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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Emptifium Lumber Company's main office will be at Utica, N. Y., 

 after May 1, and the giiartors there will be very commodious as well as 

 convenient to the Adirondack operations. 



The McLean Lumber Company's Memphis mill sustained no damage 

 by the floods, but is running more actively this month than last, and will 

 turn out about l.'SOO.OOO feet of hardwoods. 



W. P. Miller of Miller, Sturm & Miller, has returned from a business 

 trip east and reports some successful business. The yard is handling a 

 good quantity of plain oak. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. say there is more cherry moving at present than 

 for some time, although trade in it is not heavy. The poplar demand is 

 holding up satisfactorily. 



T. Sullivan &, Co. report the hardwood trade as very fair this month, 

 the sales being largely in ash, elm and basswood. F. M. Sullivan has been 

 spending some time looking after trade in the East. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has experienced consider- 

 able difficulty in getting its large shipments of oak and chestnut for- 

 warded from the South, owing to floods, but stocks are now coming in 

 better. 



=■< PITTSBURGH >-= 



C, K. BieitwiesL'i' & Co. arc getting a splendid trade with the Ohio 

 yards and Jind tliat Lardwoods figure pretty largely in this business. A. G. 

 Breitwieser of this concern announces that trade has been very satis- 

 factory throughout the season. 



Adelman Lumber Company is coming right to the front in the hard- 

 wood line and has been booking some excellent business of late. President 

 A. Adelman was over lu Ohio during the flood week but by good luck 

 managed to keep ahead of the high water. 



W. P. Craig, president of the \\'. 1*. Craig Lumber Company, surpriset! 

 his friends Apr. 18 by taking a life partner — Miss Isabella Adams McGill 

 of Wilkmsburg, Pa. After an extended eastern wedding trip the couple 

 will make their home at Mr. Craig's summer home at Ingomar on the 

 Uulier trolley line. 



The E. U. Shreincr Lumber Company has recently contracted for some 

 more nice stocks of West Virginia lumlier. Mr. Shreiner is pushing 

 matters hard this ytar and looks for a big total of sales for 1913. 



The B. W. Cross Lumber Company reports buying quite satisfactory and 

 the situation in general O. K. Mr. Cross spent a few days In the Cin- 

 cinnati district lately. 



The I'^ostcr Lumber Company has Just bought another nice tract of 

 oak and hardwood timber in Harrison county, Ohio, which will cut about 

 000,000 feet of lumber. 



The newly organized Manufacturers Lumber Company has moved its 

 headquarters from the Park building to the Business Men's Exchange on 

 Diamond street, where it is very nicely located. 



W. A. Richter, who was formerly with Garling & Splane of this city, 

 has opened oflices for himself in the Business Men's Exchange on Diamond 

 street. He will represent the Williams & McKeithen Lumber Company of 

 Lynchburg, Va., in this territory and will have oak for a specialty. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company has been getting ahead large ship- 

 ments of gum and cottonwood. J^resident Woollett took some big orders 

 for these stocks a few weeks ago aud is well pleased with this business 

 to date. 



J. M. Hastings, president of the J. M. Hastings Lumber Company, was 

 in the city a few days last week. He has spent much of his time the 

 past few months in Nova Scotia overseeing the big operations of the 

 Davison Lumber Company, of which he is also president. 



The Germain Company reports some Increase in its export trade and 

 says that the coastwise trade is picking up right along. Locally the com- 

 pany does not see much gain. 



The Western Lumber Company is having a splendid trade in factory 

 lumber and general manufacturing stock. President W. W. Wilson, Jr., 

 announces that March was the biggest month in the company's history. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company has raised its capital to $50,000. 

 President Dunn i-eport>< business in fine shape all along the line and 

 especially in factory aud manufacturing lumber. 



The Nicola Lumber Company is well satisfied with sales and prospects 

 so far this year. Yard trade is picking up rapidly and they report a 

 nice lot of orders from the railroads and the manufacturing plants. 



.< BOSTON y- 



William E. Litchfield, a prominent hardwood dealer in this city, has 

 recently returned from a trip to the mill of Litchfield Brothers at North 

 Vernon. Ind. Mr. Litcbfleld was accompanied by his son, George A. 

 Litchfield. Mr. r.itchfleld states that the flood did no serious damage to 

 the mill and the company is able to make shipments. A good supply of 

 logs is on hand. 



F. R, Babccck of the liabcock Lumber Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., has 

 been calling on the trade in this section. 



The ICnott-Sampson Lumber Company, Boston, has removed Its olHces 

 from 8S Broad street to 105 Milk street. 



William Bacon of the Davenport, Peters Company, Boston, has returned 

 from a pleasure trip to Panama. 



The Specialty Lumber Company, Hartford, Conn., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $25,000. The incorporators are Charles D. 

 Maloney. Prank S. Sellow and John L. Jencks. 



Arthur P. Nay. who has been the Boston representative for the J. R. 

 Booth Lumber Company for several years, has resigned to establish a 

 wholesale lumber husiuess for himself. 



=■< BALTIMORE >-= 



Everett R. Meredith, vice-president of the Farinholt-Meredith Lumber 

 Company. Annapolis. Md.. was so severely injured on Apr. 16 in a collision 

 between his motorcycle aud ail automobile driven by a Baltimorean that 

 one of his legs had to be amputated above the knee. Mr. Meredith was 

 riding along West street, when, in trying to pass another vehicle, he 

 swerved to one side directly in front of the automobile going in the 

 opposite direction. He was thrown over the radiator and fender of the 

 auto into the car, his machine being demolished. .An examination at the 

 hospital showed that he had sustained a compound fracture of a leg, 

 broken a bone in one of bis hands, and had been cut and bruised about 

 the head and body. The injured leg was afterward amputated. 



Charles F. Shaffer, president of the C. F. Shaffer Lumber Company, has 

 been very ill at his home in Laurel, Md., for about a week. It is not 

 thought that he can survive. He is nearly seventy-five years old. 



United States Senator John Walter Smith has reintroduced in the 

 upper house of Congress his bill to create a forest reserve and national 

 park in Maryland by taking in all of the timberlauds between Baltimore 

 and Washington and between the Baltimore & Ohio and the Philadelphia, 

 Baltimore & Washington railroads. It is estimated that a large part of 

 this territory possesses little value as arable land and that it is admirably 

 adapted to the purposes mentioned in the bill. For the present only an 

 appropriation to make a survey and the appointment of a commission to 

 direct the work is asked. The bill was introduced in the last Congress 

 but failed, and Senator Smith, who is a lumberman himself, believes he 

 will have better success in a Congress controlled by its party. 



M. S. Baer of Blchard P. Baer & Co., hardwood manufacturers and 

 wholesalers, with offices in the tower of the Maryland Casualty building, 

 is in high spirits these days and has a jovial touch in his manner which 

 can be noticed oven above his ordinary good humor and cordiality. The 

 reason therefor is to be found in the fact that he is a father, the first 

 arrival being a son, who weighed eight and a half pounds at birth and 

 gives every evidence of becoming a hustling and wide-awake man. The 

 infant has been christened Richard Price Baer, the name being thus per- 

 petuated in the family. 



=~< COLUMBUS >- 



Spring building is assuming large proportions in Columbus and also in 

 the cities and towns in central Ohio. Architects and contractors as well 

 us lumbermen generally are looking fnrward for an active season and 

 preparations have been made fov a good year in evei-y wa.v. Wldlc 

 residence construction promises to be the feature of building, it will not 

 be confined to that department, but there will be quite a number of 

 factories, business blocks and apartments erected. The disastrous flood 

 which destroyed several hundred of houses and damaged a lot more on 

 the west side will be the means of stimulating building in this section to 

 a large degree. 



The Anthony C. Elswiek Ijumber Company of Cincinnati has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000 to deal in lumber aud 

 timberlands. The incorporators are Anthony (_'. lOlswick, II. F. McGee, 

 M. M. Steinhilber, Jesse M. Simon and Archie Borland. 



Two bills were passed by the Ohio legislature just previous to final 

 adjournment which seek to bring about the reforestation of the state. 

 One of the bills provides for the exemption from taxation of forest lands 

 under certain conditions. One-eighth of any farm, providing the eighth 

 does not exceed twenty acres. Is exempted if it has 170 trees or more to 

 the acre. The other bill provides for planting trees on the 170,000 acres 

 of waste land in Ohio. The recent disastrous Hoods emphasized the need 

 for these laws. 



The report of the city building inspector for the first quarter of l'.ll.3 

 shows that there were 457 permits issued, having a valuation of $741,000 

 as compared with 419 permits and a valuation of $769,000 for the corre- 

 sponding period in 1912. 



K. W. Horton, sales manager tor the central division of the W. M. 

 Ritter Lumber Company, reports a strong demand for hardwoods with 

 prices ruling firm. He says the movement is well distributed among the 

 various grades and thus there is no accumulation of stock. Both factories 

 and retailers are good buyers. 



John R. Gobey of John K. Gobey & Co. reports a good demand for 

 hardwoods, with prices well maintained. He expects the demand to 

 Increase from this time on. 



A. C. Davis of the A. C. Davis Lumber Company says there is a good 

 demand for hardwoods despite the recent floods. Prlcts are firm aiHl 

 Inclined to advance. 



Cones & Menefee, West Broad street, who sustained a damage of more 

 than $15,000 from the flood, have established a temporary office at the 

 old location and are retailing lumber. Business will probably be con- 

 tinued at the old stand. 



C. G. McLaughlin of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a fairly 



