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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 25. 1921 



W safe to Imy now. Consumers are graduall.v beginning to realize that. 

 Tall« of lessened operation on the part of consumers ig now more or less 

 exaggerated.*' 



William E. Litchfield, head of the I. & H. Lumber Company of this city, 

 n widely known hardwoods expert and wholesaler, said, when interviewed, 

 regarding present trade conditions: "There has been altogether too much 

 liquidation. This applies to hardwood lumber quite as much as to eggs 

 and potatoes. There is no sense in it. Producers are no longer in a mood 

 to sell below cost." 



PITTSBURGH 



The Point Pleasant Lumlier Compan.v, capital .foO.noo, has been or- 

 ganized at Point Pleasant, W. Va., with the following incorporators, and 

 will have a hardwood operation near that place : W. J. Waldie, M. G. Tyler, 

 r. R. McCuUoch. R. J. Patterson and E. H. Woelffel. 



The Central American Lumber Company, capital $1.000.noO, has been 

 organized by S. J. McKenzie. F. B. Kinzey, of .Johnstown. Pa., and others, 

 to develop 26.000 acres of hardwood timber in Nicaragua. 



The H. C. Frick Coke Compan.v, Pittsburgh, has bought several hundred 

 acres of land at Ginger Ilill, Pa., and will have a l>ig mining operation 

 and mining town at that place. 



The Pittsburgh Association of Lumber Salesmen held its annual banquet 

 at the Fort Pitt Hotel, Tuesday. February S, More than 100 salesmen 

 were there. The association, which is commonly known as the "PALS." 

 elected these officers : President, Charles K. Brown of the Southern Pines 

 Sales Corporation; Vice-president. George II. Young of the ,7. C. Bonges 

 Lumber Company; Secretary-treasurer. \A'illiani Bigge. Jr. 



The Satler-IIamilton Lumber Company believes that labor costs must, 

 come down considerably before there is any luiiiding of consequence started. 

 E. B. Hamilton of this firm reports a few very good orders for hardwood 

 the past few weeks by different Pittsburgh concerns. 



Harry T. Lincoln of the old firm of Bemis-Vosburgh, finished some 

 months ago cutting out a splendid hardwood operation near Kingw-ood. 

 W. Va., and has also taken out a splendid lot of coal from under this 

 property. He is arranging to cut off another good hardwood timber tract 

 which his company recently bought. 



The Pittsburgh Builders' Exchange is trying its best to get labor unions 

 in this city to make a voluntary reduction in wages, effective .June 1. So 

 far it has failed. The brickiajers last week positively refused to come 

 down with their scale of twelve dollars per day with double time for over- 

 time and Sundays and the contractors have therefore refused to hold 

 further conferences with them. 



L. T. Morlan of the Crossett Luml)er Company, who does a splendid 

 business with the industrial concerns down the Ohio and Beaver Valleys, 

 says that everything is very badly tied up at present. Host plants are 

 shut down until a wage adjustment can be made. 



At the Wholesalers' session Thursday afternoon, FeUruaiy 17, of the 

 Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, at the William Penn Hotel, splendid 

 talks were made by Fred B. Babcock of the Babcock Lumber Company, on 

 "Lumber Prices" ; William H. Schuette of William Schuette & Co.. on 

 "Trade Ethics" : Franklin Dickey. Secretary of the Pittsburgh Lumber- 

 men's Club, on the "Open Shop," and Edward Filer, a well known Pitts- 

 burgh wholesaler, on "Transit Cars." 



BALTIMORE 



Robert B. Di.xon, who had long been engaged in the lumber and furniture 

 manufacturing business at Easton. Md.. died at his home near that town 

 on Februaiw 4, after an illness of some months. Mr. Dixon, who was 86 

 years old, reversed the usual order and went from the city to the country 

 to seek and find his fortune, having been born in Baltimore. He embarked 

 in business and achieved much success, having many interests, among 

 them the presidency of the Easton National Bank, in which he was recently 

 succeeded by his son. One of his daughters is thi' wile of I'nited States 

 Attorney General Palmer. 



The Heywood Bros. & Wakefield Company of New Jersey, which has 

 large furniture and baby carriage manufacturing plants in various places, 

 conducting also a very large branch in Baltimore, has been reorganized 

 under the laws of Massachusetts, according to information received here. 

 The new name is the Heywood-Wakefield Company, and the capital stock 

 has been fixed at $13,000,000. 



The Columbia Graphaphone Company, which operates a large plant at 

 Orangeville. in the northeastern suburbs, has droiiped several hundred 

 employes of the cabinet making factory owing to a clecliue in the number 



The Harvey Loehr Lumber Company of Canton has increased its capital 

 from .1i'215,000 to $200,000. 



The Ohio State Lumber Company of Cleveland has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $.50,000 to deal in lumber. Incorporators are George 

 Paldo. Charles N. Krieg. Dan Ulmer, D. Foster and S. Holama. 



The Miller Saw Mill & Lumber Company of Bedford, O., has been char- 

 tered with a capital of ,$30,000 to manufacture and deal in lumber. The 

 incorporators are Carl E. Miller, George L. Miller. Elise L. Miller, Willard 

 Miller and Clara Ij. Gierson. 



The Imperial Lumber Company of Columbus has filed a suit agaiust the 

 Acme Flooring Company and Bertha R. Weiser of New York city to col- 

 lect $27,930 alleged due for breach of contract on the purchase of flooring. 



.\ number of the district superintendents of the W. M. Hitter Lumber 

 Company were in Columbus recently in conference with the officials of the 

 company. Included in the list were A. A. Kopp. with headquarters at 

 Huntington. W. Va. ; E. E. Ritter. with headquarters at .\sheville. N. C, 

 and .\. T. Crockett, with headquarters at Raleigh. 



W. E. Morgan, who has been in charge of the Charleston. W. Va., branch 

 house of the Central West Coal & Lumber Company of Columbus, has 

 been made sales manager of the company, succeeding J. M. Andrew, who 

 resigned to enter the wholesale lumber business under his name. 



W. L. Whitacre. head of the concern bearing his name, has returned 

 from a business trip in the South. 



E. M. Stark, secretary of the American Column & Lumber Company of 

 Columbus, has returned from an inspection trip to the company's mills 

 at Stark, W. Va. He reports an increase in the number of inquiries, with 

 confidence returning in all sections. The mills are l)eing operated on 

 about a fifty per cent basis. 



F. B. Pryor. salesmanager of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, reports 

 a better feeling in hardwood circles generally which is shown by the 

 increased numl)er of inquiries received. There is a slight increase in the 

 volume of business. Every one appears rather optimistic and he lielieves 

 there will be a continued improvement in the hardwood trade. 



W. W. Reilley of W. W. Reiiley Company. Buffalo, sales agents Un- the 

 Bowman Lumber Company, was a recent business visitor in Columbus. 



of orders. 



COLUMBUS 



Papers have been filed increasing the .■lutltorized capital of the Cellar 

 Lumber Company of Westerville. O., from $30,000 to $100,000. 



The annual meeting of the Columbus Lumber Trade Exchange will be 

 held at the club room in the Joyce Realty building, March 10. A diuuer 

 will be served at 6 p. m., which will be followed by the business session. 

 Officers will be elected. T. A. Jones is president and W. E. Jones secretary. 



R. Emmett Smith, aged 36 years, a well known lumberman of Colum- 

 bus and Newark^ Ohio, died at his residence in Newark recently from an 

 attack of pneumonia. He was a member of the Buckeye Lumber Exchange 

 of Columbus and also the Liberty Lumber Company of Columbus. 



CLEVELAND 



Hardwood and all lumber interests here are expected to join in a com- 

 prehensive advertising movement, the first of its kind in Cleveland, to 

 interest the buying public in lumber this spring. .\ committee, headed by 

 Max Myers, the Nicola-Stone-Myers Company, has been named by the 

 Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers to work out details of the plan, and 

 present it to the members at an early meeting. It is probable that no 

 names will be attached to advertising where such might be possible, the 

 main object being to increase demand for material, and thereby permit 

 the individual interests to benefit. 



Upon amicable agreement on wages between building trades labor and 

 the Buililing Trades Employers' Association will largely depend the amount 

 of local hardwood business to be done this spring. This is the opinion of 

 leading members of the trade here following announcement by the Build- 

 ing Trades Council that all labor unions have voted against any decrease 

 in wages this spring. Present wage agreements expire May 1. Building 

 trades employers have gone on record for a reduction in wages, claiming 

 that April 1 will mark a 30 per cent reduction in living costs, as shown 

 by labor department statistics. Workers contend that living costs have 

 not been reduced. 



Charles H. Poole, member of parliament of New Zealand, addressed 

 hardwood and other material interests members of the Cleveland .\dver- 

 tising Club on housing conditions in his country. Mr. Poole showed that 

 the government theie has a keen interest in couples planning to marry, 

 or newly wedded couples. It builds houses for them with a down payment 

 of S.'iO. and the purchasers have 25 years in which to pay off the house. 

 Millions of dollars have been invested successfully in this project, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Poole. 



New plant for the Arnold Woodenware ("ompany is being planned. It 

 will be a two-story building. 00 by ISO feet, at Detroit avenue and West 

 53rd street. It is expected to cost $!tO,000. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Appellate Court of Indiana has upheld the decision of the Marion 

 County Circuit Court in the case of Black & Yates against the Talge 

 5lahogany Company of Indianapolis in a decision just handed down. The 

 records show that a verdict of $1,617.52, as damages against the Talge 

 Mahogany Company about two years ago, were given Black & Yates. 



Harry C. Scearce. a lumber dealer here, is now in Phoenix, Ariz., and 

 wall continue his trip to California and also visit the lumber producing 

 •■egions in Oregon and Washington to get acquainted with the situation 

 there before returning to Indianapolis. 



.\11 of the Showers Bros. Company furniture plants in Bloomington. 

 including the new kitchen cabinet factory and the sawmill, are again 

 running and W. E. Showers, president of the concern, is very optimistic 

 about the future business outlook. 



In the opinion of Edmund Secrest, chief of the department of forestry 

 of the Ohio agricultural experiment station, the forestry bill now before 

 the assembly is fair to both the public and the woodland owner. This bill 

 is intended to encourage farm forestry among owners of denuded hills and 



