November 25, 1916 



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(loutedly long periods for deliveries, tiiey now arc expected to pay de- 

 nnirrage accruing after the material reaches the yard. 



".Vgain the railroads have the practice of bunching the cars which 

 seems to show that they are short ot equipment as well as labor, while 

 the lumber people have only the labor question to settle. There is a strong 

 feeling here that favors national reciprocal demurrage. There also is a 

 strong belief here that the railroads are totall.y inefficient, and the shipper 

 is the great sulTerer as a consequence. Yet now it looks as though the 

 railroads seek to recoup from him." 



^-< CINCINNATI >• 



Riiob & Scheu, carriage manufacturers, and also carrying on consid- 

 erable of an automobile repair and body-making business, recently leased 

 the large quarters on Wel)ster street, near Sycamore, for a period ot ten 

 years. The business of the carriage company has expanded so much dur- 

 ing recent years that larger quarters have become necessary. The new 

 quarters will be occupied about December 1. For over thirty years Buob 

 & Scheu have been located on Court street, east of Broadway, and during 

 all this time have been prominently identified as considerable of a factor 

 in the Cincinnati hardwood trade as well as consuming no small volume 

 of yellow pine. 



For the purpose of opening up vast timberlands iu Nicholas and 

 Greenbrier counties in West Virginia, the New York Central Railroad luis 

 authorized the construction of twenty miles of railroad along the banks 

 of the Gauley river. This report is said to be authenticated at the 

 offices of the Kanawha & Michigan Railway Company at Charleston, W. 

 Va. The actual work of construction will be started in the very near 

 future, it is said. About three months ago it was reported here that 

 before the first of the year, this rich timberland would be made acee.ssible 

 by a spur from the Kanawha & Michigan, after the consolidation of a 

 couple lines running through that district. It will open up a rich, direct 

 market for the Cincinnati trade. 



The Cleveland Automobile Body Company, which is expected to be 

 something of a hardwood consumer in the near future, was incorporated 

 in Cleveland last week with capital stock placed at .?10.000. The or- 

 ganizers of the new concern are R. B, Newcomb, Munson Havens, Wil- 

 liam E. Tousley, F. A. Pope and Frank M. Cobb. 



The Cleveland Organ and Piano Company, consumer of fine imported 

 woods, mahogany and Circassian walnut ami domestic black walnut and 

 rosewood, recently announced an increase in capital stock of from $50,000 

 to $75,000. 



A recent announcement by FI. Jl. Eastabrook. president of the Barney 

 & Smith Car Company, Hamilton, O., was received with enthusiasm for 

 two large reasons by local lumbermen. President Eastabrook declared 

 that every effort would be made to fill promptly the orders recentl.v .se- 

 cured for 3,175 freight cars and passenger coaclies for the New York 

 Central, the Atlantic Coast Line and the Chicago and Northwestern rail- 

 roads, though it will require several months in order to secure the nec- 

 essary lumber and steel to complete the contract, which total in the 

 neighborhood of $12,000,000. The early completion of the cars will go 

 a long ways toward relieving the car shortage, and it will also create 

 an unusually heady demand for lumber within a short period. The Bar- 

 ney & Smith company is one of the most flourishing concerns ot its kind 

 in the country right now. having war orders amounting to millions of 

 dollars, besides having all the car conti'acts possible to handle. 



Weaver Haas, of Issaquena, Miss., who is prominently connected in an 

 official capacity with several lumber concerns in the South, spent a few- 

 days in Cincinnati recently. For several years Mr. Haas was engageil 

 in the lumber business in Cincinnati, but his southern connections grew 

 .so large he was compelled to make his headquarters in the South. Mr. 

 Haas reported the lumber business in general good throughout the South, 

 exceptionally so, barring the car shortage drawback, and he had every 

 reason to believe that conditions would continue prosperous. 



Henry E. Bolender, a sawmill operator, of Cleves. O.. last week filed 

 a voluntary petition in liankruptcy in the United States district court 

 here, scheduling liabilities at $7,983.48 and assets at only $1,401.34. The 

 assets consist of stock in trade $35. bills receivable $400. machinery, etc.. 

 $500, debt due on open accounts $40.34. unliquidated claims $370. and 

 horses and vehicles $50. Mr. Bolender is quite well known in the Cin- 

 cinnati market. 



One of the largest improvements of the year for Covington. Ky.. which 

 will mean considerable business for the contracting and building supply 

 men of this section is the new office building of the German Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company to be constructed at Pike street and Madison avenue. 

 Plans for the structure, which is to cost $100,000. were made by Samuel 

 Hannaford & Sons, architects, who recentl.v awarded the general con- 

 tract to John J. Craig, of Covington. 



< INDIANAPOLIS >» 



The lumber trade tliroughout Imliaua. as well as all other shippers. 

 are fighting before the Indiana Public Service Commis,sion a new sched- 

 ule of demurrage charges that were filed by railroads operating in the 

 state last week. Greatly increased demurrage charges would be effective 

 if the new tariff is accepted by the commission. At the present time a 

 charge ot $1 a day is made for each car after it has been held without 

 unloading for forty-eight hours after it is received. The new rates. 



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