HARDWOOD RECORD 



26A 



Baltimore. 



The big cooperage plant of Kimball. Tyler & 

 Co. at llighlandtown. a suburb of Baltimore, 

 was completely destroyed by fire May 2. 



Fire also completely destroyed the planing 

 mill, lumber yard and storage warehouse of 

 1 1 .in Brothers, Roanoke. Va.. May 2. The 

 firm bad a large stuck on baud, and the loss 



Is .slim. 1 .11 from $40,000 to $50,000, with' 



no insurance. 



■lusi a dozen expectant II00-H00 wended 

 their way out to Darley Park on the northern 

 outskirts of the city on May ::, being reinforced 

 there by not less expectant lumbermen, who had 

 respi nded to invitations with the intention of 

 ■ ng Initiated, and these eleven arrived at 

 their goal with eminent satisfaction to the dozen 

 members in good standing, if not of the new can- 

 didates themselves. The occasion was a concat- 

 enation called by Vicegerent Snark Louis Becker. 

 The meeting was followed by a banquet, in ac- 

 cordance with the time-honored custom of the 

 Hoo Hoo, W. D. Gill being toastniaster and ac- 

 quitting himself of this task in excellent style. 



The widely known firm of Price & Heald, with 

 1 'tines in ttie Equitable Building, this city, has 

 made an important change in its arrangements 

 at Memph.s Tenn. Heretofore the firm has 

 een represented by a local house or agent, but 

 since May 1, Gustave A. Farber, a member of 

 the firm, has been stationed there as permanent 

 sentatlve. Mr. Farber went to Memphis. 

 together with Richard W. Price, who is on one 

 of his inspection trips to the properties of the 

 firm, and after going over the situation with 

 him. made arrangements to take up his resi- 

 dence at Memphis. 



Max Kosse, the popular member of the K. & P. 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati, spent some time 

 recently looking over Baltimore trade. He had 

 pleasant chats with various hardwood men and 

 gave some sanguine opinions as to the future 

 of the hardwood trade. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange held its monthly meeting May 

 1. but, according to Secretary Theodore Mottu, 

 transacted only routine business. 



Several foreign hardwood men were in town 

 last week, either on their way to the interior 

 for the purpose of studying the lumber situa- 

 tion or stopping here prior to their departure 

 for home. One of these visitors was Mr. Calder 

 Of raider. Henderson & Livingston of Glasgow. 

 He had been South, informing himself as to 

 trade conditions. He called on a number of 

 hardwood firms here on his way to New- York, 

 whence he sailed last Saturday for home. He 

 found all the mills busy, with stocks quickly 

 disposed of, and seemed impressed with the fact 

 that the foreign consumer would have to pay 

 more if he wanted to get American lumber in 

 sufficient quantities. 



Another visitor was T. Henry Griffin of Price 

 & Pierce, Ltd.. London, who arrived in the 

 United States April 15 for a trip through the 

 hardwood regions. Mr. Griffin's firm is the Lon- 

 don representative of Price & Heald. 



\v. II. Ashton of Duncan, Ewing vV Co., Liver- 



1 1, likewise stopped here and paid bis respects 



to a number of the local hardwood firms. He 

 then went South. It was his intention to take 

 in a number of states and make an extensive 

 survey of the situation. 



Philadelphia. 



The first Of May with its consequent labor 

 troubles was not feared by the lumbermen and 

 building operators this year owing to the settle- 

 ment of all differences among the mechanics of 

 Hied building trades some time ago. Trade 

 during the past fortnight has been good and 

 while not quite as brisk as the first two weeks 

 during April the total business for the month 

 will surpass that of the corresponding month of 

 last year. 



The monthly report from the Bureau of Build- 

 log Inspection for April shows a falling off in 

 the number of operations and the involved cost 



when compared with the corresponding month 

 last year, as the following table indicates : 



Opera- Estimated 

 Permits. tions. cost. 



April. 1904 163 1,820 $3,486,695 



April. 1905 1,001 1,790 ::.. 110,740 



Increase 3S 



Decrease 30 175,955 



The Increase in building in the western part 

 of the city has made a heavy demand upon the 

 J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. yard for lumber and 

 the full force of teams is being worked. The 

 big sheds are pretty well stocked up with hard- 

 woods and building lumber and the movement 

 of stock has been heavy for the season. 



Harry J. Clarke, a member of the firm of 

 Jesse Lukens & Co.. died on Thursday, April 21, 

 after a severe illness. Mr. Clarke for many 

 years was associated with Joseph H. Collins & 

 Sons, where he gained the knowledge of the 

 lumber business, that was so useful to him later 

 in life. Deceased was a member of the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange, the Retail Coal Dealers' Ex- 

 change, the Masonic Fraternity and of the 

 Knights Templars. Mr. Clarke was 43 years 

 old, 



Tile famous yellow mansion, at Broad and 

 Walnut streets, for many years the home of the 

 Lippincott family, has been sold for $2,700,000 

 to a syndicate of New York real estate opera- 

 tors. Two sets of plans are in the courste of 

 preparation, one for a modern office building to 

 cost $5,000,000, and the other for a combined 

 theater, bank building and department store. 



Business has assumed the usual spring pro- 

 portions with William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., 

 and several mills of the company are being run 

 to their full capacity. The hardwood end of 

 the business in particular has largely increased 

 in the last two or three weeks. 



Edwin P. Slocomb & Co. have been 'enjoying 

 a very good business this spring, though business 

 is not as brisk as during the mouth of April. 

 Mr. Slocomb made several new hardwood con- 

 nections in the earlier part of the year and has 

 been well satisfied with the results that have 

 been obtained therefrom. 



John J. Rurnbarger of the Rumbarger Lumber 

 Company left Friday night for a trip to the 

 company's new mill in West Virginia. 



Nearly $500,000 worth of lumber, the prop- 

 erty of the Sikes Company, furniture manufac- 

 turers, was destroyed by fire on April 23. The 

 flames, the origin of which is unknown, started 

 in the big dry kiln near the main building, which 

 contained nearly 3,000,000 feet of fine quartered 

 oak, cherry, walnut and other valuable woods. 

 The blaze spread rapidly to piles of lumber 

 Which were stretched over nearly half a mile 

 of territory, and soon the entire area was a 

 volume of flame. 



Norman A. Perry, sales manager for Robert 

 C. Lippincott, was up to the mill of the Cam- 

 eron Lumber Company last week on a visit. 



The Eagle Furniture Company, with a capi- 

 tal of $20,000, was incorporated at Gettysburg 

 la st week. 



A light of long standing between Eli I'.. Hallo- 

 well & Co. and the Retail Dealers' Association 

 was settled as far as the Wholesalers' Associa- 

 tion is concerned at a recent meeting. Hallo- 

 well & Co. are entirely exonerated and sustained 

 in tlie >ales complained of by the local retail 

 association, tlie trade both by logic and custom 

 belonging to wholesalers. 



Vicegerent J. J. Rumbarger will bold anothei 

 concatenation in Philadelphia Saturday, Uaj 

 13. at twelve o'clock noon, in the rooms of 

 the Lumbermen's Exchange, the Bourse. After 

 Ho' concatenation, at three o'clock, the party 

 will take a boat at Race Street Wharf and go 

 to Washington Park on the Delaware. They 

 will enjoy themselves as each one may see in 

 until live o'clock, when they will sit down at a 



s ially reserved pavilion to a planked 



dinner. Vicegerent Rumbarger's concatenations 

 are always a success and unusually enjoyable 

 affairs. All Hoo-Hoo are most cordially in- 

 vited to a Item]. 



Buffalo. 



The acciden sustained on the nighl of April 

 26 by Charles 11. Stanton has reached, and ii is 



Imped, passed tl riii'iil point. Me v. a - "ii his 



way home from Masonic lodge and was struck by 

 a trolley ear m Niagara Square, which threw 

 him siime distance, badly bruising him and 

 ■ 1 ring him unconscious tor a consid- 

 erable time 1 -ii badly burt it was 



not thought thai in' would have been laid 

 up very long, and but for the setting In of 

 pneumonia, from which it was thought at one 

 line- he could not recover, be would not. He is 

 at present somewhat better 



O. E. Y'eager. chairman of the local committee 

 of arrangements for the National Hardwood 

 Dealers' convention, reports thai there is noth- 

 ing more to do but come. There will be noth- 

 ing lacking at this end of the route. 



Some of the highest grade and driest plain 

 oak that the market affords was seen going 

 into the yard of I. N. Stewart & Bro. the other 



la\ 



Taylor & Crate are preparing to do the usual 

 extensive business at their lake dock and re- 

 port large sales of basswood. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is tak- 

 ing inventory of its yard stock and it is found 

 that there is a good assortment and liberal 

 amount all around. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has been keeping the roads southward hot with 

 oak. chestnut and poplar shipments, finding that 

 oak, especially, does not stay in the yard long 

 these days. 



F. W. Vetter receives the sympathy of his 

 many friends, being called home from the Ark- 

 ansas mills of the Empire Lumber Company by 

 the illness and death of his son and uamesake, 

 aged 10 months. 



A. Miller is preparing to receive a lot of lake 

 hardwood, maple, brown ash. elm and birch. 

 He is also securing considerable southern oak. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 making a specialty, after oak. of gum, which is 

 doing exceedingly well and-promising to improve 

 steadily hereafter. 



Quite a quantity of good oak is coming in 

 from Ohio for Scat. herd & Son. though it was 

 supposed that the Buckeye state was about cut 

 out of that lumber. 



The concatenation held April 25 by Vice- 

 gerent Snark A. J. Chestnut was of a character 

 to suggest more of the same sort during (he 

 year. A list of eleven new members was re- 

 ceived. 



Saginaw Valley. 



Two vessels arrived at Bay City from Kings- 

 ton, Ontario, during the last week ami took on 

 a quantity of elm timber and then proceeded to 

 Charlevoix to finish loading 



The square timber industry in this state was 

 of considerable magnitude a few years ago, but 

 it has been much cut up of late, although in 

 the aggregate probably 250,000 cubic feet of 

 oak and elm were cut last year. Instead of 

 being shipped by water as formerly, the greater 

 portion is moved by rail, because it is cut in 

 small Quantities in various localities in the 

 slate, and generally along the lines of railroads. 



Thomas Denton, one of the pioneers of the 



timber industry, got out about 50.000 cubic feet 



of elm during the winter, probably the largest 



single lot. This product goes to Quebec and 



1 nee to t lie European market. 



The decline in the wooden shipbuilding in- 

 dustry the last few years has turned tbe larger 

 quantity of square timber into other channels 

 of usefulness. The Davidson shipyard at Bay 

 City is doubtless the largest consumer, the 

 timber being used in the repair and rebuilding of 

 v i|eu lake vessels. 



The new maple flooring plant of the Kerry & 

 Hanson Flooring Company at Grayling is being 



