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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 2o, 19::i 



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Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAGO 



W. A. Pickering of the W. R. Pickering I. umber Company of Kansas 

 City visited Chicago about two weeks ago upon liis return from Los 

 Angeles, Cal.. wliere arrangements have been made for D. H. Stoinmetz, Jr., 

 to manage an office wliich will be opened in that California city. Mr. Pick- 

 ering was accompanied to Chicago by D. D. Stoinmetz, Sr., general man- 

 ager of the Standard Lumber Company, which is owned by the Pickering 

 Interests. 



Promise of an early termination of the tie-up of building activities in 

 Chicago is given in the meetings of the Joint arbitration board of the 

 Building Trades' Council and representatives of the liuilding Construction 

 Employers' Association at the Chamber of Commerce. 



The sessions were begun Wednesday, Jlay IS, after both sides had agreed 

 to the appointment of Thomas S. Kearney, head of the trades' council, and 

 Edward M. Craig, secretary of the employers' association, to negotiate an 

 adjustment of the wage dispute. It is understood the contractors have 

 agreed to abide by whatever agreement these two reach. 



The uiiinns. howi'ver, will have to lake separate and individual action on 

 the decision, but it is presumed that if one union accepts the other ones 

 affiliated with the Building Trades' Council will do likewise. 



Virtually all building operations in Chicago, with the exception of small 

 residence jobs that were already in process of construction, were stopi)ed 

 May 1 when the contractors stood pat on their declaration that they would 

 pay only ?1 an hour for skilled and 70 cents an hour for unskilled build- 

 ing labor. This meant a reduction of 20 per cent for the skilled and 30 

 per cent for the unskilled labor. The union workers would not stay on the 

 Jobs for this scale and the work stopped. 



In the meantime the majority of the small jobs have been completed 

 until now the contractors claim only 3 per cent of local huilding labor is 

 employed. 



During the absence of his brother, C. L. Faust, in Europe, J. H. Faust, 

 Chicago manager of Faust Bros. Lumber Company of Jackson, Miss., will 

 remain two months at the Jackson headquarters. He left for the south 

 on May 21. C. L. Faust is district governor of the Rotary Clubs in the 

 Jackson district and is going to Edinburgh, Scotland, to attend the annual 

 meeting of the National Rotary Clubs. While abroad he will look care- 

 fully into conditions in the hardwood trade. 



Nick Wagner, sales manager for the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company. 

 St. Louis, Mo., was in Chicago the latter part of week before last visiting 

 C. E. Glllett and L, W. Tlbblts, Chicago representatives of the company. 

 Mr. Wagner left Chicago for the cast. 



Among the lumbermen from the northern territory who maile business 

 trips to Chicago last week were Frank Timlin of the Wheeler-Tlmlln 

 Lumber Company, Wausau, Wis., and A. B. Burton, sales manager for the 

 Diamond Lumber Company, Green Bay, Wis. 



BUFFALO 



The wreck of the barge Miztec, which went down in a storm in Lake 

 Superior on May 14, was discovered three days later by the captain of 

 the Grand Marais coastguard station. The barge lay in thirty-six feet 

 of water, five miles from the shore. Capt. Pederson and live of the crew- 

 were drowned. The bodies have not been recovered. The Miztec had 

 taken the usual course of wooden vessels on the lakes. She was first a 

 carrier of grain, then was put into the lumber trade, and for a long time 



was towed by the steamer Toltec, which was built about the same year. 

 She always traded between this port and the upper lakes and will be 

 missed on account of the fast-disappearing lumber fleet. She was owned 

 by Captain O. W. Blodgett, of Bay City, in late years. 



The Batavla tfc New York Woodworking Company, Batavia, N. Y., has 

 Increased its capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000. The company has 

 been in business since 1892 and much of its output is used in the con- 

 struction of buildings in New York city. 



Charles N. Perrin has been elected president of the Buffalo alumni 

 association of the University of Rochester. This institution is planning 

 to build a $9,000,000 medical college, which will have provision for 250 

 students. 



The hardwood offices have been making arrangements to send a good 

 representation to tiie National convention at Philadelphia, .lune and 10. 

 M. M. Wall is chairman of the arrangements committee and other mem- 

 bers are O. E. Ycager and E. J. Sturm. There will be at least one carload 

 of Buffalo lumbermen at the meeting. They leave here at 8:15 p. m., 

 June 8, over the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 



"Lumber Facts" is the name of a new publication sent out monthly by 

 T. Sullivan & Co. The first issue was in May and It contained some inter- 

 esting reading matter, as well as good advertising of what this company 

 has to offer in the hardwood line. 



BALTIMORE 



James W. Frizzell, a retired picture frame manufacturer, who was for 

 years in business on West Baltimore street, this city, died suddenly May 17 

 at his home near Frederick road. He was 74 years old and well known 

 in the trade as well as for his prohibition activities, 



J. O. Froelich. formerly connected with the Brown Bros. Lumber Com- 

 pany when it conducted hardwood sawmill operations at Escota, N. C, Is 

 now with the Brown-Bledsoe Lumber Company, in the Munsey Building, 

 tSaltimore, wholesale dealers. The mill of the Brown Bros. Company was 

 destro.ved by Are last year and owing to the depletion of the timber supply 

 was not rebuilt. 



Stabley Bowen of the well-known Glasgow timber firm of A. Baird & 

 Co. stopped in Baltimore recently on the way back to New York after an 

 extended trip through the lumber producing and distributing sections x)t 

 the ctJuntry. Mr. Bowen had been in the United States for several months 

 and had covered a great deal of territory. He said that business on the 

 other side w'as as quiet as ever. 



Gustavc A. Farber, London representative of Russe & Burgess. Inc., of 

 Memphis, Tenn., who has been in the United States since last December, 

 and has for some time past been looking after affairs at the Memphis 

 office during the absence of William H. Russe in Europe, expects to sail 

 for London shortly after the semi-annual meeting of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association in Philadelphia June 8, first visiting friends in 

 Baltimore. 



The recently incorporated Hagerstown Lumber Company at Hagerstown, 

 Md., is rapidly getting in a stock of lumber and will soon be ready for 

 business. 



M. A. Hayes, sales manager for the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, Con- 

 tinental Building, this city, is back from a trip of several weeks to the 

 hardwood manufacturing regions of North Carolina and adjacent territory. 

 It was Mr. Hayes' first journey since he was named to the position he now 

 holds, and the main purpose was to get acqualntaned and study condi- 

 tions in the different sections. He put in some time getting in touch with 

 the furniture manufacturers of High Point and other places. On his way 

 back he stopped at Bristol to bring his family to Baltimore to take up 

 their permanent residence. 



CLEVELAND 



.\cceptance by the Chamber of Commerce of the challenge of the Cleve- 

 land Federation of Labor for settlement in the courts of the charge that 

 the Chamber of Commerce is conspiring to introduce the open shop in 

 Cleveland by methods in violation of the Valentine and Sherman anti- 

 trust laws is the center of interest for hardwood dealers, together with 

 all other branches of the building trade In Cleveland. 



The issue affects the strike of 25,000 building laborers, which is tying 

 up $25,000,000 worth of building in this city. 



When the charges was made by the Cleveland Federation that the action 

 of the Chamber of Commerce constituted "secondary boycott and combina- 

 tion In restraint of trade," the Chamber of Commerce immediately laid 

 the charges before County Prosecutor Stanton and U. S. District Attorney 

 Wertz, aud demanded that the Federation bring forth proof of the acts 

 charged. 



While hardwood dealers feel that an airing of the situation of this kind 

 is likely to bring a quicker result in the way of settlement of the building 

 strike, they nevertheless recognize the acrimonious nature of the con- 

 troversy which calls forth such action. An event of special importance 

 to the hardwood trade aud one which is being worked out rapidly during 

 the lull in the building trades is the proposed bureau of inspection, to be 

 organized for the service of consumers of hardwood and other lumber. 



Consumers of hardwood, both contractors and manufacturing plants, are 

 enthusiastic about the new bureau, which is being worked out with the 



