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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25. 1921 



and TLirtj-sfventb street, Baltimore, lias been used as an assemliling 

 establishment for the manufacture of wooden boxes, shocks, etc., is pre- 

 paring to put up this spring a building 150 b.v 300 feet and equip it for 

 the manufacture of boxes and crates. Packing cases of all kinds are to 

 be turned out, and hardwoods in considerable quantities will be used. 



COLUMBUS 



K. (i. Dillow. manager of the Franklin Lumber Company of Columbus, 

 has been named Viceregent Snark of the Columbus district order of Hoc 

 Hoc. He has already taken steps to organize a local Hoo Hoo club. 



At Mechanicsburg, Ohio, C. W. Alexander & Sons have been succeeded by 

 a firm known as Clemmons & Alexander. 



A disastrous Are recently totally destroyed the yard and plant of the 

 Home Lumber Co., of Warren, Ohio, causing a loss of about $50,000, which 

 was partly covered by insurance. 



The name of the Schmitt Lumber & Supply Company of Cleveland has 

 been changed to the Schmitt Lumber Company, eliminating supplies. 



G. W. Foster, formerly connected with the Sanford-Bodge Lumber Com- 

 pany of Columbus, has severed his connection with that company and has 

 organized the Foster Lumber Company. OfBces have been opened in the 

 Gasro building. The new concern will wholesale southern pine, cypress 

 and hardwoods. 



The J. M. Andrew Lumber Company, recently organized by J. M. 

 Andrew, has now opened offices in the James Building. 



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

 a larger number of inquiries for hardwoods with orders coming in slightly 

 better. But business is still slow, however, and many of the prospective 

 purchasers are still holding off. The mills of the company have been placed 

 in operation on about a 40 per cent basis. Shipping is going on promptly. 



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

 reports a better feeling in lumber circles and more especially in hardwood 

 matters. Inquiries are more numerous, indicating a disposition to enter 

 the market. Retailers and factories are both making inquiries. Railroads 

 are held up on orders because of lack of funds. Mr. Stark recently 

 returned from a business trip to Chicago and Cleveland. 



CLEVELAND 



MemlK-rs of the industry allied with the Cleveland Board of Lumber 

 Dealers have approved the move proposed by the National Federation of 

 Construction Industries for the education of the public into the correct 

 building situation, as outlined at the recent meeting in Chicago, and 

 reported upon here by J. V. O'Brien, secretary, who represented the entire 

 industry from Cleveland. Support of the movement is likely to be deferred 

 here for a few weeks, however, owing to the uncertainty attending the 

 expiration, on May 1, of wage agreements between the Building Trades 

 Employers Association and union building trades crafts. Employers are 

 for a wage reduction, while union leaders not only oppose reductions, but 

 demand increases, as, for example, an increase of 10 cents over the present 

 $1.25 rate for carpenters. 



This hint is holding back prospective house builders from going ahead 

 with operations — and upon house building the bulk of hardwood business 

 here must depend. Another factor making for caution in renewed building 

 operations is the failure of most materials to deflate in price, and still 

 another is the refusal of banks to loan money for new building operations. 



New location for his headquarters is announced by John W. Enoch, long 

 Identified with the industry in Cleveland. Mr. Enoch for several years has 

 been located in the Hippodrome building. Henceforth he will be at 10102 

 Plerpont avenue. 



CINCINNATI 



Contract for the construction of a lumber shed on Station avenue between 

 Chester Park and the C. H. & D. Railroad to cost approximately $4,000 has 

 been awarded by the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company to the Hazen-Jones 

 Construction Company. 



The Sayers & Scovill Company, automobile and carriage manufaettirers, 

 have declared a dividend of 1^ per cent on common stock and 1}^ per cent 

 preferred, payable April 1 to holders of record March 21. 



The Cincinnati Carriage Makers' Club has nominated the following 

 members for the Board of Directors : P. H. Bossmeyer, Alphonse Gruber, 

 Emll E. Hess, Frank H. Knoblaugh, Fred Luth, A. C. Pogue, Harry Voss 

 and Phil T. Walker. Clarence I. Rennekamp, Chairman of the Nominating 

 Committee, announced that the annual election is to be held Monday, 

 April 14. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Dealers In hardwoods designed for construction purposes are much 

 delighted with the passage of the law, and Its signature by the governor, 

 which would make a misdemeanor the failure of a contractor to accept 

 payment for any construction work and then fall to pay the material 

 bills. 



The VIncennes Furniture Manufacturing Company, at Vlncennes, Ind., 

 has reduced the number of Its directors from six to Ave. 



Several Indianapolis contractors are planning to present figures for the 

 construction of a new factory building for the Karges Wagon Works at 

 BvansvIIle, Ind. The factory will be used for the manufacture of miniature 

 wagons. It will be one story high, 60x250 feet. 



The Richmond Luml>er Company of Richmond, Ind., has increased its 

 capital stock from $10,000 to $50,000. 



The Gruesiug Abel Manufacturing Company, of Terre Haute, Ind., has 

 completed its organization with a capital stock of $15,000. The company 

 plans to manufacture furniture. The directors are G. N. Cruse, W. H. 

 Abel, H. -L. Gruesiug and Walter Abel. 



The construction industry won its first victory of the spring when the 

 strike of carpenters at Columbus, Ind., was declared off and the men went 

 back to work at a lower figure. They will get 70 cents a hour for nine 

 hours instead of the same money for eight hours. 



The lumber trade here is wondering what will happen to the present 

 scale of wages for the building trades when the negotiations are made 

 public at the end of the present month. The contractors say they will not 

 settle for the same money now being paid and the trades all want Increases. 

 A plan has been started by some to make the building business here open 

 shop. 



Millspaugh & Irish, automobile body manufacturers here, have organized 

 a realty company with a capital of $90,000 for the purpose of enlarging 

 their plant site. The directors are Harry B. Millspaugh, Clarence R. Irish 

 and C. B. Clippinger. 



The C. 1). Pierson Lumber Company, of Clay City, Ind., has filed a pre- 

 liminary decree of dissolution. 



The plant of the W. L. Brown company, north of Indianapolis, has been 

 sold to the Farmers' Terminal Grain and Feed Company of this city. The 

 new owners will take over the main portion of the plant June 1 and will 

 wreck it and build a large elevator and flour mill there. 



According to Walter B. Sterns, city building commissioner, the largest 

 number of building permits for one week in the history of the bureau were 

 issued last week. Although the valuation has been exceeded the number of 

 permits issued is the largest. A total of 242 permits of a valuation of 

 $376,486 were issued. Fift.v-one permits of a total valuation of $104,595 

 were issued yesterday, which are far in excess of the average day's reports 

 for last year. 



EVANSVILLE 



The first fiood of the lower Ohio river for this season was reported the 

 second week in March and the river after reaching a point of about one 

 and one half above the danger line at Evansville came to a stop on March 

 16, but practically no damage was reported, although a great many of 

 the bottom farms between this city and Paducah, Ky., were under water 

 tor a few days. Both Green and Barren rivers in western Kentucky, 

 also, were above flood stage for several days and while a few saw mills 

 and stave mills along those rivers were closed down for a short time, 

 the damage, if any, was slight. It Is not believed that the floods will 

 seriously delay the bottom farmers in their spring work. 



A committee has been appointed by the Commercial Club at New 

 Harmony, Ind., a live town on the Wabash river a few miles west of 

 Evansville, to investigate the prospects of bringing an excelsior or box 

 factory to New Harmony. A. R. West, lumber buyer for a large box and 

 egg case factory at Caruthersville, Mo., who has been buying timber along 

 the lower Wabash river for the past year, says there is still an abun- 

 dance of timber left along that river and that a box factory at New 

 Harmony would be able to get plenty of raw materials for years to 

 come. 



D. B. MacLaren, lumberman of Indianapolis, who tor many years was 

 located in the business In Evansville, was here a few days ago calling 

 on the local trade. Mr. MacLaren, who was formerly president of the 

 Evansville Lumbermen's Club, says that for some time past trade at 

 Indianapolis and other cities in the central part of the state has been 

 rather sluggish, but in his opinion the worst of the business depression 

 is over and he thinks that April 1 will see a marked improvement in the 

 situation. 



J. T. Sullivan, representing the Philip A. Ryan Lumber Company at 

 Memphis, Tenn., was here a few days ago calling on the local trade. He 

 said that not over 10 per cent of the hardwood mills in the south are now 

 being operated and he thought that perhaps some of the mills now running 

 would close down soon. He said that trade had been exceedingly dull 

 since the first of the year. Another recent business visitor here was 

 D. G. Shelby, representing the Clark and Boice Lumber Company, of 

 Dallas, Tex. Mr. Shelby said that things had been rather dull down in 

 Texas for some time past. 



Carl Wolflin, who for the past year has been associated In business 

 with his father, Charles A. Wolflin, in the Wolflin West Side Lumber Com- 

 pany in this city is now connected with the Central Warehouse Lumber 

 Company at Minneapolis, Minn. 



William H. McCurdy, president of the Hercules Buggy Company, and 

 Mayor Benjamin Bosse, president of the Globe-Bosse-World Lumber Com- 

 pany, also associated with many other large wood consuming manufac- 

 turing companies of this city, have been made honorary members for life 

 of the Press Club here. Mr. McCurdy is president of the Evansville 

 Journal Company, while Mayor Bosse Is the president of the Evansville 

 Courier Publishing Company. 



Building contractors of I5vansvllle a few days ago made a request of 

 the building trades crafts of the city to accept a 20 per cent reduction 

 in wages on the first of April, this being the time when most of the con- 

 tracts of the contractors with the unions will expire. All crafts refused 

 the request with the exception of the sheet metal workers and they said 



