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HARDWOOD RECORD 



.1. C. Kaflish recenlly bought the plant of the 

 L'nivcrsal Chair Company at Union City, Pa. 

 It i.-i probable that tlie plant will soon resume 

 operations under the new management. 



.1. M. JIcLauRhlin & Co. Iiave opened a Pitts- 

 liury branch office in the Curry building, with 

 G. M. Cook as manager. The concern has two 

 mills near Shippensburg. Pa., and one on the 

 Lake Shore railroad, and has its own timljer 

 land. It owns one ot the finest tracts of hard- 

 wood in Clarion county. The capacity of its 

 plants is about ."lO.OOO feet a day. 



S. li. Gould, w)io represents the Louisiana 

 Cypress Lumlicr Company in this territory, called 

 on the Pitt.sbui-g trade recently. He stated that 

 there is little change in prices compared with 

 quotations a year ago, and that general business 

 seems to warrant an increase of buying very 

 shortly. 



The Palmer & Scmans Lumber Company has 

 opened a Philadelphia branch office with 

 F, E, Smith in charge, its eastern trade 

 having grown rapidly the past year. Sales 

 Manager I. F. Balsley, with B. A. Smith, and 

 T. B. Palmer, officials of tlie company, left a 

 few days ago for an extended trip through the 

 South, where they have a big timber project 

 about ready to be closed up. 



BOSTON 



C. E. Lloyd, the well-known hardwood lumber 

 dealer of Philadelphia, Pa., has been calling 

 upon the trade in and about Boston. 



C. L. Barr of the Whiting Lumber Company, 

 hardwood lumber dealers of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 also visited the Boston trade last week. 



The Harry C. Philbrick Company of 170 

 Summer street, Boston, has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of .$50,000. Harry C. Phil- 

 brick is president and treasurer, and Henry M. 

 Folsom is clerk. The new company takes over 

 the lumber business which has been conducted 

 by Mr. Philbrick. 



An important meeting on forestry was held 

 in Boston at the Exchange Club on the evening 

 ot January 10. This meeting was under the 

 auspices of the visiting committee of the Har- 

 vard Forestry School, the members of the 

 Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association 

 and the Lumber Trade Club of Boston. It was 

 strongly urged that national laws be made 

 to conserve the forests of the country. The 

 principal speakers ot the evening were Colonel 

 Roosevelt, Curtis Guild, Jr., ex-governor of Mass- 

 achusetts ; Charles W. Eliot, and Amory A. 

 Lawrence. Letters of regret were read from 

 Gifford Pinchot and Henry S. Graves. 



The E. E. Stone Lumber & Box Company of 

 Spencer, Mass., which recently made an assign- 

 ment to Horace B. Shepard of the Shepard & 

 Morse Lumber Company of Boston, recently held 

 a creditors' meeting in Boston. It was decided 

 at this meeting to continue the business under 

 the direction of Mr. Shepard. 



The Woodman Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated in Boston with a capital stock of 

 $5,000. The incorporators are Charles W. Wood- 

 man, Carrie E. Woodman and James J. Murphy. 



BALTIMORE 



The W. C. White Lumber Company held 

 its annual meeting in Cumberland, Md., on 

 January 14, and elected I. Blaine White presi- 

 dent to succeed the late Carlton L. Bretz. Carl 

 G. Hetzel was elected vice-president, and ex- 

 Mayor Warren C. White, secretary and treasurer. 

 These three officers, together with C. A. Adams 

 of Cumberland, and A. A. Rudy of Elkins, W. 

 Va., constitute the board of directors. The 

 company was reported to be in excellent finan- 

 cial condition. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore 

 TiUinber Exchange, at its monthly meeting held 

 on January 9, took cognizance of the various 



changes that have taken place in the names 

 of firms of late, and also admitted the J. S. 

 Hoskins Lumlier Company to membership. It 

 W'as announced that the exchange had contrib- 

 uted about .$1,000 to the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity Homewood fund, the money being raised 

 to provide an endowment for the university and 

 enable it to remove to Homewood, a beautiful 

 tract donated by Mr. Wyman. This amount is 

 apart from the contributions made by members 

 individually and as firms, which are considerably 

 larger. 



The J. S. Hoskins Lumber Company has offices 

 in the American building and deals largely in 

 piles, telegraph poles, cross ties and other stocks 

 ot this character. It does a big business and has 

 engaged therein for years. 



G. Higbie Smith, representing A. Boling of 

 Hamburg, Germany, the widely known firm of 

 importers of hardwoods, was a visitor in Balti- 

 more January IG. Mr. Smith is making cjuite 

 an extensive trip through the United States, 

 wliich will keep him in this country until the 

 latter part of February. He is giving close at- 

 tention to lumber trade conditions, and is on the 

 lookout for suitable stocks. 



COLUMBUS 



John K. Sowers, president of the Sowers-Leach 

 Lumber Company, has been confined to his home 

 because of a severe attack of the grippe. lie is 

 improving slowly. 



H. W. Collins, formerly in charge of the 

 Philadelphia office of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company, has resigned from that office and 

 has opened an office under the name of II. W. 

 Collins & Co.. in the Columbus Savings & Trust 

 liuilding. Mr. Collins will handle several lines 

 for well-known southern mills. His place at 

 the head of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company's 

 Philadelphia office was taken by G. V. Patterson, 

 ot the Columbus sales force of the company, 

 while W. Granville Taylor, formerly connected 

 with the Craggy Lumber Company of Asheville, 

 N. C, has succeeded Mr. Patterson. 



A conference of the sales managers ot the 

 W. M. Ritter Lumber Company was held at 

 the Columbus office January 12, with F. P. Pryor 

 of Chicago, R. W. Horton of Columbus, and G. V. 

 Patterson of Philadelphia, present. 



Frank Ross, representing the Patton Timber 

 Company of Catlettsburg, Ky., was a recent 

 caller upon Columbus lumbermen. 



II. W. Putnam, president ot the General Lum- 

 ber Company, made a business trip through 

 Michigan and Chicago territory about the middle 

 of this month. J. C. Burns, superintendent of 

 the mill of the General Lumber Company, visited 

 the Columbus office recently. 



M. A. Hayward of the firm of M. A. Hayward 

 & Sons, attended the annual meeting of the 

 Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association at 

 Indianapolis recently. Accompanying him was 

 Frank Smith of the Newark Lumber Company of 

 Newark, Ohio. D. W. Kerr of the W. L. Whit- 

 acre Lumber Company was another Columbus 

 visitor at the Indianapolis meeting. 



The William Zeitz & Son Company of Cleve- 

 land, O.. has been incorporated with an author- 

 ized capital of $25,000 to manufacture and sell 

 all kinds of mill work, bent work, cabinets, and 

 sash and doors. The incorporators are William 

 Zeitz, William R. Zeitz, Herbert P. Kramer, 

 JIary Zeitz and Isabel Zeitz. 



The Union City Lumber Company of Union 

 Cit.v, O., has changed its name to the Interstate 

 Lumber Company and it is expected the concern 

 will be incorporated under the laws of Ohio. 

 Herbert Fitzgerald will continue in the capacity 

 of general manager of the company. 



The Hillslioro Novelty Manufacturing Company 

 of Hillsboro, O., has been formed for the pur- 

 pose of manufacturing display stands and store 

 fixtures. The company will take over the busi- 

 ness of Holt Brothers and will enlarge it con- 

 siderably. 



II. C. Creith of the H. C. Creith Lumber Com- 

 pany, returned recently from an extended busi- 

 ness trip through Michigan. 



The Central Manufacturing & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Marietta and the Rudd-Hayward Lum- 

 ber Company of the same place, have moved to 

 more commodious offices in the St. Clair building. 



The Andrew Kimble Company of Zanesville. 

 O., has been incorporated with an authorized 

 capital of $75,000 to manufacture all kinds of 

 vehicles and implements. The incorporators are 

 .\ndrew^ Kimble, C. F. Kimble, J. E. Kimble, 

 Frank A. Kimble, and Ross H. Kimble. 



CINCINNATI 



The receipts of lumlicr at Cincinnati for the 

 year 1910 was 87,075 car loads, as compared 

 with 77.057 in 1909. The shipments for 1910 

 were 75,883 cars, as compared with 63,458 cars 

 in 1909. It is estimated that the receipts and 

 shipments at the railroad yards do not approxi- 

 mate over forty per cent of the volume of trade 

 transacted at Cincinnati, as the greater portion 

 of the business is shipped direct from mill points 

 to points in various parts of the country and are 

 not recorded by any bureau of statistics. There- 

 tore, it may be in this division of the business 

 that the shortage occurs. The month of De- 

 cember was an average month, the receipts being 

 7.283 cars, while in the same month of 1909 

 the receipts were 7,126 cars; the shipments in 

 December were 6,504 cars, as compared with 

 0,471 cars a year ago. 



Bennett & Witte have doubled the capacity of 

 their offices in Cincinnati by taking up the ad- 

 joining office compartments. The increase in the 

 volume of business has necessitated this change. 

 T. J. White, formerly representative at Moline, 

 III., has removed to the Cincinnati office, where 

 he will make his headquarters. 



The T. B. Stone Lumber Company has added 

 to its office building at the yards in the west 

 end, a suite of offices to accommodate its entire 

 force. Tom Stone is very proud of the arrange- 

 ment of his yard, having recently added what he 

 calls his sawmill. In the center of the yard 

 is a saw table, with crosscut and rip saw, which 

 is operated by a five-horsepower motor. This is 

 covered by box tops to keep out the rain and 

 snow when not in use, and is used to cut off bad 

 ends and trim up stuff to improve the grade. 



Mowbray & Robinson have just moved into 

 their new office building, erected on one of their 

 .yards on West Sixth street. This office is divided 

 into convenient suites of rooms for the heads 

 of the firm, with a large counting room for the 

 transaction of business. Every convenience for 

 comfort has been added. Fred Mowbray has 

 been taking another good rest at French Lick 

 Springs, and his friends will be pleased to know 

 that he has almost entirely recovered from his 

 long indisposition. 



The Conasauga Lumber Company has an ele- 

 gant suite of offices in the Fourth National Bank 

 building, which is in charge of John Burns, secre- 

 tairy-treasurer, who is young, active and full of 

 hustle. The company is now busy organizing its 

 forces for work in this field. President C. B. 

 Benedict arrived at the offices on January 16 

 from Tennessee, and promptly got busy in the 

 work of arranging the affairs. 



E. M. Vestal of the Vestal Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company, of Knoxville, Tenn., came in 

 .lannary 16 for a few days' business with the 

 Cincinnati lumbermen. He said the company's 

 mill plant is running full time, with plenty of 

 business, and an excellent supply of logs. He left 

 January 19 to visit Indianapolis and other 

 points. He will return to Knoxville in time to 

 .Tllow another member of the company to attend 

 the convention of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association on January 31 and February 1. 



Ralph May of May Brothers, Memphis, JTenn., 

 was in the city the early part of the week. While 

 here he called at the headquarters of the Hard- 



