HARDWOOD RECORD 



Charles C. Batchelder, treasurer of the Bos- 

 ton Lumber Company, left late last week on a 

 three weeks' canoe trip on the Allegesh rlTer, 

 Maine. 



BALTIMORE 



The National I.umljer Kxporters' Association 

 lias been exceptionally busy of late working to 

 advance th^ interests of shippers of stock to 

 forftign countries, and various matters have 

 been under consideration. The committee ap- 

 pointed to take into account the conditions at 

 Antwerp, regarding which port numerous com- 

 plaints have been made, has completed its work 

 and prepared a report, which sets forth the 

 various objectionable practices that have been 

 tonnd to exist there. It was ascertained that 

 there had been frequent complaints on the part 

 of the brokers as to quality, short measurement 

 and for other allcfied reasons, in the invention 

 of which the Liverpool contingent has been 

 especially fertile. Shipments would be objected 

 to for some supposed defect and in various 

 ways the brokers would endeavor to cut down 

 the price of stocks, so as to bring the return on 

 a shipment to the level the quotations might 

 have attained. In fact, Antwerp had become 

 almost as unreliable a market as Liverpool. 

 The committee recommended in its report that 

 exporters stop making consignments and for- 

 ward lumber only on the basis of American 

 measurement. It was also suggested that all 

 cases of undue exactions be reported to the 

 association, in order that suitable action can 

 be taken, and that the Antwerp brokers be noti- 

 fied of the decision to have every case of this 

 kind thoroughly sifted. Copies of the report 

 have been sent to all the members by Secretary 

 E. M. Terry, and the Antwerp brokers also have 

 been notified. 



A total of 500 circular letters have been sent 

 out to associations, shipping concerns and indi- 

 viduals interested in the export trade, soliciting 

 their opinion on the expediency of the proposed 

 movement to obtain a uniform ocean bill of 

 lading. It will be remembered that the matter 

 came up for consideration at a meeting of the 

 N. L. E. A. transportation committee at the 

 Baltimore Chamber of Commerce June 24 last, 

 and that a special advisory committee was 

 named at that time, consisting of representa- 

 tives from a number of organizations of export 

 shippers, to obtain the views of various bodies 

 concerned, and the present canvas Is the re- 

 sult. The returns will be carefully gone over 

 and upon thorn the course to be pursued will 

 depend. If it appears from the replies that 

 shippers generally favor a uniform ocean bill 

 of lading, the committee will proceed to out- 

 line a method of procedure. 



The subject of shipiiing lumber on consign- 

 ment, which bas been under consideration for 

 some time past by the N. L. E. A., has been 

 brought prominently into the foreground once 

 more by the reports of members who recently 

 visited Europe and saw for themselves the con- 

 ditions that prevail In the principal markets 

 abroad. They found such congestion nearly 

 everywhere that they became strongly Impressed 

 with the neces.flty of putting the strongest pos- 

 sible check upon forwarding without orders. 

 The action taken at the annual meeting for the 

 association In New Orleans last January, when 

 it was resolved to notify foreign brokers that 

 persistent encourngement of shipping on con- 

 signment might result In the severance of re- 

 lations with the N. L. E. A. members, does 

 not seem to have been sufficiently effective, and 

 in energetic campaign against the practice Is 

 I be Inaugurated. 



J. O. Eimer, assistant secretary of the N. L. 

 i;. A., with headquarters at New Orleans, has 

 resigned to become secretary of the Gulf Const 

 Lumber Exporters' Association of Mobile. Uls 

 resignation Is to be effective September 1. 

 Secretary Terry of the N. L. E. A. has compiled 



a circular giving car service, terminal, switching 

 and other charges at ail the ports from Mont- 

 real to Galveston, Tex. The Information is 

 compiled from the rate tables of the various 

 railroad lines, and presents in easily compre- 

 hensible form the precise data which shippers 

 of lumber desire to have at their command. 

 The compilation has entailed much labor, and 

 will be in the hands of members in a short 

 time. 



The National Lumber Company, wholesale and 

 commission dealers in hardwoods on West Falls 

 avenue, sent out to creditors a circular letter 

 this week, asking them to assemble for the pur- 

 pose of considering the affairs of the company, 

 as the latter is unable to meet its obligations. 

 The letter states that the company has sus- 

 tained heavy losses through the failure of James 

 H. Cranwell, several months ago; the Wilson & 

 Kcnney Company at Towson, Baltimore county, 

 Md. : Soble Brothers, New York, and others. 

 The National company is virtually owned by 

 W. E. I'eregoy, who was at one time president 

 of the Baltimore Lumber Company. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here within 

 the past week was A. T. Fuller of the George 

 D. Emory Company of Chelsea, Mass., who suc- 

 ceeded in taking orders for a lot of mahogany. 

 Hardwood men here are not in the slightest 

 degree alarmed over the decision to enlarge the 

 Harlem & Uollingsworth Company's plant and 

 its remodeling tor the construction of steel 

 cars, and by similar action on the part of the 

 Pullman Company. They say that while these 

 concerns have been large consumers of line 

 hardwoods, the change will have no effect upon 

 the demand, since the uses of hardwoods are 

 constantly expanding In other directions, while 

 the supply is getting smaller. If anything, so 

 that a ready market will be found for all the 

 desirable stocks which can be turned out. 



It seems certain that the combination of 

 piano manufacturers, which Includes the Knabe 

 Company of tbis city, the Chlckerlngs and others 

 under the name of the American Company, with 

 a capital of $12,000,000, will prove of benefit to 

 Baltimore, since this city is made the head- 

 quarters of the concern, and all of the adver- 

 tising will be done at this end also. It now 

 looks as though the purchasing agent will have 

 his chief office In the Monumental City, and It 

 follows that the hardwoods used will be bought 

 through him. 



CHARLOTTE 



Hackne.v BiuIIilib, c.vleniivc wagon manu- 

 facturers of Wilson, N. C, will In the early fall 

 open a branch of their manufacturing plant at 

 Washington, N. C. 



The manufacture of furniture is rapidly be- 

 conlng one of the most Important Industries 

 In North Carolina. The annual report of the 

 Bureau of Labor and Printing for the year 1007 

 has just been issued, and the statistics It con- 

 tains relative to the furniture manufacturing 

 Industry in this state Indicate a growth in this 

 line without a paiailel. 



One hundred and four furniture factories re- 

 ported to the bureau. These have a capital 

 stock of .$.'?,457,766.G6, and employ 10,880 horse- 

 power. Number of employes employed In these 

 factories is 6,549, whose highest average dally 

 pay is $2.30 — twelve cents more than the pre- 

 vious year — and whose lowest average dally pay 

 is 91 cents, an Increase of six cents over the 

 year 190G. 



The Kent Lumber Company, with main of- 

 fices in I'liUadelphia, has Just begun operations 

 with their planing mill at Elliston, Va. 



An explosion a few days ago at William 

 Bald's sawmill, near Draco, N. C, killed Henry 

 Gilbert and Fred Jackson, while William Keld, 

 owner of the mill, is not expected to live from 

 his Injuries, and his son, Hugh, Is also In 

 serious condition. Too high boiler pressure Is 

 supposed to have been the cause of the ex- 



plosion. The boiler iras thrown fifty yards and 

 demolished, and the engine was completely 

 wrecked. 



The plant of the Lamb-Fish Box Company of 

 Winston-Salem, N. C, has Just been completed. 

 The plant bas a daily capacity of 11,000 boxes. 

 Red gum and oak, the timber from which the 

 boxes arc to be made, will be brought from the 

 company's extensive timber holdings In the 

 southwestern hardwood belt. L. C. Hancock bas 

 charge of the plant at Winston-Salem. 



Stockholders of the Kincaid Veneer & Lum- 

 ber Company of Salisbury, N. C, will meet 

 September 7 to act on a resolution adopted by 

 the board of directors, which deems it advisable 

 for the benefit of the company tbat it should 

 be dissolved, the plant sold at public auction 

 and the proceeds divided pro rata among the 

 stockholders. J. M. Kincaid of Salisbury is 

 president of this company. 



The Parrish Furniture Company of Durham, 

 N. C, bas gone into bankruptcy and the goods 

 will be sold to satisfy debtors as far as pos- 

 sible. Amount of liabilities and assets is not 

 yet ascertained. 



The Carolina Woodworkers Company has Just 

 opened its plant at Raleigh, N. C, and has 

 begun making all grades of furniture. J. G. 

 Ball is president of the company. 



The large planing mill of the Skillman Manu- 

 facturing Company, located at Kcnbridge, Va., 

 has Just been completed and operations will 

 commence at once. 



The Greensboro Table & Mantel Company of 

 Greensboro, N. C, has been declared bankrupt. 

 R. G. Hood has been named as permanent re- 

 ceiver. The former secretary and treasurer of 

 this large concern, M. L. Bloomberg, bas been 

 arrested and placed under $1,0U0 bond, pending 

 trial on the charge of misappropriation of the 

 company's funds. 



The large new brick dry-kiln of the C. M. 

 Belts Lumber Company of New Sumpter, S. C, 

 is about completed and is in every respect much 

 better than the one recently burned. Other 

 buildings have been erected and the plant, 

 when completed, will have a daily capacity of 

 75,000 to 100,000 feet. J. W. Alien Is man- 

 ager of the plant, which is one of the largest 

 and most successful In South Carolina. 



A suit Involving timber lands lying In Jack- 

 son county, North Carolina, valued at $100,000, 

 bas Just been decided. Tbis was the case of the 

 Highland Forest Company vs. Jackson Owen 

 and about a hundred defendants to clear the 

 title, and have the latter declared In unlawful 

 possession. The decision Is In favor of plaintiff 

 and the defendants must vacate. 



The Appalachian Railway Company bas been 

 chartered for the construction and operation of 

 a railroad from Whittler, N. C, into the Great 

 Smoky mountains, in western North Carolina 

 and possibly on into Tennessee. Capital stock 

 is $100,000, with power to increase. This Is to 

 be strictly a lumber road and will open up over 

 70,000 acres of the finest kind of virgin timber- 

 land, rich In all grades of valuable hardwoods. 

 The promoters are local and northern capital- 

 ists. 



CLEVELAND 



Local lumbermen, includlug aomc of the larg- 

 est hardwood dealers in the city, are complain- 

 ing bitterly against the provisions of the new 

 building code which went Into effect some time 

 ago and which bars lumber piles within a dis- 

 tance of 100 feet of any bouse or tenement. 

 The code was passed primarily to govern new 

 buildings and new conditions but It is being 

 enforced against the present lumber yards to 

 a degree tbat Is causing much hardship and 

 which some dealers say will eventually compel 

 them to move out of the city or abandon busi- 

 ness altogether. A committee of the Cleveland 

 Wholesale Lumbermen's Association had a con- 

 ference with the fire chief and the biiH-n-H- 



