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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10, 1917 



The United States government has taken over the equipment of the Lalie 

 Shipbuilding Company here and removed it to Montreal, where it is being 

 used in the work of putting together the parts of lake vessels which have 

 been cut in two in order to get them through the Welland Canal. A force 

 of 100 men is being sent to Montreal from here to work the outfit for the 

 government. 



:< PITTSBURGH >.= 



E. V. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Company is making splendid 

 progress with winning votes for mayor of Pittsburgh. He had a clear 

 lead of more than 5,000 votes In the primaries over his nearest opponent. 



J. J. Linehan, formerly president of the LInehan Lumber Company of 

 this cit.v, is having a good year in Cincinnati as representative of the 

 Mowbray & Robinson Company. 



W. A. Wilson & Sons, Wheeling, W. Va., who established an office at 

 419 Fulton building, Pittsburgh, Pa., a few months ago under the man- 

 agement of Arch W. Looney, are having a splendid business this fall. It 

 is largely in sash, doors and builders' supplies, but is also very satisfactory 

 in stocks for river trade. 



The Pittsburgh Lumbermen's Club has organized the Bulld-A-Home Loan 

 Association, which has applied for a Pennsylvania charter. E. A. Diebold 

 of the Higgins Lumber Company will have charge of the publicity. 



President J. N. Woollett of the Aberdeen Lumber Company reports that 

 many big manufacturing concerns are out of the market now because they 

 are not certain how much of their profits they must turn over to the govern- 

 ment, and are, therefore, not going ahead with new construction projects. 

 C. A. Droz, traffic manager of the Aberdeen, is in Indiana this week, and 

 R. F. Utley, manager of the Aberdeen Chicago office, is spending a tew days 

 in Michigan. 



The Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association has resumed its 

 Monday luncheons at the William Pcnn hotel and will start a campaign of 

 advertising right away to try to stimulate house building in this city. 



Rex Flinn, president of the Duquesne Lumber Company, has gone down 

 to Braemer, Tenn.. to spend a few days at the company's big operation 

 there. Business in general is reported slow and irregular among both 

 manufacturers and retailers. 



■< BOSTON ^- 



The Massachusetts committee on public safety announces the organiza- 

 tion of another regiment of foresters to be sent to France, similar to 

 that which is now operating in the woods and estates of Scotland and 

 England. The regiment is to consist of eight battalions of 774 men each 

 and is to be dispatched at once. H. B. Stebbins, H. \V. Hlanchard, Martin 

 Brown, H. G. Philbrook, Fred Cutler and Chester Whitney, all of Boston, 

 are in charge of the commissions and other details of arrangements. 



The lumber business of W. T. Swain & Co. of Nantucket, Mass., has 

 been transferred to the Island Service Company of the same city. 



The finding of the special examiner of the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission on the subject of diversion and reconsignment meets with satis- 

 faction among the trade of this district, especially in his reference to the 

 proposed great increases filed by certain New England roads which are 

 not found justified. 



-< BALTIMORE >■= 



The building report for Soptomber shows the declared value of the new 

 buildings for which permits were issued was not more than $352,411. with 

 $72,515 more for 98 additions and $7G,fi00 for alterations, a total invest- 

 ment of $500,526, which is close to the low for any month this year. 



The visiting lumbermen here during the last two weeks included Chester 

 F. Korn. Korn-Conklin Company, Cincinnati : Edward Barber. Howard & 

 Barber Lumber Company, Cincinnati, and E. R. Chapman, Keys-Walker 

 Lumber Company, Koanoke, Va. Mr. Korn was here on September 25. 

 after spending a few days at Norfolk. Va.. where he went to look after 

 some export shipments. Mr. Barber was on the way to New York, to give 

 his attention there to heavy mahogany shipments to Europe. 



The American Propeller Company, now located on Sduth Howard street, 

 and engngfd in the manufacture of propellers fi>r airplanes and airships, 

 has been so rushed with work as to arrange for an enlargement of its 

 facilities. It has just acquired two lots bordering on Key Highway and 

 about 110,000 square feet, and will add to its factory space and equipment. 

 The entrance of the United States Into the war has given the business a big 

 boom. In addition to propellers for airplanes, windmills for conserving 

 the power of airships are turned out. 



Richard P. Eaer is back from a trip to Asheville and other points in 

 North Carolina. He went chiefly for recreation, but also gave attention to 

 lumber trade conditions, and reports trade quiet. 



George R. Johnson. Knickerbocker building, is getting considerable busi- 

 ness in the way of knees for the wooden ships which the government has 

 contracted for. Henry Smith &. Sons Company has contracts for eight 

 of these ships and the Maryland Shipbuilding Company for four. 



=-< COLUMBUS >•- 



serving of noonday luncheons and lumbermen generally are frequenting 

 the club rooms at the noon hour. Quite a number of new members have 

 been received and regular meetings will be held during the fall and 

 winter. 



Building permits for last month showed a marked falling off from 

 September, 1916. According to figures compiled, 181 permits having a 

 valuation of $220,840 were issued, as compared with 274 permits and a 

 valuation of $548,065 in September, 1916. For the first nine months of 

 the year 1,701 permits were issued having a valuation of $3,208,030, as 

 compared with 2,408 permits and a valuation of $5,821,30.5 in the corre- 

 sponding period in 1916. 



M. Christie, who has been with Jones, Kennedy & Co., Ltd., first in 

 Glasgow, Scotland, and for the past ten years in Cincinnati, has suc- 

 ceeded S. Menzies as manager of the American branch of the firm. 



R. J. Hough, a former lumberman, and his brother, W. E. Hough, sons 

 of Mrs. W. B. Hough of Greenville, have Joined the colors. Mr. R. J. 

 Hough, who has been special agent in West Virginia for the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company, is in training with the second officers' reserve corps 

 at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. His brother, W. E. Hough, who was Columbus 

 salesman for the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, is a member of the 

 ordnance department, federalized Ohio National Guards. 



H. H. Mowers & Co., Grover Hill, O., was visited by fire of unknown 

 origin recently and entailed a loss of $4,000, none of which Is covered 

 by insurance. 



The lumber plant of the Whisler & Scearcy Company, Ironton, was 

 completely destroyed by flre recently. The plant had not been running 

 for several months and the best of machinery had been sold. 



The plant of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company at Whitewood, W. Va., . 

 was forced to suspend operations for forty hours on account of the ma- 

 licious cutting of the main belt of the plant. The belt alone cost the 

 company $1,200 and 250 men were thrown out of employment. Detectives 

 have been employed to investigate. This is the second time within three 

 months that the main belt has been destroyed. 



Arrangements for the building show to be held in Columbus January 

 21 to 30, 1918, under the auspices of the Columbus Real Estate and 

 Building Show Company, are progressing satisfactorily. Two large build- 

 ings at the Ohio State Fair Grounds will be used and concrete floors are 

 being put down. It is planned to make a complete building show and 

 much interest has been engendered in building and lumber circles. The 

 show will be under the management of M. A. and L. C. Vinson, who 

 were managers of the Cleveland show, which was such a pronounced 

 success. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods, especially from nuinufacturing plants. Concerns 

 making boxes and furniture are the best cusliuners at this time. Prices 

 are firm nil along the line. Shipments are a little slow in coming out. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company says trade in West Vir- 

 ginia hardwoods is good and prices are firm in every particular. 



•<, CLEVELAND)^-- 



The Columbus Lumbermen's Club has started quite a few activities 

 which arc attracting the attention of members. One of the features la the 



The Cleveland Builders' Exchange is doing its bit In connection with the 

 second Liberty Loan Bond sales, under the direction of E. M. Carleton, of 

 the MillsCnrleton Conipauy. Mr. Carleton has organized a sales staff of 

 leailing members of different branches of the building matiTials and trades 

 industries, and they will systematically canvass their field until the maxi- 

 miun subscriptions have been obtained. 



The F. T. Peitch Company announced the resignation of J. E. Millikeu, 

 who has been the sales manager of that firm for several years and who now 

 leaves to fill the same position with the Interstate Lumber Company, in 

 Superior Arcade, this city. 



The high cost of living has been swatteil somewhat by F. T. Peitch of 

 the F. T. Peitch Company, N. R. Snell of the N. R. Snell Lumber Company. 

 George Barner of the Barner-Meade Lumber Company, and George N. Com- 

 fort of his own company by the excellent catches of fish this quartette 

 brought back from a trip to Georgian Bay. 



By averting the strike of the Lake Seamen's Union, lumber movement 

 on the Great Lakes, as far as this port is concerned, will not be hampered. 

 The order to abandon the threatined walkout came at the last minute from 

 union officials at Washington, following the olTor of the Lake Carrii^rs' 

 Association to meet the wage demands of the union seamen. With an in- 

 crease of from $72 to $93, the able seamen are getting more money for 

 this class of work than that obtained by sailors on the Atlantic ocean, and 

 other workers on the vessels are receiving correspondingly higher pay. 

 Other demands were waived' by the men. The brunt of the Increase must 

 be borne to a large extent by lumber Interests here, for man.v of them 

 operate their own boats. However, it is believed here this step was better 

 than taking chances on not being able to receive shipments, where there 

 Is now such a good outlet for all descriptions of hardwoods in factory and 

 business building construction. 



===-< INDIANAPOLIS > 



Officers of the recently organized Stout Knmiture Company of Brazil, 

 Ind.. announced while in Indianapolis recently that the company has bought 



