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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25, 1919 



The death of Owen Moffiett, president o£ Moffett, Bowman & Bush, 

 Memphis, Tenn., is announced, and also of C. B, Webster of the Webster 

 Planing Mill Company, Applcton, Wis, 



The cnpital stock of George C. Brown & Co. (Inc.), Memphis, Tenn., 

 has been increased to $1,000,000. 



The American Cabinet Manufacturing Company has been incorporated 

 at Norfolk, Va. 



CHICAGO 



The Wilco Dry Kilu & Mill Company has applied for a charter. 



Hardwood Record acknowledges the receipt of a very handsome book 

 issued by the Maple Flooring Manufacturers' Association, Stock Ex- 

 change building. Chicago, entitled "Flooring — Maple, Beech and Birch." 

 The book is a very ambitious exhibition of the flooring manufactured by 

 the members of the Maple Flooring Manufacturers' Association, and it Is 

 well worth anyone's while to secure a copy just for general information 

 and because of the pleasing appearance the book presents. 



Chicago has had a good many prominent visitors in the last few weeks, 

 among them being many from the North as well as from the South. Some 

 of the southern visitors were ; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Barnaby and daughter 

 of Greencastle, Ind. ; John N. Penrod of the Penrod Walnut & Veneer 

 Company. Kansas City. Mo. ; Fred W. Mowbray of the Mowbray & Robin- 

 son Company. Cincinnati : W. W. Knight of the Loug-Knight Lumber 

 Company. Indianapolis, Ind. ; George W. Hartzell, Piqua, O. ; Ray E. 

 Pickrel, Pickrel Walnut Company, St. Louis, and L. C, Moschel, Langton 

 Lumber Company, Pekin, 111. 



H. B. Sale of the Hoffman Brothers Company. Ft. Wayne, Ind,, spent 

 two or three days in the city on business last week. 



Among the northern visitors were Charles A. Goodman. Marinette, Wis., 

 president of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, who was in the 

 city for several days; C. A. Bigelow. Bay City, who passed through Chi- 

 cago on his way to and from Milwaukee ; B. P. Whedon of W. D. Young 

 & Co.. Bay City: C. T. Mitchell, Cadillac. Mich., and A. C. Wells, Menomi- 

 nee, Mich. 



Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Cutsinger of Evansville, Ind.. spent most of 

 the week in the city. Mr. Cutsinger was very much pleased over the 

 lumber outlook and said that mills in his territory have been having a 

 good deal of trouble in getting in logs. 



BUFFALO 



The Jamestown furniture factories have been holding their annual 

 exposition during the past few weeks and the results in the way of sales 

 are said to have been quite satisfactory. Some of the exhibitors have 

 discontinued at the show, since they have taken orders enough to keep 

 them running actively for a long time ahead. 



Horace F. Taylor and his lumber associates are pleased with the result 

 of their work as members of the Victory loan committee which repre- 

 sented the lumber industry. The quota for the committee to raise was 

 $1,050,000, but this amount was exceeded by over ten per cent. All the 

 yards and offices contributed to the success of the campaign, employes of 

 a number of large yards and woodworking plants going 100 per cent for 

 the loan. The final results for the city have not been made public, but 

 the total will be in the neighborhood of $58,000,000, or about 25 per cent 

 more than was named as a quota. 



Buffalo building permits are in record-breaking number nowadays and 

 this apparently means that a great many persons are buying automobiles 

 and building garages for them. The number of such structures going 

 up is unprecedented and is evidence of a good state of prosperity, though 

 it perhaps means also that Liberty bonds are being traded in large num- 

 bers for automobiles. This city is ahead of last year in the total costs 

 of permits, though few large buildings are being erected. The April per- 

 mits numbered 593, which is slightly more than were granted during any 

 of the busiest months of 1916, when building reached its crest for the 

 war period. For the first four months of 1919 the total costs here were 

 $2,222,000, a gain of 9 per cent over the same period of 1918, when the 

 figures w^ere $2,043,000. 



The plans for a civic center in Buffalo have not yet matured, but sug- 

 gestions have been asked for by city officials. Some of the sites proposed 

 are not regarded as sufficiently roomy, for it is stated that at least 

 thirty-five or forty acres will be needed. 



Hardwood men are patronizing the clubhouse of the Buffalo Automobile 

 Club liberally these pleasant days. C. Walter Betts is chairman of the 

 entertainment committee and others in its makeup are J. B. and M. M. 

 Wall, O. E. Yeager, A. W. Krelnheder and I. N. Stewart. 



BALTIMORE 



Members of the committee on Marine Insurance policy of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association have been in conference during the last 

 week on such a policy, and have gotten the document fairly well in shape 

 along the lines desired. The revision of the draft covers a great sheet. 

 and there are many clauses, all of which have been carefully gone over 

 by members of the committee. A form has been worked out which is 

 believed satisfactory and will be submitted to the membership for adoption. 



There has been established in New York a new yard for taking care 

 of stocks of hardwoods and other lumber sent by manufacturers in the 



interior to the seaboard for export. The corporation to provide this yard 

 is known as the Patterson Shipping Company, of which P. C. Patterson 

 is the head. On the occasion of a visit to Baltimore some two weeks ago 

 Mr. Patterson outlined the purposes of his company, which, he stated, were 

 to provide facilities to shippers from the interior who may not have repre- 

 sentatives of their own at the seaboard. His company will receive ship- 

 ments, pay the freight and attend to all other details, and see that the 

 shipments are put aboard vessels, thus giving shipments all attention 

 which they would receive from the owners. The company has an office 

 at 11 Broadway, and yards at Eleventh avenue and Fifty-first street, and 

 at the foot of West Forty-fourth street. Mr. Patterson was here to look 

 up space on steamers with a view to getting off shipments. He was 

 formerly with the British admiralty and afterward with the Lucas E. 

 Moore Stave Company, in which latter capacity he looked after the dun- 

 nage shipments for the British government. 



A similar errand which had brought H. Ben. Johnson of the Mansfield 

 Hardwood Company of Shreveport, La., to Baltimore kept him here about 

 a week. Mr. Johnson bad spent some time tracing various car shipments 

 from place to place and had been informed by railroad officials that they 

 were at one point or another, only to find, when he got here, that they had 

 arrived in Baltimore three weeks before. He finally succeeded in getting 

 them off on steamers. His company operates three mills, most of the 

 output going abroad. 



Frank Ing, who was formerly connected with William M. Burgan and 

 other lumber firms here, was in town last week in pursuance of his mis- 

 sion to dispose of hardwoods acquired by the government for war pur- 

 poses, but for which the federal authorities have no use now. In his 

 official capacity he had received bids for the purchase of some millions of 

 feet of mahogany, located at different places, and for 400,000 feet of oak 

 at the plant of the American Propeller & Manufacturing Company in this 

 city. The acceptance of these bids awaited only the approval of the 

 higher federal officials, of which there was said to be practically no doubt. 

 After leaving Baltimore Mr. lug for a time operated some yellow pine 

 mills and still later he became a buyer of lumber for the government, cover- 

 ing many states in this capacity. 



At the meeting of the managing committee of the Baltimore Lumber 

 Exchange, held on May 5 at the Old Colony Club, one of the subjects dis- 

 cussed was the action of the Merchants and Miners' Transportation Com- 

 pany, which operates steamers between Baltimore and Savannah and 

 Jacksonville, in charging demurrage on lumber left on its wharf here 

 beyond a certain length of time. No formal steps were decided upon, in 

 view of the statement that the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation had taken up the matter with the authorities at Washington, but 

 some very decided opinions as to the equity of the proceedings were 

 expressed. The members of the trade as a whole feel that to charge 

 demurrage on such lumber is wholly arbitrary and unwarranted, for 

 these stocks cannot be said to deprive the company of the use of any of 

 it« equipment or delay the departure of steamers, and therefore lacks the 

 excuse urged in favor of charging demurrage on lumber in cars. It is to 

 be said that the charge was imposed while the vessels of the company were 

 still in the hands of the government, and it is intimated that the matter 

 will be adjusted to the satisfaction of the trade. 



M. S. Baer. of the hardwood firm of Richard P. Baer & Co., the tower, 

 Maryland Casualty Building, is back after a stay of ten days or two weeks 

 in the South. He went to Mobile, Ala., and Bogalusa, La., at both of 

 which places his firm has saw mills in operation. He reports that he 

 found everything working satisfactorily, with the labor situation some- 

 what improved. 



COLUMBUS 



The Columbus "Own a Home" campaign which is backed by all of the 

 business and civic organizations of Columbus has been launched under 

 the most auspicious circumstances. As a result of the campaign a great 

 deal of interest in construction work has been aroused and its backers 

 believe that much will be gained. The campaign was organized under 

 the auspices of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and all of the local 

 business and civic organizations an- co-operating. Kline L. Roberts, a 

 well known advertising and publicity man, has been selected as director. 



A recent investigation of building conditions in a number of the Middle 

 West states shows that Ohio is behind approximately $235,000,000 in 

 construction work. 



The Howard & Barber Lumber Company, Cincinnati, has increased its 

 authorized capital from $10,000 to $50,000. 



The strike of bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, stone and marble set- 

 ters and painters in Columbus, which took place May 12 and was called 

 in sympathy with the strike of the mill workers was not settled \ip to 

 May 20. Steps are being taken to settle the strike. 



EVANSVILLE 



The entertainment committee of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club is 

 busy arranging the annual summer outing of the club, which will be 

 given on Saturday, June 14, on the steamer Joe Fowler on the Ohio river. 



Harry Roy, representing the W. R. Willett Lumber Company, Louisville, 

 and R. C. Bridges, of the T. H. Garrett Lumber Company. St. Louis, well 

 known to the trade in southern Indiana, called on many friends here a 

 few days ago. Mr. Roy has been making this territory for a number of 



