HARDWOOD RECORD 



li.iM installed In their offices in the Bank of Commerce & Trust Company 

 hiiihiing a desk and chair made entirely of red gum. The former company 

 is a large manufacturer of gum at its mill at Richey, Miss., and has 

 taken this means of impressing Its visitors with the possibilities of this 

 particular material. It is asserted by members of the two companies 

 that there Is not another piece of furniture in Memphis, outside of a 

 special exhibit, made entirely of this material. 



h\ E. Gary, general manager of the Baker Lumber Company, Turrell, 

 Ark., and one of the Joint owners of the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Com- 

 pany, has recently returned from attending the annual meeting of the 

 McCarroll Lumber Company, Holden, La., of wlilch he is one of the 

 directors. This company operates a double band mill, one side being used 

 for the manufacture of liardwood lumber and the other for the cutting 

 of yellow pine. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc., has recently returned 

 from a business trip to Cairo, 111. 



F. B. Robertson of the Anderson-Tully Company, is back from a visit 

 to Vicksburg, Miss., where the firm operates two sawmills and a large 

 box factory. 



Otis A. Felger, one of the stockholders in the Memphis Band Mill 

 Company, of Memphis, but having his headquarters in Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., has been a visitor here during the past few days. 



Philip A. Ryan, who was prominently identified with the hardwood 

 lumber Industry of Memphis for a number of years but who is now at the 

 head of the Philip A. Ryan Lumber Company, Onalaska, Tex., has been 

 circulating among his many friends here this week. 



president ; C. C. Gilbert, Nashville, secretary. The headQuarters will be 

 in Nashville. The workmen's compensation problem was given much 

 consideration. 



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Efficiency from a scientific standpoint is being given a test at the 

 big plant of the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company in this city. 

 Dr. Henry Mace Payne, C. E., Ph. D., Sc. D., representing a New York 

 firm of engineers, with several assistants, has been employed In estab- 

 lishing standard costs of operation at the big plant. The work applies 

 to the handling of lumber, the utilization of power, and the most 

 scientific methods In all departments. The engineers make a study of 

 the entire plant, and then report their findings and recommendations. 

 Dr. Payne delivered an address before the Commercial Club, in which he 

 showed that wonderful savings can be made by scientific methods. At 

 one mill new machinery was being considered to get more power, where 

 a scientific engineer had only to change the style of belts in order to 

 get much more power than was needed. He showed how heavy reduc- 

 tions can be made at some plants in stacking and handling lumber. He 

 also extended his address to many industries. 



The main building and band sawmill plant of the Hardwood Lumber 

 Manufacturing Company, at Tullahoma, Tenn., was destroyed by fire 

 April 19, causing a loss of over §20,000, with $11,500 insurance. The 

 plant has been closed down. It was formerly owned by the Greenfleld- 

 Talbot Furniture Company, of Nashville, but had been taken over by 

 Tullahoma men, and leased to the Hardwood Manufacturing Company, 

 of which Harry Parker was president. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club has filed a complaint with the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission against the Louisville & Nashville 

 and twenty-five other railroads, asking for more reasonable transit 

 privileges at Nashville, and alleging discrimination in favor of several 

 cities on the Ohio river. More reasonable "policing" of milling-in-transit 

 of logs will also be asked. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club has decided to attend the annual 

 convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Association in Buffalo 

 June lS-19 in great style. It was decided that the club will attend in a 

 body, and will also make a tour in chartered cars of the North and East 

 In the interest of the Nashville hardwood market. The trip will extend 

 over a period of ten days. The party will leave Nashville, June 14, 

 be at Cincinnati, June 15, at Detroit June 16-17, at Buffalo convention 

 June IS, 19 and 20, at Niagara Falls, June 21, at Rochester June 22. at 

 Syracuse and Albany June 23, and arrive at New York City June 24. 

 Hamilton Love is chairman of the committee on arrangements. It is 

 expected that the trip will be a great boost to the Nashville hardwood 

 market. The following firms are members of the club, and it is expected 

 all will be represented : J. W. Alford & Co., Baker, Jacobs & Co.. David- 

 son, Hicks & Greene Company, Dunlap Lumber Company, Farris Hard 

 wood Lumber Company, Hunt, Washington & Smith, Lieberman, Love- 

 man & O'Brien, Loevenhart & Co., Love, Boyd & Co., H. A. McCowen 

 & Co., J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., Morford Lumber Company, Nashville 

 Hardwood Flooring Co., John B. Ransom & Co., Silber Lumber Co., 

 Tennessee Hardwood Lumber Company, Tennessee Oak Flooring Company, 

 and Wistar, rnderhill & Nixon. 



The Nashville Lumberman's Club has appointed P. J. Loevenhart as 

 its representative on the southern trade expansion tour to be taken the 

 week of May 17-'24 on a special train under the auspices of the Nashville 

 Commercial Club. The trip will include Birmingham, Montgomery, 

 Mobile, New Orleans, Jackson, Miss., and Memphis. Several of the 

 lumber firms will have representatives. 



President Hender.son Baker of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club has 

 been appointed a member of the board of governors of the Commercial 

 Club, and the lumber organization will aflJliate with the central business 

 men's organization. 



The Tennessee Manufacturers' Association met irt annual session in 

 Nashville and elected the following officers : T. F. Bonner, Nashville, 



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D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, is running for president of 

 the Louisville Commercial Club, one of the largest commercial bodies 

 in the country, against his choice. He declined nomination when his 

 name was put up by a committee of the club, bat the board of directors 

 refused to permit him to withdraw. The annual meeting will be held 

 in May. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club is planning an Investigation of fire 

 insurance rates, reports from some of its members showing that a wide 

 divergeuco in rates exists. It is said by those familiar with the situation 

 that tiie fire insurance companies have never applied the Dean schedule 

 to local lumber yards, though this is conceded to be the only proper 

 rating system. Rates now In effect are the outgrowth of the application 

 of the old mercantile schedule of the Louisville Board of BMre Under- 

 writers, whic'a had control of the rate situation until a few years ago. 

 It is believed, however, that as soon as the present troubles between 

 the fire insurance companies and the state are concluded, the companies 

 will proceed to apply the Dean schedule. 



The Edward L. Davis Lumber Company is much pleased with its new 

 operation near Lottie, La. It recently purchased a mill there and has 

 put It in operation with ,1. E. Davis, vice-president of the company, in 

 charge. It will make principally ash, cottonwood and gum. The 

 company will continue to operate its Louisville plant. 



It Is reported on good authority that the Louisville & Nashville 

 Railroad Company will shortly put a $4 car-spotting charge into effect. 

 The road has not yet made official announcement on the subject, but 

 expects to do so shortly, traffic officials have explained. The railroads, 

 according to the impression which has been created here, would prefer 

 not to make the spotting charge ; and in view of the fact that .$4 a 

 thousand is an extremely heavy burden, adding about 27 cents a thousand 

 to the cost of the lumber Involved, it is possible that the carriers are 

 planning to make the new arrangement .so unpopular as to cause a 

 protest to be made to the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



An Investigation was made recently of advance in rates which have 



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