HARDWOOD RECORD 



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loss and damage arising from negligence, im- 

 proper loading or stowage, or improper delirery. 



The purpose of tlie suit is to compel every 

 trausportation company in trunk line territory to 

 give a valid receipt for shipments, or guaran- 

 teed piece count at ports, similar to that which 

 the steamship companies are already giving, in 

 order that the latter may be assured that the 

 the railroads are behind thorn in the matter of 

 piece count, when the steamship company gives 

 the shipper his clean bill of lading. No date 

 for the hearing has yet been set. but the case 

 will be pushed as rapidly as possible. 



The Baltimore Builders' Exchange, in which 

 a number of lumbermen bold membership, is to 

 have a permanent exposition of building mate- 

 rials. The rooms occupied by the exchange at 

 Lexington and Charles streets, are now being fit- 

 ted up for the purpose. The exhibit will em- 

 bi-ace building materials of all kinds and will 

 supply object lessons in their use. 



The Arm of Eisenbauer. MacLea & Co. has 

 been organized as a company to be known as the 

 Eisenhauer-MacLea Company, and is moving to 

 a new location on Central avenue and Aliceanna 

 street. The corporation will take over the busi- 

 ness of the old firm and will have a capital 

 stock of $150,000, divided into hundred dollar 

 shares. The incorporators are George Eisen- 

 bauer, Daniel MacLea, Frank A. Mullikin. John 

 Rae Haswell and George R. Willis, the latter 

 an attorney. The incorporation was suggested 

 by Mr. Eisenhauer, who has not beeu very ro- 

 bust for some time and desired to be relieved of 

 some of the worries of the business. 



The old desk in the Maryland senate chamber 

 at Annapolis, before which George Washingtou 

 resigned his commission as commander-in-chief 

 of the Continental Army, has been sent here to 

 be renovated and put into its original condition. 

 The work is being done by the Arm of M. L. 

 Himmel & Son on Frederick street. The cham- 

 ber also will be restored to its original setting. 



Pittsburg. 



The mills and offices of the Yough-Manor 

 Lumber Company and the H. C. Huston Lum- 

 ber Company were closed October 30 on ac- 

 count of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Kendall 

 of Meyersdale. Pa., mother of J. L. and S. A. 

 Kendall. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association has resumed its weekly meet- 

 ings and the members lunch together at the 

 Hotel Henry every Tuesday. 



William Tyson of McClure, Tyson & Irwin, 

 Glady, W. Va., was a recent visitor in Pitts- 

 burg. 



F. K. Bradshaw, who has charge of the 

 Pittsburg end of the Pennsylvania Lumber 

 Company's business, has been in West Vir- 

 ginia for a week. It is reported that his 

 company has made a nice purchase of tim- 

 ber in that state and will start extensive 

 operations there very soon. 



S. S. Henderson, manager of the Pocahontas 

 Lumber Company. Brookville, Pa., spent a 

 few days in Pittsburg the early part of the 

 month. His company has a hardwood and 

 spruce mill which is putting out 20.000 feet 

 a day. 



J. S. McNaugher of the L. L. Satler Lumber 

 Company is back from a long trip through the 

 Southwest, where he had many experiences 

 with otficious yellow fever guards. 



The Forest Lumber Company is one of the 

 firms that has sent a representative into the 

 field to rush cars. He is at Beverly, W. Va.. 

 and is making matters hot for the railroad 

 authorities in that part of the country. 



R. K. Herbertson of the Cheat River Lum- 

 ber Company is back from a successful trip 

 through West Virginia and Virginia, where 

 he contracted for considerable hemlock and 

 hardwood. E. E. Chapin of the same com- 

 pany took a flying trip to the East lately and 

 booked a nice line of business in chestnut 

 and hardwoods. 



The Kendall Lumber Company, which was 

 formed with a capita! of $1,000,000 last 

 month to take over 24.000 acres of timber 

 land in Maryland, has applied for a Maryland 

 charter. It took formal charge of the tract 

 November 1, and is arranging for some large 

 shipments from the mill now on the property. 



Fred Wilson of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company of Columbus, Ohio, called on his 

 Pittsburg friends the other day. He is carry- 

 ing a fine list of orders on his books for 

 Pittsburg delivery. 



I. F. Balsley, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of James I. M. Wilson & Co., re- 

 views the hardwood situation in Pittsburg 

 thus: "Oak finish is in fii-st class demand. 

 There is a good call for ash in all thicknesses 

 in the East for manuf.acturing purposes. 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio lactories are also 

 taking a large quantity of ash and hickory, 

 but much of this is supplied from the local 

 mills direct. Maple flooring and finish are 

 selling well, with prices very firm. Birch 

 in log run is in good call, most of it going 

 to furniture manufacturers. Very little beech 

 is being sold here, for Pittsburg, in good 

 times, pays very little attention to this wood 

 and it is furnished by smaller firms in the 

 country. The cheaper grades of oak are in 

 much better shape than two weeks ago and 

 for the best grades there is a splendid mar- 

 ket for both white and red." ^ 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company has 

 lately bought 10.000,000 feet of standing oak 

 timber in West Virginia and will begin to 

 cut it at once. The tract adjoins the com- 

 pany's mill at Jacksonburg. which has a 

 capacity of 30,000 feet a day. The lumber 

 will be shipped over the Baltimore c& Ohio 

 railroad and much of it will be marketed in 

 Pittsburg. 



The plant of the Pittsburg Wheelbarrow 

 Company was totally destroyed by fire last 

 week. The loss is estimated at $20,000, about 

 ■half of which was covered by insurance. A 

 large stock of hardwood 'and poplar lumber 

 was burned besides over 1.200 barrows which 

 were ready for ironing. 



A brilliant opening to the autumn society 

 season was the wedding at Trinity Episcopal 

 church October 30 of Gladys Lonsdale 

 Painter, youngest daughter of Park Painter, 

 a wealthy retired manufacturer, and George 

 Washington Nicola of the Nicola Brothers 

 Company. The couple left for New York the 

 same night, and sailed November 9 for Europe 

 to be gone until February. 



William T. Mumroe is making a specialty 

 of mill work orders this year. He has a fine 

 suite of offices in the Diamond Bank build- 

 ing and is pushing business hard. 



D. L. Gillespie & Co. are still furnishing 

 lumber for the immense filtration plant at 

 Aspinwall, ju.st above Pittsburg. An ele- 

 vated tramway three miles long has been con- 

 structed, which in itself consumed a big lot 

 of coarse lumber. In addition the cribbing, 

 sheds and cabins of the army of laborers 

 have taken dozens of car loads of lumber 

 every month. The foundations are nearly 

 completed for the pumping house, but it is 

 possible that work on it will not be started 

 till spring. 



J. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany has gone to Cincinnati to force a hurry 

 up method of getting cars. Last week the 

 company closed out the last piece of diY oak 

 it had in stock and they are now up to the 

 saw on this as well as several other kinds of 

 lumber. 



Surveyor General G. L. Smith of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association was in 

 Pittsburg October IS and called on most of 

 the hardwood firms. His visits are always 

 looked forward to with interest by the hard- 

 wood men for they realize the importance of 

 keeping matters well lined up in order tn 

 protect the trade. 



The Blue Ridge Lumber Company has ap- 

 plied for a Pennsylvania charter. The in- 

 corporators are W. H. Herbertson. Jr., M. L., 

 R. H. and R. K. Herbertson. all of the 

 Cheat River Lumber Company, J. W. Davies, 

 R. E. Chapin and H. T. Domhooft. The 

 company has a capital of $50,000, and is 

 about to close a deal for a large tract of 

 hardwood lands in West Virginia. 



The party of Pittsburg wholesalers who 

 made up the last Merchants and Manufac- 

 turers' Association's pilgrimage into centi'al 

 Pennsylvania reports a rousing good time. 

 They were gone five days and stopped at 

 many towns along the way. Johnstown' and 

 Cumberland were the important stops. Inci- 

 dentally not a man returned without a sub- 

 stantial list of orders and a weight of good 

 feeling tor future prospects. 



Buffalo. 



Settlement of the affairs of the Buffalo 

 Veneer & Panel Company proceeds rather 

 slowly, as one of the managers of the com- 

 pany, William F. Felton, is trying to buy 

 up the claims at 50 cents on the dollar, in 

 order to shut oft serious inquiry 'into the 

 reason why he has managed to get $28,000 

 in debt with a small mill in four months. 

 The receiver is H. H. Roberts, who repre- 

 sents an Indiana creditor. 



It is reported that the claims of smaller 

 creditors against the Buffalo Maple Flooring 

 Company are now about settled by the 

 larger ones, but they are not yet ready to 

 announce a plan of reorganization. 



Visitors at the headquarters of the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company will find the 

 office doubled in size and the yard much 

 enlarged. The Wall brothers have also 

 arranged to furnish the electric lights for the 

 village of Blasdell, where their table factory 

 is located. 



F. W. Vetter returned a few days ago from 

 the Chicago meeting of lumber interests, 

 after visiting the southwestern lumber stock 

 of the Empire Lumber Company. He will 

 be off that way soon again. 



0. E. Yeager took a trip with Hugh Mc- 

 Lean recently to the latter's game preserve 

 in Canada for a short hunting season. 



Manager Krebs of the Louisville branch of 

 the Hugh McLean Lumber Company has now 

 taken charge of the company's new mill being 

 constructed at Memphis, and W. A. McLean will 

 look after both the mills at Louisville and that 

 at New Albany. 



The lake hardwood trade of Taylor & 

 Crate has improved some of late, but their 

 Tudor oak from the Mississippi mill is still 

 the leading good thing in the list and will 

 be pushed actively right along. 



Scatcherd & Son will soon take another 

 fall out of the Meniphis district, both in 

 the line of getting in the logs held up by 

 the quarantine, and in securing more tim- 

 ber. Home trade is active, the lumber outgo 

 exceeding receipts. 



G. Elias & Bro. will go into winter with 

 more lumber than usual, due to the heavy 

 receipts by lake. 



1. N. Stewart c& Bro. are doing a lively 

 business in shipment to the seaboard, in oak 

 as well as cherry, the junior member being 

 obliged to make a trip to New York lately 

 to complete some transactions in that direc- 

 tion. 



The receipts of lumber from the South by 

 A. Miller of late have enabled him to com- 

 mand the car situation outward as well and 

 he has made good use of the chance afforded. 

 Business is good. 



There is always a big stock of oak lumber 

 in the yard of the Standard Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company, "but sales are such that more 

 timber must be had, and A. W. Kreinheder 

 will soon be in Tennessee to look up some 

 new tracts. 



