Frbrunry 10. 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



49 



Friday night. February 1. their iDtentlon being to visit the automobile 

 show. Seemingly they did not suceeed In getting hotel accommodations 

 for the register did not disclose their names on Saturday nlKht. 



About ten days ago E. M. Vestal ot the Vestal I.umber & .Manufactur- 

 ing Company. KnoxvlUe, Tenn.. attended the conference of wagon oak 

 manufacturers. Mr. Vestal was accompanied by Mrs. Vestal who went on 

 through to visit her parents at her former home In Omaha, Neb., for two 

 or three weeks. 



L. H. Levlse of the Scott & Howe Lumber Company, Oshkosh, Wis., 

 spent a few days In Chicago recently. 



C. H. Worcester of the C. H. Worcester Company, Chicago, spent a 

 few days at his home office, this being one of the Infrequent opportunities 

 he has for getting away from his orduous duties as a member of the 

 lumber committee of the National Council ot Defense at Washington. 



The capital stock of the Streator Car Company, Streator, III., has been 

 Increased from $250,000 to $300,000. 



The following Chicago concerns have filed involuntary petitions In 

 bankruptcy : The Columbia Tarlor Frame Company, the Damm Sauer 

 rpho.stering Company, the In-ing Park Sash & Door Company and the 

 Republic Phonograph Company of Illinois. 



The Anguera Lumber & Tic Company's capital stock has been increased 

 to $G0.000. 



An extension is being asked by the Englewood Sash & Door Company, 

 city. 



Col. James Buckley for "ninety-nine" years president of the Indiana 

 riardwood Lumbermen's Association, has retired from the hardwood busi- 

 ness and given up his position as treasurer. George M. Personette of Brook- 

 vlile has succeeded nim in addition to continuing to operate at that point. 

 We hope that our friends from Brookville will both be prosperous. 



=-< BUFFALO >•- 



Orson E. Yeager. president of the Buffalo Automobile Club, was chair- 

 man of a committee to hold a thrift day parade here on February 4 with 

 several hundred automobiles in line. Buffalo was the first city to organize 

 a celebration of the kind and the movement for the sale of thrift stamps 

 was given a good boost. 



Lumber shippers who have been dependent upon transit cars for sup- 

 plying their customers have lately discovered that they cannot afford to 

 continue in that line. The plan was to consign a car to themselves at some 

 junction point and then sell it In time to divert it to the ultimate desti- 

 nation. The result now would be the car held up at the junction and they 

 paying demurrage on it. so the rule is to consign to the customer direct 

 and then demurrage. If any, is on him. 



Letters received here from western mills state that they have prac- 

 tically given up loading lumber on anything but government business, and 

 they must have the quartermaster's signature at that. This makes it very 

 difficult for a jobber to do any business at all. Hardwood jobbers here 

 have good amounts of lumber bought and some of it sold, but they cannot 

 get it moved. 



A report comes from Albany that the Federal government will give pref- 

 erence to lumber and timber for the construction of barges on the improved 

 Erie canal in this state. State Engineer Frank M. Williams has been 

 in Washington, taking up the matter in detail with the Emergency Fleet 

 Corporation and other officials. It is estimated that the Erie barge canal 

 will carry 10.000.000 tons of freight the coming season, if it is opened 

 in time and an adequate fleet is provided. The fleet corporation has been 

 asked to appropriate $5,000,000 to the construction of these barges. Old 

 boatmen see two difficulties in the way. One is that the fleet will be slow 

 In building and the other Is that the canal will not be ready next May, 

 because of the slow work on the part of construction contractors. 



The Curtlss Aeroplane Company has received building permits for a 

 number of new structures to be erected at the plant on Elmwood avenue, 

 including a new office building and restaurant. 



X PITTSBURGH >-. 



More than twenty bridges were washed out through a xecent flood at 

 Sewell, W. Va., where one of the bi;,- iilaiils of the Babcock Lumber Com- 

 pany Is located. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is practically snowed in at its big plant 

 at CrelUn, Md. The difficulty In getting shipments is so great that this 

 company has called In Its salesmen for the present. 



Captain A. Rex FUnn of the Field Artillery, and president of the 

 Duquesne Lumber Company, was home for a few days last week. Ills mill 

 at Braemar, Tenn., Is doing as well as could be expected under adverse 

 railroad conditions and with a short labor supply. 



W. D. Johnston, president of the American Lumber and Manufacturing 

 Company, Is rounding up his big northwestern shipments for government 

 use In fine shape. The lumber Is coming forward rapidly and this Is one 

 of the biggest operations ever undertaken In the country. 



The Universal Lumber Company Is furnishing a fine lot of lumber for 

 the big plant of the Owen Electric Company In the east end. 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company Is getting ready for the most 

 aggressive spring campaign It ever started. This will be directed not .so 

 much toward new sales as to give Its present customers the highest measure 

 of eervlce In stocks and shipments. 



January building operations In Pittsburgh made the poorest showing 



ot any January In fifteen years. The total was only $314,415 for eighty- 

 Ave permits, about one-third of which were for repairs and for extensions. 

 This report shows almost complete stagnation of the building industry 

 in (ireater Pittsburgh at present. 



=-< BOSTON >-= 



The presidents of the eight New England railroads have organized The 

 New England Uailroads Executive Committee, which in conjunction with 

 the New England Transportation Conference are to endeavor to anals'se 

 and propose remedies for the present freight situation In this sectlqn. 

 These two organizations will meet weekly and submit to the Washington 

 traffic authorities practical steps, along such lines as the Industrial section 

 of this conference may agree are most needed, to operate all the lines in 

 tills section toward restoring operative conditions to many partially or 

 wholly suspended plants. 



A recent firi' in the buildings of the Essex Lumber Company, Lynn, Mass., 

 destroyed all of their finished stock and caused the death of one fireman. 

 Most of the snow-covered piles were saved. The South Bay storage ware- 

 house in the Roxbury district of Boston was also visited by fire resulting 

 in considerable damage to the company's property and also to a number 

 of the dealers having stock on storage. 



The financial embarrassment ot W. C. Miles & Co. of Medford, Mass., 

 and the Franklin Park Lumber Company of Franklin Park (Saugus), 

 Mass., Is currently reported. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



Not less than three establishments that were large users of lumber 

 suffered extensive damage by fire here in the last ten days or two weeks. 

 One of them was the shipbuilding plant of the H. E. Crook Company, on 

 the Spring Gardens side of Locust Point, at which a damage of perhaps 

 $75,000 was done. 



The pattern shop, warehouse and boiler room of the Henry W. Smith 

 Shipbuilding Drj-docks Company, at Curtis Bay, was destroyed by a blaze 

 on the night of January 26, with a loss of approximately $75,000, and the 

 plant of the Keating Mill and Lumber Company, Clifton avenue and the 

 Western Maryland railroad, was laid in ruins February 1, the loss being 

 estimated at $20,000. The two ship yards were at work on wooden vessels 

 for the government under the Shipping Board program, while the Keating 

 factory was turning out joiner work for wooden ships. The work of alien 

 enemies has been suspected, but so far no evidence to support this theory 

 has been found. All of the plants will rebuild as rapidly as possible. 



Fire on January 23 destroyed the store and office of the Warn Lumber 

 Corporation at Raywood, Pocahontas county, W. Va., the loss being esti- 

 mated at $25,000. 



A lumberman to pass away in the last week was William Wrightson 

 Tunis, one of five brothers, practically all of whom became prominent Id 

 the North Carolina pine trade, and were among the first to erect a modern 

 saw mill in the South. Mr. Tunis was seventy-seven years old and had 

 lived in retirement for some years. 



It is reported that government auditors have been in Baltimore recently 

 making an investigation into the cost of conducting lumber yards. The 

 information thus obtained is to be used as a basis for an agreement between 

 the owners of the yards and the government as to the price of lumber com- 

 mandeered to meet the needs of the. military authorities. The settlement 

 of this question is earnestly desired. Members of the lumber trade are of 

 course patriotic and entirely willing to aid the government in every possi- 

 ble way, but they also believe that they should receive fair compensation 

 for the stocks requisitioned, especially since it will be almost Impossible 

 to replace them, and certainly not at the figures that prevail at the time 

 the lumber was purchased. 



=-< COLUMBUS >= 



One of the most striking and Interesting exhibits at the Columbus real 

 estate and building show, which was held January 23 to February 2, Is 

 that of the Columbus Lumber Trade Exchange. This association erected 

 a complete modern bungalow of six rooms, artistically furnished through- 

 out. The cost of the bungalow was $3,000. Mcmlicrs of the exchange 

 supplied the lumber and a number of local firms did the furnishing. The 

 purpose of the exhililt is an exposition of the desirability and economy 

 of lumber for homes and the enabling of prospective home builders to 

 actually see the home before contracting for it. The plan will be carried 

 out as a permanent department ot the exchange and a downtown loca- 

 tion will be announced, where home-seekers may Inspect various types 

 of homes complete. The Columbus Lumber Trade Exchange is giving free 

 to children a $250 bungalow playhouse, furnished by the Southern Pine 

 Association, for the best essay on "Why a Home Should Be Constructed 

 of Lumber." 



An effort has been quietly under way for several weeks to sound the posst- 

 blllty and desirability of forming an Ohio battalion of lumbermen for the 

 Twentieth Engineers. Following a meeting of the directors of the Ohio 

 Association ot Retail Lumber Dealers at Columbus December 5, at which 

 the project was discussed, a committee of directors called upon Governor 

 Cox, who pledged his hearty support to the movement. Subsequently an 

 officer of the association visited Washington and discussed the matter 

 with officials of the Forestry Department and officers of the Twentieth 

 Engineers. It was ascertained that there are still some five or six bat- 



