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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 25, 1918 



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1428 CHERRY AVENUE 

 Telephone Diversey 1 824 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



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operation of tlie 



Power Company's plant at Cheswick, Pa., and for the 

 Consumers' Miners Company at the same place. 



Mayor E. V. Babcock, head of the Babcock Lumber Company, has been 

 working from fourteen to sixteen hours per da.y the past two weeks in the 

 Interest of the Fourth Liberty Loan. His efforts are weil rewarded, as 

 Pittsburgh went "over the top" by nearly $10,000,000. 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company recently bought 5.000 acres of 

 oak and hardwood timber at 'White 8ulphur Springs. W. Va., on the 

 C. & O. railroad, where it now has four mills working. President P. M. 

 Frampton announces that the company is now working sixteen small mills 

 • on hardwood operations in tri-state territory. 



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New Englaud shipbuilding is reported progressing rapidly at most of 

 the yards. The incorporation of the Medoniak River Shipbuilding Com- 

 pany for $200,000 has been recorded at I^ynn, Mass. 



The Eastern Lunibennen's Association has taken a charter under Maine 

 laws, the object filed being to "promote and protect the interests of per- 

 sons engaged in lumbering and operate in conjunction with the United 

 States Employment Service." 



The Bradley Lumber & Manufacturing Company has been capitalized at 

 Portland. Me., for $1,500,000. 



F. E. Dewey of the IT. S. Railway Administration, who had l)een dele- 

 gated to act on permits for all New England forest products shipments, 

 has turned the work over to J. H. Curtis, special agent of the Wash- 

 ington office. Mr. Curtis will be located at the South Station, Boston, 

 and all applications for permits not local to any one road should be 

 addresseil to him. 



Wm. S. Rendle of the W. S. Rendle Company. Boston, has associated 

 himself with Wm. F. Morang under the style of the Ri-umor Lumber Com- 

 pany at Chelsea, Mass. 



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Richard P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co. is on n trip to Mobile, to look 

 after operations at the mill of the Magazine Hardwood Company, the 

 manufacturing end of the firm, and was expected also to go as far as 

 Bogalusa, La., to see how the new plant in course of construction there 

 is <'omiug OIL 



The Federal Trade Commission is again having auditors at work in 

 the lumber yards here to go over the books and other papei's, with a 

 view to ascertaining the overhead, the information to be used as a basis 

 .for the new schedule of prices to be agreed upon at the expiration of the 



present arrangement with regard to yellow pine. That the facts may also 

 be taken as a guide in the purchases of such lots of hardwoods as the 

 military ofiicers and other government authorities may want seems likely. 

 These hardwood requirements are not large, of course, but every now and 

 then they assert themselves. 



Alexander Campbell, secretary of the James Lumber Company, has been 

 ill for several weeks with an aggravated case of influenza, followed by 

 pneumonia, and for a time his recovery was despaired of. In the last six 

 or eight days he has made some progress toward recovery, and the crisis 

 is now believed to have passed, with every prospect that he will soon be 

 rapidly convalescing. 



The Bethlehem Steel Company has decided to build at Sparrows Point, 

 near Baltimore, seventy two-and-half-story dwellings for workmen. The 

 houses will be of hollow tile and stucco, with slate roofs, and they are 

 among the few construction projects which have been authorized for some 

 time, being regarded as urgency work. 



Of special interest to the lumber trade here generally was the launching 

 on October 15 at the yard of the Maryland Shipbuilding Company, Sollers 

 Point, of the first wooden vessel to, be constructed here for the United 

 States Emergency Fleet Corporation. The craft was christened the Guil- 

 ford by Miss Mary Bond Preston, a daughter of the mayor, and is one of 

 the Ferris type of steamers, of a capacity of 3.000 tons. The Guilford is 

 one of six such boats for which the Maryland company has the contract, 

 and work on it was long delayed by the non-arrival of lumber suitable for 

 the purpose. 



The American Propeller and Manufacturing Company, which operates a 

 large factory in South Baltimore for the production of airplane propellers, 

 has purchased a place at Key Highway, Covington street and Fifth Lane, 

 which is to be used as an extension of its facilities. 



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The Hickory Buggy Company, Cincinnati, has been chartered with a 

 capital of $100,000 to manufacture buggies and carriages. The Incor- 

 porators are Edwin J. Knapp, John C. Hermann, J. Laughlin, A. L. Quill 

 and William Knapp. 



Word has been recoiyed that S. B. Stanbery, formerly Cincinnati man- 

 ager of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, has lieen promoted to 

 brigadier general with the U. S. .^rmj:. He volunteered wlien America 

 declared war and \vas made colonel with the Ohio National Cuard division. 



The Central Ohio Handle Company, Coshocton, has been incorporated 

 with a capital of .f 10,000 hy ■«■. B. Kissner. J. H. Ralston, H. G. McNabb, 

 Vi\ S. Husted anil .M. L. Ilusti-d. 



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