40 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



March 10, 1921 



J. J. NARTZIK 



INCOKPOBATED 

 „„ , . GENERAL OFFICES 



08AND .^pms, M.NN. 1^66 MAUD AVENUE ,^r> warehouse 



DBS ARK, ARKANSAS CHICAGO *^'*=*°°' "-■- 



Rotary Cut Veneers 



ai:d 



Panels 



CARLOAD LOTS OR L. C. L. SHIPMENTS 



Rotary Cut 



Northern 

 Veneers 



Members of 

 Maple Flooring 

 Manufac'urers' 

 Association 



FURNITURE manufacturers and factory buyers who insist on 

 having high quality veneers should send us their orders. We 

 are specialists in Northern Veneers. ,,.,-. 



We also manufacture Northern Pine, Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar 

 Posts and Poles, Lath and Shingles, which we ship in straight 

 cars and cargoes or mixed with our "Peerless Brand" Rock 

 Maple, Beech or Birch Flooring. Gel Chir Prui-s 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



Chicago Offices: 812 Monadnock Block GLADSTONE, MICH. 



The Mayflower of Mahogany 



psCTOBER 17, 1906, 

 ^^The Mengel Co. 

 shipped on the S. S. 

 "CORINTH" the first 

 complete cargo of ma' 

 hogany logs ever im- 

 ported from Africa into 

 the United States. 



^■pj 



INCORPORATED 



Louisville, Ky. 



THE PAST AND PRESENT IN MAHOGANY 



J. J. Nartzik Succumbs to Pneumonia 



The veneer in- 

 dustry lost one of 

 its most vigorous 

 and constructive 

 members with the 

 death of J. J. Nart- 

 zik, president of 

 J. J. Nartzik, Inc.. 

 1966 Maud avenue, 

 Chicago. Mr. Nart- 

 zik died on January 

 29 at his home in 

 Chicago, 723 

 Junior terrace, 

 after an illness 

 of bronchial pneu- 

 monia, lasting only 

 two weeks. 



Mr. Nartzik was 

 born in Hamburg. 

 Germany, in 1880, 

 and started in the 

 veneer business in 

 this country as a 

 jobber in 1906. He 



began business on a veiy small scale, but throu-^h ectremely hard 

 work, sacrifices and square dealing, gradually built up a large job- 

 bing business. In April. 1917, he took up the manufacture of 

 veneer, acquiring a mill at Deer River. Minn., which was destroyed 

 by fire in June, 1918. and rebuilt at Grand Rapid?, Mich., in 1919. 



The business having grown to such proportions that he deemed 

 it expedient to incorporate; this took place on October 31, 1919. 

 Later the company purchased a veneer mill at Des Arc, Ark.» 

 and both mills are at present in full operation. 



H. L. Doty, vice-president, has succeeded Mr. Nartzik as the 

 head of the business, and his long experience and thorough train- 

 ing in the veneer business renders him fully capable of carrying 

 on the business in the same progressive manner that characterized 

 Mr. Nartzik's management. 



The Lat? J. J. Nartzik 



(Coniinued jrom page 38) 



number of sizes to be cut, the less the amount of waste should be. 

 The most common substitute for walnut in furniture manufac- 

 ture is red gum. It is a general practice to utilize red-gum wood 

 finished in imitation of walnut for corner posts, legs, mirror frames, 

 and, in fact, for practically all but the veneered parts. The reason 

 for this has been that gum was a low^er-priced wood than w^alnut. 

 On account of the recent rapid rise in the price of red gum, how^- 

 ever, there is now relatively less difference in cost. The same 

 styles of furniture are generally made in either walnut or mahog- 

 any, and the gum may be finished in imitation of either wood. 

 This is obviously a distinct advantage to the furniture manufac- 

 turer. Birch also is used in the same way. On account of the 

 difference in the figure or grain, neither of these w^oods has the 

 same appearance as the w^alnut, even vv'hen it is stained to match 

 the color. Consequently, in making the highest class of walnut 

 furniture, lA^alnut w^ood is utilized for all outside w^ork. Some 

 factories finish their best pieces with w^alnut on the edges and 

 backs of doors and on the inside of drawers. 



The quarter-sawed plain heartwood of red gum is considered 

 most desirable as a substitute for w^alnut, because it is not so liable 

 to ^varp as the plain saw^ed, and the heartw^ood is nearer the natural 

 color of walnut. The sap wood is objectionable because of the 

 lighter color, and the figured wood is not so suitable because it 

 does not match so w^ell the appearance of the w^alnut. Wood with 

 dark streaks is objectionable for their reason. 



As a matter of fact, walnut is a suitable wood for the solid pieces 

 in furniture, and there is no advantage other than that of lower 

 cost to be gained by the use of another wood, and the substitution 

 is liable to make the piece less attractive. 



Black ^valnut is sometimes used in the form of veneer to imitate 

 Circassian walnut. Only pieces with unusually dark, distinct 

 streaks running through them are suitable, such w^ood being some- 

 times found in the extreme southwestern portion of its range. 



