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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Miiy 



1917 



southern mills, thus as they say. combining business with pleasure. 



S. Burkholder of Crawfordsville, Ind.. gets to Chicago every so often. 

 He was in the city this week for a couple of days and says that things 

 are moving with remarkable rapidity in his section. 



Secretary F. F. Fish of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 returned last week from a week spent at southern points. Mr. Fish tells 

 of having seen nothing but optimism among the southern manufacturers, 

 and that the promise of even greater activity in the future is recognized 

 in all southern circles. 



G. C. Uobson, sales manager of the Kinzel Lumber Company, Merrill, 

 Wis., spent several days in Chicago last week. Another prominent north- 

 ern visitor was A. B. Tipler of the Tipler-Grossman Lumber Company of 

 Green Bay, Wis. 



N. J. Downey has withdrawn from the Kurz-Downey Company, he hav- 

 ing been president of this concern. 



The capital stock of the Harmony Company, city, has been increased 

 to .$100,000. 



The business of the Geiszl Woodwork Manufacturing Company, Chicago, 

 has been closed by attachment. 



The American Piano, Bench & Lamp Company has been incorporated, 

 locally. 



Edward E. Edmanson of the Edmanson Furniture Company, this city, 

 has assigned a replevin of $500 instituted and business closed by attach- 

 ment. 



A meeting of the creditors of the Rottman Company has been called. 

 Oregon Woodenware Manufacturing Company with a capital of $30,000 

 has been incorporated by George H. Kleinsorge, John O. Storey and Jane 

 Kleinsorge. 



The Mather Stock Car Company has suffered a loss by fire. 

 C. E. Curtis of the C. E. Curtis & Bro. Company has withdrawn from 

 active management. 



Fire destroyed the Vincent DIouhy Sash & Door Company's factory at 

 2138 South Laflin street on May ]1, causing a loss estimated at between 

 $50,000 and $75,000. 



W. M. Morris has withdrawn from J. S. Houston & Co.. and a change 

 in operation reported. 



=-< BUFFALO >- 



The steamer Arizona brought in the first lumber cargo of the present 

 season, consisting of 457,300 feet of hemlock timbers for the LackawAnna 

 Steel Company. Another early cargo is on the steamer Linden, which has 

 a cargo of various woods for T. Sullivan & Co. Some of the yards here 

 will not receive any lumber by lake until after June 1. This does not 

 mean that no receipts are coming in, for rail service is being depended 

 on to an unusual extent this year. 



The semi-annual exposition of the Jamestown, N. Y., furniture manufac- 

 turers is attracting the usual amount of attention from buyers in various 

 sections of the country this month. The show opened on May S and con- 

 tinued for two weeks. The manufacturers will soon have a new building 

 In which to make their displays. 



One of Buffalo's most distinguished lumbermen, Luther P. Graves, died 

 on May 13, aged fifty-five years. He had been in the lumber industry for 

 thirtv-flve years, and was at the head of the firm of Graves, Manbert, 

 George & Co., as well as of Graves, Bigwood & Co., Toronto. He was highly 

 respected by all his business associates, and the attendance at the funeral 

 included representatives from nearly every yard In the city. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife and seven children. 



G. Ellas & Bro. have been adding extensively to their plant of late and 

 docking has been constructed along the river front for the unloading of 

 lake lumber vessels. All that is needed now is the completion of a bridge 

 across the Buffalo river, and the various yard improvements will be ready. 



If plans go through a fleet of wooden vessels, 260 feet in length, will 

 be built on the Great Lakes for service in carrying soldiers and supplies 

 across the ocean. It is predicted that it will take several months to figure 

 out the plans for the construction of wooden boats and to start their con- 

 struction. The chief difficulty is in getting the engines, machinery and 

 other equipment. It is already discovered that ship carpenters are scarce 

 and they may have to be obtained from the coast before an adequate force 

 is assembled. Buffalo used to build a good many wooden vessels, hut has 

 not built anything of account for the last dozen years, except local craft. 

 Timber is scarce, but it is likely that it could be obtained more readily 

 than some other things needed. 



=-< PITTSBURGH >= 



The Satler-Hamilton Lumber Company has moved Its oflBces from the 

 Oliver building to 809 Bessemer buUding, where Mr. Satler was in busi- 

 ness for years. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company has moved its offices from the 

 Conestoga building to the First National Bank buildins. 



J. N. Woollett, president, and C. A. Droz, traffic manager of the Aber- 

 deen Lumber Company, are in the Southwest trying to get better ship- 

 ments of gum and Cottonwood. 



The Adelman Lumber Company has taken all its salesmen off the road 

 and will make no further effort in this direction until it gets caught up 

 ■with Us orders. It reports all deliveries very badly broken up. 



The Johnston-Davies Lumber Company is doing a nice business in 



mining and manufacturing stocks. Prices are .strictly O. K. and the 

 tendency of the market is toward higher quotations. 



The Pittsburgh Retail Lumber Dealers' Association has applied for 

 permission to change its name to the Pittsburgh Lumbermen's Club, to 

 which most of its members have belonged for several years. The Lum- 

 bermen's Club now has nice headquarters at 723 Park building, with 

 R. E. Hartley in charge. 



A. Rex Flinn, president of the Duquosne Lumber Company, has gone 

 to Fort Niagara as a commissioned officer. The Duquesne company re- 

 ports a splendid demand for industrial and manufacturing stocks of all 

 kinds. 



The Bicks-McCreight Lumber Company announces that there is more 

 business than can be taken care of in good shape at present. The trouble 

 is not only in getting shipments, but also in getting stocks of lumber 

 from the mills, as most of them are very short on good marketable stocks 

 of hardwoods. 



="< BOSTON >.= 



The Inmberinen of Now Eugland. working with the transportation 

 companies and governments of the several states, will send at once ten 

 complete sawmill units for service abroad. In addition to the necessary 

 machinery, the organizations will require about 360 men. The English 

 war office has accepted the units and will provide for moving the entire 

 complement to enter the service of manufacturing timber, trench props, 

 bridge and road material. Martin .\. Brown of the Woodstock Lumber 

 Company and Harry B. Stebbins of H. B. Stebbins Lumber Company, both 

 of Boston, are chairmen of the committees on woodsmen and mill oper- 

 ators. 



The Jones Hardwood Company has moved to a suite in the Rice building 

 on High street, Boston. Gardner I. Jones of this firm has returned from 

 Chicago, where he was delegate from the Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber 

 Association, Inc., to the I. C. C. hearing on transit rules. 



C. R. Carpenter, who has been recently with B. L. Tim Company of 

 Boston, and W. Whitney Wood, son of William II. Wood and for many 

 years with the William II. Wood Lumber Company, have joined forces in 

 the wholesale field. The new firm of Carpenter & Wood will be located at 

 209 Washington street, Boston. 



The Perry & Whitney Company has moved to the new Fidelity Trust 

 building at 148 State street. Boston. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



Forest fires are causing great damage among the timber in the mountains 

 of Frederick county and the Blue Ridge of Washington county, in western 

 Maryland. In Frederick county some 7,000 acres have been overrun by the 

 flames, a tract over fifteen miles long from Yellow Springs to the Penn- 

 sylvania stiite boundary having been swept. 



The fires on South and North mountains, in Washington country, are 

 also proving very destructive. Hundreds of men are at work trying to 

 check the blaze, but they have had little success so tar. The entire Cum- 

 berland valley is filled with a pall of smoke. 



With the opening of a line of steamers between Baltimore and South 

 American ports by the Baltimore-South American Navigation Company, the 

 first vessel to leave here May 30, a chance will be afforded for the import 

 of mahogany and other rare woods, for which an excellent market now 

 prevails _iu this country. The big veneer factory hero has been getting 

 much of its raw material from South Africa, but the shipments from there 

 are now attended with great delays or made entirely impossible by the 

 heavy destruction of tonnage, and the establishment of facilities for getting 

 stocks outside the danger zone is certain to be welcomed. In addition, the 

 line will permit ship exports of American woods, which have been finding 

 a wider market in the Latin-American countries in recent years. 



The Kidd & Buckingham Lumber Company, hardwood lumber wholesaler, 

 with yard on Ridgely street, has purchased the fee simple property at the 

 east corner of Carey and Ridgely streets, and is expected to enlarge ita 

 yard facilities. 



Building operations during April do not make an impressive showing. 

 According to the report of the building inspector, the declared value of the 

 new structures for which permits were issued did not exceed $469,395, 

 with $02,874 more for 95 additions and $185,400 for 927 alterations, a 

 grand total of $717,669. This may be regarded as considerably under the 

 average for April, a large deficiency being noted in two-story brick dwell- 

 ings, which constitute one of the chief forms of such improvements. 



The Emerson Lumber Company has been incorporated at Elkins, W. Va., 

 with a capital stock of $25,000, by T. E. Hardman, B. M. Hoover, O. s! 

 Sayre and others. 



=■< COLUMBUS > 



The new club rooms of the Columbus Lumbermen's Club, located on 

 the sixth lloor of the Joyce building are now about completed and the 

 formal opening will be held about June 1. The quarters comprise a half 

 dozen large rooms, which have been altered to suit the needs of the 

 club. It is the plan to keep open house at all times and make it a head- 

 quarters for the lumber industry, both wholesale anu retail. Seymour 

 Brown is president ; James McNally, vice-president ; P. H. Rond, secre- 

 tary and Frank Lumbert, treasurer. The club is now canvassing the 

 situation as to starting a restaurant for the benefit of the members. 

 An announcement is expected in the near future. 



The work of organizing all districts in Ohio under the auspices of the 



