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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10. 1921 



The Successful Mahogany Manufacturer 

 Must Have an Adequate Log Supply 



ShowinK our fresh water pond within the Mississippi River at New Orleans, where our 

 steamers discharge their logs after completing a long journey from the tropics. Ihis pond 

 is approximately one-half mile long: has a storage capacity of three to four million 

 feet o( Mahogany logs, so that we are always assured of adequate supply: there our choice 

 Mahogany logs are stored in a most advantageous manner, safe against the river currents 

 and storms, floating freely without chains, ready to go thru our mill. 



This Mahogany pond is the only one of its kind; all other features of our operations have 

 heen worked out with equal care. 



WE MANUFACTURE BOTH 



LUMBER AND VENEERS 



THE FREIBERG MAHOGANY COMPANY 



SAW AND VENEER MILLS: 



NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



Editor and Publisher of Trade Journals Dies 



J. Newton Nind, 

 president of the Peri- 

 odical Publishing Com- 

 pany of Grand Rap- 

 ids, and editor of sev- 

 eral journals devoted 

 to the furniture and 

 casket making indus- 

 tries, died at his win- 

 ter home in St. Peters- 

 burg. Pla.. Sunday 

 morning. Marcrti 6. 

 following a stroke of 

 paralysis. At the time 

 of his death his wife, 

 children and two sis- 

 ters w^ere at his bed- 

 side. 



Mr. Nind was a 

 journalist from the 

 age of fifteen, when 

 he started a semi- 

 monthly amateur 

 newspaper for boys, 

 called the North Star. 

 During his early ca- 

 reer he held various 

 editorial positions on 

 daily newspaper in 

 cities of the North- 

 west and later entered the ranks of the trade journalists. Of this craft 

 he became one of the foremost in the country. He was known throughout 

 the country for his knowledge of matters pertaining to furniture. He 

 was a patron of the arts and devoted a great deal of time and money to 

 an effort to have a museum of art established in Grand Rapids. He 

 served in recent years on the Grand Rapids museum commission and took 

 a leading part in the Grand Rapids Art Association. In the year 190S he 

 was president of the Federation of Trade Associations. 



Mr. Nind was bom in St. Charles, HI., March 11, 1854, and his family 

 moved to Winona, Minn., when he was still a boy. 



Clubs and Associations 



The Late J. Newton Nind 



Box Makers Hold Annual in Chicago April 6 to 8 



The twenty-second anntinl convention of the National Association of Box 

 Manufacturers will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 6 

 to S. inclusive, in the Florentine room. Congress Hotel, Chicago. W. D. 

 Burr, secretary, expects a large attendance. 



Large Attendance Protnised at National Wholesaler Association 



Annual 



I'lans are progressing rapidly for the tweut.v-ninth annual meeting of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association to be held at the 

 Drake Hotel, Chicago, Tuesday and Wednesday. March 29 and 30. 

 Secretary W. W. Schupner states that the response from members iudicates 

 that the selection of Chicago as the convention city was wise and that 

 reports indicate a representative attendance from all sections of tlic 

 country. Application has been made for reduced railro.ad rates and 

 within a few <Jays definite announcements regarding the reductiim will 

 be made. 



Prominent representatives of all branches of the lumlx'r industry and 

 transportation and financial interests will be present and discuss with 

 the members various phases of lumber problems as viewed not only by 

 the trade itself but from the standpoint of the hanker and transportation 

 manager. Matters of direct interest to the trade, including inter-associa- 

 tion arbitration, uniform order blanks, cancellation of orders and federal 

 investigation of the lumber industry will be discussed along with other 

 matters as presented by the committees on railroad and transportation 

 and legislation. 



The Association, according to Secretary Schupner. has been actively 

 at work on timely matters including the Winslow Bill through whidi 

 it is expected to have distributed to the luml>er industry large sums of 

 money which have l>een held up owing to the inability of the railroads to 

 obtain their funds due by the government under the guarantee clause of 

 the transportation act. Furthermore, the members have been given an 

 opportunity of expressing themselves on the pending packers and coal 

 bills which, if enacted, may subsequently be of more direct interest to 

 the lumber trade. The executive committee of the association has advised 

 the members of the far reaching effect of these two bills and the desirability 

 of opposing legislation that practically results in the government actually 

 entering into business. 



