HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Two baseball games are promised for the day, 

 one between the "Hardwooders." captained by 

 Elmer Sturm, and the "White Pitiers" in charge 

 of John F. Knox. The other game will be be- 

 tween married and single men. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling report that the 

 hardwood trade is good at present as compared 

 with the business moving two months ago. The 

 firm has a well-balanced stock of hardwoods at 

 present. 



ITlre on the night ot May 25 caused a loss of 

 several hundred dollars to the office of O. E. 

 Yeager. The loss is well covered by insurance. 



F. W. Tetter's yard has again been getting in 

 a good-sized stock of basswood. which has been 

 rapidly shipped out. Oak and maple have as 

 usua'. been proving staple sellers. 



T. Sullivan & Co. 'are looking for a cargo of 

 ash to arrive shortly at the yard. Trade has 

 been up to the usual average and the local 

 demand for hardwoods has shown some improve- 

 ment. 



Anthony Miller's yard continues to find a fair 

 sale for oak and other hardwoods. The yard is 

 carrying its usual good supplies, and assort- 

 ments are showing improvement. 



PHILADELPHIA 



About five acres of land in Basic City, Va., 

 which will be used as their hardwood distribut- 

 ing, yard, have been recently procured by Wistar, 

 Underbill & Xixon. Cars will be available for 

 transportation at any time as the property is 

 situated at the junction of two loading railroads. 

 They will carry from .'3.000,000 to 10.000.000 

 feet of hardwood for quick delivery at all times. 

 The Summit Lumber Company reports a 

 modicum of business at this time. J. C. Ten- 

 nant of this concern says, as the coal strike is 

 approaching a settlement, an expansion of trade 

 in that territory is likely to follow. The com- 

 pany has recently made a contract with thi'« 

 D. T. McKeithan Lumber Company of New York 

 to h.indle its "Xupro Gum" exclusively in the 

 anthracite coal region and a large part of east- 

 ern Pennsylvania. 



Charles Este, president of tbo Charles Este 

 Company, says lumber is In fair requisition, 

 but it is impossible to state with any degree 

 of accuracy when a prompt shipment can be 

 made at the mills. The general business situa- 

 tion gives some uneasiness. The company has 

 secured a contract to supply "Green Heart" 

 timber to be used in the construction ot the 

 Panama canal. This wood, Mr. Estes says. Is 

 obtained from the interior of the county of 

 Demarara. British Guiana, and Is but rarely 

 known to the average lumberman. 



The S. P. Bowers Company nports business 

 at this time hindered somewhat by unfavorable 

 weather conditions. S. P. Bowers is in the 

 South, where retarded shipments require his 

 attention. Frederick C. Rightor has recently 

 been engaged to look after the hardwood depart- 

 ment. Mr. Eighter is a thorough hardwood 

 man and well known, both to the manufacturer 

 and the buyer. 



A. W. Smennor of Smennor & Co.. this city, 

 who was on n visit to the Pacific coast, was 

 found dead in his room in San Francisco, Cal., 

 on May 24. He was twenty-eight years old. 



J. ■«". Floyd of the Floyd-Olmstead Company, 

 who is just back from a tour of Investigation in 

 the South, reports a gener.il depletion of stocks. 

 Business, he says, was distinctly remunerative 

 up to May 1, when a drop came. During the 

 last fortnight, however, there has been a notice- 

 able quickening. 



R. A. & .L ,1. Williams report diminished lum- 

 ber trading. The hardwood end of the business 

 is best sustained. Maurice -I. Dukes, vice-presi- 

 dent, says shipments are more satisfactory. 



Owen M. Bruner of the Owen M. Bruner Com- 

 pany preserves his usual tranquillity as to busi- 

 ness conditions. The company's men are hustlers 

 and the result Is a fair volume of orders. 



Henry Whelpton, secretary and treasurer, is in 

 ■\"irglnia looking after stocks. 



W. T. Latham, vice-president of the Monarch 

 Lumber Company and the Haddock-France Lum- 

 ber Company, has recently paid a visit to the 

 Philadelphia office. He reports activity at the 

 mill at Mt. Sterling, 'N. C, where the company 

 is now installing its new skidding system which 

 will reduce the cost of logging by one-half. 

 H. B. France, secretary and treasurer, reports 

 fair trading at this end, and the outlook 

 promising. 



The Philadelphia Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 Incorporated, recently obtained a charter. It is 

 capitalized at .$50,000. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works received an 

 order for fifty large locomotives from the Chi- 

 cago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad at a cost 

 of about $1,000,000. In addition, the company 

 has been awarded a contract to build twenty- 

 six locomotives for the Seaboard Air Line, esti- 

 mated at a cost of ?oOO,000. 



PITTSBURGH 



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Collins & Brown of Mayburg. Pa., have broken 

 ground for a chemical wood plant with capacity 

 of seventy cords a day. The company controls 

 50.000 acres ot timlx>r land. 



The Johnston-Davies Lumber Company, which 

 makes a specialty of Washington county white 

 oak for Industrial and mining operations, has 

 just started a branch office a1 Cumberland, Md. 

 The company recently bought 1.000.000 feet of 

 splendid oak that is now being cut for summer 

 shipments. 



The Freehold Lumber Company has united its 

 forces with those of Samuel BIggart. another 

 Pittsburgh wholesaler who will look after the 

 city trade for the Freehold company. President 

 Robert Gannon will devote his attention to the 

 outside trade. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is selling more 

 lumber for Industrial operations than for a long 

 time. It reports mining Inquiries very good also. 

 Its engineer, Frank Cunningham, left last Sat- 

 urday for Oregon to help shape up a big timber 

 operation which the Kendalls will cut there as 

 soon as possible. 



The A. M. Kinney Lumber Company has 

 bought in two new hardwood plants lately, one 

 at Coraopolis, Pa., and the other near Kinsman, 

 Ohio. Both plants are cutting oak, chiefly tim- 

 bers and car stock. 



The plant of the Greensburg Swing Company 

 at Greensburg. Pa., was burned June 3 with a 

 loss ot $15,000. 



The C. F. Eggers Lumber Company. Union- 

 town. Pa., is starting a new yard at Honessen, 

 Pa., near Pittsburgh. 



The Pittsburgh wholesalers and retailers are 

 making arrangements for a big joint picnic June 

 22 at Keystone Park. The entertainment com- 

 mittee consists of John M. Montgomery of the 

 American & Manufacturing Company. .J. H. 

 Henderson of the Kendall Lumber Company, J. 

 A. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Company, J. G. 

 Criste of the Interior Lumber Company, and 

 also E. M. Diebold and George N. Glass, commit- 

 tee for the retailers. 



BOSTON 



The adjourned annual meeting of the Lumber 

 Dealers' Association of Connecticut was held re- 

 cently in Kew Haven, Conn., and the following 

 officers were elected : President. Albert Schu- 

 maker : vice-president, Fred A. Lines of An- 

 sonia : secretary, Henry C. Turner of New Ca- 

 naan : treasurer, William H. Judd of Stamford. 

 Directors, E. J. Lake. Hartford : W. H. Goddard 

 of Wallingford ; Frank S. Saxton of Bristol, and 

 Louis A. Mansfield of Now Haven. The latter 

 was also elected the insurance director. 



Since the first of January there have been 



awarded building permits in New England 

 amounting in value to $77,162,000 as compared 

 with $60,884,000 during the corresponding period 

 last year and $65,434,000 during the correspond- 

 ing period in 1910. 



The Deering-Winslow Company, Portland, Me., 

 has leased the State street wharf In Portland 

 and ^N-ill remove to the new location, which gives 

 the company larger quarters. 



The Liberty Lumber Company, Springfield, 

 Mass., has made an assignment to Floyd E. 

 Longwell of the Fred S. Morse Lumber Com- 

 pany, Springfield, Mass., and Lindsley W. Shep- 

 ard of the Shepard Lumber Company. Boston. 

 The trustees will operate the business for a time 

 and then sell the assets. 



A few weeks ago the lumber dealers through 

 the Boston Chamber of Commerce applied to the 

 Treasury Department asking that the surveying 

 of lumber arriving at the Port of Boston by 

 water be done by the state surveyor instead of 

 by the federal surveyors, which request has been 

 granted by the government. 



Charles Napier of Springfield. Mass., will erect 

 a saw works factory in that city at a cost of 

 about $24,000. The building will be of brick and 

 concrete construction, 200x50 feet. 



B. N. Beard has purchased land in Shelton. 

 Conn., and will erect a factory for the manufac- 

 ture of baskets and barrels. The company will 

 use considerable hardwood lumber. 



BALTIMORE 



The annual mooting of the Baltimore Lumber 

 Exchange was held June 1 at the Merchants' 

 club on German street. President Theodore 

 Mottu presided and Luther H. Gwaltney kept the 

 minutes. Several matters of importance were 

 considered, one being the reading of a legal 

 opinion on the rights of lumbermen under the 

 prevailing state of affairs in connection with 

 the strike of the stevedores. A committee had 

 been appointed to interview former United States 

 District Attorney Jlorris A. Soper regarding an 

 advance in pay requested by the stevedores. The 

 report of the committee was accepted, and mem- 

 bers of the exchange individually will probably 

 make such arrangements with regard to unload- 

 ing as possible. The matter of having the city 

 improve the streets in the lumber district around 

 Back Basin also came up for consideration, and 

 it was decided that a committee appear before 

 the municipal authorities on the subject. Still 

 another question to be acted upon was that of 

 the difference between the freight rate from Nor- 

 folk to Baltimore. Representations have been 

 mitde to the Baltimore & Ohio for an equalization 

 ot tlie rate, but such appeals have so far proved 

 ineffectual. A resolution demanding an equaliza- 

 tion of the rate was adopted by the exchange. 

 The business session was followed by a hand- 

 some luncheon, which was enjoyed by, about fifty 

 members. 



The Baltimore lumbermen, among other busi- 

 ness men of this city, have won an important 

 victory before the Maryland Public Service Com- 

 mission, which last week handed down a decision 

 greatly reducing the switching charges here. In 

 some instances the charges were cut to one-fifth 

 or one-sixth ot the present charge. The Public 

 Service Commission also issued an order estab- 

 lishing a switching zone, to remain effective for 

 at least five years. 



Fire on May 22 destroyed the store rooms of 

 Russe & Thompson, manufacturers of office fur- 

 niture at 9 and 11 North Gay street, the loss 

 being estimated at $50,000. 



The affairs of the International Lumber & De- 

 velopment Company, which owns large tracts of 

 land in Mexico and Yucatan, were brought to 

 public attention again on May 31, when ex- 

 Chancellor Nicholson, representing a number of 

 stockholders, appeared in the Chancery Court at 

 Wilmington, Del., and withdrew his application 

 for the appointment of a receiver pending litiga- 



