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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10, 1917 



Bucceeded by the Abingdon Manufactnring Company, while the Variety 

 Turning and Furniture Company, Union City. Pa., has changed its name 

 to the Eastman Manufacturing Company. 



The Shrcve Cliair Company. Union City. Ta., Riclimond Cedar Works. 

 Uichmoud, Va., suffered .a loss by fire recenti.v. 



The Mifflinburg liody and Gear Company of Mifflinburg. Pa., has been ali- 

 sorbed by the Mifflinburg Buggy Company, and the Lansing Wagon Worl;s 

 of Lansing. Mich., has changed its style to the I<ansing Body Company. 



The Perliins Wood\vorliing Company. Boston. Mass.. is closing out. 



Other recent incorporations are : Tlie Bauer Woodworliing Jfompany. 

 Fairhope, Ala., capital $8,000 : Warrior Lumber and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Tuscaloosa, Ala. ; Hardwood Manufacturing Company, Ellisville. 

 Miss., capital $3,000 ; Cochrum Lumber Company. Knoxville. Tenn. ; Lone 

 Star Shipbuilding Company. Beaumont, Tex. ; Wausau Manufacturing 

 Company. Wausau. Wis. : American Cabinet Manufacturing Company, New 

 Albany, Ind. ; Gordon MiHworli Company, Painted Post. N. Y., capital 

 stoclt $25,000. 



The Blue Ribbon Auto and Carriage Company of Bridgeport, Conn., 

 is now the Blue Ribbon Body Company. 



-< CHICAGO y 



Word has Iieen received that Crawfordsville's (Indiana) pioneer hard- 

 wood man, S. Burliholder of the S. Burkholder Lumber Company of that 

 town and Homer, la., is confined to his home with a broken arm. 



II.\RDW^oon Record acknowledges receipt of a letter from the David Wil- 

 liams Company, 2.39 West Thirty-ninth street. New York, announcing the 

 publication of Arthur's "Estimating Buililing Costs," a handy guide and 

 te-xtbook containing 21S pages of matter dealing witli the subject. Tlie 

 book can be purchased for one dollar. 



Lamont Rowlands of the C. A. Goodyear Lumber Company. Chicago, has 

 just returneil from a trip South in connection with the organization of the 

 Goodyear Yellow Pine Company, detailed statement of w'hich will be found 

 under the trade items. 



Otis A. Felger passed through the city on Thursday of this week, having 

 just come in from a trip from Havana, Cuba. Mr. Felger has been oper- 

 ating the Felger-Robbins Company at Havana, this being a sawmill oper- 

 ation working on Cuban mahogany. Mr. Felger is also an operator in dye 

 manufacture, having recently installed a plant near the Havana mill, 

 where he has been converting logwood into dyes. He was called to Cul>a 

 by conditions incident to the revolution and found things there in su<.-h 

 shape that before leaving he closed everything dow'n tight for an indefinite 

 period. He states that 'while the regular revolution is now a thing of the 

 past and definitely broken up, the menace of the guerilla warfare, which 

 is apparent in all of the outlying districts is so great as to make impossible 

 suflicient log shipments to keep the mill going. He says that he does not 

 know when he will be able to begin operating again, the date depending 

 upon the speed with which the government runs down the scattered bands. 

 Mr. Felger has cleaned up his Hanava yard, having shipped several hun- 

 dred thousand feet of high-grade Cuban mahogany to his yards at Grand 

 Rapids. Mich., where he makes his home and headquarters. 



H. F. Below of the Below Lumber Company. Stanley. Wis., put in mtist 

 of last week on local I>usiness and seemingly was quite successful in lining 

 up some good future trade. 



Clarence Boyle, Sr., Clarence Boyle, Inc.. Chicago, returned the end of 

 last week from an extended trip through southern hardwood producing 

 territory. Mr. Boyle keeps in close personal toiich with the mills ami. 

 l)eing a practical lumberman, is able to analyze conditions in a thoro\igh 

 manner in these periodic visits. 



Roy A. Hook, representing U. S. Epperson & Co.. the mutual insurance 

 people of Kansas City, Mo., came into Chicago last week for the nmnu- 

 facturers' meeting. He was able to turn up some business while in the 

 city. 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United States had a 

 strong delegation represented at the National Lumber Manufacturers' As- 

 ■sociation. at Chicago last week, among those present lieing B. B. Burns, 

 president, Huntington, W. Va. ; assistant-to-the-president, Frank R. Gadd 

 of Cincinnati ; W. E. DeLaney, Lexington, Ky. ; C. L. Harrison, Cape 

 Girardeau, Mo. All of these gentlemen expressed themselves as being im- 

 pressed with the remarkable strength of the present and the glowing pros- 

 pect of the future in the hardwood business. 



J. M. Pritchard and J. T. Kendall, secretaries respectively of the Gum 

 Lumber Manufacturers' and the American Oak Manufacturers' associa- 

 tions, with headquarters at Memphis, are both enthusiastic as to the de- 

 velopments in that part of the country. 



The northern hardwood associations — that is, the Michigan and the Wis- 

 consin organizations — were represented respectively by W. C. Hull, presi- 

 dent, Traverse City ; J. W. Biodgett, Grand Rapids ; J. C. Knox, Cadillac : 

 C. T. Mitchell, Cadillac : F. L. Richardson, Alpena, for Michigan, and H. 

 H. Butts. Park Falls ; George H. Chapman, Stanley ; O. T. Swan, secre- 

 tary, Oshkosh : George E. Poster, Mellen ; J. J. Lingle, Westboro : A. L. 

 Osborn, Oshkosh ; M. .1. Fox, Iron Mountain, and R. B. Goodman, Good- 

 man, for Wisconsin. 



G. L. Forester of Asheville, N. C, was in attendance representing the 

 Western Carolina Lumljer & Timber Association. 



While the hardwood operators are minor members when it comes to a 



comparison of cut with that of the big softwood associations, they were 

 the most enthusiastic supporters for the development plans of the Na- 

 tional association when they were first promulgated, and had all accorded 

 their formal support. The voices of the hardwood men were prominent 

 in the councils of last week and hardw'ood men on all occasions demon- 

 strated their ability to overlook petty factional differences and reunite in 

 unanimous support of lumber as a whole. 



The Wm. S. Schreiber Lumber Company has been incorporated here with 

 $100,000 capital. 



The Geiszl Millwork Manufacturing Company has been incorporated with 

 $1,000,000 capital. The company is located at fi'>3 North avenue. 



The Edmanson Furniture Company has been incorporated to manufac- 

 ture furniture. 



=-< BUFFALO >• 



Buffalo held a rousing patriotic meeting in the Elmwood Music Hall on 

 .\pril 4 to manifest loyalty to the President in the present critical period. 

 The meeting was called at the request of local business men. Among 

 the vice-presidents were O. E. I'eager and Councilman A. W. Kreinheder. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company furnished four or five varieties 

 of hardwoods in the new state forestry college luiilding at Syracuse, 

 which exhibits many panels ami samples of native woods. The forestry 

 college now lias a teaching staff of twenty-five and aliout SOO students. Its 

 graduates are much in demand both in this country and al»road. 



Hugh and R. D. McLean recently attended the funeral, at Ottawa, 

 Canada, of their brother, Allen McLean, who lost his life in the tornado at 

 New Albany, Ind. The deceased was at one time connected with the 

 Buffalo lumber trade, but went West several years ago and liecame associ- 

 ated with his brother. W. A. McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company. 



The general lumber business of the late C. H. Stanton has been bought 

 by R. G. Flanders, who was associated with him for about six months 

 before his death. Mr. Flanders was for sevex-al years in the lumber busi- 

 ness in Canada and before that time in Wisconsin. He wiH handle lumber 

 from both these sections and also from the Pacific coast, occupying the 

 office in the Law Exchange in which Mr. Stanton did business for several 

 years. 



There is some talk of reviving the old wooden shipluiilding imlustry in 

 Buffalo harbor. The need of such tonnage is much greater tlian it used 

 to be. especially such vessels as can go to salt water, but the difficulty is 

 that ship-carpenters are almost a thing of the past on the lakes, hardly 

 enough being left to repair the old wooden vessels remaining. Buffalo has 

 built no vessels of any account for several years. The lumber fleet is 

 beginning to fit out here, but the tonnage is so scant that as a rule the 

 vessel owners are waiting for shippers to come to thcni. The prospect 

 is for rates higher than ever before, with rail competition the only limit. 



Mrs. Clara Diamond Sullivan, wife of Frank T. Sullivan, died recently, 

 after a short illness. She was associated with her husl)and and was not 

 considered seriously ill until a day or two before her death. She leaves 

 one daughter, the wife of Frank .1. McNeil, a local himlterinan. 



Blnkeslee. Perrin & Darling have recently received nearly 1,000,000 feet 

 of various hardwoods and have closed a contract for a large block of 

 thick oak. which is in good demand. 



A. J. Elias has lately lieen giving much time to the promotion of Red 

 Cross work in this city, liaving been a member of tlie membership com- 

 mittee. It is proposed to liuild a Red Cross base hospital of 100 beds in 

 this city at a cost of $T.">.000. 



The prospect of discovering wealth in sawdust has led to spirited bid- 

 ding for the covering of the .area occupied by the P.illy Sunday tabernacle. 

 It is thought tliat as in (tther cities a good ileal of loose diange can bo 

 picked up liy tlie successful bidder. The tabernacle walls are now razed, 

 the lumber in the structure liaviug Iieen sold for a little less than $G.OOO. 

 Ground must be cleared f<u- the opening of the baseball season there 

 on May 3. 



■'C PITTSBURGH y 



.1. W. Hess, veteran wholesaler of this ciiy. is iiretty well satisfied with 

 conditions except as to shipping and especially as to hauling lumber at 

 the country mills. His mills in tri-state territory are liailly handicapped 

 because of the very bad roads there for several weeks. 



The R. J. Munhall Lumber Company, whicli has been in business for 

 years at 2224 Sidney Street, S. S., is advertising a large quantity of second- 

 hand lumber, yard sizes, for sale, as it is vacating its leasehold on the 

 south side. 



Wholesalers in this city have already pledged enthusiastic support to 

 President Wilson's war program, and at the recent convention many of 

 them promised to give the government the use of their plants and products 

 whenever required, at rmsonable terms. 



D. L. Gillespie, head X D. L. Gillespie & Co., was injured considerably 

 in an automobile accident recently at Los Angeles, where he has been 

 spending a few weeks with his family. He is on the way to a sure 

 recovery now, however. 



II. F. Domhoff, president of the Acorn Lumber Company, reports an 

 unusual demand for sound wormy chestnut. He says that there is only 

 one policy for the hardwood concerns to pursue now, and that is to take 

 only such business as it is certain can be delivered w-ithln reasonable time 

 and for this to get first-class prices. 



