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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 10, 191» 



Great Increase in Trade 



The little table below tells a remarkable story of trade development for 

 the United States in ten years. The figures show the balance of foreign 

 trade in our favor for each of the spciilied years: 



1909 $ 252.677,921 1914 $ 324,348,049 



1910 303.354.753 1915 1,776.074,152 



1911 560.167.5S6 1916 3,091.005,766 



1912 581.144.938 1917 3.281.044,642 



1913 691.421,812 191S 3,050,000.000 



Scarcity of Homes and Apartments 



It has been known for some time, in a general way, that, because of 

 non-activity in building operations a shortage of dwelling places has 

 occurred in this country : Ijut this knowledge has been supplemented by 

 investigations carried out by the Department of Labor, and a report on 

 the subject has just been made public. In many localities the house short- 

 age is acute, while in fewer than five per cent of the cities covered by 

 the investigation was it found that no shortage of houses is felt. The 

 shortage will increase as demobilized soldiers return home and begin a 

 search for places in which to live. 



Hardwood ^ews ISlotes 



--< MISCELLANEOUS >-- 



The Kansas Veneer Products Company has been incorporated at Wamego, 

 Kan. 



The Harwell Lumber Company, Crooked Bayou, Ark., has just com- 

 pleted a band saw mill cutting oak and other hardwoods. 



Jackson Boyd has been appointed receiver for the Greencastle Cabinet 

 Company, Greencastle, Ind. 



The capital stock of the Chickasaw Lumber Company, Demopolls, Ala., 

 has been increased from $150,000 to $275,000. 



The Alston-Parker Lumber Company, Tuscaloosa, Ala., has dissolved 

 as a corporation, but continues as a partnership under the same name. 



The following have Incorporated : The Kirkpatrick Lumber & Tie Com- 

 pany, Birmingham. Ala. : the Romine Woodworking Company, Orange, 

 N. J. ; the P. & M. Table Company. Baltimore. Md., and the Klncalrd-Swaln 

 Furniture Manufacturing Company. Asheville. N. C. 



The Twin City Box Factory. Minneapolis, Minn., has been succeeded by 

 the Twin City Box & Lumber Company, which company has incorporated. 



The death of N. B. McClanahan, president of the Ship Island Lumber 

 Company, Sanford. Miss., is announced. 



J. W. Wlnborne has been appointed trustee for the Blue Ridge Fur- 

 niture Company. Marion, X. C. 



The United States Spruce Lumber Company, New Tork, N. Y., has incor- 

 porated with a capital of $100,000. Other incorporations are : The 

 Arlington Casket Company, Arlington, Mass., capital $20,000; the Cal- 

 casieu Saw Mill Company, Lake Charles. La., $90,000 capitalization. 



The General Manufacturing Company has succeeded the Minn Billiard 

 Company, Milwaukee, Wis. 



The capital stock of the Miller Lumber Company, Marianna, Ark., has 

 been Increased from $100,000 to $150,000. 



An Involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the Howard 

 Shipyard & Dock Company, Jeffersonville, Ind. 



The Pekin Hardwood Lumber Company, Pekin, Ind., has sustained a 

 loss by fire. 



< CHICAGO >- 



Harry Freiberg of the Freiberg Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., was 

 m the city about two weeks ago following the export meeting at New 

 Orleans, La., when the exporters made a visit to the mahogany plants 

 of the Freiberg Lumber Company and the Otis Manufacturing Company. 



Julius Spicker of the Dean-Spicker Company, Chicago, just returned 

 from Cincinnati, O., and will leave in a few days for the East. 



Bob Lockweed of the Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company, Memphis, 

 Tenn., was in the city la.st week. 



Garrett Lamb of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company came from the mill 

 at Charleston, Miss., recently en route to Clinton, Iowa, to pack his trunk 

 for a trip to Los Angeles, Cal., where he will join Mrs. Lamb. 



"Duby" (L. P. Du Bose) of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, Charleston, 

 Miss., was in the city the other day spending a day or two in court, winning 

 a suit for his company. 



George Kerns of the George F. Kerns Lumber Company, city, has been 

 spending the past several weeks in Florida. He testifies that it is "some 

 place" for rest and recreation, although confessing that this millionaire 

 class is a little high-stepping for him. 



W. O. King of Chicago in speaking of his son, William, formerly con- 

 nected with him before joining the army, regrets that the young man 

 seems to be a permanent fixture in France ; the captaincy no doubt has 

 added to his responsibilities. 



The Ottawa Pianophone Company of Chicago and Geneva, III., has 

 changed its name to the Hiawatha Phonograph Company. 



The L. D. Murrelle Lumber Company, with headquarters at Memphis, 

 Tenn., has an office at 705 Tacoma building, Chicago. 



The A. H. Vilas Company, city, has been succeeded by the Vilas-Harsha 

 Manufacturing Company. 



Wni. M. Messer, M. G. Wesenberg and Isadore Simon have incorporated 

 the Western Hardwood Lumber Manufacturing Company, city, with a 

 capital of $10,000. 



The Roseland Mill & Lumber Company, Chicago, has been succeeded by 

 the A. T. Stewart Lumber Company. 



Nelson C. Brown, a member of the trade commission of the Department 

 of Commerce at Washington, recently returned from an investigation of 

 Mediterranean lumber markets, passed through Chicago about ten days 

 ago on an educational or rather a reporting tour, which will take him to 

 the principal lumber producing territories interested in foreign trade 

 development. Mr. Brown has issued a statement which appears elsewhere 

 In this issue. 



J. M, McLaughlin, sales manager for the Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel 

 Company, New London, Wis., was in Chicago for two or three days of last 

 week on his way back from an extended eastern trip. Mr. McLaughlin 

 is selling the goods and says that the orders are there, but it is necessary 

 to go out and get them. 



P. J. Lawrence of the P. J. Lawrence Lumber Company, St. Louis, spent 

 a little time in Chicago as one link in a cycle trip around through the 

 middle-western consuming points. Mr. Lawrence says he is selling a good 

 deal of lumber and finds if he goes after business in the right way and 

 keeps a good, stiff backbone he can get it. He anticipates a very good 

 year during 1919. 



Friends of Jack Dean of the Dean-Spicker Company, Chicago, are begin- 

 ning to get used to seeing him back again in citizens clothes. Mr. Dean 

 came out of the aviation service with lieutenant's bars and has gradually 

 eased back into his old connection. He is now completely equipped and 

 on the old job ready for business as usual. 



Ben S. Woodhead, president of the Beaumont Lumber Company, Beau- 

 mont, Tex., was in the city for a brief stop about a week ago, leaving 

 Chicago for Kansas City. 



J. C. Knox, secretary of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, and C. A. Bigelow, Bay City, Mich., president of the organization 

 of Wisconsin and Michigan manufacturers to boost foreign trade, and 

 C. A. Hamar of Chassell, Mich., were "northern notables" who briefly 

 graced Chicago last week. 



J. A. Brost of the sales force of the Paepeke Leicht Lumber Company, 

 Chicago, has obtained his release from Great Lakes and is now in 

 citizens' clothes and calling on the trade in and around Chicago. 



=-< BUFFALO > 



James H. Walsh, eastern representative of the Paepeke Leicht Lum- 

 ber Company of Chicago, who makes his headquarters in Buffalo, has 

 been awarded an indefinite furlough from the U. S. Marine Corps in 

 which he has been serving and will be back calling on his trade 

 again immediately. 



Charles Clifton, president of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, has 

 written an optimistic forecast of the year 1919 in the automobile industry, 

 in which he says that the manufacturers regard present unsettled condi- 

 tions as only temporary and look ahead to certain future great activity and 

 prosperity in industry and commerce in those countries not adversely 

 affected by the war in Kurope. All such activity will call for more gen- 

 eral use of motor trucks and passenger cars. He concludes : 



"Normally the production and sales of motor vehicles in this country 

 Increased at a rate of forty per cent a year. In 1915 and 1916 the pas- 

 senger car increase was fifty and eighty per cent, and last year there was 

 a decrease of nearly forty per cent. If the normal increase had been 

 maintained throughout this fourth year period the output last year would 

 have been approximately 2,250,000, instead of the actual production of 

 1,044,754, and there would have been built about 700,000 more cars than 

 were actually made. So there is an apparent shortage of that many care. 

 For the year 1919 there should be a potential market tor 3,000,000 cars, 

 but not more than half of this number will be produced, in all prob- 

 ability." 



R. D. McLean of the McLean Mahogany & Cedar Company and H. A. 

 Plumley of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company were in New Orleans In 

 attendance at the convention of the lumber exporters. Both also visited 

 some of the Southern mills before returning. 



A. E. Davenport has retired from the lumber business and his ipterests 

 in Davenport & Ridley. Inc.. of which he was one of the organizers, have 

 been bought by B. F. Ridley, Raymond S, Ridley and William A. Quast, who 

 are continuing in the hardwood trade at 1128 Seneca street. Mr. Daven- 

 port has had no active connection with the company for some time, but 

 has been giving his attention to the automobile business. 



The Atlantic Lumber Company lately purchased the Scatcherd yard at 

 1055 Seneca street, which it has been occupying for several years, and 

 . where it has probably the second largest stock of hardwoods in this mar- 

 ket. The consideration is said to have been about $100,000, though the 

 amount has not been made public. The yard for many years was owned and 

 occupied by the lumber business of Scatcherd & Son. 



It appears that the opposition to the plan of certain congressmen for 

 this country to put money into the Welland Canal Improvement has had 



