HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Land Title buiiding, where they will have better 

 accommodations for handling their business. 



John H. Schofleld o( Schoflfld Bros., makes no 

 complaint of reduced trading. He reports things 

 running along in good style. 



Joseph W. Dunwoody. a popular Philadelphia 

 lumberman, is now associated with Howes & 

 liussell. 



John \V. Coles recently made a tour of the 

 lumber camps in Georgia, Alabama and Florida. 

 He reports stocks much depleted and shipments 

 precarious. 



William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Son. talks rationally of conditions. He says 

 things are moving smoothly and that the outlook 

 is favorable. 



W. R. Taylor of the W. R. Taylor Lumber 

 Company, reports an advance in trading during 

 the last fortnight, and is hopeful of a fair sum- 

 mer business. 



Thi' Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia 

 held its regular monthly meeting June 6. Wil- 

 liam T. Betts, president, presided. Routine 

 business only was transacted. The yearly re- 

 quest to members to close their yards at noon 

 on Saturdays during June, July, August and 

 September, was made and as usual granted, after 

 which the meeting adjourned until September. 



Fire destroyed F. R. Himmelberger's carriage 

 works at West Reading Pa., together with seven 

 dwellings June 17, entailing a lo.ss of $100,000. 



BOSTON 



The new plant of the Standard Veneer Com- 

 pany, Stockholm. Me., has been completed. This 

 new mill is considerably larger than the old 

 plant of the company. 



Alfred R. Brewer of the Hartford Lumber 

 Company, Hartford, Conn., has purchased the 

 business of Charles Coburn, East Hartford, and 

 will conduct it under the name of A. R. Brewer 

 & Co. 



The M. A. Cairns Wood-Working Company, 

 East Hartford, Conn., has started the erection 

 of a three story brick and concrete factory. 4ox 

 yo feet. This is being erected on the site of 

 the old plant which was destroyed by fire a few 

 weeks ago. When completed the company will 

 have larger quarters which will be equipped with 

 the latest improved machinery. The first floor 

 of the new factory will be used as a trimming 

 room, the second floor for cabinet work and the 

 third floor for storage. 



Clarence A. Arnold, president and treasurer of 

 the Broad Brook Lumber Company, Broad Brook. 

 Conn., died in Hartford, Conn., June 4 after a 

 long illness. He is survived by a wife and 

 nine children. 



The Monarch Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated in Augusta. Me., with a capital stock 

 of $6,000,000. R. S. Buzzell of Augusta is presi- 

 dent and L. J. Coleman of the same city is treas- 

 urer. Other incorporators are W. L. Odlin, E. 

 C. Butterfleld. R. L. Walters, C. L. Bouldln and 

 E. S. McCord. 



The Smith & Bent Company, recently incor- 

 porated in Xew Haven. Conn., will conduct a 

 strictly wholesale lumber business. J. Gibb 

 Smith is president and treasurer, and William 

 E. Bent secretary of the company. 



BALTIMORE 



Announcements have been sent out to the 

 trade by John M. D. Heald, surviving partner 

 of Price & Heald, that he will continue the busi- 

 nes.s under the old firm name without change in 

 methods, and that all obligations will be assumed 

 by him. It is very gratifying to the hardwood 

 men generally that the old name will thus be 

 retained in the list of active firms. The oflices 

 will be continued in the Knickerbocker build- 

 ing and the old force will be kept at work. 



Richard Cromwell. Jr., president of the La- 

 fayette Mill & Lumber Company, conducting a 



yard at Lafayette avenue and the Pennsylvania 

 railroad, died June 11 at the Maryland Uni- 

 versity hospital, where he was operated upon 

 five weeks before. Mr. Cromwell was forty-eight 

 years old and a son of the late Richard Cromwell, 

 for many years president of the Mount Vernon 

 Cotton Duck Company. He formed the Lafayette 

 Mill & Lumber Company years ago and had 

 been at the head of it ever since, being also 

 interested in other enterprises. He has been 

 succeeded as president by his brother, C. H. 

 Cromwell. 



William F. Sippel, vice-president of the Reinle- 

 Salmon Company, show case and office fixture 

 manufacturer of Baltimore, was married on June 

 4 to Miss Marie Alice Parker of Washington. The 

 happy couple have taken up their residence at 

 2420 Callow avenue, this city. 



C. E. Williamson, who has been lor years 

 with Thomas Hughes, and who was before that 

 with Carter. Hughes & Co., and also with the 

 Iron Mountain Lumber Company, has become 

 a member of the selling staff of Richard P. 

 Baer & Co. Mr. Williamson will continue to 

 cover Ohio and adjacent territory, making his 

 headquarters at Columbus, O. 



The improvement in the situation -with re- 

 spect to the stevedores' strike here, which for 

 a time tied up shipping and caused a large 

 accumulation of stocks intended for export, is 

 indicated by the fact that the Baltimore & Ohio 

 Railroad Company has resumed issuing through 

 bills-of-lading. For a time no such documents 

 were issued b.v the railroad company because of 

 the impossibility of determining when a ship- 

 ment would go forward. 



COLUMBUS 



The plant of the defunct Standard Mill-Work 

 Company of Norwood, O., which was bid in re- 

 cently at receivers sale by Judge Ferris for 

 .$90,000 has been taken over by a new corpora- 

 tion which was incorporated under the laws 

 of Ohio with an authorized capital of $100,000. 

 The new concern is the Norwood Sash & Door 

 Company and the incorporators are Malcolm 

 McAvoy, Henry L. Stern, F. M. Riggs, Howard 

 Ferris and John C. Healy. The company will 

 manufacture all kinds of doors and sashes and 

 do a general mill-work trade. 



Building activity in Columbus continues to 

 show upward strides according to a recent re- 

 port of the city building inspector. For the 

 month of May there were buildings valued at 

 $507,000 projected compared with $437,000 for 

 May of 1911. From Jan. 1 to June 1 the total 

 value of buildings projected was $2,022,000 as 

 compared with $1,626,000 for the corresponding 

 period in 1911. This is a gain of twenty-four 

 per cent. 



The Cleveland Hardwood Floor Company of 

 Cleveland, O.. has been incorporated with a 

 capital of $10,000 by Charles Savage, Alfred 

 Safran, Rose Fink, A. L. McGannon and John 

 J. Luttner. 



The American Wood Shredding Company of 

 Akron, O., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $5,000 to do wood shredding and to 

 manufacture pulp and wooden articles. The in- 

 corporators are Albert Myers, Frank W. Klinger, 

 Ray R. Xeal. William Neal and J. T. Wellock. 



The Youngstown Hardwood Floor Company of 

 Toungstown, O., has been incorporated with a 

 capital of $50,000 to manufacture and lay hard- 

 wood flooring. The incorporators are George J. 

 Harrison, Alex F. Dolwick, John J. Dolwick, 

 ilartha Dolwick and George J. Carew. 



The Rowe & Giles Lumber Company of Cha- 

 grin Falls, O.. has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $30,000 to wholesale and re- 

 tail lumber. The incorporators are George F. 

 Rowe, Charles II. Giles, John W. Cat^r, Willis 

 Ames and L. L. Patterson. 



R. W. Horton, sales manager for the central 

 division for the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company 

 says that trade in all hardwoods is active with 



a good demand. Prices all along the list are 

 ruling firm. 



L. B. Schneider, sales manager for the John 

 R. Gobey Lumber Company reports a good de- 

 mand for all hardwoods with prices ruling firm 

 in every particular. He predicts an active 

 market for the remainder of the season. 



CINCINNATI 



As Hardwood Record goes to press the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Cincinnati, is holding its an- 

 nual outing at Coney Island. The entertain- 

 ment committee has arranged several special 

 features, details of which will be given in the 

 next issue. 



T. J. White, formerly representative of Bennett 

 & Witte at Moline, 111., but recently connected 

 with the Cincinnati office as local salesman, has 

 been promoted to the charge of Bennett & 

 Witte's office at Memphis. Tenn. 



Harry Freiberg, manager ol the Freiberg 

 Lumber Company, says that business is not 

 all that it should be. This company just re- 

 ceived 160 carloads of Mexican mahogany tim- 

 ber, which it will manufacture into lumber and 

 veneer flitches. The company is erecting a large 

 three-story concrete warehouse, where it will 

 keep a large stock of veneer on hand. 



B. F. Dulweber has built a new garage in 

 addition to his office and stables at the main 

 yard. Mr. Dulweber is an enthusiastic motor- 

 ist. He attended the Stanley avenue hill-climb. 

 and was one of the most enthusiastic present. 



J. Watt Graham of the Graham Lumber Com- 

 pany says that the hardwood business is not 

 what it should be. Fred Duling who represents 

 the Graham Lumber Company on the road, left 

 last Friday to spend a week in the South. 



TOLEDO 



Leander Bloker of I.indsey, O., died at his 

 home in that city a few days ago, aged sixty- 

 three years. He leaves a wife and three sons, 

 one of whom, Calvin L. Bloker, has recently 

 taken a half interest in the sawmill and lum- 

 ber yard operated for years by the deceased. 



The Yaryan Naval Stores Company expect 

 to issue $420,000 in new preferred stock on 

 June 29. The new issue is designed to cover 

 the expense of additions to the plant and timber 

 lands of the concern. 



The Big Four Hardwood Company, which 

 manufactures piano cases and table tops, re- 

 ports business good, an especially strong call 

 for these lines coming from the East. "Good 

 dry stocks are hard to get and stiff in price," 

 said Manager Roberts. Poplar and oak are both 

 ruling strong. 



The Manufacturers' and Merchants' Board of 

 the Chamber of Commerce have just completed 

 a "let's-be-friends" trip through Michigan cities 

 and towns. There was no taking of orders 

 on this trip it being purely a social affair. The 

 Toledo "boosters" in the party were royally en- 

 tertained at the various cities where stops were 

 made. The Toledo board has been making these 

 trips at stated intervals for the past two years, 

 and has found them a great success as business 

 getters. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Tolleston Lumber Company, Gar.v, Ind., 

 has increased its capital stock to $50,000. 



A dry-kiln of the plant of the Adams Head- 

 ing Company, Decatur. Ind., was recently de- 

 stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $5,000. 



Twenty-two modern dwellings, to cost $2,000 

 each, are being built by the Central States 

 Lumber Company and Southern Lumber Com- 

 pany in Northern avenue. These companies will 

 build one hundred dwellings this season to be 

 sold ou the payment plan. 



