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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 10, 1921 



Goes on Appalachian Region Tour 



T. A. Scrfas, who is the hciid of tlii' tScrfas Lumber Compauy o£ Easton, 

 Pa., left the early part of the tirst week of Feliruary on a trip through 

 Virginia and West Virginia in the interest of his firm. 



Conferences on Saw Mills and Logging Operations 



A series o£ eight all day eonfereuce.s on em|iloyiiient management in saw- 

 mills and logging operations, given by the College of fommerce and Busi- 

 ness .Administration of Tulane University, opened in New Orleans on 

 Feb. 5. 



These conferences are planned for executives in charge of labor, tor 

 their assistants and for men in training for such positions. According to 

 Morton A. Aldrich, dean of the school which is holding the conferences, 

 they probably constitute the only courses in the United States planned for 

 sawmills and logging executives. The conferences are not lectures, but a 

 series of guided discussions of practical ways of building up and main- 

 taining a loyal, steady and effective organization of men in the mill and 

 woods. The purpose is to stimulate the men present to do their own think- 

 ing and to learn from each other. It is said that the men who attended 

 the conferences last year found them so interesting and practical that not 

 a single man was absent, except when he was sick. 



Dudley Spreads Bear Meat Feast for Friends 



Lucullus would have enjoyed tlu' bear dinner given by C. B, Dudley of 

 the Dudley Lumber Company to fifty of his friends at the Tennessee Huh 

 in Memphis on the evening of Jan. 28. The piece d' occasion was killed 

 in the Mississippi wilds by Thomas McHenry of Macon, Miss., and. as 

 prepared for the Dudley dinner, was an exquisitely savory bit of game. 

 The gracious Nirarod who slew the tender "Ursus Americanus" was present 

 at the dinner and responded to a toast, proposed by Riley Wilson of 

 Wheeling, W. Va.. who was master of the talk. Short talks on the glory 

 of goodfellowehip and the sweetness of Dixie bear meat were made by 

 Joe Thompson, W. A. Ransom, C. R. Ransom, Charles Phile, Charles 

 Thompson and others. A memorable assortment of the palate-tickling 

 eatables of the Southland collaborated with the bear, and the wassail 

 bowl went round and round. 



Joins Arkla Lumber and Manufacturing Company 



The Arkla Lumber »fc Manufacturing Company of St. Louis announces 

 that F. Huntington Smith has resigned as secretary of the Steel & Hibbard 

 Lumber Company of St. Louis and has associated himself with that com- 

 pany. 



Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAGO 



The loss of $450,000 is estimatod from thi^ fire which destroyed the 

 freight car shops of the Pullman Company, covering nearly two square 

 blocks at One Hundred and Eighth street and Langley avenue, together 

 with seven refrigerator cars and twelve Pullman sleepers. The fire 

 occurred on Jan. 27 and is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. 



The report on the nation-wide employment survey made by the Depart- 

 ment of Labor on Jan. 25 placed the unemployed in Chicago's industries 

 at 86,000. 



F. T. Phillips has joined the Quixley Lumber Company, Fisher Building. 

 Chicago, and will represent that company in the Michigan territory. Mr. 

 Phillips i.s a lumberman of wide experience. 



The Corn Exchange National Bank of Chicago has started a home build- 

 ing movement which is attracting a great deal of attention, and will prob- 

 ably prove to be the cue to a general attempt by the banks of the country 

 to take definite action to assist in furthering the revival of building and 

 the consequent solution of the serious housing shortage. 



This bank is carrying large display ads in the daily newspapers of 

 Chicago advertising a plan which it has providing a plan whereby the 

 person of moderate means may save money to own a home. Prospective 

 home builders are asked to call at the savings department of the bank and 

 "find out how any one — even with a small income — can start an account 

 and soon become a home-owner." One of the features of the campaign is 

 a "Beautiful Booklet of Homes," which contains plans and colored illus- 

 trations of many different types of modern dwelling places to help home 

 savers select the sort of a home that best suits them. The bank promises 

 in this connection to furnish free each month a new home suggestion with 

 plans from a Chicago architect. It is understood that this is the first 

 movement of a Middle Western bank, and possibly of any bank in the 

 country, to do something definite for home building. 



Charles G. Labbe, president of the General Hardwood Lumber Company 

 of Chicago, left the first of this week for a swing around the Michigan 

 wood using territory. 



CLEVELAND 



Hardwood interests are more optimistic for something like real build- 

 ing activity with the opening of spring, following a more favorable turn to 

 building operations, at least as far as frame dwelling construction is con- 

 cerned, during January. These figures show that 120 houses were con- 



tracted for, at a total cost of $77.5,000, against 104 dwellings, costing 

 !f075,000, in the same month a year ago. While this increase is not 

 significantly large, it is taken to indicate a trend for the better. 



Easier distribution of interior finish, mill work and other material for 

 the southeastern part of the city is planned by the A. Teachout Com- 

 pany, in the acquisition of land at Belt Line, Kinsman road and East 

 Ninetieth street. On a tract of 10.000 square feet a warehouse will be 

 built at a cost of $65,000. Material from The Flats plant of the company 

 will be siMit to the warehouse by rail, whence it will be taken to the jobs 

 by truck. 



Damage amounting to $150,000 was done to the factory building occu- 

 pied by the Hoffman Body Company in lower Prospect avenue, the blaze 

 being controlled only after several hours' work by firemen. Flying brands 

 threatened the lumber yard district in The Flats nearby for a time, but 

 incipient fires were extinguished by plant employes. 



Ueorge N. Comfort of the G. X. Comfort Lumber Company has returneil 

 from Washington, where he represented the local trade before the ways 

 and means committee of Congress in the protest against duty being 

 imposed upon lumber imported from Canada. The Cleveland trade agrees 

 that it thi.s act is passed, Canadian lumber will either be held at home 

 or sent abroad, to the detriment of the market here and the increase of 

 prices to the consumer. 



BUFFALO 



A. J. rciias has been active iu endeavoring to obtain for Buffalo the 

 location of a government airplane plant and flying station and has sent 

 a communication to Washington setting forth tlie advantages of this city. 

 However, the government, after spending millions in developing the Curtiss 

 plant here, has decided that in the future it will spend its airplane money 

 in New Jersey, claiming that Buffalo is too near the border of a foreign 

 country. 



A fire in the assembling plant of the Poll-Eels Airplane Corporation, on 

 Feb. 2, caused loss estimated all the way from $100,000 to $1,000,000, the 

 former being the police estimate. A company official said that 240 com- 

 pleted fuselages, valued at $4,000 each, were destroyed. 



Senator William M. Calder was in this city last month to address the 

 real estate dealers on the housing situation. The occasion was a banquet, 

 attended by about 300 men. He said that government aid was necessary 

 to finance building construction. Never in the history of the country, he 

 declared, has there been such a splendid opportunity for building and 

 real estate interests. There is a shortage of 1,500,000 houses, which will 

 cost at least $5,000,000 to build. He urged franknt^ss in all real estate 

 and building deals, and said tliat interests concerned must convey to the 

 people their intention of conducting affairs with the least margin of profit 

 commensurate with good business. 



PHILADELPHIA 



J. C. Campbell of the Birch Valley Lumber Company, Tioga. W. Va.. 

 and F. W. Moorehead of the Boice Hardwood Company of Hartford, Tenn.. 

 were recent visitors to the trade here, looking over conditions. 



The Enterprise Furniture Company of Glen Rock, Pa., suffered a loss 

 liy fire recently, aggregating approximately $20,000, largely covered by 

 insurance. 



V. R. Bartlett of the firm of G. E. Bartlett Lumber Company, whole- 

 salers, Philadelphia, is exceedingly optimistic over the future. The com- 

 pany's storage yards at Norfolk, Va., are well stocked with good hardwoods 

 for the immediate needs of their eastern customers. 



E. K. Mahan, president of the Peytona Lumber Company, Huntington. 

 W'. Va.. band-mill operators, spent a few days in the city during the early 

 part of February lining up conditions. He reports business very fair in 

 view of general conditions and believes that in a short while we will be 

 moving in normal channels. 



Walter Terry of the Rohrbach Terry Lumber Company. Philadelphia, 

 spent the greater part of January in the hardwood producing territory of 

 West Virginia sizing up stocks at mill points. 



PITTSBURGH 



The woodworking plant of C. Prouty & Co. at Eldred, Pa., which manu- 

 factured wooden handles for tools, was burned recently with loss of 

 $-25,000. 



John H. Monks, age 82, a pioneer lumberman of West Virginia, died at 

 Corsica, Pa., recently. 



The Eastern Ohio Lumber Company at Niles, Ohio, has started to rebuild 

 its plant. Tills i.s one of the best concerns of the Western Reserve. 



H. W. Henuinger, who lately left the Acorn Lumber Company to 

 organize the Superior Lumber Company, with offices at 814 Lyceum build- 

 ing, reports a very good business and excellent prospects. 



The Brown Lumber Company of Massillon. Ohio, has lately increased 

 its capital from $60,000 to $150,000 in order to extend its business. 



The H. L Bemis Lumber Company has been organized at Bradford, Pa.. 

 by H. I. Bemis, James J. Matthew and A. B. McKean. all of that place. 

 Mr. Bemis is well known here through his former connection with the 

 firm of Beemis & Bosberg. The company will be one of the most sub- 

 stantial in that part of Pennsylvania. 



The Alierdeen Lumber Company of this city looks for a decided improve- 

 ment in the bu.ving of lumber, but it does not expect that this improve- 



