March 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



39 



The Shenango Lumber Company recently eutered the wholesale lumber 

 anil timber business of Youngstown, O. ; — 



The Independent Builders' Supply & ttnnber Company, Cleveland, has 

 been incorporated with a capital of $25,000 to deal in lumber and builders' 

 supplies. The incorporators are M. B. Abrams, I. Margolin, S. Kesler, Max 

 Lees, S. Newman and others. 



The announcement has been made that the Tennessee Lumber & Coal 

 Company, which operates a mill at Glen Mary, Tenn., has opened general 

 sales offices in the Manufacturers' National Bank Building at Harriman, 

 Tenn. This company is controlled by the Hagemeyer interests of Cin- 

 cinnati, and the Harriman office is managed by Bartlett Hagemeyer, who 

 has been using Harriman as his headquarters for some time. 



E. 'W. Horton of the W. M. Eitter Lumber Company reports a good de- 

 mand for all varieties of hardwoods. Trade is about equally distributed 

 between factories and retailers. Dealers' stocks are rather low and with 

 excellent building prospects they are trying to increase them. Prices are 

 firm at the levels which have maintained for some time. 



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

 ■West Virginia hardwoods. Prices are firm and prospects are generally 

 bright. 



■<CLEVELAND >-- 



With 20,000 union worlimen idle tbis week as a result of the lockout by 

 contractor members of the Building Trades Employers' .Association, build- 

 ing operat'.ons, as far as big work is concerned, and consequently the outlet 

 for h.Trdwoods for interior finishing, are at a standstill. The suspension 

 •of building operations is the result of a battle between the employing con- 

 tractors and the unions, the former declaring war on the unionists because 

 they allege the union leaders failed to keep agreements with the contrac- 

 tors. Special meeting of material men and others to assist in reaching an 

 amicable agreement has failed, both sides remaining firm. "While the hard- 

 wood men and other material interests are not opposed to the principles of 

 unionism, they are opposed to tactics as charged against union leaders, and 

 voice the opinion that the employers should have the right to run an open 

 shop or union shop, as they see fit. So far the labor situation has not seri- 

 ously affected the demand for hardwoods here, although this must come 

 shortly unless the differences are patched up. 



Of more serious consequence to the big interests in hardwoods here is 

 the latest action of the railroads in effecting embargoes throughout north- 

 ern Ohio, effectually shutting out shipments of material to Cleveland, as a 

 direct result of the threatened railroad strike. Already supplies here are 

 low, and, although building operations will be confined mainly to small 

 housing work if the prfesent lockout continues, there will hardly be enough 

 to meet even this demand. 



The embargo situation is now being dealt with by the transportation de- 

 partment of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, assisted by a committee 

 from the Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers. 



The annual meeting of the Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers, post- 

 poned on account of the illness of Secretary J. "V. O'Brien, will be held the 

 latter part <'i this month, Mr. O'Britn now having fully recovered. 



=-< CINCINNATI y- 



J. T. Kendall, secretary of the American Oak Manufacturers' Association, 

 Memphis, Tenn., called on Cincinnati members of the organization last 

 week. He also had a conference with F. R. Gadd, assistant to President 

 Burns of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United States. 

 Mr. Kendall and Mr. Gadd discussed in considerable detail the distribution 

 of stock reports. 



■Following the announcement some weeks ago that the building of wooden 

 ocean-going vessels on the Ohio river at Louisville, Cincinnati and other 

 points, now comes word to the effect that ships of wood to meet the national 

 emergency will be constructed in the port of Mobile, Ala., to the capacity 

 of every plant there. This was indicated when word came from Wash- 

 ington that the Federal Shipping Board had issued a call for a conference 

 in Washington recently. 



William Autderheide, aged seventy-five, retired pioneer carriage manu- 

 facturer of Cincinnati, who lived for many years on Sullivan avenue, St. 

 Bernard, a suburb, died last week at the Bethesda hospital, following an 

 operation. 



At last week's meeting of the Cincinnati Lumber Exchange of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, the nominating committee to select six candidates for 

 directors of the exchange was named. The new proposed reconsignment 

 rules were discussed as well as the new rates from the South into eastern 

 cities, recently suspended by the Interstate Commerce Commission until 

 June 29. 



.Arrangements have been made by the Marietta Chair Company for 

 more than doubling the capacity of the plant in the district south of 

 Fourth street, having last week taken on 47,000 additional square feet of 

 floor space. It is now at Second and Plum streets, where it has 40,000 

 square feet of floor space. The property just taken is on a ten-year lease 

 and a considerable portion of it will be used as a warehouse. 



The Norwood Sash and Door Company recently announced that it will 

 in the near future construct a large warehouse at Section and Ross ave- 

 nues, Norwood,^ from plans just completed by Architect C. M. Foster. The 

 new building, "to be of mill construction, one story and 40 by 210 feet, 

 will be equipped with a sprinkler system. 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if 



fhe trustees of Christ church next week expect to commence receiving 

 -bids'for the chapel to be constructed in conjiection with the East Fourth 

 street congregation. The improvement, planned by Architects Garber & 

 Woodward, will be about the only structure of its kind, from an interior 

 decorative standpoint, in this part of the country. The ceiling will be of 

 frame, with heavy timbers, while the sidewalls will be of smooth limestone, 

 the scheme being of the English Gothic style of architecture. 



Lumbermen in this section have been watching with keen interest the 

 efforts of the Ohio railways to put on a new and heavy fee for the privilege 

 of reconsignment of cars at destination, which were ordered stopped last 

 week when the Ohio Public Utilities Commission suspended the increase 

 and will hold the matter in abeyance until April 14. All proposed in- 

 creases in switching rates inside the switching district of Cincinnati were 

 suspended also. During the interval there will be a formal hearing on 

 proposed increase and the commission will seek to determine the fairness 

 and equity of the increases. Complaint from shippers in the city that 

 the rates were not justified and would be burdensome and unfair caused 

 the commission to take the above action. 



The Columbus Axle Company is expanding on a great scale. It recently 

 increased its capital stock from $35,000 to $1,000,000. 



The Champion Tool Company, machine and woodworking tool manufac- 

 turer, is receiving estimates through Zettel & Rapp, architects, for the 

 construction of an entire new plant at Spring Grove avenue and Chick- 

 ering street, Winton Place. The big corporation now^ has a factory at 

 Camp Washington. It is estimated that the new works will cost about 

 $45,000. The main building will be 303x154 feet. 



< INDIANAPOLIS > 



Indiana shippers, representing all industries engaged in interstate com- 

 merce, last week sent representatives to Washington to protest to the In- 

 terstate Commerce Commission over the enforcement of the home route rule 

 requiring the loading of cars that will return them only to the roads by 

 which they are owned. Small shippers, representative especially of many 

 of the Indiana lardwood interests, are very bitter in their denunciations 

 of the rule, as it means further restrictions in the movement of their prod- 

 ucts and an increased hampering of business generally. Although the ap- 

 peal was made directly to members of the commission by a delegation of 

 shippers, nn definite assurances were given as to its action, 



A. J. Robinson of Logansport, Ind., a lumberman and until recently presi- 

 dent of the Logansport Manufacturing Company, spoke manufacturer, died 

 recently at the hone of his daughter in Los Angeles, Cal. He was sixty- 

 nine years old. 



The Frank Lumoer Company of Mishawaka, Ind., last week tendered a 



"\5l7Tr r^T?l?Tri> the following 



VV Sid Vjr r H/XV EXCEPTIONALLY FINE 



W. Virginia Band Sawn 



MAPLE 



Four to Five Months on Sticks 



15 cars 4/4 Log Run, 45 to 50% 14 .& 16'. 

 1 car 5/4 Log Run, 50% 14 & 16'. 

 3 cars 6/4 Log Run, SO to 60% 14 & 16'. 

 1 car 8/4 Log Run, 50 to 60% 14 & 16'. 



Fine Widths. Soft. 



1 car 8/4 No, 1 Com. & Bet,, 60 to 65% 14 & 16'. 

 1 car 8/4 Log Run, 50 to 55% 14 & 16'. 

 1 car 4/4 Log Run, 45 to 50% 14 & 16". 



JOHN HALFPENNY 



1120 Commercial Trust Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 



MANUFACTURER AND WHOLESALER 

 HARDWOOD LUMBER 



Specialty: W. VIRGINIA BAND SAWN HARDWOODS 



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