HARDWOOD RECORD 



is cutting out a fine lot of oak for the eastern 

 trade. Mr. Hastings is spending a few days in 

 New Yorlt. 



H. J. Wilmaitli, who has three mills near 

 Boj'er, W. Va., spent a few days in the city last 

 week. His mills have been down for some time, 

 but he expects to resume operations in the oak 

 mill very shortly. 



The Lackawanna Lumber Company is prepar- 

 ing to sell to the state of Pennsylvania a large 

 portion of its land in the Cross Fork section, 

 east of Pittsburg. The land is well timbered 

 and admirably suited for forest reserve. 



The Inter-State Lumber Company is the name 

 of a new concern with offices in the Ferguson 

 block which may be said to be the outgrowth of 

 the old Pitcsburg Lumber Company. This lat- 

 ter concern, it will be remembered, was formed 

 with the purpose of giving retailers a chance 

 to buy lumber direct from the manufacturers, 

 but has been out of business for some eighteen 

 months. 



W. E. McMillan and A. F. Johnson have 

 formed partnership as McMillan & Johnson, and 

 will have offices In the Schmidt building in 

 Pittsburg. Mr. McMillan was at the head of 

 the W. E. McMillan Company, Inc., which re- 

 cently went into the hands of a receiver, and 

 Mr. Johnson has been in the export business in 

 Baltimore for fifteen years. The firm will have 

 a capital of .$.jO,000, and expects to devote most 

 of its attention for the present to the wholesale 



C. D. Haywood of the Georgian Bay Lumber 

 Company of Cleveland, Ohio, took some nice 

 Pittsburg orders last week. He is feeling 

 "Strong" on the fall market and looks for higher 

 prices soon. 



The Reliance Lumber Company notes that 

 mills are short on many sizes and stock, and 

 also that the call for house building lumber in 

 the small towns is increasing steadily. Its men 

 are all out on the road and notice a gradual gain 

 In business. 



The Railroad & Car Material Company lias 

 been doing a good business in the East lately, 

 In.t finds local demand very slow. Its chief 

 . ..mplalnt is that railroads hesitate to close for 

 Klers after requisitions have been put out. 



Whin vou talk about offlcc bancrrrs and 



William T. Monroe of the Diamond National 

 Bank building, says that trade in mill work was 

 not as good in August as in June and July. 

 ■The New York Central Railroad Company is 

 doing most work along this line of any rail- 

 road," he says. He is figuring some good jobs 

 tor steel plants. 



W. E. Pownall, president of the Colonial Lum- 

 ber Company, spent his vacation in Long Island. 

 Atlantic City and New York. "Trade Is picking 

 up a little and pi-lces are noticeably stiffer," he 

 says. 



\V. A. Clay of the Clay-Schoppe Lumber Com- 

 pany is down at the company's plants near 

 Cumberland, Md., trying to repair the damage 

 which was done by the cloudburst flood that 

 overtook that section a few weeks ago. It will 

 be a week or ten days before his mills can be 

 operated as usual. 



Manager. Wickershamm of the Buckeye Lum- 

 lier Company reports that some bill oak and a 

 few oak timbers are moving, but that prices 

 are still being cut hard. His trade at Buffalo In 

 poplar has been very good, but he reports little 

 inquiry from the Pittsburg district. Ills chief 

 business at present is in hickory wagon stock, 

 which goes chiefly to Ohio and Indiana. 



W, M. Klrkland and W. II. Witherspoon of 

 Heaver, Pa., and W. H. Coaver of Connellsville, 

 I'a., are largely Interested in a company which 

 iirts cut over 3,000 acres of timber In Preston 

 .Miiuty, near Kinswood, W. Va. The timber Is 

 Khiic oak and yellow poplar, with considerable 



linn and chestnut and is one of the finest tracts 

 in the Little Mountain state. It is estimated 

 that the tract will cut 25,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood and 200,000 ties. The company now has 

 three mills going and employs nearly 100 men. 



A. J. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Company 

 spent his vacation in Atlantic City. The com- 

 pany's mills at Carnarock are doing well and 

 all indications point to higher prices for lumber 

 this fall. 



J. B. Flint of .the Flint, Erving & Stoner 

 Lumber Company has returned from his summer 

 out'ng nt Lake Simcoe, Canada, and managed 

 10 get some good orders while away for pleasure. 

 He reports the general situation as slightly bet- 

 ter, but admits that there is still room for Im- 

 provement. This is especially true of the river 

 trade, which in ordinary years is one of the 

 most important branches of this company's 

 business. 



J. N. Woollett, general manager of the Ameri- 

 can Lumber & Manufacturing Company, has 

 been working the Cincinnati trade lately and 

 his efforts contributed largely to a total of over 

 200 cars of lumber which the American has sold 

 since August 15. 



The many friends of George 'Van Dyke of 

 the Connecticut River Lumber Company will be 

 glad to learn that he has so far recovered from 

 his long and severe illness as to be able to give 

 a part of his time to his business at his Boston 

 office. 



Marcus L. Foster of the Stone & Foster Lum 

 ber Company, Worcester, Mass., returned a few 

 weeks ago from a business trip to British Co- 



A. C. Dutton of the A. C. Dutton Lumber 

 Company, Springfield, Mass., has spent a large 

 l)art of the past summer visiting his numerous 

 Uimber interests in (Juobec and New Brunswick. 



Harrison Parker of the I'almer & Parker 

 Company, hardwood dealers and manufacturers 

 of Veneers, Charlestown, Mass., is expected to 

 return to Boston from a European trip about 

 September 20. Mr. Parker has been abroad 

 with his family for the past three months. 



Charles H. Hawley died at his home in Bridge- 

 port, Conn., August 27. As a young man he 

 entered the lumber business with his father 

 under the Arm name of C. H. Hawley Lumber 

 Company. This name was later changed to the 

 Hawley & Beecher Lumber Company, and still 

 later to the Bridgeport Lumber Company. The 

 business was discontinued about fifteen years 

 ago. 



W. R. Chester of W. R. Chester & Co., who 

 has been abroad for the past two months, is 

 expected home shortly. While in Europe, Mr. 

 Chester attended the peace conference. 



Richard J. O'Rlley of the O'Riley Lumber 

 Company, St. Louis, Mo., has been spending a 

 few weeks at Gloucester, Mass. 



J. H. P. Smith of the Hardwood Lumber 

 Compan.y, Ashland, Ky., has returned home 

 from a trip through the East. 



I.iiiubLr iI'Mli'is have not as yet made any 



^,1 I relative to shortage of cars 



I my serious trouble this season. 



, writing to their representa- 



1,4,, , .. ..„iild be a good idea to place 



orders as early as possible, in this way avoid- 

 ing any delay due to car shortage. Reports this 

 week show that more cars are In use than for 

 several months, and a heavy crop movement 

 might result in a shcrtage. 



George W. Fooshe of the Robertson-Fooshe 

 Lumber Company, Memphis. Tcnn., has been a 

 visitor in the eastern markets. 



A. T. Fuller of the George D. Emery Com- 

 pany, large importers and dealers In mahogany 

 and Spanish cedar, has been making a business 

 trip South. 



Gardner I. Jones of the Jones Hardwood Com- 

 pany, Boston, was a recent visitor in the New 

 ^ork market. 



Fred W. Mowbray of Mowbray & Robinson, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, was a recent visitor In the 

 eastern markets. 



Andrew F. Leatberbee, well-known retail lum- 

 ber dealer, Boston, made an assignment about 

 two weeks tigo. His liabilities were placed at 

 about .?100,000. The assignee states that under 

 normal conditions the assets of the company 

 would about olTset the liabilities. An early set- 

 tlement Is predicted by Mr. Leatherbec. 



IlMirv H i'l„..:i. . ..f W It Cbesler & Co.. has 



BALTIMORE 



The attention of the local hardwood trade 

 is centered largely upon the affairs of the 

 two lumber concerns that have gotten into 

 difticulties during the past few weeks. One 

 of these, the National Lumber Company, of 

 which E. M. Peregoy is the chief stock- 

 holder and virtual proprietor, called a meet- 

 ing of its creditors two weeks ago, at which 

 Mr. Peregoy made a statement and proposed 

 acceptance of 30 cents on the dollar. The 

 creditors resolved to take no action on this 

 proposition for the present, but they named 

 a committee which is directed to make an 

 investigation of the National Company's con- 

 dition and report what action should be 

 taken. 



At a meeting of the creditors of James H. 

 Cranwell. called for August 28 by Henrj- 

 Duffy, tlie reteree in bankruptcy, the affairs 

 of Mr. Cranwell were extensively discussed, 

 but comparatively little additional light was 

 thrown upon them. Mr. Cranwell, it trans- 

 pired, did not keep any books, except a kind 

 of day book. In which he made some entries 

 of transactions, and he also kept a memoran- 

 dum of notes due. He could give very little 

 further information about his business deal- 

 ings, and seems to have carried most of the 

 details of sales In his head. Charles E. 

 Cockey, Charles Merriken and United States 

 Assistant District Attorney Morris Soper were 

 named as a board of trustees, to delve fur- 

 ther into Mr. Cranwell's affairs and make a 

 report. 



Much Interest was manifested here in the an- 

 nual concatenation of the Hoo-Hoo held at Chi- 

 cago during the present week. The Baltimoreans 

 read glowing reports about the elaborate prepa- 

 rations made for the event, and they should all 

 have enjoyed attending, but among those re- 

 ported to have gone we note John L. Alcock, a 

 former vicegerent snark for this jurisdiction ; 

 also George Waters and Maurice W. Wiley. 



Geo. W. Eisenhauer, of the Eisenhauer- 

 MacLea Company, hardwoods, on Central 

 avenue, has Just returned from a trip of about 

 ten days or two weeks in the lumbering re- 

 gions of North Carolina and other southern 

 states. He made his headquarters at Ashe- 

 villo. and visited a number of the mills, tak- 

 ing account of the conditions there. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, has returned 

 from a stay of several weeks, where he went 

 to confer with various members of the asso- 

 ciation relative to business matters, and 

 also put in some time sightseeing. He was 

 much benefited by the change from the ordi- 

 nsirv routine of his duties. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange was called together In spe- 

 .ial meeting Tuesday of last week to con- 



