HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



Company, relurned home this week from a three weeks' trip to the Paclflc 

 coast. The American reports an excellent business In hardwoods. 



The J. C. Donges Lumber Company, of which J. C. Donges has been 

 the active head for several years, will shortly incorporate under a Penn- 

 sylvania charter. His associates will be L. K. Martin, K. T. Rossell and 

 J. A. Lager. 



The first annual banquet of the Pittsburgh Lumbermen's Club was held 

 at the German Club House on Craft avenue on the evening of December 3. 

 Dancing, a line banquet, and a splendid moving picture show entertained 

 the iSO retailers and their wives who were present. The club is a very 

 active organization and its officers are ; President, E. M. Dieboid ; vice- 

 president. W. H, Williams ; treasurer. Walter Ahlers : secretary, E. A. 

 Dieboid. 



=-< BOSTON y- 



The Colonial Lumber Company. Boston, has taken an office on Milk 

 street. The company was incorporated here a few weeks ago. 



The plant of the White Mountain Freezer Company, Nashua, N. H., 

 has been damaged by fire. The blaze was confined to the company's 

 large dry house, which at the time of the fire was well stocked with 

 lumber. The building damaged was erected about a year ago and was 

 credited with being one of the most modem dry houses in that section. 



Abraham Recht. a large builder in Lynn, Mass., has filed a petition 

 In bankruptcy. The liabilities are given as $67,615 and the assets are 

 estimated at $53,775. 



C. L. Barr of Philadelphia, Pa., has been a recent visitor in the Boston 

 marker. 



=■< BALTIMORE >= 



Among the visiting lumbermen here the latter part of November was 

 W. L. McCormick, who came in the interest of some of the large manu- 

 facturing interests in Washington state on a kind of inspection tour in 

 order to study the advantages offered by the various Atlantic ports. 

 with a view to selecting one that might be made the central point tor 

 shipments of Paclflc coast lumber when the Panama canal is opened. 

 The plan would be to concentrate all of the shipments east at one point, 

 and from there distribute the lumber over the interior and along the 

 seaboard. Mr. McCormick expressed himself as being very favorably 

 Impressed with Baltimore because of this city's location midway between 

 north and south, and in an admirable position tor reaching every part of 

 the territory. 



Among the creditors of the Peabody Building Company and its presi- 

 dent, James T. Miller, who were adjudged bankrupt in the United States 

 court here November 25. were a number of lumber firms, with amounts 

 running as high as $3,000 and $4,000. The company has been carrying 

 on construction work in the northern part of the city and has found prop- 

 erty moving slowly of late. 



A. O. Thayer, mill manager for the Magazine Hardwood Sawmill 

 Company, near Mobile, Ala., which is owned by Richard P. Baer & Co., 

 of Baltimore, is here on a vacation and will spend several weeks in the 

 Monumental city. Mr. Thayer e.xpressed the belief that the hardwood 

 situation had presented a fairly favorable aspect. 



Another visiting lumberman was George D. Burgess of Russe & 

 Burgess, Inc.. Memphis. Mr. Burgess came to Baltimore to attend the 

 funeral of his father-in-law, J. D. Earl.v. who was for years cashier of the 

 Commercial and Farmers' National Bank here, but retired in 1805. Mr. 

 Burgess gave an encouraging view of the lumber trade in the Memphis 

 section. He said that while there had been an easing off in some of 

 the woods, the first drop was generally the most pronounced, and that 

 Indications gave rise to the belief that a rebound might occur before long. 



=■< COLUMBUS >•- 



The Contractors' Association of Portsmouth, O., has been incorporated 

 for the purpose of promoting the interests of contractors and building 

 material men in that citj*. The corporation is not for profit, thus no 

 capital stock is provided for. The incorporators are A. ,T. Reitz, Otho 

 D. Foster, William Creelbaum, William J. Tritscheller and Henry H. 

 Eaps. 



J. P. Madigan of Cleveland Is one of the incorporators of the Perry 

 Coal and Lumber Company of Lexington, Ky., which has a capital of 

 $1,500,000. The company will develop mines and oil lands and manu- 

 facture lumber. M. J. Berry of Columbus Is also interested In the 

 compan.v. 



The Niles Auto & Machine Company has leased the building formerly 

 occupied by the Sykes Lath and Roofing Company at Niles, O. 



The Economy Lumber Company of Marion. O., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000 to buy and sell and deal In lumber. The 

 incorporators are J W. Jacoby, A. L. Payne, Pride Tossey, S. H. Delong 

 and D. F. Maples. 



The Kirkpatrick Lumber Company of Cincinnati, 0., has started in the 

 wholesale business. 



-Vt Logan. 0.. there is a dearth of houses and efforts are being made 

 to supply the demand. The scarcity is caused by the large number of 

 employes which came into the city recently. A number of new manu- 

 facturing concerns opened there. 



The annual meeting of the Union Association of Lumber, Sash and 

 Door Salesmen will be held at Cincinnati February 8, 4 and 5 In con- 



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