HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



W. H. Prescott of the Saginaw Bay Lumber 

 Company is captain tii a team of 200 men wlio 

 are attempting to add 1,000 new names to the 

 membership of the Y. M. C. A. this week. There 

 is every evidence that tlie movement will be 

 successful. 



Charles Durant Haywood, secretary and treas- 

 urer of the Georgian Bay Lumber Company, 

 died during the past week after a brief illness. 

 Mr. Haywood was a resident of Cleveland most 

 of his life. He is survived by two sisters. 



J. V. O'Brien of the Southern Lumber Com- 

 pany has gone on a trip through southern hard- 

 wood districts to size up the lumber situation. 

 He will be absent for several weeks. 



George A. Prescott of Tawas, Mich,, of the 

 Saginaw Bay Lumber Company was here during 

 the past week visiting friends and transacting 

 business with his home <iHief. 



.\ branch has been established in Toronto, 

 Out., by the Hardwood Lumber Company of this 

 city to look after its interests across the bor- 

 der. Btisiuess with the local oflice is reported 

 as being exceptionally brisk for this time of the 

 year. 



The F. T. Peitch Company has been experi- 

 encing a strong demand for the better grades of 

 hardwoods during the past month. Good poplar 

 stock, in particular, is looking up. 



The Hoo-Hoos here are to be revived, rejuve- 

 nated and made to make a loud noise. F. T. 

 Peitch and several other well-known dealers 

 have taken on the task and propose to make 

 themselves heard in a short time. 



A. G. W el)b, manager of the Advance Lumber 

 Company, has gone to Charleston, W. Va., on a 

 business trip. He will visit the plant of the 

 West Virginia Timber Company, which is asso- 

 ciated with the Advance Company. 



E. L. French, for many years one of the best 

 known hardwood lumber salesmen, and for a 

 number of years sales manager for W. A. Cool 

 & Son, has accepted a position as sales mana- 

 ger for the Adler May Company at Atlanta, Ga., 

 extensive manufacturers of hardwoods. Mr. 

 French is preparing to go South to assume the 

 duties of his new position. 



COLUMBUS 



Buildings erected in Columbus for the first 

 eleven months of the present year exceed those 

 erected during the corresponding period in 190!) 

 by almost $1,000,000. The estimated value ol 

 buildings projected to date in 1910 is .«4, 462,780. 

 as compared with $3,522,226 for the first eleven 

 months of 1909. The report shows that Colum- 

 bus has been gaining rapidly and steadily In its 

 buildings each year. During the month of 

 November the records of the building depart- 

 ment excelled the records of any previous month, 

 excepting Novembei', 1903. which was a boom 

 month. The estimated value of permits issued 

 in November, 1910, was $300,000. 

 ' .T. W. Enoch, representing the Forest Lumber 

 Corihpany of Pittsburg, was a recent caller upon 

 Columbus lumbermen. 



W. L. Whitacre of the Whitacre Lumber Com- 

 pany was called out of the city on business early 

 in the month. 



Thomas T. Van Swearengen. manager of the 

 liuckeye Lumber Company of Seattle, Wash, was 

 a visitor in Columbus recently. He was former- 

 ly heavily interested in the South Side Lumber 

 Company of Columbus. 



G. V. Patterson, connected with the sales de- 

 partment of the W. M. Bitter Lumber Company, 

 reports a good trade in hardwoods during the 

 month of November, with December starting 

 out exceedingly well. Mr. Patterson .says there 

 is a good demand for both the higher and lower 

 grades. F. B. Pryor of the Chicago office of 

 this company and H W. Collins of the Phila- 

 delphia office will meet in Columbus December 

 10 with R. L. Horton, the manager of the cen- 

 tral sales division, for the usual monthly con- 

 ference. 



The General Lumber Company, of which H. 

 \V. Putnam Is president, is busy logging on its 

 timber tract on the Big Sandy river in Ken- 

 tucky. More than one hundred men are em- 

 Iiloyed and a large number of poplar logs will 

 be cut for movement during the spring freshets. 



L. B. Schneider of .lohn It. Gobey & Co. re- 

 ports a quiet trade with good Indications for 

 an active market after tlie first of the year. 

 .Tohn R. Gobey was in Cleveland and northern 

 Ohio on business early In December. 



W. M. Rittcr of the W. M. Rlttcr Lumber 

 Company is heavily interested In the Guerrero 

 Land & Timber Company of Mexico, and states 

 that he does not fear any real trouble from the 

 rebellion now being waged In that country. 



BOSTON 



The Owen Bearse & Son Company, large ma- 

 hogany dealers, Boston, have removed from 33 

 liroad street to 79 Milk street. The new quar- 

 ters are larger and more convenient than the 

 old. 



A. B. Ransom of .luhn li. Ransom & Co., 

 large hardwood lumber manufacturers at Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., was a recent visitor In the Boston 

 market. 



Tuttle & Baglpy. wholesale lumber dealers, 

 Boston, recently removed to larger quarters at 

 126 State street. 



The Palmer & Parker Company, dealers In 

 veneers and fancy hardwoods of all kinds, 

 Charlestown, Mass., has had plans drawn for a 

 new mill and dry house to take the place of 

 those destroyed by fire a few weeks ago. The 

 new building will be 110x60 feet. Since the 

 fi.re the company has been having its manufac- 

 turing done In other plants. 



The Manchester Lumber Company, Manches- 

 ter, Conn., plans to Increase its capital stock 

 from $50,000 to $100,000. 



The New Hampshire Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion will hold a meeting in Manchester, N. H., 

 December 22. Demurrage rules will be freely 

 discussed at this meeting. 



The Mitchell & Harding Lumber Company of 

 Lawrence, Mass., filed a petition In bankruptcy 

 December 2. This firm made a composition offer 

 about a year age. 



CINCINNATI 



Notwithstanding the general tendency to com- 

 plain of slow trade by the lumber operators in 

 the hardwood market of the Queen City, the 

 figures collated by the Car Service Bureau do 

 not agree with the supposed condition of the 

 markets. A year ago there was general satis- 

 faction expressed at business conditions at the 

 opening of December, and a very hopeful view 

 takeu of the future, yet the receipts for Novem 

 her, 1909, were only 0,769 cars, as compared 

 with 7,114 cars for November, 1910. The ship- 

 ments in November, 1909, were 5,552 cars, 

 against 6,423 cars the present year. The gain 

 In receipts this year was 345 cars, while the 

 shipments show a gain of S71 cars. 



All the entraies at the headquarters of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association are now 

 being bent toward preparations for the big an- 

 nual convention of the association which is 

 billed for January 31 and February 1, and which 

 Secretary Doster says is the first convention in 

 the history of the association to go over two 

 months. This is intended to be a joke, but the 

 .ictivo life that the wiry secretary leads Is not a 

 joke. After attending the meeting of the 

 Cypress Association in New Orleans, he visited 

 various points In the Mississippi Valley, and re- 

 turned to Cincinnati to spend Thanksgiving Day 

 at home, and be thankful that he Is still alive. 

 A rest of a day or two and he left for Chicago, 

 and remained there a couple of days, and was 

 again on the road, returning to the olBce by 

 the week's end, only to take np the accumula 



tion of mail piled on his desk during his ab- 

 sence. Yes, Mr. Doster has a "snap," he has 

 nothing to do but "work." 



The delegates to the Rivers & Harbors Con- 

 gress from Cincinnati left for Washington on a 

 special over the Baltimore & Ohio on December 

 6. The Cincinnati delegation carriefl a good 

 representation of lumbermen from the Queen 

 City, with S. G. Boyd at Its head. Mr. Boyd 

 has been an attendant at the congress for sev- 

 eral years. 



Numerous changes have been made in the com 

 panics and firms operating in this market during 

 the past month. The Hardwood Lumber Com 

 lany. of which .1. H. P. Smith is the president, 

 has been reorganized, Mr. Ileyser going out and 

 Mr. Smith retaining the name of the Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, remaining in the same quar- 

 ters. W. E'. Ueyser has organized the Ueyser 

 Lumber Company, and incorporated under the 

 laws of Ohio, with a capital of $100,000, all 

 paid In, and will open a suite of oHlces on 

 another floor of the Union Trust building. The 

 Ileyser Lumber Company will continue to be the 

 buying agents of the Bulck company and other 

 automobile manufacturers for wide poplar, suit- 

 able for that line of business. 



S. F'.arle Grlfiin. formerly selling agent of the 

 Louisiana Red Cypress Company, with offices In 

 the I-'irst National bank. Is now connected with 

 the Dwight Hinckley Lumber Company as sec 

 retary. The company has leased the yard of 

 the old Cypress Lumber Company (now out of 

 business) at the corner of Wade and Dalton 

 avenues. 



The T. I?. Stone Lumber Company has erected 

 an olTice on its yards at the foot of Hopk'hs 

 street, and has moved there from the suite of 

 offices in the Union Trust building. 



Cases to be decided on the "square deal" plat- 

 form of the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati 

 continue to bob up. Two are now In the hands 

 of the committees, who will see that justice is 

 done to both parties of the disagreement. One 

 of the cases is an appeal from an out-of-town 

 concern, while the other is between local houses. 

 The cases will be decided within the week. 



Sam Conn came home to spend Thanksgiving 

 Day and immediately returned to the plant of 

 The Tensas River Lumber Company, which is 

 being rapidly put In shape. 



I'^red Conn of The Bayou Land & Lumber 

 Company is recovering rapidly from the results 

 of the operation performed several weeks ago. 

 and is now able to put In a regular appearance 

 at the office. 



Mowbray & Robinson of Cincinnati started 

 their new mill near Jackson, I^y., last week. 

 The railroad has been extended to the plant, 

 and the firm now has every facility for the 

 rapid handling of lumber. 



EVANSVILLB 



The next meeting of the EvansvIUe Lumber- 

 men's Club will be held at the St. George 

 Hotel on Tuesday evening. December 13, at which 

 time the committee on publicity will render a 

 report on the campaign they have outlined 

 for the coming year. This is expected to be 

 the largest meeting since the club was or- 

 ganized. 



The hunting party which left this city foi 

 Mississippi on November 15 returned last week, 

 after having spent about ten days in the for- 

 est. They reported an enjoyable time and, ex- 

 cept for an accident to one of the party, I.eland 

 G. Banning of Cincinnati, they could not have 

 wished for a better trip. Mr. Banning, while 

 riding horseback through a densely forested 

 river bottom, was dragged from his mount by an 

 overhanging limb and sustained a badly dislo 

 cated shoulder. Members of the party with >lr 

 Banning were unable to reset the Injured mem- 

 ber and more than six hours elapsed and a Jour 

 ney of several miles was covered before com 

 potent surgical aid could be secured. Although 



