HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10. U>1U 



HIGH GRADE. 



RANCIS 



GALLOWAY-PEASE CO. 



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PERKINS 

 .:. GLUE .:. 

 COMPANY 



Sole Manufacturers 

 and Selling Agents 



Perkins Vegetable Veneer Glue 



J. M.S. BUILDING 



South Bend, Indiana 



land, taking Id tlic lumber conrpDtion later at Pblladclphla. Trade Is 

 good for the season, but embargoes ihut olt shipments to many points. 



W. K. Jackson of Jackson & Tlndlc Is taking a pleasure trip to Cali- 

 fornia and will not return until April. Though a great traveler, this Is the 

 first vacation Mr. Jackson has had In a long time. 



The McLean Mahogany and Cedar Company Is now handling various 

 hardwoods In addition to Its main specialties, and has lately been getting 

 In stocks of ash, onk and walnut. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company states that quartered oak In the 

 better grades shows Improvement In demand. Furniture men are busy, 

 though not taking as much of this wood as In some years. 



The Yeagcr Lumber Company considers the outlook good for hardwoods 

 this spring and Is adding' iinrtM ii'irlv to Its stocks r.f maple and onk. 



-< PHILADELPHIA >. 



The death on February 24 of Henry II. Shclp cast quite a gloom over 

 the local lumber colony. Mr. Shelp, who was head of the Henry H. Shelp 

 Manufacturing Company, had not been In good health for several years. 

 Besides the plant In this city the Shelp company has one In Tampa, Fla.. 

 and a half dozen lumber yards with a capacity of 10,000,000 feet. The 

 will of Mr. Shelp, probated a few days ago, devises an estate of $130,000 

 and upward to his widow, son and daughter. 



Building work started In this city during the month of February cost 

 J2,.394,035 as against $2,574,730 during the corresponding month In lOl."). 

 Although this was a slight falling off in total the volume for dwelling 

 houses broke the record for the past ten years, the amount expended for 

 this purpose being $1,329,200. 



William H. Armstrong, the last of the convicted International Lumber 

 and Development Company swindlers, started his prison term last week, 

 his health having Improved to such an extent that he was able to appear 

 In court for sentence. Two days after Armstrong entered the peniten- 

 tiary Colonel A. B. Stewart of Chicago, and former .\ttorney General of 



I'orlo lllm, nnl«h(><1 hU lenn for the name offense. Stewart made affidavit 

 that he » to pay hli One of $l,0O0 and wna n-lrnard. 



■•uml" . n of IhU rlly |int tired of waiting fur the outdoor 



lav nvrnlly went down to the (ilmhcl utore 

 |ilii> totirnnineiit on the nilnlnture liidu<ir 



>"...■•. k ,* , . . t \\ f .1.,. ],,^. jj|.,,iig ficnro 



to M. ('. Ilurtun. i' i:i and net 43, 



while llurtnn'a pri, • , In. for a total of 



■'>4. .\. II. I'*. Smith wna within one atroke of Janiii y Iiir the net prUe and 

 J. M. Mrl'arland, Jr.'s, Till wnii m-cnnd among the groai arorea. 



.\ new ahlpynrd nlung the Helnwiire river will aoon be alart<-d by the 

 rcnnHylvanln ShIpbiilldliiK t'liinpnny. n rorporatlon juat orgaolied In thia 

 lity. with a capital of inon.iiiNt. Tnnkera and nierrhant veaaela will be 

 hullt In the yard*. Onlera hnve nlnndy been received for all ahlpa and 

 none of them will co«t leuM Ihiin JitoO.OdO. 



MarcuH /.an4> Iiiin piirchnNtMl an Inti'rest In the I>err LumlM<r Company, 

 .^litythlrd and Market alreela. For many years Mr. Zanc waa aaaoclated 

 with Chnrlea llenton. 



The wholeaale lumber Arm of 8. t). 1)111 baa changed Ita name to the 

 Mill' lialMniire Lumber Company, and removed from the Franklin Bank 

 building to Ilellevue court. 



Albert IC. I'eoplea has been made Philadelphia representative for the 

 J. J. Newumn l.uml>er <'ompany, Krranton, Pa. 



J. .\. Smith, formerly of Inlontown, Pa., has been made aaalatant 

 manager of the lonil odlce of the Foreat Lumber Company. 



At the nnnuiil meeting of the Sawdust Club, held at the I'nIoD Ix-ague, 

 K. B. Malone was re-elected president, John T. Illley was made the new 

 vUe pn'slih'tit. 1111(1 Horace .\. Heeves. .Ir., scc-retiiry treaaurer. 



.< PITTSBURGH >.. 



The Imperial Glass Company of Charlerol, Pa., has started work on an- 

 other large plant at California, Pa. This concern Is one of the big buyer* 

 of hardwood In this territory and, like nearly all other glass concerns 

 In the Plttxburgh district. Is adding much to Its manufacturing capacity 

 this year. 



The Kendall Lumber Company Is Increasing Ita capital from $60,000 to 

 $100,000. The company's winter business has been good and Ita outlook 

 for spring, especially In manufacturing lines and with the railroads. Is 

 first-class. 



John F. Ross, aged 87, a pioneer lumber dealer of Klttannlng, Pa., died 

 at his home in that city February 22. 



The E. II. Shrelner Lumber Company reports a very good Inquiry 

 for manufacturing stocks. Mr. Shrelner made quite a long trip recently 

 through the middle and western Mates and dug up a fine lot of prospects 

 which are going to come along as orders this spring. 



The Heilman Lumber Company has been organized nt Klttannlng, Pa., 

 by Herbert P. Heilman, F. A. Moesta and others of that place. 



The Pittsburgh Knife and Forge Company has bought one acre of 

 ground on P.elniont street, Northsldc, as a site for a big plant. This la 

 one of a half dozen big factory projects which have been announced Id 

 the Pittsburgh district during the past week. 



E. V. Babcock, head of the Bahcock lumber Interests, surprised all his 

 employes one evening last week by giving them a dinner nt his East End 

 residence. Twenty-four of the office force were present. Including the 

 office hoy. Beside the place card at ever.v plate was a check for $100. 



The Pennsylvania State Forestry Department Is arranging to plant more 

 than 7,000.000 .voung trees this spring. This Is about half the number In 

 the state's 24 nurseries nt present. The distribution this year will be 

 4,7ri0.O00 white pine, 800,000 Norway spruce and pitch pine and the balance 

 sugar maple, Scotch pine and honey locust. 



L. W. Sayre of Bycsvllle. Ohio, Is arranging to establish a handle works 

 In the former Duff & Ballentlnc pinning mill In that city. 



E. B. Hamilton of the SntlerHnmllton Lumber Company has gone 

 South this week to look over conditions among the mills. This company 

 Is doing a fine business in hardwood and Its factory trade never looked s« 

 well as now. 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, Is going 

 South this week to Investlgnte conditions In the gum and Cottonwood 

 market. Owing to the floods he reports that shipments are very slow 

 and Irregular. 



E. II. Ptoner of the West Penn Lumber Company reports that manu- 

 facturing and Industrial trade Is good. In fact. It Is very much better 

 than ordinary business Iti lumber. Stocks are only fair and when spring 

 buying begins It looks as If It would bo strong. 



The Grove City Body and Manufacturing Company Is a new concern 

 at Grove City, Pa., which has taken over the business of the McKay- 

 Gllmore Furniture Company and will manufacture a complete line of Ford 

 and other automobile bodies. It will purchase a considerable amount of 

 hardwood In the nenr future. 



=-< BOSTON y- 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber 

 Association was held at Boston, February 18-19, the open meeting on the 

 fprmer date being devoted to formal discussion of problems of the retail 

 trade, principally the motor truck development and the Massachusetts 

 Lien Law, now in operation. This law, which has the endorsement of 

 many judges. lawyiTs nnd businessmen, was enacted by the present leglsla- 



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