November 10, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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the Are is not permitted to burn with a blaze, but with smouldering heal. 

 Farmers who cannot get hickory may use maple, oak, ash, beech, and other 

 woods, or even corncobs ; but large packers who are able to secure what 

 they want, insist on hickory and send long distances to get it. Mahogany 

 sawdust, when.it can be bad at a reasonable price, is occasionally used in 

 connection with the hickory as a smudge to keep down the blaze and produce 

 plenty of smoke. Hickory sawdust will answer as well, except that it is 

 :nore likely than mahogany to kindle into a blaze. 



Japanese Teach Wood-Utilization 



Consul .Tohn K. Itavi.s statiuucil :il .\iiluni:. China, repurts that 

 although that cliy is tho shipping point for practically all of the timber 

 cut in the Yalu and Hun River basins it has no^er possessed any Itrg.: 

 woodworking industries and has only four medium-sized sawmills. This 

 is remarkable in vi"w of the tact that among the rafts floated down the 

 Yalu, which are principally made up of pine logs, there are a large number 

 of hardwood logs suitable for cabinet work. These, owing to the lack 

 of demand stich as would be i-aused by the existence of local woodworking 

 plants, are sold at practically the same price as ordinary pine logs ; in 

 fact, owing to the greater difficulty of working with the harder woods 

 and the poor temper of the steel in the local carpenters' cutting tools 

 there is actually a preference for pine rather than oak when offered at 

 the same price. 



Uealizlng the opportunity for developing the business of this port. 

 olTered by introducing woodworking industries, the Japanese consul has 

 established an industrial school in the .Japanese settlement where expert 

 woodworkers from Tokyo are demonstrating the uses to which the various 

 Yalu hardwoods may be put in cabinet work. The results achieved are 

 very interesting, as they prove conclusively the suitability of the Yalu 

 woods for use in the manufacture of fine furniture and of small boxes, 

 penholders, etc. The beautiful finishes obtained on such woods as bird's- 

 eye maple and walnut are fully equal to the product of a fine furniture 

 manufacturer in the United States. 



.\t present this Industrial school is more or less in the experimental 

 stage, but the .Japanese consul hopes to enlarge It and is sanguine of 

 ultimately obtaining good results. 



Typhoid Fever an Accident 



A decision of far-reacbinti interest to employers in those states having 

 workmen's compensation laws, has been handed down by the Wisconsin 

 supreme court, in an opinion by Justice K. Siebecker, who held in the 

 case of the New Dells Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis., that typhoid 

 fever contracted through drinking w-ater furnished by the employer, and 

 resulting in the death of said employe, is an accident, and \^ithin the 

 meaning of the workmen's compensation act. 



This decision is probably the most far-reaching of any pronounced by 

 the court since the compensation act was enacted. Chief Justice Winslow 

 and .Justice Barnes dissent. 



(lerhardt Vennen, an employe of the company, died of typhoid fever, 

 after drinking water in the plant. His widow sued for $10,000 damages 

 alleged to have been sustained because of the death of her husband and 

 also $10,000 in behalf of the estate of the deceased for the benefit of his 

 heirs. Ex-Attorney General Sturdevant. appearing for the lumber com- 

 pany, contended that the company was operating under the workmen's 

 compensation law and that the death benefit should be paid according to 

 the terms of the law. This would limit the total settlement to $3,000. 

 Daniel H. Grady, Portage, appearing for the plaintiff, declared that the 

 compensation act did not apply and that Mrs. Vennen was entitled to 

 unlimited damages. 



The real question at issue was whether a disease contracted in this 

 manner is within the pale of the compensation act. Several other cases 

 are dependent upon the verdict in this litigation. 



Slamming American Oak 



A writer in the London Timber News delivers a slam on American oak, 

 by rating it below the other oaks in that market. He says : "American 

 oak, as a rival of Austrian, can be instantly dismissed. For, although 

 some of it is very boldly figured by reason of its deep silver grain, yet 

 the supplies reaching this country are so mixed and varied as regards tint 

 and texture that it is not practicable to secure suflicient uniformity of 

 appearance for better-class work. Moreover, in these timbers, derived 

 from several species of oak, sapwood is frequently included. American 

 oak is therefore not an adequate substitute for Austrian, and is properly 

 relegated to lower-class woodwork." 



Fortunately, a large number of oak users in England are not so hide- 

 bound in their estimate of .\merica's king of hardwoods. 



Hardwood 'News Notes 



=-< MISCELLANEOUS >-= 



The Atwood Veneer Company is out of business at Bald Knob, .Vrk. 



The George I. Parrisli Lumber Company has been incorporated at Epes. 

 Ala. 



F. A. Hathaway has been appointed receiver for the S. G. Gav Company. 

 Ottawa. 111. 



A $.50,000 fire less is reported entailed by the Kneeland-West Lumber 

 Company, Lugerville, Wis. 



Joseph I'lamondon, vice-president of the American Ladder Company, 

 Alonience, 111., died recently. 



Howard IC. Dickerson, Cincinnati, O., has sold out to the Stratemeyer 

 Lumber Company of that city. 



An application for dissolution has been filed by the Conant Carriage 

 Woodwork Company. Cincinnati, O. 



The plant of the Rhoda Lumber & Veneer Company, Morgan City, La., 

 has been advertised for sale by the receiver. 



A settlement of twenty cents on the dollar is being offered the creditors 

 of the American Woods Corporation. Boston, Mass. 



The mill of the Mansfield Ilardjvood Lumber Company at Winnfield, La., 

 was recently destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at $.'55,000. 



The Plattner-Y'ale Manufacturing Company has succeeded the Plattner 

 Implement Company at Denver, Col., and removed to Lincoln, Neb. 



A new factory building has just been erected by Wixom & Bensinger at 

 Ovid. Jlich., for the manufacture of handles, ax helves and wooden wagon 

 parts. 



The I'armers' Supply Company has been incorporated at Hatley, Wis., 

 with a capital stock of $10,000, by Fred Schneider, John J. Okoneski and 

 A. J. Plowman. 



The name of the .1. H. Tbiemeyer Company, Baltimore, Md., has been 

 changed to the Baltimore Box & Shook Company, which has been incorpo- 

 rated with a capital of $75,000. 



At Indianapolis. Ind.. the National Products Company has been incorpo- 

 rated with a capital of $1,000,000, the incorporators being Adolph Levy, 

 Oliver E. Ilawn, Edward Barret, .-August M. Kuhn and John B. Rice. 



The Southern Store Fixture Company has been incorporated at Birming- 

 ham, .\la., with a capital of $6,000. The ofiicers are: George N. Dobson, 

 president : James M. .Arnold, vice-president, and W. A. Dawson, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



The new factory building of the Michigan Hearse & Motor Company, 

 (irand Rapids, Mich., is nearing completion. The company will spend 

 about $20,000 for the new building and several thousands more for equip- 

 ment, it is stated. These improvements will double the capacity of the 

 plant. 



=-< CHICAGO >• 



The Uockford World Furniture Company has been incorporated at 

 Rockford, 111. 



N. A. Gladding, general sales manager cf E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., was in Chicago last week. Mr. Gladding attended the noonday 

 luncheon of the Chicago Lumbermen's Association. 



R. H. Downman, New Orleans, La., president of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association, spent several days in Chicago last week, in 

 conference with Secretary R. S. Kellogg of that organization. 



D. E. Kline, president of the Louisville Veneer Mills, Louisville, Ky., 

 was in the city on business for the greater part of last week. 



C. H. Sherrill of the Sherrlll-King Mill & Lumber Company, Paducah, 

 Ky., was in Chicago four or five days recentl.v in pursuit of business for his 

 organization. 



W. C. Calhoun of the Frost's Veneer Seating Company. Ltd., Sheboygan, 

 Wis., was a well-known member of the out-of-town trade who visited local 

 points %vithin the last few days. 



W. E. Vogelsang, sales manager of the Turtle Lake Lumber Company, 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., spent a couple of days with the local trade recently. 



John R. Andrews of Escanaba. Mich., who operates a Canadian mill, 

 manufacturing hardwoods and also does a wholesaling business at Esca- 

 naba, spent a couple of days the latter part of last week in Chicago. 



Alexander Strrock, of Alexander Strrock & Sons, Ltd., Melbourne. Aus- 

 tralia, was in Chicago for several days recently on a tour of woodworking 

 and woodworking machinery points in the United States. Mr. Strrock is 

 a large operator in .Vustralia, manufacturing box material and veneers and 

 lumber. 



=■< BUFFALO >= 



Receipts of lumber by lake for the past month were ;),0,';2.000 feet, or 

 nearly double the amount received in the same month last year. The total 

 so far this season runs over 25 per cent above last year to date, due 

 largely to greater hardwood receipts. 



President W. L. Sykes of the Emporium Lumber Company, who moved 

 from Buffalo to Utica about a year and a half ago. has resumed his resi- 

 dence here and it is quite likely that he will open an office also. He is at 

 present at the Adirondack headquarters of the company, near Childwold, 

 where business has been brisk ever .since the first mill was built. 



The A. J. Chestnut Lumber Company reports some good sales of low-end 

 hardwood, but as a rule is not pushing trade, as it is not considered very 

 active. 



Orson E. Yeager gave up a large part of his time to managing the cam- 

 paign of A. W. Kreinheder for councilman during the past few weeks and 

 is now back at his desk again, looking after the hardwood trade, which is 

 reported improving. 



