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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 25, 1917 



trell believes that in general, prices in liarawood are going to be sustained 

 throughout the year. 



The Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association has stopped its 

 weekly luncheons until fall. President C. V. McCreight has made the 

 weekly meetings this summer very interesting, and they were well attended. 



The Pittsburgh Builders' Exchange, with President Robert Cochrane and 

 Secretary E. M. Tate, is making extensive preparations for the National 

 Convention of Builders' Supply Men, which will meet here next winter. 

 The exchange is by far in the best shape financially and othenvise it has 

 ever been. 



The Pittsburgh Lumbermen's Club, which took over the Pittsburgh Re- 

 tail Lumber Dealers' Association some time ago, now has fine headquarters 

 in the Park building, and has been holding very interesting weekly lunch 

 eons on Wednesdays at the Fort Pitt hotel. 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, expects 

 that prices on gum and cottonwood are going to hold up well this fall 

 in the face of a tight car short.age. Stocks, although they may be more 

 plentiful at the mills, will be a long ways from the consumer by rail, and 

 this is going to keep the price situation very fiim he thinks. 



.< BOSTON >.= 



The quarterly meeting^ of the Kastern Lumbermen's Association of 

 Bangor, Me., was held at Hampden, Me., on July 12, the principal 

 speaker and guest being K. F. Perry, secretary of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association. 



Harry R. Kenyon, for a number of years New England correspondent 

 of this paper, died recently of sclerosis. The passing away of a young 

 man who was well known and liked in the trade comes as a great 

 shock to his many lumbermen friends. 



The Blackmont Lumber Company has been incorporated at Boston, 

 Mass., with a capital of $50,000. F. W. McAleer is president and F. W. 

 Peterson, secretary. Offices are at 60 Congress street. 



The safe arrival of the ten sawmill units sent by New England is 

 recorded at a Scotch port and the cost of the organization above the 

 original appropriation of the several state governments is being made 

 up by the lumbermen of this section. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has voted not to suspend the 

 increased rate of $2.25 per M. on lumber from Savannah to Boston 

 which became effective via the Ocean Steamship Company on July 20. 



-< BALTIMORE >= 



While the great bulk of the lumber used in the construction of the army 

 cantonment at Admiral, Md., about seventeen miles from Baltimore, will 

 be North Carolina pine, hardwoods in considerable quantities are also be- 

 ing called tor. Thus not less than 8135.000 feet of No. 4 common oak has 

 been sold to the government at prices that are to be considered very at- 

 tractive in view of the fact that this grade of oak receives ordinarily very 

 little attention. It is thought that the oak will be worked up into llooring 

 for the rougher buildings, for staple partitions and similar purposes, for 

 which stocks of good quality are not at all needed. No. 3 common chest- 

 nut is also being called for in some quantities, shift from yellow pine prob- 

 ably being made so that the least possible delay shall occur in the deliv- 

 ery of stocks for the construction work. The North Carolina pine men are 

 having all they can do to furnish the lumber, orders tor which have been 

 obtained through the Emergency Board at Washington, and their stocks 

 are apparently being supplemented by any other lumber that will serve 

 the purpose of the contractor, much depending upon the ability of a seller 

 to make shipment without delay. The low grade oak happened to be in 

 stocks and could be put on the cars at once. 



Another avenue of distribution for hardwoods furnlslieil liy the war is 

 the manufacture of aeroplane propeller Idades of oak. Before the war and 

 for some time afterward practically all siicli propellers were made of wal- 

 nut and mahogany, but either because the imports of mahogany have be- 

 come difficult or for the reason that a scarcity of mahogany exists, oak 

 has been resorted to with very satisfactory results. 



A large order for 4/4 oak, eight Inches and upward has been placed 

 recently by the American Propeller and Manufacturing Company, which 

 carries on operations on South Hanover street, this city. Upwards of 

 $100 per 1,000 feet has been paid for suitable stocks, and there are re- 

 ports that the price has run up as high as $135. The oak must be of 

 straiKht grain as much as possible, and is fine selected stock. It is stated 

 that the company has orders for all the propellers it can turn out and 

 that it is doing a rushing business. The president of the American Pi-o- 

 peller and Manufacturing Company is Spencer Heath, the vice-president 

 J. Marion Creamer, the secretary Webster Bell and the treasurer John 

 Salmon. 



Two of the commissioners appointed to visit foreign countries and study 

 conditions with a view to developing exports from the United States to 

 those countries of lumber and timber, will visit Baltimore, .Tuly 27, just 

 before they sail on their mission. The two commissioners are J. R. Walker, 

 who has been accredited to England, Prance, Belgium, Holland and Swit- 

 zerland, and Nelson C. Brown, who will take in Spain, Portugal. Italy, 

 Greece and North Africa, Both arc expected to call upon Harvey M. 

 Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Association, and 



others, getting any information that may prove of value in their investi- 

 gations and receiving advice based upon actual experience in the foreign 

 trade. Arrangements are being made to extend the visitors such courtesies 

 as might be accorded representatives of the government. The other two 

 comndssioners, Roger E. Simmons of Hagerstown. Md., and Axel H. Ox- 

 holm, have already started for their fields of activity, going by way of 

 San Francisco. Mr. Simmons will cover Russia and Mr. Oxholm the 

 Scandinavian countries. 



The Kidd & Buckingham Lumber Company, har<lwood yard men on 

 Ridgely street, at the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, are having a shed 

 erected in the location across the way, which they recently acquired pre- 

 paratory to extending their facilities. 



Henry Smith & Sons, a Baltimore building firm, has secured a contract 

 to construct eight wooden ships for the government, and is now engaged 

 in equipping a ten acre tract at Curtis Bay as a ship yard. The contract 

 involves about $3,000,000. A large force of men has already been put to 

 work to repair piers, to build ways and to get other things in shape pre- 

 paratory to laying the keels of the vessels. The contract is for the hulls 

 only, the government to arrange for the installation of the machinery. 

 It is thought that the first hull will be sent off the ways in about eighteen 

 months. 



The Consolidated Engineering Company of Baltimore has secured the 

 contract to construct the army cantonment at Charlotte. N. C, this being 

 the first Baltimore concern to get one of these contracts. The canton- 

 ment is to house 25,000 national guardsmen, and the contract calls for 

 about $2,000,000. The company has at present 4.000 skilled laborers In 

 the South, it is said, and they will be utilized in the construction work. 



S. S. Mann of the Mann & Parker Company, wholesalers in hardwoods, 

 is back from a trip of several weeks down South, which took him into 

 North Carolina and Georgia. Mr. Mann went in search of stocks and 

 came back with the information that dry lumber at the mills is very scarce 

 and that practically none Is to be had. Mr. Snyder, of the same company, 

 started South today, and will also endeavor to , take up supplies, Mr. 

 .Mann having placed a number of orders. 



=-< COLUMBUS >- 



The building of the groat aviation camp at Dayton, C, is progressing 

 rapidly and is a triumph to the lumber industry in every way. To 

 build the camp in such an absurdly short time in strict accordance with 

 the government specifications has called fortii the best in the lumber- 

 men, and the manner in which they have rallied to the work has been 

 marvelous in many ways and indications point to the completion of the 

 camp on schedule time. ,S. S. King, president of the Dayton Lumber 

 Tr.ade Exchange, and also of the Dayton Lumber and Manufacturing 

 Company, is at the head of the project. The camp is located on the 

 grounds controlled by the Miami Conservancy Board, who offered the 

 ground to the government. The hangar capacity of the field will be 240 

 flying machines. Quarters for men and offlcers will not be shacks but 

 well constructed wooden structures with double floors. They are to be 

 covered on the outside with shiplap sheathing and heavy building paper. 

 The interior is to be covered with matched and dressed siding. In 

 order to save time the interior is to be lined with plaster board. 



In Cleveland ugly apartment houses are under the ban. They are a 

 Jangling discord in the city beautiful idea, twenty-five "sixth city" 

 architects and builders declared at a recent meeting. At a meeting- of 

 the medal awards committee of the Chamber of Commerce city plan 

 commission it was decided to put forth every effort to make new apart- 

 ment houses in Cleveland things of beauty as well as utility. The 

 committee outlined a plan to make competition keen among owners, 

 builders, architects and designers. F. H. Chapin. chairman of the 

 committee, said that plans are being made to colors and building mate- 

 rials with the aim of making Cleveland one of the most architecturally 

 perfect cities in the country. 



Elmer Ritter, a superintendent of one of the divisions of the W. M. 

 Ritter I..umber Company, located at Ashevllle, N. C, was married in 

 Columbus to Miss Mary Breese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Breese, 

 Columbus, O. 



The Ohio Lumber Company recently began a wholesale business at 

 Youngstown with D. A. Frampton as proprietor. 



The All.vn Lumber Company, Cleveland, h.as been succeeded by the 

 Allyn Hammond Lumber Company. 



The Richwood Lumber Company, Richwood, has been incorporated 

 for $10,000 by Peter Kuntz, Sr., Peter Kuntz, Jr.. Martin C. Kuntz, J. 

 A. Payne, Louis C. Klipstine and E. R. Klipstine. 



The Lee Mendenhall Company has been incorporated at Cincinnati 

 for $,'5,000 to deal in hardwood floors. The incorporators are Lee Men- 

 denhall, Martha Mendenhall, Lloyd Baker, Harry Metzel and Kathryn 

 Sahnd. 



The membership committee of the Columbus Lumbermen's Club, con- 

 sisting of W. L. Wliitacre, John R. Gobey. H, S. Callahan. Seymour 

 Brown and Albtrt Legg, has been working hard to get all retailers, 

 wholesalers, tra\ olers and commission men into tlie club. Its efforts 

 have met with '"onsider.able success and now a large majority of th© 

 lumber trade in the buckeye capital is identified with the organization. 

 A mass meetln.? is to be held soon at the club rooms to welcome new 



