HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Receivers to Be Dismissed 



The E. SouUlu'imc'i- roinpuiiy is about lo 

 come into the managemmit oi its own affairs. 

 I'ublieation is already beiiiK made of the faci 

 that the reeeivers. who have administered the 

 affairs of that tirm since hist September, are to 

 be dismissed within the next fortnight. Max 

 Sondheimer. president of tlie eomiiany. is author- 

 ity for this announcement. lie further states 

 tliat the company will continue as of old and 

 that it will cnjiage in the manufacturing and 

 distributing of hardwood lumber. The firm at 

 no time was insolvent, Iiaving assets practically 

 double its liabilities. Much regret was occa- 

 sioned over the fact that it was necessary for 

 the firm lo go into a temporary receivership and 

 by the same token much pleasure is expressed 

 over the fact tliat the owners of the business 

 have virtually come into control thereof again. 



New Arkansas Hardwood Mill 



W. II. Bower & Co. of Kiirlz, liul.. arc .iust 

 completing a sawmill at Stutt.gart, Ark., where 

 they have a tract of timber lands. They will 

 have it ready for operation within a few weeks 

 and will cut chietly oak and hickory, and will 

 also produce .some gum and cyjiress. 



W. H. Bower, the head of Ibis concern, is a 

 veteran Indiaiui hardwood operator, and also is 

 owner of the Maple Shade Stock Farm at Kurtz, 

 on which be breeds short-horned cattle. 



Building Operations for February 



Official ]-epnrts from foriy-Hve cities regu- 

 larly reported by The American Contractor, 

 Chicago, in comparison with the previous year, 

 show a gain of six per cent for February over 

 the same month in 1!11]. The principal gains 

 for February were made in the following cities: 

 Buffalo. 401 per cent; Detroit. IHi : Duluth, 'j~ ; 

 Kansas City. 51: Los Angeles. li:i: Manchester, 

 96 : Nashville. 31 ; Rochester, 176 ; Seranton, 

 13.J. The particulars will be found in the fol- 

 lowing table ; 



Februar>'. , Februarj". 



1U12. 1911. Percent 



City. Cost. Cost. Gain Loss 



Atlanta * 402.337 ?; 392.249 25 .. 



Baltimore 532.070 1,252,779 . . .57 



Birminghau .... 214.074 252.171 .. 14 



Buffalo 1.228.000 245.000 401 



Cedar Rapi.ls... 115.000 141.100 .. l.S 



Chicago 3,777.100 260,400 ., 11 



.Cincin.iati 390,324 702,795 44 



Columbus 210,2.-1 211.712 .. 1 



Dallas 323,320 295,006 U .. 



Denver 446,500 397,925 12 .. 



Detroit .4.392.880 2,308,900 90 .. 



Duluth 114,330 72.425 57 .. 



Grand Rapids. . . 157,555 120,083 24 



Hartford 186.065 245,140 . . 24 



Indianapolis ..., 82.040 412,775 .. 80 



Kansas City 990.110 6.53.010 51 .. 



Los Angeles 2,152.'.i6:; 1.009,277 113 .. 



Manchester .... 59.7S0 30,500 90 . . 



Milwaukee 430,5.SO 473.917 . . 9 



Minneapolis .... 330,855 1,597,150 .. 79 



Nashville 71.032 46.739 51 



New Haven .... 153.240 132,320 15 . . 



New Orleans.... 149,045 169,476 .. 12 



Manhattan .... 6.977. 64(i 3,201.385 117 



Brooklyn 1,894.407 1,907.401 . . 1 



Bronx 1,953,000 3.975,080 . , 51 



New York 10.825.113 9,084.400 19 



Oklahoma City... 45.550 297.4.50 .. .84 



Omaha 219.195 197.200 11 



Paterson 71.512 80.100 .. 17 



Philadelphia ... 2,029.385 1.912.635 6 .. 



Pittsburgh 362.147 7.S0.455 .. .53 



Portland 1.128.176 1.U04.425 .. 



Rochester 644.070 232.925 176 



St. Paul 209.994 1.111.176 .. 75 



St. Louis 1.0l'2.164 1.U7.584 .. 12 



San Francisco .. 1. 71.4. 252 l,4..5.s24 21 



Seranton 144,790 01.000 135 .. 



Seattle 47:;, 940 491.245 .. 3 



Spokane 210,652 579.725 .. 62 



Toledo 2:i6.917 145.125 . . 63 



Washington .... 1.1:11.376 1,179.838 .. 4 



Will.es Barre.... 113.305 ,84,762 33 .. 



Worcester 115.075 101,605 13 .. 



Total ^;:;7, 704, 29(1 $:i5.455.715 6 



Death of Albert H. Frost 



One of the best known and highest respected 

 Teneer manufacturers of the country, Albert 

 H. Frost, died on .iauuary 27, at his home in 

 New Yoi-k. Mr. Frost had been connected with 

 the veneer business for more than thirty years. 



He was president of tlie Frost Veneer Seating 

 Company at Newport, Vt., and .\ew York City 

 for the last twenty-six years. He was also vice- 

 president of the Frost Veneer Seating Company 

 at Sheboygan, Wis. 



He died after an illness of only twenty-one 

 da.vs, at the agc> of sixty-one years, although he 

 had been in poor health for some years. The 

 direct cause of his death was hardening of the 

 liver and heart disease. He was buried in Mai- 

 den, Mass., his boyhood home, in the family 

 lot where the remains of his father and mother 

 rest, 



Mr. Frost's demise will bo sincerely regretted 

 by everyone associated in the veneer industcy. 

 He was an exponent of the highest standard of 

 business morals, and was one of the most capable 

 men in the industry. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



.7. 11. [,;iiidbam ri'ceiitly begun the manu- 

 facture of wagons at Anniston, Ala. 



The Curtis Brothers Hardwood L\imber Com- 

 l)an.y has disconlinued luisiness at Jamestown, 

 N. Y. 



Ihe Cincinnati Fly Screen Company, Cincin- 

 nati, O., has increased its capital stock to 

 ,$(jO,000. 



The Coast Line Veneer Jlills, Norfolk, Va., 

 were recently incorporated with a capital stock 

 of .|.5,000. 



The Horne-Sparks Veneer Company recently 

 began the manufacture of veneers at Tusca- 

 loosa, Ala, 



F. Steiner JIantel Company, 

 has increased its capital stock 



The Chas. .T. 

 Baltimore, Md., 

 lo .$30,000. 



The Lumber I'roducts Conipciny, Portland, 

 Me., has been inctu'porated with a capital stock 

 of $10,000. 



The Carthage Hickory Spoke Works recently 

 began the manufacture of wagon spokes at Car- 

 thage, Tenn. 



The Colonial Lumber Ciunpauy. Hartford, 

 Conn., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $300,000. 



The MeSweeney Lumber Company, Kalamazoo, 

 Mich., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $10,000. 



The Mcl^areu Lumber Company. Shelbyville, 

 Ind., has increased its capital slock from $1,5, 000 

 to $25,000. ■ 



The Louisville Company recently entered the 

 wholesale lumber business at 37 E. Twenty- 

 eighth street, New York, N. Y. 



The Jones Car Door Company. Augusta, Me., 

 lias been incorporated with an authorized capital 

 stock of $50,000. 



The Jacob F. Meier Company, trunk mauufac- 

 lurer, Detroit, Mich., has increased its capital 

 stock to $100,000. 



The Choates Creek Lumber Company, Livings- 

 ton, Tex., has been incorpoi'ated with a capital 

 stock of $100,000. 



The Piatt -Gilchrist Lumber Company, Cold- 

 water, Kan., lias been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $20,000. 



The Marion Wood-Working Comijany. JIarlon, 

 O., has been incorporated with an autboiized 

 capital stock of $10,000. 



Tlie Kent City Chair Compan.v, Kent City, 

 Mich., has been incorporated with an authorized 

 capital stock of $40,000. 



The Orange Wood-Working Company. Orange, 

 N. J., has been incorporated with an authorized 

 capital stock of $10,000. 



The Bundick Creek Lumber Ccunpany. De Kid- 

 der, La., has been incorjioraled with an author- 

 ized capital stock of $10,000. 



The Vincennes Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Vincennes. Ind.. has increased its author- 

 ized capital stock to .$50,000. 



Loving Furniture Company. Mor- 

 \'a.. has been incorporated with a 

 of $25,000 and will manufacture 



The Industrial Novelty Company has been in- 

 .■orporated a I Farmington, Me., with an author- 

 ized capital stock of $10,000. 



The Wilson Lximber Company, Wilson, Archer 

 <'ity P. O., Tex., has been incorporated ^itb an 

 authorized capital stock of $10,000. 



The Suicr .\iulersou Lumber Company. St. 

 !';iul. Minn., has been incorporated with an 

 authorized capital stock of $50,000. 



The Louisiana Wagon Wood Stock .Manufac- 

 turing Company, ilonroe. La., has beiui incor- 

 poi-ated wilh a capital stock of $73,000. 



The McDaniel-Baughman Lumber Company. 

 Little Rock, Ark., has been incorporated witli 

 an authorized caidtal stock of $30,000. 



The large plant of the Gulf Cypress Lumlier 

 Company at Ehren, Fla., was recently destroyed 

 by fire, entailing a loss of more than $30,000. 



The George W. Smyth Lumber Company, 

 Beaumont, Tex., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $100,000. and will manufacture 

 lumber. 



The J. F. 

 gantovvn. W. 

 capital stock 

 furniture. 



The Moore Brothers Furniture Comiiany is a 

 new incorporation at Shawnee, Kas. Tlie capital 

 stock is $23,000 and the object of incorporation 

 is to manufacture furniture. 



The Bloom-Burns Manufacturing Company, 

 Freeport. HI., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $13,000. The company will man- 

 ufacture vehicle implements, etc. 



The Hickson Rogers Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. Paragould. Ai-k.. has been incorporated 

 with an authorized capital stock of $15,000 and 

 will manufactui'e wood products. 



The Little Lumber Company, Lampasas, Tex., 

 has filed an amendment to its charter increasing 

 its capital stock from $75,000 to $100,000 and 

 changing its name to the W. F. & J. F. Barnes 

 Lumber Company. 



The Foreman-Derrickson Veneering Company 

 has been formed at Elizabeth City, N. C, by 

 W. D. Foreman and James Derrickson, who have 

 purchased the plant of the North Carolina Tray 

 & Basket Company. 



The (ihio Wood Preserving Company, .Youngs- 

 town. O.. has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $430,000. The incorporators are J. P. 

 Wilson, T, A. Jacobs, TT. C. DeFord, J. W. 

 Blackburn and F. J. Helm. 



The Yadkin Valley Mill & Lumber Company 

 of Honda. N. C, has been incorporated with an 

 authorized capital stock of $100,000, with $10,- 

 000 paid in by W. F. Bell, H. S. Bell. R. W. 

 Ilickerson and R. L. Hickerson. 



Fire recently destroyed the furniture factory 

 and part of the lumber yard of the Roach-Brown 

 Manufacturing Company at Cumberland, Ind. 

 The loss will probably total $15,000 partly in- 

 sured. The plant will be rebuilt at once. 



The Empire Case Goods Company, Jamestown, 

 X. Y., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $250,000 for the purpose of manufacturing 

 furniture. The incorporators are Frank O. An- 

 derson, Herman G. Anderson and Alfred Peters 

 of Jamestown, and four others. 



The Barnaby Furniture Company, Inc., New 

 York, N. Y., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $30,000 and will manufacture furniture. 

 The incorporatcn-s are John Barnaby. C. Connor 

 Huyler of Tenafly, N. .L, and Richard A. Roth- 

 well, 115 Broadway, New York City. 



The (illman Dimension Company. Oilman. W. 

 Va.. has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $23,000. The incorporators are Oliver Z. Cob- 

 leitz of Middletown, Md., W. L. Norton, Charles 

 V. Norton and Harvey F.'. Norton of Oilman. W. 

 Va., and Harry Jones of Elkins, W. Va. 



The Export & Domestic Hardwood Company, 

 New York, N. V.. has been incorporated with :i 



