lVhite Brothers' Stevedores Create Sensation

A big crowd gathered around White Brothers, HARDWOOD HEADQUARTERS, Fifth and Brannan Streets, San Francisco, the other day r.vatching stevedores piling hardvyood. Old, hardened lurabermen almost swooned at the sight that met their gaze.

Stevedores rvere tossing 4- by l2-inch planks lvith such rapidity and ease that it astounded the onlooker. Matt Harris of Van Arsdale Harris Lumber Company rushed across the street to see if White Brothers had succeeded in getting a new breed of stevedores.

Ifomer Maris, the panel king, passing in his sixteen cylinder Cadillac, stopped to inquire if White Brothers were feeding their stevedores oats to make them peppy.

One man would stand at the bottom of the pile and rvith one hand toss up large planks to another man rvho would catch them with one hand and drop them on the top of the pile.

Investigation proved, horvever, that it .ivas not a new kind of super-efficient stevedore, but the wood they were piling was Balsa, that extremelv light rveight, South American wood which is now used in refrigeration and airplane construction.

This wood only weighs about a quarter of a pound to the board foot, and therefore, one can quickly see the ease rvith which it is lifted.

Ackerman and Harris, moving picture people, and the International News Reel have both taken movies of stenographers and children handling this rvood at White Brotheis' yards. These pictures are now being shown all over the wor'ld. White Brothers carrv considerable stocks of Balsa.