February 10. 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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producers. Among those present were : George W. Hartzell, J. C. Roda- 

 hafer and H. E. Glaeser, all of George W. Hailzell, PlTlua. O. ; R. L. 

 Jurden. Penrod. Jurden & McCowon, Memphis, Tenn. ; Alexander Schmidt, 

 Cincinnati, O. ; J. N. Penrod. Penrod Walnut & Veneer Company. Kan- 

 sas City, Mo.; V. L. Clark. Des Moines Saw Mill Co., Inc., Des Moines, 

 Iowa ; Mr. Haskell. Pickrel Walnut Company, St. Louis, Mo. ; L. C. Moschel, 

 Langton Lumber Company, Pekin. 111. ; Max Kosse, Kosse. Shoe & Schleyer 

 Company. Cincinnati, O. 



The capital stoik of The Cable Company, city, has been increased to 

 ?4. 000,000. 



=■< BUFFALO > 



Thomas H. Wall, one of Buffalo's most popular lumbermen, was married 

 •on February 6 to Miss Josephine Foster of Jsiagara Falls. An eastern 

 wedding trip followed the ceremony. 



While cars from the South are reported to be a little easier, there is 

 more than the usual amount of complaint from shippers in the Canadian 

 trade. One shipper reports that he has spruce bought in New Brunswick 

 and finds the cars so far impossible to obtain. Lack of motive power is the 

 principal reason for the slow movement of freight in Canada, as well as the 

 lack of men to repair the locomotives that are disabled. The Canadian 

 authorities at Bridgeburg say they have many empty cars, but not enough 

 engines to keep the cars moving, and the same is true at other points. 



The L. W. Tarbox Lumber Company is cutting timber on its tract at 

 Lewis, in Livingston county. It is mostly pine, hemlock and hardwoods, 

 including oak. ash and chestnut. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company states that the volume of Jan- 

 uary business was good. The company has been selling a large amount of 

 birch, among other woods. 



The Atlantic Lumber Company finds the demand for hardwoods good, 

 ■especially in maple. Oak is doing fairly well, while basswood is one of 

 the best sellers on the hardwood list. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller state that the lumber demand extends to a num- 

 ber of different woods, with maple leading. Others in fair demand are 

 birch, ash and basswood. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports an increased firmness in 

 both plain and quartered oak. Demand is fair, in spite of the adverse 

 influence of railroad embargoes. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company states that the furniture trade 

 is on a fairly active scale and better than the trim business, which is held 

 back by bad weather. Prices are holding firm. 



O. E. Yeager reeently went to Palm Beach to spend a vacation of several 

 weeks. The yard reports quite an active inquir.v for hardwoods. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling say that the hardwood trade continues good 

 for this season. Maple prices ha^c bi'cn getting firmer lately and oak is 

 also showing an advance. 



G. Elias & Bro. are finding a better demand for maple, with prices show- 

 ing an advance. The yard has been receiving stock lately from both the 

 West and Southwest. 



Taylor & Crate have a good stock of oak, ash, gum and cypress at their 

 Mississippi mills and report a fair demand for stock. The car situation 

 in the South is said to be somew-hnt easier. 



=-< PITTSBURGH >= 



E. H. Shreiner of the E. H. Schreiner Lumber Company made a trip to 

 the hardwood mills in the South lately. He is in splendid shape to take care 

 of his hardwood trade this year. 



E. V. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Company visited the company's 

 big operation at Tellico Plains, Tenn.. recently. Fred R. Babcock of the 

 same company is working hard with the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce 

 to get ready for the big wholesalers' convention here in March . 



The Kendall Lumber Company is doing an excellent business in hard- 

 woods and its milts are running* steadily. Sales Manager Young reports 

 very little easing up, however, in the car situation. 



J. X. Woollet, president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, looks for 

 «yen higher prices before spring on gum and cottonwood. His stocks of 

 these woods are by far the best in his history. 



The J. C. Donges Lumber Cumpany shipped twice as much lumber last 

 month as in January, 1916. Mr. Donges says it is simply a case of taking 

 <aire of your trade, not of hunting more business. 



A. J. Munsell, formerly of the Satler-Munsell Lumber Company, is now 

 a leading salesman for the Frampton-Foster Lumber Company, one of the 

 biggest wholesalers in oak in this section. 



The Acorn Lumber Company believes that there will be an excellent 

 demand for hardwoods this year. The tremendous activity in the manu- 

 facturing plants and with the industrial concerns makes it certain that all 

 of these will be likely buyers of lumber and will have to pay the prices 

 that are asked. 



-< BOSTON >-- 



Effective Feb. 4, the Boston & Maine Railroad declared an embargo on 

 freight (with certain exemptions) coming to New England via Rotterdam 

 Junction. This, together with the current New Haven forwarding embargo, 

 re-establishes the severe limitations on transportation to this section. 



Bankruptcy proceedings on Mnrpby & Itobsim o4 East Cambridge, Mass., 



have_ been halted pending negotiations for the appointment of a receiver, 

 hearing on the case having been held before Referee Warner of Boston. 



The Atlantic Lumber Co. has moved to an extensive suite in the Mason 

 Building, Boston, and Herbert F. Hunter has installed his newly organized 

 hardwood business at Room 63 in the same building. 



The Stevens Lumber Co. of Boston has been incorporated in that city ; 

 capital .$25,000 ; president, R. H. Stevens and treasurer, Frank G. S'wain. 

 The offices of the corporation are at 50 Congress street. 



^-< BALTIMORE >-= 



M. S. Baer of Richard P. Baer & Co., is back from a three or four weeks' 

 stay at Hot Springs, Va., very much benefited by the vacation and once 

 more hard at work. His brother, Richard P. Baer, has taken a trip South 

 as far as Mobile, where related interests operate a sawmill. Mr. Baer not 

 only went to see how work at the plant is coming on, but he also got in 

 touch with various millmen in the South to obtain first hand information 

 about trade conditions. . 



The contract for some 300.000 feet of maple flooring, to be used in the 

 construction of the new pier to be built for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad 

 at Locust Point. Baltimore, has been secured by John S. Helfrich, who has 

 an otfice in the Law building. The contract for the lumber as a whole went 

 to the James Lumber Company, which arranged with Mr. Helfrich to supply 

 the flooring, .\ltogether the pier will call for more than 2,000,000 feet of 

 lumber, most of it heavy yellow pine. .\ member of the James company 

 has been down South recently looking up suitable stocks. 



Otto Duker, who will be eighty-five years old next month, and who has 

 been the senior member of the firm of Otto Duker & Co., one of tie most 

 prominent lumber and planing mill concerns in Baltimore, is believed to be 

 dying at his home. His physicians say he cannot live longer than a few 

 days. Ml'. Duker has been associated in the firm with his two sons, Herman 

 H. and Henry P. Duker, and is held in the highest esteem. He virtually 

 retired from active business years ago. 



Thomas P. Christopher, for years actual manager of the firm of Amos 

 Bright & Co., Baltimore and HoUiday streets, wholesale dealers in and _ 

 exporters of hardwoods, has acquired control of the firm, with which he 

 became connected when it was first organized, even before that holding a 

 responsible liosition with its predecessor, P. A. Coniff & Co. Mr. Bright 

 until recently the senior member, has been impelled by failing health to 

 give up various activities. Mr. Bright is a resident of Sutton, W. Va. 

 Mr. Christopher is making a number of improvements at the distributing 

 yard, which the firm established at Port Norfolk. Va., last year. 



=-< COLUMBUS >- 



All steam railways have joined in a request to the Ohio Utilities Com- 

 mission fur authority to levy a "reconsignment charge" in handling freight. 

 The question is a new one and will be given study before a decision is given. 

 The movement is designed to give the railways an earning for the multi- 

 farious troubles they have with speculators in coal and other materials. 

 who bill cars to one market in a fictitious name then reconsign them to 

 another market where prices are better. 



The Harvard Lumber Company, Cleveland, has been incorporated with 

 a capital of .?50,000, to deal in lumber. The incorporators are A. P. Bert- 

 ram, Thomas Dougherty, Robert G. Blum, R. L. Toben and H. W. Lower. 



The Niles Lumber Company, Niles, O.. has been incorporated with a 

 capital of $23,000, to deal in lumber. The incorporators are F. H. Alex- 

 ander, W. F. Thomas, Chas. E. Newliard, Geo. W. Alexander and W. F. 

 MacQueen. 



> The C. A. Mauk Lumber Company, Toledo, O., has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $100,000, to deal in lumber. The incorporators are 

 C. A. Mauk, W. H. Prentiss. E. R. Uehlinger, D. D. Baldwin and Elmer E. 

 Davis. 



The Teachout Sash Door and Glass Company, Cleveland, increased its 

 capital from $100,000 to $150,000. 



The Edgewater Lumber Company, Cleveland, increased its capital from 

 .$50,000 to $75,000. 



The Horning Lumber Company, Ravenna, reports an increase in capital 

 of from $50,000 to $125,000. 



The Schoepfle Manufacturing and Lumber Company, Sandusk.v, recently 

 decreased its cai)ital from $150,000 to $100,000. 



The Cambridge Furniture Manufacturing Comi)any has been succeeded 

 by the Suitt Brothers Manufacturing Company. 



At Marietta the Central Manufacturing and Lumber Company has sold its 

 plant, located on three acres of ground, to the Citizens Lumber Company of 

 Parkersburg, W. Va. The purchasing company will operate the business 

 in connection with a plant at Parkersburg. The Marietta branch will be 

 managed by John Pfaff. 



The Swan Creek Lumber & Supply Company of Toledo, O.. is building a 

 factory and warehouse at 21S South City Park avenue to cost in the neigh- 

 borhood of $18,000. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good de- 

 mand for hardwoods in central Ohio territory. Prices are firm and every 

 change is toward higher levels. Buying is about equally divided between 

 factories and retailers. Car shortage and lack of motive power are cur- 

 tailing shipments to a large extent. 



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

 hardwoods with prices ruling firm at former levels. 



