HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ting ready to bring down a large tow of logs. 



Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz, left last 



week with his family for northern Indiana, 



where he will take a vacation of several 



weeks. 



DETROIT 



Representatives of tlie hardwood trade of De- 

 troit met at the Wayne Hotel this week to effect 

 a preliminary organization to handle the early 

 arrangements for the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association convention, which is to be held here 

 next summer. The following were elected : E. 

 W. Leech, chairman ; John Matheson, secretary ; 

 Ralph Sicklesteel, treasurer ; J. P. Scranton, vice- 

 chairman. This committee will meet frequently 

 to consider plans for the convention and to ar- 

 range entertainment for the guests. 



The Macomb Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Romeo, Mich., to handle the well- 

 known Thompson tract of hardwood timber near 

 Romeo. This piece contains some of the finest 

 basswood in the state, besides a quantity of 

 white ash, white oak, etc. The best of the logs 

 will be cut into veneer. OfBcers of the Macomb 

 Lumber Company are : W. E. Brownlee, presi- 

 dent ; William W. Kelly, vice-president ; D. E. 

 Wittmer, secretary and treasurer. The first two 

 gentlemen are of the Brownlee-Kelly Company 

 of Detroit. 



The steamer Holland brought to the Brownlee- 

 Kelly docks this week a full cargo of basswood, 

 soft maple and elm lumber from Lake Superior. 

 This is the first hardwood cargo to reach De- 

 troit this season. 



Some comment is being caused by the fact 

 that, though the M. J. Theisen failure occurred 

 over seven months ago, only a preliminary re- 

 port has been made by the trustees to the cred- 



A number of lumljer boats have laid up at 

 Detroit for lack of cargoes. Chartering agencies 

 here say that some of the lumber boats which 

 went to the head of the lakes recently are 

 stranded there, unable to secure anything to 

 carry on the return journey. 



Detroit architects believe that building condi- 

 tions will improve here Shortly. "There will be 

 plenty of building done in Detroit in the next 

 twelve months," said C. H. Bennett. "The 

 money stringency, which held up building, has 

 practically passed away. We have a large 

 amount of new work on the boards and orders 

 for plans for some very fine buildings." 



"There is no question that lumber prices have 

 been going down," said Charles F. Meagher, 

 manager of the main yards of the Restrick Lum- 

 ber Company. "Lumber prices are down from 

 $2 to $5 lower than last season. The slump in 

 building has ben more in frame structures, so 

 the lumber dealers have felt it considerably. I 

 think there are as many fine residences being 

 erected this year and almost as much hardwood 

 lumber being used as last year." 



Muskegon river, like many others in Michigan, 

 is now being stripped of the logs that were left 

 by the wayside years ago in the rush and hustle 

 of the heydey of lumber operations. Companies 

 have been formed to reclaim this wood, and it is 

 estimated that millions of feet of good sound 

 timber will be dug up from the river bottom. 



Detroit furniture manufacturers are agitating 

 the proposition of holding a yearly furniture ex- 

 position in this city either before or after the 

 annual Grand Rapids exposition. There are 

 twenty-four furniture manufacturers in Detroit, 

 including the House of Correction, and the manu- 

 facturers feel that an exposition such as is 

 planned would attract hundreds of buyers to the 

 city who now go only to Grand Rapids. It was 

 proposed to hold a show this year in the hand- 

 some and large showrooms of the Michigan Up- 

 holstering Company, 334-340 Lafayette boule- 

 vard, but this project fell through owing to 

 hasty organization, but the manufacturers and 

 retailers here are already planning for next year. 



A meeting of the manufacturers of hubs from 

 different parts of the country was held at the 

 Southern Hotel in this city July 16, and a Hub 

 Manufacturers' Club was organized. The object 

 of the meeting was the framing up of a standard 

 size list. According to the hub men present, 

 there has never been any agreement regarding 

 the size of hubs, in proportion to the axle, and 

 the result has been that every plant makes a 

 different size. The idea of the organization of 

 the hub men and the meeting in St. Louis was 

 conceived by F. S. Nichols of Chicago. He was 

 elected chairman of the organization. A com- 

 mittee was appointed at the meeting who will 

 confer with representatives of the Wagon Build- 

 ers' Association to agree on a size list for hubs. 

 The hub manufacturers present at the meeting 

 were : W. P. Baldwin, fronton. Mo. : M. R. 

 Campbell, Tullahoma, Tenn. : W. J. Lee, Ar- 

 cadia, Mo. ; F. S. Nichols, Chicago, 111. ; N. C. 

 Blanehard, Spring City, Tenn. ; C. F. Siegel, 

 Corydou, Ind. ; J. H. Thomas, Hawesville, Ky. ; 

 H. J. Bosler, Jamesborough, Ark. ; W. H. Hum- 

 mel, Piedmont, Mo., and W. H. Mohrstadt, Dex- 

 ter, Mo. 



The Acme Woven-Wood Lath Company filed 

 articles of incorporation recently with a capital 

 stock of $100,000, one-half paid. The incorpo- 

 rators are Charles H. Sommer, W. E. Fisse, Ed- 

 ward H. Wischer and Edward W. Savage. The 

 object of the corporation is to manufacture and 

 deal in woven-wood lath for plastering, etc. 



Howard Watson, for many years connected 

 with the St. Louis hardwood trade, died July 7. 

 He was 53 years of age and for over thirty 

 years a resident of St. Louis. For many years 

 he was an active member of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange of St. Louis and at one time was one 

 of the Board of Directors and has been on its 

 principal committees. He is survived by his 

 wife, a daughter, two step-sons and two brothers. 

 The following resolutions on his death were 

 unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange July 10 : 



Whereas, It has pleased Divine Providence to 

 take from our midst one of our most esteemed 

 brother lumbermen, Howard Watson, be it 



Resolved. That we extend to Mrs. Howard 

 Watson and family our heartfelt sympathy in 

 their I>ereavement, and be it further 



Resolved, That these resolutions be spread 

 upon the minutes of the exchange and a copy 

 thereof be sent to the bereaved family. 



W. A. BONSACK. 



F. Walstein; 



E. H. Warneb. 

 Mrs. Julia Bush, mother of A. H. Bush, sec- 

 retary of the Lumbermen's Exchange of St. 

 Louis, died at Memphis. Tenn., July 13. She 

 was 82 years of age, and had been a resident of 

 St. Louis for over 40 years. She died at the 

 home of her daughter, Mrs. Harpman. The week 

 previous to her death Mr. Bush spent at her 

 bedside. 



Carl Lothman, a well-known planing mill man 

 of this city died July 11 from pneumonia. He 

 was 58 years of age. He was born in Buer, 

 Hanover, and came to this country with his 

 brother, William Lothman, president of the Loth- 

 man Cypress Company, in 1880. He was con- 

 nected with the Mechanics' Planing Mill Com- 

 pany for twenty-five years, as bookkeeper and 

 director, and was the treasurer of the company 

 when he died. In the early '80s he started, with 

 his friend Carl Theiling, the Theiling Moulding 

 Company, afterwards changing to the present 

 Theiling-Lothman Manufacturing Company. The 

 plants of the Mechanics' Planing Mill Company, 

 the Lothman Cypress Company and the St. 

 Louis Planing Mill Company were closed out of 

 respect to him. 



The capital stock of the Giese-Henselmeier 

 Lumber Company has been increased from $15,- 

 000 to $32,000. 



Walter E. Keown, president of the Inter- 

 national Hardwood Lumber Company, who re- 

 cently booked some big orders from Chicago, 

 says there is an increased demand for hard- 

 wood. 



Henry Hafner, president of the Hafner Manu- 

 facturing Company, and his family, are summer- 

 ing at Lake Geneva, Wis. He comes down 

 occasionally to look after the affairs of the 

 company. 



Theodore M. Plummer, son of Theodore Plum- 

 mer of the Plummer Lumber Company, and his 

 bride, who have been in California, have re- 

 turned to Mr. Plummer's ranch at Mercedes, 

 Texas. Mr. Plummer has quit the lumber busi- 

 ness and is now "ranching it." For many years 

 he was in "business with his father as secretary 

 of the Plummer Lumber Company. 



According to E. H. Luehrmann. vice presi- 

 dent of the Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, the demand for hardwood 

 lumber is getting better right along. Their 

 business, he says, is quite good and prices are 

 stiffening. Thty are carrying a big stock of 

 the best grades of hardwood, especially red 

 gum, the latter they make a specialty. 



The demand for plain and quartered oak is 

 excellent. Joseph A. Hafner, man.ager of the 

 lumber department of the Hafner Manufacturing 

 Company, says. Cypress too is beginning to 

 move quite well and better prices are being 

 obtained for it. 



'Juite an active business is reported by W. W. 

 Dings of the Garetson Greason Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



W. R. Chivvis reports a more satisfactory 

 movement in the upper grades of hardwoods. 

 His export trade is quite good. Inquiries are 

 coming in well. 



The band mill of the Little Lumber Com- 

 pany, at Blythville, Ark., closed down early 

 this month, but the circular and dimension mill 

 at that point is running. Only oak, ash and 

 Cottonwood logs are being cut. They have a 

 pretty good supply of gum on hand. 



F. C. Moore, president of the F. C. Moore 

 Lumber Company, left July 18 for the South. 

 to be gone for several days. 



Lumber conditions show little change, says 

 W. A. Bonsack of the Bonsack Lumber Com- 

 pany. While business is quiet, he says he gets 

 his share of the orders given out. 



The American Hardwood Lumber Company 

 reports the lumber business as rather quiet. 

 Some days trade is quite good, but on others it 

 is just the reverse. 



Some little railroad business is reported by 

 the Steele & Hibbard Lumber Company. 



Thomas W. Fry, secretary of the Charles F. 

 Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company, has the 

 sympathy of his many friends in an accident 

 that has befallen his wife and daughter. Mr. 

 Fry returned last Saturday night from Mariana, 

 Ark., where he had been on business. During 

 his absence Mrs. Fry and Jessamine, their 

 9-year-old daughter, visited relatives in Alton. 

 Friday while playing about a bonfire the child's 

 clothing caught Are and Mrs. Fry rushed to her 

 rescue. Little Jessamine died early Saturday 

 morning at St. Joseph's hospital, and Mrs. Fry, 

 badly burned and prostrated by the shock, is 

 now at the hospital, but is expected to recover. 

 Mr. Fry could not be reached at the time of 

 the tragedy, but was notified Saturday morn- 

 ing that an accident had occurred and sum- 

 moned home. Up to the time of his arrival he 

 did not know that his daughter was dead. 



The Fred Hoffman Cooperage Company's plant 

 at 8101 Water street, St. Louis, was destroyed 

 by fire July 18, causing a loss of $45,000. The 

 fire was supposed to have been starred by sparks 

 from a passing engine falling into a pile of 

 shavings in the rear of the plant, but Mr. Hoff- 

 man believes his plant was set on fire. The 

 plant covered half a block and had been closed 

 down for a week previous to the lire on account 

 of dull business. 



