HARDWOOD RECORD 



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hardwood trade for the year has thus far made 

 a favorable showing as compared with last year. 

 W. L. Blakeslee has been on a two weelis' trip 

 in the East. 



A large quantity of cypress is being received 

 this fall at O. E. Yeager's yard, and orders 

 have been received for much of this lumber. Ash, 

 oa!j and poplar are the woods meeting with the 

 largest sale. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The regular monthly meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange of Philadelphia was held Nov. 

 2, President William C. MacBride presiding. 

 At this meeting a letter was received from the 

 National Rivers & Harbors Congress announcing 

 that a convention of this body will be held at 

 the New Willard hotel, Washington, D. C, on 

 Dec. 6, 7 and 8, and requesting that the ex- 

 change be represented. The president appointed 

 a committee of three members to attend the 

 convention. The remainder of the meeting was 

 devoted to routine business. 



Horace G. Hazard of H. G. Hazard & Co.. 

 Philadelphia, says trade at the New York branch 

 and yard office is slightly quieter but is mostly 

 of a hurry-up character. Mr. Hazard and 

 Elizabeth A. Steel were married Oct. 18. The 

 wedding was strictly a family affair. 



J. Randall Williams of J. Randall Williams & 

 Co., says business is a trifle improved, but short 

 of expectation for this time of year. 



Owen M. Bruner of the Owen M. Bruner Com- 

 pany, says trading is more active of late and 

 there is no disquiet over conditions. 



Charles J. Coppock, secretary and treasurer 

 of the Coppock-\^*a^ner Lumber Company, says 

 business has not reached expectation for fall. 

 Orders are coming in steadily, but goods evi- 

 dently are for immediate delivery, and it is 

 difficult to comply with the requirement because 

 of car shortage. On Oct. 25 Jlr. Coppock mar- 

 ried Miss Florence Meyers of Chester, Pa. It 

 was a quiet church wedding and strictly private. 



Jerome H. Sheip. who lately returned from a 

 two weeks' southern trip, put in some time at 

 his cigar box lumber plant at Choctaw Point, 

 Mobile, Ala., which he found running full 

 capacity. The other lumber branch of his busi- 

 ness, he says, is moving more slowly. 



C. E. Lloyd, jr., has removed his office from 

 the Land Title building to his wholesale dis- 

 tributing yard at Nineteenth and Cambria 

 streets, which change will enable him to better 

 oversee the details of the business. Arrange- 

 ments are being made with the Pennsylvania 

 railroad for trackage, which will guarantee quick 

 distribution of stock. 



Fisher Dalrymple, secretary and treasurer of 

 the S. B. Vrooman Company, Ltd., says that 

 considering everything business is running along 

 fairly well. 



The Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Company 

 is busy in all departments and is optimistic as 

 to the outlook. It is installing several new 

 boilers to increase capacity. Henry L. Sheip 

 has just returned from a tour of the West, and 

 reports business in that section a little quiet. 



Frederick C. Righter has opened an office at 

 1101 Crozer building, where he will conduct a 

 general wholesale lumber business. 



Augustus J. Cadwallader of George F. Craig 

 & Co., and Edwin B. Malone of Watson, Malone 

 & Sons, two experienced deer and moose hunters, 

 have Just returned from a successful hunting 

 trip in the Maine woods. 



The plant of the Lewisburg Chair Company, 

 Lewisburg, Pa., was destroyed by Are Oct. 30. 

 The loss is placed at ¥100,000. 



mills. All the company's plants are runninir 

 except the one at Kendall, Md., which is on 

 part lime. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Cora])any says the 

 spruce market is firmer than at any time in the 

 last six months. 



Bemis & Vosburgh are .still working on their 

 white oak operation in northern Ohio on the 

 Pittsburgh. Youngstown & Ashtabula railroad, 

 where they are getting out some extra fine ship 

 and export timber. Some of the latter is going 

 to Canada for locomotive companies. 



The Breitwieser & Wilson Company reports 

 prospects and inquiries considerably better this 

 month. Business is somewhat spotty, but hard 

 woods have the lead in trade and the manufac- 

 turing concerns are taking their full share of 

 lumber. 



The Linehan Lumber Company says trade is 

 a little l)ettcr than holding its own. ,1. C. Line- 

 han is keeping things moving lively at the New 

 York office and believes that eastern trade is 

 improving. 



The De Voss & Adelman Lumber Company is 

 getting out into the Middle West. It has 

 a very fine hold on Ohio trade, but recently has 

 extended its sales operations. It is doing 

 a very good business in the Mississippi valley. 



The Duquesne Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated by Ex-Senator William Flinn and son. 

 .T. Rex Flinn. aud G. C. Adams of Pittsburgh, 

 with a capital of .<!100,000. It has a big opera- 

 tion under way in Tennessee. 



The Acorn Lumber Compan.v has enlarged its 

 office quarters by moving to the front of the 

 Oliver building, where it has one of the nicest 

 lumber suites in Pittsburgh's best skyscraper. 

 President Domhoff has lately added a New York 

 road representative to his force of helpers. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company's gum and 

 Cottonwood trade, according to President J. N. 

 WooUett, is satisfactory, and its representative. 

 H. M. Jackson, booked orders totaling 1,000,000 

 feet of these woods on a recent trip to Phila- 

 delphia. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany reports a fair inquiry, but says that 

 prospective bu.vers want their lumber almost as 

 soon as they order. This is a general complaint. 

 H. E. Hast, hardwood manager, found trade 

 somewhat dull in the East lately except in the 

 chair towns, where he was very successful. 



The F. W. Crane Lumber Company is cutting 

 off a tract of 7,500 acres of flue hardwoods near 

 Elkhurst, W. Va., where it has recently put in 

 an up-to-date planing mill. This company bought 

 the equipment of the former Tug River Lumber 

 Company at Chester Junction, W. Va., and has 

 moved this to its eastern operation. President 

 Crane says business is dull down East, but that 

 in general' it is on the gain. 



Pittsburgh has at last received some definite 

 assurance of a reciprocal switch arrangement 

 which the lumber wholesalers have been trying 

 for years to get. The Pennsylvania and the 

 Baltimore & Ohio railroads have agreed to trans- 

 fer car freight within the city limits and deliver 

 them to the proper consigner's location without 

 extra charge. It is expected that the other rail- 

 roads will fall into line quickly. 



BOSTON 



PITTSBURGH 



J. II. lli'nd<'rson. secretary of the Kendall 

 Lumber Company, spent a week lately among its 



William E. Litchfield, hardwood lumber dealer, 

 has returned from a trip west, on which he vis- 

 ited the mill of Litchfield Bros., North Vernon, 

 Ind. 



The Merrick Lumber Company, Holyoke. Mass.. 

 has completed plans for a new office and ware- 

 house building at its plant in that city. The 

 company will also open a lumber yard in East- 

 hampton, as a branch. It will be in charge o( 

 F. B. Merrick. 



John E. Boyle, who has conducted a lumber 

 yard and wood-working business in Westfield, 



this state, for several years, has sold lliis busi- 

 ness to Marcoullier Bros, of that town, and A. 

 v.. Peck of Southampton. The new owners have 

 fur several years been engaged in cutting off tim- 

 bi-r lauds, but have never had a yard. Mr. Boyle, 

 through his attorney, has notified his creditors 

 lliat his liabilities are ,$40,000 and his assets 

 .frf.OOO. The latter has becu deposited in trust 

 in the hands of a trustee. 



Marcus Y. Foster, president and treasurer of 

 the Stone & Foster Lumber Company, Worcester, 

 has sold his interests in a large tract of timber 

 land in North Carolina to the United States 

 Spruce Company of Marion, Va. Others inter- ■ 

 ested in this timber land with Mr. Foster have 

 sold their interests to the same company. 



Fred W. Stuart, last manufacturer, Beverly, 

 Mass., has made plans to erect a plant in that 

 town, which he will use for the manufacture of 

 last blocks. 



BALTIMORE 



Leonard A. Poehlmann, senior member of L. 

 A. Poehlmann & Sons, whose yard is on Fred- 

 erick road, died Oct. 28 at Santa Cruz, Cal., 

 where he had gone a few weeks before to look 

 after his business interests. The deceased was a 

 member of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange and 

 was held in high esteem. The funeral and in- 

 terment took place in Santa Cruz. 



W. O. Price, a well known Baltimore lumber 

 exporter, has been ill for some time but is now 

 much improved. 



M. S. Baer of Richard P. Baer & Co. has 

 returned from a trip to Hinton, W. Va., where 

 bis firm mainlaius an office, Cincinnati and other 

 cities in the Middle West, and says he found 

 tlie demand somewhat improved, although it was 

 still by no means easy to land orders. A better 

 feeling prevailed among the millmeu and dealers 

 and the belief was entertained that business is 

 once more in a promising condition. Richard P. 

 Baer. senior member of the firm, who visited 

 New York and other points north, brought back 

 similar information. 



A. Temple Dobell of Alfred Dobell & Co., Liver- 

 pool. England, was in Baltimore ten days ago 

 ;ind saw some of the exporters. He stated that 

 the !)usiness outlook on the other side appeared 

 to be improved. Mr. Dobell visited Cincinnati, 

 Chicago and other cities. 



Other foreign visitors within the last week 

 were W. H. Munster, director of Munster, Sims & 

 Co., Ltd., Belfast ; T. Henry Griffin of Price & 

 Pierce, London, and Colonel Colibett of Cobbett 

 vl Co., London. All three stated that the situa- 

 tion on the other side had improved and that the 

 interest in stocks was on the increase. The.v 

 are on extended tours of the 'United States, show- 

 ing thereby the increased interest manifested in 

 .\merican stocks of hardwoods by the British 

 members of the trade. 



Sincere regret was expressed by Baltimore 

 hardwood exporters at the death of W. L. T. 

 l'"oy of Foy. Morgan & Co., Ltd., London, and of 

 David Jardine of Farnworth & Jardine, Liver- 

 pool. The former passed away on Oct. 18 and 

 the latter Oct. 7. Both were extensively known 

 iu the trade and held in high esteem. 



Thomas Hughes, manufacturer and wholesaler 

 of hardwoods, a few days ago attended the 

 inauguration of two miles of railroad constructed 

 from his mill at Jothmada. Va., to Comer's 

 Creek. The two miles gives him a total mileage 

 of about .seven, and further extensions will be 

 made as soon as needed. The road connects 

 with the Virginia Southern, which furnishes an 

 outlet. 



Mr. .Sweet, manager of the National Lumber 

 Company of Bluefields, W. Va., was in Baltimore 

 week before last, as were J. M. Bernhardt of 

 Lenoir. N. C. ; W. E. B. Watson of the W. B. 

 Watson Compan.v, Lenoir ; A. C. Lincoln of Loot 

 it Lincoln, Marion, Va., and L. H. Bonham of 

 Chilhowie, Va. 



