March 25, 1916 



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SECTION OF LOG CRIB AT MILLS, LONT. ISI,\Nr) CITY, SHOWING MAHOGANY LOGS OP 

 CHOICE QUALITY WAITING TO BE MANUFACTURED INTO LUMBER AND VENEER 



HUDDLESTON-MARSH MAHOGANY COMPANY 



Importers and Manufacturers of 



Mahogany Lumber and Veneers 



Manufacturing and Wholesale Office: Western Office and Distributing Yard: 



33 West 42nd Street, NEW YORK 2254-2266 Lumber Street, CHICAGO 



Mills and Yards, Long Island City, N. Y. 



ensuing year : President, J. B. Montgomery cyt tbe American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company ; vice-president, C. V. McCreight of tbe Riclis- 

 McCreigbt Lumber Company; secretary and treasurer (reelected! .T. O. 

 Crlste of the Interior Lumber Company ; directors, Fred R. Babcock, 

 Babcock Lumber Company ; J. I'. Garllng. Ciarling & Splane ; .1. C. Donges, 

 J. C. Donges Lumber Company ; Edward S. Bunn, Allegheny Lumber Com- 

 pany, and A. Rex Flinn, Duquesne Lumber Company. The association 

 now has twenty-eight firms as active members. 



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The Fore River Ship & Engine Company of Quincy, Mass., is erecting a 

 new wood shop, 800x100 feet. This concern is now entering a period of 

 great activity. It Is reported to be investigating certain substitutes for 

 teak and other foreign woods, contemplating the use of domestic lumber 

 instead. 



Much Interest is shown among the local wholesalers in the Interstate 

 Commerce decision on docket 5518. information to be shown on freight 

 bills. It Is generally conceded that the policy of the commission is 

 clearly evidenced, to protect all patrons of the carriers from loss of 

 business through any act or document of the carrier. No change of rela- 

 tion is expected to be created by the employment of transportation serv- 

 ices, although in the last paragraph of the supplementar.y report Com- 

 missioner Harlan seems to read into the present status of the matter the 

 question of applying this ruling to reconsign shipments only, and also 

 the question of "ultimate consignee" whether he be the freight payer or 

 merely the consignee named when re-conslgning. Future practices and 

 evidences will no doubt affect the commission's more definite limitation 

 of disclosures. 



The trade is also watching the proposed legislation embodied in Senate 

 Bill 145 now before the Massachusetts legislature, whereby the surveyor 

 general of this state shall be a salaried officer with office, appointments, 

 etc., paid by the state. Heretofore this department has been run on a 

 percentage of the fees received by the deputies and there is more or less 

 speculation as to the effect on a statutory survey of local origin by the 

 several association inspections which are so largely Insisted on by many 

 shippers into this state. 



The L. H. Schmunk Lumber Company has commenced business at 

 Springfield, Mass., capital being reported $60,000. L. H. Schmunk Is 

 president and treasurer of the new company. 



The Elllngwood Novelty Company of Buckfield, Me., has been incorp- 

 orated to manufacture wooden novelties of all kinds ; capitalized at 

 $50,000. 



The Berlin Veneer Company of Portland, Me., is organizing with capital 

 of $10,000. 



The Northern Veneer Company of Caribou, Me., has filed petition in 

 bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $50,938 and assets of $35,427. 



Word has been received of the death of W. A. Sherburne, a large 

 dealer in local lumber. He is widely known, having had his Boston 

 office for years at 70 Kilby street, between which and his office at Roches- 

 ter, N. H., he divided his time until about a year ago, when advancing 

 age brought on disease compelling him to remain in his home at 

 Rochester, where he died. He kept in touch with business till the last 

 and as a representative of the older generation of sturdy New Hampshire 

 lumbermen, he will be greatly missed. 



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The statement of building operations for February shows a big gain 

 over the previous month, although the larger part of this gain is at- 

 tributed to the permit for the twenty-story office building of the Con- 

 solidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Company. The esitmated value 

 of this structure is not less than $800,000, hut unofficial valuations place 

 it at upwards of $1,000,000. The total for new buildings for February, 

 estimated value, is $1,402,568, to which may be put $56,055 on account 

 of additions and $168,600 for alterations, a grand total of $1,627,223, 

 against not more than about $413,000 for January, 1916, and about 

 $600,000 for February of last year. Even without the exceptional addi- 

 tion of $800,000, the F.-bruary total for last month would be as large as 

 the showing a year ago, so that the general ■ result is of a character to 

 cause much satisfaction. 



Richard P. Baer of Richard P. Baer & Co. is on a trip to the firm's 

 sawmill at Mobile, and is making a general study of hardwood condi- 

 tions in the South, especially the exports by way of Gulf ports. 



Mr. Bledsoe of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company was at the office of 

 the company for a few days last week, but lost no time in returning to 

 North Carolina, it being considered very important now for someone to 

 be constantly on hand at the point of production in order that the output 

 may be as large as possible, the lumber being needed to take care of 

 orders. 



The Johnston Line steamer Quernmore, In from Liverpool ten days ago, 

 brought eleven mahogany logs for the Williamson Veneer Company of 

 Hlghlandtown. 



A large delegation of Baltimoreans attended the annual meeting of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' -Association in Philadelphia 

 last week. 



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