San Francisco Hardwood Firm Celebrates Diamond Jubilee

This Widely-Known Pioneer Concern \Mas Founded In 1872

formerly been the terminal station of the steam "dummy" line that ran on Market Street from the Ferry to the junction of Vaiencia Street.

The business grew and prospered. Connections were made with suppliers in Central America, Mexico, Australia, Siam, Liverpool and London, and the firm grew to be the largest hardwood house on the Pacific Coast. The second site when the business demanded more space was on Main Street, and the third location was at Spear and Howard Streets, where the business was moved in 1887. The fourth location, the present one at Fifth and Brannan Streets, was acquired in 1909. The business has outgrown this site and a fifth move will be made within the next year or so to a site that will be large enough to take care of the required expansion.

In 1928 a three-acre site was acquired at 500 High Street, Oakland, and an East Bay yard was established there.

In 1852, when the waters o{ San'Francisco Bay came up to Montgomery Street, Peter White came to California from his home on the Atlantic Coast. His brother, Asa L. White, came to California in 1868, and in 1872 the two brothers became associated in the business of selling wagon materials and hardwood lumber under the name of White Brothers. This business, which has been called "Hardwood Headquarters" for many years, has been operated continuously ever since, and is this year celebrating the 75th anniversary of its founding, and is actively engaged in a program of expansion.

The first location of White Brothers was in the 200 block on Market Street, next to the gore where California Street and Market Street intersect. The yard had frontage on both streets. The building which they occupied had

Yards Completely Mechanized

Since the end of the war both yards have been completely mechanized and modernized, with each yard using Ross and Hyster lift trucks and carriers.

The Oakland yard is said to be one of the most efficient and up-to-date hardwood yards in the country. Improvements there include the removal of the old gangways, and the installation of a modern Moore reversible fan dry kiln, which is now under construction. Shed space comprises one acre, all paved with concrete, and two paved acres are available for storage of air-dried lumber. With lift truck and carrier operation the Oakland yard has a storage capacity of 15,000,000 feet.

The spur track is well located. Four cars can be un- loaded under the shed and five cars in the open simultaneously.

White Brothers recently became distributors of the Wilson Easy Lift all aluminum garage doors.

Don F. White and Charles B. White, sons of C. H. White, saw service for sel'eral years as Lieutenants, Senior Grade, in the Navy during the war, and both are again dctive in the business.

W. T. White, son of Asa L .White, is president of White Brothers. C. H. White, nephew of the founders, is vice president and general manager. Don F. White is a director of the firm, and he and W. T. (Bill) Meyer are directors of procurement and merchandising.

C. B. "Bruz" White is manager of the Oakland yard. Keith Mclellan is manager of the ofrces of both yards.

IN 1947 BUITD WITH THE CAI.IFORNIA PINES

SUGAR, PINE PONDEROI'A PINE

Purchqse Goods Pocked ln Wooden Boxes

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Red Cedar Shingle Bureau Annual Meeting

Seattle, Wash., Dec. 18, 1946.-Chas. Plant of Bloedel, Stewart & Welch, Ltd., Vancouver, B.C. was elected president of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau at the organization's 30th annual meeting held here tbday. He succeeds R. A. Wilde of the Pacific Timber Co., Everett, who served as president for the past two years.

The assembled shingle manufacturers from Washington, Oregon and British Columbia heard reports from officials of the trade association ancl from committee chairmen, reviewing activities during the past year and laying plans for future work.

Central theme of the meeting was a discussion of ways and means of stimulating the production of red cedar shingles in the face of the present great demand in all sections of the country.

Jess Schwarz ot the Crescent Shingle Co., Kelso, Wash., was elected vice-president, while W. W. Woodbridge of Seattle was re-elected secretary-manager.

In addition to Plant, Schwarz and Wilde, those elected to the Bureau's board of trustees for the ensuing year were Dale Craft of Raymond, 'Wash., C. C. Rose and R. D. Mackie of Aberdeen, Paul R. Smith and Keith Fisken of Seattle, M. J. Willett, P. H. Olwell and Wm. Hulbert of Everett, E. R. Scott of Edmonds, 'Wash., J. A. MacKenzie, W. H. Mclallen, N. A. English and'H. V. Whittall of Vancouver, B. C.

Ponderoscr Pin€ - Sugcn Pine

Douglcs Fir - Redwood Dirffibution Ycd tOS ANGEI.ESI I

Kisses

Come, Chloe, and give me sweet kisses, For sweeter sure never girl gave, But why, in the midst of my blisses, Do you ask me how many I'd have?

Go, number the stars in the heaven, Count how many sands on the shore, When so many kisses you've given, I still shall be craving for more.

-Chas. Hanbury Williams.

\ilfe're All Debtors

No man can fully discharge his debt to society and to Providence, and the only real haopiness we can get out of life comes through our efforts to pay that debt. We owe for the liberties we enjoy, for the protection that surrounds us, for bodily comforts, for everything that is good in our daily lives. Countless thousands, unknown to us, minister to our needs, our comforts and our joys. We must do our best to pay this great debt.

Burdett On Chcrrity

Selfishness speaks first:

"I kept all my wealth and I mourn for my loss, For gold in a skeleton hand turns to dross; Love, friendship and gratitude might I have bought, But I kept all my wealth 'til it moulded to naught."

Then Pleasure speaks:

"I spent all my gold, i danced and I sang, The palace I built with hilarity rang; Plays, revels, and frolics, from even' to dawn, But I lie here with nothing; I spent it, it's gone."

Avarice speaks:

"f loaned my good money, at grasping per cent; 'Twas I who got all that you kept and you spent; While I counted my millions, death plundered me bare; And this grave I sleep in belongs to my heir."

Then Charity speaks:

"It was little I had, but I gave all my store To those who had less or needed it more; And it came with death laughing, for here at the grave fn riches unmeasured, I found what I gave."

-By Robert J. Burdett.

More qnd More

"What do you think I shot the Country Club course in this afternoon?"

"Considerably more."

"Considerably more than what?"

"Considerably more than the lie you were just fixing to tell."

A Smile

Nothing on earth can smile, but man.

Gems may flash reflected light, but wha flash compared with an eye flash, and mjr{h flash?

Flowers cannot smile. This id a cannot claim. It is the prercgafrul/of man. It is the color which love wears, and cheerfu$/Ks, and joy-these three.

It is the light in the windoYvs of the face by which the heart signals that it is at home and waiting.

A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom, and dries up on the stalk.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both-more bewitching than either.

Domestic Science

Give me a spoon of oleo, Ma, And the sodium alkali, For I am going to make a pie, Mama, I'm going to make a pie. For Dad will be hungry and tired, Ma, And his tissues will decompose, So give me a grain of phosphate, And the carbon and cellulose. Now give me a hunk of casein, Ma, To shorten the termic fat. And give me the oxygen bottle, Ma, And look at the thermostat. And if the electric oven is cold, Just turn it on half an ohm, For f want to have supper ready, Ma, As soon as my Dad comes home.

Boredom

A distinguished Briton is quoted as saying: band- Has any poison been sprayed on them?"

"After all, the greatest of human miseries, the most deadly of diseases, is one we cannot touch with a knife, or save men from by drugs. I mean BOREDOM. There is more real wretchedness, more torment, driving.men to folly, due to boredom, than to anything else. Man and women will do almost anything, fling themselves into lost hopes and' crazy ventures, anything to escape. They will drink, drug themselves, prostitute their bodies, and sell their souls; they will take up mad causes, organize absurd crusades; they will tornnent themselves and torture other people to escape the misery of being bored. Any one who can discover a cure for that would put an end to more misery and tragedy than all iloctors put together."

Market Man: "No lady. You'll have to get that at the drugstore."