HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Schofield Bros, are meeting with much success 

 since extending their business to include all 

 varieties of hardwoods. The firm has been 

 meeting a heavy demand for spruce and hem- 

 lock and the prospects for a continuance of 

 good business is bright. 



Clemm E. Lloyd, Jr., sales manager of the 

 Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company, is away 

 on another short trip to the mill of the com- 

 pany at Richwood, W. Va. He is sizing up the 

 stock of hardwoods and spruce for another 

 export shipment. The Pittsburg end of the 

 business has been very good and with the 

 Quaker City trade the mill has been running 

 both day and night to keep up with the orders. 



There is considerable stock in the Broad and 

 Spring Garden street yard of Lewis Thompson 

 & Co., Inc.. to care for the jobbing trade in the 

 southern section of the city. The main yard 

 is very busy and enough orders are coming in 

 to keep the force on the jump. 



Owen M. Bruner of the Owen M. Brunei- 

 Company is on a trip to the southern mills. 

 He writes that the mills are very active and 

 plenty of orders ahead. The company has been 

 getting plenty of business fur their line of hard- 

 woods and the flooring end of the business has 

 been particularly active. 



Business is running aloug smoothly with Hor- 

 ace G. Hazard & Co. and some heavy shipments 

 of hardwoods were made last month. He says 

 the stocks of hardwoods at the mills are small 

 and very little in the shape of oak. which is so 

 much in demand, can be found. 



W. M. MeCormick says that in his forty years' 

 experience in the lumber business he has never 

 known it to be in such a prosperous condition. 

 The demand is unprecedented for all kinds of 

 material. It has been unnecessary to solicit 

 orders, as dealers are pleading with you to till 

 their orders, and he like many others finds it 

 necessary to take the salesmen off the road on 

 account of the general shortage of supply. 



R. B. Horsburgh, manager of the Coketon 

 Lumber Company's mill, Coketon. W. Va., was 

 in town nearly all of last week. Another vis- 

 itor was E. L. Sly, a manufacturer of Wilsonia, 

 W. Va. 



Edwin P. Slocomb of Edwin P. Sloeomb & 

 Co., left on the third for a trip south to the 

 company's mill. 



William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Son says there is evidently to be no let up in 

 the demand for hardwoods during the summer. 

 He reports business in this line as particularly 

 brisk. Samuel H. Shearer is in the south in 

 quest of stock. 



Francis Goodhue. Jr., of the Philadelphia 

 Veneer & Lumber Company states that orders 

 for hardwoods are plentiful enough even at the 

 high prices asked and that trade is not quiet 

 by any means. He says the only trouble en- 

 countered is in obtaining all the stock that is 

 being sought. 



The J. S. Kent Company states it has not 

 felt the shortage in hardwoods, as the very large 

 stock the company had on hand is not yet ex- 

 hausted. It reports the demand good, with 

 prices firm and high as the result of the scarcity. 



Baltimore. 

 The long delayed action relative to clean 

 through bills of lading has been taken, John L. 

 Alcock of the hardwood firm of John L. Alcock 

 & Co. of this city having filed complaint against 

 Gilbert II. Cobb, agent of the Hamburg-Amer- 

 ican Line of steamers and also of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad Company in this city, and 

 against Robert B. Ways, agent of the Johnston 

 Line of steamers and of the Baltimore & Ohio 

 Railroad at this port. They are charged with 

 conspiring to nullify the provisions of the Ilar- 

 ter Act, which requires transportation compa- 

 nies to give shippers unqualified bills of lading. 

 Mr. Cobb, who, of course, merely represents the 

 transportation companies for which he is agent. 



was on M.u 27 a on si. 000 bail foi 



er hearing, on which day he was held 

 under the sum.' amopnt of ball for the a< 

 Of ih" United States grand jury. The com- 

 plaint against Mr. Ways is still pend 

 is alleged in the warrant thai Mr, Wars con- 

 spired with Mr. Cobb to violate the law. The 

 chaise is that they agreed to insert in bill« 

 of lading ami shipping documents clauses by 

 which their companies would be relieved of lia- 

 bility for loss and damage arising from negli- 

 gence, or improper delivery of lumber and i 

 It is further alleged that they refused to i 

 hills of lading or shipping documents sta 

 Hie number of packages or the quantity or con 

 dition of the merchandise delivered to them for 

 transportation. In furtherance of the alleged 

 conspiracy Mr. Cobb is charged with a specific 

 violation of the law in issuing a bill of lading 

 to Mr. Alcock on April 17 last for thirty-one 

 walnut logs to be shipped from Baltimore to 

 Hamburg, Germany, by the Hamburg-American 

 Line. The bill of lading, it is alleged, falsely 

 stated thai Hi" contents and the condition oi 

 the packages were unknown to Mr. Cobb, and 

 that the emit of the logs was shipper's count 

 and that it was shipper's load, and that the 

 carrier would not be liable for loss or damage. 

 The action was taken by Mr. Alcock individually 

 because previous efforts along this line, in which 

 the Exporters' Association or some "dummy" 

 figured as the complainant, were held to have no 

 standing in court. As is well known, the im- 

 porters of lumber and logs on the other side of 

 the Atlantic entertain the opinion that the 

 American bill of lading is not worth the paper 

 it is written on, and they have been the cause 

 of much loss and friction to the exporters. II" 

 dress could not be obtained, the railroads blam- 

 ing the steamship Hues, and the latter putting 

 the blame on the railroads. As a matter of 

 fact, the current form of bills of lading is made 

 a medium by the transportation lines for divest 

 ing themselves of all responsibility. The sub- 

 jet has beeu under consideration for some time 

 by the Hardwood Exporters' Association, and 

 was made the subject of extended deliberations 

 at the last annual meeting, which, after hearing 

 the report of the transportation committee, re- 

 ferred the question back to the committee with 

 full power to act. The proceeding instituted by 

 Mi-. Alcock followed, though it is to be dis- 

 tinctly understood that he is acting in his indi- 

 vidual capacity. 



The Baltimore Lumber Exchange is having 

 compiled for distribution to architects and con- 

 tractors, in addition to the exchange mi 

 ship, all the rules that now govern the in 

 tion of lumber here. They include the rubs of 

 the Georgia Interstate Saw Mill Association, the 

 South Carolina Lumber Association, the North 

 Carolina Pine Association and the National 

 Hardwood Association. These rules 

 adopted some tine- ago, and as some of them in 

 volved material changes from the practices in 



until then, more or less confusion 6 

 architects and contractors being under a mis- 

 apprehension of the motives thai prom] 



their adoption. To clear away all misunder 

 standing and make it plain to those Interested 

 just what they have to expect, the compi 

 of all the rules was decided upon. Ti 



tlonal Hardw 1 Association rules are sa 



vorking very well and the Inspectors 



have a full l| l tl tails. The rules 



n . lVl . il by the lumber org 



tions of New York. Philadelphia and P.oston. 



Among visiting lumbermen here two < 

 ago was H. B. Curtin of the pardee-Curtta Luni- 



ber I ""■ w v * 



. favorably of trade conditions In 



Virginia and ! and said ii, 



exceedingly busy and that lumber • 

 was in strong demand. 



Manager Keuyon of the B iber Com- 



pany at D ■' ■ was ' ■ ■ "'■ tu0 



wheels of a runaway car and killed. His home 



was in Cazenovia, N. lenl occurred 

 May 22, 



The Standard fill • It Is reported 

 from Norfolk, ha tim- 

 ber land in eastern North Carolina and will 



mannfactui il born unions of 



feet of tup msylvanla, 



I ' : ji and \e\\ ■> ork capitali.-' 



to run a standard gauge railroad, - nlles in 



Length, through the tract, opening up a fine tim- 

 ber and trucking section. 



Pittsburg. 

 rii" many friends of Alexander Willson of 



ill- willson Bros, i.u pany will be de- 



lighted to hear that on .lone i; he took Miss 

 Eleanore Hamilton of Pittsburg as a life part- 

 ner. The bride is an accomplished young lady 

 of the East End. They will be at home to 

 their friends after a month's lour through the 

 l.i i 



J. N. Woollen, hardwood manager of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Is 



spending a week : i Ii" West Virginia mills 



looking up stock. His department Is rushed 

 with orders and he finds ii difficult to keep 

 the mills sawing up to his demands. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Healers' As- 

 sociation will hold their annual stag picnic and 

 baseball game at K"ss Grove, a summer n 

 about 20i miles up the West Penn railroad, ok 

 Saturday, June IT. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company has 

 bought the .lames Slocking tract of timber near 

 Morganza, Pa. The tract will cut about 19 

 feet of choice oak and is located on the Wash- 

 ington branch of Hie Panhandle railroad near 

 one of the mills of the company. The conn 



is just cutting the last of an >,000 



feet near Somerfield. Pa. 



The White Lumber Company, ...imposed of V. 

 N. Phillips and .1. II. and 11. I BerritS, has 

 started to nit down a trad of 2,000 acres of 

 limber six miles from Confluence, "ii Hie Yough- 

 iogheny. The tracl is on the Baltlmon ft 



.. in., railroad in S rset county and Is almost 



the last lot of big timber in this part of the 

 state. The company has let the contract to 

 Thomas Flanlgan & Son for cutting and sawing 

 the timber and transferring the lumber to I 



stone, Ta., where Hie company has 1 1 



ding, and yards that occupy m 

 acres. It ■ ' wMI cut 



1 feet of ha 



railroad ties, tie props lor coal mines 



and a large quantity of telephone and telegraph 

 poles. 



The Cheat River I. umber Company Is making 

 a big cut of white oak. Recently it got an 

 Inquiry for fourteen cars Bxl2 and 9x12 and 18 

 feet long. I sticks 



as ion; on Its tract In i nny. 



. Mch it has just enlarged by the 

 purchase of 600 oats, poplar and chest- 



nut. 



Two new retail tirms have lately started in 



business in thl im, - v 



' $10, ■ is al 1' 



lawn, Pa. Tie Planins M I 



pany, cap. City, Pa. 



Both con. arry n good line of hard- 

 tie good Inquiries f'° m 

 nment officials for hills of oak fo 

 in the river Imp log made near Pitts- 

 burg. A large amount of piling Is wanted and 

 :i lso material for locks and dams. 



bulk of It consisting 



frequently 



■ apany last 



berry that bat 



or a long time. It 

 and the firm at once 



