April 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Kendall Lumber Company has all its mills running in good shape 

 except its Cheat Haven plant, which will be started May first. Sales 

 Manager Young reports the inquiry for hardwoods to he better t han a 

 few months ago. , 



The Tionesta Lumber Company, one of the new wholesale concerns in 

 Pittsburgh, is doing a very nice business from its northern Pennsylvania 

 mills. Its stocks are fresh and the company is playing a conservative 

 hand in promising nothing except what it can fulfill. 



The plant of the Conewango I'urniture Company at Warren. Pa., one 

 of the most thrifty hardwood concerns in western Pennsylvania, was 

 damaged $8,000 by flre a few d.iys ago. A large stock of mirrors and 

 other finished furniture was destr<>yed. 



=-< BOSTON >.= 



The New England Lumber Company was chartered March 17 at Boston 

 with paid in capital of $50,000. The organizers include some well known 

 lumbermen of this city, Herbert W. Bowler being president. He has been 

 for some years with Holt & Bugbee Company, of the Charlestown district, 

 and previous to that was for a considerable period the local inspector 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. Arthur R. Logan, vice- 

 president, has long been Identified with the trade in southern lumber. 

 The Boston office of the company is at 176 Federal street, and a retail 

 yard is being established at 155 to 175 Medford street, Charlestown, 

 where it is planned to carry a stock of eastern and western hardwoods. 

 The company will also have the exclusive agency of several large southern 

 mill plants. 



There has been a great relief in the embargo situation to New England, 

 especially from the West, a number of the trunk lines being reported open 

 for lumber, as well as removals of many prohibitions on the terminal 

 roads here. 



The L N. Chase Lumber Company has moved to offices in the new 

 Fidelity Trust building, lS-1 State street, Boston. 



-< BALTIMORE >•- 



The building report for March shows that during the mouth permits for 

 the erection of buildings of a declared value of $853,045 were issued, with 

 92 additions calling for an outlay of $92,125 and 889 alterations valued 

 at $177,800, a total of $1,122,970. This is the largest total for any 

 month so far during the current year, and affords gratifying evidence that 

 construction work is on the increase. The showing, of course, becomes 

 more favorable still when it is remembered that ^he extensive operations 

 just outside the city in the immediate suburbs are not included. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, at its 

 monthly meeting held last Monday afternoon, discussed informally the 

 demand made by the stevedores and lumber handlers of the city for an 

 advance from 40 to 65 cents per thousand feet. In view of the fact that 

 not enough men have been available to take care expeditiously of the 

 stocks brought in, and that large quantities of lumber cannot be piled 

 when they should be stacked without delay, it is considered altogether 

 probable that the demands of the handlers will have to be granted, at 

 least in part. Of course, the holders of the stocks will endeavor to pass 

 the increase on to the buyers, so that a further advance in prices seems 

 certain. The lumbermen have offered 50 cents per 1,000 feet, while the 

 handlers, it is said, would be willing to compromise on 55 cents. 



David T. Carter & Co., have moved from the law building to the new 

 yard on South Paca street, where a one-story ottice has been erected. 



Walter B. Wessels, for some years with the James Lumber Company 

 of this city, has been elected treasurer, succeeding in this office George 

 B. Hunting, who has held the posts of vice-president and treasurer. 

 Mr. Hunting remains vice-president. Mr. Wessels is well known to the 

 trade and has been identified with the interests of the Messrs. James 

 for a long time. 



F. E. Willson of the Willson Brothers' Lumber Company, Pittsburgh, 

 stopped in Baltimore last week on his way back after a month's stay in 

 Florida. He visited the mills of his firm In the South and also got in 

 touch with other manufacturers. He stated that the car shortage and 

 freight embargoes were still proving quite troublesome and that the 

 southern mills had resolved not to take any orders for embargoed points. 

 Buyers must furnish assurances not only that railroads will receive ship- 

 ments, but that these latter will be forwarded to destinations. 



J. McD. Price, former secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association, who last December became a member of the wholesale hard- 

 wood firm of Price & Heald, has withdrawn to go into the same business 

 under his own name. He has taken offices on the fifth floor of the 

 Knickerbocker building, and has already thrown himself into the work. 

 He has the best wishes of a large circle of friends in and out of the trade. 



=■< COLUMBUS > 



According to the report of the Columbus building department for 

 March, 1917, building operations were not so active as a year ago, which 

 is accounted for on the grounds of extreme cold weather, which held up 

 operations to a large extent. Many new building projects have been 

 reported, and with good weather considerable activity is expected. For 

 March the department Issued 293 permits having a valuation of $571,245, 

 as compared with 340 permits and a valuation of $868,935 in March, 



191C. For the first three months of the year the department issued 469 

 permits having a valuation of $931,910. as compared with 032 permits 

 _ajijl a valuatiou of $1, 406,57."! in the corresponding pericd in 1916. 



The Joseph Leavitt Company, Youngstown, O., has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $5,000 to manufacture barrels. The Incorporators arc 

 Joseph Leavitt, Rose Spero, Isaac Spero, F. S. Shulman and E. H. 

 Shulman. 



The Potter Lumber & Supply Company, Worthington, O., has been 

 incorporated with a capital of $50,000 to deal in lumber and builder's 

 supplies. The incorporators are Howard Potter, B. S. Wallman, James D. 

 Pinney, Harry Leasure and Richard Colburn. 



The American Builders' Supply & Lumber Company, Cleveland, has 

 been incorporated with a capital of $25,000 to deal in lumber and supplies. 

 The incorporators are L. S. Kaufman, Phillip Margolin, M. Margolin, 

 B. Lederman and I. Narosn.v. 



The Auto Woodstock & Ladder Company, Cleveland, has been incor- 

 porated with a capital of $10,000 to manufacture ladders. The incor- 

 porators are H. F. Snyder, C. H. Snyder, R. W. Comstock, Albert Bihn 

 and Philip Kund Mueller. 



The Dodson Saw Mill Company, Columbus, is to be supplied with six 

 vacant lots to be cultivated by the married men in the employ of the 

 company. The Dodson company will furnish the necessary seeds and 

 will have the lots plowed for the men and, in addition to this, each is 

 to have a certain amount of time off each week to work in the gardens. 



On the basis of a value of $45,000, H. D. Brasher of the Brasher Lumber 

 Company, Columbus, has leased a lot 60x187% feet, located on the east 

 side of Fourth street. A business block will be erected. 



At Cambridge, Ohio, W. A. Hunt has been succeeded by W. O. Pairchild. 



The Smeed Box Company, Cleveland, has increased Its capital stock to 

 $100,000. 



K. W. Horton of the -W. JI. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods both from retailers and factories. Concerns making 

 boxes and furniture are good customers. Prices are high and every 

 change is towards higher levels. Shipments are slow in every section. 



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

 hardwoods, especially from the West Virginia producing sections. Prices 

 are firm in every localit.v. 



^■< CINCINNATI >= 



The Wheeling ami Lake Erio Railroad applied to the Public Utilities 

 Commission for authority to issue $4,620,000 of five per cent trust equip- 

 ment bonds, the proceeds of which are to be used in purchasing twenty 

 freight locomotives, 1,000 gondola cars and 1,000 hopper cars and in 

 pledging $4,122,000 of bonds used for equipment and in acquiring part of 

 the Lorain and West Virginia Railroad. 



The I'.arney & Smith Car Company, Dayton, Ohio, will in a few days 

 deliver to the Erie Railroad two dining cars representing the latest 

 development in coach design. A radical departure has been made from 

 the seating arrangement commonly employed, the tables being located in 

 the center instead of at the sides. There are ten tables, six for two 

 persons each and four for four persons each. The interior finish of the 

 dining rooms is of light Cuban mahogany, the larger panels having an 

 inlay of boxwood. 



Bond for $10,000 was filed in the United States district court recently 

 by Edward G. Schriefer, Cincinnati, qualifying as trustee in bankruptcy 

 of the K. & P. Lumber Company, Cincinnati, bankrupt, as successor to the 

 late Philip Renner. 



The Blaser Body Company was incorporated at Fostoria with a capital 

 stock of $50,000. Julius Schindler, Fred Wilson, Peter J. Blaser, Henry 

 Ockschim, Herbert Wilson and A. C. Dunont compose the directorate. 

 The new corporation will manufacture auto bodies. 



The Pioneer Furniture Manufacturing Company was incorporated at 

 Clevehind for $10,000 recently by John H. Hayner, Hugh Jones, W. A. 

 Williams. J. J. Babington and Dwight E. Cotton. 



The deal for the sale ci the Kreb Commercial Car Company to Massa- 

 chusetts capitalists was consummated recently. The Krebs company did 

 a business last year making trucks for the European war. C. R. Dunbar, 

 Holyoke : Charles H. Bowker, North Hampton ; Walter P. Dodger. Spring- 

 field ; George W, Bradburn, South Lea, and J. B. Crockett, New York 

 City, were here from the East to close the deal. Louis Krebs and Harmon 

 Baynes, local men, retain their interests. The new men will increase the 

 capital stock. 



Real estate valued at approximately $1,000,000 has been acquired in 

 the heart of Cincinnati's business district for the largest playhouse in the 

 Middle West. It is understood that Keith vaudeville interests as well as 

 other financial forces are back of the proposition for the construction of a 

 great combined theater and office building. 



F. W, Mowbray and E. O. Robinson of the Mowbray & Robinson Company 

 have i-eturned from a week's visit to their lumber mills at Quicksand. Ky., 

 where they attended to some details connected with the new timber 

 development work of their company. Mr. Robinson says their shipments 

 have been satisfactory, despite the car shortage troubles, that the demand 

 for all kinds of hardwoods is excellent, prices firm and .the indications are 

 for the largest jMarch business in the history of the lumber industry. 



Mandate and opinion of United States circuit court of appeals affirming 

 the decree of court below dismissing the bill in the patent infringement 



