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HARDWOOD RECORD 



satisfactury business this spring. Tlii'ir mills In 

 Wost Virginia have been kept busy nearly to 

 capacity most of the time. 



BOSTON 



W. II. Blanobard of the lilanchard Lumber 

 Company, Boston, will leave the last o£ this 

 month lor a three months' European trip, cov- 

 ering England, France. Italy, Switzerland and 

 Germany. He will be accompanied by Mrs. 

 Blanchard and son and daughter. 



The Wakefield ilill Company, which was re- 

 cently organized, has started in business in a 

 new one-story builuing. 40.\S0 feet, at Wakefield, 

 Mass. The plant is eijuippod with the latest 

 type o£ machinery and the shafting and belting, 

 instead of being overhead, are carried along under 

 the tloor. 



Mr. Welch of Welch i Kerry, Rei'd City. Mich.. 

 was a recent visitor in the Boston market. 



The bill that has been before one of the com- 

 mittees of the Massachusetts legislature to pro- 

 vide for lumber yards being enclosed by high 

 brick walls has been disposed of by the commit- 

 tee giving the one who entered the petition per- 

 mission to withdraw it. This bill as proposed 

 was very unfair to the lumber dealers, and dur- 

 ing the hearing the fact that the city of Boston 

 I'.ad not provided proper protection against the 

 spread of fires in the lumber district was brought 

 out. It was shown that the city could install a 

 higher water pressure which would go a long 

 way toward preventing a serious fire. 



Julian Rice, son of Frank C. Rice of the Rice 

 & Lockwood Lumber Company, Springfield, Mass., 

 has been making a southern trip among lumber 

 mills, and upon his return will probably become 

 associated with the New York office of this 

 company. 



The New Hampshire Lumbermen's Association 

 held its annual meeting at the Uerryfleld Club. 

 Manchester. N. IL. March l(j and 17. The ban- 

 quet was held on March Ki and the election of 

 officers took place the following day. Those 

 elected were : President. Warren Tripp of Epsom ; 

 vice-president, Charles A. Roby of Nashua ; clerk 

 and treasurer, L. Ashton Thorpe of Manchester ; 

 liirectors, James B. Teunanl, Concord; Frank B. 

 Clark, Dover ; Samuel D. Felker, Rochester ; Mil- 

 ton Reed, Exeter, and Charles A. Bailey of 

 i^uncook. 



Edward M. Blood, one of the best informed 

 men on fancy hardwood lumber in this country. 

 <lied suddenly of heart failure March 23. Mr. 

 I'lood was seventy-five years of age and for forty 

 years had been foreman of the yard of the 

 Palmer & Parker Company. Charlestown. Mass. 



BALTIMORE 



The offices of the K. & P. Lmnl>er (^jmpany in 

 St. Bernard will be closed and the K. & P. go out 

 of existence. A new co-partnership has been 

 formed, to be known as Kosse. Shoe & Schleyer. 

 with offices in the Provident building, at Seventh 

 and Vine streets. The new firm will still retain 

 the yards of the K. & P. company at St. Bernard. 

 Max Kosse was president of the K. &. P. Lumber 

 i'ompany. while E. V. Shoo was secretary and A, 

 W. Schleyer the sales manager. 



Clinton Crane returned last week from a four 

 weeks' sojourn at Hot Springs, looking like a 

 youngster. He said that he had enjoyed himself 

 immensely, taking the waters and the baths and 

 horseback riding every day. He was accompanied 

 by Mrs. Crane, which accounts for the beneficial 

 elTect of the waters of the springs. While there 

 be met Ed Robinson of Mowbray & Robinson, 

 who was also at the springs for a rest. 



Jlr. Crane stated that notwithstanding busi- 

 iicss of the city was .slow at his plant in the 

 East End. business so far this year Is far in 

 excess of that of a year ago, which was the com- 

 pany's banner j'ear. The cut of logs of the sea- 

 son up the Guyan river was good, and that there 



were over l'2.iH}i) logs in the river ready to bring 

 down. The arrangements whereby the Chesa- 

 peake & Ohio railroad is to haul the logs to 

 Brent. Ky.. and dump them in the river above 

 the Crane mills and float them down, are not 

 yet complete, but it is expected that by August 

 the plan may be put in operation. Mr. Crane 

 says that the old system of rafting the logs will 

 not be abandoned, but will be kept up. The ar- 

 rangements with the railroad will insure the 

 millb of a continuous supply of logs at all sea- 

 sons, whether the rivers are low or high. 



D. C. Snook, the head of the new Snook- Veith 

 Lumber Company, says that the buildings of the 

 plant at Ivorydale now under way will be rap- 

 idly pushed to completion. The mill machinery 

 will be installed and everything in running order 

 by the middle of summer. The latest improved 

 machinery, as well as everything else which can 

 lie bought to aid in the rapid and economical 

 handling of lumber, will be placed in the new 

 plant, which is located at the best railroad point 

 in the state, being at the junction of three great 

 tronk lines. Switches will be run into the yards 

 and sheds. 



The Eisenhauer-MacLea Company, which 

 bought the factory occupied for years by the 

 Duker Box Company after the fire last year, has 

 sold the place to the Acme Box Company, the 

 transfer being announced this week. 



Thomas Hughes, the principal stockholder of 

 the Iron ^Mountain Lumber Company, which 

 operated three mills in the vicinity of Troutdale, 

 A'a.. is back in Baltimore, having taken offices 

 on the sixth floor of the Keyser building. Mr. 

 Hiighes has disposed of the property of the Iron 

 Mountain Lumber Company to the Edgarton Lum- 

 ber Company, retaining about SOO acres. He 

 will continue the wholesale hardwood business 

 lu which he was engaged until three years ago. 

 when he removed to Troutdale to give his entire 

 attention to the operation of the Iron Mountain 

 company's mills. The consideration in the sal<> 

 is said to have been .flOO.OOO. James C. Hill, 

 v.-ho has been associated with the Iron Jlountain 

 Lumber Company for .years, wmU represent Mr. 

 Hughes at Troutdale. 



President R. E. Wood of the R. E. Wood Lum- 

 ber Company has gone to Buladeen, Tenn., to 

 look after the company's sawmill there, which is 

 about to resume operations, having been shut 

 down since the Christmas holidays. 



W. E. Hoshall of Hosball & McDonald Brothers 

 of New Orleans recently visited the hardwood 

 men in Baltimore. He was ou an eastern busi- 

 ness trip and stated that business showed unmis- 

 takable signs of improvement, the export trade 

 especially being in fair .shape. 



Thurston Jenkins, an inspector for the R. E. 

 Wood Lumber Company at Fontana, Swain 

 county, N. C, died there two weeks ago after 

 a short illness of pneumonia. He was about 

 thirty-flvo years old and held in high esteem by 

 his employers. The body was taken to Bristol, 

 Tenn.. for interment. 



CLEVELAND 



As the result of the death of Robert H. Jenks, 

 and the appointment of a receiver for the R. II. 

 Jenks Lumber Company, it seems probable that 

 the affairs of the concern will be wound up and 

 no further efforts made to continue the business. 

 Receiver F. W. Treadway expects to be able to 

 submit a report regarding the condition of the 

 company in a short time. In the meantime most 

 of the employes of the firm are seeking new 

 berths or are going into business for themselves. 

 John L. Sands and George Bayard have made 

 connections with the F. T. Peitch Company and 

 D. W. Miller, for a number of years a local sales- 

 man for the R. H. Jenks company, has gone Into 

 business for himself with offices at 245 The Ar- 

 cade. Mr. Miller intends to conduct a general 

 lumber business, including hardwoods. 



The offices of the Advance Lumber Company 

 have been moved from the Rockefeller building, 



where they have been located for some years, to 

 the company's office at 1996 W. Third street, 

 where officials may hereafter be found. 



The Edgewater Lumber Company, recently in- 

 corporated at Columbus with a capital of $25,000 

 Ity A. R. Teachout and others, will take over the 

 business of the Highland Lumber Company, 

 which has been operating in the west end of the 

 city for several years. The entire plant will be 

 remodeled and improved. 



On the evening of Tuesda.v. April 11, the 

 Cleveland Lumber club will give an entertain- 

 ment at Old Heidelberg on Lorain avenue. There 

 will be a supper, bowling, pool, cards and other 

 amusements. The elub is preparing to hold an 

 ( ntertainment for the ladies next month. Later 

 some outdoor sports will be indulged in. 



Building operations in Cleveland and vicinity 

 are holding up well. Reports for March showed 

 an improvement over the same month of a year 

 ago. The total number of permits issued was 

 .S2S for buildings, valued at .fl. 214,790. 



COLUMBUS 



The Kennedy-Warner Company of Medina, O., 

 has been incorporated with an authorized capital 

 stock of .|25.000 to deal in all kinds of lumber 

 :ind timber. The Incorporators are: W. J. Ken- 

 nedy, G. R. Warner, L. M. Kennedy, E. O. 

 Warner and Arthur Van Epp. 



The Eureka Appliance Company of Cleveland, 

 O., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $25,000 to manufacture desks, cabinets and 

 wooden novelties. The incorporators are : D. 

 W. Swigard, A. M. Larwell, Fred B. Fleming, 

 Frank Zakovel and R. H. Opis. 



Notices of dissolution of the partnership 

 known as the Northern Lumber Company of 

 Columbus have been published. The partner- 

 ship consisted of Chas. G. Kanavel and A. J. 

 Johnson. According to the announcement Chas. 

 G. Kanavel agrees to assume all obligations and 

 take over the property. 



R. L. Gilliam, formerly connected with the 

 sales department of the W. M. Hitter Lumber 

 Company, now sales manager for the Williams 

 & McKeithan Lumber Company of Lynchburg, 

 Va.. was a visitor in Columbus recently. 



II. C. Creith of H. C. Creith & Co., left 

 the latter part of March for a six weeks' trip 

 throughout the West. He will make the journey 

 in the private car of H. C. Speaks, superintend- 

 ent of the T. & 0. C. Railway. 



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

 the first of the month for an extended business 

 trip through the South. 



R. W. Horton. sales manager lor the central 

 division of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 returned the first of the month from a week's 

 business trip in Cleveland. Buffalo and Pittsburg. 



W. M. Ritter, president of the company bear- 

 ing his name, returned recently from an inspec- 

 tion trip of the company's mills in the South. 



The W. E. Tripp Company, of South Webster, 

 Scioto county, O., has been incorporated with 

 an authorized capital of $10,000 to deal in lum- 

 ber and all kinds of timber. One of the spe- 

 cialties will be the handling of ties. The in- 

 corporators are : W. E. Tripp, W. S. Kent, A. 

 F. Kolcomb, Edgar G. Miller and Frank W. 

 Moulton. 



A fire recently destroyed the sawmill and fac- 

 tory building of Samuel Houser located three 

 and a half miles north of Upper Sandusky, O. 

 The loss was $7,000. 



Tlie plant of Chas. F. Whisler of Hillsboro, 0., 

 was recently almost totally destroyed by fire. 

 The loss, which consisted of chair stocks and 

 veneers, is estimated at $5,000. 



The New Excelsior Company of Chickasaw, 

 Mercer county, O., has been incorporated witli 

 a capital stock of $10,000 to manufacture wash- 

 ing machines, wheelbarrows, clothes racks and 

 other lumber articles. The incorporators are: 

 John Seitz, James F. Mestermaker. Anthony 



