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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Sam E. Ban* is another rover this month of moving. Unlike so man.v 

 others, lie is coming down town, and after May 1 his address will lie 

 Hudson Terminal building. 



C. B. Von Canon, representing the J. Walter Wright Lumber Company 

 of Mountain City, Tenn., was a recent visitor in New Yorli. He reports a 

 slow, steady improvement in business and says the outlook for the hard* 

 wood trade is promising. 



=-< BUFFALO y 



The shooting of George B. Montgomery by a British sentry in Ber- 

 muda was a great shock to his many friends and business associates 

 here. While the explanation is that it was a stray bullet which hit Mr. 

 Montgomery, the affair looks like a piece of criminal carelessness and 

 entirely uncalled for, as the boat in which the lumberman, bis wife and 

 two friends were sailing was entirely outside the prohibited area where 

 the prisoners of war are kept, and no question of trespass was involved. 

 Great delay ensued also in sending an official account of the shooting 

 to this country, owing to British censorship. 



Buffalo's building figures for the first quarter of the year are gratify- 

 ing, as the total of $l,r)19.onO runs only $72,000 below the same period 

 of 1914. Permits so far granted this month indicate that this will \>v 

 a quite active spring in the building trade. 



H. T. Kerr has gone to Michigan for a trip of inspection of his hard- 

 wood interests and will look after the shipment of maple and beech 

 from the lower peninsula l>y lake eastward. 



A. J. Chestnut has gone to N«trfolk. Va.. for a short vacation trip. His 

 lumber company is now manufacturing birch flooring in Canada, finding a 

 fair market in that country and a better one in the United States. 



Davenport & Uidley are building a new oifice at their yard at 114(5 

 Seneca street. The office reports a fair trade in Pennsylvania hardwoods, 

 though trade is not yet active. 



T. Sullivan & Co. will bring in some brown ash by lake tills season. 

 This wood is in quite good demand and large stocks have been disposed 

 of so far this spring. 



The Yeager Lumber Company has been moving quite an amount of 

 maple lately and reports trade in ash and plain oak as fairly good. 

 Cypress is also having a steady trade. 



Hugh McLean has been In Memphis for the past week or two. looking 

 after the mill interests of his lumber company. Trade Is on al)Out the 

 same basis here as two weeks ago. 



J. B. Wall, president of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company, has 

 been in Alabama for two or three weeks, looking after oak shlpn^ents. 

 He also spent some time In Tennessee. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling report Increased firmness In maple lately, 

 in which the demand appears to be Increasing, Thick oak has also 

 shown an increased demand. 



A. W. Krelnheder has been appointed a receiver for a Buffalo Package 

 Company, a local cooperage concern, which has indebtedness of over 

 $79,000, but is reported solvent. 



-< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



Fire on March ;il damaged the Francis I). Kramer Woodworking Com- 

 pany's plant at 1601 Spring (Jarden street. The fire Is said to have 

 started from a hot bearing in a machine in the wood-turning room. 



Mrs. Fannie Kdwards Boyd Weitzel died at her home, .'iSOO North KJIIi 

 street, March :>1. Her husband, Paul K. Weitzel, died February 28. Tiie 

 deceased was the mother of the lumbermen constituting the Arm of P. 

 Klnier Weitzel & Co. 



President Mehl of the Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Association, has ap 

 pointed Henry Palmer. W. C. Peirce and C. Frank Williamson a committee 

 to make plans for and take charge of the mid-summer meeting of the 

 association. 



.T. Frederiik Martin, secretary of the Huganir lAimber Company, Penn- 

 sylvania building. Is tuning congratulated on the arrival of a son in his 

 home. The baby has been named Alfred Simpson Martin. The senior 

 Martin has not decided whether Alfred will be a lawyer or a hardwood 

 man. 



The Babcook Lumber Company, through .T. II, Haines, Philadelphia 

 manager, reports business as increasing, with prospects favoral)le for a 

 fine spring trade. 



Warren Ross of the Warren Ross Lumber Company, .lamcstown, N. Y., 

 called on local lumbermen last week. 



F. S. Underbill of Wister, Underhill & Nixon reports the hardwood trade 

 as increasing and prices a trifle better on certain Items, .Despite the 

 European war and commercial depression, Mr, Underhill is confident that 

 spring trade will be ahead of last year. 



W. H. Wyatt of the Jackson-Wyatt Lumber Company says the outlook 

 Is encouraging and he believes the spring of igi.T may set quite a mark 

 for improved business. 



X PITTSBURGH >-= 



J. M. Hastings Is in Nova Scotia overseeing extensive operations of the 

 Davison Lumber Company of which he Is president. This concern has 

 been shipping a large amount of lumber to foreign markets. 



The Acorn Lumber Company reports a better feeling among hardwood 

 buyers. Orders are very badly mixed, however. 



E. H. Stoner of the West Penn Lumber Company reports a fair trade 



with manufacturers and considerable yard business. Prices are weak 

 and the cash buyer has the advantage. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is starting its mill at Ligonier. Pa., and 

 also the Thornwood mill. This company is shipping a large amount of 

 lumber to automobile, mining, and manufaituring concerns. 



The Breitwieser Lumber Company is doing a fair business in hard- 

 woods but finds the market a waiting one. Frank Smith of this con- 

 cern recently brought back some good business from the East. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company has been fortunate in getting some 

 fine orders for gum and cottonwood and also for ash to be shipped to 

 foreign nations. These stocks are used in making gunstocks and for 

 the manufacture of sti'etchers and coffins. 



The Federal Lumber Company which recently was organized to take 

 over the business of the *.'. P. Caughey Lumber i'ompany, is lining up 

 some very nice hardwood trade. President E. E. Gregg has lately added 

 to its force of salesmen, Edward J. Flautt and E. R. Bristol. 



W. W. Wilson. Jr., formerly president of the Western Lumber Com- 

 pany, a hardwood concern which filed a petition in involuntary bank- 

 ruptcy recently, now represents Smith, Fassett & Co. of North Tona- 

 wanda. N. Y., and is selling fine hardwood stocks here. 



-< BOSTON >•- 



One of the heaviest lumber failures ever entered in the bankruptcy 

 court for this district is the petition of Fremont B. Chesbrougb with 

 liabilities of $727,170 and assets of $720, ISn. The Chesbrougb Lumber 

 Coinpiiny was located in Emerson, Mich., and the largest creditors are 

 in this state. 



Win. A. Wcl)ster, Jr.. who has been affiliated with the Webster Lumber 

 Company of Watertown and the Blanchard Lumber Company of Boston, 

 has assumed the position of manager of the large i-etail business of Wm. 

 II. Wood I^umber Company of Carnbridgeport. 



Activity in local lumber circles is shown by the incorporation of 

 three new concerns: the American Lumber Company at Boston, capital 

 $2"!, 000, Geo. F. Stocker, president and H. D. McCallum, treasurer ; 

 the pacific Coast Lumber Company, also at Boston, capital $25,000, 

 F. A. Wyman, president : and the Watertown Lumber Company at Wat- 

 ertown, capital $25,00(1. A. K. Noble, president. 



=-< BALTIMORE >•- 



Warren Curtln White, fi>niicr mayor of Cuiiilpciiand. Md., and president 

 (tf the W. *'. White Lumber Company of that city, died on March 22 at 

 the Western .Maryland hospital following an operation. , Mr. White had 

 not I teen well for some time, and went with his family to Florida sev- 

 eral weeks liefore In the hope of obtaining relief, but was compelled 

 to return. He was born in Pennsylvania, and taught school for a time, 

 afterward going to Kentucky and matriculating in the State University, 

 from which he graduated. He afterward became general manager of the 

 iVnngylvania Coal and l..umber Company of Kentucky, but subsequently 

 located at Oakland. Md., where he engaged in lumbering operations. 

 Twenty-xeven years ago he removed to Cumberland, organizing the com- 

 pany which bore his name. He was fifty-six years old. His will shows 

 that be left an estate of about $;;ih>,(MM). which, with the exception of 

 some small bequests, goes to his widow and four children. If the widow 

 remarries within five years of the time of his death she is to receive 

 .'SlO.rKKi. The estate Is to be divided when the youngest child is twenty- 

 six years old. 



William T. Moore, seventy-eight years old. and engaged in shipbuild- 

 ing at Bethel. I»el., for many years, died suddenly March 30 at the home 

 of his s()n-In-law. William .M. Knowles. at Wilmington, Del. He served 

 a term in the Delaware State Senate and was at one time a member of 

 the Sussex county levy court. He was associated in business with John 

 M. C. Moore. His wife and one daughter survive. 



The experiment undertaken by the Ryland & Brooks Lumber Company, 

 -Vmerlcan building, last December, of engaging more extensively in the 

 hardwood trade than before, has turned out very satisfactorily. Tbe 

 company at the time mentioned made a connection with W. Turner 

 Isaac and his brother, Howard Isaac, both experienced in the hardwood 

 trade, to look after that end of the business, with the result that it 

 has been greatly Increased. The Kyland & Brooks company may now 

 be regarded as having become firmly established in the trade, the change 

 being one of the results of conditions incidental to the war and the 

 unsettlement produced thereby. W. Turner Isaac has Just returned from 

 a buying tiip down South, during which he took up a large quantity 

 of lumber, while Howard Lsaac about the same time got back from a sell- 

 ing trip through Pennsylvania and adjacent territory. He reported that 

 business was improving to an appreciable extent. 



1>. W. Currie, president of The W. .1. IHarmid Company, Inc., Fayette- 

 ville, Va., was one of the recent visitors in Baltimore. He stated that 

 business seemed to be somewhat better. 



R. E. Wood, president of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, Is on a 

 visit to the operation of the company at Fontaua, Swain county, N. C. 



S. P. Leech, a saw filer, and George H. Sutter, his assistant, lost their 

 lives in a fire which destroyed the band mill of the United States Spruce 

 Lumber Company at Marlon, Va., March 25. The men were In the upper 

 part of the building, and an explosion of smoke and dust caused the 

 flames to spread so rapidly that they had no time to escape. The plant 

 was recently erected at a cost of $75,000, and was Insured for $430,000. 



