HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10, 1918 



Wkh the Trade 



Emergency Fleet Building Established 



The United States Shipping Board Corporation announces the head oCBce 

 building of the corporation in Philadelphia will be known as the United 

 States Shipping Board, United States Fleet Corporation building, the 

 address being corner of Broad and Cherry streets. This address took 

 effect on June 1. 



Strike Delays Issue 



This issue of Hardwood Record has been considerably delayed on ac- 

 count of the strike of pressmen throughout Chicago. Hardwood Record 

 regrets that the issue is not on the press with the usual promptness, but 

 the circumstances were not subject to our control. 



Edward Hines, Jr., Dies in France 



A cablegram received from France on Sunday, June 9. at the home of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hines, Evanston, 111., announced the death of their 

 son, Edward Hines, Jr., in the base hospital in France. 



Lieut. Hines had been in the hospital for some time since he had been 

 stricken with pneumonia after having been exposed in the trenches. 



Lieut. Hines was twenty-one years old and Joined the army through 

 the first officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan, he having been a senior 

 at Yale at the time he enlisted. He was assigned to a machine gun outfit 

 and left for France last December. He developed rheumatism while in 

 the trenches but refused to leave his duties until he eventually became 

 so weak he had to be carried to his quarters. He was moved later to a 

 hospital where pneumonia developed. 



Who's Who with Atkins 



It has not been our privilege for some time to present to the gaze of 

 admiring subscribers the handsome visage of Lew Doster of erstwhile 

 association fame. Mr. Doster through his former association activities, 

 was very much in the limelight as far as publicity is concerned, not because 

 he sought it but because he earned it. 



For the past five years Mr. Doster has been actively and successfully 

 connected with E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., the Silver Steel saw people of 

 Indianapolis, Ind. His natural ability coupled with his wide and Intimate 

 acquaintance among lumber manufacturers, has brought him unusual suc- 

 cess which resulted a short time ago in his promotion from the position 

 of assistant sales manager of the mill department to that of sales man- 

 ager of the mill department. 



At the same time Don R. Forsythe has been appointed to supersede in 

 his work in the southern states. He has the title of efficiency expert 

 for the mill department and his duties will take him through all of the 

 southern states in the territories of the Atlanta, Memphis and New Orleans 

 branches. 



Mr. Forsythe is well known to sawmill men of the Southeast, having 

 been connected with the Atlanta branch for some years. He has earned 

 his promotion by reason of his thorough knowledge of saws and mills and 

 by his knack of turning this knowledge to the advantage of mill owners 

 and operators whom he has often assisted in increasing production and 

 improving quality of cut. 



New Hardwood Mill at Couderay 



The new mill of the Bekkcdal Lumber Company located at Couderay, 

 Wis., started work about a month ago. The mill will cut hardwoods and 

 hemlock and has been under construction for the past eight months. It 

 is pronounced one of the best of Its size and kind in northern Wisconsin. 

 It will require the services of 150 men at the plant and will turn out 

 about 125,000 feet for every twenty hours' run. 



The company has about 14,000,000 feet of logs on hand and will not be 

 able to complete the cut this year operating day and night. 



The Bekkedal Lumber Company will cut most of its logs from the 

 Couderay Indian Reservation near Couderay, Wis. It expects to have 

 twelve to fifteen years' cut. 



Baker-Matthews Moves to Memph 



The Baker-Matthews Lumber Company, Sikeston, Mo., which has up 

 to now maintained sales offices in the Fisher building, Chicago, J. H. 

 Stannard being manager, announced on May 27 that it was moving the 

 sales offices to Memphis. The idea is that with present competition and 

 rapid changes of conditions it Is desirable to have the sales office as near 

 the producing end as possible. 



Adequate room has been engaged in suite 1500 Bank of Commerce & 

 Trust building, Memphis, and the company requests that all mailing lists 

 be changed to show the new address. 



Mr. Stannard will still be in charge at the Memphis office. 



Furniture People Adopt Trade Acceptance Form 



M. Wulpl, commissioner for the Central Bureau of Affiliated Furniture 

 and Casket Manufacturers, in a recent bulletin showed one of the ap- 

 proved forms of trade acceptances adopted for the use of the members. 

 The bureau recommends the use of this one form so as to make the 

 procedure uniform among the entire membership. The advantages in this 

 particular case are that it does not disfigure the face by cross face ac- 

 ceptances ; it furnishes the debtor copy and explains plainly why he should 

 execute it ; it is simple and easy to understand. 



Commenting on the trade acceptance. Mr. Wulpi says that when all Is 

 said and done it is a matter of changing the dealer over to this rule and 

 that this will take time. It cannot be expected that all will use trade 

 acceptances at first, but that many do and that the number is increas- 

 ing. He maintains that it is up to the manufacturer to insist on its use, 

 it being intended primarily for dealers who do not discount their bills. 



Lumber Traffic Expert Now in Service 



Roy Browning late assistant to R. R. May of the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association, Louisville branch, who after being turned down by 

 the navy on account of defective eyesight, was finally given a chance in 

 the draft and is now in service at Columbia, S. C, where he is a member 

 of Company C, First Battalion, First Brigade, Field Artillery, R. D. 



Mr. Browning saw several months' service with the traffic bureau fol- 

 lowing considerable activity in Investigation work. For several years he 

 was with the freight department of the Louisville & Nashville. He is 

 quite a noted athlete and in addition to physical department work in 

 Louisville Y. M. C. A. was prominent in baseball, football and other ath- 

 letic circles. 



The traffic association presented Mr. Browning with a handsome watch 

 on his leaving, while employes of t,he Louisville office tendered him a 

 Gillette war outfit. 



LEWIS DOSTER, SALES MANAGER, MILL DON R. FORSYTHE, EFFICIENCY EXPERT, BOY BROWNING, FORMERLY OF LOUIS- 



DEPARTMEXT, E. C. ATKINS & CO. MILL DEPARTMENT, E. C. ATKINS & CO. VILLB, NOW WITH NATIONAL ARMY 



