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ndded by manulacture. Seventy-live automobile 

 plants had a production valued at $38,839,000, 

 plus the $20,317,000 added by manufacture. 

 There wert* 407 wagon and carriage establish- 

 ments in Ohio in 1009, producing $21,949,0011 

 worth of goods, with an added value by manu- 

 facture of $10,935,000. The 24 coffin factories 

 in the state produced coffins and burial cases 

 valued at $30,601,000 during 1909. To this is 

 added $1,737,000 by manufacture. Furniture 

 and refrigerator plants numbering 228 turned 

 out in 1909 $16,239,000 worth of material, 

 with $9,017,000 added to the value by manu- 

 facture. 



National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 Annual 



The Natioual Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago and the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Chicago are all issuing 

 elaborate engraved invitations to the entire 

 hardwood fraternity of the country to attend 

 the annual meeting of Ihe first named organiza- 

 tion as their guests. 



As has been previously stated in Hardwood 

 Record, and as conspicuously noted in this 

 issue, the Hfteenth annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association will be 

 held at the Hotel Sherman. Chicago, on Thurs- 

 day and I'riday, June (i and 7. It Is expected 

 the event will bring out an attendance of more 

 than a thousand hardwood lumbermen, many 

 of whom will be ai-conipanied by their wives 

 and daughters. 



The entertainment teiuii-rt'd by the hosts will 

 be on :i generous scale and as outlined by the as- 

 sociation is as follows : 



Thursday evening, ,lun<' 0, at eight o'cloclc. 

 banquet to" members and guests, in banquet hall. 

 Hotel Sherman (convention room floor). Mu.sic 

 liv orchestra a!id famous College Inn quartet. 



Friday evening, .luue 7, at eight o'clock — 

 Smoker," buffet luncheon and vaudeville, in ban- 

 quet hall (convention room floori. 



Thursday evening. .June 0, at eight o'clock, 

 the ladies will be given a dinner In the Italian 

 room. Hotel Sherman (main floor). 



Friday afternoon the ladies are invited to an 

 automobile trip. Automobiles will leave Ran- 

 dolph street entrance of Hotel Sherman, at two 

 o'clock, visiting all Chicago Parks and covering 

 the famous fortv-two miles of boulevards, stop- 

 ping at the South Shore Country Club, where 

 refreshments will be served, and returning to 

 hotels about five-thirty o'clock. Please be 

 prompt. 



Friday evening, at eight-flfteen, ladies are in- 

 vited to" attend the performance of "A Modern 

 Eve," the new musical comedy, at Garrick the- 

 atre (halt block from Hotel Sherman). Tickets 

 may be procured at ladies' registration desk. 



The program for the business session, which 

 will be held in the main convention hall of 

 Hotel Sherman, is as follows : 



THURSD.1Y, .TfXE 6 



10 :00 a. m. Registration and Reception of Mem- 

 bers and (Juests in Convention Hall, 

 second floor. Hotel Sherman. 



10 :30 a. m. Address of Welcome , 



Hon. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of 

 Chicago. 



Response John M, Woods 



Reports of OIBcers 



Address bv the I'resident 



" Fred A. Diggins 



Report of Secretary-Treasurer... 



; Frank F. Fish 



Address Nelson N. Lambert 



V.-Pres't Ft. Dearborn Nat'l Bank. 

 12 :30 p. m. Intermission for Lunch. 

 2 00 p. m. Reports of Standing Committees : 



Forestry John M. Woods 



Special Committee on Over- 

 weight Claims. . .Jas. E. Stark 



Transportation Committee 



Emil Guenther 



Waterways 



Inspection Rules 



John M. Pritchard 



FRIDAY, JUNE 7 



10. a. m. Convention Called to Order. 



Report of Cotainittee on Officers Re- 

 ports. 

 New Busiicss. 

 12 :30 p. m. Intermission for Lunch. 

 1 :30 p. m. I'ntinisheil Business. 



Election of Officers to Serve One 



Seven 'directors to Serve Three 

 Years. 



Building Operations For April 



BuiUliug operations in fifty cities, in the 

 c<aintry, reports the American Contractor of 

 Chicago, show an aggregate gain of sixteen per 

 cent in April 1912 as compai-ed with Api-il 1911. 

 There is a recorded gain of four and three- 

 flfths per cent during the first four months of the 

 year as compan-d with the same months of last 

 year. Gains of fifty per cent or over for April 

 were made in Birmingham. Columbus, Detroit, 

 Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Haven, 

 Rochester and Toledo. Of these Nasliville led 

 with an increase of 124 per cent. 



There was a total building cost during April 

 in the fifty cities of $76,531,000 as against 

 $65,776,000 in April 1911. The total for the 

 first four months of this year was $209,183,000. 

 There were substantial losses in building opera- 

 tions in April in Baltimoi-e. Dallas, Texas, Du- 

 luth, .Memphis. Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City. 

 Spokane, Washington. Chicago made a gain of 

 nine per cent during April, but the report of 

 the first four months of the year showed a loss 

 of twenty-two per cent. New York City gained 

 twenty-four per cent during Api-ii and thirty-two 

 per cent during the four mouths. 



The total building operations for New Yoi-k ag- 

 gregated $25,144,000 in April, 1912 as against 

 $20,239,000 in April 1011, while for the first 

 f(,ur months of the year the aggregate invest- 

 ment in that city was $73,681,000. In Chicago 

 the building investment in April 1912 was $9,- 

 343.000. In Jantiary, February. March and 

 April it was $19,865,000. Philadelphia shows a 

 building investment in Apill of this year ag- 

 gn gating $4,303,000 : during the first four 

 mouths of tlie year, $11,473,000. 



The percentage of increases seems to be alwut 

 c'c|ually distributed all over the country, indi- 

 cating a pretty general healthy growth in the 

 building trade. While there are some substan- 

 tial losses both for April and for the first four 

 months of the year, they do not equal numeri- 

 cally to cities or in the aggregate the gain dur- 

 ing those periods. There is a fairly even dis- 

 tribution, likewise, of losses. 



New Planing Mill 



The Central Lumber & Supply Company of 

 Columbus. O., has been incorporated with a cap- 

 ital stock of $10,000, and will specialize in gen- 

 eral lumber and mill work. .John Cashatt is 

 president of the new company and J. D. Mathews 

 secretary and general manager. The company's 

 plant will be located at the Baltimore & Ohio 

 railroad crossing and Central avenue, and will 

 be in operation very soon. The mill proper 

 will be 40x88 feet, and each machine will be 

 driven by an independent motor. Every pro- 

 tection against fire will be made, and both ma- 

 chinery and mill will be up to date in every 

 liarticular. 



■Wisconsin Hardwood Cut and Shipments 



Srcri-tary Kc'Uogg of the Northern Hemlock 

 and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, has 

 issued a report showing the hardwood cut and 

 shipments by the same sixty-one memliers of his 

 association in April, 1012, as compared with 

 .\liril. 1911 : 



Cut, M Feet Shipped. M P'eet 

 1912 1911 1912 1911 



\sl, 543 883 762 580 



Basswood 4,098 5,200 2,398 2,764 



Bii'clT 8,599 11,117 5,802 3,095 



" u 2 799 2,728 1.912 1,730 



Vlaple 5,908 3,436 3,564 2,395 



ilaC , .. 195 572 402 118 



Mixed ■■.'.;■. 6,402 7,335 4,081 3,122 



All hardwoods.. 28,544 33,293 18,921 13,804 

 Decrease in cut, 14 per cent. 

 Increase in shipments, 3i per cent. 



Biltmore "Doings" 



Dr. C. A. Schenck. director, and the Biltmore 

 Forest School, are hack from Germany, and the 

 school assembled at Tupper Lake, N. Y., in the 

 Adirondacks, April 1, where it reviewed the log- 

 ging and manufacturing operations and forestry 

 practiced on burned-over areas in that region, 



and incidentally visited the plant of the Brook- 

 lyn Cooperage Company, and other interesting 

 manufacturing institutions in that district, in- 

 cluding a da.v at the operations of the Emporium 

 Lumber Company. 



On .\pril 13, the school went to Washington, 

 D. C, where five days were spent in acquainting 

 it with the forestry work of the national gov- 

 ernment. The Washington visit was one of the 

 most interesting experiences ever encountered by 

 the Biltmore Forest School. After leaving Wash- 

 ington tlie school proceeded to Norfolk, and 

 thence to one of the logging camps of the John 

 Roper Lumber Company, near New Bern, N. C, 

 where a continuation of the study of both long- 

 leaf and short-leaf pine was taken up. as well as 

 of the hardwoods growing in that region. 



On Sunday, April 28, the school broke camp 

 for its early summer headquarters at Canton, N. 

 C, where it will be in camp at the head of 

 Pigeon river until mid-summer, when it will 

 transfer headtjiuirters to permanent quarters 

 Ixuug built for it by the Cummer-Diggins Com- 

 pany, near Cadillac. Mich. 



Dr. Schenck's school this year is one of the 

 largest in its history, and is doing better work 

 than ever. 



Work of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association 



L'nder date Ma.v 15. Secretary Doster of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association issued a 

 press letter, in which he states that wholesalers 

 passing through Cincinnati dui-ing the past week 

 report trade very brisk and stocks hard to 

 obtain. All advise it is much easier to sell hard- 

 woods than to luiy at the present time. The sec- 

 letary advises that reports from his members in- 

 dicate the oak condition to be very much 

 strengthened and that pi'iees are being advanced 

 from three to five dollars a thousand. .V can- 

 vass of the various mills in the flood-district 

 shows there is not as much flooded lumber as 

 was first supposed, and while the high-water 

 paralyzed mill operations, there are plenty of 

 logs ready for manufacture, and on the return of 

 normal weather conditions the output generally 

 will be very much increased. 



Statistics comi)iled in the secretary's office 

 show the production in the mills in mountain 

 sections of the country to be about normal, while 

 in the lowland and river districts they show a 

 decrease of from twenty to forty per cent. 



The Partridge Failure 



The talk of the fortnight in trade circles was 

 the involuntary petition in bankruptcy filed 

 against the Charles R. Partridge Lumber Com- 

 jiany, large hardwood retailer of Jersey City. 

 Wm. R. Barricklo has been appointed receiver. 

 The liabilities are estimated at $600,000, and 

 the assets at $350,000. A large amount of the 

 indebtedness, it is understood, is to banks. The 

 Charles R. Partridge Lumber Company was in- 

 corporated in 1910 with a capital of $700,000. 

 Charles R. I'artridge is president. W. H. Part- 

 lidge, vice-president, and I. H. Harfield secre- 

 tary and treasurer. Mr. Partridge was for years 

 engaged in the retail hardwood lumber business 

 in Manhattan, prior to removing his business to 

 the Jersey City location several years ago. Ex- 

 peits are now going over the books, and the de- 

 cision of the court as to the final adjudication 

 of the concern as a bankrupt is being awaited. 



Mr. Cox. formerly superintendent of the yard. 

 recently opened a lumber business of his own 

 opposite the I'artridge premises, and Messrs. W. 

 H. and H. M. Partridge, sons of Charles R. Part- 

 ridge, last month o|)ened a retail hardwood yard 

 at the South Street station of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad, Newark, N. J., under the style of W. 

 II. and H. M. Partridge. 



It is stated that the real estate of the Part- 

 ridge company is valued at $83,000. with mort- 

 gage of $38,000. 



Hope thinks nothing difficult, despair tells us 

 that difficulty is insurmountable. — Watts. 



