HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 191S 



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James P. Dragstnin, a well known builder and contractor, who was well 

 known among the lumber manufacturers and retail dealers of central 

 Indiana, died a few days ago at his home at Muncie, Ind., his death having 

 been caused by pneumonia. He was 79 years old. 



The planing mills of Evansville and several other wood consuming plants 

 are expecting to receive several large war orders from the United States 

 war department during the summer and fall months. This will be the 

 result of the recent visit of Elmer D. Luhring of the T.nhrins 

 Company, and Neal Sauer of the Cottage Building rniniiinv ;ii w 



ton. They interviewed various officials of the war (lii.an m ;ii 



ington and upon their return took the matter up witli t\\<- cliamlHr of 

 Commerce here. Several days ago the Evansville Tool Works received an 

 order from the war department for 4.000 camp axes a month for the next 

 year. The various box factories in Evansville have been working for the 

 past year on war orders and they have enough of these orders on hand 

 now to keep the plants busy for several months to come. One of the local 

 box factories will have jto increase its manufacturing space because of 

 the additional orders. 



Claude Wertz of Maley & Wertz, hardwood manufacturers, has been 

 selected secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Press Club to take the 

 place of Louis B. Levi, who recently resigned to go into training at Camp 

 Zachary Taylor at Louisville, Ky. Mr. Wertz has been a member of the 

 Evansville Press Club for several years. 



Charles A. Wolfiin, manager of the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company, 

 says that while be expects no boom in building during the summer and 

 fall months, he looks for the planing mills and retail dealers to keep fairly 

 busy. The planing mills have not been operating as steadily as they were 

 this time last year. Several of the small towns around Evansville report 

 some building this spring, but it is not believed their building operations 

 will compare with last year nr fh<^ year before. 



The Ayer & Lord Tir i niiipaiiv and the Ayer & Lord Barge Company, 

 both Illinois corporation- :,„.] IhiIi .biing business in the state of Indiana, 

 have filed notice witli tin' src n taiy of state that they have named Adolph 

 T. Decker of Evansville as their agent in the state. The Ayer & Lord Tie 

 Company does a big business in .ties along the lower Ohio river and its 

 tributaries each year. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club will 

 be held at the New Hotel Vendome on Tuesday night. May 14, and owing 

 to the fact that this will be the last meeting of the club until the first 

 Tuesday night in September. President George O. Worland is looking for 

 a large attendance. In addition to final plans for the regular summer 

 ■outing of the club being completed at this meeting, several other matters 

 will be taken up. It is expected that John C. Keller, traffic manager of 

 the club, will review the traffic work looked after by the club during the 

 past several months. President Worland is expected back from Kramer, 

 Ind., in time to attend the meeting. • 



The various lumber manufacturers of Evansville, as well as many of 

 the retail dealers and owners of wood consuming factories, will take an 

 active part in the war chest campaign that will open here on May 20 and 

 continue for one week. The plan adopted at Kenosha, Wis., for raising 

 money for the Red Cross and other war purposes has been adopted by 

 the Chamber of Commerce here, and it is expected that enough money 

 will be raised during the week's campaign here to defray the expenses of 

 all war work for the next twelve months. Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz 

 will be captain of one of tlie teams. 



Fred Bergman of Bergman & Mann, planing mill owners and lumber 

 dealers at Chrisney, Ind., was a business visitor in Evansville a few days 

 ago and reported trade conditions in his section coming along all right. 



"Bud" Scaggs, who for many years has been associated with the Helfrich 

 Lumlier & Manufacturing Company in this city, returned a few days ago 

 from a trip along Green and Barren rivers in western Kentucky. He 

 reports a good many logs cut and rafted along those rivers and all ready 

 to be towed here when needed by the river saw mills. The I'lver mills in 

 this vicinity have been closed for several months past, and it is not known 

 when they will resume operations. One of the mills that was operated 

 for more than fifty years by the Jolin A. Reitz & Sons has closed down 

 and the company some time ago announced that it would liquidate its 

 business. 



Charles M. Frisse, secretary of the Globe-Bosse-World Furniture Com- 

 pany of this city, is on one of the committees appointed by the local 

 council of the Knights of Columbus here to build a new home and hall 

 for the order. 



There will be a special meeting of the Evansville Furniture Manufac- 

 turers' Association in a few days to talk over plans for holding their 

 regular summer outing. The outing last year was given on a steamboat 

 and barge on the Ohio river, but it is expected the river trip will be called 

 off this year because of the scarcity of steamboats. 



=■< LOUISVILLE >= 



Considerable interest is lieing taken by lumber and other manufacturers 

 in the recent announcement relative to the department of labor placing 

 United States employment service stations in six cities in Kentucky. These 

 stations will be located at Louisville, Henderson, Ashland, Newport, Cov- 

 ington and Paducah. It is planned to have these stations co-operate with 

 one another, and with similar stations in other states, in order to facilitate 

 distributing labor where it .Is most needed, so that there will not be an 



excess or shortage at any given point. These stations will also cooperate 

 with the various old employment bureaus, and if proper cooperation results 

 it is believed that they may aid considerably in supplying manufacturers 

 with a better class of labor. It is pointed out that at the present time, 

 and under the system of men merely 1m,, kin- f.n- jobs, many men are 

 working in industries for whch they :iv n.it .un il It Is believed that 

 under the new system work will be Initii- .li^ii iimtcd, and some rcliei 

 effected. It is pointed out that a centralized bureau in Ohio has been 

 doing excellent work in the past six months. This bureau has received ^ 



more than 200.000 inquiries for labor, has supplied 160,000 men and i 

 women who were sent to the employers, and has sent a total of 190,00(^ 

 applicants to the employers. It is claimed that the Ohio bureau has done 

 excellent work, and relieved the situation somewhat. 



Alonzo H. Ross, 45 years old, former president of the Ross Chair Manu- 

 facturing Company, brother of Sheriff W. E. Ross, present president of 

 the company, and a prominent local business man, died on April 27. 



Indications are that the Foundation Company of New York, shipbuilders, V 



will shortly definitely decide on a location for an inland shipbuilding plant ' 



at the Falls Cities. F. W. Adgage, western manager of the company, 

 has been spending a good deal of time in the district of late, and is said 

 to have about completed a deal for taking over the Howard shipyards 

 at Jeffersonville, Ind., and two adjoining properties. It is also possible 

 that the company may build an out plant on the Ohio, south of Louisville, 

 where some big land options have recently been taken. 



The American Car & Foundry Company, which recently secured some 

 large contracts for construction of freight cars, plans to begin building 

 freight cars at the Jeffersonville, Ind., plant again, although for the past 

 several years that plant has built nothing but passenger coaches. How- 

 ever, the taking off of many passenger trains has resulted in the railroads 

 having a surplus of pass,.nL'.M- .^naches, and very little buying has been 



indulged in. The .liii'! Hn piaiit expects to build wooden box and 



other cars, using St rri : , i ,. in n ipally. 



Liberty loan cainiiaiun iiiiiiim^ were recently held in several of the 

 woodworking plants north nf l.nuisville, at New Albany, where the quota 

 was finally raised with comparative ease. One of these noonday meet- 

 ings was held at; the plant of the Indiana Veneer & Panel Company and 

 another at the plant of the Wood Mosaic Company. Both meetings showed 

 excellent results. 



A. E. Norman, Jr., of the Norman Lumber Company, also president of 

 the Louisville Hardwood Club, and director of the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association, was appointed a member of the exe.cutive committee 

 of the Princeton Alumni Association of Kentucky at the annual meeting 

 held at the Pendennis Club last week. 



McCammon & Keller of Lebanon, Ky., liav been doing a good deal of 

 country newspaper advertising in an effort to secure material for the new- 

 spoke factories installed at Lebanon, and which operate in conjunction 

 with the concern's sawmills. The company is paying $40 a thousand for 

 hickory and oak logs, and $60 per thousand pieces for 2% -inch by 30-inch 

 spokes. 



--< LITTLE ROCK >■= 



The stave plant of the Henry Wrape Company at Paragould, Ark., was 

 destroyed by fire on Friday afternoon. May 3. The dry kiln, a large work 

 room, machinery, engines and boilers are a total loss. The value of the 

 plant, which was one of the largest of the kind in the state, was more 

 than $75,000. 



The planing mill of the Granger-Kelley Lumber Company at Eureka 

 Springs, Ark., was burned on the night of May 2. entailing a loss esti- 

 mated to be $20,000. Several cars of lumber were also destroyed. 



The A. M. Richardson Lumber Company of Helena has filed articles of 

 incorporation showing a capital stock of $100,000. The incorporators 

 are A. M. Richardson, president ; Louise McDonald Richardson, vice-presi- 

 dent ; W. M. Daily, treasurer, and A. M. Richardson, secretary. 



The Peyton Lumber Company of St. Louis is to establish a branch lum- 

 ber yards in Pine Bluff, Ark., according to an announcement made by 

 E. B. Bloom, secretary of the Pine Bluff Chamber of Commerce. 



TEXAS 



Beaumont Hoo Hoos will erect the first Hoo Hoo home in the United 

 States, announcement to this effect having been made at the observance 

 of Hoo Iloo day, .\pril 27, with W. A. Priddie, supreme snark of the 

 universe, presiding. Plans as worked out by Mr. Priddie and H. D. 

 Fletcher, vice-gerent of this district, call for a site on the Neches river, 

 where an nbl fashioned log house two stories in height and finished in 

 the r.umli ^viil lie elected. The building will cover a ground space of about 

 50x11(1 ami ivill inntain every modern convenience. The logs will be 

 douatiil i.y tlir himliermen in this 'district and an old time house raising 

 day will i cnnijlrte the building between suns. The interior of the structure 

 will i.r 1 iii^ibly finished, except the floor, which will be polished hardwood, 

 making .,n,- uf the finest dance floors in the city. A kitchen, banquet hall, 

 na.lin.: i.H.iu, library and rest room for ladies and members of the order 



Airaiigements are being made to allow the government free u.se of a 

 lOO-acrf park site in Beaumont to accommodate the large timber assem- 

 bling plant John Henry Kirby has designated for the city to speed up ship 

 work. Thousands of fc^it of ship timbers will be stored here for the use 

 of the yards in Beauiinml. Houston, Orange, Rockport and Morgan City. 



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