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HARDWOOD RECORD 



TUeie will be some curtailment of stock to 

 be put in this wlntei- hu-l<lenl to exlstlUK condi- 

 tions and dlfflcuity In oblalnlni; lunency. One 

 cITect ol this condition Is to liiiiif; about a load- 

 justnieut 01' tlie wage scale and also lessen 

 cost of liTing. Lumbermen everywlieie are seal- 

 ins down wages. Owlus to the blsli wages and 

 the seaiclty of labor the last two years men 

 became indei)eudent and discontented, and wiille 

 they realized they could get a Job anywhere they 

 could not be handled to advantage. Men ate 

 more plentiful now than Ihey have been In a 

 number of years and they begin to realize what 

 they are up against. l"rank lUiell says that 

 some of his men will not be reduced, but on the 

 whole there will be a scaling down of ten per 

 cent. He has 7uo men on his payroll and his 

 decision will govern that of must other oper- 

 ators. At Boyue City the men employed by the 

 lloyne City Lumber Company struck the other 

 day by reason of a reduction of ten per cent in 

 the wage scale, but they thought better of it 

 after a day or two and returned to work. Some 

 400 of the VTm. 11. White Company's men are 

 reported to have gone out on account of a 

 similar reduction. They will have to come to it 

 eventually and those who accept philosophically 

 will be the best off in the end. 



The big Butler Company of St. Louis, manu- 

 facturers of wooden novelties, are reported to 

 have decided to establish a plaut at Boyne City. 



The mill of the Batchelor Timber Company at 

 West Branch has resumed operations after a 

 shut-down of three weeks for repairs. 



A petition in involuntary l)ankruptcy has been 

 tiled against Uoss Bros., lumbermen of long 

 standing at Bea\erton, Mich. The failure came 

 as a surprise, as the lirm has been regarded as 

 of undoubted standing. It founded the town 

 and has been practically the whole thing there 

 the past twenty-live years. The liabilities are 

 estimated at ?300,U0U and the resources perhaps 

 one-half as much. They have manufactured ten 

 to twelve million feet of mixed lumber annually 

 for a number of years past and also manufac- 

 tured shingles and cedar products. 



Jobbers are putting in S,0(l(J,UUU feet of logs 

 for the Gates estate of Bay City, north of Rose 

 City in Ogemaw county. The logs will come to 

 the mill at Bay City. 



Colum'bus. 



The Ohio Shippers' Association, which has 

 headquarters in Columbus, is making an effort 

 to secure an additional class in the scheme of 

 freight classification by Ohio railroads. The 

 association has tiled a petition with the Ohio 

 Hallway Commission asking for the institution 

 of the seventh class, which will include lumber 

 among a number of other commodities. It is 

 urged that the present plan has many injus- 

 tices to shippers, especially those handling lum- 

 ber and coal. The new plan is based on the 

 mileage system and would change rates radi- 

 cally. Data is being collected by lumber deal- 

 ers for the hearing before the Ohio Railway 

 Commission in the near future. Hardwoods 

 will be vitally affected by the new classification 

 hi case it is adopted. 



The Columbus Lumbermen's Credit Associa- 

 tion, organized about a year ago to take the 

 place of the retail association, which was dis- 

 continued at that time, in its turn has dis- 

 lianded. The rooms in the Columbus Savings 

 and Trust building have been given up and the 

 furniture has been stored. A movement is on 

 foot to reorganize the retailers and jobbers of 

 Columbus into an association having more rigid 

 regulations. A meeting of those interested will 

 be called soon after the first of the year, when 

 the feasibility of forming the association will 

 be discussed. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports 

 scarce orders, as many are being held up until 

 after the first of the year. Production is be- 

 ing curtailed to a certain extent, but none of 

 the mills located in the southern states have 

 been shut down. The situation is expected to be 

 brighter in the spring. 



M. A. Ilnyward, a dealer with offices In the 

 Columbus Savings and Trust Building, is mak 

 ing a specialty of poplar. lie Is stocking up 

 I'oiitlniially. and with the resumption of normal 

 market conditions will be prepared to supply a 

 heavy demand, lie believes that business will 

 soon take a turn for the belter. 



The Crosby & Beckley Lumber Company, while 

 reporting trade quiet at present, looks for much 

 brisker conditions in the spring. "We are stock- 

 ing up right along and will be prepared to meet 

 any demand," said a iucuiImt <>f the company 

 ruently. 



The i'owcll Lumber Cuiupaiiy will have lis 

 laige remanufacturing mill ready for oiierations 

 the first of the year. 



It is exi)ected that the majority of the lum- 

 ber dealers of Ohio, western I'ennsyivania, West 

 Virginia and eastern Kentucky will gather at 

 the tJreat Southern Hotel. Columbus, January 

 lil to 2'2, to attend the twenty-sixth annual of 

 I he Union A.ssociation of Lumber Dealers. It 

 has been four years since the convention was 

 lield in the Buckeye capital, and consideralile 

 interest centers on the meeting because of the 

 proposition which will be submitted to make 

 Columbus the permanent headquarters for the 

 organization. 



Indianapolis. 



William C. ilummert, owner of a veneer plant 

 at Wawaka, died at the I'resbyterian Hospital, 

 Chicago, on November 25. He was an Elk and 

 a member of the Knights of Pythias. 



The National Veneer and Lumber Company is 

 making improvements in its plant at West Mich- 

 igan street and the Belt railway. They will 

 cost several hundred dollars. 



Building in Indianapolis during Noveml>er was 

 almost two-thirds less tliau it was in November, 

 lOUti. There has been little improvement so far 

 this month. 



Two twelve-year-old lads have been arrested 

 for breaking into the oflice of the Southern 

 Indiana Lumber Company, Martinsville, and 

 stealing about $50 worth of locks. They at- 

 tempted to break open the safe. 



An increase of from :i;i;u,000 to $30,000 has 

 been made in the capital stock of the Evansville 

 Desk Company, Evansville. 



A change has been made in the name of the 

 J. C. Paxton Lumber Company, South Bend, 

 which is now known as the Deming-Winnie 

 Lumber Company. An increase has also been 

 made, from .$20,000 to $U0,000, in the capital 

 stock. 



S. B., T. B., W. II. and O. U. Coppock have 

 organized the S. P. Coppock & Sons Lumber 

 Company at Ft. Wayne and have incorporated 

 with $45,000 capital stock. They will manu- 

 facture lumber and deal in a full line of build 

 ing materials. 



The Mass-Neimeyer Lumber Company made 

 and gave sixty-four small beds to a Christmas 

 fund conducted by a local newspaper a few days 

 ago. These beds will go to make as many little 

 ones happy on Christmas eve. 



Cincinnati. 



At the December meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club, held Dec. 2, E. H. Uargrave of the Cin- 

 cinnati Tool Company talked , on extension of 

 trade with South and Central America. After 

 his address dinner was served. The attendance 

 was large and the meeting a very helpful one. 



The friends of William A. Bennett, president 

 of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, are 

 urging him to accept a renomlnation. The an- 

 nual election takes place in January, and the 

 nomination will be made the latter part of this 

 month. While there is no rule of the Chamber 

 of Commerce against it, of late years it has been 

 the practice to elect a new president each year. 

 The administration of President William A. Ben- 

 nett, his friends say, has been a very successful 

 one and accomplished a great deal for the or- 

 ganization. Should he be nominated on the Red 

 ticket again this year it is more than probable 



that the Yellow ticket will Indorse; him, as he 

 has a multltudt; of friends in both {>arties. 



The Mlicl]ell Hardwood Company of Conneaut, 

 Ohio, has applied to the secretary of state 

 for an increase in lis capital stock to $85,000, 

 which has been granted. 



Steplien Mauser, Jr., president of the Hauser- 

 Brenner & Eath Cooperage Company, has left 

 on a business trip to Pittsburg and through Ken- 

 tucky. He expects to stay away several weeks 

 and said before he left that by the time he re- 

 turns he hopes that the present money strin- 

 gency will have eased up. 



E. M. Schantz of the E. M. Schantz Lumber 

 Company of North Fairmont has returned from 

 a successful business trip to Dayton. Mr. 

 .Schantz said that his new invention of dimen- 

 sion and register saws is working to perfection. 



J. E. Dulweber, of the Nicola, Stone & Meyers 

 Company has returned from a trip through 

 Indiana on business. 



Benjamin Ryan, oUG Freeman avenue, tiled a 

 petition in bankruptcy last week. .Mr. Ryan 

 has been in business for many years and was 

 always thought to be in good financial standing. 

 The scarcity of money has forced him to make 

 the assignment. His liabilities are almost double 

 his assets. The I'earce Lumber Company has 

 entered a complaint against .Mr. Ryan, claiming 

 he purchased several carloads of lumber of them 

 while insolvent, and fraud is charged. Ail of 

 the lumber has not been received by Mr. Ryan 

 and the Pearce company, through Attorney 

 Pearce, son of the lumber merchant, has asked 

 the court to have the railroads return that now 

 on tracks. The court granted this and the next 

 day rejected the order. The case is now^ before 

 the court to decide, and it will be cleared up as 

 soon as possible. Alfonso C. Frey has been ap- 

 pointed receiver for Jlr. Ryan. 



Creditors of the Cypress Lumber Company re- 

 cently held a meeting in Covington and selected 

 Attorney Herbert Jackson as the trustee of the 

 concern. Martin M. Durrett fixed his bond at 

 $100,000, which he furnished. Mr. Durrell 

 stated that as yet it was impossible to tell any- 

 thing about the firm's condition. 



William E. Delaney, general manager of the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company, has gone on a tour 

 to the three mills of the company. He is on a 

 general inspection tour and will submit his re- 

 port to the directors of the company when he 

 makes his annual report in January. 



The Wiborg & Hanna Company of this city 

 had a rather serious fire at their plant located 

 at Victor, Miss. The flames consumed about 

 1.000,000 feet of choice lumber, but fortunately 

 all was covered by insurance. The offices and 

 other structures of the company were untouched. 



M. St. C. Shaw, local manager of the Robert 

 II. Jenks Lumber Company of Cleveland, O., has 

 been appointed captain of the Gym football 

 team. He has been playing a good game In foot- 

 ball as well as in the lumber business ail season. 



The Western Lumber Company, which for 

 many years was located at Richmond and Mc- 

 Lean avenues, has removed its yard and offices 

 to Eighth and Evans streets, directly opposite . 

 the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Lumber Com- 

 pany. The company purchased this property 

 some time ago, but owing to the fact that It 

 was bottom land were not able to erect its plant 

 until the filling up was completed. Max Schmidt 

 and Eugene Zugelter are the proprietors of the 

 company and hope eventually to enlarge their 

 plant to almost double its present size, as they 

 now have the room and everything necessary. 

 Their old plant has been sold to the George 

 Littleford Lumber Company, and it will be 

 known as the west end offices of that concern. 

 The lumber on the old site is being removed, 

 except what was sold to the Littleford company. 



J. R. Bosken of the Price Hill Lumber Com- 

 pany passed away last week after a short ill- 

 ness. He had been president of the Price Hill 

 Lumber Company for many years, and bis death 

 was a shock to the general business community. 



