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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Appalachian Lumber Company has started business as an incor 

 porated concern with $50,000 at .Tonesboro, Tenn. 



The Hub Motor Truck Company started business at Columbus. O., with 

 $:(00.000 capital, to manufacture all kinds of vehicles. 



The Northern Coach Compan.v has started business at Port Washing- 

 ton, Wis. This is an incorporated concern with $2.t.000. 



The Artisan Millwork Compan.v has started business at Marshall. 111. 

 This is an incorporated concern with .tll2,000 capital stock. 



The nanimond-Chandlex Ivumber Compan.v of Itice Lake, Wis., was 

 recentl.v incorporated, the authorized capital being .$100,000. 



The National Sen'ice Corporation, an automobile manufacturing insti- 

 tution, has started business at Wilmington, Del., with ?1()0,000 capital 

 stock. 



The Auburn Wagon t'ompan.v of Martinsburg, W. Va.. announces the 

 death of its general manager. Max Robinson, which occurred on Sunday, 

 January 31. 



A new furniture manufacturing institution known as the ,Tamestown 

 Superior I'^irniture Company has been incorpfirated at .lamestown, N. Y.. 

 with .?2.1,000. 



^-< CHICAGO >.^ 



Charles C. Hoyd of C. C. Tioyd & Co., hardwood and \.]j..i maMu 

 facturers of Cincinnati. O., was In Chicago for a few days about a week 

 ago. 



J. D. Staple of the Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company, Glad- 

 stone, Mich., spent a day in Chicago last week. 



H. W. Baker of the Itaker-Mathews Manufacturing Company, Sikcston, 

 Mo., spent a few days in Chicago last week. 



K. M. Vestal of the Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Kno.\ 

 ville, Tenn., was in the city for a few days last week on a combination 

 business and pleasure trip. He reports having sold quite a little Ten- 

 nessee red cedar in the North. 



E. D. Galloway and M. L. Pease of the fialloway-Pease Company. Pop 

 lar Bluff, Mo., conferred In Chicago the greater part of last week. 



C. H. Sherrill of the Colfax Hardwood Lumber Company, Colfax, La., 

 spent several days last week In Chicago in conference with the local 

 representative, II. .1. Ueinehard. 



C. B. .Mien, manager of the veneer department of the Anderson-Tully 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., was In Chicago the greater part of last week. 



The Anguera Lumber Company, Chicago, 111., has been succeitled l)y the 

 Anguera Lumber & Tie Company: 



=-< BUFFALO >= 



The efforts of Mayor Fuhrinauu and the Chamber of Commerce are 

 being exerted to start a "build now" movement in this city and as far 

 as possible municipal and other building work will be accelerated. The 

 present cost of material is so low and the opportunity to obtain labor 

 is so unusual that It Is likely that the building trade will be stimulated. 

 The city has been somewhat hampered by lack of funds, but at present 

 these can be obtained on favorable terms. 



An echo of the failure of the Blue Grass Lumber Company of this 

 city is the filing of a petition in bankruptcy by Charles S. Creelraan, a 

 lumberman well known In Chicago and other cities. His debts are 

 largely due to banks and bis name is on notes to Southern institutions 

 to the extent of $157,000. Total liabilities are ?175,«9.3.38, with assets 

 of $50. 



Ten men were killed and five badly injured on I"el)ruary 3 In an ex- 

 plosion In the bunkhouse of the Mayburg Chemical Company, which 

 owns thousands of acres of standing timber around Mayburg, Pa. It 

 is believed that the hose to a lighted gas stove became detached and 

 that the gas ignited from a lamp. 



W. K. .Tackson of .Tackson & Tlndle has been in Michigan lately, 

 looking after the installation of new machinery and the starting up of 

 the firm's new band sawmill at Pellston, 



A. .T. Ellas has returned from a week's trip to Washington, D. C. 

 G. Ellas & Bro. report the hardwood trade as rather quiet, but look 

 for improvement in the next few weeks. 



Blakeslce, Pcrrln & Darling state that the hardwood trade, while 

 slow at present, has been picking up a little. The yard Is getting In 

 stocks of plain oak and ash. 



M. AI. Wall has returned from a business trip of several weeks to the 

 South. He states that the lumber people there are not very busy just 

 now, but are hopeful of better business soon. 



The trade has turned In such a way that the A. J. Chestnut Lumber 

 Co. has been increasing its purchases of Pennsylvania hardwoods, with 

 an e.ve to certain customers In the New York city district. 



The Yeager Lumber Company is getting in stocks of a number of 

 woods, including birch, oak and chestnut. Maple, chestnut and ash have 

 been among the best selling woods, next to oak. 



The yard of T. Sullivan & Co. has been receiving some good shipments 

 of brown ash and elm from Michigan. Trade has not been very active, 

 but these two woods have been selling fairly well. 



The McLean Mahogany & Cedar Company Is finding business about 

 as quiet as anyone, but I'resldent R. D. Mcr.,ean does not think that it 



is to last a great while. He is keeping routine matters up closely in 

 order to be ready for the improvement. The company is now located at 



601 White buildin 



.< BOSTON >.= 



riit Mitssaoliiisetts Wbolesalo Luiiil>er Associiition, Inc., has appointed 

 "W'ln. Bacon chairman of a committee to co-operate with the Massachu- 

 setts State Board of Trade in securing reasonable modifications of the 

 proposed drastic fire prevention legislation and ordinances, more especial- 

 ly in the Metropolitan district. The most uneconomic and unwarranted 

 restrictions on the uses of lumber which have been outlined by the newly 

 created Fire Prevention Commission will greatly hamper much construc- 

 tion in this section and the luinbornien in their own interest and that 

 of the community liope to have many of the uncalled for provisions 

 withdrawn. 



The firm of J. K. & B. Sears Company of Middleboro and also II. A. 

 Fay of Lynn, Mass., have assigned: and the depressed condition of 

 business is further evidenced by four bankruptcy petitions with liabilities 

 aggregating iprtO,i565. the principal ])otitioners being Leonard F. Jones of 

 Holyoke and C. M. Ilebert of Ludlow, Mass. 



The C. B. Swift Company has been incorporated at Boston, for the 

 mnnufaclure of furniture, with capital of $25,000. In Maine two new 

 lirms have beeu organized: The Barker Lumber Company at Orono. Me., 

 capitalized at ?100.000, the president and treasurer being Henry L. 

 Barker of Old Town ; also the Welsford Lumber Company at Danforth, 

 Me., with capital of $10,000, the president being John W. Hinch of the 

 same town* The incorporation of the Gale Lumber Company at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., is also recorded. It has a capital of $50,000. Wm. Glaston 

 of Cambridge is president. 



=■< BALTIMORE >-= 



The Ryland & Urooks Lumber Company, which has headquarters in 

 the American Building and which lias been devoting Itself almost exclu- 

 sively to yellow pine, has of late taken up hardwoods to a much greater 

 extent than before. To look after this end of the business it has formed 

 a connection with Turner W. and Howard Isaac. The former Is well known 

 in the trade here, having been engaged for years as a wholesaler. More 

 than two years ago he went to Norfolk, Va.. to operate a mill. Ills 

 brother has been associated with him. 



Harrison Brother.s have decided to erect a planing mill at Cuinberlaud, 

 Md. The building will be 28x7." feet and will be equipped with liaud and 

 circular saws, turning lathes, headers, borers and other machines to be 

 found In an up-to-date plant. 



Hugh S. I^eary of the well-known London IuhiImt firm of C. Leary & 

 Company, who has been In the United States since December, looking 

 up supplies of lumber needed for the conduct of war and other purposes, 

 reached Baltimore .lanuary 20. lie spent considerable time with M. S. 

 Baer of Richard P. Baer & Company, as his personal guest, and afterward 

 left for New York, where he will take the steamer pranconia this week 

 for home. Considerable mystery was thrown around Mr. Leary's visit 

 i>y the Baltimore pai)ers, and the visitor rather added to it by declining 

 to talk about the .Vmerlcan trip or his mission. It Is thought, however, 

 (lint his purpose was not so much to take up stocks as to see to it that 

 those already ordered go forward with reasonable expedition, more or less 

 delay having been experienced. I-'urthermore, the suggestion is made 

 that he may have given assurances as to financial arrangements, con- 

 cerning wlibh some doubl had lieen entertained. .\s far as could be 

 learned Mr. Leary did not place any orders in Baltimore. He has visited 

 a number of the large cities In the course of Ihls trip and has also been 

 at a nunil)er of the lumber centers. 



Richard P. Baer returned recently from a trip South which took him 

 as far as New Orleans. He visited a number of the mills and whole- 

 salers, and returned with the belief that the gulf states are worse off. 

 In so far as the foreign I'lnliargo is concerned, than the Atlantic seaboard. 

 Mr. Baer found many of the mills still shut down and the production of 

 hardwoods much curtailed. 



=< COLUMBUS y- 



The Powell Lumber and Construction Company of Columbus has been 

 incorporated with a capital of .$23,000 to do a general lumber business, 

 by F. PIverson Powell, J'red W. Postle, E. M. Patterson, Mame Parks and 

 E. W. Baldrldge. 



According to the report of the Columbus building Inspector there were 

 S9 permits issued during the month of January, 1915, valued at $85,100, 

 as compared with 122 permits and a valuation of $178,740 in January, 

 1914. 



The Cleveland Saw Guard Company of Cleveland has been Incorpo- 

 rated with a capital of $5,000 to manufacture guards for saws and other 

 safety appliances, by W. F. HoUiday, A. E. Clevenger, M. K. Davcy, 

 M. L. Heuer and Charles M. Buss. 



In a ruling given to the Ohio State Board of Administration by the 

 attorney general of Ohio it is held that the mechanics' Hen law cannot 

 be enforced against the state. The ruling affects all persons selling to 

 contractors which do state work. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company says trade in 

 hardwoods is holding up well under the circumstances. Buying is about 

 equally divided between yards and manufacturing establishments. The 



