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HARDIWOOD RECORD 



Milwaukee. 



The sixth strange fire that the Milwaukee 

 Chair Company has experienced, recently occurred 

 at its plant. The blaze was discovered in time 

 and was extinguished before much damage was 

 done. Deputy Fire Marshal End is still work- 

 ing on the case, but as yet no clue has been ob- 

 tained to the perpetrator of the fires. 



The Wisconsin Railway Commission recently 

 dismissed the complaint of J. Hanowitz, alleging 

 excessive rates and inadequate service on the 

 Mattoon railroad, a short logging line running 

 from Aniwa, Wis., into the lumbering country of 

 Shawano county. A distance tariff schedule 

 was recommended by the commission, however. 



C H. Shuttleworth, traveling salesman for B. 

 A Kipp & Co., furniture manufacturers of Mil- 

 waukee, was recently killed in a railway accident 

 at Slater, Mo. Mr. Shuttleworth was well known 

 in Milwaukee and was a prominent Elk and a 

 member of the Travelers' Protective Association. 

 Saw mills ate to be erected on the Indian 

 reservations in Wisconsin by the United States 

 government in accordance with the act of Con- 

 gress authorizing the cutting of timber he 

 manufacture and the sale of lumber and the 

 preservation of the forests on certain lands 

 given over to the Indian reservations in the 

 state E. A. Barnifl of Green Bay, Wis., a 

 member of the United States Forest Service has 

 recently been looking over the territory of the 

 Menominee reservation and selecting sites for the 

 new mills that are soon to be built there. Three 

 or four large mills are to be erected, the largest 

 at the Norway dam on the reservation, and it 

 is said that there is already timber enough cut to 

 kppn the mills busy iov over a >cJii. 

 possible, the work in the sawmills wiU be done 

 by Indians and no Indian will be allowed to 

 enter any partnership with any one other than 

 an Indian. The products of the mills will be 

 sold to the highest bidders. 



The Wisconsin Chair Company at Boyd, Wis., 

 has purchased a large plant at Evansville, Ind., 

 to be supplementary to the large industry at 

 Boyd. About 200 men will be engaged in the 

 manufacture of chairs at the new location. 



It is reported that a large lumber industry Is 

 to be established at the mouth of the Kaiskla 

 river at Brlmley in Chippewa county. Wisconsin. 

 As proposed, a saw mill with a dally capacity of 

 60,000 feet, a planing mill, a tie mill and later 

 the establishment of a woodenware factory, will 

 comprise the big plant. There is a remarkable 

 timber supply in the vicinity, enough to run 

 such a plant for years to come. Operations will 

 be started this coming summer, according to re- 

 ports. 



Due to increasing business, the Green Bay 

 Show Case Company at Green Bay, Wis., has 

 begun the erection of a large addition to Us 

 present plant. The addition will be of brick and 

 will serve as a varnish establishment for the 

 company. The firm expects to soon double the 

 pnesent capacity of the plant. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan, 

 Wis., has purchased of the G. F. Sanborn Com- 

 pany of Ashland, Wis., 6,108 acres of hardwood 

 timber lands in Houghton and Baraga counties, 

 Michigan, for the sum of $86,560. The lands are 

 In the vicinity of Sidnaw, Mich., and the tlmlwr 

 will be sawed at the mills there and will then 

 be shipped to the plant of the company at She- 

 boygan for the manufacture of fine furniture. 



An unusual supply of logs is piled at the yards 

 of the Two Rivers Woodenware Company at Two 

 Rivers, Wis., some six million feet of logs, and 

 the company has Indications of a prosperous 

 season. The recent report that there was a 

 strike among the pall turners of the establish- 

 ment was unfounded and the matter, which was 

 only a slight difference owing to slight reduc- 

 tions in wages, has been satisfactorily settled. 



The Blue Grass Lumber Company of Milwaukee 

 has Increased its capital stock from $1,000 to 

 $15,000. 



Cincinnati. 

 The Clifton Stair Building Company of 214 

 West McMillan street, with a capital stock of 

 $5,000, was Incorporated last week by Rudolph 

 Keitmann, W. H. Hurn, F. Henry Hurlander, 

 Adolph O. Heinrich and Gerritt J. Fredericks. 

 The incorporation was made in order to enlarge 

 the plant. 



E. L. Edwards of Dayton was in town during 

 the last fortnight, visiting his plant, located 

 in the West End, of which J. E. TuthlU is gen- 

 eral manager. 



J. S. Walker of the J. S. Walker Lumber Com- 

 pany of O'Keeffe. W. Va., spent a few days here 

 inquiring into trade conditions. 



"Jess" Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Lum- 

 ber Company of Memphis stopped off here while 

 en route further south to attend to some busi- 

 ness with a local concern. 



H. K. Bllnu of the William H. Perry Lumber 

 Company has found a quiet little place In the 

 country and has gone there to rest for a month 

 or so. His address for the time being Is held 

 a secret, as he wishes to be entirely free from 

 business details. Even his office associates do 

 not know where he has gone. E. L. Wolfe of 

 the company has returned from Xashville, Tenn., 

 where he went some weeks ago to attend to a 

 large shipment of white oak. W. E. Johns of 

 the concern, who assumes active charge in the 

 absence of Mr. Blinn, says that business is In- 

 creasing every week. "The demand for the 

 lower grades has been in active request for some 

 weeks and an increase in prices would not sur- 

 prise me in the least," he said. 



T. B. Stone, president of the T. B. Stone 

 Lumber Company, left last week for a business 

 trip through the South. 



The Cincinnati Furniture Exchange held Its 

 regular monthly meeting at Ahlbrands Cafe last 

 week, and in the absence of Secretary Ernest 

 Schneider, who is at the Christ Hospital recov- 

 ering from an operation, his assistant, E. Kep- 

 ler, acted as secretary. Communications were 

 read from the Receivers' and Shippers' Associa- 

 tion and the Chicago Furniture Manufacturers' 

 Association, asking that the Exchange send rep- 

 resentatives to meetings. A. G. Stelnman was 

 elected delegate to the Receivers' and Shippers' 

 Association and President Deltz to the Chicago 

 Furniture Manufacturers' Association. The an- 

 nual outing of the exchange will probably be 

 held at Highland Grove, as the entertainment 

 committee seems most favorably Impressed with 

 that resort. The furniture trade is now about 

 sUty per cent of what it was last year, and the 

 local concerns are running about forty hours 

 a week. Improvement is generally looked for 

 in every line of trade. 



.\lfred Mannon, a manufacturer and dealer In 

 lumber of Scottown, Ohio, last week admitted 

 he Is bankrupt through a petition filed In the 

 district court. He owes $1,205.03, while his 

 assets amount only to $1,018. 



J. Overstreet of the Southern Lumber Com- 

 pany was a visitor in town during the last fort- 

 night looking over the hardwood situation here. 

 Thomas J. Moffett, president of the Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett Company, says the situation 

 is growing better each week, and he finds a 

 noticeable change In the demand for walnut, with 

 prices firm. The company Is shipping a great 

 deal of that wood across the water, along with 

 several other hardwoods. The veneer business, 

 he says. Is not as good as It was several weeks 

 ocr. During the last Uood the concern floated 



a great many logs to within a short distance of 

 its mill on West Eighth street, which will keep 

 the mill busy for some weeks. All other nrllla 

 of the company are running full time. 



L. B. Banning has returned from a business 

 trip east. During his absence A. E. Hart as- 

 sumed charge. He states that the past week's 

 business has not been very good. "Last month 

 we had a very good trade, but this month we 

 are not quite so busy," he says. 



The Cincinnati Carriage Makers' Club broke 



all records in initiating fifteen new members at 

 the meeting held at the Grand Hotel. The occa- 

 sion for the meeting was the dinner served 

 to Otto Armleder, the new president, and the 

 other new otflcers. Arrangements were also 

 made for the annual June outing. 



Incorporation papers were taken out at Co- 

 lumbus for the Ahr & Rost Company last week, 

 with a capital stock of $25,000. The Incorpora- 

 tors are John Ahr, George J. Rost, Sanford 

 Brown, Fred J. Wesselman and David P. Shorr. 

 The concern operates a carriage and woodworking 

 plant in Gest street. 



J. E. TuthlU, geneiral manager for E. L. Ed- 

 wards, has returned from a business trip east. 

 He reports the situation here as showing gradual 

 improvement, and he looks for a decided change 

 in the cypress situation within a short time. 



J. W. Darling of the J. W. Darling Lumber 

 Company, located in the Union Trust building, 

 will leave this week for a trip to the yards 

 of the company at Joppa, 111., to inspect stock. 

 R. L. Gilbert of the company is out on a business 

 trip through the North. He will be absent from 

 the local offices for a week or more. 



L. H. Gage of the Gage & Possell Lumber 

 Company, located In the Bell block, has returned 

 from a business trip through Mississippi, where, 

 he said, conditions were rather quiet. He thinks 

 that Improvement in the cypress situation will 

 eventuate within a very short time. 



H. H. Fields of the B. R. Spatswood Lumber 

 Company of Lexington, Ky., was In town recently 

 looking into the hardwood situation. The trade 

 In the Blue Grass region Is showing gradual im- 

 provement, and within a short time he thinks 

 the general volume of business will show a neat 

 increase. 



W. L. Pease of the Galloway-Pease Company 

 of Johnson City, Tenn., was In town recently 

 transacting business and taking a general look 

 Into conditions. 



J. Watt Graham of the Graham Lumber Com- 

 pany reports a little change in the situation, 

 an increase of the amount of transactions. 



F. W. Mowbray of Mowbray & Robinson, is 

 on a busip^ss trip to Chicago, from which city 

 he proceeds through the South. 



C. M. Clarke of the Swann-Day Lumber Com- 

 pany of Clay City, Ky., was In town last week 

 and visited Rlchey, Halsted & Quick, as well as a 

 number of other downtown merchants. 



"There has been a decided change In the situ- 

 ation during the last fortnight in the various 

 grades of building lumber," said Melvln R. Short 

 of the Dwlght-lllnckley Lumber Company, "and 

 I think, now that the weather has opened up, 

 that the volume of business will continue to show 

 improvement." 



The Lumbermen's Club, at a special meeting 

 held at the Business Men's Club recently, adopted 

 resolutions advising the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association to discontinue the present In- 

 spection rules and readopt those In use in 1905. 

 At the annual convention of the National asso- 

 ciation, to be held In Milwaukee In June, the 

 local dealers will vote for the adoption of the 

 1905 rules. A letter was read from the Pitts- 

 burg Chamber of Commerce asking the club to 

 do all In Its power with the congressman from 

 its district for the appropriation of the $5,000,- 

 000 for the Ohio river Improvement. 



The Acme Veneer. Company has applied for a 

 building permit for two additional stories on 

 their factory at the corner of Eighth and Har- 

 riet streets, to cost about $6,000. 



M. B. Farrln, president of the Farrln-Korn 

 Lumber Company, has submitted plans to Build- 

 ing Inspector Kuhlman for a brick and stone 

 factory of two stories, with flats on the second 

 floor, at the corner of Clifton and Spring Grove 

 avenues, to cost about $15,000. 



Several creditors brought Involuntary bank- 

 ruptcy proceedings against the John Stengel Com- 

 pany of Dayton last week, and later Stengel him- 

 self filed a petition admitting his bankruptcy. 

 He places his liabilities at $64,000 and assets at 

 $60,000, in real estate, but this Is heavily mort- 



