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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 25, 191S 



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With the Trade 



Furniture Plant Damaged by Fire 



The plant of the Nicholsou-Kriicilc Funiiiiire Company of Huntington, 

 \V. Va., was considerably damagr.l l.y tw.. liivs on the night of August 18. 

 The first blaze originated in some excelsior in the basement and was 

 promptly extinguished. A second alarm was turned in about two hours 

 later and this fire caused considerably more damage. The company's 

 actual loss has not yet been estimated. 



Walnut Mill Begins Cutting 



The new walnut mill of the Springfield Machinery Company of Spring- 

 field. Mo., began cutting on Monday. August 12. The company had on 

 hand when the mill started about SU.OOO feet of walnut logs. These w^ll 

 be turned into gunstock planks. 



Walter S. Eddy 



Walter S. Eddy, one of the most prominent of northern manufacturers, 

 died at Saginaw, Mich., early this month at the age of sixty-three. Mr. 

 Eddy had been ill only three days, his trouble being caused by throat 

 infection, which necessitated an operation. 



Mr. Eddy was the son of Charles K. Eddy oi ^,ijiii,,u \,,ll. i i, The 



Eddy interests have been prominent in north, in !■ , Id- 

 generations and have spreail out beyond the lin ; i . i ^^ 



and are now linked with many other enterprisrv m , i,, m i nni i, i uriii; and 

 commercial fields in that territory. 



Lumber Commissioner for British Columbia 



A special lumber-trade commissioner to Great I'.ritain and Europe has 

 been appointed by the government of British Columbia. The new appointee 

 is L. B. Beale. who has spent sixteen years in the lumber business in Great 

 Britain and has a practical insight into British building requirements. 

 It will be the duty of Mr. Beale, in his new post, to foster and develop 

 the British and other European markets (or the products of the Pacific 

 Coast Province of Canada and to obtain the fullest and most accurate 

 information possible on the outlook and requisitions across the water 

 in regard to timber, more particularly in the lines that British Columbia 

 is able to furnish in abundance. Mr. Beale will get in touch with the 

 timber controller in Great Britain and also with the ministry of recon- 



The British Columbia minister of lands, Hon. T. D. Pattullo, in making 

 announcement of the appointment of Mr. Beale, said : "The government 

 is determined to win for British Columbia its share in the overseas mar- 

 ket. If conditions warrant, Mr. Beale will remain in Europe perma- 

 nently." 



Important Boston Merger 



One of the most important developments in the hardwood trade is the 

 merging of th- .,M i„i in, s. ,,r Willi:,, „ K, i.if.i.ii,!,] and that of Herbert 

 F. Hunter un,!, i ili. -hi, ..( il,, I, .V II. I.,iiiil„i' c.inpany, occupying the 



entire thir.l I' ,1 \.. 77 Kilii ^i,,(i. r.,,ili lirms- have transferred 



their oflnce .•.luii.i,,. in i, ili,,ii irsp,.rtiv.j ryuiiis iu the Mason building. 



70 Kilby street. H. F. Hunter first entered the lumber business as book- 

 keeper for W. E. Litchfield in 1897 and has during the past twenty years 

 been affiliated with the Mystic Lumber Company, the Palmer-Hunter Lum- 

 ber Company and conducted business for his own account. His return to 

 close association with the Litchfield interests marks the initiation of a 

 strong and progressive factor in the local wholesale field with the most 

 favorable antecedents and prospects through the long I'xiierieuce of the 



partners and their connections with tl,,' mill ..| l.ii. i 1,1 I'.l.s. at North 



Vernon. Ind., and other mills in Vern,,,ni Wi;:, n i i , i,, l,l. president 



of the corporation, is widely known in ,, ',.ing a past 



president of the Massachusetts Wholcsal,' l.uinl,. i A i: ii .,, and occupy- 

 ing two important offices at present; H. F. Hunter is treasurer and his 

 large acquaintance in both the selling and producing sections will qualify 

 him for his management of those functions. The secretary is Arthur M. 

 Moore, who has been confidential man for W. E. Litchfield for nearly 

 twenty years and has been secretary of the Massachusetts Wholesale asso- 

 ciation for about ten years. The capitalization of the L. & H. Lumber 

 Company is $25,000, being incorporated under the laws of Massachu.setts. 



Ordnance Department Announces New District 



The War Department authorizes the following from the Ordnance 

 Department : 



Announcement is made by the Ordnance Department of the establish- 

 ment of a new district to be known as the St. Louis ordnance district 

 with headquarters in that city. M. E. Singleton has been named as ord- 

 nance chief. The territory covered by the new district will include the 

 states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Mon- 

 tana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Washington, 

 Oregon, Nevada and California. The district also includes all that por- 

 tion of Illinois lying south of the northerly boundaries of the following 

 counties : Adams, Schuyler, Cass, Macoupin, Christian, Shelby, Cumber- 

 land and Crawford. 



The territory embraced by the new St. Louis district has previously been 

 administered by the Chicago district office, the territory of which is nf 



modified to include the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North 

 l>akota, South Dakota, that portion of Illinois lying north of the northerly 

 boundaries of the counties mentioned above, and that portion of Indiana 

 lying north of the northerly boundary of Warren, Grant, Clinton, Jay, 

 Tippecanoe, Blackford and Howard counties. 



The location and date of opening of the St. Louis office will be an- 

 nounced later. 



Mr. Singleton, the ordnance district chief, was from 1902 to 1911 vice- 

 president of the East St. Louis Cotton Oil Company, and from the latter 

 date until last March was president and general manager of that concern. 

 He is a director in the Mechanics' American National Bank of St. Louis 

 and in several other banks in Missouri. 



George J. Roberts of East Orange, N. J., vice-president and general 

 manager of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, was recently 

 appointed as ordnance district chief of the New Tork district, and will 

 have his office in the Albemarle building, Broadway at 24th street. 



The assignment of the St. Louis office to the western territory completes 

 the list of eleven districts into which this country has been divided, the 

 complete list of cities in which offices are located now being : Boston, 

 Mass. ; Bridgeport, Conn. ; New York, N. Y. ; Chicago, 111. ; Cincinnati and 

 Cleveland, O. ; Detroit, Mich.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Roches- 

 ter, N. Y., and St. Louis, Mo. 



There is also an ordnance district office established in Toronto for 



Pertinent Information 



Woodworkers Organize for War Work 



Members of the woodworking trade of Atlanta, Ga., and in more than 

 forty counties embraced in the Atlanta district of the war industries board 

 organized themselves for war work at a noon meeting on Thursday, 

 August 15. Albert Fox, president of the Southern Upholstering Com- 

 pany, was elected chairman. A general meeting will be called immediately 

 and sub-chairmen will probably be appointed. 



More than forty were present representing manufacturers of furniture, 

 tables, showcases, carriages, wagons and buggies, chairs, caskets, boxes and 

 tanks, fixtures, automobile bodies, refrigerators, paving blocks, lumber, 

 sash, doors and blinds, etc. 



Shellac and Other Lacs on Restricted Imports List 



The War Trade Board has placed shellac, button lac, seed lac, garnet 

 lac and kerrie or refuse lac on the list of restricted imports. All out- 

 standing licenses for the importation of these commodities have been 

 revoked as to ocean shipments after August 15, 1918 ; and hereafter no 

 licenses for their importation will be issue except such as will cover the 

 following : 



(1) Shipments from Canada or Mexico by other than ocean transpor- 



(2)' Shipments from Calcutta between the 1st day of October, 1918, 

 and the -31st day of March, 1919, inclusive, of a total of not to exceed 

 5,000 tons. 



(3) Shipments on vessels of the United States Navy of quantities for 

 military or naval use. 



Government Action Regarding Minimum Wage 



The .shipping board of the Emergency Fleet Corporation issues a state- 

 ment to the effect that the war labor board Is not ready to announce a 

 fixed policy on minimum wages. It refers, however, to a decision of July 

 23 giving indications of future action. 



At Waynesboro, Pa., 3000 men in eight plants struck for a minimum of 

 30 cents per hour. The lowest paid men had been getting 22 cents. The 

 board established a minimum of 40 cents or 10 cents more than the workers 

 asked. The board is giving further consideration to this minimum and 

 reserves the right to revise it on the basis of what is necessary to main- 

 tain the worker and his family in reasonable comfort. 



The decision made no chfinge in the workers' hours, and allows time and 



a half for ordinary overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays. 



Building Permits for July 



The two elements most conspicuous in current building operations arc 

 factory additions, necessitated by war work, and housing needs for war 

 workers. These are considerable, for there has been a great displacement 

 of population, due to the intensive governmental activities. Incidental to 

 the above there has been some work of a miscellaneous character, includ- 

 ing scliools, places of amusements, etc., for it has been learned that 

 various other structures besides dwellings are essential to insure the 

 greatest efficiency of workmen. The present policy of the government, to 

 shift to the greatest degree possible factory work to centers where acute 

 housing congestion does not exist, is widening the area where building 

 operations may be regarded as active. A conspicuous example of this is 

 furnished by the building permits, issued during July at Chicago. There 

 was a gain of 16 per cent in estimated cost over July, last year, and it 

 was due to government work. 



The building permits issued in 141 cities during July, as officially 



reported to the American Contractor, Chicago, totaled $42,081,409, com- 



V pared with $.")7,41'2,819 for July, 1917, a decrease of 30 per cent. The 



