March 25, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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We sincerely extend our friendly sympnthy to his family and business 

 associates, and feel that our indu^:try has lost a champion of inestimable 

 worth, 



Sumner-Nostrand 



Herbert E. Sumner of the Sumner Lumber Company, 50 Church street, 

 New York. N. T., was married on Thursday evening, March 16. to Miss 

 Ethelynd Xostrand. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .Tohn Nostrand of C32 East- 

 ern Parkway. Brooklyn. The ceremony was held at St. Taul's Congre- 

 gational Church. Brooklyn, the Rev. Dr. N. McGee Waters ofliciating. 



Hamilton U. Salmon, Jr.. a cousin of I he bridegroom, and son of Hamil- 

 ton H. Salmon of Hamilton H. Sainton & Co., New York, well known in 

 lumber circles, acted as best man. 



Among the ushers was Samuel Vrooman, Philadelphia, also well-known 

 in foreign and domestic hardwood and fancy wood circles. 



Following the ceremony an elaborate dinner was served at the Hotel 

 Bossert. 



Mr. and Mrs. Sumner are spending their honeymoon at T.akewood, N. J. 



Johnson — Bradford 

 On March 14 Charles W. .lolinsou. pn --i.l. iit of the St. Louis Basket & 

 Box Company, and a member of the school lioard of St. Ijouis, was married 

 In New York City to Miss Willa Bradford. This is the culmination of an 

 Alaskan romance. Tlie couple expect to sjicnd their honeymoon at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and Hot Springs, Va. 



Little Rock Lumber & Manufacturing Company Working New 



Timber 



D. S. Watrous of the Little I{"<k lauidiiT & Manufacturing Company, 

 Little Rock, announces that his tlrm is completing a six mile extension 

 to a tract of timber of 30.000.000 feet, principally high-grade white oak. 

 The company's mill, having a daily capacity of 40.000 feet, has not been 

 in operation for some time, but will resume cutting on April 1, and work 

 on a day and night shift, cutting 75.000 f,.i.t a day. 



Planning Woodworking Factory for Stevens Point 



It is announced from Stevens Point, Wis., that Emil Belke is contem- 

 plating the erection of a woodworking factory to specialize in sash, doora 

 and interior finish. Mr. Belke, who Is a cabinet maker by trade, is the 

 owner of the Cabella property In Stevens Point, and his plans provide 

 for the remodeling of one of the bulhllngs thereon and the installation 

 of the necessary machinery with electric power. 



New Factory for Appleton Firm 



The Appleton Wood Products Company, Appleton. Wis., is having plans 

 prepared for its new factory which will be erected at Appleton. The new 

 building will be 170 feet long by 40 feet wide. 



Change in Grand Rapids Millwork Firm 

 The Grand Rapids Lumber i^ompany. Grand Uapids. Mich., is erecting a 

 new planing mill adjoining its lumber plant at that point. The new mill 

 will be 60x60 feet, two stories high, and will be equipped with planing mill 

 and other millwork machiner.v. Tlie company sold its old planing mill to 

 the Sanitary Milk Company, which firm will use it for a warehouse. 

 The new mill will be a model affair in every particular. 



New Sales Manager for Big Cypress Company 

 The Big Salkehatchie Cypress Company. Varnville, S. C.. announces 

 that W. W. Simmons has been appointed sales manager. Mr. Simmons is a 

 native Texan, but has been associated with tlie cypress sawmills in Louis- 

 iana for the past ten years, starting as bookkeeper and paymaster in the 

 logging department of the F. B. Williams Cypress Company. Patterson, 

 La, From there he went with the Lutcher & Moore interests as assistant to 

 the superintendent. He was next connected with the Lyon Cypress Lumber 

 Company, leaving there to accept a position with the St, Bernard Cypress 

 Company of New Orleans. 



The Big Salkehatchie Cypress Company, which is one of the R. H. Down- 

 man mills, started operations last September and from the start has cut 

 stock widths, and is piling lumber on eight-foot bottoms with three foot air 

 space between piles, each grade, width, thickness and length being stacked 

 separately. 



E. C. Glenn, second vice-president and general manager of the company, 

 states that there is now about 9,000,000 feet of lumber on the yards and 

 that the planing mill wDl be in operation the latter part of this month. 



Re-Elected Secretary and General Manager of Garetson-Greason 

 Lumber Company 

 W. W. Dings, for many years secretary and general manager of the 

 Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, St. Louis. Mo., and probably better 

 known to the trade as "Billy" Dings, has been re-elected by the board 

 of directors of the company to that position. Mr. Dings announces that 

 the business will continue as heretofore. 



Big Baltimore Factory Burns — Loss $550,000 



One of the biggest fires which Baltimore has had for some time, if not 

 the largest in point of monetary loss since the great conflagration in 

 1904, broke out on the night of March 16. about 10 :.j0 o'clock, in the 

 show case, office fixture and bar room equipment factory of the F. X. 

 Ganter Company, at Ostend, Leadenhall and West streets, the establish- 

 ment taking in a whole block on one street and running back half a 

 block. It was an hour before the blaze could be even brought under 



control, and far into the next day before it was actually put out. It 

 spread to various other places, among them the plant of the. Baltimore 

 Cooperage Company, the cooperage works of Michael Daily, and the John 

 H. Grimes Packing Box Factory, besides damaging some other structures. 

 The total loss is put at about $550,000, mostly covered by insurance. 

 Four firemen were slightly injured and a number of the occupants of 

 houses in the vicinity had narrow escapes. The cause of the blaze is not 

 known. Nor has it been settled yet if F. X. Ganter, head of the company, 

 will rebuild. He emijioyod some 200 men and the factory was among the 

 best known in the South. Numerous barrels of varnish and quicksilver 

 in solution for the mirror backing caused explosions, which for a time 

 endangered the firemen. Half an hour after the blaze had gotten a start 

 the walls of the Ganter factory fell in, 



Sayers & Scoville Plant Destroyed 



The carriage plant of the Sayers & Scoville Carriage Company, on Cole- 

 rain avenue, Cincinnati, O.. a large carriage manufacturing concern in the 

 Middle West, was destroyed by fire of mysterious origin last week, entail- 

 ing a loss estimated at $500,000. The blaze was first noticed at 10 :30 p. m., 

 and before the first fire company, only a few blocks away, arrived on the 

 scene, the entire plant seemed ablaze, the inflammable grease, paints, varnish 

 and wheel, shaft and body stocks feeding the flames. The entire plant was 

 practically destroyed within a half hour. , 



The structure was a six-story brick, covering nearly a block, with a 

 smaller five-story annex. The concern manufactures all kinds of pleasure 

 carriages and hearses. Thousands of feet of fine hardwood lumber for body 

 work in nearby yards was damaged, but most of this was saved. C. A. 

 Eisenhart, secretary of the company, and John A. Campbell, superintendent, 

 believe the loss may reach $000,000, fully protected by In.surance. 



William A. Sa.vers, president, said that the heaviest loss would come 

 through the loss of unfinished orders. He said they were working full force 

 on orders amounting to .'5200.000 and carried a great amount of raw mate- 

 rials, lumber, oil. paint, etc. About 200 men will be thrAwn out of employ- 

 ment. Arrangements will be made soon to resume operations. The concern 

 is one of the ofdest manufacturers of horse drawn vehicles in the country, 

 but recently has been manufacturing motor ears on a limited scale. 



Huddleston-Marsh Warehouse Destroyed 



On Monday night, March 20. the warehouse of the Huddleston-Marsh 

 Mahogany Company, adjoining the offices at 2256 Lumber street, Chicago, 

 was destroyed by fire with its complete stock of lumber, veneers and panels. 

 The fire is believed to have been started from crossed wires. The shed 

 and contents were all that were consumed as the .yard and office were saved 

 after strenuous work. The- resulting loss was about $50,000 completely 

 covered by insurance, which is adready adjusted. 



The Huddleston-Marsh Mahogany Company has a good stock of veneers 

 on hand at New York and a fair stock at its Indiana .yard. The stock 

 consumed by the fire was 125.000 feet of lumber : 1,000.000 feet of high- 

 grade veneer and 115,000 feet of panels. The most unfortunate feature of 

 the fire was the fact that some specially beautiful veneers, which it will 

 be difficult, it not impossible, to replace, were consumed. One large order 

 was crated to be shipped out the next day. This was burned with the rest. 



The company had about 300.000 feet of lumber in its yard, and while 125,- 

 000 feet of it were consumed in the fire, arrangements have already been 

 made to purchase enough stock to take its place. 



R. S. Huddleston, president of the company, came on from New York 

 immediately upon receipt of news of the fire and has been in Chicago since. 

 He states that the company has a very fair stock of mahogany logs In 

 prospect as it has six months' charter on a steamer working from Mexico. 

 This steamer will shortly leave with a fair cargo. 



There will also be a shipment of 150.000 feet of African logs coming from 

 Liverpool shortly. 



Change of Firm Name 



The Berlin Machine Works. Beloit, Wis., sends Hardwood Record the 

 following announcement : 



"It is hereby announced that the firm name of The Berlin Machine 

 Works, Beloit. Wis.. V. S. A., has been changed to P. B. Yates Machine 

 Company. Ever since the business was founded, forty years ago, in the 

 little Wisconsin town of Berlin, from which It took its name, considerable 

 annoyance has been experienced through the adoption of this name by many 

 other small concerns established in cities of the same name in various states. 

 The motive of such firms is quite obvious. In the Interest of our patrons and 

 the good will and prestige enjoyed, we have concluded to change the name 

 as above. 



"This change is confined to name only. The same personnel, officers, 

 capital and policy remain as heretofore. 



Officially. L. D. Forbes, Secretary." 



It Got By 



The last issue of H.\rdwood Record contained the following item : 



"The Big Four Railway Comijany has a unique idea in wood preserving 

 which is attracting attention of lumbermen generally. The road has a 

 large surplus of railroad ties and is burying them in piles of 25 along 

 its right of way and in that way preserving them for the future." 



As we have on two or three occasions in connection with articles on 

 forest fire fighting mentioned this means of protecting logs and ties, it 

 is apparent that the item simply slipped by without our seeing it. 



In justice to C. A. Paquette, chief engineer of the Big Four, with offices 



