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HARDWOOD RECORD 



ture to Brown University students in tlie Union 

 at Providence, R. I., his subject being, "Busi- 

 ness Opportunities for College Men." 



For tlie first eleven months of 1910 the 

 ftuilding contracts awarded in New England 

 amounted to $140,715,000, showing a falling off 

 from those during the corresponding period a 

 year ago of over $1,500,000. The first half of 

 the year showed a gain over the corresponding 

 six months of 1909. 



The George Lawley & Son Corporation, one 

 of the oldest and best-known yacht building 

 concerns on the Atlantic coast, has secured new 

 quarters on the Neponset river close to Dor- 

 chester Bay. The yards of this company have 

 been in South Boston for many years, and 

 some of the most expensive yachts afloat were 

 constructed by this firm. 



BALTIMORE 



The large frame factory of the Baltimore 

 Hub, Wheel & Manufacturing Company, at Wash- 

 ington street and the Baltimore & Ohio Kail- 

 road, was burned December 18. The loss is 

 estimated at $25,000, covered by insurance. 



Charles F. Steiner, manufacturer of mantels 

 at Highlandtown, an eastern suburb, and asso- 

 ciates plan the erection of a factory on Monu- 

 ment and Eleventh streets, in the vicinity of the 

 mantel works, of a plant for constructing man- 

 tels and automobiles. The new building is to 

 front 160 feet on Monument street and have 

 a depth of 80 feet. It is to be of concrete 

 and brick. The latest machinery for the pur- 

 poses intended is to be installed, and the com- 

 pany is to Ije known as the Charles J. F. Steiner 

 Mantel Company. 



The reports sent out from New York concern- 

 ing the success of the efforts made to have the 

 railroads rescind the order, increasing the mini- 

 mum weight of a car of lumber from 34,000 to 

 40,000. in which reports the entire credit is 

 given to the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association, are mildly excepted by members of 

 the National Lumber Exporters' Association, who 

 feel that their organizafion had a hand in the 

 matter and did as much as any other to bring 

 about the return to the old weight. As soon 

 as the order had been issued increasing the 

 minimum weight, attention was called to the 

 probable effect by Secretary J. McD. Price, of 

 the National Lumber Exporters' Association, who 

 had given the matter much thought. 



He also communicated with other organiza 

 tions and started an agitation, which soon 

 brought the railroads around. It is felt nere 

 Ihat the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, though numerically not large, should not 

 be overlooked when credit is given for the work 

 done to have the oI)Jeclionable order repealed. 



Peter Thomas Barrow, for many years head 

 of the Barrow Lumber & Furniture Manufactur- 

 ing Company of Danville, Va., died there on 

 December ID. lie was sixty-four years old and 

 had been in failing health for some time. 



The annual meeting of the Baltimore Lumber 

 Exchange on the evening of December 5 was 

 more largely attended than any similar event 

 in years, covers being laid for nearly one hun- 

 dred persons. Mayor Mahool and other city 

 oiBclals delivered addresses, paying tribute to the 

 importance of the lumber trade and inviting co- 

 operation in the efforts to make of Baltimore a 

 greater city. Of special Interest was also the 

 report of President .John L. Alcock, who sub- 

 mitted figures regarding the lumber exports, and 

 gave an estimate of the aggregate of the busi- 

 ness done here. 



The Haltimore branch of the Concatenated 

 Order of Hoo-Hoo, at a concatenation held 

 December 17 at the Merchants' Club, Initiated 

 seven candidates into the mysteries of sessions 

 on the roof and other occult observances. A 

 banquet followed, enabling the kittens to recover 

 from the strenuousness of the walk. W. M. 



Stephenson of St. Paul and J. H. Sheip of 

 Philadelphia were the invited guests who made 

 addresses. The question of whether the Hoo- 

 Hoo should hold the next annual concatenation 

 in Milwaukee or spend the week on a lake 

 steamer came up for consideration, and was 

 decided in favor of the latter, insofar as the 

 members in this city are concerned. 



COLUMBUS 



The forthcoming report of City Building In- 

 spector White for the year 1910 will show not 

 only that each month of the year was marked 

 by an increase over the previous month in the 

 value of building permits issued but also that 

 the city of Columbus will have a greater per- 

 centage of increase in valuation over the pre- 

 vious year than any other of the recognized 

 cities of the country. With the month of De- 

 cember estimated, the report shows that the 

 gain in Columbus was 31 per cent over the pre- 

 vious year, which is something unusual in the 

 line of building permits. 



The Seneca LumlK?r Company of TiSin, 0., 

 was incorporated with a capital of $10,000 to 

 do a retail lumber business. The incorporators 

 were Otto L. Gillig, Miles C. Barger, Michael 

 W. Reinhart, Calvin D. Spittler and George 

 Gillig. 



John R. Gobey, of the ,Iohn R. Gobey Lum- 

 ber Company, returned December 17 from a 

 week's trip through several southern states. He 

 reports that orders at the mills are good and 

 that the indications point to a sharp advance 

 in the near future. 



M. A. Hayward, of M. A. Hayward & Sons, has 

 recovered from an operation which he underwent 

 at a hospital at Rochester, Minn. He is ex- 

 pected to arrive home shortly after Christmas, 

 stopping at Detroit and Cleveland on the way. 



F. B. Pryor, manager of the Chicago oflice of 

 the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, was at the 

 Columbus office of the company recently for 

 the usual monthly conference of the sales man- 

 agers. H. W. Collins of the Philadelphia office 

 was unable to be in attendance. 



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CINCINNATI 



Hardwood lumbermen were a noticeable fea- 

 ture of the annual banquet and election of the 

 Cincinnati Furniture Exchange, held in the ban- 

 quet hall of the Gibson House. A number of 

 the leading firms and corporations in the hard- 

 w<X)d trade were represented. The Cincinnati 

 Furniture Exchange is the oldest manufacturers' 

 organization in Cincinnati, having been in con- 

 tinuous existence for thirty-nine years, and is 

 composed of the bone and sinew of the furniture 

 manufacturing industry. A number of the men 

 who were charter members of the exchange were 

 present, some of whom are still actively in the 

 business. John Ilotfcid was re-elected president 

 and several addresses were made. Judge Wood- 

 mansee of the Common Pleas court and John 

 Sherrer, president of the Ohio Meehauics' Insti- 

 tute, delivered addresses. 



The W. E. Heyser Lumber Company is now 

 an active member of the Cincinnati hardwood 

 market. The company has secured a suite of 

 offices at 827-829 Union Trust building, fur- 

 nished with high-grade mahogany desks and ap- 

 pliances to match the finish of the rooms. 

 W. E. Heyser, the well-known buyer of wide 

 poplar for the Buick and other automobile com- 

 panies, and former partner of J. II. I'. Smith in 

 the Hardwood Lumber Company, is the head of 

 the new concern, which is capitalized at $100.- 

 000, all paid in. The other members of the 

 company are Ben Bramlage, well known as the 

 head of the Farmers & Traders bank of Coving- 

 ton, Ky, and W. C. Thompson, secretary, recently 

 associated with the Kentucky Lumber Company 

 of this city. Mr. Heyser was for some years 



connected with T. B. Stone in the lumber busi- 

 ness in this city, and also organized and oper- 

 ated the Stone & Heyser Lumber Company of 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



The American Timber & Coal Company was 

 incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, the past week, 

 with a nominal capitalization of $50,000. It 

 is understood by the stockholders of the company 

 that this capitalization will shortly be increased 

 to $5,000,000. The company organized Decem- 

 ber 17, by electing the following officers : Ed- 

 ward C. Buck, president : G. W. Piatt, vice- 

 president and counsel ; William Durham, secre- 

 tary ; Dr. Thomas M. Stewart, treasurer ; George 

 H. Black, general manager. The purpose of the 

 new company is to purchase land and develop 

 its natural resources. It already controls large 

 tracts in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, and op- 

 tions are said to be held on others. William 

 Durham, the secretary, is well known as an ex- 

 pert timber scout in Tennessee and Kentucky 

 as well as Ohio. 



Cliff S. Walker, president of the Bayou Land 

 iS. Lumber Company, returned December 14 from 

 Louisiana, where he had been attending the 

 organization of the directors of the Tensas River 

 Lumber Company, of which he is the vice-presi- 

 dent. He says that S. A. Conn, general man- 

 ager of the company, reported that the work 

 on the new mill site was progressing finely, and 

 that the plant was in good shape to receive 

 the machinery which is now on the way. Mr. 

 Walker is jubilant over the prospects of the 

 new company, which is expected to be actively in 

 the field within the early months of the new- 

 year. 



The Hardwood Lumber Company, with J. H. P. 

 Smith as president, has reorganized, and will 

 continue the business at the old stand in the 

 Union Trust building. 



Mowbray & Robinson have started operations 

 at their new $30,000 mill plant near Jackson, 

 Ivy., where they have secured about 00,000,000 

 feet of choice white oak, which will be logged, 

 manufactured and put on the market at once. 



M. R. Short, who operated an office in the 

 Mercantile Library building as the Short Lumber 

 Company, and H. A. Hollowell, who had offices 

 in the same building, have formed a new com- 

 pany, and incorporated as the Short-Hollowell 

 Lumber Company of Concinnati. with a capital 

 stock of $20,000. The incorporators are Melin 

 R. Short. H. A. Hollowell, Stuart McDougall, 

 John Galvin and W. A. Geohegan. Messrs. 

 Short and Hollowell are both well-known mem- 

 bers of the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati, 

 and need no introduction to the trade. 



W. E. Delaney of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany, is a candidate for the title of "the busiest 

 man." He is as hard to find as the elusive 

 flea. He apparently has the faculty of being 

 everywhere at one and the same time, but 

 one usually arrives at a place "just as he has 

 left." 



Alfred Sbiels, son of Charles F. Shieis. and 

 Miss Beatrice Luth, daughter of Theodore Luth, 

 of the well-known carriage manufacturing com- 

 pany of Ratterman & Luth, were recently wedded, 

 surprising their many friends. The Record 

 extends its heartiest congratulations to the 

 happy couple. 



Burglars broke into the office of the Edwards 

 Lumber Company Sunday night, and made an 

 tmsuccessful attempt to "crack" the safe. They 

 broke the knob off the steel door and carried 

 that off. They did not touch anything else 

 in the office. 



The completion of the big dam at Fern Bank 

 was announced by the United States engineers 

 recently. The only work now remaining is to 

 clear the river of the coffer dam and obstruc- 

 tions. The engineers say this will be completed 

 by January 1, 1911. The business organiza- 

 tions of Cincinnati will celebrate the inaugu- 

 ration of the dam by great doings as soon as 

 the stage of water is down to a lower level. 



