May 10, 191V 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Architects and contractors are still husy figuring on plans and specifica- 

 tions for new Iniildings. 



The Salem Sash and Door Company, Salem, O.. has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $35,000 to manufacture doors and sashes. The Incor- 

 porators are A. H, Wilhelm, John Stratton, C. F. Smith, W. W. Arnold and 

 Lewis P. Metzger. 



The T. G. Parsons Lumber Company of Kent. O., is successor to T. G. 

 Parsons. The company has been iucorporated with a capital stock of 

 $50,000. 



The Baer Lumber Company, which operates a plant at Dover, O., has 

 been taken over by the Garber & Moersch Lun ber Company. 



R. W. HortOD of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good de- 

 mand for hardwoods, which is about equally divided between factories and 

 the retail trade. Prices are strong and all recent advances have been well 

 maintained. Mr. Horton looks for higher quotations c'uring the summer 

 months. 



H. D. Brasher, bead of the H. D. Brasher Lumber Company, has returned 

 from an e.Ntended business trip through the lumber producing sections of 

 the South. 



.1. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company says trade in West Virginia 

 hardwoods is excellent and prices show a tendency to advance. 



According to the report of the Columbus building inspector lor April. 

 1917, there has been quite a falling off in the vjiluation of permits Issued 

 as compared with April of the previous year. The department issued 

 324 permits having a valuation of $532,000 during April, 1917. as com- 

 pared with 393 permits and a valution of $1,166,840 In April, 1916. 

 For the first four months of the year the department issued 793 permits 

 having a valuation of $1,463,910, as compared with 1,025 permits and 

 a valuation of $2,o73,415 for the corresponding period in 1916. The 

 reasons assigned for the decrease is the high price of steel and other 

 materials. Quite a few large business blocks that were projected have 

 been postponed. Construction of dwellings and apartments has been 

 about as active as last year. 



=■< CLEVELAND >-= 



The locliout which has existed iu the buildiug trades during the past six 

 weeks was ended about a weeli ago and building operations are gradually 

 assuming normal conditions. All of the unions involved have signed arti- 

 cles of agreement with the exception of two small unions. Material men 

 hope that this promises peace in the buildiug trades for the balance of the 

 year. 



May 3 a strike was called by the teamsters' union, which has been 

 anxious to unionize the lumber yards as well as the yards of the building 

 supply dealers. They have not been successful in previous efforts. Lum- 

 ber dealers still stand for the open shop as they did a year ago when con- 

 fronted by the same situation. 



As an outgrowth of the recent lockout an investigation has been com- 

 menced of charges that building material dealers conspired with the em- 

 ployers' association to prevent supplies reaching non-members, in violation 

 of the anti-trust law. The no-delivery policy of supply men was a feature 

 of the recent lockout. 



The world war situation is undoubtedly restricting building operations 

 and holding back building plans. The natural conservation incidental to 

 war coupled with high prices of material and labor will result in less build- 

 ing. Lumber dealers are hoping that wholesale prices have about reached 

 their maximum. If they go much higher many projects for building will be 

 abandoned. 



Ice in the upper lakes has delayed boats, but a number have left for 

 Georgian bay this week. Their arrival \s expected in another week. 



F. T. Peitch of the F. T. Peitch Lumber Company and George Earner of 

 the Barner-Mead Lumber Company returned this week from a six weeks' 

 trip to California. 



■< CINCINNATI >• 



Carpenters are granted increased wage terms by a new two-year working 

 agreement entered into between Cincinnati Contractor Builders' Associa- 

 tion and Carpenters' District Council of Hamilton county and Kenton and 

 Campbell counties, Kentucky. Under the new pact the men will receive 

 an increase of 2y2 cents an hour at the beginning of the second year. A 

 week's work will consist of 44^ hours. The new agreement will take 

 effect May 1. 



New demurrage rates announced by Ohio railroads were approved by 

 the Public Utilities Commission. Demurrage of $2 a day will be charged 

 on each car left unloaded on sidings tor a period of five days after the 

 expiration of the 4S-hour free time period and $5 will be charged for each 

 day thereafter. The original rate of $1 for each day after a 48-hour free 

 time period was replaced several months ago by a temporary rate of $1 for 

 the first day, $2 for the second, and $3 for the third, and $5 for each day 

 thereafter, with a 48-hour free time provision. The new rate is satisfac- 

 tory to shippers, representatives announced after the final hearing this 

 morning. 



All railroads in Kentucky served official notice last week that on and 

 after July 1 a fifteen per cent increase in freight rates on all commodities 

 will be put into effect in this state. This notice was filed with the Ken- 

 tucky Railroad Commission, in special session here today, which met for 

 the purpose of hearing railroad representatives present their reasons for 

 the increase. 



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WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPUR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the rough. 

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ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon 



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MANUFACTURERS OF 



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 standard widths 



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all 



As the commission is without power to prevent the increase, it will go 

 into effect as stated, though vigorous protest against it was registered by 

 members of the commission. A formal request for the commission's en- 

 dorsement of the increase was made by the railroad men, who urged in- 

 crease of cost of operation as a reason why a raise is necessary. 



Articles incorporating the Elk Fork Railway Company were filed last 

 week. The incorporators are W. S. Whiting, Elizahethtown, Tenn. ; H. M. 

 Collins, Frankfort. Ky. ; C. W. Moorman and George H. McLeod, Versailles ; 

 William R. Snyder, William H. Porter and J. F. Caywood, Lexington. The 

 road is to extend through Morgan and Elliott counties, forty miles from a 

 timber section, to the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, at a point near Hitch- 

 ings. The capital stock is $25,000. 



Local committees are putting the finishing touches to the program for 

 the joint meetings of the National Machine Tool Builders' -Association 

 and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, to take place in Cin- 

 cinnati, May 21 to 23. The engineers will be in session May 24. 



The Builders' and Traders' Exchange has instructed its board of di- 

 rectors to take a five years' lease on the six upper floors of the store build- 

 ing. 614 Race street, commencing .luly 1, with the privilege of five addi- 

 tional years. The organization, with a largely increased membership dur- 

 ing the year, is now meeting in the Merchants' building. 



A chicken dinner at Heidelberg next Thursday evening will be the last 

 meeting of the Cincinnati Carriage Makers' Club until September. Several 

 good speakers are on the program. 



— ■< INDIANAPOLIS > 



The movement has been revived here to organize the Indianapolis Lum- 

 bermen's Club, George L. Maas of the Mass-Neymeyer Lumber Company 

 having been appointed chairman of a committee to form the organization. 

 Mr. Maas has been active in this work .'or more than a year. The other 

 members of the committee are Joseph G. Brannum, T. R. Lewis and George 

 H. Howenstein. The committee as yet has not reported what progress has 

 been made. The last three named men, with Mr. Brannum acting as chair- 

 man, are conferring with lumbermen of Louisville, Ky., relative to plans 

 for holding a Joint picnic some time during the summer at some point in 

 the southern part of Indiana, probably at Seymour. 



Hoo-Hoo of central Indiana held a concatenation at the German House 

 in Indianapolis on April 27, the only candidate being Frank Smith of the 

 R. H. Foster Lum'oer Company. The meeting was called by Alexander 

 Hamilton, vicegerent snark. About forty members attended. 



Walter Koehler, a well-known lumberman of Delphi, Ind., intends to 

 move to Indianapolis in the near future to become associated with the 

 Marion County Coal and Lumber Company, which has leased the yards of 

 the Hamilton Lumber Company. The Marion County company was in- 



