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HARDWOOD RECORD 



bcr Company was one of the attendants and also 

 a speaker at the Watertown, N. Y., meeting of 

 the Empire State Forest rroducts Association. 



T. H. Wall has been on a hunting trip with 

 other Nimrods to the far north of Ontario. 

 Canada, and reports that the game is ample 

 enovigh to pay for a vacation tour to that part 

 of the world. 



B. E. Darling of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling, 

 has lately been making a visit to a number of 

 southern mills, looking after shipments of lum- 

 ber purchased there some weeks ago. 



The yard of O. E. Ycager is getting in some 

 good-sized stocks of oak and cypress. There is 

 no indication of any fall in hardwood prices and 

 trade is holding up well this month. 



J. N. Scatcherd is very busy getting ready for 

 the further proceedings for the Terminal Com- 

 mission, expecting that the decision on its con- 

 stitutionality win be decided in its favor. 



R. D. McLean has returned from a business 

 trip to New York. The McLean yard has been 

 adding plain and quartered oak and is now car- 

 rying a stock of good proportions for the winter. 



F. M. Sullivan has been spending some spare 

 time hunting this month and has found some 

 good territory in western New York. He is 

 receiving some one- and two-inch oak among 

 other hardwoods. 



A. J. Elias is one of the five delegates from 

 the Chamber of Commerce to attend the Rivers 

 & Harbor Congress to be held in Washington 

 from Dec. 4 to 6 to discuss general waterways 

 improvement. 



Anthony Miller has been receiving supplies of 

 oak and other hardwoods lately, and states that 

 the hardwood trade, while not very strong, is' 

 still quite satisfactory this month. 



The yard of H. H. Salmon & Co. is taking in a 

 large amount of Michigan hardwoods by lake 

 and will receive a barge from Lake Superior 

 next week with 1,. 500, 000 feet more. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works is being rushed 

 to the limit. An order was recently received 

 from the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha 

 Railroad for twenty-nine switching locomotives, 

 and scattering orders for four large locomotives. 

 An order was also booked for fifty consolidated 

 locomotives for the Boston & Maine Railroad, 

 delivery to be made in the early spring of 1913. 

 The British steamship Shlmosa, for .Japan, will 

 include in its cargo eighteen locomotives for the 

 Imperial Railway of Japan, built by the Baldwin 

 works. This concern is building a new locomotive 

 for timber hauling, the details of which will un- 

 doubtedly be of interest to the lumber manufac- 

 turers and will be given out in the near future. 



Arthur W. Kent, secretary and treasurer of 

 the J. S. Kent Company, recently returned from 

 a trip through the southern lumber camps, 

 where he succeeded in making some desirable 

 deals. He reports increased trading and looks 

 for a good winter business. Thomas B. Hoffman 

 of the hardwood department is scouring the South 

 for stock. 



Howard B. France, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Monarch Lumber Company and of the Had- 

 dock-France Lumber Company, visited the mill at 

 Sterling, N. C, and reports the plant rushed 

 to the extreme. If the winter keeps open con- 

 tinued good trading is predicted. 



Daniel B. Curll is on a trip to North Carolina 

 and Tennessee, closing some desirable deals. He 

 has just made a contract for 6,000,000 feet hem- 

 lock, 500,000 feet oak, 500.000 feet chestnut and 

 considerable poplar. 



F. X. Diebold, president of the Forest Lumber 

 Company, reports undiminished activity. Orders 

 are accumulating, and the mill at Konnarock. Va.. 

 Is worked to the limit getting out stuff. The 

 company recently engaged R. W. Watts, formerly 

 with Beecher & Barr, as salesman to cover the 

 Cumberland valley district. 



The J. A. Finley Lumber Company, wholesaler, 

 342 Land Title building, was chartered under 

 Delaware laws Nov. 12. Its capital is .$50,000. 

 J. A. Finley, who was formerly of the Harding- 

 Finley Lumber Company, and prior to that with 

 Owen M. Bruner Company, and one of the best- 

 known young lumbermen in the East, is president ; 

 W. L. Eliason, a builder of this city, secretary, 

 and L. L. Maloney, a Wilmington, Del., banker, 

 treasurer. They will do a wholesale business 

 handling long and shortleaf Southern pine and 

 maple flooring. 



J. Randall Williams. Jr., of J. Randall Williams 

 & Co., says they are getting excellent business. 

 The uncontrollable car shortage is the only 

 trouble they have to contend with. 



W. H. Wyatt of the Jackson-Wyatt Lumber 

 Company says he has no complaint to make in 

 the way of business. The interrupted shipping 

 is the only difficulty. W. A. Jackson is in the 

 South looking after some delayed orders and 

 hunting a new supply of stock. 



The Maryland Land and Timber Company, 

 Wilmington, Del., was chartered under Delaware 

 laws, Nov. 12 ; capital is $100,000. 



PITTSBVROH 



The Pittsburgh Retail Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation banqueted the Pittsburgh Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association at a quarterly joint 

 meeting at the Hotel Henry, Nov. 12. President 

 E. M. Diebold of the retailers was toastmaster. 

 Addresses were made by L. L. Barth of the 

 Edward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago and 

 Walter Faulkner of Pittsburgh. 



Louis Germain, Jr., president of the Germain 

 Company, has taken on a new partner in the 

 person of Dorothy Dill of Neville street, Pitts- 

 burgh. The wedding occurred in St. Paul's 

 Cathedral Nov. 14, and the couple will reside, 

 after a tour of the eastern cities, in the Albine 

 apartments in Ellsworth avenue. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has decided that trade is about as good in 

 hardwoods as it ever is in this district. Manager 

 Brown of the hardwood department returned a 

 few days ago from a long trip through the Ken- 

 tucky and West Virginia mill districts and found 

 stocks very small and prices very firm. 



Joseph J. Linehan believes that purchasing 

 agents of industrial corporations and especially 

 of hardwood manufacturing concerns, will, as a 

 rule, buy much more lumber for 1913 than they 

 did for 1012. They are already putting in bigger 

 requisitions, and, furthermore, do not seem to 

 hesitate about the slight advance in prices, he 

 says, 



J. N, Woollett, president of the Aberdeen Lum- 

 ber Company, is unloading a big barge of gum 

 and Cottonwood at Joppa, III., for distribution 

 Ihroughout the middle states. He will shortly 

 load another barge on the lower Mississippi. 

 He reports that there is some dropping off in 

 the trade with wagon makers, but that the box 

 trade is unusually good. 



P. R. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Company 

 has no fear of any break in business as the 

 result of the election. He believes that the 

 Democrats will move slowly and that business 

 will go on very much as if no election had been 

 held. 



The Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company was 

 very busy last week and finds trade in general 

 fair to good, with collections better. The Pitts- 

 burgh local market is not contributing its share 

 of the business, however. 



The Mutual Lumber Company announces that 

 business is good and the great trouble is to get 

 lumber moved after it has been bought and 

 sold. Railroads are buying very largely the past 

 month. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is very busy at 

 all its mills. There is no lack of enthusiasm 

 among its sales or office force, for they feel con- 



fident that present business conditions will -con- 

 tinue for a long time. 



Pittsburgh building fell off considerably in 

 October, compared with October, 1911, There is 

 quite a little house building in the outlying dis- 

 tricts, but the city itself is doing very little 

 building. Retailers report that the falling off 

 in the home building has been definitely respon- 

 sible for the apathy in their trade the past 

 year. 



The Balsey & McCracken Company is getting 

 things nicely organized at its office in the now 

 First National Bank building, and I. F. Balsley 

 is feeling exceptionally happy over the big order 

 for chestnut which came Ills way recently. The 

 concern has some fine hardwood connections that 

 will help it out considerably in the Pittsburgh 

 market. 



BOSTON 



The Pope Lumber Company, Beverly, Mass.. 

 has been making extensive improvements to its 

 wharf property in that city. When these im- 

 provements are completed the company will be 

 better able to handle its arrivals of lumber. 



Robinson Bramley, a woodworker of Lawrence, 

 Mass., has filed a voluntary petition in bank- 

 ruptcy. The assets and liabilities are small. 



The Schmick Handle & Lumber Company has 

 been organized at Watervillo, Me., with a capital 

 stock of .1!100,000. The president is Wilson E. 

 Schmick of Hamburg, Pa., and the treasurer is 

 Charles J. Tobias of the same place. 



The Wilson Lumber Company, Portland, Me., 

 has recently finished unloading a cargo of cypress 

 amounting to over 600,000 feet. This is one of 

 the largest cargoes of cypress ever received at 

 Portland. 



William G. Barker and Dean C. French of 

 Boston are among the directors named in the 

 list of officers of the recently organized Bingham 

 Lumber Company of Bingham, Me. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission will 

 hold a hearing in Boston Nov. 25 on the subject 

 of weighing freight. This subject was the chief 

 topic of discussion at the last meeting of the 

 Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation. At this meeting a committee was ap- 

 pointed consisting of Frank W. Lawrence, 

 Charles S. Wentworth and Wendell M. Weston. 

 This committee will present the claims of the 

 lumber trade to the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 missioner. Several lumber dealers in Boston 

 have important facts to put before the commis- 

 sion on this subject. 



BALTIMORE 



The R. K. Ilartwell Company, with offices in 

 the Keyser Building, Calvert and German streets, 

 went into th^ hands of a receiver on Nov, 14, 

 Richard K. Hartwell, the president, being ap- 

 pointed by the court to act in this capacity. Mr. 

 Hartwell bonded in the sum of $5,000. He was 

 appointed on his own application, in which he 

 contended that while the books of the company 

 showed assets of about $40,000 and liabilities of 

 approximately $38,000, the company was in- 

 solvent and the appointment of a receiver neces- 

 sary for the protection of creditors. The com- 

 pany in its answer admitted the truth of the al- 

 legations, and the appointment of Mr. Hartwell 

 followed. The corporation was formed more than 

 a year ago to succeed R. K. Hartwell & Co. as 

 a firm. It expanded, esfablisbing a hardwood 

 department. 



Another concern in trouble is the Mount 

 Winans Mill and Lumber Company, which con- 

 ducted a yard at Mount Winans. just outside of 

 the southwestern city limits. Application for 

 the appointment of a receiver was made in the 

 circuit court here on Nov. 15 by Thomas A. 

 Charshee & Bro. The complainants declare they 

 are creditors to the extent of $169.04. and they 

 allege further that the defendants owe other 



