HARDWOOD RECORD 



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CINCINSATI 



L. W. Radina of L. W. Radina & Co. 

 says that business with his concern has been 

 good during the past two weeks, and the de- 

 mand for poplar and quartered oak is more 

 urgent now than for any other week for the 

 past six months. During the month of April 

 his concern did more business than for some 

 time, and now that the weather had offered 

 relief he looks for a continued improvement 

 in all grades of hardwoods. 



J. TV. Clifford of the Clifford Lumber Com- 

 pany of Detroit, Mich., was a visitor in town 

 during the past fortnight looking after trade. 

 He stated that conditions in Detroit were 

 more favorable than for some time and that 

 he thinks a gradual improvement will be 

 noticed each week. 



William Duhlmeier of the Duhlmeier 

 Brothers reports business with them during 

 the past fortnight as rather slow, but says 

 that inquiries are being received with more 

 regularity. 



"We have been busy for the past three 

 weeks, and especially so in poplar, quartered 

 oak and plain white oak," said E. O. Robin- 

 son of Mobray & Robinson. "In fact all hard- 

 woods are doing better now than for some 

 weeks, and I am of the opinion that each 

 week will bring on a better tone in the hard- 

 wood situation." 



I. M. Asher of the I. M. Asher Lumber 

 Company has gone to his mill in the South. 

 He reported trade with his company fairly 

 good. 



E. S. Miller of the Stevens-Eaton Lumber 

 Company of New York, was a visitor in town 

 during the past week on business for his con- 

 cern. He stated that trade in Gotham was 

 showing a fairly good tone. 



E. L. Edwards of Dayton was in town re- 

 cently calling on his local manager, J. E. 

 Tuthill, and looking after business affairs. 

 Mr. Tuthill says that trade with his concern 

 was only fair during the early part of the 

 month, but a decided change has been man- 

 ifested in the last two weeks. 



Harry Saxton, vice-president of the Knox- 

 ville Saw Mill Company at Knoxville. Tenn., 

 met with fair success during the past two 

 weeks in selling lumber to retail dealers here. 

 W. P. Roberts of the Kentucky River Pop- 

 lar Company of Lexington, Ky., was a visitor 

 in town during the past week selling poplar, 

 of which they have a fair supply on hand. 

 He did not have much trouble in disposing 

 of this wood as the local trade here are not 

 too well fixed in poplar. 



H. H. Fields of the Spatswood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Lexington, Ky., called on the local 

 trade during the past week trying to secure 

 trade for his company. 



J. H. P. Smith of the Hardwood Lumber 

 Company of Ashland, Ky., was a visitor in 

 town during the past week looking up busi- 

 ness. 



The Cincinnati Business Men's club will 

 hold a field day at the Laughery, June 11. 

 This was decided upon at a meeting of the 

 club officials last week. There will be a base- 

 ball game and all kinds of athletic contests, 

 such as running, jumping, etc. A steamboat 

 will probably be chartered. Prizes will be 

 awarded to the champions in the various de- 

 partments of athletics. 



William Goodall, Sr., pioneer contractor and 

 lumber dealer of this city, died last week 

 after a brief illness. A number of local lum- 

 bermen attended the funeral. 



B. F. Dulweber. the newly elected president 

 of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, enter- 

 tained at dinner at the Business Men's Club 

 last week a number of his friends, who so 

 successfully helped him to gain the presi- 

 dency of the club. Short speeches and amus- 

 ing stories of how votes were secured were 

 related. 

 The next monthly meeting of the Cincin- 



nati Lumbermen's Club will be held June 1 at 

 the Business Men's Club at which B. F. Dul- 

 weber, the newly elected president, will pre- 

 side. 



Schedules of assets and liabilities were filed 

 last week in the involuntary bankruptcy pro- 

 ceedings instituted against the John Stengel 

 Furniture Company of Dayton. Stengel, the 

 president of the company, has admitted all 

 of the charges of bankruptcy made against 

 his concern. The total indebtedness is placed 

 at $105,290.64, and the assets at $60,536.75, the 

 value of the real estate being placed at 

 $40,000. 



The fifth flood of the year visited Cincin- 

 nati during the month. No serious damage 

 was done to property. The Maley, Thompson 

 & Moffett Company and C. Crane & Co. re- 

 ceived a great many logs on the rise. The 

 Crane people lost quite a number of logs, but 

 these were returned after the usual salvage 

 charge was paid. 



The Andrew Jergens Soap Company of 

 Spring Grove avenue have added another 

 small building to their plant which will be 

 devoted to the manufacture of boxes used 

 by the company. 



The Grafton Lumber Company of Grafton, 

 Ohio, was incorporated last week with a cap- 

 ital stock of $10,000 by- J. A. Knechtges, J. L. 

 Beesing, John Crilly, George Heavor and F. 

 Hancox. 



The Ferd Brenner Lumber Company of 

 Norfolk, Va., has now located in the First 

 National Bank building, this city, where it is 

 ready to take care of business in its usual 

 prompt manner. 



The Kentucky Lumber Company will move 

 from its present quarters on the fifth floor 

 of the First National Bank building to the 

 tenth floor about July 10. The present quar- 

 ters are not large enough for the prospering 

 concern. They will have a suite of five rooms 

 in the new location. 



The rough lumber of the E. M. Schantz 

 Lumber Company has been purchased by the 

 P. R. Mitchell F'umiture Company in grade. 

 It is stated upon good authority that the 

 creditors of the bankrupt concern will not 

 receive more than 10 cents on the dollar. 



The Peter Kuntz-Hilton Lumber Company 

 of Dayton, Ohio, with a capital stock of 

 $5,000. was incorporated last week by Peter 

 Kuntz, J. J. Kuntz, P. Kuntz, Jr., J. A. Layne 

 and W. P. Hilton. 



S. Sudbeck of the Acme Veneer & Lumber 

 Company has returned from a short trip 

 through Ohio. Harry Hartke of the concern 

 states that business is very good for high- 

 class veneers, such as walnut and mahogany. 

 The lower grades are not in as good demand, 

 but still are doing fairly w'ell. 



John Frederick Strong, a well known lum- 

 ber dealer of this city, died the middle of the 

 month after a brief illness. Strong was well 

 known among the lumber trade here and else- 

 where, and the news of his death came as a 

 shock to his many friends. 



W. E. Johns of the William H. Perry Lum- 

 ber Company returned recently from a busi- 

 ness trip to Chicago. He said that the trade 

 here is about the same as it has been for the 

 past three weeks, but is hopeful of a change 

 in the situation during the month of June. 



W. B. Wolfe of the William H. Perry Lum- 

 ber Company took a quiet little trip a few 

 days ago apparently on business through Ken- 

 tucky, but was interferred en route by one 

 Dan Cupid, who made a sudden dart down 

 upon the lovers, drilled them before a min- 

 ister and did not release them until his high- 

 ness pronounced them man and wife. His 

 spouse is a Kentucky belle from Danville. 



John Frohmiller, formerly of the J. H. Bur- 

 ton Lumber Company, has severed his con- 

 nection with that concern and accepted a po- 

 sition as salesman for the Acme Veneer & 

 Lumber Company. 

 A waterway between Cincinnati, Toledo and 



Chicago, is the latest movement of the Cin- 

 cinnati business men. The movement was 

 brought before the members of the Chamber 

 of Commerce and not a dissenting vote was 

 uttered. Several of the local business men 

 are heartily in favor of the new project, but 

 it will require some Ome before it is com- 

 pleted. 



"We have done a fairly good business dur- 

 ing the past few weeks, but it was not as 

 heavy as I would like to see it." said Ralph 

 McCracken of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany, recently. "Both of our mills in Ken- 

 tucky are running, but the two in Tennessee 

 and Mississippi will not be started for some 

 time. I think that the situation will show 

 some improvement during the coming month." 



BVANSVILLE 



William Threlkeld of the Indiana Quartered 

 Oak Company of New York city spent sev- 

 eral days last week visiting the trade in this 

 market. 



Henry Maley of Edinburg, Ind., was in the 

 city last week on business. 



The H. Herrmann Manufacturing Company 

 will shortly start up its dimension factory 

 after a shutdown of several months. It will 

 employ about fifty men and will run ten 

 hours a day. The company is not operating 

 its sawmill and has not been doing so for 

 some time past. 



The first installment of machinery for the 

 Milwaukee Falls-Evansville Chair Company ar- 

 rived a few days ago and will be installed at 

 once, as the firm expects to get its factory In 

 operation by July 1. 



The big plant of the Hohenstein-Hartmetz 

 Furniture Company of this city was recently 

 almost totally destroyed by fire. Over $35,000 

 worth of property, including machinery, stock 

 and material, was consumed. The loss is only 

 partially covered by insurance. The origin of 

 the fire is supposed to have been the faulty 

 electric wiring in the building. It is not 

 known whether the firm will rebuild or not. 



Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz spent sev- 

 eral days last week at the Grammer (Ind.) 

 mill of the firm looking after affairs there. 



C. C. Hale, representing F. W. Vetter of 

 Buffalo, N. N., was in the city a few days 

 ago calling upon various hardwood firms. 



In suits filed recently by the Henry Maley 

 Lumber Company against the Schultze-Walt- 

 man Planing Mill Company the Maley com- 

 pany claims it owned the entire plant, which 

 was totally destroyed by fire, and that they 

 are entitled to the insurance. The fire referred 

 to occurred about a year and a half ago. the 

 mill then being operated by the Henry Maley 

 Lumber Company on West Ohio street, to- 

 gether with several other buildings, were de- 

 stroyed. 



S. P. Coppock of S. P. Coppock & Sons Lum- 

 ber Company is in the city. 



Harry Callicott. representing Young & Cut- 

 singer, has just returned from a trip to Chi- 

 cago. Jlr. Callicott says business is rather 

 quiet in the Windy City. 



ST. LOUIS 



The National Prosperity Association, started 

 in St. Louis recently, is beginning to bear 

 fruit. Lumbermen are tailing in line and 

 indorsing the "give us a rest and sunshine" 

 movement. Lumber clubs and exchanges all 

 over the country are passing resolutions advo- 

 cating its principles. The Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of St. Louis was one of the first to 

 take interest in this matter, and at a recent 

 meeting of the board of directors passed a 

 resolution endorsing the plan of the associa- 

 tion, proclaiming its readiness to act promptly 

 in keeping up the reputation of the city, and 

 stating that with the general movement which 



