HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Advisory Committee to the American 

 Forestry Association 

 R. C. LIppincott, chairman. Pbiladclphia, Pa. ; 

 Lewis Dill. Baltimore, Md., and R. M. Carrier, 

 Sardis, Miss. 



Special Congressional (Car Stake) 



Committee 



F. R. Babcock, chairman. Pittsburg. Pa. ; L. 



L. Earth, Chicago, 111. ; G. F. Craig, Philadelphia. 



Pa. ; J. L. Kendall, Pittsburg, Pa., Lewis Dill, 



Baltimore, Md. 



Special Membership Committee 

 W. R. Butler, Boston, Mass. ; A. E. Lane, New 

 York, N. Y. ; C. J. Coppock. Philadelphia, Pa. ; 

 J. G. Criste, Pittsburg, Pa. ; M. S. Tremaino. 

 Buffalo, N. Y. ; O. O. Agler, Chicago. 111. ; F. B. 

 Robertson. Memphis. Tenn. : E. A. Selfridge. Jr., 

 Willitts, Cal., and Guy Buell, Spring Hope, N. C. 



mirable work. The price is ?o.50 and copies can 

 he oDtained bj- addressing the publisher at Nash- 

 ville, Tenn. 



New Telegraph Code 



The Record is in receipt of a copy of a new 

 telegraphic code devoted entirely to hardwoods, 

 which was compiled and published by Hamilton 

 Love of Nashville, Tenn. The entire work con- 

 tains less than a thousand words, but covers 

 practically all the words and phrases peculiar 

 to the hardwood branch of the industry. In con- 

 nection with the book is a list of the present 

 subscribers which embraces the leaders in the 

 hardwood manufacturing, jobbing and export 

 trade of the country. 



Tte work has the merit of simplicity in both 

 words and phrases, and it is perfectly under- 

 standable by the average lumberman. It involves 

 less than one hundred pages and is of con- 

 venient pocket size. 



Mr. Love is to be congratulated on the com- 

 pactness and simplicity of his work and it is 

 hoped that every hardwood man employing tele- 

 graphic service will adopt this code. As Mr. 

 Love says in his preface there is nothing that 

 can be said against other codes in use except 

 that they are "too complete," and this criticism 

 may be amplified by stating that ordinarily the 

 time required to figure out from the big codes 

 what you want to say and to translate the reply 

 costs more than the saving in tolls. 



The Record heartily commends Mr. Love's ad- 



Meeting Michigan Hardwood Association 



Agreeable to notice under the masthead of 

 Hardwood Record, the spring meeting of the 

 Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 will be held at the Ponchartrain hotel, Detroit, 

 Thursday, May 5, at 10 A. M. This meeting 

 is called to discuss present conditions and bring 

 special information before the members. Among 

 the principal topics will be the hemlock grad- 

 ing rules, terms of sale, report of the market 

 conditions committee, reports of the various 

 standing committees, review showing the limited 

 stock of maple and birch on hand, quantity of 

 Michigan slumpage, and hemlock bark condi- 

 tions. 



Some Remarkahle Poplar 



The Thomas E. Powe Lumber Company of 

 North Hall street, St. Louis, recently received 

 a shipment of remarkably wide poplar planks 

 from the East Tennessee mills of the company. 

 The accompanying illustration shows five boards 

 taken from this collection, and aside from the 

 52 and D3-inch boards, the narrowest widths were 

 selected as being most representative. 



From the left-hand side of the picture the 

 planks measure respectively 43, 51, 53, 52 and 42 

 inches, and are all remarkably clear and posi- 

 tively without a blemish or defect of any sort. 

 The shipment comprised about half a carload, in 

 which there wore no boards narrower than 32 

 inches. 



This concern has been specializing for some 

 time in wide, high-grade poplar and other sim- 

 ilar woods. It has a large business with au- 

 tomobile, street car and railroad car builders. 



New Whitmer Wholesale House Organized 



J. S. Richards, who for many years past has 

 been identified with the New York office of Will- 

 iam Whitmer & Sons, Inc., the big Philadelphia 

 manufacturing house, is to be president and 

 head of a new company now in process of organ- 

 ization, under Delaware laws, to be known as 

 the J. S. Richards Lumber Company. The con- 

 cern will have a capital of $5,000 and will be a 



sales company for the Whitmer interests, sim- 

 ilar to existing companies in Pittsburg, Philadel- 

 phia and Newark, and will also conduct a gen- 

 eral wholesale lumber business. Mr. Richards 

 severs his connection with the A. T. Peale Lum- 

 ber Company of New Y'ork, with which he has 

 been identified in a selling capacity since Its 

 organization. 



The company has leased attractive quarters at 

 1 Madison avenue. Rooms 947-94S, New York, and 

 Mr. Richards is actively engaged rounding out 

 plans for getting down to business. 



The organization of the J. S. Richards Lum- 

 ber Company is a recognition on the part of the 

 Whitmer interests of the long and able services 

 rendered by Mr. Richards during the past four- 

 teen years, and is in line with the similar pre- 

 vious action taken by them in the case of their 

 other able sales managers. Mr. Richards has 

 been identified with the lumber trade for almost 

 twenty years, for the past fourteen of which 

 he has been identified with William Whitmer & 

 Sons, having been associated with the New 

 York office of that company and later with Its 

 successor, the A. T. Peale Lumber Company, 

 during which time he has solicited tr.ade in the 

 Hudson River Valley, Connecticut, and the Met- 

 ropolitan district. 



Large Sales of Drying Equipment 



The Grand Rapids Veneer Works of Grand 

 Rapids. Mich., engineers in the dry kiln process 

 invented some years ago. are having about as 

 much work placed at their disposal as they can 

 handle. The company has recently closed con- 

 tracts for its system with the Kuechtel Furni- 

 ture Company, Hanover, Ont., with the Harris 

 Manufacturing Company of Johnson City, Tenn., 

 and several other hardwood manufacturing and 

 consuming concerns. The concern is in receipt 

 ot scores of testimonial letters from satisfied 

 users of its equipment. 



The Record has heard nothing but enthusiastic 

 encomiums In regard to the drying process oi 

 the Grand Rapids Veneer Works, and anyone 

 desiring to re-equip his present kilns or have 

 new ones built will do well to communicate with 

 this well-known house at Grand Rapids. Mich. 



Welch & Kerry Eehuilding 



Already work has begun on the Welch & Kerry 

 flooring plant at Reed City, Mich., which was 

 destroyed by fire March 26. The main building 

 is to be of concrete foundation, with wood frame 

 structure. The dry kilns and power house will 

 be of concrete and the company expects that the 

 plant will be ready for operation inside of sixty 

 days. 



The loss on the factory and contents was 

 about $35,000, with $25,000 insurance. The 

 lumber in the yard which was destroyed was 

 valued at about $15,000, well Insured. The fire 

 consumed the factory, dry kilns and power house, 

 but the storage shed, which contained most of 

 the manufactured stock, was saved ; also the 

 greater part of the lumber in the yard, the 

 amount destroyed being about a half a million 

 feet. The insurance on this loss has already 

 been adjusted and the compan.v is showing Its 

 usual energy in getting things in shape for 

 operation again. 



SPLENDID WIDE I'Ol^LAK BOARDS, PRO DIXED BY THOS. E. POWE LUMBER 



COMPANY OF ST. LOUIS. 



Meeting Lumbermen's Club of New Orleans 

 The first regular meeting and dinner of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of New Orleans was held 

 Saturday evening, April 2. at Reno's Restaurant. 

 The attendance was encouraging, twenty-four of 

 the total enrolled membership of thirty-six 

 being on hand. 



After the dinner the business meeting was 

 opened with the report of the committee on 

 constitution and by-laws, which submitted the 

 draft of these documents as recently outlined 

 in the Record. After considerable discussion 

 the constitution and by-laws as a whole as 

 framed by the committee were adopted by a 

 rising vote. It was explained that the docu- 

 ments provided for the immediate needs of the 



