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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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closing up its delivories for tlie yrar. For many weeks past tlic big end 

 of its business has been in oak. 



Tlie AlleRbpny Lumber Company is very certain tliat a big improve- 

 ment in lumber demand is coming after the first of the year. Until then, 

 no business is expected to speak of. 



The Logan Lumber Company is a new wholesale concern in this city 

 organized by Guy R. Burdick, Robert Elliott, Emerson C. West, Otto B. 

 Llndquist and W. Frank Detweiler. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company believes that the needs of manufac- 

 turers for good hardwood lundier to make wagons and agricultural imple- 

 ments, as well as automobiles, is going to greatly stimulate trade after 

 the January settlements are made. Stocks of this kind of lumber are not 

 large at manufacturing points and prices are pretty sure to hold firm or 

 to be increase<l. 



The November building report in Pittsburgh showed a total of $330.21S 

 as compared with $700,628 in November. 1917. This explains very easily 

 why there is no yard trade. 



Mayor E. V. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Company is making a 

 howling success of the big war exposition at the Point. Hundreds of 

 thousands of people have already attended the great show. 



J. C. Linehan Lumber Company finds that its first year In business has 

 been a better than fair one. "J. C." is optimistic about the hardwood 

 trade for next year and is in splendid shape to take care of such business. 



=-< COLUMBUS >•- 



-<, BOSTON >• 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association. Inc., will hold its 

 annual meeting at Young's hotel, Boston, Wednesda.v, December 11. In 

 addition to election of officers and other routine business, it is expected 

 that the meeting will develop more or less clearly the general attitude 

 and policies of the dealers In the present and prospective relations of the 

 trade. The advantage of comparing ideas is even more evident under the 

 current uncertain conditions and the president of the association has 

 invited a well-known organization authority to address the meeting along 

 these lines. 



A new casket factory is being erected at Brewer, Me., by the A. B. 

 Haskell Company. 



A fire reported to have caused damage of $150,000 visited the plant 

 of the Brett, Rayner, Boyer Company at Cambridge recently, and de- 

 stro.ved a considerable part of its .stock and milling plant which was 

 busy on war orders at the time. 



The death of Waterman A. Taft of Arlington, Mass., on Thanksgiving 

 evening came as a great shock to those of his many friends who had met 

 him at business the day before. He was president of the Export Lum- 

 ber Company of Boston and is survived by his wife, daughter and son. 



The -Vllen Spool & Woodturning Company has been incorporated at 

 Boston with stock of $275,000. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



The next annual meeting of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion will be held at New Orleans on January 22 and 23, 1919, under an 

 agreement among the directors, who were sounded on the subject. The 

 sessions will be held at the St. Charles Hotel, and the proceedings are 

 expected to concern themselves largely with the future of the export 

 trade and with ways and means to resume shipments after their long 

 interruption during the war. It is yet too early to outline the program, 

 hut consideration of the expediency of forming a selling agency under 

 the provisions of the Webb Act will loom up large in the deliberations, 

 and the recommendations of the special committee named to deal with 

 the subject are looked forward to with the greatest interest. 



While it cannot be said that there is yet much traveling in search of 

 domestic orders among the members of the hardwood trade, interest in 

 the export situation has revived to a decided extent, as is indicated by 

 the visits of producers as well as others. Gustave A. Farber, London 

 representative of Russe & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, who came to the United 

 States last month mainly to confer liere with Mr. Russe and other officers 

 of the company, has gone to Jlemphis for further conferences, and it is 

 thought that the foreign situation will be gone over very thoroughly. 



Chester F. Kom of the Korn-Conkling Company, Cincinnati, was in 

 Baltimore about ten days ago on his way to New York, where it was his 

 intention to look after various foreign shipments, in regard to which 

 some difficulties had arisen. While here he conferred with Harvey M. 

 Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Association. 



The post war conference at Atlantic City was attended from Baltimore 

 by John L. Alcock, who went as a member of the committee of the Na- 

 tional- Lumber Exporters' Association. Another Baltimorean, there on 

 behalf of the Lumber exchange, was Lewis Dill. 



The Canton Lumber Company of this city, finding business in other 

 (MreclUins rather slow, has contracted to build four vessels for the Coast 

 and Geoiletic Survey, and one of the craft is now so far advanced that it 

 can be launched in about ten days. The boats are of fourteen feet beam 

 and sixty feet long, and will have as their motive force two forty horse 

 power oil engines. They have oak frames, with yellow pine planking. 



With the termination of the war, specifications for boxes on govern- 

 ment orders are off, and the manufacturers are left in a great state of 

 doubt and uncertainty. 



Arch C. Klunipt, president of the Cuyahoga Lumber Company of Cleve- 

 land and head of the American Protective League, has the distinction of 

 being instrumental in furnishing workers on an intake crib in Lake Erie 

 with news of the signing of the armistice. He journeyed over the crib 

 in an airplane and dropped newspapers for the workers to read. 



The capital of the Home Lumber Company of Warren, has been in- 

 creased from $20,000 to $40,000. 



Samuel Grant, a lumber buyer of Fostoria, is in the custody of the 

 federal authorities pending an investigation of charges at attempting to 

 defraud timbers owners hy posing as a federal employe. 



Thomas C. Kirby has resigned his position with the F. T. Peitch Com- 

 pany and has become sales manager at the Columbus office of the Brasher 

 Lumber Company. The Brasher Lumber Company, operates mills at Ack- 

 erman. Miss., and Glencoe, Ala. 



R. W. Ilorton. of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a rather 

 quiet hardwood trade. Retailers are not buying much under present con- 

 ditions and manufacturing plants are using their surplus stocks. He 

 expects a better trade after the first of the year. Prices are well main- 

 tained at former levels. 



Toledo banks are advertising the loaning of money for building pur- 

 poses on the same plan as before the war. That fact should stimulate 

 building in the city on the Maumee. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company, Columbus says there is 

 a fair demand for hardwoods, although buyers are waiting to see the 

 trend of affairs. 



=-< EVANSVILLE >-= 



Local railroad men announce for the first time since the beginning of 

 the great world war there now are plenty of cars in this city for all 

 shipping purposes. The local car service commission has been dissolved, 

 as there was no further work for the organization to do. John C. Keller, 

 a member of the commission, says that Evansville responded to the plea 

 for Intensive loading more liberally than many other cities in the west. 

 He also says that the commission did a great service for the lumbermen 

 and other manufacturers of this section. 



A large number of the lumber manufacturers of Evansville and owners 

 of wood-consuming factories will make the trip to Louisville. Ky., for the 

 purpose of attending the annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Improvement 

 Association that will be held in that city, December 11 and 12. The 

 local manufacturers and wholesalers have chartered the steamer Joe 

 Fowler for the trip and stops will be made at all towns and cities between 

 Evansville and Louisville for the purpose of advertising the advantages 

 of this city. Prominent Evansville lumbermen and others are arranging 

 to make the trip. One of the things that the Louisville meeting is ex- 

 pected to endorse is the plan of the government to establish barge lines 

 on the Ohio river, similar to the ones recently planned for the Mississippi 

 river. The lumber manufacturers here point out that with the proper 

 transportation facilities on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, their chance 

 of getting more of the markets of Cuba, Mexico and the South and Central 

 American countries will grow brighter. E. II. Ilyman, secretary and gen- 

 eral manager of the Evansville Manufacturers' Association, has arranged 

 with John Barrett, director-general of the Pan-American Union, to come 

 here and make an address in January on the prospects of getting the 

 trade of the southern republics. Follow'ing his visit the Evansville manu- 

 facturers will launch a campaign looking to the acquiring of new southern 

 markets. 



Lieutenant Clyde Martin, formerly connected with the J. C. Greer Lum- 

 ber Company, has received his commission from the officers' training 

 school at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., and has been given an honorable 

 discharge from military service. He will resume his old position with 

 the Greer company within a short time. 



The Smith-Hubbard Lumber Company of Wabash, Ind., has filed a notice 

 of preliminary dissolution with the secretary of state. 



Elmer D. Luhring, manager of the Luhring Lumber Company, who has 

 been confined to his home with typhoid fever for several weeks, has re- 

 covered and will be able to go back to his work within a short time. 



William S. Partington, secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Lumber- 

 men's Club, is recovering from a severe attack of Spanish influenza. 



Lumlier manufacturers of Evansville say they now have a fair supply 

 of logs on hand and that they do not propose to buy any more logs at the 

 present high prices. They say that the prices of lumber may drop before 

 next spring and they do not want a big lot of lumber on their hands that 

 was made from high-priced logs. One concern here. Maley and Wertz, 

 have been cutting many of their logs from tracts of land in southern 

 Indiana, that were purchased during the past year. 



The Evansville Veneer Company has been getting a good many logs 

 from the (iroen river country in western Kentucky. George O. Worland 

 of the company, reports a brisk trade and says indications point to a 

 fine Imsiness next year. 



J. Stuart Hopkins, manager of the Never-Split Seat Company, has re- 

 turned from Gulfport, Miss., where he went to recuperate from an attack 

 of influenza. He is now back at his work and reports trade conditions 

 quite satisfactory since the closing of the war. Mr. Hopkins says that 

 the trade outlook is better than it has been for some time past. 



