HARDWOOD RECORD 



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sider several matters that had come up un- 

 expectedly and called for immediate action, 

 though they were not of special moment. The 

 regular meeting of the board is slated for 

 next Monday afternoon, which is also the date 

 for the quarterly meeting of the exchange, 

 when a luncheon is usually served. 



A. C. Hanscom, the manager of the local 

 office of the Morgan Company, manufactur- 

 ers of doors and other mill work in all kinds 

 of woods, with factory at Oshkosh, Wis., has 

 been in Maine for nearly a month, spending 

 his vacation, and he is once more ready to 

 plunge into business. 



Much regret is expressed among hardwood 

 men liere over the tragic outcome of the 

 diflference between Mr. George M. Spiegle of 

 George M. Spiegle & Co. of Philadelphia, and 

 his brother Harrj', in which the latter lost his 

 life last Thursday. Mr. Spiegle is one of the 

 most prominent members of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, and has a 

 Wide acquaintance in this city, where he has 

 been a frequent visitor. 



CHARLOTTE 



Asheville, N. C, Is the home of a large 

 new lumber concern by name the Asheville 

 Mill & Building Company. The capital stock 

 of the company is $100,000, and C. T. Rawls, 

 former mayor of Asheville. Dr. P. R. Moale, 

 W. F. Cellar, L. M. Bourne and S. M. Smith 

 are the incorporators. The company will do 

 a general mill business and will also build 

 houses, etc. It is understood negotiations are 

 under way with Dr. Schenck, G. W. Vander- 

 bilt's agent, to take over the Biltmore, N. C, 

 yard and planing mill. It is likely the plant 

 will be located at Biltmore. near Asheville. 

 It is stated that a stock of about 350.000 feet 

 of lumber, laths and shingles will be secured 

 at once from the Sprucemont Lumber Com- 

 pany of WaynesviUe, N. C, and shipped to 

 the company at Asheville. 



It is stated that the National Casket Com- 

 pany, sometimes termed the "coffin trust," is 

 considering the proposition of locating a large 

 plant in the vicinity of Asheville, N. C. A 

 tract of twelve acres of land near Asheville 

 will probably be chosen as the site for the 

 plant. The present plans contemplate the 

 dressing and shaping of caskets at Asheville, 

 to be shipped knocked down to finishing plants 

 at Pittsburg, Pa., and Nashville, Tenn. 



A large woodworking and agricultural im- 

 plement factory to manufacture all kinds of 

 agricultural implements will be established 

 near Washington, N. C, at an early date. 



Preliminary work for the erection of the 

 large cooperage plant at Washington Park. 

 Washington. N. C, by the Atlantic & Stave 

 Manufacturing Company, is progressing at a 

 rapid rate, and it is hoped to have the plant 

 well under way within the next few weeks 



Messrs. Salvo and Harvey of Charleston. 

 S. C, are said to be planning the establish- 

 ment of a large woodworking and builders' 

 hardware plant in Union. S. C. It is hoped 

 to have the plant ready for work by January 1. 

 In the big land suit of the Table Rock 

 Lumber Company, of Morganton. N. C, vs. 

 A. J. Brajich, tried a few days ago before 

 .ludge Ferguson in Morganton, N. C, the jury 

 rendered a verdict for the defendant, adjudg- 

 ing him to be the owner of over 300 acres of 

 fine timber land near Morganton which was 

 in dispute. The plantiff gave notice of appeal 

 to the supreme court. 



II. C. Ileitman of Lexington. X. C, inventor 

 of the "Joltless buggy," was arrested at Bar- 

 ber .lunction, N. C a few days ago on a 

 warrant charging the young inventor with ob- 

 taining money under false pretenses. Heit- 

 man recently went to Statesville, N. C. and 

 called on the wholesale house of J. K. Morri- 

 -son & Sons and asked the firm to cash a 



draft for %Z0 on the Commercial Savings Bank 

 of Lexington, N. C. He represented himself 

 as inventor of a mail pouch for which the 

 United States and German governments had 

 given him $83,000; of an arc light which he 

 had sold to the General Electric Company for 

 $10,000, and a joltless buggy which he had 

 sold to the Rock Hill (S. C.) Buggy Company 

 for $6,000. He said he was on his way to 

 Columbus, Ohio, to sell the buggy model to the 

 Columbus Buggy Company and needed the 

 money to defi-ay expenses. He had bank 

 books to indicate that he had thousands of 

 dollars in the Lexington bank, and on the 

 strength of these representations he secured 

 the $30. Later an official of the wholesale 

 house became suspicious and telephoned the 

 bank, only to learn that Heitman had nothing 

 there. The warrant and arrest followed, the 

 prisoner being carried to Lexington, vhere he 

 will be tried later. 



The Giant Lumber Company ol North 

 Wilkesboro, N. C, has resumed work on its 

 twelve-mile flume near that city. Delay was 

 caused in reaching an agreement with cer- 

 tain parties through whose property the flume 

 passed. Work will be pushed to completion 

 now, and the work of hauling the company's 

 timber from the forests to the mill will be 

 grtatly simplified. 



The unprecedented rains of last week 

 throughout North and South Carolina and 

 parts of Georgia did immense damage to lum- 

 bermen. It is impossible yet to estimate the 

 less, but all along the large and small streams 

 in these states manufactories were seriously 

 damaged, while woods work received a serious 

 setback. Loss to crops amounts to hundreds 

 of thousands of dollars; cotton mills suffered 

 severely; power plants report thousands of 

 dollars' damage. 



CLEVELAND 



B.ir fixture manufacturers and users of hard- 

 wood who cater to the hotel trade are complain- 

 ing bitterly of the prohibition wave which has 

 struck this state during the past year. They say 

 that it is ruining their business and that their 

 consumption of hardwoods has dropped to almost 

 zero. .losi-ph Irr of the National Fixture Com- 

 pany threatens to pull up stakes and move to 

 some eastern city. He says that where a year 

 ago he was buying $2,500 worth of hardwoods, 

 now he is expending scarcely .$60 a month. He 

 USPS mahogany and oak in bar fixtures of all 

 kinds, aud since the present unsettled condition 

 began has not been able to sell stock, as the 

 saloon men do not know how long they are going 

 to continue in business. Irr says that he is now 

 employing only ten men. as against sixty a year 

 ago. lie points to the failure of the Swessinger 

 Fixture Company at Sandusky a short time ago 

 as an example of the way business conditions 

 now exist. It is said that some of the brew- 

 eries have large numbers of fixtures on band 

 which they have no use for. Hardwood dealers 

 admit that .so far as the fixture trade is con- 

 cerned they arc having a difficult time selling 

 stock of any kind. This fall's election is being 

 based on the liquor issue, and the liquor men 

 hope to win. 



Carolina poplars, pest breeders, are being cut 

 down by the score every week in Cleveland and 

 are being replaced with sycamores, catalpa-spe- 

 ciosas, Norway maples and Scotch elms, all 

 hardy trees. Eighty of the poplars are being 

 sacrificed daily and new trees set out in the fight 

 on insect pests being conducted by the city for- 

 ester's department. 



Nicola, Stone & Myers, big hardwood dealers, 

 with offices in the Hickox building, are expecting 

 a carload of Philippine mahogany soon from the 

 Philippine plant of the Insular Lumber Company, 

 with which they are connected. The plant is 

 operating in some of the virgin forests in the 



islands, where a bandmill cuts the mahogany 

 into plank for shipment, instead of stock being 

 received in the square, as it is from the African 

 market. The shipment will comprise 300,000 

 feet, which is to be used for interior finish. It 

 is coming via the Suez canal. While not as val- 

 uable as the San Domingo or African mahogany, 

 the Philippine product is becoming very popular 

 for interior finish in all classes of buildings. 

 Cleveland capitalists are behind the company 

 producing the lumber. 



Fire ravaged the lumber yard of the Saginaw 

 Bay Company on the afternoon and evening of 

 September 3, doing damage to the extent of 

 .$30,000. Stacks of white pine were mostly 

 burned. Several adjoining lumber companies, all 

 big dealers in hardwoods, were endangered, 

 notably the plant of the Martin Barris Company. 

 For a time it seemed as if the flames would 

 sweep the entire flats district -lA do great dam- 

 age, but good work on the part of the firemen 

 stopped it. An agitation has resulted which 

 will affect all the Cleveland lumber companies. 

 It is for a new set of regulations for the piling 

 of lumbc^r. The fire chief complains that space 

 is not left behind the lumber for the firemen to 

 get in and fight a blaze. It is likely that a 

 new set of rules will be laid down for the build- 

 ing of lumber piles hereafter. 



At the plant of the Advance Lumber Company 

 it was stated that business was materially im- 

 proving and that the export trade was espe- 

 cially good. During the week an order for 500.- 

 000 feet of oak plank for export abroad was re- 

 ceived and promptly filled, the first installment 

 being sent on at once, with others to follow at 

 regular intervals. The company is rapidly de- 

 veloping some of its big tracts in the South in 

 anticipation of a big business next spring and 

 summer. 



K. H. Jenks of the Jenks Lumber Company 

 has returned from a brief visit to Montreal and 

 Quebec, where he inspected several large lumber 

 properties and consulted with some of his cus- 

 tomers there. 



F. R. Gilchrist of Laurel, Miss., who has been 

 spending the summer in Cleveland, has returned 

 to his home, accompanited by his family. Mr. 

 Gilchrist is manager of the Gilchrist-Fordney 

 Lumber Company of Laurel, Miss. 



W. L. Martin, a prominent hardwood manufac- 

 turer of Cheboygan, Mich., was in the city sev- 

 eral days during the past week. He is visiting 

 a son here and reports that the lumber business 

 is picking up all over the country. 



Daniel Wells of Detroit and David Gelcher of 

 Fulton, O., were other visitors last week. 



The A. Teachout Company, manufacturers of 

 hardwood doors and finish, has opened up an 

 east end depot on Euclid avenue adjoining the 

 Xlckel Plate tracks. 



In addition to the Banner Box Company Cleve- 

 land has had launched another box company dur- 

 ing the past month. The new concern is known 

 as the Acme Box & Lumber Company and is 

 backed by Joseph Miller, for several years man- 

 ager of the Forest City Box Company. A plant 

 at East Forty-ninth street and the Wheeling & 

 Lake Erie Railroad is being equipped. A new 

 two-story factory 100x60 feet in size and of 

 brick is being built and will be in operation No 

 vember 1. 



Stephen Hendrickson has become manager of 

 (he new Banner Box Company, which has com- 

 pleted its factory in the flats district. He re- 

 ports a good line of business. 



— ^— BVANSVILLB ^— 



The Milwaukee Falls-Evansville Chair Com- 

 pany, this city's newest furniture factory, will 

 start its plant in a short time, having about 

 completed the installation of its machinerj-. 

 The factory will employ a large force of men. 



Construction work on the new Furniture 

 Exch.nnge building at Fourth and Vine streets 



