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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Fcbniarv 25, 



1917 



Company, St. Louis, Mo., with Gu.T Fulton, sales manager of that organi- 

 zation, was In Chicago on Thursday of last week. 



George P. Morgan of G. P. Morgan & Co.. Parlicrsburg, W. Va., spent a 

 week or so at Chicago at the time the Illinois retailers were in convention 

 at the Hotel Sherman. Mr. Morgan made the best of every moment of a 

 successful business trin- 



E. W. DcCamp with the American Column & Lumber Company. St. 

 Albans Vi. Va., spent several days in Chicago a week ago. 



Paul Bushong, Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company, Gladstone, 

 Mich., spent a week in Chicago at the retailers' convention, having staged 

 the exhibit of the Northwestern's famous "Peerless" brand of maple 



flooring. . 



H. C. Miller, who for years was connected with the Chicago hardwood 

 trade and is now with the Marathon Lumber Company, spent several days 

 in the city recently. 



=-< BUFFALO > 



Taylor & Crate's office building at the new Elmwood avenue yard is now 

 under roof and it is hoped to have the structure completed by May. De- 

 mand for hardwoods would be good, it is said, if embargoes were fewer. 



W. P. Miller has been spending some time in Ohio on business for Miller, 

 Sturm & Miller. The office reports a continued demand for hardwoods on 

 a fairly large scale 



The McLean Mahogany & Cedar Company reports that the threatened 

 revolution in Cuba has recently been interfering witji the shipments of 

 mahogany from the island. 



The A. J. Chestnut Lumber Company is getting in considerable birch, 

 maple and basswood from the Catskills. 



H. B. Gorsline has been in Michigan for a week or two, looking after 

 shipments of maple flooring for the National Lumber Company. He has 

 been able to make some headway, in spite of railroad embargoes. 



O. B. Teager, who spent several days at Palm Beach, left at the middle 

 of the month for Havana. He will return home by the way of St. Peters- 

 burg at the end of the month. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling report a steady hardwood demand, though 

 embargoes are interfering with the receipt of stock. Some supplies of 

 cypress and oak are being received. 



T. Sullivan & Co. have a traffic man on the staff and since he began to 

 get busy with the Michigan railroads two or three weeks ago, he has been 

 able to get some cars of ash and elm started eastward. 



Davenport & Ridley have been taking a good many orders for white pine 

 this winter, in addition to hardwoods, and low grades are in strong demand. 

 Lumber from Canada is coming in very slowly. 



=-< PITTSBURGH >-= 



E. II. Shreiner Lumber Company has added to its force o£ hustlers C. J. 

 Thornton, who will work the yard trade especially for this concern. 



The Kendall Lumber Company reports a fine business and is certain that 

 trade is going to keep up strong all the year. Yard trade looks especially 

 good for this spring. 



The Henderson Lumber Company is getting a very nice line of business 

 with the mining companies. Mixed hardwoods are in splendid demand now 

 and there is every reason to think that the present high prices will be 

 continued all this year. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company is doing its best to bring forward its big 

 stocks of gum and Cottonwood from the Southwest. Embargoes and car 

 shortage have, however, greatly hindered its efforts in this direction. 



The Adelman Lumber Company will have a very nice line of hardwoods 

 to sell this year. Its trade with the trl-state yards has picked up wonder- 

 fully the past two years. 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company had the best January this year 

 in its history. It reports the demand for oak is almost phenomenal and 

 has kept its country mills running at full speed to take care of this business. 



The Acorn Lumber Company finds the demand opening up very nicely 

 among the manufacturing concerns to which it looks for a large proportion 

 of its business. It is rather a question of being able to get good lumber 

 and get it promptly and regularly than of being able to sell it. 



1916 it is again found that all but a small'proportion of the shipments 

 must be credited to spruce. This wood, which is being used extensively in 

 the construction of aeroplanes, will probably undergo no diminution In 

 the reiiuirements as long as the war lasts, but as for the rest of the trade, 

 it has been pracUcally suspended. Forwardings of hickory and walnut logs, 

 for instance, were altogether wanting, and what is still more striking, if 

 not actually disquieting, no oak boards were shipped during the last month 

 against 937,000 feet in January, 1910. Shortleaf and other yellow pines 

 are also lacking, with a small quantity of white pine sent out. Kir again 

 figures in the exhibit, being represented by 22,000 feet, but of poplar only 

 68,000 feet was shipped, against 19S,000 feet a year ago. The only 

 exception to the shrinkage is in "all other logs," which classification Is 

 credited with a matter of 12,000 feet, against none at all last year. All 

 other items are either smaller than they were in January, 191^, or they 

 do not figure in the statement. And no comfort is to be tak.'n for the 

 future in the face of the published statement that Premier Lloyd George 

 will make an announcement in the House of Commons this week, still 

 further curtailing the imports. Britain finds that she is paying out too 

 much for foreign goods, and intends to cut off everything that she can 

 possibly do without. 



As a kind of offset to the discouraging statement about the export trade 

 intimations have reached here from some of the British brokers that a 

 resumption of oak shipments may be expected before very long. When the 

 war had gotten well under way and the British government found that it 

 was costing far more than even the most liberal first calculations had 

 indicated, Englan 1 set about cutting her own tindior in an effort to hold 

 down the import bills. It is said that the great proportion of the available 

 supply of home grown timber has now been utilized, and that imports will 

 have to be resorted to in order that absolute needs in the way of ship- 

 building and railroads can be met. There is consequently an expectation 

 in some quarters that the rule shutting out oak especially will before long 

 be modified, a consummation that would be hailed by exporters here with 

 much satisfaction. 



G. T. Boughan, a sawmill man of Brays, Va., w-as in Baltimore last 

 Tuesday on a hunt for tonnage to carry lumber as soon as the ice in the 

 Chesapeake Bay clears out. The cold of the last week served to close 

 many of the lanes for vessels and greatly interfered with the movement of 

 all kinds of freight. 



The statement of the building inspector of Baltimore for January shows 

 that during the month permits for the erection of buildings of a declared 

 value of $533,320 were issued during the month, with permits for SI 

 additions, involving an outlay of .$82,830 and 551 alterations, calling for 

 an expenditure of ,$110,800, a grand total of ,$097,872. 



Ten large walnut trees which for about 150 years have adorned Dun- 

 more, an estate on Frederick road at Catonsville, a suburb of Baltimore, 

 now owned by Frank T. Kirby, have been sold to a New York firm and 

 are being cut down for veneering. Several of the trees measure four feet 

 across the stump and the price paid for them is said to have been very 

 attractive. Recently the trees began to decay in the upper branches and 

 Mr. Kirby decided to dispose of them before they became worthless. 



John L. Alcock, of John L. Alcock & Co., and Daniel MacLea, president 

 of the Daniel MacLea Lumber Company, two prominent hardwood men, 

 are conspicuous in the campaign inaugurated by the Maryland General 

 Hospital for the raising of a $250,000 fund to take care of a floating 

 indebtedness and for future needs. Mr. Alcock Is chairman of the cam- 

 paign committee. 



The Empire Furniture Manufacturing Company, 1415 Eastern avenue, 

 Baltimore, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, by Morris 

 Stern, Harry Kleiman and Morris Greenberg. 



The will of the late Otto Duker. president of Otto Dukcr & Co., one of 

 the best-known local concerns in the trade, who died February 7, has been 

 filed in the Orphans' Court, and shows the estate to be valued at $200,000. 

 David T. Carter of David T. Carter & Co., Baltimore, has completed 

 arrangements for the opening of a yard on Paea street, in the southwestern 

 section of the citj, and when certain improvements have been completed 

 will move there, so that he can always be on the spot. Mr. Carter has 

 gone on a trip to the Virginias and North Carolina in search of stocks. 



-< BOSTON y^ 



Charles P. Chase, senior member of the C. P. Chase Lumber Company, 

 Springfield, Mass., died suddenly of pneumonia at his home in that city 

 February 13. He was a former president of the Massachusetts Retail 

 Lumber Dealers' Association and one of the best-known retailers in New 

 England. 



Charles H. Balkam of Boston has filed petition in bankruptcy, scheduling 

 liabilities of about $28,000 and assets of about $1,500. He has been 

 Identified with the hardwood trade, having been associatied with several 

 local firms prior to embarking on his own account. 



=-< BALTIMORE y 



The statement of exports of lumber and logs for January from Baltimore, 

 which has just been issued, shows no change in general conditions. The 

 narrowing of the shipments to foreign countries continues, and while the 

 total for the month is larger than that for the corresponding month of 



=~< COLUMBUS >•- 



The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, has recently opened a 

 branch office in Cleveland, 421-423 Rockefeller liuilding, which will be in 

 charge of W. E. Holloway and C. B. Reed. These gentlemen have been 

 connected with the Jeffrey company for a number of years and have had 

 long and successful experience in sales and engineering work. 



The Claude Nease Lumber Company's mill and yards of East Liverpool, 

 O., were destroyed by fire recently, resulting in a loss of $25,000, which is 

 partly covered by insurance. 



The Horning Lumber Company, Ravenna, O., has increased its capital 

 from $50,000 to $125,000. 



The Emory River Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O.. has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $200,000, to deal In lumber. The incorporators are: 

 J. S. and K. C. Walker, Joseph H. O'Donnell, W. L. Cortelyou and Fred W. 

 Japp. J. S. Walker, who was president of the Appalachia Lumber Com- 

 pany, has disposed of his holdings in that company and secured control 

 of 15,000 acres of timber on Emory river, near Pilot Mountain, Tenn., from 

 the H. Fugate Company. 



