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HARDWOOP RECORD 



October 25. 1910 



=-< PITTSBURGH >-= 



Sales Manager I'oung of the Kendall Lumber Company reports an ex- 

 cellent inquiry and says that prices are firm. The great trouble is to get 

 enough cars to take care of the shipments from the mills. J. L. Kendall 

 has been in Baltimore and other eastern points this week. 



The Johnston-Davies Lumber Company, which has been doing a yery 

 nice business the past few years in hardwood stocks for mining and manu- 

 facturing concerns, has dissolved partnership. W. D. Davies retired from 

 the firm and P. H. Johnston will continue the business under the firm 

 name of the Johnston-Davies Lumber Company, with offices at 1S06 

 Benedum-Trees building. 



G. C. Adams, sales manager of the Duquesne Lumber Company, is mak- 

 ing splendid headway in eastern markets since he established the Phila- 

 delphia branch office of that concern. Eastern trade has been especially 

 good the past month in both manufacturing and yard orders. 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, says his 

 concern has 500 ears of dry gum and cottonwood ready for shipment, but 

 that they cannot get one-third enough cars to move the lumber out of the 

 Southwest. The prospective demand for hardwoods this winter is excel- 

 lent, according to J. N., and he anticipates very firm prices right along. 



C. V. McCreight of the Eicks-McCrcight Lumber Company says there is 

 a fairly good volume of business. The company is cautious about taking 

 orders for delivery on lines where cars are known to be short. 



The E. H. Shreiner Lumber Company reports a very good demand for 

 good hardwoods. Mr. Shreiner is well stocked up on lumber that will 

 satisfy consumers, especially as to quality. 



The Adelman Lumber Company has been getting a splendid winter's 

 trade the last few months. Its September sales in all lines were very en- 

 couraging and Mr. Adelman anticipates a good trade right along this 

 fall. 



The Tlonesta Lumber Company, which has mills In northern Pennsyl- 

 vania, and which was "organized under a Pennsylvania charter lately, has 

 located in the First National bank building in this city, where it will do a 

 general wholesale lumber business. 



The FramptonFoster Lumber Company is as busy as ever with Its rail- 

 road and industrial trade. Its specialty is white oak and its sales the past 

 few months have been mighty encouraging In this line. 



Philadelphia of Robert C. Lippincott. The deceased, as president of the 

 National Wliolcsale Lumber Dealers' Association and in the course of busi- 

 ness, had come into personal contact with a number of the Baltimoreans, and 

 all learned to place a high valuation upon him as a citizen and business 



="< BOSTON y 



The mill and yard property of N. P. Gilford at Salem, Mass., which escaped 

 the great conflagration in that city two years ago, was damaged to the 

 extent of $30,000 on October 3. A fortunate turn of the wind and assist- 

 ance from nearby cities prevented the spread of the fire to the whole plant 

 and nearby buildings. 



Frank L. Wilder, head of Wilder, Walker & Davis of Sterling, Mass.. died 

 recently at his home in that town. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has indefinitely postponed the hear- 

 ing set for October 5 at Boston and the increase of rates to this territory 

 which were included in the docket remain ineffective until after the matter 

 is again set tor hearing. 



The Great Northern Tidewater Lumber Company has been incorporated 

 at Waterbury, Conn., and a new corporation under the style of J. C. Prenney 

 Company has been organized to succeed to the business heretofore con- 

 ducted at Chelsea, Mass., by J. C. Prenney. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



While no definite decision has yet been arrived at it is practically certain 

 that the next annual meeting of the National Lumber Exporters' Association 

 will be held at New Orleans In January. The great majority of the mem- 

 bers seem to favor that city, and the committee which has charge of the 

 matter will be guided by this sentiment. 



J. McD. Price, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Association, 

 with headquarters here, is quite ill with bronchial pneumonia, and his 

 physicians express the opinion that he will not be out for ^ome weeks. For 

 a time after being taken ill Jlr. Price endeavored to look after the details 

 of his office and keep track of the correspondence, but he proved unequal to 

 this task. His condition is not regarded as alarming, and there Is every 

 expectation that he will pull through in good shape. 



Dwight Hartlove, who was practically manager of the wholesale hard- 

 wood firm of Price & lleald, for several jears prior to the death of the sur- 

 viving partner, J. M. D. Heald, and who has since been liquidating the assets 

 of the firm, has arranged to continue the business as a firm under the old 

 Dame. He contemplated forming a corporation, but for the present this 

 will not be done. He expects to retain the yard at Locust Point, which 

 the firm occupied for a long time. 



The state of the ocean carrier trade is indicated by the fact that the 

 bark John S. Emery has been chartered to load 920,000 feet of lumber at 

 Boston for Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the rate of $25 per 1,000 feet. 



Tlie committee appointed by Mayor Preston of Baltimore to revise the 

 building code has completed its report, and the latter has been turned over 

 to City Solicitor Field tor incorporation in an ordinance, which the City 

 Council Is expected to enact into law. The committee included City En- 

 gineer Henrlck, cbairmiin ; Joseph Evans Sperry, an architect ; Henry 

 Adams, Layton F. Smith and William F. Chew, builders, and several others. 

 The changes are said to be In the direction of bringing the code up-to-date 

 and benefiting not only the builders but also the investors in Improved real 

 estate. Until the ordinance is laid before the covmcll the changes will not 

 be made public. 



Profound regret was expressed among lumbermen here over the death at 



=-< COLUMBUS >= 



John Class,' president of the Canton Saw Company, Canton, Ohio, 

 died September 22. Mr. Cl.iss was well known throughout the lumber 

 industry and has a large number of friends. 



H. H. Giesy, of H. H. Giesy & Bros., Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio, 

 is on a business trip to New Orleans. 



William M. RItter and James L. Hamill offered to give $25,000 to the 

 Scioto Couuti-y Club for the purpose of paying off the flqating indebted- 

 ness if the members of the club would raise .$15,000 by December 1. The 

 club officials accepted the offer and at once started a movement hoping 

 to obtain the money in record time. 



James W. Lee of Blanchester. Ohio, sawmill operator, filed a volun- 

 tary petition in bankruptcy in United States district court, scheduling 

 liabilities at $3,060.60 and assets at $2,911..39, of which, he says, $1,000 

 Is exempt. 



The Maumee Valley Manufacturing Company of Hicksvlllo. Ohio, has 

 been sold out to Charles II. GoUer. The capital stock of the concern 

 is $100,000. 



II. S. Gaines, chief executive officer of the Ohio Builders' Supply Asso- 

 ciation which recently opened offices in Columbus, has been busy organiz- 

 ing local assoeiati<ins to be affiliated with the stiite organization. The 

 local organizations are for the purpose of exihangiug credit information 

 and to stiidy better methods of exchanging credit information and to 

 study better methods of accounting. 



R. W. Ilorton of the W. M. RItter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods both from factories and retailers. All grades 

 are moving uniformly and prospects for the future arc good. Prices 

 are firm and every change is towards higher levels. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a good demand 

 for hardwoods with prices ruling firm. 



The Unlteil States Handle Export Company of Piqua. Ohio, has been 

 incorporated with a capital of $5,000, to do an export lumber business. 

 The Incorporators are II. Lee Bassett, W. F. Bassett, A. Eahn, Wm. 

 Cook Rogers and Chas. H. Barnett. . 



-■< CINCINNATI > 



United States District Court Judge Hollister last week issued an order 

 reinstating the motion of James S. Hopkins, to quash service, in the 

 matter of the United States for the benefit of the Leet Lumber Com- 

 pany against Meredith Harman, contractor, who failed sometime ago 

 while engaged In building a government building up state. The motion 

 previously was stricken from the files. 



An inventory and appraisement of the assets of the McFall-Heyser 

 Lumber Company, filed In c(pnimon pleas court here last week, values 

 them at a totjil of $169,049. Receiver X. J. Utter reported receipts 

 from August 25. 1916, to date, amounting to $4,750.34 and disburse- 

 ments of the same amount The receiver also turned over to the 

 National Bond and Investment Company $22,919 ou accounts aggre- 

 gating $01,032.77. 



News of a new coal concern, involving large coal, land and timber 

 interests, has Just been received here. The Fidelity Coal Mining Com- 

 pany, with a capital stock of $.30,000 has just been organized and now 

 Is operating at Exodus, Ky. It has under lease 1.000 acres of coal land, 

 said also to contain valuable timber rights. Ttie organizers are J. E. 

 Butler. R. L. Stearns. K. W. Dyas, S. C. Trent and R. W. Henderson. 

 The coal will be handled through Mr. Dyas of the Stearns Coal and 

 Lumber Company. 



The lumber firm of Lee & Fooshee of Sparta, Tenn., recently made 

 application In the United States court here for the release of a ear- 

 load of lumber in the yards of the Ricmeler Lumber Company, recently 

 adjudged bankrupt. The Lee & Fooshee concern claims tliat the Rlemeier 

 brothers refused to accept the lumber and pay the freight because of 

 their in.solvency, but to save demurrage charges the lumber was unloaded 

 and stored in the bankrupt firm's yards. An endeavor was made to 

 intercept the car of lum'oer and have it delivered to the Hay Lumber 

 Company, In Clnclnniiti. the Sparta concern asserts, but Its telegrams 

 to that effect were not received until after the lumber had been un- 

 loaded. The Lee & Fooshee company offers to pay the freight and 

 expense of unloading the lumber and asks the court to direct that the 

 lumber be returned it. 



Referee In Bankruptcy H. H. Haines, of Hamilton, Ohio, last week 

 filed his final record closing the case of Charles E. Gates of Hamilton, 

 bankrupt contractor and builder. The liabilities were $10,320 ami 

 assets realized totaled $5.S.60. There was nothing for unsecured cred- 

 itors, whose claims amounted to $3,715. 



