September 10, 1915. 



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^■< BALTIMORE >-= 



^ This is an unusual proposition, but we have the material, the facilities, and the "KNOW HOW" to meet such emergencies m 



I Importers and Mainifactnrers 1 



I Mahogany and Cabinet Woods — Sawed and Sliced | 



I Quartered INDIANA White Oak, Red Oak, Figured Re d Gum, American Walnut, Etc . J 



I Rotary Cut Stock in Poplar and Gum for Cross 1 



H, Banding, Back Panels, Drawer Bottoms and Panels | 



I The Evansville Veneer Company I 



I EVANSVILLE, INDIANA | 



conditions witli the tendency of quotations upwards. Buying on the 

 part of the retail ti'ade is the best featifre at this time, although some 

 buying is done by factories making furniture and vehicles. Retail stoclis 

 are not large and the policy is to buy only for the present. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports an increasing 

 number of inquiries for hardwoods. 



At Pleasant Hill. O.. the Daniel Moul Lumber Company has been 

 succeeded by E. C. Rogers of Cincinnati. 



Peter Kuntz. Sr., a millionaire lumlierman of Dayton, O., announces 

 the carrying out of his project of building and equipping a tuberculosis 

 hospital for Dayton and vicinity. The project was started six years 

 ago but was held up because of effort being made to levy taxes on prop- 

 erty used by charitable institutions. A decision of the supreme courjt 

 held that such property can not be taxed, and he win go ahead. A 40- 

 acre site has been secured and it is planned to erect a $500,000 building. 

 When completed it will he managed by the Sisters of the Poor of St. 

 Francis. It will be undenominational. 



Suit has lieen filed iu the courts at Columbus, O., by the Hamburg- 

 American Line against the Oaken Lumber Company, a partnership com- 

 posed of W. R. Stantley and his wife, to collect the sum of $1,058 for 

 losses caused by the reservation of space on one of the liners of the 

 plaintiff for a large lumber shipment. It is claimed that in March and 

 April, 1914, the Oaken Lumber Company contracted for the space for 

 fifteen cars of lumber and furnished only one car. 



The W. M. Rittcr Lumber Company has adjusted insurance matters 

 on the mill at Blackey, Va., which was totally destroyed by Are sev- 

 eral weelvs ago. Steps will be taken at once to rebuild the operation, 

 which is one of the most important of the concern. No lumber was 

 burned at the time of the Are. The mill is located in Virginia, and ship- 

 ments are made over the company's railroad through Kentucky to West 

 Virginia, where the Norfolk & Western railroad is used. 



Fire caused damage aggregating approximately .$23,000 in the plant 

 of Condert & Lienesch, Dayton, O. The flames were first discovered in 

 a kitchen in the liome of Hal Hanson, in the rear of the company's 

 office. The wiud quickly carried them to the office building, and from 

 there to the factory. The fire spread rapidly in the factory, and before 

 it could be extinguished it had damaged both the equipment and building 

 materially. 



The Hyde Park Lumber Company, Cincinnati, plans to spend $10,000 

 in improvements to its new plant this fall. New additions will be built 

 to the mill and to the warehouse used for the storing of hardwood trim. 

 I'^xpanding business of the company has made the improvements necessary. 



The acqaisitiou by .Tnhn .\, C;ilhnru nf a large interest in Wni. D. Gill 

 & Son, Inc., which corporation succeeded the firm of Wm. D. Gill & Son. 

 on Phipot street, this city, has resulted in an important change affect- 

 ing the Philadelphia lumber trade. Mr. Calhoun was for years the 

 southern representative of the Philadelphia firm of George Craig & Sons, 

 and afterward formed the firm of Calhoun & Gordon. This latter firm 

 is now winding up its affairs, and its wholesale business will be taken 

 over by the Baltimore corporation. Mr. Gordon coming with Mr. Cal- 

 houn and joining the forces of Wm. D. Gill & Son, Inc. Mr. Calhoun 

 will look after the buying end for the company here, spending much of 

 his time down South, as he did before, and Edward P. Gill, the presi- 

 dent, attending to office matters. The activities of Wm. D. Gill & Son. 

 Inc.. will be largely expanded as a result of the Mr. Calhoun's change 

 of base, the company being incorporated with a capital stock of $460,000. 



.Tohn J. Lannon, on Canton avenue, states that while the inquiry for 

 hardwoods continues rather quiet, the feeling in the trade has shown 

 some improvement, and a greater degree of interest is being manifested 

 in the offerings. The furniture manufacturers, who for a time bought 

 little lumber, are in the market to a greater extent, and the railroads 

 al.so are placing orders more freely. 



Edward Healy, who rf'presents the hardwood exporting firm of .Tohn 

 L. Alcock & Co., Baltimore and Gay streets, at Charleston. W. Va.. wag 

 in the city for a brief vacation and also to confer with Mr. Alcock re- 

 garding various matters. 



S. L. Richards of the Fenwick Lumber Compan.v, Fenwick. W. Va.. 

 was a visitor here last week, taking in Baltimore on one of his regular 

 business trips. 



=~< COLUMBUS >• 



Building operations in Columbus continue rather active despite the 

 continued business depression. The report of the city building inspector 

 for August shows that 270 permits were issued during the month for 

 structures estimated to cost $544,895 as compared with 229 permits and 

 a valuation of $647,325 in August. 1914. The decrease is explained by 

 the fact that in August, 1914, several permits for college buildings were 

 issued. 



J. W. Mayhew, general sales manager of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company, has returned from his annual vacation spent near .\slieville. 

 N. C. He and F. B. Pryor left early in August on a special business 

 trip in New Tork. Mr. Pryor reports a gradual improvement in market 



