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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10. 1919 



with Inside rooms. The minimum area of rooms, the height of windows 

 from the floor and other requirements are set forth in detail, the changes 

 being designed to promote the health and welfare of the public. The 

 Indicated general revision, however, will go much farther, and will pro- 

 vide for structural modifications relating to all buildings, with a view to 

 making them comply with up-to-date ideas. 



The outstanding feature of the report of Building Inspector Osborne for 

 September is that for the first time since annexation the value of the new 

 improvements for which permits were issued are nearly double the total 

 for the territory within the old city limits. The estimated value of the 



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structures which were authorized by the building inspector during the 

 month totaled $1,853,000, a falling off of nearly 50 per cent as compared 

 with August, but still an impressive exhibit. The big items that went to 

 make up the annex total of $1,209,600 in September included twelve manu- 

 facturing plants of an estimated value of $589,000 and eighty frame dwell-- 

 ings, the cost of which was given as $340,000. The use of wood for build- 

 ing purposes is therefore seen to have undergone a big increase, with the 

 prospects for a continuance of this demand very promising. 



The explosion of a boiler in the sawmill operated by J. Stanford Locates 

 near Ross Point, about six miles from Laurel, Del., on September 25 

 caused the death of four negro workers, while four others were so eeri- 

 ously injured that they may not survive. The plant was wrecked. What 

 caused the explosion is not known. 



Edward Barber of the Howard & Barber Lumber Company, Cincinnati, 

 and president of the National Lumber Exporters* Association, is on a trip 

 East, having first gOQe to Atlantic City a week or more ago and thence 

 to New York. It is expected that he will visit Baltimore before he goes 

 back to his home. 



Samuel P. Ryland of the Ryland & Brooks Lumber Company, American 

 building, had the misfortune recently while visiting his former home in 

 Virginia, to fall from a horse, dislocating a shoulder and being badly 

 shaken up. Notwithstanding his ripe old age (he is a veteran of the 

 Civil war) he is out again. 



PITTSBURGH 



J. N. Woollett, president of Aberdeen Lumber Company, is making a 

 long trip through the South and Southwest. His company reports buying 

 on the part of big Implement and vehicle concerns quite a little heavier 

 than in the early summer. 



The Ricks-McCreight Lumber Company finds that hardwood is unusually 

 firm. Yard trade is improved very much lately and a tendency in prices 

 is decidedly upward. 



The Dailey-AUen Lumber Company has had a splendid business with the 

 retailers and is optimistic about the outlook and prices for hardwood. 

 They expect quite an increase in trade just as soon as the steel strike is 

 settled. 



George H. Young, formerly with the Kendall Lumber Company, and who 

 is now sales manager of the J. C. Donges Luml^er Company of this city, 

 reports an excellent demand for hardwood in nearly all lines, except for 

 mining stock. Trade in that line is very slack. 



II. F. DomhoflF, president of the Acorn Lumber Company, believes that 

 hardwood prices are going to stay up for a long time. Nothing in the 

 situation, in his opinion, indicates any less ilemand or any lower prices 

 for hardwood. 



The Nypenn Furniture Company, Warren, Pa., will at once build an 

 addition to its plant to take care of its largely increased trade in bedroom 

 furniture. The company sometime ago took over the plant of the Johnson 

 Furniture Company in Warren -and has made splendid progress since. 



The Allen Furniture JManufacturing Company, Corry, Pa., has bought 

 the plant of the Biederman Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturing Company at 

 Spencerville, Ohio, and will double the capacity of the plant which now 

 employs 200 men. The company will manufacture only buffets of the 

 Queen Anne period design. 



The plant of the Crescent Furniture Company, Warren, Pa., was dam- 

 aged about $25,000 by fire September 17. 



J. B. Montgomery & Co.. a new hardwood firm in the Magee building, 

 is doing a fine business, although it is only a few months since it started. 

 John B. Montgomery, head of the concern, was for eighteen years with the 

 American Lumber and Manufacturing Company, and is one of the best- 

 known hardwood salesmen and all around lumbermen in this district. 



C. V, McCreight, chairman of the legislative committee of the National 

 Wholesale Lumbermen's Association, will go to Washington in a few days 

 to help along the big fight which the National association is making against 

 the Plumb Bill. Mr. McCreight urges every hardwood man in the country 

 to write to his senator or congressman and to enlist his aid in smothering 

 this railroad measure. 



MEMPHIS 



The situation is rather bettor as affecting the mills along Wolf river 

 in North Memphis. The Mississippi has been rising during the past ten 

 days and there is enough water in the canal through which entrance is 

 effected into Wolf river to. make it possible for towboats to carry logs 

 into that stream. These mills were threatened with having to suspend 

 operations a short time ago, especially where they were dependent on river 

 receipts of timber, but the situation is so much better that it is possible 

 that they will now be able to continue to operate, especially as the Mis- 

 sissippi is gradually rising. The Anchor Sawmill Company, however, 

 says that there is not enough water in the canal to justify it in operat- 

 ing its boats' through that channel and that it will not attempt to do so 

 until a further rise is experienced. 



George Schadd, who has had wide experience in the general freight 

 offices of the Illinois Central at Memphis for a number of years, has been 

 made district manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association at 

 Helena. Ark., as successor to J. A. Koehler, who recently resigned to ac- 

 cept service with the Archer Lumber Company, of Helena, as assistant 

 to the president and general manager. Mr. Schadd has already assumed 

 his new duties. He is also serving as general agent of the American 



