellis Dies 

 Capt. Charles H. Ellis, a pioneer in the lumi)er industry' of Wisconsin, 

 died at the home of his son, Arthur G. Ellis, head of the A. G. Ellis Lum- 

 ber Company, Milwaukee, on January 1, at the age of 78 years. He was 

 born in Denmark and came to Milwaukee at the age of eight years, fol- 

 lowing the vocation of a sailor and later becoming one of the best known 

 of Great Lakes vessel masters. He then became associated with the John 



Schroeder Lumber Company, having charge of the northern operations, 

 including the mills at Ashland, and all timber purchases, serving until 

 advanced age made It advLsable for him to retire about three years ago. 



Major Berry Joins Kellogg & Company 

 Major Swift Berry, since September, 1919, valuation engineer in the 

 timber sqction of the Bureau of Internal, Revenue and engaged in the 

 appraisal of timber values in Arizona, California and Southern Oregon, 

 has resigned to accept a position with Hall, Kellogg & Company of Chicago. 

 It is understood that Maj. Berry will shortly become the California repre- 

 sentative of this company, with headquarters in San Francisco. 



Before his service with the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Maj. Berry spent 

 two years in the Twentieth (forest) Engineers in France. His work in 

 France consisted in the location, examination and acquisition of tracts 

 of timber for cutting by the forestry troops and the preparation of advance 

 plans for operations in the timbered areas acquired. Prior to his service 

 in France he had long experience in the timber work of the Forest Service, 

 especially in Colorado, South Dakota and California, reaching the position 

 of logging engineer in charge of timber sale appraisals in the California 

 district. 



Liberty Lumber Company Reorganized 

 Announcement is made of the reorganization of the Liberty Lumber 

 Company of Kimbrough, Ala., which previously has absorbed the Ham- 

 mond-Park Lumber Company of Land. Ala. The announcement comes 

 from E. H. Hammond, vice-president of the reorganized company, who is 

 also manager of the railroad department of the Central West Coal .& 

 Lumber Company of Columbus. The capitalization of the company is 

 $500,000. W. T. McGowin of Kimbrough is president ; E. H. Hammond 

 of Columbus, vice-president, and H. S. Morgan of Kimbrough, secretary. 

 The company has two operating band mills, one at Kimbrough and the 

 other at Land, and will soon .start the erection of a third unit, to be located 

 near Jackson. Ala. The company controls 150.000.000 feet of standing 

 timber, mostly hardwoods. All of the product will be sold through the 

 Central West Coal & Lumber Company of Columbus, which has estab- 

 lished a number of branch houses to take care of this increased produc- 

 tion. Branches are located at Indianapolis, in charge of O. D. Buller- 

 dick ; Toledo. A. B. WUson ; Seattle, F. M. Belden ; Huntington, W. Va., 

 W. E. Morgan, and Land, Ala., J. L. Clarke. 



Richard E. MacLean's Demise Is Widely Mourned 



The death of Richard E. MacLean. secretary-treasurer and general 

 manager of the I. Stephenson Company of Wells, Mich., in Mercy Hospital 

 at Chicago the morning of Dec. 26, brought sorrow to.' the entire Upper 



