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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10, 1921 



With the Trade 



The Equitable Equipment Company 

 A new concern has just completed its organization for the purpose of 

 handling locomotives, cars, railroad equipment, rails and rail accessories, 

 machinery of all kinds, contractors' equipment, and practically everything 

 in the line of second-hand machinery and equipment. 



The new company is taking over the equipment, rail and machinery 

 business of A. Marx & Sons. Southern Scrap Material Company and the 

 Ship Supply Company, and this firm will be under the direct management 

 of Mr. Cleveland, who has been the manager of the New Orleans branch 

 of the General Equipment Company, offices located at 411 Whitney-Central 

 building. New Orleans, La. 



Prominent New York Lumberman Dies 



Lewis A, Kelsey died at his home in North Tonawanda, N. Y,, on Feb. 

 23, from a paralytic stroke sustained the evening before and not recover- 

 ing full consciousness after the attack. He was one of the leading hard- 

 wood dealers in western New York and had for many years carried most 

 of the hardwood held in the Tonawandas, as that market was always 

 a center for white pine. He was born on a farm in Genesee County, New 

 York, but went into the lumber trade soon after going into business. He 

 was still actively engaged in manufacturing and selling lumber at the 

 time of his death, having only the week before returned from operations 

 on a new tract in the Adirondacks. He seemed at that time to be in 

 excellent health. 



Beginning business as a member of the firm of Bovee & Kelsey. he soon 

 established himself under his own name. The Kelsey Lumber Company 

 was ever a name for upright dealing. Nobody in the extensive list of 

 timber and lumber dealers with whom the company dealt could say that 

 any transaction was other than fair and honorable. He was also an 

 extensive producer of oil on the Indian lands of Oklahoma before the 

 present boom was developed, bringing what at first was a very tangled 

 business to complete success. In both branches of hi.s calling he showed 

 unusual capacity, which met with ample return. 



Good business man as he was, Mr. Kelsey was even more to be com- 

 mended as a man and a citizen. He was an elder of the North Presby- 

 terian Church of his home town and was always active in that wor4v. He 

 leaves a wife and four children. C. Everett Kelsey. the oldest son. has 

 long been a member of the lumber company and will continue it. Earl 

 Kelsey is engaged in Y. M. C. A. work in New York, Dean Kelsey and 

 Mrs. Maud Kelsey McClelland are missionaries in China and India. The 

 latter was home on a vacation nt the time of her father's death. 



New Ritter Superintendent 

 The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company announces the appointment of 

 S. L. Calfee as superintendent of manufacture to succeed the late Harvey 

 Deme, Sr., who was killed in an automobile accident New Year's morn- 

 ing. Mr. Calfee was formerly connected with the Ritter company, but 

 more recently was with the Pine & Cypress Company of Georgia, which he 

 operated under the name of the Albemarle Lumber Company. He started 

 at once to make an inspection of the various mills of the company. 



W. T. Hubbard Dies in Toledo 



One of the longest lumber careers in Ohio was dosed with the death 

 of William T. Hubbard, president of the lumber company of the same 

 name, in Toledo, O.. on Feb. 22. Mr. Hubbard died at the age of 60, and 

 had been in the lumber business from the age of 20. He was born near 

 Toronto, Canada, but had lived in Toledo since the age of two. He began 

 his lumber career with his father, who conducted a lumber concern at 

 Sixteenth and Washington streets r,0 years ago. His own company was 

 incorporated for the first time about four months ago under the name of 

 the William T. Hubbard Lumber Company. Mr. Hubbard died following 

 an operation performed over a year ago. Besides his widow he is sur- 

 vived by one son. Hugh W.. of Toledo, an infant grandson. William T.. Jr., 

 and a sister, Mrs. A. J. Bowell. of Cleveland. 



West-Redman Nuptials Celebrated 



The marriage of Laurin C. West to Miss Helen Louise Redman, 

 daughter of Mrs. Rose Shettler Hunt, took place in Chicago on March 5. 

 The ceremony occurred at the residence of the bride's aunt in the pres- 

 ence of a few friends and relatives, and was followed by a reception, after 

 which the couple left on the Panama Limited for a honeymoon tour of the 

 South. They planned to visit Memphis and New Orleans and return to 

 Chicago via St. Louis. 



The groom is sales manager for the Wisconsin Lumber Company, Chi- 

 cago, and is widely known in the southern as well as the northern hard- 

 wood territory. He is a native of Nashville, Tenn.. and his mother, Mrs. 

 Johnson Bascom West is a resident of Nashville. 



W. H. Russe Starts for Europe 

 W. H. Russe. of Russe & Burgess, Inc., left Memphis late the week end- 

 ing March 5 for New York, where he will sail shortly for Europe. Mr. 

 Russe will be abroad for several months. "I am going to Europe for a 

 social and pleasure trip more than anything else," he said just before 

 leaving Memphis. "I am not going abroad to try to sell lumber, but, of 

 course, if any of my friends over there want to compliment my firm with 

 an order through me 1 shall not hesitate to accommodate them if prices 

 and other considerations are right." 



Worcester Adds Two to Sales Force 



The appointment of W. G. Wall of Detroit, Mich., as its representa- 

 tive in southern Michigan, northern Indiana and northwestern Ohio has 

 been announced by the C. 11. Worcester Company. Mr. Wall's head- 

 quarters will be in Grand Rapids and he will specialize in the hardwood 

 trade, both with woodworkers and retailers. His situation in Grand 

 Rapids will afford to the C. H. Worcester Company's customers in that 

 territory the advantage of promptest possible service. Mr. Wall is thor- 

 oughly experienced, having engaged for seven or eight years in the manu- 

 facture of northern hardwoods and for the last three years in the selling 

 of lumber in the Detroit territory. 



The Worcester company also announces that L. W. Supper has joined 

 its organization and has been assigned to the Chicago and suburban 

 territory. 



St. Louis Auto Factories Increase Operations 



The automobile factories are assuming a new aspect in St. Louis. Mo. 



Three hundred and fifty men were taken on in the last 10 days at the 

 Ford plant and officials predict a full force soon. 



One hundred men were taken on at the Gardner Motor Company and 

 its officials expect the plant to reach normal soon. 



The normal working force of the Ford plant is 500, of whom 400 have 

 been out of work. 



The normal force at the Gardner plant is 400 and 350 are now at work. 



The factory superintendent of the Moon Motor Car Company said 

 departments that have been working six hours a day are now working 

 the full nine hours and more men are to be added. 



Webster Colburn, general manager of the Dorris plant, said conditions 

 there are improving and that the shops which had been working 35 hours 

 a week are now back to the normal 50. 



Production at the Traffic Motor Truck Company is still at a standstill 

 but the superintendent said he expected a full force to be running within 

 two months. 



No men are being taken on at the General Motors. Buick and Chevrolet 

 plants, although a little work is being done. 



Two Bad Fires in Buffalo 



Buffalo had two bad fires on the evening of March 3. One was in the 

 planing mill of Dohn, Fischer & Beyer, which was destroyed with loss of 

 $125,000; partlj' covered by insurance. The fire started from an explo- 

 sion believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion of sawdust 

 in the fuel room, which adjoins the boiler house. The mill was an old- 

 time structure, built 48 years ago. and covering about half a block. It 

 contained a large amount of dressed lumber, but the main yard across the 

 street was untouched. Louis A. Fischer, president of the company, states 

 that the plant will be rebuilt at once. 



The other fire was in the warehouse of A. Dutch & Company, which 

 manufactures show cases and store fixtures. The loss was $35,000 and 

 was confined to finished products in the warehouse. About 75,000 feet of 

 hardwood lumber was water soaked. 



New Hardwood Wholesale Firm 



The Griffith-Zellner Lumber Company is the newest firm to enter the 

 wholesale hardwood field at Memphis. It has already secured yards from 

 Chas. B. Carothers. Inc.. and is now doing business. It is specializing in 

 ash. Members of the firm are: George Griffith, formerly with the A. M. 

 Richardson Lumber Company, Helena. Ark., and B. O. Zellner, who has 

 been engaged in the logging business in the Helena territory. 



Made Sales Manager 



M. A. Hayes, who has been for about twehe years connected in various 

 capacities with the force at the saw mill of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany, hardwood manufacturers, at Fontana. Swain county. North Carolina, 

 has been named as sales manager and has taken up his duties at the 

 offices of the corporation in the Continental Building. Baltimore. He will 

 have the benefit of the advice of H. L. Bowman, the former sales manager, 

 who is now in charge of the export department. 



Ma^or Tibbits Opens Chicago Office 



L. W. Tibbitts, who during the war was a majnr of artillery and saw 

 service in France, has been made manager of the Chicago branch office 

 of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, the headquarters of which are 

 in Memphis. Mr. Tibbits arrived in Chicago March 1 and opened the office 

 at 1120 Lumber Exchange Building, 11 South La Salle street. Major 

 Tibbits will personally handle the hardwood selling efforts of the Chicago 

 office and an assistant will handle the pine department. Major Tibbits 

 is a thoroughly experienced hardwood man, both in the production and 

 selling ends of the business. He was put in charge of hardwood mill 

 contracts by the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company when it opened a 

 hardwood department in Memphis two years ago. From that time until 

 he moved to Chicago, Major Tibbits has been in charge of the buying 

 and contracts with seventeen hardwood mills in five southern states. He 

 is taking hold of things in Chicago with his accustomed vigor and efficiency. 



