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HARDWOOD RECORD 



known as the Buffalo, Rochester & Eastern, has again been brought for- 

 ward, and one of those interested in the plan is J. N. Scatcherd. When 

 it was brought up before it was vetoed by the Public Service Commission, 

 which declared it unnecessary, but many shippers of fruit and other 

 merchandise say they are unable to get cars enough &t some seasons from 

 the New York Central and that a new road is much needed. 



B. F. Uidley of Davenport & Ridley recently returned from a business 

 trip of several weeks in the South, where he bought stocks of oak, 

 chestnut and poplar for the Buffalo yard. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling state that the hardwood demand is very 

 good for this season and that all sorts of stock have been moving freely 

 during the past few months. 



H. A. Stewart returned early this month from a business trip to West 

 Virginia. The yard of I. N. Stewart & Bro. is moving considerable plain 

 oak, which is bringing quite an advance over a few months ago. 



T. H. Wall was in attendance at the retail lumber convention at Utica 

 late last month. M. M. Wall is now at Mt. Clemens, Mich., where he 

 will take a brief rest away from the lumber business. 



Anthony Miller reports the hardwood business as picking up some, after 

 a rather quiet start early in the month. His yard is receiving good 

 stocks in a number of different hardwoods. 



A. W. Krienheder is contemplating a trip South in the near future to 

 look after the large oak and chestnut shipments which are coming into 

 the Buffalo yard of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 



W. K. Jackson of Jackson & Tindle, has returned from a business trip 

 to the Michigan mills of the firm. He reported a great lack of snow 

 for logging in some parts of that state. 



The yard of T. Sullivan & Co. is getting in a good assortment of 

 maple in two to three-Inch thickness and also quite a quantity of brown 

 ash. Prices are reported upward bound. 



Hugh McLean has returned from an eastern business trip. The office 

 states that the demand for oak continues acti%'e, especially in plain, while 

 quartered is also showing better sales. 



•< PHILADELPHIA > 



Frederick S. Underhill of Wistar. Underbill & Nixon, reports acceler- 

 ated trading, with all signs propitious for a prosperous new year. 



The Abbott-Carnell Company, 259 and 261 Bullitt building, composed 

 of John F. Abbott and Thomas L. Carnell, is practically a new concern. 

 Operating in the West Indies, Central and South America, it handles 

 veneer and fancy hardwoods, among which it lists mahogany, ebony, 

 Spanish cedar. lignum-vita:>, mahoe. grecnheart and bullet. Mr. Abbott 

 reports the mahogany business very active at this time. The company 

 cuts the stuff and furnishes it to the wholesalers. 



E. S. Nail, president and manager of the Lumbermens' Mutual Insur- 

 ance Company, Mansfield, O. : W. S. Parker, Finley, O. : and J. W. 

 Frankeberger, Mansfield, O., directors of the company, were guests of the 

 Pennsylvania Lumbermens' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, at their 

 annu.il meeting Jan. 28. Justin Peters, the popular manager of the 

 Pennsylvania concern, attended the nineteenth anuual meeting of the 

 Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of New York, which was held in 

 Utica, N. Y., on Jan. 20 and 30. On this occasion the Pennsylvania Lum- 

 bermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company and its affiliating mutual com- 

 panies donated a handsome souvenir booklet containing menu, etc. 



The J. W. Turnbull Lumber Company has moved to its new offices, 

 807 and 808 New Stock Exchange building, where it will have better 

 facilities for handling enlarged business. 



The Lance Lumber Company, West Reading, was adjudged an involun- 

 tary bankrupt Jan. 31. Referee, Samuel E. Bcrtolet. 



The American Chair Company, Trenton, N. J., was incorporated under 

 New Jersey laws Jan. 24, with a capital stock of .$5,000. 



The Leraysviiie Furniture and Toy Company, Leraysvjlle, Pa., obtained 

 a charter under Pennsylvania laws Jan. 28 ; capital, $15,000. 



J. N. Ilolloway of the Imperial Lumber Company reports steady trading, 

 with every indication of a big year for the lumberman. 



Ra.vner & Parker, composed of R. B. Rayner and H. G. Parker, are the 

 successor', to H. B. Rayner & Co. 



.^ PITTSBURGH y 



A number of traffic men of the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association attended the annual banquet of the Traffic Club of Pitts- 

 burgh at the Hotel Schenley, Jan. 30, where they were highly enter- 

 tained. .-Vrthur Brisbane, the New York editor, was the first speaker 

 of the evening and argued that railroads are In a position to do very 

 much more for their clients and for the people in general than they have 

 been permitted to do and that the prosperity of the railroads has much 

 to do with the prosperity of the nation. 



The Pittsburgh Industrial Development Commission has landed two 

 more plants for this city, both of which will use considerable hardwood 

 in building and manufacturing operations. One is the Hanlon-Gregory 

 Galvanizing Company, which will build a big plant at Twenty-fourth 

 street and the A. V. K. R. The other is the National Tag & Manufac- 

 turing Company, which will locate at Parnassus, a suburb of this city. 



The Mead & Speer Company, one of the well-known hardwood concerns 

 of this city, is closing out its business at 6048 Jenkins Arcade. It closed 



up its lumbering operations at Strange Creek, W. Va., some time ago and 

 is tearing up its railroad there now. 



The Warren Table Works at Warren, Pa., will build a three-story addi- 

 tion to their plant this spring to take care of the rapidly Increasing 

 business. 



The Crescent Lumber Company is doing a nice business in poles, piles 

 and ties. It finds difficulty in getting stock promptly to supply its trade. 



The Morland-Ricks-McCreight Company is enlarging its business and 

 has added to its force of salesmen Alexander Gordon, who was for eleven 

 years in the employ of the Babcock companies in this city. 



The Commercial Lumber Company, Youngstown, O., has just received 

 its charter with a capital of $40,000. The members are M. Lee Gailey, 

 John I. Gailey, William Orr, J. Dale Gailey and A. C. Cook. 



Joseph J. Linehan has moved his office to S16 Fulton building where 

 he is handling the stocks of the Mowbray & Robinson Company and finds 

 little difficulty in bringing in a good trade. 



The Duqucsne Lumber Company is making splendid headway with its 

 mammoth operation at Braemer, Tenn. G. C. Adams, sales manager of 

 this city, has been in the East the past few days and finds a good strong 

 market there. 



.< BOSTON y- 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber -\ssociation held its annual meet- 

 ing and banquet at the Exchange Club, Boston, Jan. 29. Several matters 

 of importance were discussed, among them the several bills before the 

 Massachusetts legislature this year which directly affect the lumber 

 industry. The Ma.ssachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association and the 

 Lumber Trade Club of Boston have joined together to fight these bills 

 before the committees and to carry the fight further if necessary. 



It was also voted to join with the Lumber Trade Club in having a 

 ladies' night later in the season. 



The officers elected were as follows : President, William E. Litchfield ; 

 vice-president, Charles S. Wentworth ; secretary and treasurer, B. C. 

 Hammond : assistant secretary and treasurer, A. W. Moore : executive 

 committee, Harry B. Clark, chairman, H. W. Blanchard, Morris A. Hall, 

 Frank \\'. Page, II. B. Stebbins, E. O. i^ake, Frank P. Huckins, H. B. 

 Fiske, T. A. Sbepard and Martin A. Brown. 



The Woodstock Lumber Company of Boston has purchased additional 

 timberlands in Canada from the Missiquot Lumber Company. 



William E. Litchfield, the well-known hardwood lumber manufacturer 

 and dealer, Boston, was appointed delegate from the Boston Chamber of 

 Commerce to the National Chamber of Commerce at Washington. 



=■< BALTIMORE y 



The Baltimoreans who attended tlie annual meeting of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association at Chattanooga Jan. 23 and 24 report that 

 the annual was the most largely attended in the history of the organiza- 

 tion and that the interest shown in the proceedings is a gratifying indi- 

 cation of the growing influence of the organization. The renewal of the 

 contract with Frank Tiffany, the foreign representative, with headquarters 

 in London, is regarded as among the most important matters disposed of. 

 Mr. Tiffany's work has been eminently satisfactory and he is held to have 

 met every expectation entertained. Through his efforts better relations 

 have been established with the foreign brokers and buyers than ever 

 before existed, while at the same time his tact and energy have saved the 

 shippers considerable money. One result of the better understanding has 

 been the prompt settlement of cases involving claims on the ground that 

 lumber shipped did not come up to grade. 



A certificate of an increase in the capital stock of the Maryland Land 

 and Lumber Company has been filed for record at Dover, Del., where the 

 company was incorporated on Nov. 12, 1912, with a capital stock of 

 $100,000. The increase is to $3,000,000. The incorporators are H. Ralph 

 Ewart, Clarence J. Jacobs, and Harry W. Davis, all of Wilmington, Del. 

 The office of the company is in the Delaware Trust Building at Wilming- 

 ton. Richard L. Tilghman is president of the company, and IT. Webster 

 Smith is secretary. 



David T. Carter & Co., hardwood wholesalers and exporters, are ex- 

 periencing such an increase in their business that they have found it 

 necessary to get larger offices. Tlwy have moved from the tenth to the 

 ninth floor of the Calvert building, Fayette and St. Paul streets. 



David Sterritt McNitt, a director of the Maryland Lumber Company, 

 which has its headquarters at Hagerstown, Md., and operates a sawmill 

 at Denmar, W. Va., died in a hospital at Lewistown, Pa., last week of 

 injuries received when he was struck with the broken end of a steel cable 

 and hurled to a ledge of rock. 



Mr. Howie of Wright. Graham & Co.. of Glasgow. Scotland, who has 

 been making a trip of the lumbering sections of the eastern states during 

 the last month or so, stopped here on his way back to New York last 

 week, preparator.v to taking the steamer for home. He complained that 

 the priee of hardwoods had been advanced to such figures as to check 

 the export movemeut and compel the foreign yards to hold back and 

 supply only their most imperative necessities. 



Herman D. Billmeyer of the Billmeyer Lumber Compan.v, of Cumber- 

 land, Md., which makes a specialty of bridge and ship timbers, is a candi- 

 date for the postmastership of that town. President Taft recently ap- 

 pointed a successor to Postmaster Pearre, but the Senate Democrats, in 



