September 25, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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that wliilo business is not brisk, his company has handled a good deal of 

 lumber of late, and he thinks business will improve slowly. 



M. M. Wall has been spcndins part of the summer in the AdirouUaiks. 

 where his family has been during the season. He has been at his desk 

 at the Buffalo Hardwood company's ofBce, however, muoh of the time. 

 He looks for pretty fair hardwood trade this fall. 



Robert E. McLear of New York has bought 4,05G acres of timber laud 

 in the town of Worth, Jefferson County, from the Cleveland Estate of 

 Watertown. The timber cruisers estimate that the tract has between 

 15.000,000 and 20,000,000 feet of timber. 



William L. Morley, a well-known member of the lumber trade here for 

 several years, has become Western New Tork sales manager of the Lanier 

 & Paterson Lumber Co., New Orleans. His office is at 38S Ellicott Square. 



The secret sessions of the grand jury, which has been investigating build- 

 ing conditions here, has been postponed until late in September because 

 of the absence from the state of Justice George Vi'. Cole, who has been 

 presiding over the extraonlinary term of court. District Attorney Moore 

 stated that it had not been decided what line would next be taken up. The 

 mason supply dealers, who wiM-e indicted, following the indictment of retail 

 lumbermen, filed affidavits to the effect that no agreement existed to con- 

 trol prices. Affidavits filed by the lumbermen stated that the members of 

 the local association have not engaged in price fixing, and that the indict- 

 ments do not correctly set forth the agreement made by them in 191G. 

 which was voluntarily terminated in 1919. A new form of association 

 was entered into in Octolier, 1919, and after a fviU examination the grand 

 jury has made no presentment of an indictment, and no charge is made 

 against the lumber dealers arising out of their membership in the present 

 association. 



BALTIMORE 



The Brown-Bledsoe Lumber Company, with offices in the Munsey Build- 

 ing, this city, which has been active in the Metropolitan and other districts 

 of New York for some time, has decided to open a permanent branch 

 office at 391 Hudson Terminal Building, DO Church street. New York. Mr. 

 D. D. Lawton, its representative, who has been making weekly trips 

 there, will bo placed in charge. He is a son of William T. Lawton, a 

 well-known lumber and mill man here, and has been identified with the 

 hardwood trade for years. 



The new plant of Joseph Thomas & Son, on Leadenhall and Ostend 

 streets. South Baltimore, which was erected to take the place of the 



establishment practically destroyed by Are months ago, was put in opera- 

 tion September 14. It involves an expenditure of a large sum, and has 

 been fitted up with all modern appliances for the conduct of the planing 

 mill and mill work traile. The firm is more than one hundred years old. 

 William T. Lawlou and Joseph T. Lawton are the present owners, they 

 lieing the third generation in the l)usiuess. 



Charles C. Morse of the Morse Bros. Lumber Company, Rochester, N. Y., 

 was a visitor here last week in the course of a business trip and called on 

 some of the hardwood men. 



T. B. Bledsoe of the Brown-Bledsoe Lumber Company is back from a 

 trip of two or three weeks in West Virginia and Western North Carolina, 

 in the course of which he called at a number of the mills. He reports 

 some gains in the volume of business, with prices not much changed, but 

 with the outlook showing improvement. 



Another visitor in the last two weeks was W. T. Mason, president of 

 the Keystone Manufacturing Company, ot Elkins, W. Va., who had lieen 

 in New Y'ork and stopped un the way back. He expressed the belief that 

 the outlook was imi)roving. 



It was supposed that the statement of exports from Baltimore for 

 May marked the low mark in the trade, but that month's record has been 

 superseded by July, with a total declared value for all the exports of 

 only $3T,419, against $G1.112 for June and $49,228 for May. These 

 aggregates are really insignifli'ant when contrasted with those for the cor- 

 responding months of 192«, the several exhibits reflecting strikingly the 

 extent of the slump that has taken place in the trade so far as volume is 

 concerned. Of course, there has been no such drop in values, though the 

 latter also have gone off somewhat. 



COLUMBUS 



Henry B. Drugger, will have charge of sales in Ohio and Wi-st Virginia 

 tor Charles B. Carothers, Inc., with headquarters in Columbus. He suc- 

 ceeds Earle T. Carothers, vice-president ot the company, who will have 

 charge of sales in Tennessee and Kentucky, with headquarters in Nash- 

 ville. 



John Lerch Cobey. only son ot John R. Gobcy, head of the lumber 

 company bearing his name and also vice-president of the Throop-Martin Co.. 

 died at the home ot his parents recently after a 10 days' illness. He was 

 a student at Yale and while attending summer school at that Institution 

 contracted a cold which resulted in his death. 



F. B. I'ryor. s;ilcs manager of the W. M. Ritter Lumbe*- Company, speak- 



