San Francisco Lumbermen Oppose Building Law Pertaining to Walls

The lumbermen of San Francisco have started an intensive campaign against Ordinance Bill No. 6851, known as the Building Law, pertaining to walls relating to building construction on frame buildings wherebv rvood sheathing may be eliminated by the substitution of wire mesh nailed to the studs and plastered with cement plaster.

The San Francisco lumbermen are opposed to this lau' for the following reasons:

1. Elimination of material bracing to the building.

2. IJse of 'rvire and cement, however rvaterproof, not supported by under sheathing is liable to leakage and cracking.

3. The strength of rvire netting and cement depend largely on the nail attaching the rvire to the studs. While this is provided for in the size of the nail it is subject to easily changed specification.

4. Most important is possibility of earthquake which would shake off the plaster and in this event should the house catch on fire due to this shaking off of the plaster or because of the shaking off of the plaster in an earthquake, no insurance could be collected from the fire insurance companies unless an extra premium were paid. This is known as the "Falling Building Clause."

5. San' Francisco is known as having an excellent system of building restriction and this is an entering wedge to break down restrictions which have seemed necessary because of the peculiar location and climatic conditions of this section.

LAST RITES HELD FOR GEORGE X. WENDLING

Funeral services for George X. Wendling, who committed suicide at his San Francisco home on October D, were held at eleven o'clock Friday morning, October 31, at the Halsted funeral parlors. Dean W. J. Gresham of the Grace Cathedral conducted the services. Interment was at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park. He was 63 years of age.

At the time of his death he was the head of the G. X. Wendling Company, rvith offices at 360 California Street, San Francisco. Mr. Wendling was one of the pioneer lumbermen of the state and for many years he was president of the Weed Lumber Co. and also associated with other large lumber interests in California and Oregon. After his retirement from the Weed Lumber Company, he later organized the Pacific Wirebound Box Company rvith headquarters in San Francisco and rvas the head of this concern until about trvo years ago, rvhen he moved to Los Angeles to become the sales manager of the Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. About a year ago, he returned to San Francisco, where he formed the G. X. Wendling Co.

Mr. Wendling was a member of several clubs in San Francisco and his career as a lumberman has provided some of the most picturesque,chapters in the history of the lumber industry on the Pacific Coast. He was one of the best known lumbermen on the Pacific Coast and rvas held in very high esteem by his numberless lumbermen friends. Business worry and ovenvork were the causes his famill' gave for his act.