HARDWOOD RECORD 



Summit Lumber Company, were appointed joint 

 receivers. 



The Francis Piano Company obtained a char- 

 ter under Delaware laws, Dee. 23, with a cap- 

 ital stock of $2r>0.000. The incorporators are 

 H. O. Cougbliu of Brooklyn, and Welcome W. 

 Bender of Elizabeth, N. J. 



PITTSBURGH 



Roy Faulkner, who was eastern man for 

 Bemis & Vosburgh for some years, has trans- 

 ferred his energies to W. W. Dempsey of Johns- 

 town, Pa. He will work the Pittsburgh dis- 

 trict for the present. 



W. A. Schmitt. who was for several years in 

 the employ of the Flint, Erving & Stoner Com 

 pany as office man, has joined the West Virginia 

 Lumber Company where he will be sales man- 

 ager. The latter has added two new salesmen 

 and otherwise is getting things in shape for a 

 big year's business. 



B. W. Cross, who recently opened a Pitts- 

 burgh office in the Oliver building for the 

 Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company of Phila- 

 delphia, spent a few days last week at the home 

 office at Philadelphia. This company is espe- 

 cially well equipped to do a big business and 

 will work the Pittsburgh district hard. 



The Duquesne Lumber Company is getting 

 under fine headway in the Columbia bank build- 

 ing. Its force of salesmen has been increased 

 by taking over Mr. Havlin, an experienced man 

 from the W. P. Craig Lumber Company. 



The Apollo E.'Jtcnsion Step-Ladder Compan.v 

 at Apollo, Pa., has been chartered with a cap- 

 ital of ?5,000 by E. A. Townsend and B. F. 

 Bosworth of that place and J. E. Call of Van- 

 dergrift. Pa. 



Robert E. Gannon, with his associates Clif- 

 ford S. and Chester A. JlcCleary, has secured 

 a suite of offices at 610-611 Keystone building 

 as headquarters for the newly organized Free- 

 hold Lumber Company. The company will have 

 a big following of Pittsburgh lumber buyers. 

 Mr. Gannon is very familiar with the trade 

 through the middle and eastern states. 



The Shreve Chair Company at Union City, 

 Pa., is making improvements to its plant. It 

 will shortly put in a band sawmill to replace 

 the old circular sawmill which was removed to 

 Sherman, N. Y., some time ago. 



H. E. Ast, manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company, believes that the outlook for a healthy 

 increase in business in 1912 is exceedingly bright. 

 He says that improvements and repairs have 

 been delayed to a dangerous point and an im- 

 mediate resumption of buying of stocks of hard- 

 woods is necessary. The company is now lo- 

 cated in a suite of seven of the finest rooms 

 in the Peoples Bank building at Fourth avenue 

 and Wood street, where its big force has much 

 better facilities for working than in its former 

 quarters in the Publication building. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Company has in- 

 creased its force of helpers by employing H. C. 

 Morris, an experienced lumber salesman from 

 New York. He will work the Pittsburgh dis- 

 trict. The company has drilled its salesmen 

 thoroughly in an intimate knowledge of stocks 

 at Its mills and started them out about Jan. 1. 



E. V. Babcock & Co. wound up the year with 

 a total of about 9,000 cars shipped. This was 

 nearly GOO cars more than thc?lr total for 1910. 

 The company, with its Immense Interests, was 

 never in such good shape to handle an enormous 

 amount of lumber quickly and satisfactorily as 

 at present and its officials believe that this year 

 will show a great gain In business over J Oil. 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen Lum- 

 ber Company, is In the Southwest this week in 

 the Interest of his gum and cottonwood business. 



The Acorn Luml>er Company has secured J. D. 

 Hollihan to represent It In New York and the 

 East, where It \n going hard after the hardwood 

 trade this year. Mr. Hollihan spent seven years 



'.villi tlio Camp Manufacturing Company and is 

 one of the best fitted young lumbermen in the 

 business to handle eastern trade. 



The Kendall Lumber Company has been mak- 

 ing heavier shipments since Dec. 10, especially 

 lo the railroads and coal mining concerns. Its 

 business is expanding so that it now includes 

 every trunk line railroad in this country and 

 there is every prospect that 1912 will break all 

 records in its shipments. 



BOSTON 



The Lumber Trade Club of Boston will hold 

 its annual meeting during February. 



Demand for redwood in this market is limited 

 lo small lots and comes largely from the cutting 

 up trade. More is not used here on account of 

 the high rate of freight which brings the final 

 cost too high. After the canal is opened it is 

 expected that business will show a marked in- 

 crease as the lumber can then come to New- 

 York or Boston in cargo lots thus reducing 

 transportation charges. 



The building occupied by the Hatch & Barnes 

 Company, manufacturer of builders' finish, 

 Worcester, Mass., has been purchased by the 

 company, which is planning to extend its busi- 

 ness. 



A new firm under the name of Weinie Bros. 

 & Son, has been organized in Rutland, Vt., to 

 do a wood-working business. The partners are 

 George Peter Nicholas and W. P. Weinie. 



The box factory of the A. B. Howe Company. 

 Marlboro. Mass. was recently damaged by fire 

 causing a loss estimated at $15,000. 



The H. C. Wood Lumber & Supply Company, 

 Westfield, Mass.. has been organized with a cap- 

 ital stock of $30,000 by Herder C. Wood, George 

 J. Carroll and Eugene E. Wood. 



BALTIMORE 



Frank Ing, who acted as manager of the W. 

 Lewis Rowe Company, after the reorganization 

 of that concern early last year until it passed 

 into the hands of a receiver nearly two months 

 ago, has connected himself with William M. 

 Burgan. 



Robert McLean, who operates a sawmill at 

 Battery Park, Va., has purchased a tract of 

 timber, with about four million feet stumpage. 

 The tract is situated on the James river, and 

 consists mostly of oak, with considerable ash 

 and hickory. Mr. McLean will open an office 

 in Norfolk, as he is largely engaged in the 

 export business and much of the lumber shipped 

 to foreign countries goes by way of Norfolk. 



Among visiting lumbermen here last week 

 was W. E. McKee, head of the sales deiiart- 

 ment of James Webster & Bro., of Liverpool. 

 Mr. McKee, who is now in Cincinnati, came 

 over from England about the middle of Decem- 

 ber and has since then visited a large section 

 of the country. He stated that he found the 

 feeling in the South decidedly hopeful, and that 

 lumbermen reported an improved condition of 

 affairs. 



Charles II. Short, member of the firm of 

 John II. Short & Sons, planing mill operators 

 at 11 Uhler's alley, died on Dec. 31 at bis 

 home, 218 East Lafayette avenue, of Bright's 

 disease. 



Theodore Mottu of Theo. Mottu & Co., and 

 president of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, 

 has been named as one of a committee of seven 

 to fornuilale a plan for amalgamating the com- 

 mercial nr;;anlzations of this cll.v in one central 

 body. The plan of organization Is expected to 

 jirovide for an executive committee consisting 

 of representatives of the present bodies, which 

 will constitute sections of the central associa- 

 tion. 



Hlibaril W. I'rlce ot Price & Henid, who had 

 an attack of Illness early In December and 

 wi-ni to .\tlantic City to recuperate. Is back 



liume. but has not yet improved sufficiently to 

 resume his regular work at the office. 



The mill of the Norva Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany at Wallaceton. Va., the output of which 

 is handled by Robert McLean of this city, has 

 shut down for an indefinite period for the 

 usual annual overhauling. 



CLEVELAND 



The year just closed has been very satis- 

 factory as far as volume of business is con- 

 cerned but prices have not been quite up to 

 the standard. The building inspector's report 

 shows that records of all former years have been 

 broken, both in number of buildings erected and 

 their cost. I'ermits to the number of 7,783 were_ 

 issued in 1911 for buildings to cost $16,790,537, 

 as against 7,460 with a valuation of $13,948,- 

 413 in 1910. The building inspector states, 

 however, that the actual cost of buildings 

 erected, under construction, etc., in 1911 is 

 above $22,000,000. 



F. T. Peitch of the F. T. Peitch Lumber Com- 

 pany reports that inquiries so far this year 

 have been more numerous than during the cor- 

 responding period last year. He finds that al- 

 though most of the mills are not particularly 

 overstocked on any particular commodity, there 

 is nothing to indicate an immediate change in 

 prices. 



W. B. Martin of the Martin-Barriss Lumber 

 Company states that although business has not 

 been particularly brisk during the last few 

 weeks, it is holding up to normal, with prospects 

 for better things ahead. 



A. G. Webb of the Advance Lumber Company 

 has recently returned from a southern trip and 

 .tdvises that the company's new mill at Coal 

 River, W. Va., has just started running. It 

 will manufacture hardwoods principally, with 

 a daily capacity of 40,000 feet. Mr. Webb re- 

 ports an unusually good trade from the rail- 

 roads during December and has just closed a 

 contract for 1,500,000 feet of oak car stock 

 and ties. 



W. H. Hopkins, general manager uf the New 

 River Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., was a 

 recent visitor in Cleveland. 



On Dec. 16 the members of the Lumber Club 

 were apprised of the fact that an unusually 

 good entertainment was in store for them on 

 Dec. 19. The wives and sweethearts of the 

 members were invited and a good time was 

 had by all. Tlte club house was decorated 

 apropos of the occasion, which was a Christ- 

 mas entertainment. Music and recitations com- 

 posed the entertainment of the early part of the 

 evening, after which a buffet luncheon was 

 served. A large Chrisfmas tree, loaded down 

 with presents for the good hnnbcrmen and their 

 ladies, occupied a large part of the dining 

 room and F. T. Peitch, impersonating Santa 

 Claus, distributed his presents during the 

 course of the luncheon. 



The members were so well pleased with the 

 success of this "Ladles' Day" that the enter- 

 tainment committee was asked to arrange for 

 another at an early date. 



COLUMBUS 



Accuidlug to the report of Building Inspector 

 John G. White ot Columbus, building operations 

 for the .year 1911 were fairly active. There 

 were 2.700 permits Issued having a valuation ot 

 $4. ('.63.605 as compared with 2.375 permits In 

 1910 ot a valuation of $5.133.(III0. 



-Vrrangements are being marie by the lloo-lloo 

 tor a large meeting to be held at Dayton, O., 

 Jan. 23 In conjunction with the annual meet- 

 ing of the Ohio Retail Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion which will be held at that place Jan. 23 to 

 25. Invitations have been extended to members 

 of the ordi'r In Ohio and adjoining states. 



The Fries Lumber ('om|iany of Huron. Erie 



