Xoveiiiber 



1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



37 



on lumber everywhere, with the exception of shipments to the North 

 Atlantic ports. Evidently, the authorities take the view that with ni- 

 steamers as yet to be had for the movement of general cargoes, it would 

 not be wise to remove the restriction upon forwardings to the North 

 Atlantic ports, as this might result in heavy shipments, with consequent 

 quick congestion of terminals not only with hardwoods, but with every 

 other kind of freight. There seems to be every indication that the ban 

 will be raised at a date not very remote, and the members of the trade are 

 making preparations to get a share of the business when it does start. The 

 opinion prevails that a heavy movement will develop, with satisfactory 

 prices, the foreign markets being bare and the requirements after the war 

 great. 



The hardwood trade Is also expected to derive some benefit from the 

 removal of all priorities on lumber by the authorities at Washington, as 

 was announced recently. Hereafter no permits will be required for the 

 shipment of lumber, and a speedy return to the old state of competition 

 may be expected to develop, unless the facilities of the railroads In the way 

 of cars should prove very inadequate. One of the first effects of the 

 elimination of priorities is expected to be a marked revival in construction 

 work, so that the discontinuance of building at the' various military camps 

 will be compensated for. Since private building has been discouraged for 

 several years, there ought to be an accumulation of work to be undertaken 

 as soon as labor and other elements that enter into consideration are 

 available. 



The ticket to be voted for at the annual meeting of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange on the evening of December 2 at the headquarters of 

 the Old Colony Club, in the Southern Hotel, was sent out to the mem- 

 bers November IS, by the nominating committee. The ticket is what 

 is known as the regular one, but so far no sign of insurgency has de 

 veloped, and there is every indication that the vote will be practically 

 unanimous. The nominations are as follows : 



President : Pembroke M. Womble. Georgia Pine Company. 



Vice-President ; W. Hunter Edwards of B. W. Edwards & Son. 



Treasurer : L. H. Gwaltnev, American Lumber Company. 



Managing Committee : John L. Alcock, John L. Alcock & Co. : Daniel 

 MacLea, MacLea Lumber Company : Lewis Dill, Lewis Dill & Co. ; Parker 

 D Dix of the Surry Lumber Companv, retiring president ; Rutus K. 

 Goodenow. Canton Box Companv : H. D. Dreyer. H. D. Dreyer & Co., 

 Inc. : F. A. Ascherfeld. James Lumber Company ; Henry Suechtlng, Wil- 

 liam Suechting & Sons. Inc. ; J. J. Duffy. Lafayette Mill and Lumber 

 Company ; Ridgeway Merryman ; W. Hunter Edwards, B. W. Edwards 

 & Son, and Theodore Mottu of Theodore Mottu & Co. 



The business session will be followed by a banquet more elaborate than 

 any of the similar events held since the beginning of the war. The 

 arrangements have been made by the house committee, which includes 

 Rufus K. Goodenow, Lewis Dill and P. M. Womble, all reputed to be 

 decidedly accomplished in such matters. The nominations were made by 

 a committee consisting of R. B. Homer of the R. B. Homer Lumber Com- 

 pany : Louis Becker of Becker Brothers & Son, Inc., and George E. 

 Waters of George E. Waters & Co. 



The death on November 11 of Mrs. Marie Dill Baer. wife of Michael S. 

 Baer of Richard P. Baer & Company, came as a great shock to her many 

 friends. Mrs. Baer was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Dill, 

 this city, her father being at one time engaged in the lumber trade here. 



One of the first members of the hardwood trade here to be returnen 

 from military to civil life and his old occupation is Harry T. Snyder 

 with the Mann & Parker Lumber Company. Mr. Snyder went to Europe 

 with the Forestry Regiment, which trained in Washington, as top ser- 

 geant last year and soon found himself engaged near the front line 

 trenches. He developed a bad case of shell shock and had to be sent to a 

 hospital in France, where he remained for months, eventually being 

 honorably discharged. He still shows some effect of the harrowing ex- 

 perience he has gone through, but is mending and there is every prospect 

 that he will soon be fully restored as the scenes connected with the war 

 are removed from his gaze. 



Having shown splendid ability as campaigners in Liberty loan, war 

 work fund and Red Cross drives. John L. Alcock of John L. Alcock & 

 Co., and Daniel MacLea of the MacLea Lumber Company, were again 

 enlisted as fund getters in the United War Work effort to secure a matter 

 of some $170,000,000 to enable the seven organizations interested to carry 

 on the welfare work which has been such an important feature among the 

 American soldiers. Mr. .\lcock is chairman of one of the army committees, 

 and Mr. MacLea is also prominent in the work. They are assisted by 

 other members of the trade, which is making a most creditable record. 



T. B. Bledsoe of the new hardwood firm of Brown, Bowman & Bledsoe. 

 Munsey Building, is on a trip in the West and reports having very satis- 

 factory business. .\s this swing is largely in the nature of an introductory 

 visit, he feels that the number of orders he is taking affords all the more 

 gratification. 



Mr. Rook, sales manager of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, was on a 

 business trip in New York last week, and despite the excitement caused 

 by the signing of the armistice and the general jubilation, managed to do 

 very well in a business way. He took orders for several scores of cars 

 and reports the trade to have proved quite receptive, evidently in antici- 

 pation of the revival in trade to be looked for, now that the war is at an 

 end. 



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