C. Stowell Smith Appointed Slmple Beauty of Redwood Room Assistant NRA Deputy Will Attract Wide Attention

Administrator

Washington, I). C., April 11.-C. Stowell Smith, well known throughout the lumber industry, and a member of the staff of the National Lurnber Manufacturers Associaiton, has been appointed an Assistant Deputy Administrator in the National Recovery Administratiorr.

At the offices of the Lumber Code Authority and the National Lumber Manufacturers Association it was stated today that Mr. Smith's appointment would be welcomed by the lumber industry because it will greatly help the Administration in its lumber relations to have another executive of scientific forestry training and practical lumbering experience.

Mr. Smith, who is well known to lumbermen throughout the country, attended Colgate University 1900 to 1901, after which he studied in Germany for one year and then matriculated at the University of Michigan, where he remained until 1905, graduating with the A.B. degree, securing his degree of Master, Science of Forestry |n-1912, in absentia. He joined the United States Forest Service in 1905 and remained with it until 1916. In this service he conducted experiments in seasoning and preservative treatment of wood, design and construction of wood preservation and distillation plants, discovered a new species of marine borer, determined presence of heptane in western tree species and developed methods for extracting it. served as liaison officer between the government and the lumber industry, and made an economic study of the lumber industry in the Southeastern states ancl California.

Mr. Smith resigned from the Forest Service in 1916 to become secretary-manager of the California White & Sugar Pine Association, 'i.vith whom he developed standard gra<ling and inspection service, statistical service, traffic serr,ice, and trade extension and forest policies for the western pine lumber industry.

In 1929 he joined the staff of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. from which he now resigns. While rvith the National he u'as detailed to the Timber Conservation Board to assist in preparing its final report on "The Forest Situation in the United States." He developed "The Lumber Market," an economic analysis of present and future demand. throughout the countrr'. and of late has been active in the Timber Engineering Company, a subsidiarl' of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. formed to introduce modern connectors in timber construction.

Mr. Smith holds a commission as captain of engineers, O.R.C., and is a senior member of the Society of American Foresters.

Leaves For Eastern Trip

Mark D. Campbell, manager of the rail department, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Portland, left Portland April 14 for a business trip to the Middle West and East which will take him as far as New York. He will return by way of the Southwest and expects to be back in about six weeks.

A splendid example of the use of California Redwood for interior decoration will be seen in the new Redwood Room of the Clift Hotel, San Francisco, when the hotel is reopened following the extensive remodeling now being carried out by its new owners.

The room is done in ,curly Redwood flush panels, with inlays of white holly. No battens are used. T,he bar tops are of Redwood burl, two inches thick.

Dimensions of the room are 36 feet by 61 feet. It is irr restrained modern design, the only decoration being a large panel over the bar, inlaid in Redwood in color. The wood itself is so beautiful that no other decoration is required.

The contract for the work has been let to Wm. Bateman, San Francisco, who is now executing the work. Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francis,co, supplied the Redwood.

The room was designed by G. Albert Lansburgh, pro-inent architect, of San Francisco. It will be remembered that it rvas Mr. Lansburgh who designed the Drumm house at Lake Tahoe. which is built entirely of port Orford Cedar logs.

J. \(/. Fletcher

J. W. Fletcher, widely known Los Angeles lumberman, died at his home there Sunday night, April 22, 1934. He was 77 years old.

N{r. Fletcher was born at Columbus, Ohio, ancl before coming to California was connected with the sash and door business. Thirty years ago, he came to California, locating at Chico where he was manager of the sash and door department of the Diamond Match Co. for several years. He then came to Los Angeles and went rvith the Hammond Lumber Company as superintendent of their sash and door department. A few years later, he entered the wholesale lumber business in Los Angeles .ivith his son-in-law, W. P. Frambes, operating under the name of Fletcher & Frambes, Inc., for about twenty years. He practically retired from the lumber business four years ago.

He is survived by his tvife, N,Irs. Caroline Fletcher: a daughter, Mrs. W- P. Frambes of Los Angeles, and a brother, Dr. A. Byers Fletcher of London, England. Mr. Fletcher was a member of Charity Lodge, F. & A. M., St. Joseph, Mo.; Scottish Rite and Al Malaikah Shrine of Los Angeles. Mdsonic services were held from the W. A. Brown funeral chapel, Los Angeles, at 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, April 25.

A. WHISNANT VISITS S. F.

Archibald Whisnant, executive secretary of the pacific Logging Congress, Portland, recently spent a few days in San Francisco, where he made preliminary arrangements for holding the 1934 Logging Congress in the Bay city.